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.

Beautiful People Spends $100,000 to Remove 30,000 Ugly People

Beautiful People Spends $100,000 to Remove 30,000 Ugly People

When a virus dubbed "Shrek" was unleashed on the dating service, thousands of people were accidentally allowed to pay for membership More »

Penguin Takes a Page From the Atavist Book With New iPad App

Penguin Takes a Page From the Atavist Book With New iPad App

The 75-year-old publishing house is dusting itself off and showing that it can compete with nontraditional companies in the digital space More »

Leaked Memo Reveals Pottermore Will Be Online Gaming Website

Leaked Memo Reveals Pottermore Will Be Online Gaming Website

Scheduled to debut early Thursday morning, J.K. Rowling's mysterious website has had Harry Potter fans hoping for a franchise reboot More »

Video of the Day: Trying to Make the $1 Trillion F-35 Fighter Hip

Video of the Day: Trying to Make the $1 Trillion F-35 Fighter Hip

Just in time for the Paris Air Show, Lockheed Martin rolled out a new website for its fighter, complete with an overproduced music video More »

Infographic: Airlines Make the Case for Integrated Social Media

Infographic: Airlines Make the Case for Integrated Social Media

The airline industry has found training various employees in social media to be a better use of resources than building a dedicated team More »

Picture of the Day: Cassini Flies Past Helene, Saturn's Icy Moon

Picture of the Day: Cassini Flies Past Helene, Saturn's Icy Moon

Just one of Saturn's many moons, Helene was discovered in 1980 with ground-based observations from the Pic du Midi Observatory More »

Video of the Day: A Jumbo Jet Flying Low Over Maho Beach

Video of the Day: A Jumbo Jet Flying Low Over Maho Beach

Maho Beach, a popular destination on the Caribbean Island of Saint Martin, is known for its proximity to the Princess Juliana Airport More »

Infographic: Smartphones and the Mobile Commerce Revolution

Infographic: Smartphones and the Mobile Commerce Revolution

The team behind Microsoft Tag explains how the iPhone and Android revolution is changing our multi-billion-dollar shopping habits More »

Hide Your Facebook From the Boss With Diesel's Excellbook App

Hide Your Facebook From the Boss With Diesel's Excellbook App

I need my Facebook fix. You know, just for a few minutes every day. The problem is that, while I'm at work, I feel awkward signing in to my profile to check on my friends, even if only briefly. I don't want my supervisor to catch me. More »

Everything We Know About Caterina Fake's New Startup, 2bkco

Everything We Know About Caterina Fake's New Startup, 2bkco

The co-founder of Flickr and chairman of the board at Etsy is at it again and her new startup promises to be consumer-facing, social More »

Picture of the Day: John Young Practices Water Egress in 1965

Picture of the Day: John Young Practices Water Egress in 1965

From the NASA archive, this photo shows Young and astronaut Gus Grissom in the Ellington Air Force Base's pool with the Gemini capsule More »

15 High-Profile Sites That Google Doesn't Want You to See

15 High-Profile Sites That Google Doesn't Want You to See

From a refinery in Hungary to an Air Force base in Germany, some of the sites that remain out of focus in the company's satellite imagery More »

Forget the Specs, Is the New MacBook Air Going to Be Black?

Forget the Specs, Is the New MacBook Air Going to Be Black?

Rumors suggest that Apple will make the most high-end MacBook Air available with a black aluminum case like it once did for MacBooks More »

Club Penguin Downtime Is Only Disney's Latest Internet Misstep

Club Penguin Downtime Is Only Disney's Latest Internet Misstep

Despite warnings, the Walt Disney Company managed to let the domain name for a website with 12 million users expire this morning More »

Video of the Day: Apple's New TV Commercial Gets It Right

Video of the Day: Apple's New TV Commercial Gets It Right

Apple understands that consumers don't want to buy new technology. They just want something that will make life a little better. More »

Infographic: Which Social Networking Sites Are Secure?

Infographic: Which Social Networking Sites Are Secure?

Responding to our obsession with privacy, ZoneAlarm ranked the most trafficked networks according to the level of security they offer More »

Google's Disappointing Decision to Hide Its Support of Gay Pride

Google's Disappointing Decision to Hide Its Support of Gay Pride

Instead of a Doodle, Google has placed a small rainbow at the end of its search bar -- but it only shows up if you enter certain terms More »

Picture of the Day: The U.S. Air Force's ACAT F-16D's Test Flight

Picture of the Day: The U.S. Air Force's ACAT F-16D's Test Flight

Researchers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are working with the Air Force to improve collision avoidance technologies More »

Lessons From Zion: How to Dismantle a Nuclear Power Plant

Lessons From Zion: How to Dismantle a Nuclear Power Plant

It will take ten years, but we finally have a solution for isolating the radioactive waste that's been floating in a pool for more than a decade More »

The New York Post Erects Most Egregious Paywall Yet

The New York Post Erects Most Egregious Paywall Yet

Apple iPad users might have been shocked to discover this weekend that navigating to the Post's pages from Safari is no longer allowed More »

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