Ken Burns 2.0

A Ken Burns iPad app, touchscreen subway maps, swapping sexism and more in our weekly look at the web

As Wired configures, to watch all of history buff and award-winning documentarian Ken Burns’ films would take 136 hours or 5.5 straight days. But thanks to modern technology and the creative team at digital agency Big Spaceship, Burns’ perpetually relevant records are taking new form in a Ken Burns iPad app, which not only allows people to experience his work in new digital form, but …

Scientific Munchies

A Ken Burns iPad app, touchscreen subway maps, swapping sexism and more in our weekly look at the web

Even casual tokers know the drill: puff, puff, pass—the Doritos. As marijuana becomes even more mainstream, an interest in understanding all of its side effects is increasing too, and the latest to undergo a scientific investigation is pot’s curious ability to make users insatiably hungry. Researchers at French agency INSERM have worked with genetically modified mice to play around with CB1 receptors in nerve cells, …

Oldest Known Star Identified

A Ken Burns iPad app, touchscreen subway maps, swapping sexism and more in our weekly look at the web

Formed 13.6 billion years ago, a star now considered to be the oldest known to date was discovered by a team of Australian astronomers led by Dr. Stefan Keller. Its age was figured out by studying its iron content; Keller says, “The telltale sign that the star is so ancient is the complete absence of any detectable level of iron in the spectrum of light …