The Walk of Life Project has set out to prove a simple hypothesis: Walk of Life by Dire Straits is the perfect song to end any mov | Continue reading
From 2019 to 2021, a small Spanish football team was renamed Flat Earth FC, both as a publicity stunt and because club president | Continue reading
I love these colorfully chromed-out logos designed by Martin Naumann -- you can find dozens of them on his Instagram and | Continue reading
Using foraged mushrooms, berries, leaves, moss, and other natural materials, Heather Brooks makes these lovely and lively co | Continue reading
A mashup of I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) by Hall & Oates and Closer by Nine Inch Nails. It's perfect, absolutely perfect, | Continue reading
Anne Helen Petersen wrote about revenge bedtime procrastination, a familiar self-sabotage technique of the iPhone/timeline era.H | Continue reading
Walnut is a white-naped crane that lives in a Virginia endangered species breeding facility. She's 23 years-old, was raised by h | Continue reading
It's quite a neat trick of the artistically gifted to make figures cast in solid bronze seem like they're moving, and that's | Continue reading
A pair of 1300-year-old skis has been discovered in an ice field in Norway. They are believed to be the best-preserved ancient s | Continue reading
From a YouTube channel called There I Ruined It, this is NWA's Straight Outta Compton reimagined as a Bavarian polka. You're.... | Continue reading
Even for mathematically minded folks, statistics can be hard to grasp. Take statistical paradoxes for example: Simpson's Paradox i | Continue reading
Tycho, who you might remember from his annual Burning Man sunrise sets, recently released his first DJ set in two years: a 1.5-hou | Continue reading
Using data from Johns Hopkins, this time lapse video shows the spread of Covid-19 across the US from Feb 2020 to Sept 2021. This | Continue reading
This is Samson and Delilah, a painting attributed to the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens that hangs in the National Gallery in Br | Continue reading
So let's say, for the sake of argument and against all scientific evidence to the contrary, the Earth was flat instead of being an | Continue reading
Remember the Tetris challenge, the trend where workers of various professions laid out all of their gear in a neat, pleasing fas | Continue reading
The Nature Conservancy is a non-profit organization focused on conservation and addressing the climate and biodiversity cris | Continue reading
I love Evan Puschak's short analysis of a two-and-a-half minute scene from Sam Raimi's 2004 film, Spider-Man 2. Raimi, a horror | Continue reading
Train wheels do not sit completely flat on the tracks -- they're designed with a slight taper that increases the stability of th | Continue reading
To raise awareness around plastic's resistance to decomposition (it won't break down for 1000 years), Vietnamese creative ag | Continue reading
Artist Dasha Plesen combines molds, bacteria, spores, and other objects in petri dishes to create these colorful abstract | Continue reading
Over at Print, R.E. Hawley writes about a book cover design trend you may have noticed: Behold, the Book Blob.This design tren | Continue reading
Every few days, Nenet reindeer herders in the Siberian Arctic break camp and erect their tents (called chums) in a new location. | Continue reading
Colossal has a selection of photos of predatory birds taken by Mark Harvey -- prints are available in his shop.Shot with his | Continue reading
This video highlights one of the ways in which the Netherlands makes their streets safer for pedestrians: continuous sidewalks. | Continue reading
HERMITS are tiny experimental robots developed by researchers at MIT's Media Lab that can move between different "shells&qu | Continue reading
Ed Yong: We're Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic. The US is throwing too little money at high-tech, ultimately private se | Continue reading
In 1976, Santos "Frenchie" Ramos opened a gym in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Every day of his life from that point forward | Continue reading
Check out these iconic album covers rendered in Lego by Adnan Lotia on Instagram. (thx, jenni) | Continue reading
Balloon artist DJ Morrow has been branching out recently. Morrow makes elaborate balloon animals and other things but two of h | Continue reading
I don't know anything about this film but if you like PT Anderson, you'll probably like this. From the synopsis:"Licorice | Continue reading
Hey all. Today is my birthday and the boss has given me the day off. I'm gonna spend time with some of my favorite humans, start | Continue reading
Laura Olin is right; this recorded lunch conversation with Orson Welles from 1983 is well worth a read. I mean:Waiter: Gentlemen | Continue reading
I don't know if a 10-second sequence of a plane landing in one of Brian De Palma's worst films properly qualifies as "The M | Continue reading
As part of the Great Green Wall initiative, Senegal has been building circular, drought-resistant gardens to keep the Sahara des | Continue reading
The Diamond is a contemplative short documentary by Caitlyn Greene about the people who look for diamonds in an ancient volcanic | Continue reading
Marcella Giulia Pace photographed the Moon in 48 different hues and arranged them in a lovely spiral pattern.I have collected | Continue reading
Ice Ball is a short documentary that follows legendary polar explorer Will Steger and the community that he's built up around ha | Continue reading
In this video, Michael Pollan explains how caffeine is woven into the fabric of modern society. Here's the short version of how | Continue reading
Tom Standage, whose The Victorian Internet was hugely influential to me in how to think about the history of technology, is out wi | Continue reading
Oceanographic Magazine has announced the winners of their annual Ocean Photography Awards for 2021. The official site is reeea | Continue reading
This is a lovely, almost poetic piece by Daniel Riley about the sport of freediving and one of the best freedivers in the world, A | Continue reading
Every year for the past several years on September 21, Demi Adejuyigbe makes a video featuring the 1978 Earth, Wind & Fire s | Continue reading
For the next two weeks, L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris will be wrapped, an installation that realizes a project begun by the late | Continue reading
Welp, from the small glimpses we get in this trailer, Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances | Continue reading
The full moon was wonderful last night and Andrew McCarthy captured this colorful image of our nearest celestial companion. McCa | Continue reading
In Living While Black, in Japan, directed by Keith Bedford and Shiho Fukada, a group of African-Americans talk about what it's l | Continue reading
If you're talking about the origins of rock & roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe has to be included in those conversations. Her ear | Continue reading