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'Twitter Is My City': Ai Weiwei on Living Life Online
The Chinese artist, architect, and dissident has traded Beijing for the urbanity of the Internet. The new issue of Foreign Policy features an interview with Chinese dissident Ai WeiWei. The whole thing...
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The World's Largest X-Ray Generator, the Z Machine, Inspires Art
Used to study the physical properties of dense stars like white dwarfs, Sandia National Laboratory's Z Machine looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. The technology became the muse of an...
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Hero Runner Mo Farah Gives Us the Last-Minute Meme of the 2012 Games
Add one more entry to the pantheon of London 2012 Memes. British runner Mo Farah, as he crossed the finish line of the men's 5000-meter on Saturday, won gold. But he also won attention -- for, in...
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Groupon Now Down 78% From Its November IPO Price
The daily deals site has verifiably tanked on Wall Street.Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, perhaps on his way to the bank (Reuters).Yikes, after Groupon reported its second-quarter revenues, the company's...
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Your Aviation Tip for the Evening: Stay Out of Iowa!
I mentioned several days ago the impressive phenomenon of "VIP TFRs" -- nearly 3750- square-mile* "temporary flight restrictions," or no-fly zones, usually for the president -- that pop up around the...
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Picture of the Day: A Galactic Collision, in Gorgeous Technicolor
NASA You may've seen this picture before. From the Hubble Legacy Archive, it captures one of the most stunning galactic collissions we've found: lower-right-in-the-picture NGC 4039's encounter with...
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'The Soul in the Machine': Glitch Artists Turn Tech Failures Into Commentary
If cyber-punk were to manifest itself as a cyber-aesthetic, it might look something like Glitch Art: creations that turn the most common technological malfunctions -- hisses and buzzes and...
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Maybe Fareed Zakaria Should Be Punished With Aggregation Duty
A dose of web journalism could give Zakaria a more rigorous sourcing ethos.Zakaria's new beat, learning the rules of citation through aggregation (Reuters).Aggregation. It's the bane of old-school...
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Finally, A Bill Requires Police Get A Judge's Approval Before They Can See...
A new bill (hopefully) reconciles Fourth Amendment protections and 21st-century search and seizure. Rust Bucket/Flickr A month ago, we learned that more (and maybe many, many more) than 1.3 million...
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How to Save Yourself From a Defamation Suit: Hedge, Snark, Link
A court gives the Internet another reason for linking: avoiding libel. Shutterstock/Jakub Krechowicz In January 2011, just after that year's Consumer Electronics Show, Gizmodo published a post titled...
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The 'Beanie Plex' May Be the Movie Theater of the Future
In a world of Netflix and smartphones, theaters will have to give consumers a better viewing experience. Step 1? Bean bags. TGV Cinemas via Screencrush This movie theater does not have, strictly...
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Banner Above Paul Ryan-Led Event: 'Hey Girl, Choose Me, Lose Choice—P. Ryan'
Today, in Lakewood, Colorado, someone strapped a banner with the phrase "Hey girl, choose me, lose choice -- P. Ryan" to their plane and flew it over a real Romney 2012 event, led by none other than...
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Most of What You Need to Know About Silicon Valley, in 1 Tumblr
wevebeenacquired.tumblr.com "Some people seem to think that getting acquired should be the highest aspiration for an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley," ur-investor Vinod Khosla recently wrote. With...
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Why Are There *Blue* Rocks in the Latest Photos From Mars?
Even the most casual fan of space travel would notice something funny about the latest image from the Mars Curiosity rover, as seen below. I mean, they call Mars the "Red Planet" for a reason, and here...
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Picture of the Day: The Gale Crater, From Mars to Earth
Yesterday, Alexis Madrigal examined the process of white-balancing photos. The process makes photos from Mars appear as if they were shot under Earth-sunlight, allowing geologists to apply their...
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Internet! Cats! Kids of 1995 Star in an Oddly Prophetic PSA
In 1995, a group of fifth graders at the Ray Bjork school in Helena, Montana produced a PSA advocating the Internet -- ostensibly, to the adults who controlled their connection to it. The video that...
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The Coolest Thing on Earth: Looking Around Mars on Your Phone
Take out your phone and click on the link below. Just do it.Updated, 12:10pm.This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Not the photo above, but what lies through that link. Pause: As per the...
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Curiosity's Landing, From the Perspective of the 3,000 People Who Helped...
"Seven years of my life and career come down to about seven minutes. I'm kind of freaking out." Mark Rober is an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. In that role, Rober spent...
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Fareed Zakaria Would Have Been Totally in the Clear—Had He Been an Early...
Before anyone could plagiarize, we had to invent it. Americans learned of the Boston Tea Party because colonial newspapers copied verbatim and ran unattributed the account of an "An Impartial...
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Science: Dogs Can Shake 70% of the Water from Their Fur in 4 Seconds, Here's How
A deep dive into one of the enduring mysteries of life: how dogs can spray so much water from their fur after you give them a bath. Dog gets wet. Dog shakes. Water comes flying off fur. Anyone who has...
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