Category Archives: Editor’s Desk

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Digital Dark Age

“On this ‘ episode of On the Media, we’re engaging in some chillingly informed speculation: what would happen if we,...

Spot The Space Station (ISS)

Three ways to learn about ISS: iss.astroviewer.net NASA’s Spot The Station service Heavens-Above (Sunnyvale, CA) “See the International Space Station ! As the third...

Swimming in data

An interesting article in Time‘s July 6–13, 2015 issue: The Old Answer to Humanity’s Newest Problem: Data “When humans first evolved, food was scarce;...

The real voice of Siri

Sometimes it’s hard to appreciate that the countless electronic voices we hear, from the prompt at the self-checkout to the disembodied tone coming from...