The Occasional, Unintentional Hilarity of Patent Art
It's a man! Playing whack-a-mole! In a bucket? Wait, what? Why is he sad? 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.
It's a man! Playing whack-a-mole! In a bucket? Wait, what? Why is he sad? More »
The region 30 Doradus lies in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, some 170,000 light years away. More »
The company proposes a new way forward in fixing the mess that is software patents. More »
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge coronal mass ejection exploding off the sun's eastern limb yesterday. More »
The Arctic ice is more easily observed from the vantage point of space than from right here on the planet. More »
A photograph from the first floor of Building No. 5 in West Orange, New Jersey, part of what is considered the first industrial research laboratory. More »
A photograph of two women entering the data of the 1940 census into analog computing machines. More »
A cigarette card from the mid 1930s explores what sets a man surrounded by books apart from an analog computing machine. More »
The column of swirling dust was only about 70 meters across but it reached some 12 miles above the ground. More »
An archaeological dig of a cave in South Africa provides evidence of "burning events" 600,000 years older than other conclusive sites. More »
From the New York Public Library's extensive cigarette-card collection comes this little illustration of an early attempt at human flight. More »
Media sites are doubling down on the ways you can customize the news you read. Is that cause for concern? More »
ISS-dwelling astronaut Don Pettit recently tweeted this picture from above the Tasman Sea. More »
A new project called Wikidata aims to automate some aspects of the collaborative encyclopedia. More »
The National Archives has digitized and published online the 72-year-old records of more than 130 million Americans, but finding your family will require a bit of legwork. More »
When viewed from Earth (or Earth's orbit), the galaxy NGC 2683 is at such an angle that it has a saucer-like appearance. More »
Because of the strange distortions of copyright protection, there are twice as many newly published books available on Amazon from 1850 as there are from 1950 More »
A series of satellite images of northern Saudi Arabia show an explosion in desert agriculture over the last two decades. More »
"To love is to return," says writer Robin Sloan. But what are the places we return to online? Help us build an album of sites to love. More »
A film of Steve Mahan driving from his house to a Taco Bell is a powerful example of just how transformative this technology will be for the blind. More »
