A demo version of Imagine, unheard for decades, was recently uncovered in an archive of Lennon audio tapes. You can listen to the | Continue reading
Digging this work by Sarah Meyohas. I mean, why do I like these so much? (via colossal) | Continue reading
TIL that the hieroglyphic hobo code probably wasn't used as extensively as the internet suggests. However, hobos and tramps did | Continue reading
Beto O'Rourke is running against Ted Cruz for one of Texas' two Senate seats. At a recent event, he was asked if he thought that | Continue reading
In 2008, corporate lawyer & city slicker Jodi Ettenberg quit her job to travel the world for a year...and then just never went | Continue reading
Using traditional materials and techniques to achieve a digital effect, Japanese artist Toshiya Masuda makes this cool ceram | Continue reading
Wow! Genetic analysis of a human bone fragment found in Siberia reveals that her parents belonged to two different groups of human | Continue reading
For more than 35 years, Dennis Hope has been selling land on the Moon. Hope registered a claim for the Moon in 1980 and, since t | Continue reading
After the 2016 election, artist and writer Paul Chan wrote the following poem that he called "New No's".No to racists | Continue reading
Hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash grew up in the Bronx and attended a public vocational high school. There he learned how to fix e | Continue reading
In this video for Vox, Estelle Caswell explores Aretha Franklin's unique blend of pop, soul, and gospel, particularly in her cov | Continue reading
A Swiss company has designed a system for storing energy in concrete blocks. The blocks are lifted by a crane when surplus energy | Continue reading
Earlier this year, before a trip to Africa, President Obama shared a recommended reading list for this summer heavy on African aut | Continue reading
Volumes is a 4K Full CG art film by Maxim Zhestkov exploring the juxtaposition of emotions with the laws of nature. Billions of | Continue reading
The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday proposes a list of movies made in the 2000s that should be added to the canon of the best films | Continue reading
Welp, I want to unsee that. 3D rendering courtesy of Miguel Vasquez, who did the same thing for SpongeBob awhile back.(via @ | Continue reading
There's something so relaxing about watching art conservator Julian Baumgartner restore this damaged painting, a self-portrait b | Continue reading
I finally picked up Tamara Shopsin's Arbitrary Stupid Goal the other day. This is how it begins (emphasis mine):The imaginary | Continue reading
There are many very fine obituaries and appreciations of Aretha Franklin, who passed away this week at 76. I have two favorites. | Continue reading
I've been enjoying The Verge's series of posts about batteries, not least because it's not just about so-called "hard" | Continue reading
If you've ever tried to snap dried pasta in half, you know that it's hard to get just two even pieces; what you usually get instea | Continue reading
Irene Taylor Brodsky directed this short film in which about a dozen deaf people talk simply about their hearing loss and the te | Continue reading
In this short video, Evan Puschak talks about how music is made for Super Nintendo games. That system was first released in 1990 | Continue reading
NASA recently published this visualization of sunrises and sunsets on the Moon set to the strains of Claude Debussy's most famou | Continue reading
Nicole He has built a voice-controlled game called Enhance in which you speak commands to zoom & enhance images to look for | Continue reading
For the New Yorker, photographer David Williams visited the 2018 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Bloomington, Wiscons | Continue reading
This origami simulator built by Amanda Ghassaei is really cool. The simulator lets you explore how different origami patterns ar | Continue reading
Bumblebee, honey bee, yellow jacket, paper wasp...what's the difference? I don't know if this comprehensive guide to Yellow Stri | Continue reading
Insta Repeat collects photos of people (particularly so-called "influencers") taking similar photos on Instagram -- peek | Continue reading
The New Yorker asked three professional poker players to give blow-by-blow accounts of their most memorable hands. Aside from th | Continue reading
English is a marvelously and maddeningly inconsistent language. The words "rough", "though", "thought&q | Continue reading
As a fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Micah Sherman and Mark Stetson produced a web series called The Bob Ross | Continue reading
Every wanted a chunk of the Moon, a bit of the Space Shuttle that's been in orbit, an ancient fossil, or a 14th century knight's | Continue reading
From Jenny Yang's Bad Appetite series, a group of Vietnamese critique questionable recipes for phở from American reci | Continue reading
Inspired by the website of the same name, Dave Addey's Typeset in the Future will look at how design and typography is used to b | Continue reading
Maria Konnikova is a writer for the New Yorker. Or she was until she went on sabbatical to play poker professionally. After immers | Continue reading
Are wormholes science or just science fiction? As this video by Kurzgesagt shows, they're actually a little bit of both. Einstei | Continue reading
Add finding Waldo to the long list of things that machines can do better than humans. Creative agency Redpepper built a program | Continue reading
Trials rider Danny MacAskill busts out some more amazing tricks as he takes a mountain bike out for a ride in the area around Ed | Continue reading
All superhero origin stories are preposterous. For that reason, as much as in spite of it, they are repeated again and again, to | Continue reading
I'm a sucker for good attempts to think about the supply chain and global logistics networks -- or rather, thinking through the im | Continue reading
Consuming media when you're depressed is a delicate business. Too much emotion, too much novelty, too much engagement can be overw | Continue reading
This is fun to play with: Dinosaur Pictures has a Google Earth-style globe that shows the state of the planet at various interva | Continue reading
From CBC's This Is That, a satirical presentation that is I'm now going to come back to the center of the stage and give you s | Continue reading
Victor Mather wrote about the origin of sports idioms like "wild-goose chase", "hands down", and "sticky | Continue reading
For the past six years, physicist Greg Spriggs and a team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been tracking down fi | Continue reading
In 2011, writer and filmmaker Errol Morris summarized the main points in Believing Is Seeing, his book on the nature of truth, bel | Continue reading
Culled from thousands of entrants from more than 140 countries around the world, here are the winners of the 2018 iPhone Photo | Continue reading