In 2016, the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro started working with Google Arts & Culture to make their collection a | Continue reading
Book covers have long been one of my favorite design objects and with all the talented cover designers at work out there, 2018 pro | Continue reading
Using data from the IMF and World Bank, this map by Näytä Data shows how quickly the relative fortunes of Chin | Continue reading
Rocky Bergen makes paper models of vintage electronics and computing gear. And here's the cool bit...you can download the pl | Continue reading
Robert Caro, author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson, is coming out with a memoir called "Working: Resea | Continue reading
Sculptor John Unger is making a series of life-size stone mosaics based on anatomical drawings by the 16th-century Italian scien | Continue reading
Today has been a weird day for no particular reason and this 15-minute collection of the best news bloopers of 2018 fits right in. | Continue reading
This is pretty nerdy and entertaining. After someone stole a package off of his porch, Mark Rober spent months designing and bui | Continue reading
The Lumière brothers were among the first filmmakers in history and from 1896 to 1900, they shot several scenes aroun | Continue reading
Within the last couple of days, I've learned two things about the sinking of the Titanic and I'm going to share them with you. The | Continue reading
536 AD was an exceedingly bad year for humanity, perhaps even "the worst year to be alive".A mysterious fog plunged Eu | Continue reading
For the past few years, the @TerribleMaps Twitter account has been posting maps that aren't useful or that don't make a lot of sen | Continue reading
This afternoon, my friend Casey Newton posted a thread of YouTube videos so good that I had to login on a Sunday and blog about it | Continue reading
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary Beard, Gritty https://t.co/0do7XTdkq7— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) November 19, 2018 Like a | Continue reading
Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki is one of my favorites if not my very favorite movie. I've written about it here before a | Continue reading
On Wednesday, 15-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the UN plenary meeting at the COP24 climate talks in | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the mini-phenomenon of book playlists -- music playlists designed to accompany new books, as a kind | Continue reading
From Jerry Saltz, failed artist and art critic for New York Magazine, a list of 33 rules on how to be a successful artist.Lesson | Continue reading
Sleepy Skunk took audio and footage from dozens of trailers of movies that came out in 2018 and mashed them together into one me | Continue reading
Daniel Huffman dug his dad's old typewriter out of the basement and used it to type out a map of the major rivers draining into | Continue reading
Before I started making my own web pages, I spent a not-insignificant amount of my time on the Internet trawling the alt.fan.taran | Continue reading
In a piece called I'm the Food Expert But My Kids Love My Husband's Cooking, Amanda Hesser talks about food, tradition, and the di | Continue reading
In 2014, I shared a short film by Shaun Bloodworth called The Putter about Cliff Denton, a master scissors craftsman for a company | Continue reading
You might remember this 2015 Atlantic piece about what happened when Melbourne gave each of the city's trees its own email address | Continue reading
Bao, a short film by Domee Shi, was shown in front of The Incredibles 2 at theaters this past summer.In "Bao," an agin | Continue reading
I've you've ever skied or snowboarded in the US, Canada, or many other spots around the world, chances are you've used a ski map p | Continue reading
Hermit crabs use the scavenged shells of other animals as their homes. As the crabs grow, they periodically need to upgrade thei | Continue reading
For more than 20 years, Christian Moullec has been flying with migratory birds in his ultralight aircraft. He raises birds of vu | Continue reading
Helmed by someone with a knack for asking good questions & telling interesting stories and followed by nearly 100,000 people w | Continue reading
Since 2012, Information Is Beautiful has picked the best data visualizations of the year. Here are the winners of the 2018 Awards, | Continue reading
On the internet, a fierce debate rages. Are hot dogs sandwiches? Are Pop-Tarts ravioli? Is sushi toast? Into the fracas steps @pho | Continue reading
For GQ, Drew Magary talked to the family, friends, and coworkers of Anthony Bourdain for this piece on the life of the late chef/t | Continue reading
Girl meets boy in the workplace, circa 2018. This should be a movie.We were online content moderators taking down nude photos. A | Continue reading
Swiss nature photographer Stefan Forster has been visiting Greenland for eight years, documenting the ice, glaciers, icebergs, a | Continue reading
NASA's InSight mission recently landed on Mars and like other missions before it, the lander is a equipped with a camera and has s | Continue reading
Rebecca Boyle is one of my favorite science writers. In two recent pieces, she takes on our nearest, most Earth-like neighbor, M | Continue reading
Isabel Wilkerson, writing for The New York Times, has the definitive review of Michelle Obama's juggernaut of a book:One of th | Continue reading
Roberto Benavidez is a Los Angeles-based artist who previously created a series of piñatas inspired by the art of Hieronymous Bo | Continue reading
Since 2014, Abraham Riesman has kept a regularly updated list of the best superhero movies since Blade. This is partly an arbitr | Continue reading
Forensic scientist Thiago Piwowarczyk and art historian Jeffrey Taylor are often called upon to authenticate purported paintings | Continue reading
Pete Mauney spends his nighttime hours hunkered down near airports to capture these these time lapse photos of arriving and de | Continue reading
As of December 1, 2018, the LIGO experiment has detected gravitational waves from 10 black hole merger events. In the computer s | Continue reading
2018 was the year that tsundoku entered our cultural vocabulary. It's a Japanese word that doesn't translate cleanly into Englis | Continue reading
Google finally announced a consumer service around the self-driving car technology they've been developing for almost a decade. Wa | Continue reading
Eye charts at your optometrist's office typically only have 10 letters on them: CDHKNORSVZ. Inspired by that lettering, creative | Continue reading
In this episode of Modern History, Jason Kingsley and Chris Carr talk about the kind of food that an English knight would encoun | Continue reading
Jazz crossed over into pop music territory in the 70s, with jazz artists like Grover Washington Jr. and George Benson gaining ai | Continue reading
Consultant Tom Whitwell is back this year with 52 things he learned in 2018.4. 35% of Rwanda's national blood supply outside the | Continue reading