Flirting, Back Rubs, Meat Gifts: How Animals Do Valentine's Day
Think Valentine's Day is stressful? Just look at the animal kingdom.
Articles by Martin Connelly
A Little Lesson in Knowledge, Courtesy of an Island that Disappeared (If It Ever Even Existed)
Can a place be "undiscovered"? Wrap your brain around this: for the past few days geographers, Internet speculators and conspiracy theorists have been making much ado about a place that scientists exists according to Google, even if scientists who ha…
A Little Lesson in Knowing Things, Courtesy of an Island that Disappeared (If It Ever Even Existed)
Has the mystery of Sandy Island really been "solved"?
On China's Internet You Can Insult the Government All You Want (Just Don't Talk About the Censors)
Some insight into the methodology of Beijing’s bustling online whac-a-mole.
Abraham Lincoln Was an Internet Nerd
Abraham Lincoln did "not":http://natestpierre.me/2012/05/10/hoax-abraham-lincoln-invented-facebook/ invent Facebook. But he did rely on the Internet to win the Civil War. Just ask Tom Wheeler, a civil war historian who also happens to be the Presiden…
iPads Are Much Nicer To Make Than iPhones
Last September, Foxconn assembly line worker Li Qi (not his real name) moved from the iPad unit to iDPBG, where iPhones get put together. It was a temporary thing, just ahead of the Christmas rush, but he was excited. The move, reports the "First…
The Pleasure of Looking Down on Earth
For a short moment last November, the web was totally, complete obsessed with one unlikely thing: a series of curiously anonymous satellite images. Jesus Diaz, over at Gizmodo, broke the story last November, asking, ""Why Is China Building These Giga…
What You Are Not Allowed to Do in Space
Before he returned to Earth on the Space Shuttle for the last time, Andrew Feustel got something stuck in his eye. On earth, a couple tears would have solved the problem--unlike Chuck Norris, astronauts can apparently shed tears--but the thing is, in…
A Soft-Core Apple Retrospective
There's something very innocent about this video. Maybe it's the bed sheet backdrop or the ragtime soundtrack, but it seems very wholesome. And it's really cool to watch the development of a product I use every day of the week. It is also, how…
Propaganda Posters For the Social Network War
You may have heard that we're in the midst of a war. A war between superpowers hellbent on global domination. A war in which you, my friend, must play your part, take sides, and once there, share as many links as you can. And don't even think of aski…
