The inside account of the companies, scientists, and hackers who are hunting for solutions to the scourge of online harassment
Why not use gravity?
Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake talks with Alexis Madrigal about how new location-based tools will help us to see our surroundings with fresh eyes.
In an 1948 issue of the Atlantic, Walter Lippmann proposes options for balancing openness in museums and the imperative of preservation
If we want to protect privacy, we should be more clear about why it is important.
William A. Zule et al./International Journal of Drug Policy
The designers of a low-dead-space syringe hope that their innovation could hamper the disease's spread among the estimated 15.9 million people who inject drugs worldwide.
Fashion My Phone/Flickr
We somehow have come to believe that information is free, but people with Internet access pay substantial sums to get it -- sums many can't afford.
Landscapes near Canberra, Australia, take on eerie black and white hues in this video from photographer Glen Ryan.
Reuters
J.C. Penney employees are reported to have watched five million YouTube videos from the office during the month of January.
Wikimedia Commons
We can thank the Vatican's 16th-century fresco painters for a food-history find.
People like to criticize The Microsoft, but in fairness they can be very generous.
Robert Hooke
Imagine the world before the microscope.
Wikimedia Commons
What does it really mean when we say last week's meteor delivered a force 30 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb?
Rebecca J. Rosen
What can an elite music conservatory gain by offering access to its courses to the masses?
Facebook could step up its customer service game, but with a billion users, it would be expensive.
Alexis Madrigal
Today, the most novel feature of new technology is ordinariness.
Thijs Porck
An ongoing Atlantic investigation.
I've spent the past few days on the road talking (mostly) to young people. Many of these conversations have revolved around the difference between…
flickr/grumpy puddin
A team of forensic experts are trying to stanch the flow of prescription drugs into the black market.
NASA
"Simply amazing," says NASA.
Alexis Madrigal
A look at Google's new laptop, the Chromebook Pixel, unveiled today at an event today in San Francisco
Rebecca J. Rosen/Feliks Kogan/Shutterstock
Whiners be damned: A reclined seat is way more comfortable than an upright one, especially on a long flight.
LOC
The first steam engine railway travel took place 209 years ago today. Here, the story of how the Civil War impeded, and then accelerated, the progress of America's trains.
Fort Vancouver Historical National Historic Site
How did a Roman brick from the British Isles get to Washington state's Fort Vancouver?
Findery
Caterina Fake describes how her startup, Findery, is helping the Internet get local.
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Medicine and the Machine
Using DNA for data storage and robots for hysterectomies: a series of reports on how healthcare and technology are co-evolving. Read more › |
How robots will make your doctor obsolete. Plus: The emancipation of Barack Obama, how to save kids from online bullies, why romantic comedies are so bad, and more.
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The Bedazzled House