NASA
What It's Like to See the Aurora From Space
Two astronauts chatting about seeing the specialness of Earth's beauty from above.
NASA
Two astronauts chatting about seeing the specialness of Earth's beauty from above.
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Google's Susan Wojcicki on AdSense, the program changing web advertising for good
Library of Congress
More output, produced faster may be great metrics for machines, but for homo sapiens, the most powerful metric is engagement.
Wikimedia Commons
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.
wikimapia.org
Valentina Tereshkova flew into space twenty years ahead of the first American woman to do so, Sally Ride.
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