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.

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Police Wage Hours-Long Standoff With Tiny Toy Robot

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23-Year-Old Russian Responsible for a Third of World's Spam

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Picture of the Day: A Flying Humvee for Troops Overseas

Picture of the Day: A Flying Humvee for Troops Overseas

The Pentagon is developing the Transformer, a vehicle that quickly converts into a helicopter to escape tough situations More »

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Netflix Offers $100,000 Per Episode for New TV Shows

Solving the Roadkill Problem With Wildlife Bridges

Solving the Roadkill Problem With Wildlife Bridges

Simple, inexpensive overpasses could make travel safer for wildlife and humans while reducing our $8 billion roadkill bill More »

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YouTube Now Lets You Skip Advertisements

Opting Out of Listserv Conversations Using Gmail's New Smart Mute

Opting Out of Listserv Conversations Using Gmail's New Smart Mute

I'm a member of several listservs that fill my email inbox with unnecessary chatter and bickering. But sometimes there's a message that keeps me from unsubscribing. What can I do? More »

Using Facebook to Launch Your Own Online Retail Store

Using Facebook to Launch Your Own Online Retail Store

I have some items that I'd like to sell through the Internet. Is there a quick and easy way to do that? More »

Picture of the Day: Poland's Recyclable Subway Car

Picture of the Day: Poland's Recyclable Subway Car

With an electrodynamic breaking system and aluminum chassis, the new cars reduce energy consumption by 30 percent More »

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Do Not Track List Could Keep Marketers From Following Your Internet Habits

Why Groupon Is Worth $6 Billion

Why Groupon Is Worth $6 Billion

Google's rumored purchase is a smart one: The world's biggest deal-of-the-day site has announced plans to expand and start offering many deals per day More »

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Student Googles Himself, Finds He's Been Accused of Murder

NewYorker.com Unveils Redesign, Now Looks Like Every Other Site

NewYorker.com Unveils Redesign, Now Looks Like Every Other Site

The website's redesign should make it easier for writers to post online-only content, but it's simply uninviting More »

Picture of the Day: Biomimicry as Storefront Window Display

Picture of the Day: Biomimicry as Storefront Window Display

The latest in a string of design projects that use coral reefs as primary inspiration fills a window in the center of Milan More »

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Profiling BoingBoing, One of the World's Most Popular Blogs

Reconnect With Facebooks' New Find Friends Browser

Reconnect With Facebooks' New Find Friends Browser

I'm on Facebook, but now what? How do I find -- and reconnect with -- some of my old friends from school? More »

Picture of the Day: Two Colliding Galaxies

Picture of the Day: Two Colliding Galaxies

A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows two galaxies 300 million years into the process of merging More »

Portraying Women in Science and Technology

Portraying Women in Science and Technology

Does the media still show women as admiring observers of technology rather than power players in the field? More »

Apple Unveils Stunning iPod Touch Ad on ESPN.com

Apple Unveils Stunning iPod Touch Ad on ESPN.com

The undoubtedly pricey buy was worth it: For a minute, you'll forget why you went to the sports site in the first place More »

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