Picture of the Day: Crash Down!
Don't call it a splash-down: The Soyuz capsule prepares to make its landing in rural Kazakhstan in this Sunday photo. More »
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Robinson Meyer is a writer and musician based near Chicago and a regular contributor to TheAtlantic.com.
Don't call it a splash-down: The Soyuz capsule prepares to make its landing in rural Kazakhstan in this Sunday photo. More »
Venus, Jupiter, and the star Aldebaran gleam above the Atlantic, in this image taken near Buenos Aires. More »
In the Seventies, successful Stanfordites studied Psych. Now, they prefer Engineering. More »
This fire -- like something out of a Hudson River School painting -- has destroyed hundreds of homes. More »
Phenomenal listening powers! (Itty bitty payouts to musicians.) More »
Until this month, the state barred you from "transmitting false data." But that gets tricky now that "data" can mean "protected speech." More »
The gas of enormous nebulas condenses to form enormous stars. Then the stars explode. More »
At UVA, the web enables a new kind of civic broadcast. More »
How do you understand the vast ways technology shapes our leaders, our discourse, our citizenship? You watch people sing about diplomacy. More »
Meteor dust, global warming, and even rocket exhaust: all might cause these polar clouds. More »
20% of New York Times subscribers use an app like Flipboard. That may be bigger news than any TV-like strategy the Gray Lady's adopted. More »
The last vestige of the last tab on Amazon.com disappeared yesterday. I didn't see anyone note its passing--the Kindle Fire, flashy and anticipated, apparently out-dazzled everything else--but the tab's death is sad, for with it went a distinctly Amazonian sensibility and a piece of the web's past. Amazon.com was one of the earliest websites to scale, and so it was also one of the first to attack a number of web design problems. When it branched out from its book… More »
