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That Amazing App You Thought of Won't Make You Rich
Image via Flickr/Jorge Quinteros At some point, everyone’s been struck by that genius app idea you’re sure could make you a tech billionaire. You can’t believe no one’s come up with it before! The...
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Sorry, Caffeine Isn't a Memory Cure Yet
Shocking: another case of headlines misrepresenting scientific findings. Image via Flickr/Agnes Swart If you’re a coffee drinker, or are friends with one, you’re probably going to be unable to avoid...
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Turns Out Whale Beer Is Unfit for Human Consumption
Empty glasses that were never full of whale via Karen/Flickr It sometimes seems like the most otherwise peaceful countries are the ones with the most antagonistic relationship with whales. Japan has...
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Why the DEA Let the World's Tech-Savviest Drug Cartel Do As It Pleased for 12...
US DEA extradition of Mexican capo Gilberto Guerrera, via DEA. Catapults. "Jalapeños". Dune buggies. $1 million subs. Sophisticated drug tunnels. Firetruck-sized industrial pipeline drills. These are...
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Drones Aren't Going to Spy on Classrooms
It’s true that many schools are allowing engineering students to build their own drones and some schools are experimenting with drone journalism. But news reports this week suggested that a Belgian...
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Spring's Ever-Earlier Arrival Is a Boon for Invasive Species
An invasive Japanese barberry. Image via Jamie Richmond/Flickr That spring is happening earlier each year as our climate changes has been well documented by how both plants and animals are changing...
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Now Just 0.01 Percent of Climate Scientists Reject Global Warming
Here's a chart about science. It sums up what is arguably still the most important finding of thousands of scientific papers published on climate change over the last two years: scientists beyond...
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The Court Struck Down Net Neutrality, But the Open Web’s Not Dead Yet
Photo via flickr/Eirik Solheim Did net neutrality just die? While we were all sitting around having our second cup of coffee on a regular old Tuesday morning did a federal court just erode the entire...
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How to Make Hitting a Bathtub Over and Over Sound Beautiful
For a sound designer like Ali Lacey, instruments don't necessarily have to be instruments. "A tin bath wasn't made to be beaten," Lacey says in Storm+Shelter's "Portrait of a Sound Design Artist",...
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Obama's Plan to Privatize Phone Surveillance Could Hit Silicon Valley, Too
Image via Wikimedia Commons In President Obama's end of 2013 press conference, he said of NSA surveillance practices, "We need this intelligence. We can't unilaterally disarm." Obama then floated a...
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The Warming World Intensified Africa's Civil Wars
Experts say that drought in Mali contributed to the 2012 conflict there. Photo: Flickr/European Commission Climate change may have played a role in many of Africa’s most recent civil wars, according to...
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To Get Your Kickstarter Funded, Say These Magic Words
via Wikimedia Commons Looking to kickstart drum up interest in your latest crowd-funded project? Of course you are. We all are, although some dreams don't make it very far. My own silent film...
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Two of Your Favorite Big Cats Are Probably Going to Be Extinct Soon
A West African male lion. Photo via Jonas Van Der Voorde. So far, 2014 is shaping up to be a bad-news year for big cat lovers. On January 8, a study published in PLOS One revealed that the West African...
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The Inventions Their Inventors Have Lived To Regret
Photo via flickr/DVIDSHUB So there's this one line in Jurassic Park that comes to mind a lot. (Bear with me here.) Shit has hit the fan and dinosaurs are eating people, and Jeff Goldblum’s character...
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Honey Bees Are Mapping Their Movements with Tiny Sensor Backpacks
Video via Youtube/CSIRO We’ve known for years that bees are disappearing at an unsustainable rate, but we still don’t know exactly why. Researchers in Australia are now hoping to gain an insight into...
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The Zero-Day Fate of Thousands of UK Public Office Computers
Image via Flickr/Eurritimia Thousands of computers used by offices in the UK’s public sector are still running Windows XP and could miss Microsoft’s deadline to migrate to a new operating system before...
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The Sharewashing Scourge
Sharing isn't always sharing. Photo: Flickr / anjanettew Until recently, if you used the smartphone apps Lyft or Sidecar to "share" a ride somewhere with one of the network's drivers, you would be...
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The US Border Patrol 'Misplaced' the Records for 200 Predator Drone Flights
Drones have been used by Customs and Border Patrol for several years now to surveil the borders. Photo: CBP Late last year, we reported that the U.S. Border Patrol had lent out its Predator drones 500...
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The Secret Environment Section of Obama's Trade Agreement Is a Pile of Empty...
A small logging operation near Mai Châu, Vietnam, a country with a robust hardwoods industry. Via Gavin White/Flickr The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive free trade agreement touted by the Obama...
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In a World of Opiate Addicts, the Internet Plays Doctor and Therapist
Photo via Flickr/CC. In early 2007, JonnyM, as he’s known online, was seriously injured when his car was struck head-on by a drunk driver. Left with severe back pain, he told me, he was prescribed “a...
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