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'Selfies With Homeless People'
Selfies at Funerals. Selfies at Serious Places. Selfies Before Teachers Who Are Going Into Labor. Selfies Before Suicide Attempts. Here's another one to add to the collection: Selfies With Homeless...
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'Woman Laughing Alone With Salad' Has Decided to Lean In
Unclothed Woman With Fruit Salad, Digital Photograph, 21st century. (Shutterstock/jayfish)Stock photography, by its nature, traffics in cliches. The inventory of photos on sites like Getty and...
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This GIF Shows What Might Be Water Flowing on Mars
NASA scientists have long followed a chanted a mantra about Mars: follow the water, follow the water. So, we sent a lander to the northern latitudes looking for extant ice. More recently, the Mars...
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The Practical, Profound Problem of Picturing the NSA
The National Reconnoissance Office, from the sky (Trevor Paglen)Since the spring of last year, when the Snowden documents began to support scoops and stories, the media has had a problem: It is hard to...
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Loving the Potato
Des glaneuses (The Gleaners), Jean-François Millet 1857 (Wikimedia Commons)Only with difficulty can we separate the potato from association with the soil. What other supermarket item sits on the shelf...
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Listen to the Boston Symphony Orchestra Stop a Performance to Announce JFK's...
Erich Leinsdorf, who was conducting that day (courtesy of Theodore Johnson)This article is the second in a series featuring clips from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, which is working to...
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A New iPhone App Catalogues and Maps U.S. Drone Killings
An Air Force officer checks a Predator drone before flight in September 2008. (Christopher Griffin / Reuters) On Monday, the new publication First Look reported that electronically obtained metadata...
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5 Intriguing Things: Tuesday, 2/11
1. They should definitely put huge robots in it. "Google is taking over the lease at the airfield that houses Hangar One — the giant eight-acre aircraft hangar that was built in 1933 to house massive...
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How California Got Its Dew Back
Last week, California saw something it hasn't seen for a shockingly long time: rain. And snow. The precipitation was not enough to end the drought that has, for the past three years, turned the Golden...
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Everything We Know About How the NSA Tracks People's Physical Location
Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar’s news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept. Writing with national security reporter Jeremy...
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What the Luge Looks Like, to a Luger
So you're flying down a track at 80 miles an hour, nothing between you and the ice below save for your slick ride and the helmet that you really, really hope will remain unused. G-forces keep your...
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5 Intriguing Things: Wednesday, 2/12
1. IS THIS RADIOHEAD APP THE FUTURE OF MUSIC? (Just kidding. But it is conceptually fascinating.) "PolyFauna is an experimental collaboration between us (Radiohead) & Universal Everything, born out...
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On Online Dating Sites, Hot Men Say 'Women' but Hot Women Say 'Girls'
Pity the peacock. He wears a bright plumage, and he flaunts a sexy strut. On a good day, he may even find a mate. But alas! He lacks the tools of data-driven analysis that tell him exactly how to...
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How to Follow the Week's Monster Winter Storm
A massive storm is barreling across the eastern half of the United States. Right now, it's dropping ice and havoc over the southeast. Power outages in some areas of Georgia could last for weeks. Soon,...
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Gold-Winning Snowboarder: 'Tinder in the Olympic Village Is Next Level'
On Sunday, the American snowboarder Jamie Anderson won gold in Sochi's Women's Slopestyle event. The 23-year-old attributes her big win not just to hard work and mental focus, but also to ......
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Lincoln and Darwin Were Both Born on This Date, 205 Years Ago
February 12 was a big day in 1809. Abraham Lincoln was born in a wild Kentucky; Charles Darwin was born in a refined Shrewsbury, Shropshire. One man held together the Union. The other developed a...
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Millions of People Reading Alone, Together: The Rise of Goodreads
Goodreads.comIn 2007, Otis Chandler developed a social network for bookworms because, rather than relying on media reviews and bestseller lists, he wanted to get reading recommendations from friends....
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Can a Twitter Bot Capture Chicago's Essence?
When established in 1833, the Town of Chicago incorporated fewer than 200 people into its new borders. Within seven years—the city’s first decennial U.S. census—more than 4,000 people lived there;...
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You Gotta Fight For Your Right to Repair Your Car
In a dusty, industrial corner of Sacramento, a married couple say their prayers and open up their own business—a little car repair garage. It's something they've always dreamed of doing together, and...
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5 Intriguing Things: Thursday, 2/13
1. Private investigator and grinder hero Jay J. Armes was one of People magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People in 1975. "The seeds of discord had been scattered unexpectedly the previous day, at a...
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