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Dawn of the Nerd World Order
Image by Courtney Nicholas What is a nerd? Are nerds the new cool? That’s what people have been asking ever since video games started making more money than movies. But the reality of nerds is much...
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Watch a Trio of Rare Snow Leopards Catch a Meal, Chill Out
Hot on the heels of Reuters publishing a snow leopard video, the BBC has fired back with a video of three of the cats doing their snow leopard thing. It would appear that there's something of a...
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Vine Is Getting Some Much-Needed Updates
There are a lot of Vine fans at Motherboard, but Instagram video's arrival on the scene has highlighted Vine's faults: focusing is hit or miss, and sharing video through the network is next to...
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Why Is the Headquarters of France’s PRISM Blurred on Google Maps?
How very French. While outrage mounts in the European Union over the NSA PRISM scandal, France somehow failed to mention it's been running a very similar surveillance program of its own. The French...
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This Slow Motion Bullet Time Footage of Fireworks Exploding Is Your "Whoa,...
This video by Jeremiah Warren checks all the viral video boxes: use of GoPro-enabled bullet time, dramatic music, and slow motion explosions. As Laughing Squid points out, Warren is something of a...
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Marc Rich & Me
Photo by the author. I moved to London, England after finishing film school in 2005. My first job in desperation was in the luxury department store Harrods. I was part of their temporary holiday...
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There's Microbial Life in Lake Vostok After All
There's Lake Vostok, via Okay, it’s all sorted out: There IS life in Lake Vostok after all. In March, a team of Russian scientists proudly announced that they had drilled into Antarctica's deepest,...
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Here's How (and When) We Hurt Ourselves With Fireworks
I'll be curious to see what this visualization, culled from Consumer Product Safety Commission data, looks like a year from now. Probably not all that different--finger and hand injuries will still...
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Vibrating Train Windows Will Transmit Ads Directly into Your Skull
I've been watching with both dread and fascination (mostly dread) as advertisers get more clever, more intrusive, and better at what they do. New technology opens up endless potential for creativity,...
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At the Restore the Fourth Rally in Chicago, All Eyes Were on the Future of...
Photos by DJ Pangburn One could pick up the trail of Chicago’s Restore the Fourth rally by following the “Fuck NSA” graffiti scrawled on Metra rail support beams, sidewalks, and building...
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The Moist Greenhouse Effect Could Be the One That Destroys Our Atmosphere
The surface of Venus, which has succumbed to the Greenhouse Effect. via While the planet itself can survive a lot (like the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs), the environment that keeps us...
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Wearable Tech Is Bringing the Fashion Industry to Silicon Valley
Fashion and technology have historically mixed as well as oil and water, but now the looming wearable tech craze is forcing a convergence of the two industries. No matter how cutting-edge or convenient...
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A Brief History of Dirtbagging the American Wilderness
A group of people who call themselves Dirtbags have been living illegally in Yosemite National Park since the end of World War II. The Dirtbags sleep in caves, rock-climb, hike, and swim all day, and...
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So, How Long Do You Give Human Civilization Anyway?
Something I always get a kick out of is that we, as technological humans, don't build things to last forever. I'm not talking about self-destructing junk like iPhones, but things like bridges, which...
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On Alcoholism and American Flag Parachutes
The author in her second week of sobriety. My MRI results are in. I don’t appear to have epilepsy. Add it to the list of labels that have vomited on me from the mouths of others, some true, others...
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What It Means That Humans Invented Farming Twice
An interesting thing in technology and the path of the human race in general is how most of the very large developments in knowledge seem inevitable. The future converges on ideas, rather than just...
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Scientists Make a Light Switch Controlled By Individual Photons
Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the Vienna University of Technology have worked together to develop an optical transistor that is sensitive to light at a quantum level. Transistors are the...
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In Praise of Predator Parasites: A Chat with Biologist Ryan Hechinger
No parasites here. Photo: USGS Think of the food chains you were given in middle school: You're likely to remember the big predators, a couple smaller animals that get eaten by the predators, and the...
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Seeing History in Reverse in 3D: A Chat with Adam Curtis and Massive Attack
A trailer for Massive Attack V Adam Curtis. This is a story about a BBC filmmaker and a trip-hop veteran who decided that their country needed to grow up. Adam Curtis and Robert Del Naja saw Britain...
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Storm This Humble Castle Through the Eyes of a Drone
Know what's a dime a dozen these days? Gorgeous, sweeping first-person drone videos. Know what isn't yet entirely played out? Gorgeous, sweeping first-person drone videos of castles. Like this modest...
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