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If You Were a Pilot Flying Low Over the Arctic, This Is What You'd See
The first thing you should know about Operation IceBridge, NASA's polar ice image-collection effort, is that its purpose is science. The project uses a specialized fleet of research aircraft and what...
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'Guidelines for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Burning Man'
Burning Man 2012 (Hawaii Savvy/Flickr)Just one week to go until Burning Man 2013, the massive annual arts festival in the Nevada desert, and the community's organizers have thought of everything. In...
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Can We Trust Google With the Stratosphere?
Google The challenge is simple. Simple enough for a child to explain. In fact it's a child's voice, over a rolling piano and elegant animation that introduced Google's bold new step into the future:...
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Where Is a College Like a Company? LinkedIn
LinkedInOn Monday, LinkedIn launched pages for universities, extending the platform it uses to represent companies to institutions of higher learning. 200 colleges and universities began the program,...
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5 Ways of Understanding the New, Feminist MOOC That's Not a MOOC
(Robinson Meyer/Evan Bench)Yesterday, we received word of the newest innovation in higher education. Across the world this fall, it was said, students and professors would sit down at computer screens,...
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3D Printing Goes Mainstream Retail
UPSAbout a month ago, a UPS store in eastern San Diego started offering a new service: 3D printing. Six weeks ago, store owner Burke Jones says, "I didn't know anything about 3D printing." "I'd love to...
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Watch a Music Video Dissect Your Facebook Profile
The idea of "borrowed nostalgia" takes on a very literal meaning as you watch "Facehawk," a music video for Big Data's track "Dangerous" that exploits your own memories. Head to thefacehawk.com and...
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What Internet.org's Promo Video Cut From the Kennedy Speech It Quotes
Extending affordable Internet access to everyone in the world who wants it is probably a worthwhile endeavor. Information has economic value, after all. Today, Internet.org launched, a new industry...
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What's Behind the Natural-Gas Boom?
Alexis Madrigal explains how energy really works in AmericaRead more From Texas to New York, natural gas has radically changed the energy landscape in America. But how did the practice commonly known...
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The Natural Gas Boom: Processes, Production, and Problems
A gas flare at a fracking site in Bradford County, Pennsylvania (Reuters). Alexis Madrigal explains how energy really works in AmericaRead more The key technologies behind the U.S. natural gas boom are...
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Shooting the Well: The Petroleum Torpedoes of the Early Oil Fields
Alexis Madrigal explains how energy really works in AmericaRead more Before the fracked gas boom of the last 10 years, before the rise of mega oil companies, before the entire 20th century, actually,...
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A Planet of People Waving at Outer Space
NASAOn July 19th, around 2:30 in the afternoon Pacific time, the good people of NASA encouraged the residents of our planet to stand outside and wave to the heavens. Time for a family portrait. At that...
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Artist Embeds RFID Chip in His Hand to Spread GIF Art
Anthony Antonellis marked another milestone for the body-hacking movement, implanting an RFID chip encased in glass into his hand. The tiny chip can transmit an animated GIF that he's stored in it...
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Let Us Now Contemplate the Key
MShades/Flickr1. Inventory Let's make an inventory of all your keys. Not the keycards. Keys with teeth. Keys with mouths. First, the keys on your keyring: house, car, mailbox, office, office mailbox,...
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What Coal Mining Looks Like These Days
A crew of men gather at a mine in McDowell County, West Virginia. They have a quick meeting, say a prayer, and head down into the mountain, into the dark, where their mining machine waits to crush...
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Of Course Teens Think About Privacy, They Have Parents
More than 50 percent of teen app users have avoided downloading apps because of privacy concerns, according to a new Pew Internet Project and Berkman Center poll of teenagers. Another 26 percent have...
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How US Democracy Has Responded to Networked Culture
Street graffiti by graffiti artist Banksy is seen on a wall, next to a CCTV camera, in central London (Reuters)Earlier this week, engineering professor Debbie Chachra tweeted a mini-syllabus: Tryptych....
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Update: Since November 2011, People Have Said 'Sneak Peak' on Twitter 346,541...
@StealthMountain's avatarSince November of 2011, a spelling bot has been shaming us all on Twitter. The @StealthMountain account looks for the text "sneak peak" in tweets and sends the reply, "I think...
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On Learning How to Fish
ReutersOne day, I was sitting on the street, not even asking to be given a fish, when a guy came up to me and said, "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for...
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San Francisco Fire Chief Bans Helmet Cams
Today, to talk about technology is to talk about privacy. How much of our lives should be documented? To whom should that documentation be available? How can we adequately protect the long trail of...
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