Based on a recommendation from *gestures around at almost everyone*, I started and finished Sally Rooney's Normal People in the | Continue reading
At The Paris Review, historian Ted Widmer highlights the work of Emma Willard, pioneering educator and America's first femal | Continue reading
Since her first trip in 1988, UK artist Lucinda Rogers has been traveling to NYC to draw the city and its inhabitants. Roger | Continue reading
Boards of Canada haven't released an album since 2013 so this is a welcome development: a two-hour mixtape by the duo that appears | Continue reading
Google Arts & Culture, with expertise from music video geniuses La Blogothèque, have produced a series of videos th | Continue reading
A few months ago, I posted this video showing the restoration of a Hot Wheels car from 1971. Then today via Open Culture, I ran ac | Continue reading
The NY Times has compiled a list of the best memoirs published since 1969. Here are a few that caught my eye:Persepolis by Mar | Continue reading
From Evan Puschak, this explanation of how art went from almost fully representational painting to abstract impressionism in abo | Continue reading
Saul Bass is one of the most celebrated designers of movie posters and title sequences in the short history of cinema. He create | Continue reading
To celebrate their 50th anniversary, the Sesame Street gang dropped by NPR for one of their Tiny Desk Concerts. They sang the th | Continue reading
Visual engineer Steve Giralt constructs bespoke robotic cameras to capture unusual scenes for TV commercials, many of which featur | Continue reading
Mario Royale (now renamed DMCA Royale to skirt around Nintendo's intellectual property rights) is a battle royale game based on Su | Continue reading
I have long admired the Mississippi River meander maps designed by Army Corps of Engineers cartographer Harold Fisk but have s | Continue reading
From Dina Litovsky, photos of Amish and Mennonite families on their annual Florida getaway. Her photos were recently featured | Continue reading
Five years after The Atlantic published his The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke before a House committee and once aga | Continue reading
We interrupt your regularly scheduled flow of fine hypertext products for a short program note or two. Here's your soundtrack: | Continue reading
In her post about the book The White Cat and the Monk, Maria Popova uses this great phrase, "uncompetitive purposefulness&quo | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Washington and Facebook have developed an algorithm that can "wake up" people depicte | Continue reading
The Cut asked 100 people what drugs they have done and this is what they said.Lots of alcohol, weed, mushrooms, and molly. And | Continue reading
Christopher Nolan will be out with his latest film next year, Tenet. To celebrate, IndieWire has collected a list of 30 films that | Continue reading
Amongst much fine work on his website and Instagram, Manuelo Bececco's photos of forest canopies are my favorites. And did you | Continue reading
To celebrate their 100th episode, The Allusionist podcast shared 100 Things We've Learned About Language from The Allusionist (tra | Continue reading
Remember how last week I told you about Eleanor Lutz's An Atlas of Space?Over the past year and a half I've been working on a co | Continue reading
That's My Jazz is a short documentary by Ben Proudfoot about world class pastry chef Milton Abel II, who reminisces about his | Continue reading
Well, this is just flat-out fantastic. Ben Feist and a team of collaborators have built Apollo 11 In Real Time, an interactive p | Continue reading
It started in mid-April, barely 3 and 1/2 months into the year. To hit expectant readers before Memorial Day with suggestions for | Continue reading
This is gold -- a perfect 30 seconds of entertainment. I have watched this at least 10 times and Pee-Wee rolling around on the g | Continue reading
Charles Fishman has a new book, One Giant Leap, all about NASA's Apollo program to land an astronaut on the moon. He talks about | Continue reading
In Flag Code, Karen Good Marable shares her experience of the American flag growing up and in the wake of the 2016 election. This | Continue reading
As a long-time fan of BERG's Here & There projection map of Manhattan (and Inception), these bendy photos of Russian citys | Continue reading
The National Sound Library of Mexico says they have found the only known audio recording of Frida Kahlo's voice. Take a listen: | Continue reading
This is one of several alphabets assembled by Belgian type designer Clotilde Olyff from stones collected at the beach.Here are | Continue reading
Here is a video of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Kim Jong Un, and other world leaders lip-syncing along to John Lenn | Continue reading
When I saw this photo of Dolly Parton & Keanu Reeves after it went viral earlier this year, I noticed something interesting ab | Continue reading
Brian McMullan is giving names to all of the 3,501 Cheerios in his cereal box and is taking name suggestions on Twitter. (via sa | Continue reading
If you didn't have the opportunity yesterday to watch Jon Stewart's scathing and powerful opening statement before a House subcomm | Continue reading
This fits into the burgeoning category of "this is cool but I wish it weren't necessary": the Columbia Journalism Review | Continue reading
Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society filed a report on humanity's current roster of spacecraft currently exploring the solar | Continue reading
Hubert Horan's broadside of Uber for American Affairs starts out like this and doesn't let up:Since it began operations in 2010, | Continue reading
Tobias Friedrich uses a specialized kit to make these great split shots -- half underwater and half over -- no need for stitching | Continue reading
This is an ad for Volkswagen's I.D. Buzz, a concept car that is slated to enter production in 2022 as the long-awaited new version | Continue reading
Many years ago, Christen O'Brien had a massive pulmonary embolism and it almost killed her. In a Medium post from January, she sha | Continue reading
According to Jonny Greenwood, someone stole Thom Yorke's "minidisk archive" recorded around the time of OK Computer, t | Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote about a Vancouver store offering plastic bags with embarrassing messages on them to encourage customers to use t | Continue reading
French artist and designer Paul Chadeisson has created a series of images of the megacities from Blade Runner, abandoned in some f | Continue reading
It's hard to believe now, but television didn't used to be a 24/7/365 affair. TV stations stopped broadcasting late at night and w | Continue reading
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Google have teamed up on a project to identify the songs of humpbac | Continue reading