At the Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal tells how the Christmas tree helped to domesticate the terrifying energies of electricity around the turn of the last century.

James Burke is the Carl Sagan of Serendipity. Now his Connections series, which tells technology's history as a record of sagacious discovery, is available for free viewing. Video after the jump.

The graffiti artist MadC's massive, tour-de-force narrative painting recounts a trip through her own inventive, techno-dystopian mind.

The history of NASA's wearable spacecraft will be visible in a traveling Smithsonian exhibition scheduled to make the rounds this Spring.

The movie that inspired science fiction cinema offers the first making-of pictures in the history of the genre.

In space, no one can hear you munch your popcorn. Video after the jump.

Kinetic art that evokes the march of time and the dance of line.

In a post at the Atlantic today, Jaron Lanier offers to reframe the Wikileaks question. But what he does looks much more like the infamous mission statement of the National Review: to stand athwart history yelling �stop!�

Well into the digital era, paper keeps surprising us with its creative potential.

Are you doing the Boston Typewriter? Perhaps we're lucky that when it comes to marketing, viral video has its limits.