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.

Cupertino Reveals New Renderings of Apple's Proposed Campus

Cupertino Reveals New Renderings of Apple's Proposed Campus

The massive, spaceship-like structure will house 13,000 employees, a 1,000-person auditorium and a 300,000 square-foot research facility More »

Picture of the Day: Arp 302 or VV 340, Two Colliding Galaxies

Picture of the Day: Arp 302 or VV 340, Two Colliding Galaxies

Scientists working at NASA call this the cosmic exclamation point because its glowing structure resembles that of the punctuation mark More »

Apple Patent: Mini-Projectors Could Soon Come to iPads, iPhones

Apple Patent: Mini-Projectors Could Soon Come to iPads, iPhones

Apple already controls the tablet market, but this feature will only make it more difficult for competitors to steal away a slice of the pie More »

Buffer Automatically Schedules Tweets for Power Twitter Users

Buffer Automatically Schedules Tweets for Power Twitter Users

I use my Twitter account a lot. Sometimes I worry that I'm sending too many tweets at once, spamming the feeds of my followers and pushing them away. Is there a better way to space things out without having to sign in to my account several times an hour? More »

Infographic: Employees of Social Media Giants Are Cashing Out

Infographic: Employees of Social Media Giants Are Cashing Out

With valuations for Facebook, Twitter and others soaring on the secondary markets, it's hard to blame employees for selling their stock More »

Picture of the Day: What the Moon Looks Like From Space

Picture of the Day: What the Moon Looks Like From Space

This photo was captured by Ron Garan who, as part of Expedition 28, was aboard the International Space Station on Sunday, July 31 More »

DARPA Launches Falcon HTV-2 Glider, the World's Fastest Plane

DARPA Launches Falcon HTV-2 Glider, the World's Fastest Plane

The HTV-2 is just one part of DARPA's program to develop a weapons system capable of reaching any point in the world in under an hour More »

Maybe a Second AOL-Time Warner Marriage Would Work Better

Maybe a Second AOL-Time Warner Marriage Would Work Better

When the two companies first merged back in 2001, they had competing interests. Today, they're both focused on creating content. More »

Infographic: The Evolution of Facebook's Popular Photo Feature

Infographic: The Evolution of Facebook's Popular Photo Feature

By the end of summer, Facebook expects that it will be hosting more than 100 billion photos, several times what you can find on Flickr More »

Picture of the Day: Russian Cosmonauts Conduct Spacewalk

Picture of the Day: Russian Cosmonauts Conduct Spacewalk

Taken during the six-hour, 23-minute walk last week, this photograph shows Sergei Volkov, the first second-generation cosmonaut More »

Unfazed by Google's Algorithm Changes, Demand Media Expands

Unfazed by Google's Algorithm Changes, Demand Media Expands

The much-derided content farm saw a drop in traffic generated by Google, but pageviews were up 31 percent over the past six months More »

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Thumbtack's Headquarters

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Thumbtack's Headquarters

An online marketplace for local services, Thumbtack is an SF-based startup that seeks to connect customers to trustworthy professionals More »

Infographic: How Does Facebook Hold Up Against Google+?

Infographic: How Does Facebook Hold Up Against Google+?

SingleGrain takes a stab at comparing Facebook and Google's new social network on a handful of metrics, from chat to privacy to friendships More »

LazyMeter Sorts Through the Clutter, Simplifies Your To-Do List

LazyMeter Sorts Through the Clutter, Simplifies Your To-Do List

I use a Google Calendar and a to-do list attached to my email client, but I think I spend more time trying to keep track of all the things I need to get done than I spend actually completing them. There has to be an easier way. Right? More »

Picture of the Day: NASA's P-3 Orion Spotted Over Maryland

Picture of the Day: NASA's P-3 Orion Spotted Over Maryland

n July, NASA flew two Lockheed P-3 Orion planes over Maryland in order to conduct a series of tests on the air quality in the region More »

Even Disney Doesn't Know How to Build a Profitable Web Business

Even Disney Doesn't Know How to Build a Profitable Web Business

Disney's earnings report was strong, but investors should stop worrying about the parks and look at the company's many digital missteps More »

Walmart, Unable to Keep Up With iTunes, Shutters MP3 Store

Walmart, Unable to Keep Up With iTunes, Shutters MP3 Store

Launched in 2004 as a competitor to iTunes, Walmart's digital music destination undercut Apple's prices, but still couldn't compete More »

Infographic: What Would You Give Up to Keep Your Smartphone?

Infographic: What Would You Give Up to Keep Your Smartphone?

One-third of those surveyed by TeleNav said that they would rather give up sex for an entire week than part with their mobile devices More »

AOL's Kinda, Sorta Comeback

AOL's Kinda, Sorta Comeback

For the first time in three years, AOL's earnings report showed an uptick in advertising revenue. While money is still being lost, the important trend lines are moving in the right direction. More »

Picture of the Day: A Snowman Made of Craters on Asteroid Vesta

Picture of the Day: A Snowman Made of Craters on Asteroid Vesta

Located on Vesta, one of the largest known asteroids, these craters appear to be stacked, one on top of the next, like balls of packed snow More »

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