Over at In Focus, still the world's best photoblog (remember those!?), Alan Taylor is looking at different parts of the worl | Continue reading
In his four seasons as manager for FC Barcelona, Pep Guardiola led the club to 14 trophies, including winning the Champions Leag | Continue reading
Oh, I love this embroidery art by Sheena Liam that leaps off of the fabric and out of the hoop. Great name too: Times New Roma | Continue reading
Tech titan Paul Allen died yesterday at the age of 65 of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His Microsoft co-founder Bill | Continue reading
From the orange 123 line to the green ACE to the purple 456, the color designations on the NYC subway lines on the Wrong Color S | Continue reading
From an independent newspaper here in Vermont, the heartbreaking and brutally honest obituary of Madelyn Linsenmeir, a 30-year-old | Continue reading
Hot off the heels of their video showing a humanoid robot casually doing parkour, Boston Dynamics has made a clip of their robot d | Continue reading
As Eric Levitz writes in a piece called Millennials Need to Start Voting Before the Gerontocracy Kills Us All, younger Americans a | Continue reading
Sears has filed for bankruptcy protection and plans to close hundreds of stores in an effort to keep the company afloat. The Sea | Continue reading
Chris Perani takes macro photographs of the delicate microscopic makeup of butterfly wings. When you look at the thumbnails on | Continue reading
Austin Kleon, whose previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work you may have seen prominently displayed in book shops | Continue reading
Data scientist Neil Kaye made this map to show how much the popular Mercator projection distorts the sizes of many countries, part | Continue reading
At a time when fascism & authoritarianism are creeping into the global politics of the developed world, it's useful for us t | Continue reading
Wonderful writer Susan Orlean1 is out with a new book called The Library Book, which is specifically about a 1986 fire at the Los | Continue reading
For a promotion in a Canadian store, Ikea developed a series of posters that help you cook dinner. You lay the poster down, plac | Continue reading
I love things, material objects in all their haecceity, or irreducible thingness. I also love how inanimate things can unspool w | Continue reading
The Internet connects various bodies of knowledge and enables all sorts of private communication and coordination. It's also cle | Continue reading
For Topic, MGMT. Design created a series of 2018 updates to the iconic WPA public service announcement posters from the 1930s and | Continue reading
In 1950, Swiss photographer Hans Namuth took some photos of Jackson Pollock painting some of his drip paintings, which were used t | Continue reading
I've watched this a dozen times now and it looks fake and I can't figure out quite why. Is it the uncanny valley at work? This t | Continue reading
Vox has updated their video on how US politicians talked about climate change over the past 12 years. Until recently, climate ch | Continue reading
The NY Times article about the Event Horizon Telescope that I wrote about here introduced me to Andy Gilmore's geometric illustrat | Continue reading
In times of turmoil, it can be tough to feel like the work you do to support you and your family is also nourishing to society, if | Continue reading
In a paper called "Can Moons Have Moons?", a pair of astronomers says that some of the solar system's moons, including | Continue reading
Dying alone in Japan is so common that they have a term for it: kodokushi ("lonely death"). Miyu Kojima works for a comp | Continue reading
You've likely heard of hygge, the Danish word for a special feeling of coziness that's been productized on Instagram and elsewhe | Continue reading
A Wilmington, Delaware man named Rick Stein recently died and his obituary is one of the most unique and entertaining I have ever | Continue reading
If you're ever called on to perform CPR in an emergency but you don't have training, the American Heart Association recommends per | Continue reading
Scuba Diving magazine has announced the winners of their 2018 Underwater Photo Contest. The whale photo above is by Rodney Bursi | Continue reading
Astronomers behind the Event Horizon Telescope are building a virtual telescope with a diameter of the Earth to photograph the sup | Continue reading
As research for a role in a Broadway play, Daniel Radcliffe recently did a stint as a fact-checker for the New Yorker. They had hi | Continue reading
The surviving members of Nirvana (minus Kurt Cobain, of course) held a six-song reunion at the Cal Jam festival with a couple of | Continue reading
Sunday night, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The nighttime launch cr | Continue reading
A few years ago, the artist Banksy built a shredder into the frame of one of his paintings "in case it was ever put up for au | Continue reading
In a 700-page report detailing the latest research on climate change, a UN panel of scientists strongly warns that unless we make | Continue reading
In his Rolling Stone article on John McCain's failed campaign for the 2000 Republican nomination for President, David Foster Walla | Continue reading
In most parts of the United States, the holiday listed on the calendar today is Columbus Day, which was designed to celebrate Ital | Continue reading
If you've never seen a video game speed run before, a decent place to start is this computer-assisted Metroid run, completing the | Continue reading
The Showtime series Kidding did something quite clever (really, two things): for a scene showing one of its characters' transforma | Continue reading
My favorite astrophysicist Katie Mack recently reposted a Cosmos article she wrote about a relatively obscure model for the total | Continue reading
Founded by Sophie Oliveira Barata, The Alternative Limb Project makes stylish & artistic prosthetic limbs for people who w | Continue reading
In 2014, BBC aired a two-part documentary that featured intimate and close-up footage of dolphins using remote-controlled camera | Continue reading
For a recent project, Aleksey Kondratyev captured the ice fishers of his native Kazakhstan sheltering themselves from the br | Continue reading
In 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first ever humans to leave the cozy confines of Earth orbit. From Wikipedia:The three | Continue reading
This blog collects examples of control panels, analog and digital. The site's tagline reads "in praise of dials, toggle | Continue reading
This deer stumbling through a children's play set sounds just like the drums in In the Air Tonight (you know the ones).This mi | Continue reading
The trailer for Adam McKay's upcoming movie about Dick Cheney and the Bush administration just came out this morning. The movie | Continue reading
From a visual design standpoint, Isle of Dogs might be my favorite Wes Anderson movie yet. Each frame of the film is its own lit | Continue reading