I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're in need of some relaxing sounds, a meditative moment, or a chill work soundtrac | Continue reading
In order to create the illusion of motion, tattoo artists are creating tattoos with large green areas to use them as green screens | Continue reading
Watch, listen, and learn as pianist and composer Nahre Sol plays what you might think of as a very simple song, Happy Birthday, | Continue reading
In an expanded version of his NY Times' piece Why Can't Everyone Get A's?, Alfie Kohn asks Can Everyone Be Excellent? In the piece | Continue reading
As you should know by now, I am a sucker for 19th century infographics. This "compendious chart" from the Library of C | Continue reading
The NY Times convened a group of curators and artists to decide on a list of the 25 artworks made since 1970 "that define the | Continue reading
Illustrator Andrew DeGraff makes what he calls Cinemaps, maps of movies and their plots in the style of the dotted-line wanderings | Continue reading
A team of researchers at the Laboratory for NeuroImaging of Coma and Consciousness have done an ultra-high resolution MRI scan o | Continue reading
Taking advantage of inexpensive and easy-to-use software, deepfake artist Ctrl Shift Face has replaced Jack Nicholson's face wit | Continue reading
During the course of his television career, Bob Ross painted more than 1000 paintings. But you never see them for sale. You can | Continue reading
Krazy Kat is a legendary comic strip by cartoonist George Herriman. It was published from 1913 to 1944. This means that some of | Continue reading
It's pretty well-known now that the US Women's National Team for soccer is wildly underpaid, particularly relative to their male | Continue reading
In the early 1990s, there was a mini-boom of films made by black filmmakers. Spike Lee and John Singleton led the way, but there | Continue reading
The Downtown Collective is a project by illustrator Kelli Ercolano in which she is drawing & painting all of the NYC cafes | Continue reading
Olga Khazan on The Reason Anxious People Often Have Allergies:"There is good circumstantial evidence that's growing that a | Continue reading
B-box is a beehive designed for use in close proximity to humans, like near your house or in an urban environment. It does this by | Continue reading
The folks behind the Nevertheless podcast commissioned a set of seven posters of STEM role models, people who have made signif | Continue reading
Using temperature data from around the world, climate scientist Ed Hawkins has built a tool for viewing the "climate stripes& | Continue reading
From National Geographic comes The Atlas of Moons, an interactive reference to all of the major moons in our solar system, from | Continue reading
The Undefeated has complied a list of some of the most influential black Americans -- 44 African Americans Who Shook Up the Worl | Continue reading
One of the world's great art masterpieces is Katsushika Hokusai's woodblock print Kanagawa oki nami ura, popularly known as | Continue reading
Late last month, US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and climate activist Greta Thunberg had a lengthy conversation over v | Continue reading
Photo Requests from Solitary is a project that takes photo requests from prisoners being held in solitary confinement and invites | Continue reading
M. Sophia Newman writing for Literary Hub: So, Gutenberg Didn't Actually Invent the Printing Press.It is important to recogniz | Continue reading
This is an older clip so maybe you've seen it before, but if you need something a little bit fun & joyful today, you can't d | Continue reading
The Simpsons has never exactly portrayed its characters in a flattering light, but this version of the show's title sequence rei | Continue reading
Women in Rock & Roll's First Wave is a project by Leah Branstetter that uncovers and highlights the women who pioneered rock & | Continue reading
This is a fascinating & provocative article from law professor Gregory Shill: Americans Shouldn't Have to Drive, but the Law I | Continue reading
In the latest episode of Earworm, Estelle Caswell and Jacob Collier break down Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke, in which he pays tribut | Continue reading
I bet this resonates with more than a few of you.I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought ther | Continue reading
According this video by Kurzgesagt (and their extensive list of sources), the answer to that question for now is: no, our electron | Continue reading
Japanese public broadcaster NHK has produced a four-part documentary on legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki called 10 Years with Hay | Continue reading
This is a short video of a set of subway stairs in Brooklyn where one of the steps is juuuust a bit taller than the rest, which ma | Continue reading
David Remnick recently interviewed Robert Caro and if you've read Caro's book, Working, or the New Yorker article based on the boo | Continue reading
Hoi Toider is a dialect spoken by long-time residents of Ocracoke, North Carolina. It sometimes sounds more Australian, Scottish, | Continue reading
Today, July 2, 2019, just after 4:30pm ET, a total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Chile and Argentina. Because most of | Continue reading
My kids are lucky enough to be at sleep-away summer camp this year. It's their fourth year, and I was a little skeptical about t | Continue reading
Listen in as "Gong Master Sven" plays a gong that's 7 feet across. (No seriously, listen...it's wild. Headphones recomme | Continue reading
The high temperature on Saturday in Guadalajara, Mexico was 86 °F. On Sunday morning, up to three feet of hail fell on the | Continue reading
The Shawshank Redemption came out in 1994. Although crime rates had already started falling across the country, the media (with sh | Continue reading
In 1587, Urbano Monte made the largest known early map of Earth. The map consists of 60 panels that were meant to be assembled i | Continue reading
Mark Rober built a rock skipping robot and by adjusting a bunch of different parameters, he figured out the best way to skip roc | Continue reading
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Deniss Metsavas served for many years with the Estonian Defense Forces and was, at the same | Continue reading
I keep track of every media thing I "consume", so here are quick reviews of some things I've read, seen, heard, and expe | Continue reading
The first is by John Gruber at Daring Fireball:Ive is, to state the obvious, preternaturally talented. But in the post-Jobs era, | Continue reading
Biology is one field I don't know supremely well, having had a couple of college courses and then mostly just public television | Continue reading
Dan Nosowitz digs into the genealogies of bagel-making to find and define the true (i.e., disputed) origin of the everything bag | Continue reading
From the Flow State newsletter -- "every weekday, we send out two hours of music that's perfect for working" -- comes a | Continue reading