I'm not saying that your day will be 100% better if you watch this short video of 30 normally super-aggro hummingbirds splashing | Continue reading
Tom Cruise is not scared of heights. And he can fly helicopters? (Not only can he fly them, he does it well enough to perform st | Continue reading
I don't know what is going on in this video -- boards coming apart and then back together again, trucks on hinges, ice "ska | Continue reading
Between 1888 and 1913, Romeyn Beck Hough worked on a multi-volume book called The American Woods that contained 1000+ paper-th | Continue reading
The Economist writes about how the US Constitution, our first-past-the-post voting system, and demographic changes have combined t | Continue reading
In 1998, author and media critic Neil Postman gave a talk he called Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change. Here a | Continue reading
The Native Land site is a collaborative effort to map the approximate boundaries of the territories and languages of the indig | Continue reading
When Jerry and Rita Alter died, a painting was found in their bedroom in the tiny town of Cliff, NM, and then was sold to an ant | Continue reading
At the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in northern Virginia, a rare crane named Walnut imprinted at a young age on a | Continue reading
I have mixed feelings about The Ringer's enormous ranking of the 100 best TV shows of the century (so far), but I've enjoyed some | Continue reading
Like a lot of small-scale local retail, independent hardware stores have taken a hit from the encroachment of big box stores. Bu | Continue reading
This new pedestrian bridge at the Sun World Bà Nà Hills resort near Da Nang, Vietnam is really something e | Continue reading
Vanity Fair has an excerpt of Small Fry, a memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the oldest daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who na | Continue reading
From The Guardian, 10 of the best words in the world that don't have direct English translations. From Spain, "sobremesa" | Continue reading
Director Barry Jenkins is back with his first feature film since Moonlight won the Best Picture Oscar in 2016. It's called If Be | Continue reading
Photographer Steve Roe brought his fractal lens to Japan & Korea and got some shots that look like they're out of Blade Runner | Continue reading
The human eye can see millions of colors but it can take awhile for language to catch up. Take the color orange. Until the 16th | Continue reading
Bloomberg Businessweek asked eight designers to design a logo for Trump's proposed new branch of the military, Space Force. 89-yea | Continue reading
From Edward Burtynsky (known around these parts for his aerial photographs of industrial landscapes) and filmmakers Jennifer Bai | Continue reading
Holy moly, would you look at this photo taken by Gabriel Zaparolli!This photo shows a distant lightning storm and asperitas cl | Continue reading
Joel Simon used a generative design process powered by a genetic algorithm to optimize the floor plans of buildings for differen | Continue reading
The New York Times Magazine has devoted its entire issue this weekend to a single article by Nathanial Rich: Losing Earth: The D | Continue reading
If you grew up in the 80s, you might remember Bronson Pinchot as Balki Bartokomous in Perfect Strangers or Serge in Beverly Hills | Continue reading
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile has been watching the supermassive black hole in the center of | Continue reading
From CityLab visual storyteller Ariel Aberg-Riger, How the Other Half Eats, a look at the myths surrounding welfare and how food a | Continue reading
Here's How America Uses Its Land is a nice presentation by Bloomberg on land use in the US. The land and resources used for live | Continue reading
For years, Jerry Jacobson was in charge of the security of the game pieces for McDonald's Monopoly, one of the most successful mar | Continue reading
The three toughest things about being a parent are the sleep deprivation, knowing when to let kids push their boundaries vs ke | Continue reading
It's fun to watch this kidney bean grow into a plant over the course of 25 days to the strains of The Blue Danube waltz by Johan | Continue reading
I have been going a little Moon crazy lately. There was the whole Apollo 11 thing, I finished listening to the excellent audiobo | Continue reading
From Vladimir Tomin, a fun augmented reality video where he uses a set of image editing tools to manipulate the scenery in fancifu | Continue reading
Darth Vader was only on screen in the original Star Wars movie for 8 minutes and for a little under 34 minutes in the whole orig | Continue reading
Mark Hogancamp was beaten by five men outside a bar and left for dead. He spent nine days in a coma, lost his memory, and spent ov | Continue reading
Melissa McCracken has synesthesia and experiences seeing the music she listens to as shifting colors. In an old artist state | Continue reading
Sometimes nature and technology combine to create something beautiful. Before it terribly explodes, that is. | Continue reading
What makes a good movie villain? In this video, Lessons from the Screenplay discusses what I thought was the best and most inter | Continue reading
What happens when a city made entirely of cardboard catches fire? Nothing good, as Phil Brough's 3D animated short film clearly | Continue reading
This is a map showing the spread of the cultivation of crops across Europe.The legend is a bit hard to read, but the map indic | Continue reading
Urban data scientist Geoff Boeing graphed the orientation of the streets in 50 cities from around the world. Here are 10 cities fr | Continue reading
I watched RBG last night, the documentary film about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. What a remarkable person she is. H | Continue reading
I've been keeping track of every media thing I "consume",1 so here are quick reviews of some things I've read, seen, hea | Continue reading
Eric Geusz takes everyday objects like can openers, tongs, and potato peelers and turns them into spaceships that wouldn't l | Continue reading
I love hearing people talk about how they work. In this quick video, conductor James Gaffigan explains what it is he does on sta | Continue reading
This comparison by designer Alexander Singh of the development of the web from home pages to massive content farms like Facebook w | Continue reading
Author and New Yorker writer David Grann is out with a new book in the fall: The White Darkness. The book tells the story of polar | Continue reading
On Film and Furniture, you'll find info about the production and set designers of films & TV shows and features about the furn | Continue reading
In response to a dumb viral video with almost 20 million views that suggests detonating a powerful nuclear device at the bottom | Continue reading
Gosh, I don't know what micro-fraction of regular readers are going to be interested in this, but I sure was! In 2015, DJ Pete T | Continue reading