For the New Yorker, the novelist Donald Antrim wrote about wanting to die by suicide and being saved by electroconvulsive therapy: | Continue reading
I've been a bit obsessed recently with urban architecture that incorporates nature & greenery into the mix, especially | Continue reading
Since 2011, Tatsuya Tanaka has been creating daily images of miniature people in the midst of everyday items that resemb | Continue reading
I love these little stop motion videos by Huw Messie (using Processing, I think) that use embroidery for the animation.You | Continue reading
Americans are collectively almost $15 trillion in debt, most of it related to housing (i.e. mortgage debt). For the New York | Continue reading
Well. The robots sure are getting good at moving around -- running, jumping, doing flips, casually vaulting over railings like a | Continue reading
I am a little embarrassed (and surprised!) at how up my alley this is, but behold: the winners of the Potato Photographer | Continue reading
Jumbo the Elephant was one of the most famous animals in the world. Bought as a calf in Sudan by a European animal dealer in 186 | Continue reading
Finnish photographer Mikko Lagerstedt creates striking, ethereal, and atmospheric photographs -- check out his work on his web | Continue reading
Johnny Cirillo photographs people on the streets of New York in the style of paparazzi (half a block away with a long lens) | Continue reading
In this short video from TED-Ed, we learn how Iceland extracts nearly emissions-free geothermal energy from the Earth (hint: vol | Continue reading
Over at In Focus, Alan Taylor is highlighting the work of Bob Wick, a photographer for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management wh | Continue reading
Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario has covered Afghanistan for the past 20 years. In the Atlantic, she writes | Continue reading
In The Hidden Melodies of Subways Around the World, the NY Times takes a look at an often overlooked aspect of transit design: the | Continue reading
For The Atlantic, Katherine Wu writes about the difficulty of communicating how vaccines work and how they protect individuals and | Continue reading
In an issue of his newsletter, The Convivial Society, L.M. Sacasas posed 41 questions that we should ask ourselves about technolog | Continue reading
One of the many effects of human-driven climate change is that, on average, the bodies of animals are getting smaller -- birds, | Continue reading
Watch as these tiny folded structures slowly unfold while floating on the water. It's all about surface tension and capillary ac | Continue reading
Usually when I post these sorts of non-narrative videos -- in this case, a series of creative stop motion vignettes featuring ma | Continue reading
This is an extraordinary story by Jennifer Senior about the various ways in which members of a family grieved the death of a belov | Continue reading
I'm just going to go ahead and say it right up front here: if you had certain expectations in May/June about how the pandemic was | Continue reading
The Panola Project is a short film by Rachael DeCruz and Jeremy Levine that follows the efforts of local convenience store owner | Continue reading
In a paper published in 2017, Todd Kashdan and his colleagues identified five distinct dimensions of curiosity. Here are the first | Continue reading
The YouTube channel In Depth Cine has been looking at how directors like Spike Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, Martin Scorsese, an | Continue reading
90-year-old Wayan Nyo has been fishing in Indonesian waters for 80 years but now pulls mostly plastic and trash out of the water | Continue reading
In an excerpt from his new book This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan writes about caffeine, a performance enhancing drug th | Continue reading
For the FT, Tim Harford writes about things that could have been invented far sooner than they actually were.Consider the bicycl | Continue reading
In the first part of a multi-video series on how the human immune system works, Kurzgesagt describes how the system's first line | Continue reading
From XKCD's Randall Munroe, a chart of the global average temperature over his lifetime. If you're curious, you can check how mu | Continue reading
The 2020 Summer Olympics are over, but it's never too late to find inspiration in the athletes who competed. For the New Yorker, | Continue reading
Check out Italian photographer Paolo Pettigiani's photos of the evaporation ponds of Camargue, France. While these ponds are | Continue reading
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released their summary report on the climate emergency, which warns that | Continue reading
These images are drawn from Argentinian-born artist Karen Navarro's projects El Pertenecer en Tiempos Modernos (Belonging | Continue reading
File this under Things I Definitely Want to Do Sometime: riding electric-assist railbikes through a California redwood forest. Che | Continue reading
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 16x platinum Black Album, Metallica is releasing an album on Sept 10th called The Met | Continue reading
BuzzFeed enlisted NYU track athlete Jon Diaz to help answer a burning question: Can a fast runner beat an NYC subway train from | Continue reading
In a series of four short time lapse films, Casper Rolsted captures the changing of the seasons in Denmark, from summer (t | Continue reading
Black holes are the largest single objects in the universe, many times larger than even the biggest stars, and have no upper lim | Continue reading
In the last decade, the number of pedestrians hit by cars in the United States has increased by almost 50%, even as that rate has | Continue reading
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recently added the ability to identify birds from hearing their birdsong to their Merlin Bird ID | Continue reading
For his Faces of Century project, photographer Jan Langer made portraits of Czech people who are 100+ years old that mimic t | Continue reading
I was 16 years old on the day the Berlin Wall fell. I remember coming home from school that day and watching the events unfold o | Continue reading
In this video, Tomorrow's Build takes a look at the $7 billion flood defense system that was built to protect Venice, Italy from | Continue reading
Here's the thing about humans: they will danceify every possible activity -- and canoeing is no exception.American Freestyle c | Continue reading
For his video series for Eater, Daniel Geneen took a tour of the Lodge Cast Iron factory in South Pittsburg, Tennessee to see ho | Continue reading
Among Giants is a short documentary about a group of activists who lived in the trees of a Humboldt County redwood forest for fo | Continue reading
Before this morning, I had never heard of Lusia Harris and now she's one of my favorite basketball players. Playing in the 1970s | Continue reading
The Royal Museums Greenwich has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. I've in | Continue reading