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Why It’s So Disconcerting That SnapChat Is Now Worth Half a Billion Dollars
These are strange times we live in, when a sanctum for selfies and sexting is valued at a half a billion dollars. Yet here we are. GigaOm reported Friday that an "untraditional" backer (Om guesses a...
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How To Farm the Seas Without Waste
This is probably one of the only times fish sellers and environmental conservationists agree on something. A unique approach to fish farming called integrated multi-trophic aquaculture is gaining...
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Behold, Every One of the 17,000 Libraries in the U.S. Mapped
Libraries are perhaps the best thing that human civilization has going for it. Not only are they repositories of knowledge in non-digital form, they are, in America at least, last bastions of truly...
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The Revolution Will Be Live-Mapped: A Brief History of Protest Maptivism
The revolution may not be televised, but it will be Google-mapped with crowdsourced data from social media networks. Modern-day digital cartography is transforming the ancient art of protest—with...
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Increases in CO2 Are Making Earth's Arid Regions More Leafy
Photo: Alexander Hausermann/Flickr Since the 1980s foliage cover in several arid regions of the world has increased, correlated with the marked increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a new...
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One Small Step for Space-Food: Flour with the Nutrition of Fresh Fruit
Blueberry picking by Patrick Stahl/Creative Commons Like so many new technologies, the idea is, currently, “for the Army.” But we know well enough that most things developed for the military make...
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Loose Lips Sink Superpowers: 1965 Department of Defense Film Warning Against...
In an ideal world, information would flow freely and we'd have a perfect open society, but, "but ours is no ideal world and all over this world, hostile powers, in accordance with communist doctrine,...
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Exclusive Video: Take a Tour of MoMA's Rain Room
"What do you do with a rain room?" That simple yet intriguing question motivated London-based artists rAndom International—founded by Stuart Wood, Florian Ortkrass, and Hannes Koch—as they conceived...
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Meet the Man Behind the Push to Ban Killer Robots
Image via Wikipedia Depending on who you ask, armed robots that can discern by themselves when and how to stage attacks, without guidance from humans, present either an unprecedented danger to...
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Climate Change Means Heat Waves Are Killing More People Than Ever
People sleeping outside during a heat wave in 1936. Minnesota Historical Society Heat waves may win the fewest headlines, but they're actually one of the deadliest disasters we face. “No one should...
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How to Build a Secret Facebook
The NSA's Utah data center near Bluffdale, Utah. Via Google Street View Since retiring from a three-decade career at the NSA in 2001, a mathematician named William Binney has been telling anyone who...
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Why Google Wants to Spend $1.3 Billion on Waze, a Social Mapping App
Waze is powered by users, who win points for pinning notifications onto its mapping software. As you can see, it's got NYC down pretty well, but the maps aren't perfect everywhere. The current steamy...
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DuckDuckGo Keeps Snoopers out of Your Search History
Image via In light of the recent NSA scandal, Motherboard hooked you up with a guide to how to live underground with lower risk of the government spying on your doings and happenings (though chances...
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What Droning African Wildlife Conservation Looks Like
Rhinos watering at night. Via By now we've heard quite a bit about both the tragic plight of rare African beasts at the hands of shithead poachers, and efforts to mitigate that slaughter using...
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Watch a Massive Wind Turbine Transmission Get Torn Apart and Repaired
One of the coolest things about this video from Deutsche Welle is the thought that giant wind turbines have been in operation long enough to need overhauling. The industry is truly maturing as it...
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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden's Greatest Fear Is That "Nothing Will Change"
Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald interviews Edward Snowden, the man who exposed the NSA and PRISM. After last week's deluge of distressing NSA leaks, we now have a face for who leaked top-secret...
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The Woman Who's Gone Seven Weeks WIthout Food, and Isn't Stopping
Juice cleanses are for pussies. Naveena Shine, a 65-year-old British transplant to the Pacific Northwest, is in the middle of a 100-day fasting marathon during which she’s only consuming water, tea,...
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How Edward Snowden Can Fight Extradition
Compromised Hong Kong. Photo by David Leo Veksler. Where can a whistleblower find a safe port in a gathering legal storm? For Edward Snowden, the man who leaked details about NSA's PRISM program,...
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Biosphere 2: How a Sci-Fi Stunt Turned Into the World's Biggest Earth Science...
Flickr: Image If you were born after 1980 or so, then you probably most closely associate the concept of a manmade biosphere with Pauly Shore and fart jokes you didn't even think were funny when you...
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Goldman Sachs: Killing the Keystone XL Pipeline Kills Canadian Oil Sands
Photo: Elvert Barnes/Flickr Contrary to what the U.S. State Department says, stopping the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would have a large impact on the financial viability of future expansion of tar...
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