The "streaming wars" are starting in earnest with the launch of Disney Plus and I'm wondering how things will turn out | Continue reading
The Internet Archive is an absolute treasure with a gigantic task ahead of them. They have now set their sights on vinyl LPs and | Continue reading
It's fascinating to me how people can focus, specialize in, and love a tiny narrow niche and make it their life's work. Heidi Gu | Continue reading
The Finns love libraries, and a new fabulous one opened last year in Helsinki. Tommi Laitio, Helsinki's executive director for c | Continue reading
This is just a bit insane. A few days ago, Nepalese climber Nirmal Purja "reached the summit of 26,335-foot Shishapangmain | Continue reading
Yet another potential use for CRISPR, although the gene editing technology is usually considered for macroscopic tasks, like edi | Continue reading
While we're on the world building topic, here's another article on design within games, this one about the posters used in the upc | Continue reading
Can't say I'm much of a gamer but I like when things intersect in interesting ways and the launch of Hideo Kojima's Death Strand | Continue reading
This is the kind of thing fin to look through while at the same time wondering "you did what now??" Sébastien Matos re | Continue reading
There's growing visibility and demand for the work of female artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, from The Museo Naci | Continue reading
In a short film shot in 1957, Walt Disney described the multiplane camera, one of the many inventions and innovations his compan | Continue reading
To finish the week, some absolutely gorgeous mushroom and myxomycetes pictures by Photographer Alison Pollack who gets close to | Continue reading
The nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup "secretly" developed another idea to clean oceans, The Interceptor which aims to stop | Continue reading
Sleep is one of those things we still don't completely understand and new discoveries are still being made. This research is quite | Continue reading
A few days ago, the US Air Force's X-37B space plane landed after 780 days in orbit, which is kind of incredible. We don't know | Continue reading
It's always (to me anyway) interesting to see artists' studios, artisan workshops and the like. I'm pretty sure if I've ever wond | Continue reading
In this video, dialect coach Erik Singer explains how to tell similar accents apart, like Australia & New Zealand, Philly & | Continue reading
Artist Chris Soal makes these shaggy-looking sculptures out of thousands of toothpicks. Here's a closeup of one of his works, wh | Continue reading
At the Sebrell Funeral Home in Ridgeland, MS (just outside of Jackson), they perform funerals and cremations for people with HIV | Continue reading
The Very Hungry Caterpillar was one of my absolute favorite books as a kid and one of first books that we read to our kids (and | Continue reading
From Metrobits, a fantastic resource for all things to do with metros and subways around the world, comes this collection of metro | Continue reading
From graphic designer Mariyan Atanasov comes Urban Tetris, in which apartment buildings in Sofia, Bulgaria are turned into a | Continue reading
In a recent episode of The Art Assignment, they make the case for Impressionism.The arrival of photography had also revealed n | Continue reading
In 1978, Kurt Vonnegut gave the commencement speech at Fredonia State College in upstate New York. The speech was published under | Continue reading
The other day I posted the news that the low railroad bridge that's famous for ripping off the tops of trucks is finally going to | Continue reading
Here's the trailer for a five-episode Netflix series called The Devil Next Door.The series is about John Demjanjuk, who was li | Continue reading
A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale published 30 years later, piggybacking on a successful TV adaptation? It could have been a disaste | Continue reading
I love this photograph by Peruvian photographer Jheison Huerta. It's a shot of the Milky Way above the Salar de Uyuni salt flat | Continue reading
As part of their Nov 2019 issue focusing on women, National Geographic asked a group of women six questions:What Is the Most Imp | Continue reading
NPR's Anya Kamenetz shares six tips on how to talk to your kids about the climate crisis. Step 1 is to break the silence:He says | Continue reading
An alternate version of the ABC song that slows down the LMNOP part is currently going viral because of a tweet by Noah Garfinkel: | Continue reading
Each year since 2014, a group in Japan holds a Halloween event where people come dressed not as witches, Avengers, or zombies but | Continue reading
One Page Dungeon generates small dungeon layouts for RPG adventures (Dungeons & Dragons, etc.) You can just throw all that g | Continue reading
Ever since I read this tweet the other day, I can't unsee Munch's The Scream as a painting of a spaniel dog. (The tweet's photo | Continue reading
For his project 31 Days of Wizardry, Jaremi Carey has been dressing up as a different Harry Potter character each day in Oct | Continue reading
Every month or two for the past couple of years, I've shared the movies, books, music, TV, and podcasts I've enjoyed (or not) rece | Continue reading
Shannon Downey regularly goes to estate sales to buy unfinished embroidery projects and then completes them -- "there's no wa | Continue reading
In a piece for the NY Times, obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Lisa Harris shares her experience of a typical day at her practice, whe | Continue reading
MIT Technology Review's Antonio Regalado reports on an improved gene editing technique that can rewrite DNA without actually cutti | Continue reading
Last week, the beloved NYC eating establishment City Bakery closed its doors due to financial troubles.1 Rachel Holliday Smith dug | Continue reading
Nikon has announced the winning entries in the 2019 Small World Photomicrography Competition. Here are a few of the winners that c | Continue reading
On Oct 21, the emblem for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was unveiled in Paris, site of the Games. It features a round s | Continue reading
Have you been watching Succession? I feel bad about enjoying watching rich people be horrible to each other, but I do love the s | Continue reading
Today, Google announced the results of their quantum supremacy experiment in a blog post and Nature article. First, a quick note o | Continue reading
From the @europemaps Instagram account, a map of the first words of the national anthems of European countries. Collectively, it | Continue reading
For more than 25 years, biologist David Goodsell has been making scientifically accurate paintings and illustrations of | Continue reading
The Nautilus expedition exploring the Davidson Seamount near Monterey Bay turned up something interesting last week: a relativel | Continue reading
Let's just all pretend that this trailer did not give me goosebumps and make me pump my fist a little, because at this point Sta | Continue reading