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Second Screen Use Doubled Over the Past Year
Image: Flickr Apparently, 'second screen activity' is the official marketing term for the act of thumbing through your iPad's Twitter app while you watch TV. And predictably, we're all doing a hell of...
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'Streetscape Symphony' Elevates New York's Noise to Art Gallery Walls
One of the best parts of living in New York City is the snippets of conversations you catch on the street. “She lives in Brooklyn, like a real person,” was something I just overheard in Union Square a...
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How Life Harvests Light Even in Total Blackness
via NOAA One fun thought is that the Earth gives off its own light. I'd qualify that with "... in a way," but really, while the origin of that light might be wildly different, it's still good ol'...
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Eight Years Later, Gizoogle Is Still Amazing
You know how sometimes, you're cruising around the Internet and reading stuff and you're thinking, "This is so stuffy! I wish the Internet were more like the 'hood." You think, "Get on my level. Talk...
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It's Time To Start Taking Seriously MDMA as a PTSD Treatment
MDMA + Funky looking key = No more PTSD? via. Studies have shown that an occasional dose of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, stupid) in tandem with psychotherapy can dramatically improve the...
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Did Boards of Canada Create the Weirdest Musical Rabbit Hole Ever?
A casual observer of the Boards of Canada (BoC) numbers station mystery might be either vaguely amused or generally disinterested. BoC fans, on the other hand, are of a different breed. Like Pynchon...
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Researchers Discover How Exhaust Turns Tree Friends Into Clean Air Enemies
Image via Flickr/Creative Commons It's hard to imagine ever shaking the idea of trees being a signifier for clean, clear air. We all know that trees act together as a big air purifier, creating free...
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Meet Morphees, the Tech That's Already Made Google Glass Obsolete
Fruit Roll-Up via Flickr/Creative Commons/Chris Young The screen interface seems about as fundamental to our smart-phones and other info-centric devices as electricity. Whether we're touching...
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The Speed of Light May Be Less Constant Than We Thought
Image: Wikimedia Commons There are probably only a few things about physics non-scientists know, but that the speed of light is constant is one hopefully of them. It’s what we all--again,...
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Tuberculosis Is Rising Again, and Is Puzzling Our Drugs
Tuberculosis x-ray (Wikimedia Commons) Airborne tuberculosis is as old as humankind, with traces of the infectious disease found in prehistoric skeletons dating back to 4000 BC. And while our...
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The UK Finally Dedicated a Wildlife Agent to the Internet Trade
Pets like these tokay geckos are a big part of the wildlife trade, especially online. Via Michael Yabsley, University of Georgia Considering how massive the internet is for commerce, it'd be erroneous...
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The Atmosphere Now Holds 14 Percent More Carbon Than Science Says Is Safe for...
Mauna Loa Observatory. Image: NOAA Here are a few numbers that should change the way that we think about how humans live on planet Earth: 400, 3,000,000, and 7. And here is what they mean: The...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Nerd
How Art Works Online I have been avoiding updating the iOS on my phone like the plague. But when I took the chance to add more music to my old iPhone, I went for it. In the process, I inadvertently...
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Broke the Sound Barrier During Its First...
Image: Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic just got one sound barrier-breaking hybrid engine blast closer to ushering in the era of space tourism. Yesterday, Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) was dropped out...
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What Untold Thousands of New Yorkers Shuffling Through Turnstiles Looks LIke
via Flickr / roeyahram There is something poignant about the straightforwardly named New York City Subway Turnstile Data Animation. Using public data gathered during the week of April 14 - April 20,...
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This Video of SpaceShipTwo's First Rocket Flight Is Surreal
Virgin Galactic today broke the sound barrier in its first rocket flight test of its SpaceShipTwo, and now the private spaceflight company has released the video above. By all accounts it was a...
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We're Going to Need More Metal
Photo: Nopphan Bunnag/Flickr A report from the United Nation's Environmental Program just revealed that Asia now uses more resources than the rest of the world combined. This is mostly because more...
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A Utah Woman Is Being Prosecuted for Filming a Slaughterhouse from a Public...
Photo: hunnnterrr/Flickr The United States' first prosecution under so-called ag-gag legislation has begun. Will Potter reports at Green Is The New Red that a Utah woman, Amy Meyer, has been charged...
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Mind Control Is Going Mainstream
Image via Interaxon Over the weekend, The New York Times tackled a topic that the geek world's been freaking out about for years: brain-computer interfaces. Whether through a headband that connects to...
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There Is a Giant, Permanent Earth-Sized Hurricane at Saturn's North Pole
Saturn's permacane in false-color. Images: NASA A "permacane" is the scientific terminology that I just made up to describe giant, violently swirling storms that are fixed in place—like the one that...
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