These c. 2002 stock photos of people using tech are full of cassette Walkmans, flip phones and PDAs with styluses. Futuristic!

It’s the end of the year, and all those lists are starting to crop up — you know, the ones that count down the best of the year. I started to read one about the top 50 gadgets of the last 50 years, and  [more...]

I was just wondering: if you took every ship out of the oceans — all the freighters, tankers, cruise ships, frigates, carriers, etc. — would the oceans recede at all? Would the water level fall?