The tech-industry veteran Linda Stone on how to pay attention
A new graphical warning system
An urban renaissance for public telephones
In an 1948 issue of the Atlantic, Walter Lippmann proposes options for balancing openness in museums and the imperative of preservation
Saltier than sea water and the consistency of "very light maple syrup." Yuck.
Vinecrawler
Think you're a 30-year-old digital native? Vine may make you reconsider.
"Strange flames" on the International Space Station
Harnessing data from 500,000 antennas, scientists are building a system to measure radio signals from unexplored parts of the universe.
Technological advances are allowing scientists to begin building a cognitive computer that functions like a brain.
Reuters
A guide to the coverage of the revelations about the NSA's surveillance programs.
wikimapia.org
Valentina Tereshkova flew into space twenty years ahead of the first American woman to do so, Sally Ride.
Beautiful, deep view into the Milky Way's core
In the 21st, you can watch it being rediscovered on YouTube.
Anki
The coming revolution in the toy aisle
A scene in two parts: triumph and tragedy
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Roughly 375 million years ago, the number of species on Earth plummeted. But extinction rates remained steady. What changed was that new species failed to emerge.
A timelapse of a supercell beautifully captures the anger of nature.
Thanks to new DARPA technology, things like picking up a coffee cup could be, literally, within grasp.
NASA
Bringing the moon's face out of the shadows
Google
The history of any invention is complicated, but this is a case in which one person came up with something new and watched the whole (online) world adopt it.
NASA
A mystery of the Martian terrain gives way to fantasizing about extreme sports in space.
Marcin Wichary/Flickr
In tech, old habits die hard.
Shutterstock/Tischenko Irina
One way to combat colony collapse disorder? Genetically diversify the bee population.
Reuters
On mobile, there's less data to work with, and the result is a product that only feels right to Facebook's employees.
Lautner Farms
They're here, they're steer, get used to it.
NLshop/Shutterstock
The central political value that animates Silicon Valley is neither libertarianism nor progressivism. It's meritocracy.
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Kafka, not Orwell, can help us understand the problems of digitized mass surveillance, argues legal scholar Daniel J. Solove.
A Whole-Sky Time-Lapse of the Galactic Center
Every NASA Space Shuttle Launch
The Marshmallow Experiment
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
