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.

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 »

Picture of the Day: A Car You 'Paint' With an App

Picture of the Day: A Car You 'Paint' With an App

Toyota presents a new concept car whose exterior is a screen that users can tailor to their mood More »

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 Biggest Story in Photos

Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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