Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the Health channel. A former media aggregator for Slate, he has also worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Texas Monthly and other publications.

Sync Your Instagram and Google+ Accounts for Real-Time Updates

Sync Your Instagram and Google+ Accounts for Real-Time Updates

I have a profile set up on Google+, but I'm looking to make updating it as easy as possible so that it doesn't feel like I'm just building another version of a social network I already have. Can I automatically push out my Instagram photos, for example? More »

Where Ideas Come From: Inside SoundCloud's Headquarters

Where Ideas Come From: Inside SoundCloud's Headquarters

Based in Berlin, the online audio distribution platform has quickly grown to 50 employees and more than five million subscribers More »

Video of the Day: Space Shuttle Atlantis Comes in for Final Landing

Video of the Day: Space Shuttle Atlantis Comes in for Final Landing

At 5:57 a.m. a record crowd of 2,000 watched near the Kennedy Space Center as one of the Shuttles touched down for the last time More »

Infographic: Dawn Probe Mission to the Birth of the Solar System

Infographic: Dawn Probe Mission to the Birth of the Solar System

This is the first time that NASA has sent a spacecraft to orbit a protoplanet or large asteroid in our solar system's asteroid belt More »

Picture of the Day: NASA Tests Curiosity's High-Resolution Camera

Picture of the Day: NASA Tests Curiosity's High-Resolution Camera

Shot on a sand dune near Christmas Lake, Oregon, this photograph was a test shot for NASA's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) More »

The Last Space Shuttle Mission: Flight Day 14

The Last Space Shuttle Mission: Flight Day 14

At 5:57:00 a.m. EDT, the Shuttle's main gear touched down at runway 15. With that, the Space Shuttle program officially came to a close. More »

What the Death of Google Labs Means for Innovation at Google

What the Death of Google Labs Means for Innovation at Google

Without the testing ground and development period that other prototypes have been subjected to, you can expect to see more failures More »

How to Copy All of Your Facebook Photos to a Google+ Profile

How to Copy All of Your Facebook Photos to a Google+ Profile

I finally have my own page set up on Google's new social network, but now I'm overwhelmed; I feel like I have to rebuild entire profiles. Is there a way to copy some of what I already have on Facebook over to Google+? More »

Video of the Day: iPhone Tracking Data Displayed Over Europe

Video of the Day: iPhone Tracking Data Displayed Over Europe

Crowdflow named this video "iPhone fireflies," because it looks like the geolocation data collected by Apple is pulsing in the night More »

The Last Space Shuttle Mission: Flight Day 13

The Last Space Shuttle Mission: Flight Day 13

The majority of the day was spent doing checks of Atlantis' thrusters and flight control systems as tomorrow is the final landing More »

Infographic: The Incredible Six-Year History of Yelp Reviews

Infographic: The Incredible Six-Year History of Yelp Reviews

Yelp isn't like the traditional social networks, but visit its pages and you'll see that Yelpers, as they call themselves, act as a community More »

Picture of the Day: Some of the Heaviest Known Stars

Picture of the Day: Some of the Heaviest Known Stars

Photographed here in high-resolution by the Hubble Telescope, Pismis 24 is about 8,000 light-years from Earth in a nebula in Scorpius More »

The 3 Most Surprising Takeaways From Zynga's New SEC Filing

The 3 Most Surprising Takeaways From Zynga's New SEC Filing

Zynga looks lot less healthy than it did three weeks ago, but we don't know how that will affect its upcoming $1 billion IPO More »

The Last Space Shuttle Mission: Flight Day 12

The Last Space Shuttle Mission: Flight Day 12

After moving away from the Space Station, Atlantis' crew spent several hours making sure the Shuttle's heat shield was ready for reentry More »

Video of the Day: A Status Update From the Voyager Mission

Video of the Day: A Status Update From the Voyager Mission

After more than 30 years collecting data about the gas giants, the Voyager probes are finally on their way out of the solar system More »

Infographic: Are We in the Middle of Another Tech Bubble?

Infographic: Are We in the Middle of Another Tech Bubble?

Valuations are reaching extreme levels and venture capital investment is rising, but are we inflating a bubble similar to the last one? More »

Picture of the Day: Preparing for a NASA Post-Launch Tradition

Picture of the Day: Preparing for a NASA Post-Launch Tradition

NASA Kennedy Space Center work Dwayne Hutcheson sweeps the lobby where corn bread and beans were served after Atlantis took flight More »

Google Spends at Least $1.5 Million for G.co Domain Name

Google Spends at Least $1.5 Million for G.co Domain Name

The search giant plans to turn the top-level domain, which is run out of Colombia, into a URL shortener for its products this afternoon More »

The Last Space Shuttle Mission: Flight Day 11

The Last Space Shuttle Mission: Flight Day 11

Raffaello was moved back into Atlantis' cargo bay and the hatches between Atlantis and the Space Station were sealed for the last time More »

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Instagram's Headquarters

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Instagram's Headquarters

A free photo sharing application, Instagram operates out of Twitter's old office in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco More »

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