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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.
Don't be a footy fellow and use this plummy twitter feed to brush up on your old-fashioned banter. More »
The Cygnus Loop, 1,500 light years from Earth, would appear in the night sky three times the size of a full moon if it were visible to the naked eye. More »
Big father is watching. More »
For a mere $1,000 you could have way hotter bow-and-arrows than the District 12 miner's daughter could ever dream of. More »
Just last month the government there refused to pardon him for the crime of "moral turpitude," that is, that he was gay. More »
The globular star cluster Messier 9 isn't visible to the naked eye, but Hubble has observed more than 250,000 stars there. More »
Can a new website help us comprehend just how little time has passed since humans appeared on Earth? More »
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity snapped up this mosaic of a self portrait between the 2,111th and 2,814th Martian days of its mission. More »
An interactive look at the history of General Electric serves up a picture of trends in innovation and technology since 1892. More »
Fifteen years ago we were all watching the skies as Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth. More »
And other little gems from astronaut Ron Garan's recent Reddit crowd-sourced interview More »
A view from orbit of big storms that are kicking off spring in the south-central United States More »
The performer continued to mix apologies with defenses of his fact-based but not factual work. More »
This galaxy is relatively nearby, as far as these things go, but it is hard to see because our own galaxy, the Milky Way, obstructs the view. More »
A newly unveiled digitization project is a feast for Einstein fans. More »
Keep your fingers crossed: We may soon be able to use our e-readers, laptops, and iPods during takeoff and landing More »
On this day in 1895, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, recorded "La Sortie des usines Lumière à Lyon," an early motion picture. More »
The exact details of Mike Daisey's fabrications won't be public until tonight but the episode's premise is not in question. More »
The process of going through our stores of historical images and documents is sure to result in lovely little surprises like this one. More »
The sixth-largest of Saturn's moon is interesting to scientists because of the presence of water ice on its surface and geological activity. More »
