Venkat Srinivasan is a writer based in San Francisco.
The Internet Archive--Bricks and Mortar Version
Its 25 petabytes of data make it one of the largest repositories in cyberspace—but the archive's physical home in an old San Francisco church has become a popular public gathering place
In Search of Mud to Save San Francisco Bay
To restore the region's salt marshes, scientists and engineers need to get their hands on huge quantities of the messy stuff
Are the Constants of Physics Constant?
So far, they seem to be—but nobody really understands why
Internet Addiction: Real or Virtual Reality?
In 1995, Ivan Goldberg, a New York psychiatrist, published one of the first diagnostic tests for Internet Addiction Disorder. The criteria appeared on psycom.net, a psychiatry bulletin board, and began with an air of earnest authenticity: "A maladaptive pattern of Internet use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as manifested by three (or more) [...]