Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
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
It is from this remote city in southern Kazakhstan that humans first sent a satellite, an animal, and a person into orbit. But it didn't get an MRI machine until 2011.
Google/Bing
A tale of two searches
NASA
Two astronauts chatting about seeing the specialness of Earth's beauty from above.
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.
As computer learning capabilities grow, they will become co-collaborators with humans.
Dario Gil from IBM responds to questions on how cognitive computing will help make sense of our complex world.
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How a banner biotech drug made in Chinese hamster ovary cells is changing disease even as it treats it. An Object Lesson.
Humanscale
Designer Niels Diffrient was the latest in a line of masters finding new ways to adapt the material world to our bodies.
Vinecrawler
Think you're a 30-year-old digital native? Vine may make you reconsider.
"Strange flames" on the International Space Station
J. Telling
Saltier than sea water and the consistency of "very light maple syrup." Yuck.
Reuters
A guide to the coverage of the revelations about the NSA's surveillance programs.
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The transformative technology will come to, yes, a FULL STOP.
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Valentina Tereshkova flew into space twenty years ahead of the first American woman to do so, Sally Ride.
Kyle Wiens
Remembering a tinkerer in an age of silicon and code
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.
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.
