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MIT's "Hot or Not" Site for Neighborhoods Could Help Shape the Future City
When you walk around a city, there are things you can just sense, like if you've wandered into a dodgy neighborhood, or where the new happening spot is. Intuitively, we know that a city's more...
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My Friends Got the Plague, and This New Test Could Have Helped Them
If only these guy could've just done a blood test, via Wikimedia Commons. Contrary to popular belief, the bubonic plague—the disease behind the 14th century pandemic known as the Black Death—still...
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Bee Colonies Are Dying From "Non-Lethal" Fungicides
Photo: Troy Tolley/Flickr Even if it won't cause World War III, bees are responsible for pollinating $30 billion worth of crops in the US alone, and if there aren't bees, there isn't food. So we have...
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The Raparatus Will Power Collaborative Hip-Hop with an App
Image courtesy of Exit 77. Last August, Justus Eapen founded Exit 77. Initially a blog about the Maryland hip-hop scene aimed at connecting local hip-hop artists, as well promoting and disseminating...
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The Art of High Tech Guerrilla Gardening
A few years ago, the fence surrounding the outdoor train station closest to my Chicago apartment was crawling with beautiful purple, blue, orange and gold flowers. Someone had thrown seeds next to the...
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'The Vegetarian People' File the First Lawsuit for The Right to Whistleblow...
Image via Wikimedia Commons. On Monday, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and PETA, among others, filed a lawsuit in Salt Lake City challenging the constitutionality of Utah’s year old ag-gag legislation....
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Mapping Photosynthesis from Space Will Help Farmers Prepare for Climate Change
If you’ve ever wondered what photosynthesis looks like from outer space, it's your lucky day. NASA is out with a new visualization that shows the phenomenon occuring around the globe, throughout the...
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How to Build an Electric Luxury Scooter Out of Hemp
Image: Van.Eko The Be.e is the first electric scooter to be made out of hemp. It also happens to boast a hip, sleek industrial design, features a battery with an 8-year life and 2000 cycles, as well as...
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A Photo History of Lebanon's Unremembered Space Race
All images from Manoug Manougian's private collection. I recently spoke to Manoug Manougian, the lead engineer of the first Arab space program and founder of the Lebanese Rocket Society. The...
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The First 3D-Printed Rifle Broke Apart After Its First Shot
Video via ThreeD Ukulele A Canadian has just fired the first shot from his creation, "The Grizzly," an entirely 3D-printed rifle. In that single shot, CanadianGunNut (his name on the DefCad forum), or...
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The US Indicted 5 Hackers in the "Biggest Hacking and Data Breach Scheme"...
Picture of hacking via elhombredenegro/Flickr Prosecutors have charged four Russians and one Ukrainian man in what US Attorney Paul Fishman called the “largest hacking and data breach scheme ever...
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The Opening Ceremonies of the Alt-Olympics Was a Shitshow
If safeguarding means threatening to shoot you with tear gas. All photos Jason Koebler. The Opening Ceremony of the 2013 World Games featured 36 acrobats, 52 musicians, 300 salsa dancers (this is the...
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The Moon Is Still Messing With Us
Image via Flickr It must have been weird before electricity was widespread, and around 6PM the whole world went dark, save a mysterious white circle of light glowing from the sky. It’s no wonder humans...
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Never Forget '80s Sitcom Theme Songs
Welcome to Earworm, Jen Doll's weekly tribute to the songs we used to listen to—good or bad, cringeworthy or still surprisingly cool—and haven't quite been able to get out of our heads ever since....
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Colombia's Motorcycle-Powered Train Carts Are Ingenious
The cargo train that runs through San Cipriano, a small Colombian village on the Pacific Coast–one of the world's rainiest regions–doesn't pass through much anymore. Accessible only by rail, that...
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A New App Wants You to Eat Your Neighbor's Leftover Food
Image via lisaclarke. LeftoverSwap could be called a lot of things. It’s dumpster diving without the actual dumpster diving. It’s p2pizza. It’s freeganism. But at the core, it's really just an app to...
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The Life-Sized Interactive Hologram Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore
Popular Mechanics recently picked apart the "futuristic" society depicted in Pulitzer-winner Adam Johnson's his new sci-fi short story, Nirvana. Most of Johnson's supposedly sci-fi...
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Japanese Women Reclaim World's Longest Life Expectancy, Sort Of
A Japanese woman in 1905. Even if she enjoyed contemporary life expectancy, she wouldn't have made it to today. via Wikimedia Commons The world press is singing their praises: No one born last year is...
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A New Wi-Fi-Enabled Tooth Sensor Rats You Out When You Smoke or Overeat
Image: National Taiwan University Lying through your teeth just took on a whole new meaning. Cigarettes, drinking, eating too much or too little food—we all have our vices, and vices are hard to drop....
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Climate Change Will Flood Oregon in the Winter and Dry Up Its Rivers in the...
Photo: Wikipedia It's fairly intuitive that climate change and rising temperatures will eventually reduce the amount of snow that falls in the mountains, and the amount of water that the melting snow...
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