The Sciences
Physics Week in Review: June 14, 2014
Just a reminder for those of you in the Chicago area: I’ll be speaking Monday July 16th, 6 PM, at the Harold Washington Library Center.
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Book Review: Virtual Unreality
Books and recommendations from Scientific American
Health
World Cup to Debut Mind-Controlled Robotic Suit
Scientific American speaks with the scientist behind an innovation that will enable a paralyzed person to walk and “feel” it
Google Invests Billions on Satellites to Expand Internet Access
The company's plan to buy 180 small, high-capacity satellites complements its other ventures to expand Internet access to remote and underserved areas
Technology
Google Gives the Internet Amnesia in Europe
One of the Internet's greatest assets is also perhaps its biggest curse—it never forgets. Except in the European Union, where a court last month ruled that people have the right to have certain sensitive information about themselves deleted from Google search results...
A Phone That Lies for You: An Android Hack Allows Users to Put Decoy Data on a Smartphone
An Android hack allows users to put decoy data on a smartphone
New Tanning Bed Rules Link Lamps to Cancer
FDA action will put new warnings on the devices, regulate them like other machines that emit radiation
What Would Make You Buy a Smartwatch?
Brilliant crowdsourced ideas that just might make these new tech accessories worth it
Wearable Tech Helps You Live in the Moment
Next-generation wearables promise to deliver real-time information that could benefit our health and the environment
The Case against Smartwatches
You can now control your phone from your wrist. But why would you ever want to?
Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists: A Trove of Billions of Tweets Will Be a Research Boon and An Ethical Dilemma
A trove of billions of tweets will be a research boon and an ethical dilemma
Technology
How to Photograph an Emerging Mosquito
Here is a powerful method to photograph the world’s most dangerous animal in an unusual moment of vulnerability. But first, a digression into mosquito biology.
Technology
Can Machines Produce Art that Moves Us?
This happens more often than you’d think: You tell someone you are an illustrator. They ask you a few questions and then get to what’s really on their mind: “So, do you do all your work on the computer or do you draw everything by hand?” When you respond that you do some (or all) [...]..
Quantify Thyself, Know Thyself
Humans are gradually becoming cyborgs—and that’s a good thing
Mind & Brain
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) [...]..
Designing Cameras That Work Like Eyes
To improve photography, engineers are designing cameras that behave more like eyes
Technology
A Look under the Hood of Online Data Visualization
Andy Kirk (of Visualising Data) recently published a clever image-driven post in which he uses automobiles to make a series of points about the practice of data visualization.
Environment
Fight over Solar Power Returns to White House Roof [Video]
The sunshine that warms Washington, D.C. is once again generating electricity for the White House. After an absence of nearly 30 years, the Obama administration has announced that a 6.3..
Technology
Developing Countries Still Far From Closing Digital Divide
The United States is not the greatest country in the world, at least when it comes to information and communication technology. Last month, the World Economic Forum released its 13th annual Global Information Technology Report, which ranks the nations of the world by their "networked readiness" - that is, how much each country can use [...]..
Technology
Annalee Newitz: Where did io9 get its name?
Today is Annalee Newitz‘s birthday (well, it’s still today in the most relevant time zone – uh, hers not mine). Annalee has been writing about the intersection of science and technology and culture for many years...
