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The World's Most Powerful Laser Is Still Working to Produce a Fusion Reaction
The NIF's laser bay, via the NIF site IEEE Spectrum published an expansive, well-researched article on the National Ignition Facility's (NIF's) building and use of the world's most powerful laser. The...
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This Vertical Farm in Chicago Is Cool, But Can It Really Be the Future?
Humans will probably be living on Mars within a few decades, but we're still a long, long ways away from finding the next Earth. With our population booming and only about 37.7 percent of the Earth's...
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A Canadian Restaurant Was Fined $10,000 for a Freezer Full of Turtles
How could you eat a face like that? Via J.N. Stuart on Flickr While reports tend to focus on elephant, rhino, and tiger trafficking, it's important to remember that the multi-billion dollar illegal...
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What's the Deadliest Power Source?
Image: Geograph This week, an influential oil and gas advocate, Robert Bradley, Jr., claimed that wind power is too dangerous. Comparatively, he argued, the oil and gas industry was "one of the...
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Egypt Arrested Divers Trying to Cut Undersea Internet Cables
Part of the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable path. Alexandria is located near node 5. Via Wikipedia. These days, if you want to shut down the Internet, you mount a large-scale DDoS attack, like the "nuclear bomb"...
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What Color Is the Most Popular on the Internet?
Image via Viktor Hertz on Flickr According to this Google trends search, red is the most popular search term of the last six years, beating a long deadlock with blue, my personal favorite. I could...
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The Possible Centers of the Internet: A Working Catalog
Not like I'm hardpressed or otherwise not susceptible to getting sucked down the proverbial Web black hole during the rest of the week, or anything. But Fridays truly are a time for heroic...
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How to Hack Your Easter Weekend
Easter is a funny holiday. For most people, it's mostly a bundle of mostly fond childhood memories — mostly fond — that involve lots of chocolate. Egg-shaped chocolate, bunny-shaped chocolate,...
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God's Gift: The Eerie Soviet Military Complex Hidden in the Czech Republic
Photos by Léo Malek There’s a little bit of the Soviet empire left in the middle of the Czech Republic, but it’s abandoned, decaying, and almost completely forgotten. USSR military bases might not be...
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It's Easter and, More than Ever, American Christians Believe Jesus's Return...
It’s Easter weekend, and you know what time that is. Time to start thinking about the most anticipated comeback in history. Time to start thinking about The Rapture, and I don’t mean that band...
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Chris Ruen Is Taking the Anti-Piracy Argument Back from the Music Industry
I’m early for my interview with Chris Ruen, author of Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Hunger for Free Content Starves Creativity, and going over my notes at the bar. Eventually I circle one question...
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Robert Moog Inducted Into the Inventor's Hall of Fame
I meant to start this by presenting some great example of a song featuring a Moog synthesizer, but that would have been stupid, because the creations of Bob Moog, whether or not they feature his name,...
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Bitcoin: How it Works, How to Use It, What's Next
As the world's most popular cryptocurrency continues its meteoric rise, recently reaching a market cap of $1 billion, numerous contrasting storylines have emerged. The typical bitcoin headline might...
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Freed from the Ocean Floor, Restoration of NASA's F-1 Engines Is About To Begin
The big new in space last week came from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos put at least some of his millions towards recovering more than 25,000 pounds of Apollo-era F-1...
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Watch "Motorville," a Tale Of Oil Addiction Told Through Animated Digital Maps
Back in 2010 animator Patrick Jean wowed the internet with his short film Pixels, featuring pixels invading New York. Donkey Kong clambered up the Empire State Building and space invaders shot up...
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Some Actual Good News in the Race Against Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance has raced quickly up the list of (non-religious) apocalyptic scenarios over the past few months, as warnings from the CDC, Britain's chief medical officer, and beyond were...
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How Bitcoin Could Die
While the bitcoin platform is theoretically sound--the decentralized blockchain makes it near impossible to counterfeit--vulnerabilities do exist at a few key junctures. Continuing Motherboard's...
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The Truth About Kenji, the Robot Programmed to Love
In early 2009, news broke that an experimental Toshiba robot that had been “programmed to love” was malfunctioning. The story, paired with the above image of a half-Frankenstein, half-Asimo automaton...
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The Newest Trend in 3D Printing Is Huge, Literally
Have you ever wanted to sleep in Spiderman's fantastic nest — or something that resembles it? Soon you can. Via SoftKill's Protohouse Tumblr If you've been following the recent explosion of interest...
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The 100-Year Evolution of the First-Person Space Opera
Image: Destiny concept art from Bungie The entertainment medium that's most thoroughly indebted science fiction these days is probably the video game—sci-fi tropes and aesthetics have successfully...
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