Is the Twitter Bird Extinct? (No, Really, Like the Species of Bird)
That's the contention of a San Francisco Zoo penguin keeper, who says it looks like a flightless passerine, none of which survive today. More »
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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.
That's the contention of a San Francisco Zoo penguin keeper, who says it looks like a flightless passerine, none of which survive today. More »
Facebook makes a decent showing, but the search-engine giant dominates as the most-visited site around the world. More »
The US Census Bureau has quietly rolled out its API, which means data, data, data for open-government enthusiasts everywhere. More »
A visualization of the travel patterns of Facebook users so far this year. More »
A new technology could allow for buttons to rise up out of the visual interface of your touchscreen device. More »
If you love the content of one site (The Atlantic, say) but the chatter of another (Reddit, ahem), have we got a bookmarklet for you. More »
Some Venus watchers were thwarted by clouds, but NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory had a clear view of the event. More »
A reader discovered that every instance of the word "kindle" had been replaced by "nook" as he read the classic on his, you guessed it, Nook e-reader. More »
A visualization of Twitter activity shows cultural differences in when people go to bed, when they rise, and whether they tweet at work. More »
The story of an 18th-century voyage to a remote island in the Pacific, in the hopes of pinning down the distance between the Earth and the sun More »
New research points to a galaxy some four billion light years away kicking out its own black hole following a collision. More »
In 1889 power flowed from the Willamette Falls to Portland, Oregon, some 14 miles away. More »
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 »
