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.

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 »

Earth From Space: A Satellite's View of Tahiti

Earth From Space: A Satellite's View of Tahiti

A true-color image of the volcanic islands of Tahiti, some 2,700 miles south of Hawaii More »

Honoring Ray Bradbury: 451 Errors for Content Removed for Legal Reasons

Honoring Ray Bradbury: 451 Errors for Content Removed for Legal Reasons

You've seen 404 "Not Found" errors. Now a proposal introduces the idea of a 451 error to mark sites where content has been removed because of copyright violations. More »

Picture of the Day: NASA's NuSTAR Telescope Expands in Space

Picture of the Day: NASA's NuSTAR Telescope Expands in Space

NASA's new mission to study black holes completes a major phase of its deployment. More »

Online Knitting Community Receives Take Down Notice for 'Ravelympics'

Online Knitting Community Receives Take Down Notice for 'Ravelympics'

The website Ravelry has gotten a take-down request from the US Olympic Committee, which says that "Ravelympic" events "denigrate the true nature of the Olympic Games." More »

Picture of the Day: Hubble Captures a Dwarf Galaxy

Picture of the Day: Hubble Captures a Dwarf Galaxy

NASA says that the picture shows a galaxy that "looks a bit like salt sprinkled on black velvet." More »

A 'Very Tiny Rick Moranis' and Other Requests for the Sci-Fi Santa We Know as DARPA

A 'Very Tiny Rick Moranis' and Other Requests for the Sci-Fi Santa We Know as DARPA

DARPA turned to Twitter to crowdsource devilish little ideas for what the future should bring. A round-up of the responses. More »

Picture of the Day: Blue Marble From a Whole New Perspective

Picture of the Day: Blue Marble From a Whole New Perspective

NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this picture of the Arctic, Europe, and Asia over the course of 15 orbits around the globe. More »

Picture of the Day: Is This What Antarctica Looked Like 15 Million Years Ago?

Picture of the Day: Is This What Antarctica Looked Like 15 Million Years Ago?

New research suggests that Antarctica has a much warmer, wetter, and lusher history than previously believed. More »

How Google Decides: Google's Transparency Report and What It Reveals About the Company's Role in the World

How Google Decides: Google's Transparency Report and What It Reveals About the Company's Role in the World

Google's position in circulating information and ideas online gives it a special view into government efforts to clamp down on speech. With its Transparency Report, it tries to share what it knows. More »

Picture of the Day: Hurricane Carlotta From Space

Picture of the Day: Hurricane Carlotta From Space

The storm brought heavy rains and wind to Mexico's southwestern states over the weekend. More »

Hammocks: What Could Be Better?

Hammocks: What Could Be Better?

What makes hammocks wonderful isn't the flawlessness of the idea but its simplicity, which has allowed for constant innovation. More »

1994 Flashback: 'You Don't Need a Phone Line to Operate Internet?'

1994 Flashback: 'You Don't Need a Phone Line to Operate Internet?'

It wasn't that long ago when not only did we not know what the Internet was but we also did not have the language to talk about it. More »

Picture of the Day: A Cosmic Alignment

Picture of the Day: A Cosmic Alignment

Two galaxies known collectively as NGC 3314 appear to be colliding but they are separated by tens of millions of light years. More »

He Said, She Said: How Information Flows From You to Your Boss's Boss

He Said, She Said: How Information Flows From You to Your Boss's Boss

A study of some 500,000 emails from inside Enron reveals patterns of information sharing around an office. More »

Picture of the Day: The Black Sea Turns Blue and Green

Picture of the Day: The Black Sea Turns Blue and Green

The annual phytoplankton bloom has brought deep color to the waters. More »

Get Ready, Because Voyager I Is *This Close* to Leaving Our Solar System

Get Ready, Because Voyager I Is *This Close* to Leaving Our Solar System

We're on the cusp of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of all time, but we may not know when the moment strikes. Or, rather, there may be no moment. More »

The Secrets of Black Holes: Meet NuSTAR, NASA's New X-Ray Mission

The Secrets of Black Holes: Meet NuSTAR, NASA's New X-Ray Mission

The new space telescope is going to look at black holes and the power they have over the objects around them. More »

Picture of the Day: The Veil Nebula

Picture of the Day: The Veil Nebula

A classic Hubble image of the trace of a massive star explosion thousands of years ago More »

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