The Atlantic: Technology

Google If driverless cars deliver on their promise to eliminate the vast majority of fatal traffic accidents, the technology will rank among the most transformative public-health initiatives in human history.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

From my Cirrus pilots’ bulletin board, this delightful video, from professional pilot and flight instructor Caitlin Farley, of an approach to the Mountain Air airport in North Carolina in a Cirrus SR-22, the same kind of airplane I fly.

It seemed straight out of the evil-tech-company playbook.

In the mid-1970s, my parents fled the New Jersey suburbs to build a house in rural New Hampshire, where my mother tended a large vegetable and herb garden. The growing season in New Hampshire is spectacularly short—sometimes only eight weeks—but my mother tried to take full advantage of it, growing dill, thyme, sage, mint, rosemary, and at least six varieties of basil, as well as tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, squash, beans, peas, peppers, broccoli, chard, and zucchini.

If you could cut out a colorful rectangle out of the Internet and hang it on your wall, what would it look like? That’s the question raised by Electric Objects, a high-definition, web-connected screen that was designed to bring digital art into people’s homes for display.

It was scorching in Oregon this summer. So hot the autumn pumpkins ripened early. Which meant the brewers at Rogue, best known for Dead Guy Ale, found themselves picking pumpkins five weeks ahead of schedule and concocting their annual pumpkin-flavored beer long before the dog days slipped away.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It was scorching in Oregon this summer. So hot the autumn pumpkins ripened early. Which meant the brewers at Rogue, best known for Dead Guy Ale, found themselves picking pumpkins five weeks ahead of schedule and concocting their annual pumpkin-flavored beer long before the dog days slipped away.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The first thing to know about moonquakes is this: They last forever. While most earthquakes are over in under a minute, moonquakes can last for an afternoon. In the 1970s, at least one 5.5-magnitude moonquake shook the lunar surface at full force for more than 10 minutes straight, then tapered off gradually over the course of several hours.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says his visit over the weekend to Iran’s Parchin military site is “significant progress” in the organization’s investigation of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities.  But Yukiya Amano, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, also noted that environmental samples taken at Parchin were collected by Iranian officials before the IAEA’s visit.

Well, that happened fast. After 36 hours as the No. 1 paid app in the App store, the programmer Marco Arment is pulling his ad-blocker, Peace, from the market. “Even though I’m ‘winning,’ I’ve enjoyed none of it,” Arment wrote in a blog post on Friday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share