The Bit Player is a documentary film about Claude Shannon, the underrated "Father of Information Theory", whose work, | Continue reading
I am here for any metaphor linking the internet and Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem trilogy. Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickle | Continue reading
It turns out that the fourth track off of Philip Glass' soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi matches up pretty well to the dancers in this | Continue reading
An 1119-page collection of papers known as the Codex Atlanticus has been completely digitized and put online to explore. The | Continue reading
An intriguing insight from Khoi Vinh in his short review of the third John Wick movie:This is what usually happens: a film creat | Continue reading
In 1960, David Latimer put some compost, water, and plant seeds into a large glass jar and sealed it up. And it's been growing lik | Continue reading
The Downton Abbey movie is nearly upon us (it's out in Sept) and the first full-length trailer is here. The action picks up a co | Continue reading
Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of classic logos from American airlines, from the big ones (Delta, United) to small regional ai | Continue reading
Remember trials rider Danny MacAskill, who I've been covering on kottke.org for over ten years somehow?! In his newest video, he | Continue reading
Liberty Crumbling is sand sculptor Damon Langlois' version of the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, which won f | Continue reading
Meet Vincent LeVine. He's the subject of "My Dad, the Facebook Addict", a short documentary by his son Dylan. He start | Continue reading
An exhibition called Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy just opened at the Petersen Automot | Continue reading
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is restoring a painting by Johannes Vermeer after it was "conclusively determined" | Continue reading
If you could somehow fold a piece of paper in half 103 times, the paper would be as thick as the observable universe.Such is t | Continue reading
Many species of migratory birds, like the Canada goose in North America, fly in a v-formation. Scientists have long suspected that | Continue reading
Frans Blok has created an incredibly detailed inverse map of the world, where all the current landmasses have been turned into | Continue reading
John Driscoll is the CEO of a healthcare company called CareCentrix. In an opinion piece in The Guardian, he wrote about the succe | Continue reading
A robot built by a pair of engineering students at MIT can solve a Rubik's Cube in 0.38 seconds (which happens to be 19 minutes an | Continue reading
In this NASA promotional film from 1977, Star Trek star Nichelle Nichols takes a tour of the Johnson Space Center with Apollo 12 a | Continue reading
From Hiroshi Kondo, a mesmerizing short film called Multiverse of the motorbike-jammed streets of Taiwan. Right around the 50 se | Continue reading
24-year-old NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo has led the Milwaukee Bucks to the Eastern Conference Finals this year, but as a c | Continue reading
Diane Munday, an 86-year-old women's rights activist, recalls what illegal abortion had been like in the UK in the 1960s."W | Continue reading
Black Mirror is back for a fifth season on Netflix starting June 5. The season will consist only of three episodes and will star, | Continue reading
Merriam-Webster asked 11 authors how they came up with their single-word book titles. Here's A.S. Byatt talking about Possession: | Continue reading
Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble mission | Continue reading
The author and popular historian David McCullough has a new book out called The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Bro | Continue reading
This drink from Chinese coffee chain Mellower Coffee is called Sweet Little Rain. A puff of cotton candy is suspended over a ste | Continue reading
In the spire of a Swedish church built around the end of the 12th century, eight large rafters (that are in spectacularly good sha | Continue reading
The development of vaccines against infectious diseases is among the greatest of human accomplishments and has saved ten of millio | Continue reading
This past weekend I was in Boston for some cultcha and went to The Museum of Fine Arts. Among several paintings, pastels, and draw | Continue reading
Running From COPS is a new podcast that examines the cultural influence of the long-running TV show COPS. Vox did a short video on | Continue reading
Alex Danco looks at some short-term and long-term trends and concludes that we may be on our way to a future where most of our coo | Continue reading
Rob Walker's new book The Art of Noticing is out now. The book is structured as a series of 131 exercises, and in an interview con | Continue reading
Adam Minter has a new book, Secondhand, about the global trade in secondhand and discarded goods. In an interview, he notes that | Continue reading
Adam and Neil Pearson are identical twins who have neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disorder that affected the two of them quit | Continue reading
Dimensions.Guide is a database containing dozens of dimensioned drawings of objects ranging from Ikea furniture to pandas to wheel | Continue reading
As part of an examination of the potential collapse of our own civilization, Luke Kemp produced this graphic that shows the lifesp | Continue reading
A Chinese company called C-Space has built a simulation of a Mars base in the Gobi desert. Currently used for educational purpos | Continue reading
For the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, a team led by Otl Aicher designed the iconic identity for the event. The guidelines for th | Continue reading
Ever since he was a kid, Cameron Smith has wanted to go into space. This desire persisted into adulthood, and the Portland State | Continue reading
From 1973, this is an animated short film version of the classic children's book The Giving Tree, narrated by author Shel Silver | Continue reading
In a recent Facebook post, President Obama 1 shared a few books that he's been reading recently. At the tippy top is Melinda Ga | Continue reading
In the latest issue of Why is this interesting?, Noah Brier writes about the potential of dockless electric scooters and e-bikes ( | Continue reading
Artist duo Chow and Lin have produced a visual representation of the amount of small fish it takes to produce large farm-raised | Continue reading
In 1965, French-born Polish painter Roman Opalka began work on his series of paintings OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞. Starting in th | Continue reading
Arctic is a new video from the Beauty of Science crew (previously featured here) that reveals the beauty of crystal formation. | Continue reading
For the NY Times, Eric Ravenscraft writes about the limitations of language apps like Duolingo in teaching you how to speak a fore | Continue reading
This is neat: Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca speaking English to Harrison Ford's Han Solo in a scene from Empire Strikes Back:Mayhe | Continue reading