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The Stock Market May Have Crashed 18,000 Times Since 2006 — And No One Noticed
AP/Henry Ray AbramsWhat if someone told you the stock market crashed and spiked 18,000 times since 2006, and you had no idea? That’s the contention of a group of scientists who study complex systems...
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Interactive Map of the Colorado Floods
The past week has seen devastating flooding to Colorado's Front Range, forcing thousands to flee their homes and killing seven. The Atlantic's In Focus gallery is showcasing some of the images that...
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What It Feels Like to Get Bitten by a Black Widow Spider
In 1983, the entomologist Justin Schmidt published the results of a uniquely unenviable project: He had created a scale that attempted to quantify the pain inflicted by various forms of insect bites...
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A New, Free Tool Lets You Analyze and Archive Twitter Simultaneously
twXplorer in action: Note the mini-graphs which compare the quantity of each term and hashtag in tweets which mention “Pynchon.” (Knight Lab)Information flows through Twitter in dynamic, interconnected...
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An App to Build a Database of the World's Dreams
A nebula in the Milky Way galaxy (NASA)Every night around the world, people crawl into their beds, close their eyes, and dream. When they wake up, the worlds they built in their minds disappear. What...
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Between Broadcast and Community: The Design of Virtual Spaces
Geoff Manaugh and Folkert Gorter at Superfamous HQ.At the risk of seeming recursive, Venue stopped by Superfamous, the Los Angeles-based design studio behind our own graphic identity and website, to...
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How Photographic Technology Shapes Our Understanding of War
Three "Johnnie Reb" prisoners, captured at Gettysburg (Library of Congress)Graphic imagery has been an indelible feature of armed conflict from the days of Civil War daguerreotypes, when Matthew Brady...
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Eagle Eye: What the World Looks Like to a Bird in Flight
Typically and unfortunately, the term "bird's eye view" is figurative. It refers to something seen vaguely "from above," not necessarily "from the particular perspective of a bird in flight." The...
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The Next Step on the Path to an Online-Only Education?
Francisco Diez/FlickrIf you want to get an education with massive open online courses (MOOCs), you have to approach it like an autodidact. Combine a couple MOOCs, three or four dozen Wikipedia romps,...
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Instapaper Thinks You Should Read This Story
At the center of our vast, electro-digital journalistic infotainment ecosystem, there, hidden behind the more recognizable names of the products it owns, is Betaworks. As I wrote in April, the company...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Advice to the NSA: Communicate
ReutersLast week, Facebook sued the government. "We are joining others in the industry," Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch wrote in a post on the company's website, "in petitioning the Foreign...
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A Facebook Like Is Now Covered by the First Amendment
Flickr/sophiabudapestIn November of 2009, B.J. Roberts, the sheriff of Hampton, Virginia, ran for re-election. A group of workers in Roberts' office, however, among them one Bobby Bland, weren't...
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Civics for a Digital Age
Flickr/Alvin Ng Chong XunOver half of the world’s population lives in urban environments, and that number is rapidly growing according to the World Health Organization. Many of us interact with the...
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What Is iTunes? The 56 Things Apple's Behemoth Does
An early iTunes logo, showing its digital ageThe release of iOS 7, the software that powers iPhones and iPads, wasn’t the only major update from Apple yesterday. The company also released iTunes Radio,...
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On This Day in 1984, President Gerald Ford Was Temporarily Trapped in an...
The commemorative plaque (University of Pennsylvania/Flickr)Yes. It is hard to believe that 29 years have already passed since that fateful day in September of 1984, when poor Gerald R. Ford, less than...
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Is There Life on Mars? No
Barren. (NASA/JPL)In 1971, David Bowie asked a question that had also been pondered by decades' worth of scientists and pseudo-scientists and regular old dreamers who gazed up into the sky and wondered...
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The Advocate: Walt Mossberg's 22-Year Fight to Make Computers More User-Friendly
djevents/Flickr“Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it isn’t your fault,” is how Walt Mossberg began his first column for the Wall Street Journal on October 17, 1991. More than two decades...
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Why Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction
jonny2love/FlickrHow will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What are the consequences...
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Funerals for Fallen Robots
A Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal technician prepares to deploy a device that will detonate a buried improvised explosive near Camp Fallujah, Iraq, in November of 2005. (U.S. Marine Corps...
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Today in Human Achievement, iPhones: A Fight Breaks Out at the Apple Store
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Breaking News Step aside, Black Friday Walmart Tramplings. We have a new thing to summon our national pride. And that thing involves,...
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