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Stare Deeply Into These Visualizations of Infinite Numbers
Math and art may appear, superficially, like two disparate fields, but they've been in conversation for millennia. One recent example of the synergistic possibilities between the two comes from...
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The Robot Film Festival Hopes to Make Bots Friendlier by Telling Happier Stories
Heather Knight and Marek Michalowski want us to tell positive stories about robots. Less Terminators and Decepticons, more Wall-E and Rosie the Robot. At the third annual Robot Film Festival in San...
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At Colombia's Military Air Show, Even Kids Can Practice Shooting Drug...
The Jungla is likely the most advanced anti-trafficking force in the world. All photos by author. Welcome to F-AIR, Colombia's bi-annual military air show, a place where Limp Bizkit is still used as...
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Even Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Tracking You While You Shop
Warby Parker glasses, via Wikimedia Commons Even though the popularity of e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay is skyrocketing, nearly 90 percent of people would still rather shop in good old...
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The Scientific Assassination of a Sexual Revolutionary: How America...
It was the greatest incidence of scientific persecution in American history. In July of 1947, Dr. Wilhelm Reich—a brilliant but troubled psychoanalyst who had once been Freud’s most promising student,...
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Incredible Video Shows Civilian Traffic Passing Through a Syrian Tank Battle
The bloody two year conflict in Syria has not let up for the holy month of Ramadan, with Syrian troops currently attacking a rebel-held region of Damascus. And as the intense video above shows, when...
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China Quietly Announced It's Going on the Biggest Solar Blitz Ever
Image: Flickr A few days ago, China quietly announced that it's unleashing the largest solar power blitz the world has ever seen. Previously, the economic giant had planned to install enough solar...
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A Century Before Reddit, We Shared Photos of Kittens and Puppies in Clothes
Hanging up the wash. Harry Whittier Frees 1914, via LOC One lesson the Internet teaches over and over is that the world is hard, cruel, unjust, and full of sexism, racism and sadism. In fact, there's...
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For Every Degree the Global Temperature Rises, the Sea Level May Rise Over...
Photo: NCDOT Communications/Flickr When trying to figure out just how much higher the world's oceans will be by the end of this century, studies can give a wide range of estimates. Even if something...
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How Kiyoshi Izumi Built the Psych Ward of the Future by Dropping Acid
Photo via Flickr / CC. He walked into a warp. As Kiyoshi "Kiyo" Izumi toured a select few of post-war Saskatchewan's aging mental hospitals, absorbing the wards' layouts and interviewing patients...
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DNA Sequencing Led Researchers to Discover "Microbial Dark Matter"
Researchers are trying to fill in some of the blank spots in our genetic knowledge base. Photo: Flickr/JohnGoode Scientists have gotten pretty good at sequencing genomes: We've gotten complete...
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Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns'
Photo via Flickr / CC. The technology is here. So-called "smart guns" are being programmed to recognize a gun owner’s identity and lock up if the weapon ends up in the wrong hands. Entrepreneurs and...
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Could Living as a Virtual Cow Make You Go Vegan?
Photo by the author Stanford researcher Jeremy Bailenson and his colleagues at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) are transforming people into cows. Participants in their immersive virtual...
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The Solar-Powered Airplane Reaches the End of the Sky Road
The Solar Impulse from the front. All photos via Derek Mead. The Solar Impulse, after crossing the United States from California to New York without stopping for fuel once, has completed its mission...
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Like Fracking, Geothermal Power Can Cause Earthquakes
Photo: monikomad/Flickr Last week a series of studies was published in Science, which looked at the connections between energy production and earthquakes. Specifically, they examined the connection...
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"Born to Die" Electronics Dissolve When You're Done With Them
If there's one thing that's true about consumer electronics, it's that no new product stays hot for very long. The latest innovation is constantly rendering your old gadgets obsolete. In fact the...
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What Climate Change Sounds Like on a Cello
via Ensia It may not have the immediate hit of a mind-controlled cello duet, but it's a slow burn that stands to bring the harsh reality of global warming to a fever pitch. With the sweep of a bow...
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10 Sci-Fi Stories That Predicted the Surveillance State
A great science fiction story shouldn't be concerned with predicting technological advances, but with exploring the forces that give rise to technology, and its effect on individual and mass...
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Frank Zappa Made Electronic Music with a Bicycle on Live TV in 1963
In 1963, Frank Zappa showed a live television audience how to play a bicycle. He did so mostly for the benefit of Steve Allen, who yuks it up in high old-timey yukster fashion. Just without the...
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The Mood of the Chinese Internet Lights Up the Facade of Beijing's Water...
It's not often that ancient Chinese texts about divining the future and social media meet. It's even less often that they meet in the form of a giant light show that takes place on the plastic bubble...
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