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You Know What Would Be Awesome? A Selfie-Phone With a Tripod Built Into the Base
Writer Lionel Foster tweeted this afternoon, "Selfies wouldn't look like selfies, if more people had tripods." Which is true! The distinctive angles, not to mention arm and head postures of the selfie...
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The Startup as Manifesto
Today, a new mobile app called hi launched. It lets you place content on a map, like Findery or Google Earth or (kinda) Instagram. They call it narrative mapping, and (as you may know) I expect this...
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The 3 Most Exciting Words in Science Right Now: 'The Pitch Dropped'
Aaaaaaaaaaand ... DROP! (Trinity College/Chris Heller)In 1944, a colleague of Ernest Walton, the first person in history to successfully smash an atom, began an experiment of a decidedly lengthier...
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You Can Do Better Than 'Sent from My iPhone'
My gloriously damaged iPhone screen with the magic words on it (Alexis Madrigal)."Sent from my iPhone" It began as a humblebrag and an excuse. It meant, "I am using an expensive mobile device to send...
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A Planetary Nebula That Looks Like the Firefox Logo
Photo by T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF), via Slate/Phil PlaitIf you're reading this web page using Chrome or Safari, beware: you are probably...
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Mobile-Device Email Signatures: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know
Sent from a toaster (Alexis Madrigal).Here is a list of devices from which you, dear readers, claim to send emails: Commodore 64, carrier pigeon, homing pigeon, courier pigeon, fountain pen, rotary...
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Back to Asiana 214
Let me try to work through a few of the leads, responses, red herrings, and insights that readers have sent in since the crash two weeks ago.1) An illuminating video recreation. Here is a useful...
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The Melting Arctic: Northern Sea Route Shipping Has Already Quadrupled Last...
Quartz The Suez Canal has new competition. Captains watching the creation of a rare new ocean passage -- the Northern Sea Route through the melting Arctic -- say that shipping has quadrupled (paywall)...
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Get Ready: 3D Printing Will Explode Next Year, When Key Patents Expire
Current 3D printers are cheap, but compared to where we're going, they're as Pong is to the iPhone. (AP) Here's what's holding back 3D printing, the technology that's supposed to revolutionize...
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May the Force Be Nerdy: Star Wars Just Made a Contribution to Science
January 2008: Sand dunes migrating over the Tunisian desert, toward the Star Wars film set. (Google Earth via BBC)Just northwest of Tozeur, Tunisia, lays a barren stretch of desert that's home to great...
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2 Lithe Little Apps
Complex and powerful software has its place, in my working life and in my heart. Why else would I have loved wrestling with a long sequence of  "interesting" programs, from KnowledgeMan to Paradox to...
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American Historical Association: Universities Ought to Embargo Dissertations...
Dallas Krentzel/Flickr The American Historical Association has spied itself a Problem with a capital P and it is determined to do something about it. That problem? Too many people are reading history...
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'Scintillations': The Facebook of 1883
Library of Congress"A good newspaper, I suppose," Arthur Miller once mused, "is a nation talking to itself." But let's not be paperist about it: you could say the same thing about most media....
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Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History
The precise center of Silicon Valley when it was the most important manufacturing region on Earth is now home to Super Space Self Storage. I was able to map this location thanks to Richard E....
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Here Are Photos of Snow on Mars
The south polar cap of Mars as it appeared to the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on April 17, 2000. The polar cap from left to right is about 260 miles across. (NASA/JPL/MSSS)...
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Today in Asiana 214 News
A roundup from readers around the world.1) Korean pilots doth protest. According to AVweb, the union representing Asiana pilots has filed a protest against the NTSB because of "NTSB's press conferences...
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Let There Be Night
Across the United States, natural darkness is an endangered resource. East of the Mississippi, it is already extinct; even in the West, night sky connoisseurs admit that it's quicker to find true...
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The App of God
A young man walks into a strip club. His phone vibrates, and he reaches into his pocket. It's God, telling him to leave. YouVersion recently announced its app hit a monumental milestone -- placing it...
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