Starter Kit: How to Outfit Your iPad Like an Ivy League Scholar
The elite college places a variety of educational, media, and social apps on its collection of iPads.… More »
Rebecca J. Rosen is an associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.
The elite college places a variety of educational, media, and social apps on its collection of iPads.… More »
A visual guide to what the cosmic event will look like from space -- and from right here on Earth.… More »
NASA's Terra satellite grabbed this picture of early-season snowfall in the Southern Hemisphere.… More »
Worthy runners-up include the interfaces on most microwaves, TV remotes, New York City's parking signs, and pull-handles on push-only doors, according to users of Quora.… More »
There is a widespread belief in South Korea that leaving a fan on in a closed room at night can cause death.… More »
A new site from Google puts its Street View tools to work to showcase some of the most storied and beautiful places on Earth.… More »
A picture of the storm that drenched Florida earlier this week, as seen from orbit.… More »
Wikipedia's four million articles are an impressive achievement, but the content of the encyclopedia is deeper than the entries alone: The structure is content too.… More »
This morning, Google announced a new component of its Plus offerings, one they hope will help you find a restaurant for dinner -- and will give it a leg up over Yelp.… More »
Twenty-one million light years from Earth is the spiral galaxy M101.… More »
A video explains how we gauge the thousands, millions, or even billions of light years that separate us from the glowing objects we see with our most advanced telescopes.… More »
The agency monitors dozens of words from the seemingly harmless to the clearly troubling.… More »
On what would have been John F. Kennedy's 95th birthday, a picture of the state where he was born and raised.… More »
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