Do you ever read something that feels like it was written just for you? That's how I feel whenever Craig Mod writes about digita | Continue reading
io9 has a solid interview with Dan Gearino, author of a new book called Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us A New Geek Cu | Continue reading
In a practice that started in 1865 and still continues today, lectores (storytellers) in Cuban cigar factories read to the worke | Continue reading
Fittingly using only off-the-shelf components, a team of researchers in Singapore built a robot capable of assembling a Stefan c | Continue reading
Watson is IBM's AI platform. This afternoon I tried out IBM Watson's Personality Insights Demo. The service "derives insight | Continue reading
A report called What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap was released this month by a group of economists and researc | Continue reading
Steven Johnson, the author of the recent Wonderland and a whole gaggle of other books in the kottke.org wheelhouse,1 is coming out | Continue reading
Yesterday, hip hop legend Lauryn Hill announced The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Tour 2018.This summer marks the | Continue reading
This morning I ran across news from two different studies about reducing deaths from opioid overdoses and they both had the same s | Continue reading
The proprietor of the @brutsinlego account and his/her children build simple Brutalist structures out of Lego and post the r | Continue reading
The use of satellite imagery has revolutionized many areas of science and research, from archaeology to tracking human rights abus | Continue reading
In this short film, animator and director Ainslie Henderson talks about how he designs puppets for his stop motion animations, c | Continue reading
Yesterday a Southwest flight from NYC to Dallas experienced an in-flight engine explosion and had to make an emergency landing in | Continue reading
Computer scientist, mathematician, and all-around supergenius Alan Turing, who played a pivotal role in breaking secret German c | Continue reading
Photographer Pelle Cass has been constructing composite photos of groups of people for some time now, photoshopping the acti | Continue reading
John Corcoran was slow to talk as a child and then when he got to school, he didn't learn to read right away. Or in the years foll | Continue reading
In an interview published in Collier's magazine in 1926, Nikola Tesla, then in the twilight of his career, made some predictions | Continue reading
kottke.org is 20 years old today. Holy shit! On March 14, 1998, I launched a new episode of 0sil8 called "Notes". 0sil | Continue reading