Terracotta vase in the form of a lobster claw from the collection at the Met. Circa 460 BC.Because so many aspects of Greek | Continue reading
Feeding America (formerly known as America's Second Harvest) is a non-profit organization that receives food donations from farmer | Continue reading
For Audubon, avid birder Nicholas Lund writes about the experience of going birdwatching in the mega-popular Red Dead Redemption | Continue reading
I love this chunky/wavy typographic street art by Pref. He spoke with Colossal back in May about his art."Since the | Continue reading
I've always had a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that the universe could be both finite and infinite at the same time | Continue reading
A machine learning algorithm programmed by Dr. Jae Ho Sohn can look at PET scans of human brains and spot indicators of Alzheimer' | Continue reading
When warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, many doomsayers cite philosopher Nick Bostrom's paperclip maximizer t | Continue reading
At the TEDWomen 2017 conference, cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky gave a talk on how different languages affect how their spe | Continue reading
In this artfully made short film by Esteban Arrangoiz, we meet Julio César Cú Cámara, "a m | Continue reading
Before they hit it big with Licensed to Ill in 1986, the Beastie Boys were a punk rock quartet experimenting with rap. In this f | Continue reading
MEL Magazine's Ian Lecklitner talked to clinical nutritionist David Friedman (author of Food Sanity: How to Eat in a World of Fads | Continue reading
In this lovely short film by Noah Sheldon, we meet Wo Guo Jie, a migrant worker from rural China who makes a living in Shanghai | Continue reading
For NiemanLab's annual Predictions for Journalism package, Tim Carmody revisited his take on how kottke.org's membership program w | Continue reading
Next week at the Berggruen Gallery in SF, Clare Kirkconnell's show "Women's Work" opens and will be on view until | Continue reading
In 1979, a woman named Marion Stokes started recording live television and didn't stop for more than 33 years. Director Matt Wol | Continue reading
Morgan Housel, an economics writer and venture capitalist, recently took a crack at summing up (in just 5000 words) what happened | Continue reading
From Paleofuture, "Technology, Ranked", a list of the 100 most important technologies ever invented by humans. Among the | Continue reading
Over the course of two years, metalsmith Seth Gould built a project he calls Coffer, a gorgeous wrought iron puzzle box. Gould m | Continue reading
The Pudding analyzed over 740,000 headlines from the NY Times since 1900 to determine which country the US was most interested in | Continue reading
I am only a casual Beastie Boys fan, but I've been hearing nothing but really good things about their goofball memoir, Beastie B | Continue reading
Swiss artist Zimoun makes large-scale sound sculptures out of simple materials like cardboard boxes, wires, washers, tiny motors, | Continue reading
Edited by Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick, A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader is a collection of letters written to | Continue reading
Just like last year, I kept track of almost everything I read, watched, listened to, and experienced in my media diet posts. In | Continue reading
From top to bottom: Christine Blasey Ford by Win McNamee, Emma Gonzalez by Jonathan Ernst, White House rally by Caroly | Continue reading
Equipped with only a magnifying glass and the light of the Sun, it's pretty easy to start a fire.1 So, with a much bigger glass, c | Continue reading
In an issue of The Discourse, Sean Blanda shared a list of rules for interacting with others online while maintaining your sanity. | Continue reading
Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, and Morisot. You've likely not heard of that last one, but Berthe Morisot was one of the foundi | Continue reading
The New York Times is running a series of editorials on the erosion of women's rights in the American judicial system at the expen | Continue reading
In 1976, James Baldwin and artist Yoran Cazac released a children's book called Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood.Fo | Continue reading
As he does every year, President Obama shared his favorite reads of the year on Facebook, books that he found "thought-provok | Continue reading
Check out these and many other top posters of the year at Creative Review, The Playlist, Little White Lies, and MUBI Noteb | Continue reading
My pal Bryan Boyer has built a device he calls a VSMP (Very Slow Movie Player). It's an e-paper display that shows a movie not at | Continue reading
In an effort to discover what effect populist leaders have on democratic institutions, a pair of researchers, Harvard's Yascha Mou | Continue reading
The opening line of Madeline Miller's Circe is: "When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist." In Miller's te | Continue reading
The trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, a feature-length special premiering tomorrow (12/28) on Netflix:In 1984, a young p | Continue reading
From the Art of the Title, the picks for the best opening credits sequences of the year. Their #1 is Babylon Berlin, which would h | Continue reading
For the past few hundred million years, the legs of vertebrate animals have evolved into many different forms and shapes. But for | 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
The ESA's Mars Express Mission recently photographed the Korolev crater on Mars, filled almost to the brim with water ice.1 Wh | Continue reading
Subscribers to Noticing, the Kottke.org newsletter, have already seen our two-part Best of 2018 series, published on Thursday th | Continue reading
Writing in Wired, Craig Mod expertly dissects both the e-book revolution that never happened and the quieter one that actually d | Continue reading
W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling once published a rather unusual review of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. In it, t | Continue reading
More than twelve years after the original, beloved TV series was cancelled, the Deadwood movie is very real. The entire core cas | Continue reading
Perhaps the most fundamental way to think about the Universe is in terms of energy. Even when you get away from physics and chem | Continue reading
While it's billed as "How Pixar Helped Win 27 of the Last 30 Oscars for Visual Effects", this video from Wired works p | Continue reading
The tradition of fans recutting trailers and clips of movies and TV shows into different genres -- like Toy Story as a horror fi | Continue reading
Take a look at these black and white looping animated GIFs by Étienne Jacob. I would have posted these sooner, but th | Continue reading
Lenka Clayton does drawings using a portable 1957 Smith-Corona Skyriter typewriter. That vase is amazing. (via @warmestregard) | Continue reading