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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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Picture of the Day: The Last Spacewalk From Endeavor

By Alexis Madrigal

May 27 2011, 12:48 PM ET Comment

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Astronaut Michael Finke completed a seven-hour spacewalk from the Space Shuttle Endeavor, the last of the STS-134 mission and one of the last spacewalks of the Shuttle era.

And a bonus for you picture of the day fans, here are two firsts from the history of spacewalk. First, we see Ed White, the first American to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission:

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And now we see the first untethered spacewalk, which was completed by Bruce McCandless II in February 1984 from the Challenger shuttle.

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Images: NASA



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