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Tesla Motors Is the First Automaker to Repay All of Its Government Loans
Image via Tesla's site Just a month ago, Tesla Motors posted its first profitable quarter ever, which was a huge step towards proving the viability of electric cars. But now the young automaker has...
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Why Do Beer Brewers Around the World Hate Fracking?
Inside one anti-fracking brewery. Image: Flickr In Germany, you don't mess with the beer. Europe's biggest beer maker is also home to 1,300 breweries and the world-renowned Oktoberfest. Beer isn't...
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Things I Saw and Ate at the Frieze Art Fair
Photo of Ryan McGinley photo, courtesy of Downtown Traveler (CC/Flickr) There used to be a restaurant in New York that served live brine shrimp swimming in broth, whole fish cooked and then set into...
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Photos: Giant Pandas and Friends Chill Out in Their Wild Habitat
Image via WWF China / WWF-Canon Giant pandas are some of the most loveable mammals on Earth, but unfortunately their habitats in China are under continual threat. It's a rare treat to see them in the...
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Most Americans Want Clean Energy, But Just As Many Don't Care About Climate...
Photo: Peter Rood/Flickr The latest edition of the long-running Yale Project on Climate Change Communication is out, and a "large majority" of people in the United States think combating climate...
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How 12 Men Morphed Identities and Still Voted, Bought Guns, and Got Married
Image: Zthoven A dozen men morphed into each other three years ago, and you probably never even heard about it. Cultural Hijack is underway in London—it's an exhibit at the redundantly named...
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Building the World's Tallest Dam Is Okay with Chinese Environmental Officials
A render of the dam via Wikipedia In a growing world with booming economies, we all demand more energy, which generally comes at a detriment to the environment. Nowhere is that tradeoff between growth...
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Sears Is Converting Its Defunct Department Stores Into Data Centers
via Flickr Is this the warped future of historical preservation? London's iconic red phone booths are WiFi hotspots. The abandoned pay phones of New York are digital “smart screens.” And now your...
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Our FrankenStorm Factory Is Running Full Steam: The 2013 Hurricane Season Is...
Image: NASA It's about that time. The lights are back on, and theres a plume of smoke pumping out of that dirty old Frankenstorm factory we all built. Storms' a-comin'. Hurricane season officially...
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Why We Like to Look at Pornstars' Twitters
Photo courtesy of Stoya I have this acquaintance in NYC. Her main career is in technology, but she occasionally works as a burlesque performer. Our paths intersect at shows and parties, where she's...
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A YouTube Piano Teacher Took Down His Competition With Phony Copyright Claims
Image via Flickr I learned piano at age 10 by watching my Grandmother slowly play Für Elise in small fragments. She would play a phrase which I would then mimick on next octave. I'm a visual learner,...
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Extinct Cockroach Bears Uncanny Resemblance to Jawa
Arizona State University scientists recently released their annual list of 10 recently discovered species, and among the otherworldly-looking group is a luminescent cockroach whose otherworldliness is...
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Amazon's Plan To Sell Fan Fic, Explained Via Gossip Girl Fan Fic
Photo via. Author's Note: This Gossip Girl fan fiction was inspired by Amazon and Alloy Entertainment’s announcement that they will begin selling fan fiction on the Kindle beginning in June. Barely...
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Rich Countries to Developing Economies: Not Everyone Can Copy Technology
Bangladesh, along with Haiti, Rwanda, and many other countries, relies on its TRIPS exemption for cheaper medicine and access to the innovation economy. Image via Orangeadnan/Flickr Americans and much...
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Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Isn't Easy, Especially When Your Funding Is Cut
Pavlof from space, via NASA In Iceland, researchers hope to watch volcanoes closely enough to predict eruptions. In Sicily, the most closely watched volcano continues to be unpredictable. In Alaska,...
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Steven Sebring Photographs the Fourth Dimension
Image via the author Steven Sebring’s method of recording the fourth dimension works the same way the Wachowski siblings filmed the famous “bullet time” limbo sequence in the Matrix. Sebring calls his...
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Google Thinks Autonomous Flying Drones Are the Future of Clean Energy
Images: Makani Google just bought one of the most promising airborne drones in development—it's not for surveillance, it's not for the military, and it's not for hobbyists. It's for making clean...
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Seeing Faces on Google Earth
It's not just humans who can experience pareidolia—seeing images of faces or other forms in the randomness that surrounds us. We can program machines to do it too. And if they're not looking for faces...
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The Free Internet's Newest Threat Is a Secret Treaty Being Negotiated by a...
Worldwide, there's a torrent of negotiations concerning intellectual property laws happening right now. All of them threaten to restrict the innovation and the flow of information online—whether...
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You (And Your Fledgling Space Company) Can Now Lease a NASA Launch Pad
Space shuttle Columbia getting ready for STS-101 launch at LC-39A, via Wikipedia It's not quite the space shuttle factory that NASA put up for sale awhile back, but if you've ever had a rocket lying...
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