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Trump signed 90 executive actions in his first 100 days — here’s what each one does

I tracked every executive order, memoranda, and proclamation President Donald Trump signed in his first 100 days in office and explained what each one did. Read the full story here »

August 21, 2020 in Business Insider, Tech Insider.

What Buzz Aldrin was thinking when he left the moon

I got to interview Buzz Aldrin, and asked him what he was thinking when he left the moon. He started singing me a song. “‘Oh man, I wanna go home,’” he sang. “Now that’s not the right tune. ‘I wanna go home.’” Read the full story »

August 21, 2020 in Business Insider, Tech Insider.

I starred in a video that got more than 50 million Facebook views in 24 hours

The follow-up video did pretty well, too:

August 21, 2020 in Business Insider, Tech Insider.

Finding the iron in your fortified breakfast cereals on Facebook Live

I did a science experiment on the internet for Tech Insider. Check out the full video:

April 20, 2016 in Tech Insider, Uncategorized.

Scientists in the 60s wanted to power fake hearts with plutonium

Back in the 1960s, government scientists thought it was a good idea to make artificial hearts powered by the radioactive element plutonium-238. This isotope of plutonium is the same one that NASA has used to power its space instruments — all the way from the experiments for the Apollo missions to Pluto’s probe, New Horizons.…

November 30, 2015 in Clips, Tech Insider.

One sentence sums up all the science on how to eat healthy

Diet crazes come and go, but the science of how to eat healthy hasn’t actually changed that much in recent years. We hear a lot of conflicting advice on whether the latest diet is better than the last, yet there’s at least one sentence that nutrition experts agree on. It’s from the scientific report of…

November 30, 2015 in Clips, Tech Insider.

A crazy landslide that ripped up a California road is puzzling geologists

A landslide just outside of Los Angeles caused Vasquez Canyon Road to buckle and break last week. By the time the land stopped shifting, the road looked more like a rollercoaster. READ MORE

November 30, 2015 in Clips, Tech Insider.

First-ever cyborg roses can change color with the flick of a switch

Cyborg roses could become the first “smart” plant. Scientists at Linköping University in Sweden created the first electronic rose in a lab, theyreported Nov. 20 in the journal Science Advances. This technology could create plants that light up to signal what they need, though the researchers admit that’s a bit far off. READ MORE

November 30, 2015 in Clips, Tech Insider.

This scientific chart is a gorgeous alternative to a wall calendar

Paper calendars were due for an update. The Hungarian design studio Anagraphic has created a beautiful way to visualize all of the celestial information that the traditional boxes just can’t accommodate. Ok, so it’s not as simple as your average wall calendar. But this year’s version — a new take on the first one made in 2009…

November 30, 2015 in Clips, Tech Insider.

The Ebola crisis exposed a problem much scarier than Ebola

The Ebola outbreak that infected 28,000 people, killed 11,000, andis not quite over today has been devastating, but it also revealed something troubling: The global health system is broken. By the time the world responded to the Ebola crisis, it was too late to contain it, and thousands of deaths occurred that experts say could…

November 30, 2015 in Clips, Tech Insider.

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