At Miya's Sushi in New Haven, CT, chef owner Bun Lai makes sustainable sushi using invasive species and other typically overlook | Continue reading
In this video, MoMA film curator La Frances Hui gives us a very quick and informative overview of what to look for when watching | Continue reading
NVIDIA trained a deep learning framework to take videos filmed at 30 fps and turn them into slow motion videos at the equivalent | Continue reading
For more than 30 years beginning in the 1960s, photographer John Margolies criss-crossed the USA documenting the roadside | Continue reading
Sleep may be the most important everyday phenomenon that we understand the least well. It's like the oceans; it's everywhere, bu | Continue reading
Some very useful advice from Valet magazine (which I confess I don't read -- thanks Yuri Victor!) on how to ask for a favor. It's | Continue reading
I am a sucker for high-tech analog art: magnetic tape, early wireless, punch cards, film and vinyl, the telephone, telegraph, an | Continue reading
In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress and said:I believe that this nation should commit itself to achie | Continue reading
This is a short video profile of Martin Frost, who might be the last remaining professional fore-edge painter in the world.Dat | Continue reading
Devon Zuegel says that our cities and the people who live in them would be much better off if we designed them around people and n | Continue reading
The National Audubon Society has announced the winners of their ninth annual photography contest. The winning photos, which | Continue reading
On Twitter this morning, Craig Mod asked:What's the best conference talk/public speech you've seen? Topic can be anything. Just | Continue reading
Working with the 14-18 NOW project, Peter Jackson is making a film about the experience of the soldiers fighting in World War I. A | Continue reading
On Twitter, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda often begins and ends his days by posting affirmations for his fans & reader | Continue reading
Everyone has that one obviously great and popular movie that they haven't seen yet for no good reason. Mine is Jaws. Or at least i | Continue reading
In Georgia in 1963, 15 African-American girls aged 12 to 15 were arrested for trying to buy movie tickets at the whites-only the | Continue reading
In his biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson reports on some comments Jobs made over dinner to News Corp's Rupert | Continue reading
An entomologist rates the ant emoji from a number of services including Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter. You can check o | Continue reading
Sarah Zhang writes about a support group on Facebook for people who have discovered surprising parentage through DNA testing.Lis | Continue reading
Back in February, Maria Bustillos was set to interview Anthony Bourdain and she figured she'd get about 15 minutes of his highly s | Continue reading
In 1988, at the behest of Volkswagen, author Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter of advice to people living on Earth 100 years in the fut | Continue reading
The latest video in the New Yorker's Annals of Obsession tracks the transformation of ramen from a cheapo dorm room food to curr | Continue reading
Kareem Waris Olamilekan is 11 years old and makes very realistic drawings like these of his friends, family, and other faces he ru | Continue reading
Based on the available archaeological evidence, researchers had assumed that bread and agriculture developed around the same time. | Continue reading
Last week, I stood in the middle of the caldera of a supervolcano, walked on rocks billions of years old, and traveled back in tim | Continue reading
In a recent study called The impact of the 'open' workspace on human collaboration, a pair of researchers tracked the digital and | Continue reading
It's Prime Day! Or is it tomorrow? Prime Day, a holiday invented by Amazon to sell stuff in the lull between Memorial Day and Labo | Continue reading
Americans generally have a skewed view of their country's place in the world, both metaphorically and geographically speaking. F | Continue reading
I really like these drawings of NYC with a historical bent by illustrator and "amateur historian" Julia Wertz. The | Continue reading
President Obama is heading to Africa this week for the first time since he left office. In preparation, he shared a recommended su | Continue reading
Using a JavaScript machine learning package called TensorFlow.js, Abhishek Singh built a program that learned how to translate s | Continue reading
In the early 90s, a digital typeface designed in the 80s -- but based on the letterforms used in a Roman column completed in 113 | Continue reading
iOS programmer Glenda Adams made a cross-stitch embroidery of the original Control Panel for the Macintosh. Lots of parallels be | Continue reading
Art director Yuni Yoshida has created these pixelated food photos by manually cutting up the foods in question into little cub | Continue reading
National Geographic recently announced the winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year contest for 2018. You can look at | Continue reading
Ridley Scott and Asif Kapadia are working on a film adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Scott | Continue reading
Pete Souza spent 8 years photographing President Obama as the official White House photographer. Souza compiled some of the best | Continue reading
In the late 1920s & early 1930s, African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston interviewed an Alabama man named Cudjo Lewis about | Continue reading
Few directors allowed their movies to speak for themselves more than Stanley Kubrick. Still, when it came to 2001: A Space Odyssey | Continue reading
Using a 360° GoPro camera, Jeb Corliss films his ride on a roller coaster and, with some help from image stabilization i | Continue reading
At first, I thought these images by Dennis Wojtkiewicz were photographs of backlit fruit slices, but they're actually super-re | Continue reading
From a 1970 issue of New York magazine, Buckminster Fuller on the massive economic lever of technology:We must do away with the | Continue reading
Brian Stelter is known for media scoops, but sometimes, he can bring the insight too. On CNN and in his nightly newsletter, he b | Continue reading
This excerpt from Margaret Guroff's history The Mechanical Horse focuses on the democratization of the bicycle at the end of the | Continue reading
Lately, I've been getting more and more interested in dreams, as experiences and as psychological phenomena. I don't have a fanc | Continue reading
No, you're burned out and just want to look at pretty pictures of books artfully arranged in architecture! Luckily, Condé Nast T | Continue reading
Last fall, The Big Picture did a series of photographs of tea workers in China. According to the accompanying short article, &qu | Continue reading
This was a new term for me:keyword void, or search void, n.: a situation where searching for answers about a keyword returns an | Continue reading