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 Man Who Pushed Art Museums to Embrace Computers

The Man Who Pushed Art Museums to Embrace Computers

The story of the early efforts to use an IBM 360 to catalog the holdings of a handful of art museums More »

How to Build the Great Online Library

How to Build the Great Online Library

The minds behind the Digital Public Library of America are thinking very big. Can they succeed where others have failed? More »

Italian Wikipedia Shuts Down in Protest of Wiretap Act

Italian Wikipedia Shuts Down in Protest of Wiretap Act

The proposed law would impose hefty fines on bloggers who did not take down content that someone had requested be removed More »

Picture of the Day: Wearable Pulse Monitor

Picture of the Day: Wearable Pulse Monitor

At CEATEC, a consumer electronics show taking place outside of Tokyo, a woman models a pulse monitor that doubles as jewelry More »

The Soviet Space Program, From Sputnik to 1989, in Postage Stamps

The Soviet Space Program, From Sputnik to 1989, in Postage Stamps

A taste of what the space program looked like from behind the iron curtain More »

Big Brother Is Watching, University Edition

Big Brother Is Watching, University Edition

Should colleges mine students' data for signs of violent behavior? More »

Picture of the Day: The Giant Listening Car

Picture of the Day: The Giant Listening Car

At a massive consumer electronics show in Japan, a man "talks" to a listening car about his ideas for a vehicle of the future More »

The Problem With Geoengineering: What if It Works?

The Problem With Geoengineering: What if It Works?

The postponement of a massive experiment is a chance to think about what would happen if we had the power to control the weather More »

On the Outright Silliness of Finding Love in a Brain Scan

On the Outright Silliness of Finding Love in a Brain Scan

A New York Times op-ed purports to prove that people "love" their iPhones because of some activity seen in the brain More »

Picture of the Day: Stunning Image of a Massive Sunspot

Picture of the Day: Stunning Image of a Massive Sunspot

Powerful storms on the sun are captured by a NASA mission that will be examining a period of increased solar activity More »

Clouds: The Most Useful Metaphor of All Time?

Clouds: The Most Useful Metaphor of All Time?

In plays, poems, songs, and novels, clouds stand in for everything from bad philosophy to the many incarnations of a soul More »

Picture of the Day: Messenger's View of Mercury

Picture of the Day: Messenger's View of Mercury

NASA's mission to the innermost planet is providing scientists with new clues about its geology and chemistry More »

Picture of the Day: Super-Efficient Airplane Takes Off

Picture of the Day: Super-Efficient Airplane Takes Off

A competition sponsored by Google in southern California is looking for ways to reduce the emissions from air travel More »

10 Charts: Everything You Need to Know About the Cloud

10 Charts: Everything You Need to Know About the Cloud

The third and final week of our Tech202 report looks at the cloud -- our storage locker on the Internet More »

Picture of the Day: An Asteroid Moves Across Tadpole Nebula

Picture of the Day: An Asteroid Moves Across Tadpole Nebula

An infrared image taken of a far-away star formation happened to record the path of an asteroid in our own solar system as well More »

Greening the Empire State Building

Greening the Empire State Building

One of the world's most iconic buildings leads the way in making a host of small changes to reduce energy consumption More »

Engineers to Rappel Down the Washington Monument

Engineers to Rappel Down the Washington Monument

Some photographs from the start of engineers' efforts to get a better sense of the damage to the monument post-earthquake More »

Picture of the Day: An Early Computer From NASA

Picture of the Day: An Early Computer From NASA

A photograph from 1949 shows an analog computing machine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory More »

How to Count One-Sixth of the World's Population

How to Count One-Sixth of the World's Population

A software billionaire and his monumental task: create a database of the more than one billion people living in India More »

Picture of the Day: The Moon

Picture of the Day: The Moon

An image taken from the International Space Stations show the layers of the Earth's atmosphere and noctilucent clouds More »

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