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Science & Tech
Science & Tech
The Most Radioactive Place in New York City
The story behind a radioactive site in Queens that may become New York City's next Superfund site.
Science & Tech
Deep Cave Explorations
Burkhard Bilger writes about the ongoing effort to explore what may be the deepest cave in the world, located in Mexico. It’s “a kind of Everest expedition turned upside down,” he observes.
Science & Tech
Aereo’s Tiny Antennas
The controversial online television company's tiny, individual antennas are as much a legal innovation as a technical one.
Culture
Self-Driving Moments
Anthony Levandowski, an engineer at Google X, heads up the development of the self-driving car. Here are some moments from the history of the driverless vehicle.
Culture
Cheese Powder: A Brief History
“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t,” writes Michael Pollan in his book “Food Rules, an Eater’s Manual.” Few foods violate this edict more flagrantly than cheese powder, which seems supernatural both in form and in color.
Culture
Is Technology Good for Culture? (Edited)
At The New Yorker Festival 2013, Jonathan Franzen and Clay Shirky speak with Henry Finder.
Culture
Is Technology Good for Culture? (Full)
At The New Yorker Festival 2013, Jonathan Franzen and Clay Shirky speak with Henry Finder.
Culture
The Phone That Could Not Be Killed
Released in 2000, the Nokia 3310 is what people picture when they think of mobile phones before they were smart.
Culture
The “Truman Show” Delusion
What if "The Truman Show" were your life? That's the delusion one psychiatrist observed in patients at Bellevue Hospital, in New York. As cameras and technology continue to encroach on us, will this disorder, and others like it, become more common?
Culture
Puffed: The Magic of Cereal
Breakfast cereal—typically made of puffed, extruded, or flaked grains—is a quintessentially American invention. Here, Dave Arnold and the Museum of Food and Drink team demonstrate the puffing gun, which débuted at the 1904 World's Fair, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Culture
The long, circular history of loops
The repeating animated videos known as GIFs are a relatively recent phenomenon—and Vines, the six-second clips, an even more recent one—but the video loop has been around since the birth of cinema.
Culture
Richard Dawkins Talks with Henry Finder
At the 2011 New Yorker Festival: In a special family event, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins talks with Henry Finder about faith-based education, the evolution of morality, and what life might be like on other planets.
Culture
This Is “Your Brain on the Internet,” on the Internet
At the 2010 New Yorker Festival, Daniel Zalewski moderates a discussion of "Your Brain on the Internet," with Jaron Lanier, Nicholson Baker, Jonah Lehrer, and Elizabeth Phelps
Culture
How to Live When You're Going to Die
Atul Gawande talks about death at the 2010 New Yorker Festival.