More or less, this is all anyone ever wants from a piece of technology. Here’s a 90-year-old woman strapped into an Oculus Rift VR headset, and totally losing her mind over how amazing it is. More »
Did you hear? Nearly half of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers are fake. Fake! Belieber nation is a fraud, life has no meaning, the abyss of treachery and betrayal that is life grows deeper by the hour. More »
It’s officially spring, so why is your computer still moving like it’s half frozen? After all those long winter nights surfing shady sites, it’s no wonder. Here’s how to give your most important devices a spring cleaning fit for a May Queen. More »
Drinking influences our personalities in a variety of ways. Some people get happy. Others turn combative or impulsive. At one time or another, though, we’ve all been the emotional drunk, a condition typically marked by ill-timed espousals of affection (or reprisal), acute introspection, and an uncontrollable urge to cry in the middle of a crowded bar. More »
Lacking claws, armor, or stabbing teeth, humans are easy targets for predation. But thanks to our big, beautiful brains, we figured out early on how to co-opt the killing tools of nature’s top hunters for our own defense—and offense. Here are some of the best examples of technology mimicking nature. Or just straight up stealing from it. More »
You probably haven’t regularly used smileys since your middle school days, when modems screeched and President Clinton rained ordnance against Bosnian war criminals. You’ve grown up since then, but the 😉 has remained inert, a relic of type. In our new modern age, is it ever okay to drop a smiley? More »
At the height of the Cold War, if you wanted a peek behind the Iron Curtain, it had to be a birds’s eye view from 63,000 feet—above the reach of Soviet SAM batteries. And to fly that high, America’s elite SR-71 pilots had to wear the most advanced flight suits this side of the Apollo program. More »
When San Francisco’s Exploratorium began to outgrow its 100,000-square-foot campus at the Palace of Fine Arts—where it had been since its founding in 1969—it looked for a new home, eventually settling on the city’s Embarcadero, a stone’s throw from downtown. More »
The Kepler telescope that launched in 2009 is is no slouch when it comes to hunting for exoplanets. The system is charged with investigating the more than 145,000 stars within its view in the hopes of finding habitable planets but those stars constitute just 0.28 percent of the sky. Luckily, there’s a new orbital telescope from MIT that will survey the rest. More »
After a rather lazy 17 years spent relaxing underground, billions of incredibly noisy insects are about to burst out of the earth, noisily swarming over the East Coast and wreaking havoc along the way. This is The Great Cicada Invasion of 2013—but what the hell is a cicadia, anyway, and why have they been hiding for nearly two decades? More »
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