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.

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 »

Siri, Why Aren't You Sassy?

Siri, Why Aren't You Sassy?

Apple's looking for a writer to give its cyborg assistant more "character." More »

We Just Sent the Mona Lisa to the Moon ... With Lasers

We Just Sent the Mona Lisa to the Moon ... With Lasers

The first time anyone has achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances More »

Michelle Obama Is on Twitter (Again)

Michelle Obama Is on Twitter (Again)

Happy birthday, Mrs. Obama! Here's a new Twitter feed. More »

Nightmareliner: The FAA Has Grounded All Boeing 787 Aircraft

Nightmareliner: The FAA Has Grounded All Boeing 787 Aircraft

Two strikes .. it's grounded. More »

When Technology Invents Problems, Moisturizing Jeans Edition

When Technology Invents Problems, Moisturizing Jeans Edition

Denim, disrupted. More »

The White House Petition Site Is a Joke (and Also the Future of Democracy)

The White House Petition Site Is a Joke (and Also the Future of Democracy)

Want to troll your federal government? It just got a lot more difficult. More »

'This Robot Is the Latest Weapon in the War on Birds'

'This Robot Is the Latest Weapon in the War on Birds'

Four years after the "Miracle on the Hudson," a higher-tech way to combat bird strikes More »

Cannonballs, Samurai Swords, Chastity Belts: An Inventory of the Items Found at TSA Checkpoints in 2012

Cannonballs, Samurai Swords, Chastity Belts: An Inventory of the Items Found at TSA Checkpoints in 2012

A year's worth of data from the nation's airports More »

Why You Can't Cry in Space

Why You Can't Cry in Space

In microgravity, says astronaut Chris Hadfield, "your eyes make tears but they stick as a liquid ball." More »

The U.K.'s Biggest Distributor of Children's Books Is About to Be ... McDonald's

The U.K.'s Biggest Distributor of Children's Books Is About to Be ... McDonald's

Happy meals in Britain are getting a little more literary. More »

What It Would Look Like to Orbit the Moon

What It Would Look Like to Orbit the Moon

A NASA spacecraft sweeps the lunar surface -- only six miles away from its peaks and craters. More »

Here It Is: The 'Most Significant' Photo Recently Taken From Space

Here It Is: The 'Most Significant' Photo Recently Taken From Space

Astronaut Chris Hadfield is, in addition to everything else, a photographer. This is his favorite image. More »

What Van Gogh's Famous Self-Portrait Looks Like as a Photograph

What Van Gogh's Famous Self-Portrait Looks Like as a Photograph

In a word: creepy. In another word: beautiful. More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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