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Chimpanzees Enjoy Solving Puzzles Just as Much as Humans
The study apparatus, via the Zoological Society of London Here's another study to add to the growing pile of evidence that differences between chimpanzees and humans, while not non-existent, are...
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America's Concern About the Environment Is at a Twenty-Year Low, Not that...
Apparently, American concern about the environment is at a 20-year low. This once-robust concern, detailed in opinion polls, was evidently displaced by newer and more immediate concerns over the...
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Crazy Amazing Tricks Involving Rubik's Cubes: A YouTube Tour
The Internet lit up its little wow eyes this week at a grainy YouTube video of a bespectacled Stanford student named Ravi juggling and solving a Rubik's cube at the same time. He's even having a...
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When Bradley Manning Spoke
This article originally ran on VICE.com. Art by Clark Stoeckley. After a blizzard blanketed the mid-Atlantic in early 2010, a 22-year-old soldier home on leave in Potomac, Maryland, braved the storm...
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BPA Not Only Messes With Your Hormones, It May Mess with Your Genes and...
Perhaps there’s no such thing as coincidence. Carl Jung didn’t think there was—to him, it was all synchronicity. But you don’t have to be a Jungian or a flaky New-Ager to think that when two studies...
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Stop Saying You "Believe" in Global Warming
UPDATE: Embarassingly enough, it turns out that I got clowned by a right-wing bumper sticker. The thing above can be purchased from none other than WorldNetDaily.com. Get it? Seasons are the only real...
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DARPA's Big Dog Just Got Violent (And More Useful)
The DARPA-funded robotic dog that Boston Dynamics has been building for the past couple of years was scary enough when it was just running around. Big Dog looks like a tank with legs. It can run...
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The US State Department Says the Keystone XL Pipeline Is Good to Go
Last year, when the Keystone XL pipeline first emerged as a flashpoint in the American climate movement, Barack Obama bought himself some time by punting his final decision on whether to approve it...
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Gaze Into These 244 Clocks and Be Revived
You don’t necessarily need 288 clocks to tell the time, but you do if you’re design studio Humans Since 1982 and you’re creating your kinetic installation A Million Times. It’s a larger iteration of...
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The Tiny Life: How to Build Your Home, Stay Online, and See the World for...
In 2009, Netaro, a Japanese philosophy student, built a tiny solar-powered house with his bare hands for $1,000. Then he whipped together an even tinier solar-powered mobile-house for $130. He then...
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Florida's Sinkhole Problem Is Just One Part of America's Looming Water Woes
A sinkhole near Crooked Lake, Florida, via Southwest Florida WMD I moved to New York for a bunch of different reasons, but the eminent danger of earthquakes in San Francisco is perhaps one reason–if...
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Between 63 and 273 Million Sharks Are Killed Worldwide Each Year
Three species of hammerhead are the subject of a proposal for international protection at the Cites meeting this week. Image by David Biesack on Flickr A flood of conservation research has come to the...
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How Cops Became Soldiers: An Interview with Police Militarization Expert...
What happened to friendly neighborhood cops? The drug and terror wars happened. Via Oregon DOT/Flickr In 2007, journalist Radley Balko told a House subcommittee that one criminologist detected a...
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A Giant Swiss Satellite Claw Will One Day Burn Space Junk in the Earth's...
The Swiss plan on playing a debris-clearing claw game in space. Image above and graphic below via EPFL The United States is in the midst of a satellite crisis: of the 24 primary information-gatherers...
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Good News for Elephants: Thailand Will Ban Its Domestic Ivory Trade
An ivory seizure by Thai customs, via AP/Apichart Weerawong International trade in ivory has been banned since 1989, when elephants were listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade...
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Behind 'Argo,' the Most Outlandish Science Fiction Theme Park That Never Was
From Vice.com: While Ben Affleck's teary Best Picture acceptance speech thanked the right Hollywood honchos, there's one person he snubbed that literally made Argo a reality: Barry Ira Geller. In...
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How Obama's New Energy and Environment Team Will Try to Save the Future
Obama just announced his picks for Energy Secretary and EPA chief: if they make it through confirmation, EPA lifer Gina McCarthy and MIT physicist Ernest Moniz will fill two of the most unpopular...
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3D-Printing Is Getting Stoned
For all we know, the smoke isn't clearing anytime soon when it comes to 3D-printed guns. Crypto-anarchists are making them. Firearms critics and advocates are battling over the right to print them....
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China Turned the Moments Before a Drug Lord's Execution into a TV Special
It's a case that feels as modern as it is dreadful: A quartet of men, convicted and sentenced to execution in a country that isn't their own–after government officials previously discussed killing...
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Japan Is Going to Restart Its Nuclear Power Plants, But Don't Freak Out About It
Fukushima, mid-disaster. Image: ThinkProgress Areva, the French nuclear fuel company, helps supply Japan with a lot of its juice. And Areva's chief executive says that Japan is going to restart up to...
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