Why Can't America Have Great Trains?
Why Amtrak remains a model of mediocrity, and why Washington seems to want it to stay that way even as the country's infrastructure falls apart.
April 20, 2015 at 08:18AM
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What links the global Internet? Wires inside tubes no bigger than a garden hose.
With cell phone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth almost everywhere, it sometime seems like we’ve finally ditched the cumbersome cords that tethering us and our gadgets down to earth. But in reality, we live in a world that’s more wired than ever before — it's just that those wires are strung along the bottom of the world’s oceans.
April 20, 2015 at 06:16AM
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Welcome To Anti Social Media Week
What does it mean to be happy? How do we become happy? Does happiness even really exist? Looking to science, philosophy, religion, technology, and just about everything else, we've found tips, tricks, and hacks that make us happy, or at least happy-ish.
April 20, 2015 at 04:30AM
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Who Doesn't Want to Live Forever? The Cult of Singularity
While the Fountain of Youth is generally ascribed to the conquistador Juan Ponce de León — located in Florida, perhaps, or the Bahamas, or the Yucatan — the legend itself is far older. The seeking of eternal youth is as old as literature itself: Herodotus wrote of it; Gilgamesh nearly had it until his fateful nap.Truth is, searching for the ability to live forever is probably much older than our texts reveal.
April 20, 2015 at 03:33AM
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50 Years On, Moore’s Law Still Pushes Tech to Double Down
On April 19, 1965, the 36-year-old head of R&D at seminal Silicon Valley firm Fairchild Semiconductor published a prediction in a trade magazine, "Electronics." The researcher claimed that the number of components — that is, transistors — on a single computer chip would continue to double every year, while the cost per chip would remain constant.
April 20, 2015 at 02:15AM
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Norway Will Be the First Country to Turn Off FM Radio in 2017
Norway’s Minister of Culture announced this week that a national FM-radio switch off will commence in 2017, allowing the country to complete its transition over to digital radio. It’s the end of an era.
April 19, 2015 at 07:37PM
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Why the Genius Founders Turned to Couples Therapy
Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman, two founders of Genius.com, started therapy last year. They met as freshmen at Yale, and now work together, go to yoga together, and sometimes vacation together. And they fight together.
April 18, 2015 at 09:10AM
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The Political Economy of Trapflix: Making Hood Movies For The Hood
At SXSW this year Snoop Dogg introduced Trap Flix. According to tweets in Twitter hashtag (#Trapflix), Trap Flix is a “new movie app better than Netflix.” I was instantly invested in Snoop’s investment. What does it mean for self-made urban movies to be distributed online for a subscriber base? I DO NOT KNOW BUT I WANT TO KNOW! And thus my obsession with Trap Flix begins.
April 17, 2015 at 11:10AM
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The Teen Who Wants To Build A Safer Gun
Every 30 minutes, a child is injured or killed by a firearm in the United States. That's why 18 year-old inventor, Kai Kloepfer, developed a handgun with a built-in fingerprint reader that only fires when the owner is holding it. But is it enough to help change America's gun culture?
April 17, 2015 at 08:35AM
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Hacking Our Cells to Produce Solar Power Could Make Humans Heal Faster
Much like a gas-powered car, the human body relies on carbon-based fuels for energy. But for automobile engines and our cellular engines alike, burning carbon has intrinsic inefficiencies.
April 17, 2015 at 12:51AM
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