Oh my, this medieval town generator tool is super fun to play around with. By adjusting parameters like size, color palette, bui | Continue reading
Werner Herzog's latest film is called Meeting Gorbachev, in which he sits down with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for a | Continue reading
For his photo series The Pillar (which is also a book), Stephen Gill set up a camera next to a post near his home in Sweden and se | Continue reading
Centuries of Sound is a podcast that creates mixtapes by year. So far, that's pretty standard. The main difference is that CoS's | Continue reading
I recently had to put my Amazon newsletter, The Amazon Chronicles, on a two-month hiatus because I'm going to have surgery to repl | Continue reading
Strictly speaking, there are plenty of live recordings of Iggy Pop playing with The Stooges. They're just all bootlegs. And most | Continue reading
Asif Kapadia, the director of Senna and Amy, has directed a documentary film about footballer Diego Maradona, one of the best to | Continue reading
Wyatt Knox is a former rally car driver and driving instructor at Team O'Neil Rally School and in this video, he shows us some o | Continue reading
Back in 2014, a design studio called Neue won a national competition to redesign the Norwegian passport. What they came up with is | Continue reading
One of the places where Chance the Rapper got his start was at YOUmedia, a youth center at the Harold Washington Library in down | Continue reading
According to a poll conducted by NPR/Ipsos, over 80% of American parents want climate change to be taught in our schools, but only | Continue reading
For more than 50 years, students at the Nippon Sport Science University in Japan have practiced shuudan koudou, which translates a | Continue reading
In this short video essay, David Attenborough succinctly describes the main problem of the anthropocene (that modern humans are | Continue reading
In this short clip from 1983, legendary computer scientist Grace Hopper uses a short length of wire to explain what a nanosecond i | Continue reading
Kaija Straumanis took a series of portraits of herself being hit in the face with all sorts of different objects, from a dodgeball | Continue reading
At the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Dr. Joanne Chory is working on a project to create plants capable of storing more ca | Continue reading
Japanese illustrator Takumi made these illustrations of characters from Avengers: Endgame in the style of Ukiyo-e prints. As Joh | Continue reading
Ilia Blinderman of The Pudding has written a pair of essays about how to make data-driven visual essays. Part 1 covers working wit | Continue reading
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of Alien, 20th Century Fox commissioned six fan-made short films that continue th | Continue reading
In the latest episode of Earworm, Estelle Caswell notes that the length of a pop single was rarely more than 3m30s because you c | Continue reading
The canals, the sewers, the buildings, the bridges and the rest of the Venice's infrastructure has all been engineered to deal wit | Continue reading
German photographer Michael Wolf, who documented life in our densest cities, has died at the age of 64.Though seldom commented o | Continue reading
From a 2005 post by Michael Barrish:In 1988 Laura and I created a three-stage model of what we called "living process." | Continue reading
A clip from 1985 of James Burke talking about how microchips will change politics by making it possible for everyone's opinion abo | Continue reading
Birds play an outsized role in most cultures' collective imaginations, which makes sense; they're our near neighbors, yet retain | Continue reading
For monks, concentration wasn't just a practical necessity, but a spiritual discipline. Consequently, they spent a lot of time t | Continue reading
Five Books is a pretty cool website I'd never heard of before; it's a recommendations website, anchored by interviews with exper | Continue reading
A few months ago I noticed that several friends (who speak English and aren't deaf) routinely watch TV and movies with closed ca | Continue reading
In 2017, BuzzFeed's Publisher Dao Nguyen did a TED Talk about how the company thinks about producing content.In it, she introd | Continue reading
In 2002, Fred Rogers gave the commencement address at Dartmouth College, where he attended school as a freshman before transferrin | Continue reading
Painter Matthew Betancourt paints these miniature works of art inside the covers of Altoids tins. Aside from the playfulness a | Continue reading
In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky gave a short summary of how the modern Republican Party coalition between the rich and the rel | Continue reading
Sometime in the early 15th century, an Italian engineer and inventor Johannes de Fontana produced a sketchbook that would later be | Continue reading
As part of their show Earth From Space, the BBC Earth team shows the coordinated movements of thousands of Shaolin Kung Fu train | Continue reading
Before his death in 2016, Prince had begun work on a memoir about his wonderfully creative life. The Beautiful Ones, due out in | Continue reading
This short film by Joris Debeij features Jordan Kamnitzer talking about his experience as someone who is on the autism spectrum. | Continue reading
In a Q&A with the NY Times back in October, George R.R. Martin connected the goings-on in Westeros with the challenges raised | Continue reading
With its recent use by the participants in the Extinction Rebellion, the extinction symbol has become much more widely known, on | Continue reading
From the BBC and hosted by David Attenborough, "Climate Change: The Facts" is an hour-long program on the science of c | Continue reading
Ethical.net has compiled a list of resources for "discovering ethical alternatives to stuff". Their list includes web br | Continue reading
For almost as long as we've had civilization, people have been making data visualizations.1 The availability of paper and screens | Continue reading
This short piece in the London Review of Books about pigeons is fascinating. I learned many new things about pigeons and now hold | Continue reading
Monocle has produced a pair of videos about what Finland's fleet of icebreakers do and what daily life is like for the crew. | Continue reading
As part of their recent announcement of a new web design system for US government websites, the General Services Administration | Continue reading
I love these colorful pixelated exteriors by Italian artist Alberonero. These are going on the mood board for my theoretical f | Continue reading
Since 1999, Mary Ellen Matthews has been the official photographer of SNL. For each show, Matthews captures a stylized portrai | Continue reading
Over the past three years, a number of restaurants across the geographic and economic spectrum of America have experimented with e | Continue reading