Abbie Paulhus is selling copies of this great illustrated poster she made featuring a Wes Anderson alphabet on her Etsy shop.I | Continue reading
A team of astronomers believe theyve found an exoplanet orbiting Barnards Star, in the solar system closest to ours. The evidenc | Continue reading
The NY times recently asked eight artists what art projects they would do if they could fly to the Moon. Here's Kara Walker's answ | Continue reading
Designer Jacopo Colò has made a video game that allows you to spend an hour inside a 2013 James Turrell installation, T | Continue reading
Sure, I know this is a television commercial for a UK department store and therefore should be afforded a certain level of emoti | Continue reading
What's going on in the brains of people who meditate? Anecdotal evidence suggests that meditation does something to people's minds | Continue reading
The NY Times has published a long piece about how Facebook has responded (and failed to respond) to various crises over the past t | Continue reading
In an epic GIF-laden thread on Twitter, author Chuck Wendig lays out "25 REASONS TO KEEP ON MAKING STUFF IN THIS TIME OF RAMP | Continue reading
One of the very few books I think about all the time is Robert Wright's Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Paras Chopra tweeted | Continue reading
Taking advantage of the fact that puzzle manufacturers typically use the same cut patterns to make many different puzzles, Tim Kle | Continue reading
Forbes recently released their 2019 "30 Under 30" list of "the brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and | Continue reading
In this clip from the TV show Articulate (which airs on PBS), host Jim Cotter talks with Emily Wilson and Daniel Mendelsohn about | Continue reading
Mike Olbinski is back with another of his jawdropping storm chasing videos. I find clouds endlessly fascinating -- it seems like | Continue reading
Nervous System designed this puzzle of Earth so that it can be put together in a variety of different ways.This puzzle is base | Continue reading
I seemingly cannot get enough of contemporizing old paintings and works of art. Here, from Rodrigo Pinheiro, are some famili | Continue reading
Design studio Dorothy has produced a poster of a map of the United States where all the place names are song titles.Some of | Continue reading
Yale philosopher Jason Stanley recently published a book called How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Sean Illing interv | Continue reading
A new episode of Estelle Caswell's Earworm series is always cause for celebration. In this one, Caswell examines the title track | Continue reading
This spreadsheet lists a number of ways in which AI agents "cheat" in order to accomplish tasks or get higher scores ins | Continue reading
Perhaps the most heartening election results this week was Florida's 60 percent-plus approval of Amendment 4, restoring voting rig | Continue reading
Nobody writes about health care practice from the inside out like Atul Gawande, here focusing on an increasingly important part of | Continue reading
The Art Institute of Chicago recently unveiled a new website design. As part of their first design upgrade in 6 years, | Continue reading
This is a fascinating Longread from Oxford American, on Baylor University's Robert Darden's efforts to create a comprehensive ar | Continue reading
For the past few years, whenever a mass shooting occurs in the US that gets wide press coverage, the satirical news site The Onion | Continue reading
Writing for Literary Hub, author Aleksandar Hemon writes about his friend Zoka -- who he grew up with in Sarajevo before Hemon mov | Continue reading
Holy moly, these photographs of vintage computers & peripherals by "design and tech obsessive" James Ball are fantas | Continue reading
In the music video for (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) and in promotional material surrounding the release of the ban | Continue reading
Tetris was invented in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov. It was a hit from the start but became a sensation after it was bundled with Nin | Continue reading
Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 12 people in Thousand Oaks, California last night. While thi | Continue reading
In this video, Jonna Mendez, the former Chief of Disguise of the CIA, explains how disgu -- Wait, wait, wait...Chief of Disguise | Continue reading
At the end of October, I spent barely 48 hours in Istanbul -- too quick, but I saw a lot of stuff in a short time. When planning | Continue reading
Vanity Fair interviewed singer/songwriter Billie Eilish last October just as her career was taking off. A year later, they repea | Continue reading
This is easily the most awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping thing I've seen in months. In its low Earth orbit ~250 miles above our pl | Continue reading
In just a few years, Sevilla, Spain went from almost no bike paths and low ridership to robust network of bike paths and many peop | Continue reading
Darius Miles was drafted 3rd overall by the LA Clippers in the 2000 NBA Draft. After 8 seasons, a major injury, and $62 million, | Continue reading
London's Natural History Museum has announced the winners of the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.I includ | Continue reading
Today is Election Day in the US and even President Obama is saying these elections "might be the most important of our lifeti | 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
Like Instagram filters and vinyl records, the use of film grain in movies is now a conscious choice on the part of media creator | Continue reading
Koyaanisqatsi is a 1982 experimental film by Godfrey Reggio with a soundtrack from Philip Glass. The movie has no dialogue or narr | Continue reading
For practical reasons, satellite images are usually taken from straight overhead. But as this low-angle shot of San Francisco | Continue reading
These two maps by Esri UK show the parts of the UK that voted to leave the EU and which parts voted to remain.See also the NY | Continue reading
This is a real treasure: a free, searchable database of hundreds of thousands of Japanese woodcut prints, from many collections, s | Continue reading
Hua Hsu reviews Contact High, a visual history of hip-hop by Vikki Tobak that takes interviews, essays, and outtakes from over 1 | Continue reading
For No Film School, Joanna Naugle breaks down the history of women editing film, a role women dominated in the silent and early | Continue reading
In an article published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Nicola Jones details some of the ways that the | Continue reading
The Royal Observatory Greenwich in the UK has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year for 2018.Abo | Continue reading
Even for a city almost 800 years old, Berlin has seen more than its fair share of history, especially in the 20th century. Watch | Continue reading