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Transposed to the Major Key, R.E.M.'s 'Losing My Religion' Gets 'Shiny Happy...
I know a lot of people my age who might have turned out a bit differently if R.E.M. hadn't been so damned depressing. Considering its 1991 breakthrough album "Out of Time" sold more than 4.5 million...
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At the Inauguration, James Taylor Turned 'America the Beautiful' into Bizarre...
To think I've always considered myself a James Taylor hater, aka someone that enjoys music. Never knew he had such an, uh, "experimental" side, capable of turning "America the Beautiful" into a...
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California Has a Drug Boat Problem
US officials tow out an abandoned panga along the central California coast (via) Last we heard, cartel swift boats were hammering the West Coast with enough breakneck urgency to kill a US Coast...
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Enough with the Hype: Let's Keep It Simple with Wearable Computing
Wearable computing is one of those really exciting technological breakthroughs that hasn't quite happened yet. Yes, you can buy a Jawbone UP that will tell you how much you slept last night. You can...
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Here's Half a Century of NASA Climate Change Data in 13 Seconds
The dates tick by like numbers on a stopwatch, the colors swirl from bluish grey to yellowish reds. In 13 seconds, it's all over. You've just watched 62 years of NASA meteorological data fly by, the...
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This Solar-Powered Airship Could Bring Doctors to the World's Poorest People
Despite how these United States sometimes appear, the majority of the world isn't yet paved. And where roads end, delivering medical assistance gets a whole lot harder. Sure, helicopters can navigate...
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Art Talk: Turning Dead Lottery Tickets Into Lamborghinis
Ghost of a Dream is the collaboration of sculptor Lauren Was and painter Adam Eckstrom, a married couple who first met at Rhode Island School of Design and who now specialize in installation,...
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The Economy Could Also Be Making You Fat
Many of us know the feeling: We get depressed or anxious and the first thing we want to do is pig out. As noted on Motherboard a few weeks ago with regard to sugary drinks (and drinks with synthetic...
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Ripple, a Peer-to-Peer Financing Network, Could Make Bitcoin Great (Or...
Until now, one of main flaws of bitcoin is that still relies on centralized exchanges. For starters, it’s a philosophical dilemma for currency that is inherently decentralized, leaving bitcoin...
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The Problem With Asteroid Mining
The founders of Planetary Resources Of course the prospect of deep space asteroid mining is exciting. The very fact that we’re entering the era where companies invest serious time and capital in the...
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How Brains Wire Themselves to Expect Treats
One of the most important aspects of our memory is our ability to predict what may happen in a given situation based on our past experiences. That we remember outcomes based on visual cues is...
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How Steve Jobs Scared Netflix away from Innovation
We all remember Steve Jobs (RIP) fondly, and we thank Steve Jobs (RIP) humbly for the very expensive, very well designed, and inevitably very revolutionary products that he helped invent. We also...
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It's Map or Be Mapped in Brazil's Favelas
Google Street View image, Rio favela (via) Brazil's Mare shantytown has never really been on the map. The sprawling complex of slums, along with the rest of Rio de Janerio's favelas, has hung in a...
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Postcards from Julian Assange
Do you keep yourself up at night – sweat pooling around you, your eyeballs pulsating – wondering what it would feel like to be packed up into a cardboard box and mailed to Julian Assange? Well,...
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No More Chimps: The NIH Needs to Find New Test Subjects
The age-old use of chimps as the proverbial guinea pigs in testing out new pharmaceuticals has been dealt a major blow. On Tuesday, the National Institute of Health's Council of Councils working group...
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No, a Scientist Was Not Looking for a Neanderthal Surrogate Mother
Image: AP Photo, via Dawn.com In what is surely the science world let-down of 2013, Harvard geneticist George Church revealed that he is not, in fact, looking for a woman to impregnate with a...
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What the Czech Play That Coined the Term 'Robot' Tells Us About Today's...
This is not a photo from the rendition of Rossom's Universal Robots that I saw (via) We’ve been afraid of the robot uprising as long as we’ve had the word “robot,” a word that made its way into...
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Belgium Is Building the World’s Biggest Battery on an Artificial...
Wind and solar power are the future, clearly. And we’re going to need a lot more of both if we’re going to edge out coal, oil, and gas and get human civilization running on emissions-free electricity...
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To Revive Dying Oceans, Try Sinking a Bunch of Trees
Sinking logs into the bottom of the ocean could provide nutrients in a similar fashion to the hydrothermal vents above (via) As the world's oceans succumb to overfishing and pollution, the idea of...
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Seapunk Is Selling Shoes Now
Seapunk is selling shoes. So that's a nice little example, I guess, of how desperate we are for any whiff of counterculture and how seamlessly we commoditize it in these internetty times. Yeah,...
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