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How 24 Tiny Satellites Could Change Business Forever
Skybox ImagingYou'd think it would be tough for a 1,200-foot long oil tanker to get lost in the shuffle, but it happens, especially, say, in the blinding bustle at the Port of Singapore, where half of...
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Fake Birds on Film
Do you ever wonder about those flocks of computer-generated birds flitting across the screens of so many of your favorite shows and films? I do. I'll be watching your average contemporary Hollywood...
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How Open-Access Scholarship Improves the Internet
Boston Public Library/FlickrAfter a college professor writes an academic journal article, it usually has a long but vivid transit to publication. The professor sends it to a journal, where it endures...
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Why Sharks Don't Get Cavities
Shark teeth: dentist approved (Flickr/Mark Evans) Sharks live lives that are, to human sensibilities, mostly unenviable. The creatures are constantly moving. They are hunted by predators far higher...
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Jeff Bezos' (Growing) Media Empire
The modern-day media tycoon (Readwrite.com)Jeff Bezos is not simply the founder and CEO of Amazon. He is also, via the delightfully named Bezos Expeditions, an investor. Bezos has personally invested...
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The Odd Philosophy Behind Jeff Bezos's Weird Investments
ReutersSo Jeff Bezos is buying The Washington Post, transferring ownership of the newspaper from one century, and one kind of coastal wealth, to another. And, on Twitter, after the "Whoa!" reactions...
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Hey NYT, What Is It With You and These 'Near Disaster in the Air' Stories?
C'mon, New York Times, I just got done writing an item about your ever-growing preeminence in world journalism. And you do ... this again? Visitors to this site may recall the flap over a bogus NYT...
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The Graham Family's Sale of The Washington Post, in 1 Image
For much of the tail end of the 20th century, America's major metro newspapers were owned by a group of families who often saw the stewardship not only as a means to power, but also as an exercise of...
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Chart: When Will We Eat Hamburgers Grown in Test Tubes?
A couple people ate some hamburger in London yesterday. Not generally noteworthy, except that the burger cost $330,000 to produce and the meat was grown in a lab, not a cow. It was flavored with salt,...
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Coming Soon: The Cybercrime of Things
Smart lamps let your friends--and anyone who can hack into them--know when you're home. (Good Night Lamp)Recent work by security researchers indicates that one of the problems with having a "smart"...
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You Know What's Better Than a Twin Study? A Twin Study Conducted in Space
Soon, one of these guys will be in space. (AP)Growing up, twin brothers Mark and Scott Kelly shared a lot -- even for twins. They took the same AP Biology class. They were co-captains of their high...
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71 Percent of Americans Believe That, by 2050, Artificial Limbs Will Perform...
Shutterstock/MaxPhotoIn a report out today, the Pew Research Center offers a fascinating look at Americans' views on aging -- and on, specifically, the practice known as "radical life extension." The...
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Google's New, Little, Algorithmic, Arbitrary #Longform Play
It's a hashtag, it's a movement, it's a compound word of suspect etymology: Today, Google announced a new feature to help its users find quality, long-form journalism among search results. For many...
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There Is a 'Mars Explorer Barbie' (and She Is Just as Pink as You'd Imagine)
MattelThis week, you may have heard, marks the one-year anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars. To celebrate, NASA is doing what any powerful government agency would do: It's teaming up...
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Revealed: A Book the Size of a Ladybug
Colleen TheisenThe University of Iowa library contains more than 4,000 miniature books, all measuring fewer than three inches in either height, width, or both. Three inches is not a lot for a book,...
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How Do We Use Energy at Home?
Alexis Madrigal explains how energy really works in AmericaRead more From gadgets to kitchen appliances to heating, AC, and beyond, this two-minute video reveals what it takes to power an American...
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A Very Short History of How Americans Use Energy at Home
Still from a natural gas promotional film (Prelinger Archive)Let's take a quick tour of how Americans use energy at home. Per capita energy consumption has stayed fairly stable over the past thirty...
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If You Insulted a Dolphin 20 Years Ago, He's Probably Still Bitter About It
The guy on the right? He's cool. But do not mess with the dude on the left. (Shutterstock/eZeePics Studio)Say that, in 1993, you were at a bar having some beers with a dolphin. Say that the dolphin...
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'Dot-com,' the Most Ubiquitous Suffix on the Internet, Was Almost ... 'Dot-cor'
None of it was inevitable. (Shutterstock/Tom Wang)If things had gone just a little bit differently -- if different people had been in the room, if a conversation had taken a different tangent, if a...
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Academics Agree MIT Should Have Done More for Aaron Swartz
ReutersIn late July, MIT issued its report, written by computer science professor Hal Abelson, on the university's own actions in the Aaron Swartz case. Swartz, an information activist, faced extensive...
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