The NYC Parks department maintains an online map of the city's street trees -- currently 678,674 mapped trees from 422 different | Continue reading
Ok folks, it's time for some game theor- I mean, art history. In this video, Evan Puschak explains what makes Rembrandt's The Ni | Continue reading
At this point, reading about how incompetent the Trump campaign and White House have been and continue to be -- perhaps knowingly, | Continue reading
Adam Driver hosted the premiere episode of the newest season of Saturday Night Live this weekend and one of the sketches feature | Continue reading
For hunter gatherers living 10,000 years ago, domesticating plants and animals converted spare land and vegetation humans couldn't | Continue reading
Even though you knew going into Jurassic Park that they had somehow brought dinosaurs back to life, you don't actually see any o | Continue reading
Hello everyone. Today is my birthday, and I'm taking the day off. My pal Tim will be here tomorrow to share some knowledge and per | Continue reading
Conserve the Sound is a project aimed at the preservation of sounds from old technologies.»Conserve the sound&laqu | Continue reading
The old white people of America have a message for the young adults of America: we'll be dead soon but if you don't vote, you're l | Continue reading
Illustrator Tom Stults imagines what the posters of popular movies would look like in an alternate universe...if they'd been made | Continue reading
Lanzhou, a city in northwestern China, is well-known for its beef noodle soup...and the shops serving them. In order to keep those | Continue reading
In season one of Making a Murderer, filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos profiled Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, who were | Continue reading
This short film by Lance Oppenheim is uncomfortably fascinating. It's about sentencing mitigation videos, short films produced b | Continue reading
For those of us who have never quite gotten the hang of solving the popular puzzle, some wonderful genius has constructed a self | Continue reading
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the two co-founders of Instagram, have resigned from Facebook.Mr. Systrom, Instagram's chief exe | Continue reading
Well, I really can't ignore it any longer. Here in Vermont, we've paid our last visit to the swim hole, the heat is on in my hou | Continue reading
In Incomplete Open Cubes Revisited, Rob Weychert extends a 1974 project by Sol LeWitt called Variations on Incomplete Open Cubes | Continue reading
As Treasurer of the United States in the Obama administration, Rosie Rios pushed hard for the inclusion of more women on US curren | Continue reading
Dmitry Grozov is a Russian comic artist who has made a trailer for an anime version of Star Wars: A New Hope. This treatment of | Continue reading
Mathematician Michael Atiyah claims that he's solved the Riemann hypothesis, one of the great unsolved problems in math, and will | Continue reading
Sefaria is a free online resource for Jewish texts, specifically the Talmud, which (amazingly) wasn't previously easily availabl | Continue reading
I've never been a great fan of Rubik's Cubes (or chess, or crossword puzzles, or Scrabble, or most obsession-rewarding, intellig | Continue reading
In partnership with Fred Rogers Productions and The Fred Rogers Center, Google is honoring Mister Rogers today with a stop motio | Continue reading
I love these fun visual mashups created by French creative agency Les Créatonautes. (via colossal) | Continue reading
I don't know why I'm so skeptical about First Man, the upcoming biopic about Neil Armstrong and the first Moon landing. Oh wait, | Continue reading
Even though the diversity of the US Congress has increased in recent years, a trend that looks to continue after the midterm elect | Continue reading
Feng E started playing the ukelele when he was just five years old. His father pushed him into it but saying that he wouldn't play | Continue reading
Stan & Ollie is an upcoming film about the legendary comedy duo of Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the twilight of their | Continue reading
"Commodity City" is a short documentary directed by Jessica Kingdon about a huge wholesale market in China with 75,000 | Continue reading
I loved this imaginative and clever piece by Geoff Manaugh called How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars? about how a future human | Continue reading
In a book called Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries, scientist Athelstan Spilhaus published a series of world maps tha | Continue reading
I seem to have a bunch of links to Kickstarter campaigns up in browser tabs right now so instead of dripping them out over the nex | Continue reading
What's My Name? is an upcoming HBO documentary about Muhammad Ali. This is a teaser trailer so there's not much to go on but LeB | Continue reading
Frustrated that the US Treasury Department is walking back plans to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with Harri | Continue reading
Artist Alexa Meade paints right on the bodies and clothes of living models to create the illusion that they're in 2D paintings. It | Continue reading
Last night, Twitter gave its users the option to switch back to a purely chronological timeline.Meanwhile, today we updated the | Continue reading
For NME, Sophie Charara ranks Wes Anderson's nine feature films in order of greatness. Her top 3 picks are correct, I think, but | Continue reading
For an episode of a TV show called Scream Queens, Jamie Lee Curtis recreated the shower scene from Psycho performed by her mothe | Continue reading
After consulting dozens of authors, critics, and voracious readers, Vulture has come up with A Premature Attempt at the 21st Centu | Continue reading
Some animals are so endangered that fewer than 100 members of their species remain in the world. For The Guardian, Mona Chalabi de | Continue reading
A huge cache of rare Hollywood memorabilia is up for sale at a London auction on September 20. The catalog includes over 600 items | Continue reading
This video explores how humans could begin to colonize the Moon today, using currently available technology.We actually do hav | Continue reading
My friend, the novelist/fabulist/media inventor Robin Sloan, has a charming new short story that imagines how Dwayne "The R | Continue reading
At The Atlantic, Yoni Applebaum argues that a decline in democracy isn't just about voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, and | Continue reading
I've often said that every two-dimensional map is a lie; a perfect map would be able to show a city in three dimensions. (Or four, | Continue reading
Each year to promote wildlife conservation, the folks behind The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards select the funniest photos of | Continue reading
Earlier this summer, Theo Jansen released an improved iteration of his strandbeests, wind-powered machines that walk along the b | Continue reading
Cookies shaped like Christmas trees are made by pressing a tree-shaped cookie cutter into dough. But how are cookie cutters made? | Continue reading