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.

Meet Google+ Local, Zagat-Fueled Competition for Yelp

Meet Google+ Local, Zagat-Fueled Competition for Yelp

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 »

Picture of the Day: A 'Pinwheel' of a Galaxy

Picture of the Day: A 'Pinwheel' of a Galaxy

Twenty-one million light years from Earth is the spiral galaxy M101. More »

How Do We Know How Far Away Distant Galaxies Are?

How Do We Know How Far Away Distant Galaxies Are?

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 »

How to Get Yourself Noticed on Twitter ... by Homeland Security

How to Get Yourself Noticed on Twitter ... by Homeland Security

The agency monitors dozens of words from the seemingly harmless to the clearly troubling. More »

Picture of the Day: Massachusetts From Space

Picture of the Day: Massachusetts From Space

On what would have been John F. Kennedy's 95th birthday, a picture of the state where he was born and raised. More »

In the Last Month, Microsoft Sent Google 500,000 Takedown Requests

In the Last Month, Microsoft Sent Google 500,000 Takedown Requests

In the past month alone Google has received requests to remove more than 1 million results from Search. Nearly half came from Microsoft. More »

Success! The International Space Station Grabs the SpaceX Dragon

Success! The International Space Station Grabs the SpaceX Dragon

"Looks like we caught a Dragon by the tail," says NASA astronaut Don Pettit. More »

Picture of the Day: The Bright, Burning Sun

Picture of the Day: The Bright, Burning Sun

A very clear -- and very beautiful -- manipulation of activity on the sun. More »

Take a Tour Around the Telescope Array Where We're Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life

Take a Tour Around the Telescope Array Where We're Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life

An interactive panoramic view of the place where scientists are hoping to make the first human contact with alien life More »

Picture of the Day: The Mars Horizon

Picture of the Day: The Mars Horizon

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity captures a view of the Endeavour Crater in the hours before the sun sets. More »

Gawker Gives Comments Some Love, and Now We Know Why

Gawker Gives Comments Some Love, and Now We Know Why

Comment sections are notoriously neglected by online publications. But that may change if sites can figure out how to monetize readers' attention there. More »

Plan a Trip Through History With ORBIS, a Google Maps for Ancient Rome

Plan a Trip Through History With ORBIS, a Google Maps for Ancient Rome

Rather than encounter history as a linear story, we see it as a world more like our own, one in which we're actors with sets of competing choices laid out before us. More »

Earth From Space: The Retreat of Alaska's Columbia Glacier

Earth From Space: The Retreat of Alaska's Columbia Glacier

A comparison of two images from NASA's Landsat 5 satellite shows a dramatic change in the glacier between 1986 and 2011. More »

Advanced Materials Technology Solves Global Plague of Difficult-to-Pour Ketchup

Advanced Materials Technology Solves Global Plague of Difficult-to-Pour Ketchup

Behold, the wonders of science. More »

Picture of the Day: South Africa's Radio Telescopes in Slow Motion

Picture of the Day: South Africa's Radio Telescopes in Slow Motion

Photographer Mike Hutchings took this long exposure shot of the KAT-7 radio telescope array in the Northern Cape. More »

Should Google's Search Results Be Protected by the First Amendment?

Should Google's Search Results Be Protected by the First Amendment?

Algorithmically generated editorial judgment is still judgment. More »

Picture of the Day: The Solar Eclipse

Picture of the Day: The Solar Eclipse

Yesterday the moon crossed between the Earth and the sun resulting in a solar eclipse. More »

Picture of the Day: The Inside of a Satellite

Picture of the Day: The Inside of a Satellite

NASA engineers at work on the Core satellite of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, set to launch in two years More »

When Newspapermen Tried to Explain Friending to America

When Newspapermen Tried to Explain Friending to America

"A high friend count is as much evidence of a willingness to hustle as it is proof of popularity." More »

Chronicling Discovery: The Online Journals of Rare-Book Collectors

Chronicling Discovery: The Online Journals of Rare-Book Collectors

Curators of rare books are finding that blogging gives their discoveries greater exposure, an example of how virtual work can support even the most tactile of pursuits. More »

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