Megan Garber

Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was formerly an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab, where she wrote about innovations in the media.

Kennedy, Before Choosing the Moon: 'I'm Not That Interested in Space'

Kennedy, Before Choosing the Moon: 'I'm Not That Interested in Space'

The president sought space not because it was easy, but because it was expedient. More »

Swabbing and Hoping: How NASA Keeps Germs From Colonizing Mars

Swabbing and Hoping: How NASA Keeps Germs From Colonizing Mars

The agency tries to keep humans from inadvertently populating other planets. More »

Alan Turing, Code-Breaking Genius, Wasn't Very Good at Monopoly

Alan Turing, Code-Breaking Genius, Wasn't Very Good at Monopoly

Bletchley Park releases a game reminiscent of the one the code-breaker himself used to play. More »

The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature's Fractals

The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature's Fractals

Nature mingles with math, to wondrous results. More »

O, Bezos! Found Poetry From the Big Amazon Kindle Reveal

O, Bezos! Found Poetry From the Big Amazon Kindle Reveal

Behold, the lyric genius of Amazon. All images via The Verge. More »

How to Brush Your Teeth on the International Space Station

How to Brush Your Teeth on the International Space Station

The ISS crew just repaired their vehicle with an earthly toothbrush. Here's why they had one aboard. More »

Behold, the Toothbrush That Just Saved the International Space Station

Behold, the Toothbrush That Just Saved the International Space Station

Astronauts aboard the ISS find a low-tech way to solve a high-tech problem. More »

Walt Whitman, Poet of ... Space Exploration

Walt Whitman, Poet of ... Space Exploration

"Pioneers! O Pioneers!" narrates the final frontier. More »

The World Wide Web, by the Numbers

The World Wide Web, by the Numbers

The founder of the web checks in on his creation, with mixed results. More »

The Martian Landscape, in Wacky 3D

The Martian Landscape, in Wacky 3D

The red planet becomes the red and blue planet. More »

The Afterlife of a Kickstarter Project

The Afterlife of a Kickstarter Project

Outgrow.me is an online catalog of successfully crowdfunded products. More »

President Obama's Reddit AMA: The Numbers Are in, and They're Huge

President Obama's Reddit AMA: The Numbers Are in, and They're Huge

The stats behind the "the only link in recorded history to have surpassed the front page" More »

Want to Watch the Paralympics? Now You Can—Not on NBC, but on YouTube

Want to Watch the Paralympics? Now You Can—Not on NBC, but on YouTube

Where NBC falters, YouTube steps in More »

Ronald Reagan and the Case of the Missing Hologram

Ronald Reagan and the Case of the Missing Hologram

How a holographic Gipper almost -- almost -- appeared at the Republican National Convention More »

It's Official: This Is the Best Cat Video on the Internet

It's Official: This Is the Best Cat Video on the Internet

The art community, and the Internet community, have spoken. More »

Go Ahead, Make a Chair's Day: #Eastwooding Is Now a Thing

Go Ahead, Make a Chair's Day: #Eastwooding Is Now a Thing

Clint Eastwood's speech spawns a pointed meme. More »

With This Man's Help, We Celebrate People by Dropping Balloons on Them

With This Man's Help, We Celebrate People by Dropping Balloons on Them

"I don't think there's anything as spectacular as a well-executed balloon drop." More »

Why a Fancy Art Museum Is Curating a Collection of Cat Videos

Why a Fancy Art Museum Is Curating a Collection of Cat Videos

Can the Internet's fervor for felines translate to in-person interactions? More »

Ask Him Anything: President Obama Is Doing a Reddit AMA

Ask Him Anything: President Obama Is Doing a Reddit AMA

A ratification of Reddit as "the front page of the Internet" More »

How a Photographer Created Images of Fireworks Unlike Any You've Ever Seen

How a Photographer Created Images of Fireworks Unlike Any You've Ever Seen

A photographer's experiment puts explosions in new light. More »

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