Strait of Hormuz ship bottleneck could fuel invasive species nightmare
The ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the United States’ war with Iran may not only be...
Category : Technology
Information isn’t sterile. It’s stranger than you think.
by Cathy Klein
Excerpted from How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information by Thomas S. Mullaney with permission of W. W. Norton...
Make a plan for your digital photos after you die
by Cathy Klein
It’s not something anyone really wants to think about, but what happens to those thousands of digital photos on...
How do garbage trucks work?
by Cathy Klein
Week after week, like clockwork, your trash seems to vanish into thin air: Set the bin on the curb...
This free AI music detector will scan through your playlists for audio slop
by Cathy Klein
We know that generative AI models are now smart enough to produce images, videos, text, and audio that—most of...
Man builds DIY train station departure board
by Cathy Klein
There’s something oddly calming about gazing up at a train station departure board. Maybe it’s the pixelated glow from...
Man builds homemade X-ray machine
by Cathy Klein
X-ray imaging is best left to the professionals for a good reason. While the tool is not dangerous when...
Airplane seats really are getting smaller
by Cathy Klein
Airplane seats can feel ridiculously small. It’s gotten to the point where I, a small woman of average height,...
Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here’s what that means.
by Cathy Klein
You’d have to be living under a dumpster not to have heard of Jimothy, Seattle’s favorite raccoon and the...
Mars’ desolate desert landscape captured by asteroid-bound NASA spacecraft
by Cathy Klein
NASA’s asteroid-hunting Psyche spacecraft recently needed a little gravitational assist from Mars to keep speeding towards its intended target,...