A Whole-Sky View of the Aurora Borealis
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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.
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A fascinating documentary looks at how the Internet and 3D printing complicate the gun control debate. More »
A project co-opts classic Italian art to challenge Europe's xenophobia. More »
On the day of his father's death, Daniel Drucker found a .txt file full of punchlines to his dad's jokes but the jokes needed to be supplied. The Internet rose to the occasion. More »
The exciting tale of California's inaugural flight More »
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One page from the notebooks of Marcel Proust shows the extreme work that went into writing his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time More »
Twenty years ago, humans had never identified a single planet outside our own solar system. Now we have pictures. More »
An account from the paper of record of a fatal fight that raged as the elevator flew up and down the shaft More »
The Chrome extension for the overly tabbed More »
In the 1960s, a house in Houston caught on fire. In the aftermath, a set of 12 scrapbooks were discovered. They depicted a society, the Sonora Aero Club, that had all but disappeared from history, if it was ever there at all. More »
The official position remains that the spacecraft has not yet crossed over into interstellar space More »
It's just like hiking up Mount Everest -- minus the hiking part. More »
Scientists have sequenced a line of HeLa cells, and found them to be "a mess." More »
But the deeper aspects of your personality remain hard to detect. More »
At the beginning of every Daily Show episode, the Earth spins in the wrong direction, a situation that would have dramatic consequences for life on Earth. More »
Ever been bankrupt? Expecting a child? A whole lot of information about who you are -- and what kind of consumer you are -- is for sale. More »
A team of researchers has for the first time found a side effect of a common drug combination by looking at search queries. More »
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