National Weather Service
"We had storms that went from virtually nothing to producing large hail and tornadoes in less than an hour in some cases. So it's gonna go fast today."
Doswell
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma.
NASA
A meditation on the diversity of Earth.
Alexis Madrigal
Charting the growth of the big social networks that aren't Facebook.
Computer History Museum
And it wasn't just Exxon. In Silicon Valley's early days, all sorts of major corporations tried to get a piece of the pie.
Jesper Pedersen
A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.
Alexis Madrigal
From 2000 units sold at $10,000 a pop to a billion units sold at $100 a piece.
Alexis Madrigal
As the CEO steps down, he leaves the Intel machine poised to take on the swarming ecosystem of competitors who make smartphone chips.
Urban Center for Computation and Data
The short version: trying to keep the best minds of his generation from working on advertising.
CIA
Ah, the Cold War and its many misadventures...
GameTheNews
There are two buttons. Both say pick cotton. Ready, set, go.
Reuters
The story is packed with context, drama, detail -- and big personalities.
Shutterstock/dutourdumonde
... And editors are the gears.
The World of Typewriters via The Smithsonian
The QWERTY configuration for typewriters can be traced, actually, to the telegraph.
Facebook
Tussling with the philosophy that's structuring a billion social lives
Christina Agapakis
A synthetic biologist explores the intersection of culture, art, and microbes -- and cheese too.
NASA
The story of the man who advocated for an extra-terrestrial observatory
@herdyshepherd1
Somewhere, a flock is being tended.
Linger
The Linger app brings you to a special corner of the Internet.
Reuters
How a terrible misidentification of two people with no connection to the Boston bombing spread so far, so fast
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