May 10 The Making of a Memory Master: An Interview with Joshua Foer EmbedVideo(534, 482, 304); While writing an article for Slate on the ancient art of memory, journalist Joshua Foer decided to put his own brain to the test. He launched into a year of mental training and rigorous… Continue reading
May 10 Watch The Making of a Memory Master: Memory Brain Battle Hari challenges journalist Joshua Foer to a shopping list brain battle. Continue watching
May 10 Watch The Making of a Memory Master Hari Sreenivasan interviews Joshua Foer on the culture, art and neuroscience of memory. Continue watching
May 09 Still Taking Your Questions for LIVE Space Interview with Endeavour Crew Update, May 17 - The live interview has been moved up to occur between 6 and 6:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, May 19. With NASA's countdown clocks again ticking down for space shuttle Endeavour's final launch, Google,… Continue reading
May 09 Watch You Talk to Endeavour: Questions for LIVE interview From Space Still Open Keep sending your questions for the upcoming interview with the shuttle crew from space. Continue watching
May 09 The Drudge Report Drives More Top News Traffic than Twitter or Facebook, Study Finds The Drudge Report outranks social media when it comes to driving news traffic to top Web sites, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a comprehensive examination of online traffic… Continue reading
May 06 Sneak Peek at a New Google News? Google is constantly experimenting, and this morning I happened to be one of the lucky random people included in what looks to be an experiment for a potential redesign to the front door of Google News. The lede story… Continue reading
May 06 Picturing Proteins in 3-D University of Arkansas biochemist James Hinton wanted his students to be able to visualize proteins to better understand their structure and function. So he developed a virtual computer program that blows proteins up into three-dimensional images, and allows… Continue reading
May 05 3D Transistors, Fertilizer Runoff and Frappuccino Straws How Intel's 3D Tech Redefines the Transistor (FAQ) Intel* announced today it will base all upcoming processors on 3D, or tri-gate transistors. This marks a move toward computers getting cheaper and faster. But we're waging that not a… Continue reading
May 04 Mississippi River Valley Flood Areas: Before and After Despite some relief after the Army Corps of Engineers this week blasted holes into a Missouri levee to draw down the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, flooding fears continue flowing south. Parts of southeastern Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and… Continue reading