Our Cellular Lives

Cell, origin Old English, from Old French celle or Latin cella meaning ‘storeroom or chamber.’ We often lock ourselves up in our cell phones. Earlier this evening after going for a solo run I was walking to the neighborhood taqueria when I bumped into a...

PopulouSCAPE: Global Population Visualization

I saw this on a giant HD flatscreen at the new Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria a couple days ago. It was one of the best visualizations of global data that I’ve ever seen. The experience isn’t one percent as compelling as a YouTube video, but it...

[Video] TauTona Gold Mine

Another video from our bloggers’ trip to South Africa. In March 1886, nearly forty years after the California Gold Rush, legend has it that Australian gold miner George Harrison stumbled across a rocky outcrop of gold in what was then the Zuid Afrikaanse...