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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Jimi Heselden, owner of Segway, fell to his death while riding one of the self-balancing vehicles. But he wasn't the first to be done in by an invention he loved. More »
Alright, I've switched teams and now use Firefox as my primary browser. What do I need to know so that I can use it more efficiently? More »
MacArthur Foundation grant recipients have gone on to do groundbreaking work in the past. Some new names to watch. More »
With every site and service turning toward user customization it seems I have dozens of different passwords to remember. Uppercase. Lowercase. Numbers. I can't keep track of them all. What can I do? More »
Amazon keeps a running list -- updated daily -- of its 10,000 most active reviewers. Some of them have reviewed thousands of products over the past decade. Why? More »
Mark Zuckerberg's announcement that he was giving stock to the Newark Public Schools reignited an old debate: How much is Facebook actually worth? More »
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Lethal injection has been used as a means for carrying out capital punishment for decades, but how does it actually work? More »
After testing nearly 3,000 apps, a risk management company found that more than half of them failed basic standards More »
About 500 million people worldwide live in the shadow of a volcano. New technology would allow them enough time to get away. More »
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