Now that the InSight lander is up and running on Mars, NASA is using the probe's weather instrumentation to provide a daily weathe | Continue reading
In 2012, actor and budding film editor Topher Grace took all three Star Wars prequels and condensed them into an 85-minute movie | Continue reading
A site called The Colors of Motion makes single image timelines of the use of colors in movies. They sample frames at regular inte | Continue reading
As you can see on the US wind map, it's been blustery in New England for the past couple of days. Yesterday the observatory atop M | Continue reading
Last month, I wrote about Colin Morris' flow diagrams that show how people most frequently misspell difficult words. The crew over | Continue reading
Behind the Curve, now available on Netflix, is a 2018 documentary about the global community of people who believe that the Earth | Continue reading
A grawlix is a string of typographic characters that represent obscene language, often found in comics. In this video Phil Edwards | Continue reading
A recent analysis of data collected by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory shows that the Earth's atmosphere is a lo | Continue reading
Economist Mark Perry has updated for 2018 his chart of price changes of selected goods over the past two decades.This graphic | Continue reading
For the NY Times, Matthew Desmond writes about how raising the minimum wage makes a huge difference in people's lives.A $15 mini | Continue reading
I missed this essay when it came out in December, but I'm reading it now, after Lauren M. Jackson (congratulations on the Northw | Continue reading
Tomorrow, February 23, is William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's birthday. Du Bois was born in 1868 and died in 1963. In fact, Du Bo | Continue reading
Pitchfork, the once-insurgent, now-venerable music site known for provoking endless debates with its "Best Of" lists, | Continue reading
With the 1853 arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry on the shores of Japan, the isolationist country was introduced to the United | Continue reading
After a nearly three-year wait, the second season of the excellent Fleabag is coming soon (March 4 in the UK, May 17 in the US on | Continue reading
Popping bubble wrap, sharpening a new pencil, catching a falling glass in the knick of time, waking up before your alarm. Some thi | Continue reading
Amanda Mull on How to Stop Hating Your Least Favorite Food:I've never had a traumatic barf experience with cucumbers, so my aver | Continue reading
Set to air on HBO starting March 3rd, Leaving Neverland is a two-part documentary film about the experiences of two men who were b | Continue reading
Inspired by a Czech project, a team at UC Davis is building an Augmented Reality Sandbox that lets you create & study differen | Continue reading
Topic asked more than a dozen people how they spent sudden windfalls of money. Among those queried were two MacArthur grant winner | Continue reading
Street photographer Patrick Barr has been out photographing NYC since the 1990s. Barr also goes by the name of Tiger Hood (or Na | Continue reading
Maybe you've heard the term "intersectionality" used on social media -- in the context of feminism or racism -- and you | Continue reading
Grad student Martin Jan Månsson has created this incredibly detailed map of trade route networks in Europe, Asia, an | Continue reading
We're living in an age of unprecedented connectedness, but more and more people report being lonely on a regular basis. Like our a | Continue reading
I've been keeping track of every media thing I "consume", so here are quick reviews of some things I've read, seen, hear | Continue reading
We're living in an age of unprecedented connectedness, but more and more people report being lonely on a regular basis. Like our a | Continue reading
David Wallace-Wells, who you may remember from his 2017 New York magazine piece, has written an opinion piece about climate change | Continue reading
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh had a very interesting interview with The Atlantic's David Sims. Here are some excerpts.The first | Continue reading
So I am something of a philosophy nerd, with a particular affection for late 19th/early 20th century European philosophers, who | Continue reading
GIPHY, in collaboration with Paisley Park and Prince's estate, has done a truly remarkable thing. It's created an official archi | Continue reading
It was not my intention to turn kottke.org into a stamp blog (recently: Ellsworth Kelly, Leonardo da Vinci) but you know what th | Continue reading
The Royal Mail in the UK have released a set of stamps that feature drawings done by Leonardo da Vinci.The Royal Collectio | Continue reading
In an excerpt of his forthcoming book Coders, Clive Thompson writes about The Secret History of Women in Coding for the NY Times. | Continue reading
In his newsletter Life Is So Beautiful, Hugh Hollowell shares a story of doomsday, neighbors, and goodwill.I met a prepper the o | Continue reading
1969 was quite a year that saw the founding of Sesame Street, PBS, Monty Python, and the Internet as well as Woodstock and my favo | Continue reading
Yesterday, NASA declared the official end to the Opportunity rover mission on Mars.One of the most successful and enduring feats | Continue reading
As part of his The World in Faces project, Alexander Khimushin has been making portraits of the indigenous people of Siberia wear | Continue reading
A couple of years ago, I wrote about the hand-drawn infographics of W.E.B. Du Bois, noting that the great African American author, | Continue reading
Ard Gelinck photoshops celebrities posing with their younger selves and posts the results on Instagram. | Continue reading
There's a little-known monument located at the site of the Hoover Dam that shows the progression of "North Stars" as the | Continue reading
Having thoroughly conquered the world of nonfiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates now has his sights set on fiction. His first novel, The Wate | Continue reading
When he was a teenager, Fan Ho grabbed his father's camera and started documenting street scenes in Hong Kong. From there, he | Continue reading
19-year-old bioengineering major David Aguilar, aka Hand Solo, has built himself a series of prosthetic arms out of Lego. In this | Continue reading
At Streetsblog, Angie Schmitt has compiled a handy list of all the ways in which ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft are havi | Continue reading
In this piece for The Guardian, Matthew Walker says that sleeping well is the best thing you can do for your health. Here are just | Continue reading
I love the aesthetic of Paper Mario Bros, a hand-drawn stop motion animation of World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. The artist, @Kisa | Continue reading
In 1984, Casio released their AT-552 Janus watch, which had a feature that seems years ahead of its time to these modern eyes: a c | Continue reading
Using recently processed data from the Galileo probe, NASA-JPL software engineer Kevin Gill created this low-altitude flyover of E | Continue reading