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
One of my favourite Twitter thread style or topic in recent months has been the "history walk." People picking somethi | Continue reading
Dutch art gallery Cook & Becker is releasing a series of high quality art prints taken from the very Studio Ghibli-like game | Continue reading
[Hello there, everyone. I am off this week (taking two kids to The Wizarding World in Orlando, pray for me, the butterbeer is alco | Continue reading
Your periodic reminder that Christoph Niemann is an unimaginatively imaginative visual storyteller. This image is one of a serie | Continue reading
A suspect in the Golden State Killer murders has been arrested, based largely on DNA evidence that was apparently obtained in part | Continue reading
Wesley Morris unsurprisingly has written a very good essay about Bill Cosby -- specifically, the ways in which Cosby created and b | Continue reading
Helen Rosner writes in praise of monosodium glutamate, an umami-rich flavor additive that's been vilified for all the wrong reason | Continue reading
In a 2013 piece, Christie Aschwanden suggested a test in the spirit of the Bechdel test for avoiding gender bias in profiles writt | Continue reading
This summer for the 50th anniversary of the film, Warner Bros. is releasing a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey made from the or | Continue reading
The editors of GQ have compiled a list of 20 notable books that you don't actually have to read, despite their inclusion on variou | Continue reading
Filmmaker Errol Morris has made a pair of videos for AT&T's It Can Wait campaign against distracted driving, which "kills | Continue reading
As I said recently in the newsletter and in my media diet post for March, I've been listening to the audiobook of Consider the Lob | Continue reading
This video, and the paper it's based on, is called "Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions" b | Continue reading
As part of a larger anthology film called Paris Je T'aime, the Coen brothers directed a short film about a character played by S | Continue reading
I know it's almost May of 2018, but I missed Art of the Title's Top 10 Title Sequences of 2017 when it came out back in January, s | Continue reading
From a collection of drawings and paintings done by David Bowie, here are a couple of self-portraits...there are more if you c | Continue reading
Proto-YouTuber Ze Frank momentarily steps down from his executive perch at Buzzfeed to get back on the mic for the humorous natu | Continue reading
Nestled amongst hundreds of stunning shots of the aurora borealis taken by Finnish photographer Jani Ylinampa is a series of fou | Continue reading
Design? Parenting? Playgrounds? iPads? Architecture? Toys? Probably Lego? Alexandra Lange's upcoming book about "how childr | Continue reading
From CGP Grey, an animated version of philosopher Nick Bostrom's The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.Seeing that defeating the tyra | Continue reading
I enjoyed reading Lolade Fadulu's interview with Philip Glass about the composer's early life and how he made a living in NYC befo | Continue reading
I know many photographers have taken similar photos, but August Östberg's Lover in Disguise is a particularly good inst | Continue reading
Audiobooks for both of the bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls books will be out in June: book one, book two. The bedti | Continue reading
Two men attending the same college in the early 80s kept getting mistaken for each other and when they met, they realized that t | Continue reading
Well, this is a thing I didn't know about black holes before watching this video. Because some black holes spin, it's possible t | Continue reading
For the past few years, because of my interest in The Great Span of human history, I've been tracking the last remaining people wh | Continue reading
The New Yorker has some genuinely exciting early aerial photographs, taken by birds. They're excerpts from a new book, The Pigeo | Continue reading