Printer-friendly versionClimate Change: What You Need To Know
From the C5 to the Segway, technological history is littered with the wrecks of products, created with great effort and ingenuity, that were simply not what the consumer needed. Are climate change predictions doomed to the same fate? Are the...
Mapping Meaning
Maps are all about what you choose to display, and what you leave out. Street maps are more useful than satellite photographs if you want to find your way around a city, while you want much more information about the steepness of a slope if you...
A New Age for the Oldest Science
For millennia, astronomy meant looking at the night sky and sketching what you saw. In this way the first star maps were made, with the relative brightnesses of stars estimated by eye and the routes of the wandering planets traced against the...
Trust me, I’m a computer
Nostalgics will speak wistfully of the days when people could go out for the day without needing to lock their doors. A cynic might respond that this only worked when people didn’t have anything worth stealing. They would both have a point...
Scanning the Boundaries
Medical imaging – MR scans, CT scans and so on – is incredibly valuable to doctors trying to treat serious illnesses, from cancer to strokes. It also enables medical researchers to understand the inner workings of our bodies in much...