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Nintendo Should Make a Pokémon Game for iOS
Nintendo, this could be your future (Reuters)Nintendo is a company in trouble. Last week, it warned investors to expect a massive loss for this financial year. Its share price tumbled. The loss was no...
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5 Intriguing Things: Wednesday, 1/22
1. The logistics of smuggling sperm out of a Gaza prison. "How could the semen be taken out of the prison, as Israel doesn't allow physical contact between the prisoners and their families? And how...
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The Strange Story of Cisco's (Sort of) Beloved Hold Music
flickr/andreassolsbergHold music is a replacement for silence that delivers one message, "Yes, you are still on hold." This is all it has to say, and in that sense, it only has to be noise. Yet on this...
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Why NASA Made a Movie You Can't Watch at Home
The "Science on a Sphere" screen at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California (NOAA)We live in an age where just about any piece of multimedia is available from the comfort of one's living...
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This Little House in Wyoming Didn't Just Get Flooded With Web Traffic From China
An image of the house at 2710 Thomes Avenue, which is really just a house (Reuters/The Atlantic)2710 Thomes Avenue in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is a house like many other houses in America. It's got two...
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You Won’t Find Emails in a Trunk in the Attic
At the Writing Table, 1790, artist unknown (National Gallery of Art)Nothing more dramatically underscores the changes in the way we communicate with each other in this era than going through the ritual...
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5 Intriguing Things: Thursday, 1/23
1. The world's largest windfarm, located where the Thames flows into the North Sea, imaged from a satellite. "The wind farm became fully operational on April 8, 2013. Twenty days later, the Operational...
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Hitler's Toilet Is in New Jersey
The Aviso Grille, the first home of the toilet (Bundesarchiv)Do toilets have a heaven? Have they an underworld? These are questions beyond our ken. We can, however, posit a place of Potty Purgatory:...
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I See You: The Databases That Facial-Recognition Apps Need to Survive
I spy a face. (Nottsexminer/Flickr)Privacy concerns have been ignited by “NameTag,” a facial-recognition app designed to reveal personal information after analyzing photos taken on mobile devices. Many...
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The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics
There is a new ubiquitous media brand on Twitter. No, I'm not talking about Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media or BuzzFeed or The Verge, or any other investor-backed startup. I'm talking about...
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Planet Hillary! How The NYT Magazine's Crazy Cover Came to Be
The New York Times magazine that launches tomorrow features a cover story called "Planet Hillary." The story is about the people in Clinton's orbit, the sociopolitical universe that surrounds her. The...
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The Mac Turns 30 Today
Thirty years ago today, Steve Jobs did something he would go on to do many times over: He strode onto a stage and introduced the public to a product that would do its damnedest to dent the universe....
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Get Rid of 'Viral' Headlines With This One Weird Browser Extension
Do viral-style headlines make you want to do this? (Grafvision/Shutterstock)The Upworthy headlines will find you. In tweets, in emails, in wall posts from well-meaning family: Viral Headline English,...
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5 Intriguing Things: Friday, 1/24
1. The people of Burlington, Vermont want to create a more 'local,' non-commercial Internet. "Local, though, can be a funny concept when it comes to the Internet. The way routing works, an email sent...
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How Not to Embarrass Yourself on Snapchat: The Millennial Guide for Olds
The author judging your snaps, and his own (Alexis Madrigal)MTV has a research team. They try to figure out what the kids are up to these days. And one big thing the kids are up to is Snapchat, the...
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Noah’s Ark: Round?
Irving Finkel, a curator of Middle Eastern objects at the British Museum, demonstrates the cuneiform on a newly deciphered tablet. (AP/Sang Tan)Today, a new object has been put on display at the...
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The First Photographs of Space Travel
Shot in December 1965, this image shows the Gemini 7 module (where the image was taken) and Gemini 6 about to complete the first manned orbital rendezvous. (NASA / Breese Little)Pictures of and from...
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Smaller-Town Startups: 'Stopping the Brain Drain' in South Carolina
"Code academy" room for The Iron Yard, inside the Next tech-accelerator building Greenville SC.Yesterday PCH International -- the company from Shenzhen, in southern China, that is run by my friend Liam...
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'Why Is Pennsylvania So Haunted?': The U.S. According to Autocomplete
Amazing MapsWhy is Oklahoma so Republican? Why is Maine so white? And why is Pennsylvania so haunted? Not to be too Benedict Anderson about it, but if there is such thing as a national psyche, that...
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5 Intriguing Things: Monday 1/27
1. Online reputation systems in the so-called sharing economy don't seem to be working very well. "Reputation systems are like the recommendation systems used by Netflix and Amazon, but instead of...
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