"Baba Yetu," the opening theme song from 'Civilization IV,' became the first song to be composed for a video game to win a Grammy at last night's Grammy Awards.

An atemporal history of puffed cereals suggests that the links between food and industry stretch back to the beginnings of civilization. The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.

Living amidst a cornucopia of products that aren't products, we're learning that cultivating our gardens means working together. The final post in a series of chats about the Chrome notebook, with blogger Adam Rothstein.

Ancient fissures left by long-absent water coursing over the Cydonian Plains of Mars? Dessicating petroglyph in Lascaux's trove of Paleolithic cave art? Or paint drying on an old board? Answer after the jump.

Google goes for quiet comprehensiveness; Apple chooses charisma. Which strategy ensures success?

If Jupiter were the moon's distance from Earth, a changed night sky would be the least of our problems.

Adam Rothstein ponders hardware betas, connections between the world and the cloud, and products that aren't products, in the second post reviewing Google's Cr-48 Chrome Notebook.

Adam Rothstein is a blogger, tech thinker, unemployed philosopher�and now, a beta tester of one of the coveted Google Chrome notebook computers. In the first of four posts about the beta experience, Adam finds that the unnanounced arrival of the device makes him feel like a combination of The Matrix's Neo and a Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth.

The Internet doesn't want you to think about it too much, but you never really know what you're looking for. Evoking the presence of 17th-century savant John Dee, Scryberspace cracks open the search experience.

A shameless plug for an upcoming science fiction epic: it will feature narwhals, neural hacking, uncanny wearable computers, and mayhem on the ice. And it will be told in tweets.