Dr. Jay Parkinson, 36, gained notoriety in 2007 when he started his own practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for its influx of arty types and bars. Gawker quickly dubbed him the “Hipster Doctor.” He’s also …
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Why the Online-Education Craze Will Leave Many Students Behind
Free classes from elite colleges like Princeton and Harvard have generated excitement, but they could actually widen the learning gap.
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Google Handwrite Pits Mobile Search Against Your Withered Penmanship
Remember handwriting? It’s back.
Google has rolled out a feature called Handwrite that works with smartphones and tablets through a simple settings tweak – there’s no app that needs to be installed, in other words.
Cruise …
Wait, Apparently the Government Did Create the Internet After All
Yesterday, I wrote about Gordon Crovitz’s bizarre contention, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, that it’s an “urban legend” that the U.S. government created the Internet. (He says that Xerox’s PARC lab deserves the credit.) Other folks have been chiming in–including some who know a lot more about this stuff than I do.
Charles …
How Government Did (and Didn’t) Invent the Internet
Last night, I happened across an article by Slate technology scribe Farhad Manjoo. He was responding to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by the Journal’s former publisher Gordon Crovitz. And when Manjoo explained …
D.I.Y. Smart Glasses Translate Foreign Languages in Real-Time
The universal translator is such a ubiquitous presence on science fiction TV that it’s not surprising that someone would actually try and make one. Engineer Will Powell’s inspiration, however, wasn’t Star Trek or Doctor Who; it …
Windows that Generate Electricity from Invisible Light? Is This the Future or What?
Slapping solar panels on your humble abode may not seem like the height of fashionable home design, but what if you could just use your windows to gin up a little juice?
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles …
The Laser Beam 1,000 Times as Powerful as the U.S.
For all the heady talk about the misleadingly “deific,” recently confirmed quantum specks named after a Scottish physicist, another kind of historic event has transpired: in a shot fired on July 5, a record-shattering laser beam …
The Power Grid: From Rickety to Resilient
Blackouts will become more common unless we build a system that can bend but not break.
Mission to Mars: 8 Amazing Tech Tools Aboard NASA’s Curiosity Rover
Everyone’s talking about the $2.5 billion Curiosity rover‘s “terrifying” Hollywood-blockbuster-worthy landing: seven knuckle-in-teeth minutes in early August during which its aeroshell-armored bulk will plummet through Mars’ thin …
Clamshell! The Story of the Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time
How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough?
Listening to its creators doesn’t work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency to promote everything as a brilliant breakthrough. And tech journalists …
TIME Talks to the Physicists Who Found the Higgs
Thousands of scientists from dozens of countries helped find the Higgs boson, but these three took the lead.