In the aftermath of the fire that ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, two French billionaires stepped in to pledge &eur | Continue reading
Jan Chipchase's Studio D has recently released their latest booklet, The Little Book of Fixers.Fixers and guides are core to the | Continue reading
Nuclear physicists hypothesize that when the cores of neutron stars are subject to enough pressure, the quarks that make up the | Continue reading
Sarah Miller went looking for real estate in Miami, a place where the sea level could rise between one and three feet in the next | Continue reading
With a tweet at 3:20am this morning, Beyoncé announced her latest album, a 40-track live album of her acclaimed 2018 Co | Continue reading
Over the past 20 years, the kind of empathy practiced by many Americans has shifted from a universal empathy -- putting yourself i | Continue reading
Volume 2 of the Halt and Catch Fire soundtrack recently came out and I've been listening to it on repeat ever since @mwichary flag | Continue reading
In the first episode of season two of Earworm, Estelle Caswell explains where the "Explicit Lyrics" sticker found on m | Continue reading
Monotype has introduced a new version of the Helvetica typeface called Helvetica Now.Helvetica Now is a new chapter in the sto | Continue reading
If you had access to the last ripe avocado in the world, what would you do with it? | Continue reading
Brix System is a collection of scaled-up Lego versions of computers, phones, and music machines made out of wood. This is super ne | Continue reading
Have you ever wondered how mapmakers made bird's-eye-view maps before the invention of satellites or even hot air balloons? I have | Continue reading
Game of Thrones made its return to HBO last night and, surprise, someone died! According to this compilation video, over 174,000 p | Continue reading
So, you've probably heard by now that we have our first ever photographs of a black hole and its event horizon. But it's not like | Continue reading
It is what it is, right? That infinite scroll of Lawrence of Arabia desert, only instead of knives and dynamite, the rebels have | Continue reading
Hernando Colón was the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus. He was also one of the great book collectors of 16th century Eu | Continue reading
Vox recently asked a group of writers, advocates, and thinkers about ideas & practices that we accept now that will be unthink | Continue reading
This photograph was taken by Chris Killip in 1983 in the British coastal village of Skinningrove. According to Killip, it shows | Continue reading
Eggs are an extremely versatile food. They taste great alone, make super sauces (including the much maligned mayonnaise, which I | Continue reading
Jenny Holzer, in the collection at MoMA. | Continue reading
I really like these portraits by artist, illustrator and conceptual designer Linsey Levendall.Like I said last week, I am a | Continue reading
Perhaps you saw The Lobster (stunning and strange dystopian love story starring Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell) or my recent Osc | Continue reading
Ignore the m-word and read Sally Rooney: How Should a Millennial Be?As a portrait of young people today, Rooney's books are rema | Continue reading
In one of his recent media diet* posts, Jason mentioned Russian Doll. Russian Doll. Groundhog Day adjacent. Natasha Lyonne is me | Continue reading
Photographer Kwame Brathwaite is best known for his images of black superstars in the 1970s (Muhammad Ali training for the Rumb | Continue reading
Eva Hagberg Fisher's piece on the nuances of dressing for the public scrutiny of fighting sexual harassment has really stuck wit | Continue reading
Ok, this is pretty cool. We have the first photo of a supermassive black hole, from imagery taken two years ago of the elliptica | Continue reading
I'm such a fan of Nellie Bowles. She covers tech for the NY Times, but has essentially created a beat that is the perfect encapsul | Continue reading
Photographer Winnie Au spoke with Buzzfeed about her ongoing Cone of Shame project, which looks to dispel the shame of the cones | Continue reading
Nancy Salzman, co-founder of "sex cult" NXIVM, plead guilty to charges of digitally monitoring members to prevent them f | Continue reading
I was lucky enough to see Marys Seacole last week at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater and immediately regretted not seeing it s | Continue reading
You likely know that the Greek islands are stunning and special, but you may not know that Athens is an incredible city for arch | Continue reading
In this week's New Yorker, Rachel Aviv looks at why it's so hard to go off psychiatric drugs, and why they may often be overprescr | Continue reading
I've spent the last few years fascinated by the Chernobyl disaster. This fascination partly grew out of my interest in the Flint | Continue reading
Even colors have histories, and what vibrant histories they are. French historian Michel Pasteureau's Blue: The History of A Col | Continue reading
I don't know the author or typographer behind The Temporary State. There's a contact address that reads "B. Tulskaya ul. 2- | Continue reading
I don't know the author or typographer behind The Temporary State. There's a contact address that reads "B. Tulskaya ul. 2- | Continue reading
This article reminded me of the powerful story Rebecca Solnit told at Pop-Up Magazine a couple years ago. She presented photos tak | Continue reading
Knock Down The House follows four grassroots female candidates through their mission-driven campaigns to unseat incumbents durin | Continue reading
I am blown away by the story of Luchita Hurtado, an artist whose work since the 40s has remained largely out of public view. She | Continue reading
On the topic of death (a natural part of life we don't often talk about), the website Modern Loss has extensive resources for many | Continue reading
Architect, curator, surfer, knight of the French government, partner, father, son, brother, and dear friend to many, Francois Pe | Continue reading
I occasionally fantasize about ditching my iPhone and all related apps for a flip phone and fewer distractions. In this dream li | Continue reading
It was a long winter in New York, my first back east in years, so many of my posts this week will likely revolve around my (indoor | Continue reading
Ben Burtt was the sound designer for the original Star Wars trilogy and was responsible for coming up with many of the movies' i | Continue reading
Buster Keaton: Anarchitect is a lovely piece of analysis by Will Jennings about how the legendary silent film actor used archite | Continue reading
The New Yorker asked five designers to design book covers for the Mueller Report in the event that it's eventually published. Here | Continue reading
Using found images as his starting point, Kai Samuels-Davis paints portraits & objects in an impressionistic way.I am | Continue reading