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.

The World at Our Fingertips: 23 Beautiful Old Texts, Available Online

The World at Our Fingertips: 23 Beautiful Old Texts, Available Online

The Internet's collection of old documents is not only growing in size but improving in quality More »

Picture of the Day: Young Stars Form in Cygnus X

Picture of the Day: Young Stars Form in Cygnus X

A star-forming region located about 4,500 light years away is thought to contain enough material to produce two million stars like our sun More »

Let It Snow! Or, at Least, Make It Snow, Should None Come Naturally

Let It Snow! Or, at Least, Make It Snow, Should None Come Naturally

European ski resorts are struggling to open their slopes after a warm, dry autumn. Will the machines provide? More »

What's the Matter With the Start-Up Industry?

What's the Matter With the Start-Up Industry?

Entrepreneurs sleep under their desks, live Clif Bar to Clif Bar, and face a lot of pressure. Should they just deal or is something seriously wrong? More »

Picture of the Day: Saturn, Up Close and Personal

Picture of the Day: Saturn, Up Close and Personal

In this image, the planet appears so close, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft was more than 500,000 miles away when it captured the data More »

Can a Computer Tell Good Art From Bad?

Can a Computer Tell Good Art From Bad?

We tend to think of aesthetic judgment as something particularly human, but a group of Xerox engineers are building an algorithm for finding good photographs More »

Picture of the Day: A New Satellite Begins Its Work

Picture of the Day: A New Satellite Begins Its Work

The first image retrieved from a state-of-the-art instrument on board NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, the NPP More »

Happy Update Your Parents' Browser Day!

Happy Update Your Parents' Browser Day!

Share your most hilarious intergenerational computer-assistance moment with us and you could win a prize More »

Picture of the Day: Turkey Tech

Picture of the Day: Turkey Tech

The patent for the common temperature indicator, which many Americans rely on in order to cook their birds just right More »

'I've Created a Monster!' On the Regrets of Inventors

'I've Created a Monster!' On the Regrets of Inventors

One of the men who developed pepper spray is outraged by police who use it on protestors. Just another example of an inventor who can't control his creation. More »

Picture of the Day: Liquid Water on One of Jupiter's Moons

Picture of the Day: Liquid Water on One of Jupiter's Moons

Scientists thought that liquid water lay many miles below Europa's icy crust, but a new study posits otherwise More »

What the New Protests in Egypt Mean for the 'Twitter Revolutions'

What the New Protests in Egypt Mean for the 'Twitter Revolutions'

What if digital tools make it easier to destabilize governments, but not to build new ones? More »

Occupy Wall Street Has Its Biggest News Week So Far

Occupy Wall Street Has Its Biggest News Week So Far

A chart of the ups and downs of Occupy Wall Street news coverage over time shows growth over the past week More »

The Sketches That Became Our Familiar Computer Icons

The Sketches That Became Our Familiar Computer Icons

A sketchbook from the 1980s contains some of the earliest versions of computer icons we still see today More »

Picture of the Day: The Lightest Material on Earth

Picture of the Day: The Lightest Material on Earth

A new material created by scientists is 99.99 percent made out of air. It is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. More »

The Man Behind Occupy Wall Street's Viral Marriage Proposal

The Man Behind Occupy Wall Street's Viral Marriage Proposal

Brian Douglas, who proposed to his girlfriend in Zuccotti Park, talks a little bit about why he supports the Occupy movement More »

Picture of the Day: The UnFacebook World

Picture of the Day: The UnFacebook World

A mashup of two popular maps reveals the parts of the world connected by electricity but not by Facebook More »

How Do You Code a Movement?

How Do You Code a Movement?

Teams of web developers are trying to figure out how to embed the idealism of their movement into the design of their websites More »

Picture of the Day: New Topographic Map of the Moon

Picture of the Day: New Topographic Map of the Moon

A just-released map from NASA shows the change in elevation across the moon's surface at a level of detail never seen before More »

Picture of the Day: Algorithmically Generated Jellyfish

Picture of the Day: Algorithmically Generated Jellyfish

An artist has created a computer program that imagines new versions of jellyfish based on parameters she sets More »

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