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Just a Bunch of Autonomous Convoys Driving Around an Army Base
ReutersLast month, General Robert Cone, the head of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, gave a speech that the service's future configuration. In short: fewer soldiers, more "lethality." How's...
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What It's Like to Fly Over Antarctica
What do you think of when you hear Antarctica? Snow, ice. Glaciers. The South Pole. Maybe penguins. We think of it, in other words, less as a real place and more as a collection of attributes. In...
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LOL and/or Lol! The Internet Has a Style Guide Now
Cheezburger via anomalous4/FlickrThe Internet is, on top of everything else, a word generator of unparalleled proportions. As a platform for expression, the thing has provided us with an explosion of...
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5 Intriguing Things: Wednesday, 2/5
1. Last April, some unknown force carried out a seemingly professional attack on a California power grid substation, knocking out 17 transformers with AK-47s. "The attack began just before 1 a.m. on...
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Snipers Coordinated an Attack on the Power Grid, but Why?
The location of PG&E's Metcalf Transmission Substation is marked with "A" (Google)Last April, unknown attackers shot up 17 transformers at a California substation in what the then-chairman of the...
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And Just Like That, Facebook Became the Most Important Entity in Web Journalism
via RecodeThe graph above tells maybe the most interesting—and definitely the most surprising—story of the past year of digital media. It shows two years of referrals from Facebook and Google to the...
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A Gift Registry for Baby Books
Courtesy the Andover Book StoreIt starts the way so many minor problems do: with good intentions. Your friends or relatives have a baby; you want to give a gift that will be not just temporarily useful...
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5 Intriguing Things: Thursday, 2/6
1. Air Sex. It's a thing. Apparently. "He did have kind words for the depictions of air sex, a sport whose best performances are not mere re-creations of ground sex, but an entirely new genre of human...
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What You Learn About Tech From Watching All 456 Law & Order Episodes
The first computer in Law & Order that is turned on. Season 1, Episode 9. (NBC)Sometime soon after Netflix's streaming service launched, Jeff Thompson found himself watching episode after episode...
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Naked on the Internet Is Not Forever
ed and eddit/FlickrIn Autumn 2007, someone took a picture of me and put it on the web. In this low-angle shot taken at my peak weight, I looked like Jabba the Hutt wearing a blue T-shirt. Since the...
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Our Rover on Mars Looked Into the Sky and Saw Earth
Earth, from the surface of Mars, photographed by the rover Curiosity (NASA / JPL)Sometime last week, the Mars Curiosity Rover, the two-year-old American craft about the size of a minivan, turned its...
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Soon to Grace the NYC Skyline: Towers Made of Fungus
The LivingThe mycelium is the vegetative network that forms the underground section of a fungus. It grows quickly, and stretches around any place that offers it space to grow. It is stringy. It is, as...
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Naked on the Internet Is Not Forever
ed and eddit/FlickrIn Autumn 2007, someone took a picture of me and put it on the web. In this low-angle shot taken at my peak weight, I looked like Jabba the Hutt wearing a blue T-shirt. Since the...
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This School in Spain Is Feeling the Force of Olympic Tweeters' Rage
The Open Institute of Catalonia is a university in the northeasternmost region of Spain. It focuses on virtual learning, and bills itself as a "university of the future": a "university that exists on...
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Catch My Diff: Github's New Feature Means Big Things for Open Data
On Wednesday, Github announced that maps would be “diffable”—a silly-sounding term that means much in the world of Github. It’s a small and even long-expected feature, but an important one, and one...
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The Race to Save America's Public Media History
Reels from the WGBH archive (WGBH)There is a difference between knowing a fact of history and feeling its weight. For instance, I know that there was once a girl who lived in Amsterdam named Anne...
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Tight-Rope Walking Between Two Hot-Air Balloons?!
You may have seen filmmaker Sebastien Montaz-Rosset’s work before. His film, Flight of the Frenchies, introduced mainstream audiences to wingsuits, a type of parachute that fill the space between arms...
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5 Intriguing Things: Friday, 2/7
1. Stanford President points out a failing of the term MOOC. "Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, may be higher education’s current fad but they fail on two counts – mass and openness – according...
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5 Intriguing Things: Monday, 2/10
International Cometary Explorer (NASA)1. Sad: we launched a spacecraft in 1978 that is now returning to Earth, but we've lost the technical ability to communicate with it. "Communication involves...
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The Moment in Space and Time When Charlie Chaplin Became the Tramp
It is one of the most famous moments in cinematic history: the instant when Charlie Chaplin, playing a sadsack hobo, becomes The Tramp. Walking down a country road, heartbroken, Chaplin picks up his...
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