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We Are Not Vigilantes: A Chat With the Founder of Zavilia, a Crowdsource Tool For ID'ing Rioters Through Photos
Social media isn't just great for starting "social unrest,” it's proving to be quite helpful for quashing it too. Not long after the bricks began to fly in London’s latest kerfuffle, locals angry over raging mobs scrambled to assist the police in their...
Ones and Zeros: Yahoo's "Six Degrees of Separation" Experiment, Jodi Foster is Serious About SETI, Why You Suck at Multitasking
h3. One: Jonah Lehrer tries to end the "marijuana makes you stupid" debate ("Wired":http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/does-marijuana-make-you-stupid/): bq. Once these population differences were corrected for, the long-term effects of...
Homemade Megaphones on a Moroccan Mountaintop
Pablo Serret de Eña creates sound installations with a creativity sense of humour about them that we love.
Biological Lasers Are Here, When Can I Install Them In My Eyes? An Interview with Malte Gather
Malte Gather and Seok Hyun Yun are a pair of absurdly smart scientists from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine in Boston, and they recently published research showing how they created the world’s first biological lasers made from single cells.
Future-Proofing the Printed Word: A Q+A with Richard Nash
Richard Nash, the publisher, answered the door of his apartment in Clinton Hill carrying a big cardboard box filled with paperback books. “You know,” he said, holding the door open for me with his foot, “I don’t think most tech start-ups also have...
This Was the First Man in Space—and Then He Jumped: A Q+A With Joe Kittinger
_Before he would end up in a Vietnamese prison camp, Joe Kittinger ascended 20 miles above the Earth by balloon, a year before the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, "would get to space":http://motherboard.tv/2011/4/12/first-orbit-the-mind-expanding...
Spambots and Pornstars: A Q+A With A Former Hacker Tween
Mike Pepper's formative years were riddled with drugs, sex with porn stars and hacking the hell out of America Online for fun and serious profit. I had a chance to chat with the man whose dazzling past sounds like an ornate cyberspace teen fantasy.
The Sound of #Sworcery: Q+A With Indie Rocker-Turned-Videogame Composer Jim Guthrie
Amidst a desolate landscape of barely-stimulating apps made with boring train rides in mind, _Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP_ stands as a testament to the amazing potential for seriously expressive videogaming on Apple's iOS platform.
Tobacco Tech: This Startup Wants To Make Smoking Cool Again (Q+A)
The way things are going, what with the economy and health care and cultural taboos and "Obama quitting":http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110208/ts_yblog_theticket/michelle-obama-confirms-president-has-quit-smoking, cigarettes are going to...
Astronomer Stacy McGaugh on a Universe Without Dark Matter
*"This is Galileo-type stuff"* In 1934, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky discovered something very amiss in the structure of galaxies. Something was missing. Mass, and lots of it. With the amount of mass that we can observe in a given galaxy, it...
Q+A: Stephen Wolfram Wants To Compute Everything (No, Really, Everything)
_For the past thirty years, Dr Stephen Wolfram, renowned scientist, inventor, and author, has led a series of explorations into the laws of science and mathematics, discovering along the way critical insights into the nature of technology and design...
The Fascination of Old Denim: A Q+A With William Gibson on Marketing, Silicon Valley, And His Earliest Technology Memory
h4. *Above: an animation of William Gibson recounting his earliest memory of technology, by Jennifer Cox and Chris King.* William Gibson is a man who grew up in an Appalachia of the 1950s that was so behind the times it seems like the 1930s when he...