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.

It Just Became Legal for Parisian Women to Wear Pants

It Just Became Legal for Parisian Women to Wear Pants

Liberte! Egalite! Trousers! More »

Columbia's Astronauts, Remembered on Mars

Columbia's Astronauts, Remembered on Mars

Seven hills for seven explorers More »

The Clocks at Grand Central Station Are Permanently Wrong

The Clocks at Grand Central Station Are Permanently Wrong

... and they're that way on purpose. More »

The Twilight of the GIF

The Twilight of the GIF

How rude! The noble GIF is now less popular a format than the humble PNG. More »

Will We One Day Have a Super Bowl for Video Games?

Will We One Day Have a Super Bowl for Video Games?

PBS documents the rise of competitive gaming. More »

Why We Should Be Scared for Our Coastlines, in 55 Acronyms

Why We Should Be Scared for Our Coastlines, in 55 Acronyms

VBZD? "Vector-borne and zoonotic disease." SLCS? "Sea level change scenarios." CSO? "Combined sewer overflow." More »

Study: Facebook Is Your Frenemy

Study: Facebook Is Your Frenemy

Facebook is stressful! Also, we love it. More »

A Whole New Realm of Bad Taste: TxtSpk and License Plates

A Whole New Realm of Bad Taste: TxtSpk and License Plates

Step aside, "ASSMAN": The digital world has opened up a whole new way to offend and/or delight fellow drivers. More »

Would You Spend the Night at an Underwater Hotel?

Would You Spend the Night at an Underwater Hotel?

This is either a). the best idea ever or b). the worst. More »

Handwritten Notes for Gabrielle Giffords's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee

Handwritten Notes for Gabrielle Giffords's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee

Text of the speech written in pen, and on binder paper More »

Hillary Clinton Traveled 956,733 Miles During Her Time as Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton Traveled 956,733 Miles During Her Time as Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton's frequent-flier miles > your frequent-flier miles. More »

Here Is the Robot That Will Extract Water From the Moon

Here Is the Robot That Will Extract Water From the Moon

NASA's latest prototype has found a way to, quite literally, get water out of rocks. No word on if it can get blood from stone yet. More »

What Twitter Really Looks Like

What Twitter Really Looks Like

The service, tracked in real time on a world map More »

Here Is What Happens When You Open a Can of Mixed Nuts in Space

Here Is What Happens When You Open a Can of Mixed Nuts in Space

"When you open a can of nuts in space," Chris Hadfield says, "they almost look alive." More »

This Pod of Sperm Whales Would Like to Teach You a Lesson About Humanity

This Pod of Sperm Whales Would Like to Teach You a Lesson About Humanity

A tale of inter-species interaction, told by some friendly cetaceans More »

Women in Combat: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Aided by Technology

Women in Combat: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Aided by Technology

Many of the arguments against "bands of sisters" are moot. Because of technology. More »

Maybe the End of the Women-in-Combat Ban Will Also Be the End of the Little, Pink Gun

Maybe the End of the Women-in-Combat Ban Will Also Be the End of the Little, Pink Gun

Could the new rule be the end of "pink it and shrink it"? More »

'Current Employers of People Who Like Racism' ... and More Actual Facebook Graph Searches

'Current Employers of People Who Like Racism' ... and More Actual Facebook Graph Searches

Facebook encourages us to understand people not just as populations, but as categories. More »

What Does the Sun Sound Like?

What Does the Sun Sound Like?

Smooth jazz, mostly. (Kidding! It sounds like hums and zooms and tribal drums!) More »

Coming Soon: Fewer Pictures of Naked People at Our Nation's Airports

Coming Soon: Fewer Pictures of Naked People at Our Nation's Airports

Coming soon: fewer pictures of naked people in our nation's security lines. More »

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