This is a photo taken in Germany in 1914 by August Sander:It's called Young Farmers and it depicts three young men on their wa | Continue reading
Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs is one of the finest psychological thrillers ever made. In the episode of the always-ill | Continue reading
Ron and Diana Watson have been eating dinner at the same restaurant in Wichita 6 nights a week for 15 years. It's their only meal | Continue reading
Happy Pi Day! In celebration of this gloriously nerdy event, mathematician Steven Strogatz wrote about how pi was humanity's first | Continue reading
The Chronicle of Higher Education has assembled The New Canon, a list of the most influential books written by academics in the pa | Continue reading
To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus design movement, 99designs challenged their community | Continue reading
Thich Nhat Hanh became a Buddhist monk in Vietnam in 1942 and became known over the next few decades as a teacher and peace activi | Continue reading
Comedian Miel Bredouw packed every single type of interaction you're ever going to have with another human being on a hiking tra | Continue reading
Float is a feature-length documentary film directed by Phil Kibbe about "the ultra-competitive sport of elite, stunningly-d | Continue reading
While exploring the ground underneath the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico, archaeologists found | Continue reading
The drawing above is Pegasus by Jean-Michel Basquiat. His first art dealer, Annina Nosei, once called it "the most beautifu | Continue reading
Photographer Allison Joyce has been in Sri Lanka photographing the women clearing one of the biggest minefields in the world. | Continue reading
The highest score a player can get in Pac-Man is 3,333,360. In a fascinating recent article on the game, Cat DeSpira doesn't tell | Continue reading
At SXSW, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked by an audience member about the economic challenge of a significant perc | Continue reading
Larry Luckham was a manager at a Bell Labs data center in Oakland in the late 60s and early 70s. One day, he captured daily life a | Continue reading
Prompted by a line from a poem by Tracy K. Smith, Sam Anderson writes about the thoughts that come unbidden to our minds during th | Continue reading
This week, music fans were rejoicing. The legendary hip-hop group De La Soul's catalog was finally coming to music streaming ser | Continue reading
There's an idea in media history and media theory called "The Gutenberg Parenthesis." The basic idea of it is simple: | Continue reading
Tupac Shakur and Madonna dated briefly in 1994. According to Tupac's brother Mopreme, the relationship began when Madonna passed | Continue reading
Over a period of 8 years, explorer and photographer Bradford Washburn worked with a small team and National Geographic to produce | Continue reading
We've looked before at maps of Odysseus's travels in The Odyssey (as Jason wrote in 2018, "that dude was LOST"). But i | Continue reading
Last night at dinner, we were talking about our favorite vegetables1 and when my daughter said tomatoes might be her pick, my 11-y | Continue reading
Russell Shorto has a piece in this weekend's NY Times Magazine about two previously undiscovered Rembrandt paintings, the man who | Continue reading
In her new book, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez argues that the data that scientist | Continue reading
Whatever your opinion of the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody,1 you gotta admit the music was pretty great. After all, Mer | Continue reading
Mathieu Stern had an idea. He thought that if you could sculpt a piece of ultra-clear ice into the correct shape, it would functio | Continue reading
The US government created HIV. The CIA killed Kennedy. The KGB deliberately spread disinformation designed to hurt the US and its | Continue reading