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Ridiculously Long Men's Room Lines at Tech Conferences: A Photo Essay
From the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, CNET editor Dan Ackerman posted the following picture: Ackerman's unofficial title for his piece of photographic artwork? "WWDC...
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Revisiting 'Dark Social'
In the data-rich world of Internet journalism, every publisher wants to understand where the audience is coming from. At The Atlantic, our analytics team prepares a variety of charts and graphs that...
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Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data?
nickboos/Flickr As people have tried to make sense of the recent revelations about the government's mass data-collection efforts, one classic text is experiencing a spike in popularity: George Orwell's...
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Dear Silicon Valley: Meritocracy Is an Ideology Too
NLshop/ShutterstockFor some liberals, last week's Senate panel on corporate taxes might have caused a double take. As Apple CEO Timothy Cook testified about its global tax avoidance practices,...
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Explained: Fluffy Cows' Existence, in Iowa and on the Internet
A #fluffycow, ready for its photo shoot (Phil Lautner/Lautner Farms) Internet, there is a new meme among us. It is beefy. It is fluffy. It is adorable. Its name is #fluffycow. Well, technically, the...
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Why the Facebook Innovation Machine Doesn't Work on Mobile Devices
Reuters Facebook's future depends on succeeding on mobile phones, as questions about Facebook Home at the company's shareholder meeting once again made clear. Whatever Facebook says about the product...
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A Sperm Bank for Better Bees
Shutterstock/Tischenko Irina Honey bees are having a hard time of it. They're facing pesticides that can gradually weaken their bodies. They're dealing with parasitic mites that can impede young bees'...
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Navy Gives Up ALL-CAPS Messaging, 160 Years After It Began
Marcin Wichary/FlickrLast month, the Navy personnel chief sent out a note on behalf of Fleet CyberCommand with an important message: ALL-CAPS COMMUNIQUES WERE NO LONGER NECESSARY. Since the middle of...
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What's Cooler Than Jetpacks? Snowboarding on Mars
NASA Sometimes an unusual landscape here on our little planet prompts Earthlings to exclaim, "It looks like Mars!" And it's true, some of Earth's redder and dustier haunts do resemble our neighbor...
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The Hashtag Is About to Roll Out to a Billion People, and This One Guy...
Facebook has a billion users -- and they're about to start seeing hashtags, you know, #these #things. The practice of putting a pound symbol before a key word or phrase or acronym began on Twitter,...
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The Solar Eclipse as You've Never Seen It Before
In most pictures of a solar eclipse, the face of the moon you see is a black sphere, as in the image above. With the sun directly on the other side of the moon from us, the side we see is entirely in...
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A Prosthetic Limb, Controlled by an Amputee's Thoughts
Cyborgs are here -- or, at least, they're in DARPA laboratories. For a while now, the Defense Department agency, alongside civilian researchers, has been working to develop prosthetic limbs that can...
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A Rotating Thunderstorm, Closer Than You Have (Hopefully) Ever Seen Before
"It took four years," Mike Olbinski writes, "but I finally got it." What he got, in this case, was an amazing -- and, quite literally, awesome -- timelapse of a supercell: a rotating thunderstorm that...
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How Do You Have a Mass Extinction Without an Increase in Extinctions?
Middle Devonian silica shale, pyrite fossils (jsj1771/Flickr) Roughly 375 million years ago, the Earth underwent one of the most mysterious disasters in geological history. Over a period of several...
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A Moving Video of Every NASA Space Shuttle Launch at One Time
Up and away they go, humans sailing off this Earth and into space. The first half of the video is a joy, a testament to the ingenuity and courage that has repeatedly lifted astronauts right off the...
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Meet the Robotics Company Apple Just Anointed
During Apple's keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference, it was all Apple all the time, except for one quick demo near the beginning of the event. The CEO of a relatively obscure company (as...
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In the 8th Century, This Egyptian Port City Fell Into the Sea
Helen of Troy is believed to have walked there. So is her lover, Paris. The city known as Heracleion to the Greeks of the time and as Thonis by the Egyptians who built it was once a central part of...
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You Are Here: A Whole-Sky Time-Lapse of the Galactic Center
Astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard's latest work showcases the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as seen at zenith from the Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama desert. Two of our neighboring...
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Fix Things, Never Force It: Lessons From Grandpa
My grandfather was a man of action. When he was just a teenager he manned an aircraft carrier in the Pacific theater of World War II, then he served as a flight engineer during the Korean conflict....
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The Remote Siberian Monument to the First Woman in Space, Who Launched 50...
From above, the location of 53°N, 80°E doesn't look like much: But this little place on the Russian steppe, in the farmlands four hours southwest of the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, is where Valentina...
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