Dr. Alan Braid, a practicing OB/GYN in the state of Texas for 45 years, explains why he provided medical care in the form of an ab | Continue reading
In this engaging video we meet Aaron Fletcher, a traveling shepherd who has been "guerrilla grazing" and living off th | Continue reading
The Royal Museum Greenwich has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year for 2021. Zhong Wu won the gala | Continue reading
That's Meredith Southard's cartoon for the New Yorker, a play on the marshmallow test. It's funny because it's true. I have an a | Continue reading
As we learned from reading about the pink salt ponds of Camargue, France, flamingos get their distinctive pink coloring from the | Continue reading
Drones have been around for awhile now, but I have yet to tire of the bird's-eye images captured from above this remarka | Continue reading
Join cheesemonger Anne Saxelby as she shows us how to cut, serve, store, and accompany more than two dozen cheeses that cover th | Continue reading
After Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, I listened to the audiobook version of his fantastic Kitchen Confidential (read by Bourdain | Continue reading
When it was built in the 1920s in Turin, Italy, the Fiat factory was designed with a racetrack on the top of the building, bot | Continue reading
This is always a favorite of mine... Nikon has announced the winners of the Small World Photomicrography Competition f | Continue reading
What if you substituted a bowling ball for the ball in sports like ping pong, golf, cricket, tennis, and soccer -- but also in d | Continue reading
For his City Portraits series, Victor Enrich digitally modified photos to create absurdist and surrealist buildings that loo | Continue reading
For her project Topography of Tears, Rose-Lynn Fisher used a scanning electron microscope to photograph the crystalized patt | Continue reading
My friend Joanna Goddard runs a website called Cup of Jo. She started it as a personal blog and has turned it into a site for wome | Continue reading
In this wonderful short documentary by Lydia Cornett, we meet Yves Deshommes and observe him moving through his many responsibil | Continue reading
Oh, I've let it go too long again. It's been almost four months since I've done one of these media roundups and there's lots to sh | Continue reading
Well, the leaves are starting to change up here in ol' Vermont,1 so it's time to take a peek at the 2021 Fall Foliage Map from s | Continue reading
The Wire creator David Simon wrote about his friend and colleague Michael K. Williams, who died suddenly last week at the age of 5 | Continue reading
Stunning photo by Pham Huy Trung of Cao Bằng, Vietnam. When I first saw this on Instagram, I thought it was an illust | Continue reading
The Texas Switch is a filmmaking technique in which an actor and stunt person are switched seamlessly during a single shot -- th | Continue reading
Black Film Archive is a collection of links to films made by Black filmmakers & actors from 1915 to 1979 that are available | Continue reading
Documentaries about mushrooms like Fantastic Fungi are interesting but it turns out that short documentaries about how mushroom | Continue reading
Bored of dying from Covid-19, Americans have dreamed up a more entertaining way to mortally wound themselves: the milk crate cha | Continue reading
Because of humans, most of the world's oyster reefs have disappeared over the last 200 years. Now, some groups around the world | Continue reading
Soothing, relaxing, meditative, mesmerizing -- just a few of the ways to describe Yuki Kawae's video of creating different patte | Continue reading
As his name suggests, Jamaican street musician Brushy One String plays a one-string guitar and, under that constraint, makes som | Continue reading
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I keep tabs on a few trusted film school-ish YouTube channels and while I like when they cover films I've seen or those directed | Continue reading
In one of their most popular videos in awhile, kottke.org favorite Kurzgesagt tells us about something I'd never heard of before | Continue reading
Peter Gorman of Barely Maps has published a wonderful little book called Kaleidoscope Brain that contains 100 visualizations | Continue reading
In response to some poorly conducted and racist research attempting to correlate the size of people's brains to their intelligence | Continue reading
Wes Anderson's tenth film, The French Dispatch, is about a fictional magazine published by a group of Americans in France. The m | Continue reading
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards: always a bright spot in the world these days. This year, the thousands of photos hav | Continue reading
From Macedonian designer Fleta Selmani, a typeface called Impossible Type that was inspired by the impossible geometries of M. | Continue reading
Oh, I really like this new NYC subway mosaic installed in the corridor between Times Square and Bryant Park designed by Nick C | Continue reading
Hi folks. I am taking the rest of August off to spend some time with my family near the ocean. I might extend that through Labor | Continue reading
Loving these portraits from Lui Ferreyra, particularly the top one, which is a little Impressionistic -- the colors remind me | Continue reading
Control meets chaos in these carefully arranged images from Kerry Skarbakka's series The Struggle to Right Oneself. | Continue reading
It may seem like sometimes that with the pandemic, we're back to square one. With the much more contagious Delta variant in play a | Continue reading
Remember Scanwiches? There was even a book version in 2011 and Helen Rosner wrote about the site for Saveur.To create an | Continue reading
Only 34 paintings by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, art history's foremost painter of Side Views of People Doing Things Near Win | Continue reading
By making public health central to their health care system, Costa Rica has achieved a higher life expectancy than the US for a fr | Continue reading
Omg look at these adorable crocheted pasta shapes made by Normalynn Ablao. Her pattern for the pasta is available on Etsy, as ar | Continue reading
You might want to take a deep breath or do a couple of laps around the house before watching this video about a community in the | Continue reading
Dan Sinker writes for The Atlantic about how navigating Covid risks, politically motivated bullshit, and America's failing infrast | Continue reading
I love this post from the NYPL comparing astronomical drawings by E.L. Trouvelot done in the 1870s to contemporary NASA images.T | Continue reading
Often using the phenomenon of pareidolia, Helga Stentzel arranges common household items to resemble faces, animals, and oth | Continue reading
For the New Yorker, the novelist Donald Antrim wrote about wanting to die by suicide and being saved by electroconvulsive therapy: | Continue reading