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.

Wikipedia Considers Black Out to Protest Anti-Piracy Law

Wikipedia Considers Black Out to Protest Anti-Piracy Law

Editors of the English edition of Wikipedia are discussing whether to block all of the site's content in protest of SOPA More »

Why We Should Stop Asking Whether Bloggers Are Journalists

Why We Should Stop Asking Whether Bloggers Are Journalists

In the rush to defend blogs as a medium of journalism, we ask the wrong questions about what press freedom seeks to protect More »

Picture of the Day: The People of Google Earth

Picture of the Day: The People of Google Earth

An artist makes maps using images from Google Earth, with everything but the people removed More »

Picture of the Day: Tyco Brahe's 'Armillae Aequatoriae Maximae'

Picture of the Day: Tyco Brahe's 'Armillae Aequatoriae Maximae'

Johan Blaeu's Grand Atlas shows one of Tyco Brahe's designs for a tool that could measure the orbits of planets More »

The Beginning of the End for Social-Media Innovation?

The Beginning of the End for Social-Media Innovation?

Speaking at LeWeb conference in Paris, the CEO of Forrester Research says that the future is all about apps that help us save time More »

How an Improved Campus Alert System Helped Virginia Tech

How an Improved Campus Alert System Helped Virginia Tech

The university used social media, emails, and texts to quickly and clearly warn the campus about yesterday's shooting More »

Picture of the Day: Minerals Deposited by Water on Mars

Picture of the Day: Minerals Deposited by Water on Mars

Pictures of a mineral vein, believed to be gypsum, tell "a slam-dunk story that water flowed" through Martian rock More »

The Biggest Tech Companies' Single Biggest Failures of 2011

The Biggest Tech Companies' Single Biggest Failures of 2011

Even giants stumble. None of the four biggest tech companies -- Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon -- made it through the year without a misstep. More »

Picture of the Day: The Patent for the Cotton Gin

Picture of the Day: The Patent for the Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney was born on this day in 1765. His cotton gin fueled the growth of the cotton industry, and slavery alongside it. More »

On 'Completely Virtual' Bodies

On 'Completely Virtual' Bodies

The revelation that H&M uses computer-generated models has courted controversy, but how is this any different from routine photoshopping? More »

The Top 10 Solar States

The Top 10 Solar States

The list of top-ranking states demonstrates that geography isn't everything. State support for the solar industry can go a long way. More »

Picture of the Day: Astronauts Enjoy a Different Kind of Levity

Picture of the Day: Astronauts Enjoy a Different Kind of Levity

Six astronauts show off their behinds while taking a break from flying the X-15, a spaceplane that set records for speed More »

But I Just Want to Talk to a Human

But I Just Want to Talk to a Human

The robots that answer the phones at customer-service centers are rarely helpful. Human customer service is now a selling point. More »

Picture of the Day: A (Possibly) Habitable Planet

Picture of the Day: A (Possibly) Habitable Planet

NASA confirmed the discovery of an Earth-size planet, orbiting a star at a distance where liquid water could exist More »

When the Mainstream Media First Met the Blog

When the Mainstream Media First Met the Blog

About 10 years ago, mainstream newspapers began to try to explain blogs to their readers. Here is what they said. More »

Picture of the Day: Steep Cliffs on Asteroid Vesta

Picture of the Day: Steep Cliffs on Asteroid Vesta

Images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show evidence of large landslides on the steep cliffs of one of the biggest known asteroids More »

More Than a Decade In, and Internet Comments Continue to Be Terrible

More Than a Decade In, and Internet Comments Continue to Be Terrible

It's just not easy to build a system that allows for smart ongoing conversations among large groups of people More »

Picture of the Day: Apollo 17 Comes to Earth

Picture of the Day: Apollo 17 Comes to Earth

On December 19, 1972, the last three people to ever set foot on the moon, arrived back on Earth, landing safely in the Pacific Ocean More »

10 of the Greatest Science Photographs of All Time

10 of the Greatest Science Photographs of All Time

In celebration of LIFE magazine's 75th anniversary, a collection of surprising, bizarre, and inspiring science and technology images from its pages More »

Hate the Washington Post's Social Reader Facebook App? Try This Fix

Hate the Washington Post's Social Reader Facebook App? Try This Fix

A Chrome extension helps you read Washington Post articles through Facebook without broadcasting each click to the world More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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