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.
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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 »
At every step of the way, newer tools for conveying and analyzing science had better results than more traditional methods. More »
Two pictures, one before and one after, show the cityand particularly its suburbs dark following last week's storm. More »
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An animated explanation of the Higgs Boson More »
But requests from copyright-holders resulted in the deletion of more than 5,000 tweets. More »
Gay and straight marriages are now equal in the eyes of the law biggest social-networking site on the planet. More »
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 »
A visualization of geocoded tweets is a good illustration of how wide is the Twitter world More »
Knitted-together footage of the Earth, sky, and stars as seen from the International Space Station More »
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The Obamacare decision brought hundreds of thousands of people to a site normally reserved for law junkies. More »
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 »
Earlier today at the keynote for its developers conference, Google provided a dramatic demonstration its forthcoming Google Glass technology. More »
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 »
An opinion survey commissioned by The Atlantic finds telling differences among America's generations. More »
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 »
Oh, it really is a phone in a see-through pocket. More »
Even cameras rolling at 3,000 frames per second could not discern a winner in Saturday's 100-meter dash. More »
