Part of what humans use technology for is to better remember the past. We scroll back through photos on our phones and on Instagra | Continue reading
From TED-Ed, Massimo Pigliucci, and Compote Collective, a short animated introduction to the philosophy of Stoicism.What is th | Continue reading
Eddie Putera makes incredibly detailed scale models and miniature scenes, often of rusting and decaying things.I love his ru | Continue reading
In an essay called After Authenticity, Toby Shorin writes:I haven't heard about anyone selling out in a long while. Sometime bet | Continue reading
Last month when I posted a video comparing the sizes of various microorganisms, I noted the weirdness of bacteriophages, which a | Continue reading
New York City got an injection of good news earlier this year when WNYC announced they were buying Gothamist with an eye toward re | Continue reading
Two stories about human settlements in the arctic north caught my eye this week. The first is about polar bear patrols in wester | Continue reading
A number of bakers, farmers, and enthusiasts are trying to create a market for small-batch, locally-grown grain and flour, using e | Continue reading
This story on the merger of two eyeglass giants, Essilor ("a French multinational that controls almost half of the world's pr | Continue reading
Dollar Street is a project by Anna Rosling Rönnlund that imagines the world as a street ordered by income...poor families | Continue reading
I love this little piece by Robin Sloan about the world's current video game obsession Fortnite Battle Royale, its relation to Liu | Continue reading
Yesterday, Google announced an AI product called Duplex, which is capable of having human-sounding conversations. Take a second to | Continue reading
In this 27-minute video, Bismuth explains how fellow speedrunner Kosmic achieved the world record for the fastest Super Mario Br | Continue reading
Meet Mario Salcedo, who has spent the last 20 years as a full-time resident of Royal Caribbean cruise ships.For nearly two dec | Continue reading
In 2016, Sigur Rós drove around Iceland for 24 hours, streaming the journey on YouTube backed by a soundtrack made by g | Continue reading
"Urban observer" Jeff Rothstein has been wandering the streets of NYC taking B&W photos since the early 1970s. | Continue reading
The Boston Public Library has digitized their collection of M.C. Escher prints; browse the whole collection here. The level of | Continue reading
The Great American Read is an upcoming eight-part PBS series about books and reading. The show is built around a national survey t | Continue reading
Last week, I was under the rock that everyone talks about and didn't get to see Avengers: Infinity War until a couple of days ago. | Continue reading
In the summer of 1978, eight NY Times staff photographers, who had some time on their hands because of a newspaper strike, s | Continue reading
Kanye West has a new solo album coming out soon (as well as a collaborative album with Kid Cudi) and so has been out in the world | Continue reading
Over the weekend, Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) released a video for his new song, This is America. If you watch it -- an | Continue reading
Over the weekend, Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) released a video for his new song, This is America. If you watch it -- an | Continue reading
There's a tendency these days to disregard the idea of "storytelling." Like so many terms it's been overused, its mean | Continue reading
The inimitable Ian Bogost with some thinking on how stories are overtaking social media and how they are perhaps the first true | Continue reading
This is beautiful and fascinating, a representation of Paris through the photos shared online. The creator, Moritz Stefaner, use | Continue reading
I'm always up for a good polymath bio but I didn't know about Athanasius Kircher. The Public Domain Review takes us through John G | Continue reading
Criminals are often at the forefront of new technologies, early adopters at the very least. This piece at Defense One, A Criminal | Continue reading
Did you know Connecticut nearly had a silk production industry? Atlas Obscura has a short history of that silk adventure, from mul | Continue reading
The always pertinent Ben Thompson considers Apple and Amazon (plus Facebook and Google) and how they each focus on customers. He s | Continue reading
Sometimes we must realize that what we know is that we don't know that much. Earlier in April, the Okeanos Explorer crew, a rese | Continue reading
Since Juno's 2016 arrival in orbit of Jupiter, we've been marvelling at the pictures of the astonishing cloud formations and col | Continue reading
This won't turn into another GIF (hard G) vs GIF (soft G) battle but it comes as a big surprise to me, just like the soft G did wh | Continue reading
After a much warmer than usual winter, the ice in the Bering Sea, between Alaska and Russia, is at less than 10% of what is cons | Continue reading
Jeff Bezos is super rich, $131 billion kind of rich. Business wise, an admirable drive, some incredible ideas, and a very forwar | Continue reading
People at The Verge have taken the time to attend Facebook's F8 and selected the five biggest announcements. Like more Instagram | Continue reading
I'm not specifically learning to draw right now but I do love how Ralph Ammer builds his lessons. Split into short exercises, th | Continue reading
There's a lot to learn about and ponder in this thread by Bloomberg Senior Reporter Tom Randall. He talks about how fast upcomin | Continue reading
This is kind of nuts. Diana Smith creates CSS-only hand coded "paintings." Here are the rules she sets for herself. | Continue reading
Awaken Akira was created by two friends, Ash Thorp and Zaoeyo (XiaoLin Zeng), who wanted to collaborate on a tribute to the icon | Continue reading
Sometimes, cities are not only the places where stories happen but characters in and of themselves. Here Tyler Malone explores t | Continue reading
Jason is a humble guy so I'm not sure he'd post this. Good timing then that he's on vacation and I'm writing here because I will | Continue reading
Apple has been making a number of moves towards becoming more of a luxury and lifestyle brand (including hires from fashion mainst | Continue reading
I had the chance to see this "lecture performance" live a couple of weeks ago and it's a great way to catch up on some | Continue reading
Popular Mechanics has a quick look at 15 Patents That Changed the World, including the maglev train from back in 1967, the 3d pr | Continue reading
We've seen this before with the MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group inFORM but that was a (super impressive) table, this one is | Continue reading
This Mckinsey piece summarizes some of Ajay Agrawal thinking (and book) on the economics of artificial intelligence. It starts wit | Continue reading
File this story at Citylab adjacent to concepts like complexity, scale, and fractals. It turns out--according to this research pap | Continue reading