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What Would You Do With $2,800 a Month, No Questions Asked?
via Dick Olbertz/Flickr Switzerland could soon be the world’s first national case study in basic income. Instead of providing a traditional social net—unemployment payments, food stamps, or housing...
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Afghanistan Is the World's Newest Full-Blown Narco State
Poppy field in Bala Baluk, Afghanistan. Photo via Flickr/CC. Not like that should surprise anyone. As my colleague Meghan Neal has reported, Afghanistan is for all intents and purposes already a narco...
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An Active Social Life Can Rewire Your Brain
Photo via Flickr Scientists have a long-held hunch that socializing with other humans makes your brain bigger. Trouble is, no one's been able to prove that conclusively. Neuroscientists have a chicken...
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Unilever Takes A Step Toward Sustainable Palm Oil
A palm oil plantation in Malaysia. Photo via Marufish/Flickr It's a step forward in using sustainably-sourced palm oil, and reining in the massive rainforest destruction generally associated with palm...
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Now You Can Tour the Smithsonian's Artifacts Online—and in 3D
America’s attic just got a lot less dusty. Today, the Smithsonian Institution unveiled an online 3D imaging viewer for its Smithsonian X3D collection that offers the masses the opportunity to get...
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The US Is Tackling the Wildlife Trade Like the Drug War
The Philippine's ivory crush earlier this year, via the US Embassy in Manila Following a promise to get tough on wildlife trafficking, the US government is trumpeting a pair of initiatives aimed at...
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Life's Starting Date Has Been Pushed Back Again
Sedimentary structures found in the Dresser Formation via Astrobiology It’s not the red soil that makes NASA draw comparisons between Western Australia and Mars. It’s the age of the rocks. Rock...
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The "Most Powerful Storm in History" Won't Keep Its Title for Long
Typhoon Haiyan, NASA When one of the strongest storms ever to form in modern times blew through the Philippines, it left a trail of death at least 2,500-wide in its wake. Typhoon Haiyan's winds blew...
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How to Kick Your Lip Balm 'Addiction'
Via It's officially freezing out (unless you live in the South, in which case, do you have a couch I can crash on?), which means for the lip balm compulsives among us, the crackstick has joined the...
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New York City Is Trying to Be More Open With You. What's It Saying?
Last year, Bloomberg signed into law what he called "the most ambitious and comprehensive open data legislation in the country." New York's next mayor, Bill De Blasio, doesn't look like the tech...
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A Lesson Plan to Teach 6th Graders to Stop Pirating, Love Copyright Law
Image: Flickr The Center for Copyright Information (CCI), a pro-copyright group backed by Hollywood, the recording industry, and various large internet service providers, is currently drafting an...
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Don’t Worry (Too Much) About Radiation From Flying
Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ugh, the media, right, everyone? Always with the scaremongering and complaining and the“Oh, woe is everything”—it’s enough to make you forget that, by a lot of metrics, life...
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How Much Are Bitcoins Really Worth?
Image via Flickr/Antanacoins At over $400 a bitcoin, the defiant crytopcurrency is bubbling all over again, causing enough buzz that the Senate is having a hearing on virtual currencies. What boils...
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The UK's Conservative Party Tried to Delete Their Old Speeches from the Web
David Cameron giving a speech in April 2010. Photo via Flickr/Andrew Parsons The UK’s Conservative Party tried to delete a whole chunk of its online history by erasing an archive of speeches and press...
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Building a Drone With a Bunch of Eight-Year-Olds Is Way Better Than Just...
Last Sunday, a group of about twenty New Yorkers gathered at the Queens Museum of Art, in Flushing Meadows, the site of the Worlds Fair, to meet Georgi and Nina Tushev, a thirty-something Bulgarian...
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Brazil's Plan to Isolate Its Internet Is a Terrible Idea
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff meets with President Obama, via White House. It’s taken years of wide-ranging, thoughtful, and innovative consultation to draft Brazil’s new civil rights framework for...
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I'm on a Solar-Powered Boat (In the Galapagos)
All photos by author “How fast can this thing go?” I ask Jackson Vilema, the guy driving Solaris, a new, solar-powered boat that's designed to putz around the bay surrounding the Galapagos Islands’...
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The Feds Test Fired 3D-Printed Plastic Guns, and One of Them Exploded
After firing several rounds of a homemade plastic gun, the federal government officially determined that 3D-printed firearms are dangerous, deadly, and a threat to the nation's safety. Now the Bureau...
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São Paulo's Mobile Aluminum Foundry Turns Empty Cans into Stools
They're known as Catadores. With nothing more than makeshift smelters and spent vegetable oil picked up from local cafes, they roam the streets of Brazil's favelas in search of their gold: empty...
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It's Time to Build an Open-Source Music Industry: A Chat with CASH Music
Image courtesy of CASH Music Six years ago, Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom launched CASH Music, a nonprofit with the express goal of building open-source tools to help musicians reach their...
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