Each week, Motherboard turns back to examine its recent history.
- Boy howdy, did we learn a bunch of stuff about hurricanes this week. And we didn’t even have to kill anybody for whiskey either. Like, all about how hurricanes are modeled and predicted; what happens to cell service during an emergency (and how you can stay in touch); that Wall Street goons gamble on hurricanes; and some neat stuff you should have on hand to make the most of your storm surged neighborhood.
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- And here we are: alive and quickly drying off. Now we can worry about perishing at the hands of immortality. Wut?
- Farewell, Steve Jobs. Be well.
- A new study posits that warm weather facilitates war. Some sewer-lurker calls us “envrionazis.”
- Hey Google, a lil fiber over here, please. Kthx.
- We dipped into some serious Back To the Future trivia. Eric Stoltz could have totally pulled off a good Marty McFly.
- We learned all about Ghostery, a plug-in — that you should be downloading right now — that lets you know just who is watching you on the web.
- Anyone else remember that earthquake? Didn’t think so.
- Erin lays it all down on how to look good on Facebook. Hint: hide your babies.
- We were fairly creeped-out by the YouTube phenomenon of kids choking themselves. And then had to fight really hard not to try it ourselves.