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Your Brain Is Not a Video Camera
Image via DerrickT/Flickr Announced by a push of air and a screeching sound reverberating through the tunnel, the 6 train arrives and passes. Through headphones you are listening to "Day In The Life"...
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The Third Most 'Gamous' Person: A Chat With Tim Schafer, Part II
This weekend, I sat down with Tim Schafer, the prolific videogame designer and funny guy. You can read about games and fame and Kickstarter in Part 1, and then scroll down to read about new consoles,...
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There's Still Science on Space Station
The crew of Expedition 35. via Last week, Chris Hadfield made his triumphant return to Earth. The first Canadian to command the International Space Station, Hadfield and his relentless social media...
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Dormant Comets Lurking In the Asteroid Belt Are Waiting to Come Back To Life
(via) Comets are living glimpses of the solar system’s rumspringa. The European Space Agency says comets are “probably the most primitive bodies in the Solar System, preserving the earliest record of...
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How to Keep Using Airbnb in New York Without Getting Evicted
Image: Wikimedia, CC Is Airbnb illegal in New York? The answer to that question, which was already pretty cloudy, got even cloudier yesterday. A New York judge decided that a man who rented his East...
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Will Blind People One Day Be Able to Echolocate Like Bats?
Photo: Wikipedia New research into human hearing suggests than humans have at least some ability to use echoes to locate their position in space, similar to the well-developed and well-known ability...
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Jodorowski's Dune Would Have Been More Insane Than You Can Even Imagine
Image: Giger's rendering of House Harkonnen from Jodorowsky's Dune In 1974, the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky set about turning the classic sci-fi novel Dune into a major motion picture. He...
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Alex Gibney on Hackers and Julian Assange
Photo courtesy of Union Docs "Awesome job... that thing you did with the Manning's text was so personal, it worked really well, great job," I overheard John Leguizamo tell Alex Gibney in the carpeted...
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Let's Stop Pretending Hotels and Airbnb Exist on Different Planets
Image by Alan Levine/Creative Commons My home doesn't have fire sprinklers or, I think, even a working smoke detector. I have no idea where the key to the front door is, and, if you looked not...
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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator of Bitcoin?
Left to right, top to bottom: Gavin Andresen, Jed McCaleb, Shinichi Mochizuki, Zorro, "Satoshi," and Uncle Sam For all of Bitcoin’s fabled transparency, a key piece of this bubblicious puzzle remains...
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Saying GIF: The Answer Once and For All
When Steve Wilhite got up to accept his Lifetime Achievement Webby Award, everyone at my Webby party started spilling their champagne, tearing their sashes–just losing their shit. "There he is!" one...
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Florida Man Fights, Decapitates Biggest Burmese Python Ever Captured
This could only have happened in Florida: 23-year-old Jason Leon spotted a python on the side of the road in the Everglades during an ATV trip with friends, and subsequently engaged in a 10-minute...
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Could Bitcoin Help Everyone Else Avoid Taxes Like Apple?
The big news this week has been the revelation of Congressional investigators that Apple, one of the country’s most profitable companies, had avoided billions in taxes by exploiting loopholes in the...
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Australian Scientists Think "Salamander-Like" Human Limb Regeneration Is...
An axolotl salamander's limb in the process of regeneration. Image: Nature I am a human, so if my limbs fall off, they stay off. This is unfortunate. It's also why Australian scientists are working to...
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Five Reasons Flickr's Redesign Is a Hit, All of Which Annoy Me
You know those people that are still using Windows XP and AOL dialup? I'm going to be one of those people one day. The new version of New Gmail is still confusing, I got a new phone yesterday and the...
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Europe Wants Saharan Solar Power, but Morocco Called Dibs
Photo: Christopher L/Flickr Desertec, the massively sprawling project to tap into the considerable potential to produce renewable energy in the Sahara Desert and then send it to Europe, just hit a big...
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'Smart' Guns Would Only Allow the Right Hands to Shoot Them
Image via Armatix We often talk about guns "falling into the wrong hands," an acknowledgement that weapons are as innocent as the people they kill and only as righteous as the people who use them....
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Soylent, the Post-Food Macro-Nutritious Cocktail, Is Going Nationwide
Soylent, ready to ship. Image: Soylent A couple months ago, 24-year-old software engineer Rob Rhinehart whipped up Soylent, a cocktail of "vitamins, minerals, and macro-nutrients," and started...
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Brilliant Mathematician Norbert Wiener Described the Robo-Apocalypse in 1949
Image via the MIT Web Museum For decades we humans have been certain that in the future, robots would either bring about a utopian society wherein machines do all the work and we cool our heels (Kevin...
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Algae Could Provide One-Twelfth of the US Fuel Supply Without Stressing Water...
Photo: Sustainable Initiatives Fund Trust/Flickr Algae biofuels have for several years now seemed like they were just over the horizon of widespread commercial availability. Despite genuine...
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