Rebecca J. Rosen

Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.

55 Years Ago, Disney Depicted the Curiosity Rover's Mars Landing With Remarkable Accuracy

55 Years Ago, Disney Depicted the Curiosity Rover's Mars Landing With Remarkable Accuracy

The plan for the new rover's Martian touchdown next month is ingenious, and not all that different from how a Disney cartoon once imagined it. More »

Russian Wikipedia Shuts Itself Down in Protest of Proposed Censorship Law

Russian Wikipedia Shuts Itself Down in Protest of Proposed Censorship Law

Those visiting Russia's Wikipedia today will see only a statement against the Information Act, which will be debated in the State Duma tomorrow More »

The Case (Study) of Arsenic Life: How the Internet Can Make Science Better

The Case (Study) of Arsenic Life: How the Internet Can Make Science Better

At every step of the way, newer tools for conveying and analyzing science had better results than more traditional methods. More »

When the Lights Go Down in the City: D.C.'s Massive Power Outage From Space

When the Lights Go Down in the City: D.C.'s Massive Power Outage From Space

Two pictures, one before and one after, show the city—and particularly its suburbs— dark following last week's storm. More »

How to Make a Musical Instrument out of Bananas

How to Make a Musical Instrument out of Bananas

And other weird possibilities with MaKey MaKey More »

Everything You Wanted to Know About the So-Called 'God Particle' but Were Afraid to Ask

Everything You Wanted to Know About the So-Called 'God Particle' but Were Afraid to Ask

An animated explanation of the Higgs Boson More »

In Report, Twitter Lists Zero Cases Where It Has Removed Content in Response to Government Requests

In Report, Twitter Lists Zero Cases Where It Has Removed Content in Response to Government Requests

But requests from copyright-holders resulted in the deletion of more than 5,000 tweets. More »

Facebook Rolls Out New Icons for Same-Sex Marriages

Facebook Rolls Out New Icons for Same-Sex Marriages

Gay and straight marriages are now equal in the eyes of the law biggest social-networking site on the planet. More »

The Future of the Map Isn't a Map at All—It's Information

The Future of the Map Isn't a Map at All—It's Information

Google's vision for geospatial information: "We don't want a monoculture where there is just one map of the world. There never has been; there never will be." More »

Where Do the World's Tweets Come From?

Where Do the World's Tweets Come From?

A visualization of geocoded tweets is a good illustration of how wide is the Twitter world More »

'This Is Our Planet': Glorious Time-Lapse View of the Earth From Space

'This Is Our Planet': Glorious Time-Lapse View of the Earth From Space

Knitted-together footage of the Earth, sky, and stars as seen from the International Space Station More »

Study: Patent Trolls Cost Companies $29 Billion Last Year

Study: Patent Trolls Cost Companies $29 Billion Last Year

Hate innovation? Have we got the industry for you. More »

Internet Gone Wild! SCOTUSblog Explodes With Health-Care Enthusiasm

Internet Gone Wild! SCOTUSblog Explodes With Health-Care Enthusiasm

The Obamacare decision brought hundreds of thousands of people to a site normally reserved for law junkies. More »

Picture of the Day: Double Rainbow From Space!

Picture of the Day: Double Rainbow From Space!

Technically these colorful bands are not rainbows at all but a glory, a different but similarly beautiful phenomenon formed by the interplay between water and light. More »

Google One-Ups Apple's Famed Keynotes With a Live Skydiving Demo of Google Glass

Google One-Ups Apple's Famed Keynotes With a Live Skydiving Demo of Google Glass

Earlier today at the keynote for its developers conference, Google provided a dramatic demonstration its forthcoming Google Glass technology. More »

Humans Create a Temperature 250,000 Times Hotter Than the Sun, Right Here on Earth

Humans Create a Temperature 250,000 Times Hotter Than the Sun, Right Here on Earth

The Brookhaven National Laboratory's particle accelerator has set the world record for a man-made temperature, at around 7.2 trillion degrees Farenheit. More »

59% of Young People Say the Internet Is Shaping Who They Are

59% of Young People Say the Internet Is Shaping Who They Are

An opinion survey commissioned by The Atlantic finds telling differences among America's generations. More »

An Antidote to Our Lonely Society: Get a Ride From Your Neighbor With SideCar

An Antidote to Our Lonely Society: Get a Ride From Your Neighbor With SideCar

A new app is giving people in the Bay Area the opportunity to offer a seat in their car, and make a little extra cash while they're at it. More »

Is That a Phone in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Is That a Phone in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Oh, it really is a phone in a see-through pocket. More »

What It Means When Instant Replay Tells Us There Is No Winner

What It Means When Instant Replay Tells Us There Is No Winner

Even cameras rolling at 3,000 frames per second could not discern a winner in Saturday's 100-meter dash. More »

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