The Iceland men's soccer team is nearly impossible not to root for in this World Cup. They are the smallest nation by population e | Continue reading
No use sugar-coating it: the federal government of the United States of America now has a policy of taking children away from th | Continue reading
The NYC subway is home to many interesting characters and creatures but perhaps none as delightfully weird as Matthew Grabelsky's | Continue reading
Artist, writer, and thinker James Bridle is an interesting fellow. He coined the term New Aesthetic in 2011. Dronestagram was a th | Continue reading
According to Whose Heritage?, a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center on public symbols of the Confederacy, progress over the | Continue reading
An interesting question, courtesy of Marginal Revolution:Who could launch themselves higher on a trampoline? LeBron James or S | Continue reading
Speaking of Pangaea, this video shows how the present-day continents came to be formed from the Pangaea supercontinent about 240 | Continue reading
The Victoria and Albert Museum filmed this short four-part documentary about the Somenotsukasa Yoshioka dye workshop near Kyoto, | Continue reading
In September 1986, as part of a United Way fundraiser, the city of Cleveland released 1.5 million balloons simultaneously in a b | Continue reading
For The Atlantic, Sarah Rich writes about how stifling masculinity can be for some children and their parents.As much as feminis | Continue reading
The makers of Country Time Lemonade are running a unique promotion this summer. If you're the parent of a child 14 or younger who | Continue reading
For the past several weeks, I have been listening to the NY Times' fantastic and unsettling podcast series Caliphate. The series f | Continue reading
Alan Burdick recently wrote a piece for The New Yorker about the "burgeoning" flat Earth movement, a group of people who | Continue reading
Ian Webster built a tool to plot modern addresses on a map of the Earth from up to 750 million years ago. Just input an address | Continue reading
Jessica Winter writing for the New Yorker:In the final scene of Frederick Wiseman's landmark documentary "Domestic Violence | Continue reading
Designer Xtian Miller designs new posters "nearly every day". You can see his prodigious output on Dribbble and | Continue reading
Amateur photographer @Ben_On_The_Moon noticed some peculiar weathering patterns on a plastic-coated chain link fence.More view | Continue reading
Maxwell King, the former director of the Fred Rogers Center and author of the forthcoming book The Good Neighbor: The Life and Wor | Continue reading
The golden age of live looping (self-accompanying by performing with one or more instruments using a loop machine) was probably te | Continue reading
At Vinepair, Felix Salmon waxes metaphysical on the value of mythology and narrative in shaping our experience of food and drink. | Continue reading
Rebecca Boyle writes about her daughter's first power outage:"It's too dark in here. Mommy, I want you to turn my nightligh | Continue reading
From BBC Earth, the team behind Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II, a 10-hour video of soothing oceanscapes: whales swimming, je | Continue reading
Won't You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred Rogers, is out tomorrow in select cities.1 Tim Grierson interviewed director | Continue reading
I really like these dynamic swirling drawings by artist Lee.k. They're like a cross between van Gogh, DeepDream, and Wind Map. | Continue reading
In this video, a duo using squirt boats surfs the underwater current in the New River Gorge. Squirt boats, which I just learned | Continue reading
When I was a kid, I devoured books like locusts ravage crops on the plains. My sister and I would go to the library, get 5 or 6 bo | Continue reading
The Mississippi River runs for more than 2300 miles straight through the heartland of America, more or less straight from north | Continue reading
This is A Map of Chicago's Gangland from Authentic Sources published in 1931 by Bruce-Roberts, Inc.Map of Chicago gang locatio | Continue reading
The other day, Erika Hall asked on Twitter: "If you could assign every American to read one book over the summer, what would | Continue reading
A research team at MIT's Media Lab have built what they call the "world's first psychopath AI". Meet Norman...it provide | Continue reading
In December 1951, British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote a piece for the NY Times Magazine titled The Best Answer to Fanaticis | Continue reading
Are you a mountains or a beach person? I prefer the beach -- the ocean in particular, even though it scares the hell out of | Continue reading
Cameras that can take usable photos in low light conditions are very useful but very expensive. A new paper presented at this year | Continue reading
For these two videos, FunWithGuru collected scenes from movies & TV that can trigger ASMR. He featured movies like Phantom | Continue reading
In his latest video, Evan Puschak compares the action scenes from Marvel and DC superhero movies and shows how DC comes up short | Continue reading
Over 300 different people drew/illustrated moments from a real-life dance performance, which Kristen Lauth Shaeffer then assembl | Continue reading
After the success of their book about the world's most unusual places, Atlas Obscura is following up with an illustrated book aime | Continue reading
These posters designed by the NSA emphasizing the importance of security and secrecy to their employees are amazing. Declassified | Continue reading
The marshmallow test is a famous psychological experiment designed by Walter Mischel in the 1960s. Kids were given a single marshm | Continue reading
This is an excerpt from this week's edition of Noticing, Kottke.org's newsletter. Alexis Madrigal wrote movingly about the death | Continue reading
The history of the United States is a history of racial plunder, specifically whites plundering the property of nonwhites. It's | Continue reading
I'm a big fan of different recipes for simple food dishes -- Jose Andres's "The Perfectly Fried Egg" changed the way I | Continue reading
"I Am A Recently Divorced And Laid-Off Middle-Aged Man With A Lot Of Health Problems, And Everything I Say Is Incredibly Depr | Continue reading
There is much to admire in how Stanley Kubrick's movies are constructed, but the director's keen compositional eye is pe | Continue reading
One of the recurrent topics here at the ol' dot org is paying our respects to people who are mind-bendingly good at what they do | Continue reading
For his projects Exodus and Timeout, Marcus Lyon takes overhead photographs and edits them into fantastical scenes that none | Continue reading
I really like these prints for Rams, Gary Hustwit's upcoming documentary about the legendary Dieter Rams. Each print features an | Continue reading
Artist Guido Zimmermann has updated the architectural styling of the cuckoo clock with models based on buildings by Brutalist & | Continue reading