Building a Smarter Forest
Cutting-edge tech -- algorithms and robots and drones -- could save lives during natural disasters.… More »
Jared Keller is an associate editor for The Atlantic and The Atlantic Wire. He has also written for Lapham's Quarterly's Deja Vu blog, National Journal's The Hotline, Boston's Weekly Dig, and Preservation magazine.
Cutting-edge tech -- algorithms and robots and drones -- could save lives during natural disasters.… More »
Earlier this week, I asked Atlantic readers to share how they come up with their best ideas. Here's what you said… More »
The number of followers you have and the exact wording matter less than you think. What makes a difference is having the right message for the right people.… More »
The conventional wisdom of space exploration suggests that robotic probes are both more scientifically efficient and cost effective. Not so, argues a professor of planetary science.… More »
Our readers pick their favorite longer, time-intensive literary works.… More »
The Department of Homeland Security turned to social networks to gather information about the emerging crisis.… More »
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the latest government agency to capitalize on the wealth of public information flowing through social networks.… More »
While marketers may want to boil down people's sharing behavior to one, easy equation, that's just not how the social networks function.… More »
A new documentary seeks to capture the spirit of Occupy Wall Street by embodying the movement's open, collaborative structure.… More »
Sites such as YouTube, StumbleUpon, and Twitter have rolled out redesigns that give established media outlets a special place… More »
In a nondescript building in Virginia, analysts are tracking millions of tweets, blog posts, and Facebook updates from around the world… More »
Readers discuss the hilarity of our October 1book140 selection… More »
As the executive director of the non-profit BioLogos Foundation, biologist Darrel Falk struggles daily to strike a delicate balance between two forces: science and religion… More »
A patent from 1965 for a machine that would rotate a woman to help propel a child out of her with less effort… More »
By harnessing the vast wealth of publicly available cloud-based data, researchers are taking facial recognition technology to unprecedented levels… More »
Pulitzer prize-winner Taylor Branch fields questions via Twitter about "The Shame of College Sports."… More »
From "The Bell Jar" to "Moneyball," from Gore Vidal to Tom Wolfe, countless books and authors have guest-starred on America's longest-running sitcom… More »
It's not Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, or Syria. With a single Internet service provider, Qatar's Web access could go down with just one click.… More »
A new website, Conflict History, overlays information from Wikipedia on Google Maps to create a comprehensive look at conflict… More »
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