October 2017 Discover

October 2017^ DISCOVER^41 The Inka Empire ruled millions without a written language. Keeping records was a knotty situation. BY ...

42 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM TOP: SAM OGDEN, KHIPU GIFT OF PHILIP A. MEANS, DR. ALFRED M. TOZZER & DR. THOM ...

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44 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM SAM OGDEN ancient binary code. Just as computers can encode anything through sequences of 0s and 1s, the ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^45 PHOTO BY SAM OGDEN, KHIPU GIFT OF PHILIP A. MEANS, DR. ALFRED M. TOZZER & DR. THOMAS BARBOUR, PRES ...

46 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM SABINE HYLAND living memories and written documents, which provide clues to deciphering them. And the co ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^47 PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY, PM# 41-52-30/29 ...

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MACROVECTOR/SHUTTERSTOCK. BACKGROUND: NICESCENE/SHUTTERSTOCK THINK LIKE A HACKER BY STEPHEN ORNES CONNECTED DEVICES MAKE OUR LIV ...

50 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM PHOTOS BY T.J. KIRKPATRICK/REDUX; HATS BY MACROVECTOR/SHUTTERSTOCK ONE WINTER MORNING in 2015, as he lef ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^51 ALISON MACKEY/DISCOVER of smart electronic gadgets that interact with the world around them. It includ ...

52 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM MACROVECTOR/SHUTTERSTOCK (3) It’s not just about changing passwords. (See “Protect Yourself,” page 55.) ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^53 FROM LEFT: MIKKO HYPPONEN; ZINGBOX; JAMIE LYTLE email account can simply search for password reset ins ...

54 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM MACROVECTOR/SHUTTERSTOCK hacked the wireless doorbell of Matt, his best friend. Kamkar learned how to ma ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^55 JULIAN BERMAN factory-set passwords. Such an attack would still probably be successful today, he says. ...

THE GREAT TAKEOVER 56 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM TOP: MYRIAH RICHERSON/USGS. OPPOSITE: NOAA T  he first day of June 1988 was sunny, ho ...

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58 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM TOP: KIM SCHWAIGER. BOTTOM: MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES nothing Santavy’s colleague had eve ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^59 ERNIE MASTROIANNI/DISCOVER to attach to, means they can blanket vast swaths of lake bottom inaccessibl ...

60 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM TOP: MEL CLARK PHOTOGRAPHY. BOTTOM: ERNIE MASTROIANNI/DISCOVER When those plants decompose, it burns up ...