I really like Owen Pomery's illustrative style -- his drawings are spare yet detailed, precise but a bit messy. You can see | Continue reading
This is what our night sky is going to look like in 3.9 billion years:Wow! So what's going on here? Using data from the Hubble | Continue reading
From filmmaker David Freid, Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen is a short film about Longyearbyen, Norway, the one of the northernmost | Continue reading
After months of renovations and a week or two of previews, MoMA officially reopens for business today. I was able to attend a pres | Continue reading
In this clip from a longer conversation in the Off Camera interview series, Zach Galifianakis talks about his brief two-week stint | Continue reading
BrickBrosProductions makes stop motion animated films featuring Lego bricks. Their most popular video is a compilation of the th | Continue reading
Roman Butin is a Russian artist who modifies coins with elaborate hand-engraved designs of his own. His latest creation is a coi | Continue reading
Kurzgesagt has partnered with the Red Cross and their "no to nukes" initiative to depict what it would be like if a nu | Continue reading
From the State Library of Florida comes a collection of more than 600 crate labels used by the citrus and vegetable indu | Continue reading
One of the (several dozen) posts I started writing ages ago but never finished was a collection of the hundreds of bird il | Continue reading
Until his death in 2016, Bill Cunningham captured the fashions of people walking the streets and catwalks of NYC and elsewhere, | Continue reading
From filmmaker Patrick Smith, a short film called Gun Shop that shows images of 2,328 guns in just over 90s seconds.This film | Continue reading
Inspired by the handwritten sign that climate activist Greta Thunberg has been using since beginning her climate strike in Augus | Continue reading
The winning images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 contest have been announced by the Natural History Museum in Lond | Continue reading
Emily Wilson, whose translation of The Odyssey recently reintroduced the epic to a wider non-classics audience, has now cheekily t | Continue reading
This past weekend in Austria, Eliud Kipchoge ran the marathon distance of 26.2 miles in 1 hour, 59 minutes, and 40 seconds, the fi | Continue reading
I pretty much stopped using iTunes for music when I switched to Rdio1 (and then to Spotify). So going back in there is like uneart | Continue reading
Slate recently asked a bunch of developers, journalists, computer scientists, and historians what they thought the most influent | Continue reading
According to a book by human rights journalist Edwin Black, Hitler needed logistical help in carrying out the genocide of Europe | Continue reading
This past weekend for a project called VIGIL, artist Jenny Holzer projected texts about the impact and realities of gun violence o | Continue reading
This maddening little web toy on vole.wtf challenges visitors to draw a perfect circle and judges them on how well they do. After | Continue reading
Pro skateboarder Felipe Nunes hails from Brazil, is 20 years old, and recently signed on to Tony Hawk's Birdhouse team. Nunes al | Continue reading
From the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, an animated timeline of human evolution, from when hominins first show up in | Continue reading
For their latest video, Great Big Story visits a French mill that's been making paper for 700 years. The Richard de Bas mill has | Continue reading
On Monday, I posted a link to David Leonhardt's NY Times piece, The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You.For the first time o | Continue reading
Despite some reservations (a little too bro-y for one thing), I really enjoyed David Chang's Netflix series Ugly Delicious. So I'm | Continue reading
The partnership between China and Western governments & corporations has hit a rough patch recently, namely the Hong Kong prot | Continue reading
Creative director and artist Matt Jukes makes these lovely prints of "misremembered landscapes and nearly forgotten mem | Continue reading
From Steve Begg (who I would guess is this Steve Begg, who has done VFX on the recent Bond films) comes an epilogue of Stanley K | Continue reading
Ten years ago, in the midst of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, I wrote about the manufacturing process for the H1N1 flu vaccine. It i | Continue reading
This morning, instead of crawling straight from bed to desk and diving into the internet cesspool, I went for a walk. I went becau | Continue reading
For The Atlantic, Bianca Bosker writes about the growing problem of noise pollution (because of our love of technology and hands-o | Continue reading
Inspired by some photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, Margaret Nazon began in 2009 to make beaded artworks of stars, gala | Continue reading
I've featured Reuben Wu's work here before so when I saw via Colossal that he's got some new stuff going on, I immediately wen | Continue reading
Ze Frank released the most recent video in his True Facts series about animals last month. Meet the ogre-faced spider. Admittedl | Continue reading
From the catalog of the National Archives, a drawing from US Patent #95513 filed by W.F. Quinby in 1869 for "Improvement in | Continue reading
I was fortunate enough to make it out to Portland, OR for the 2019 XOXO festival back in September. It was my third time attending | Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 has done an abridged audio reading of Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, her followup to The Handmaid's Tale. The serie | Continue reading
Great Big Stories has collected five of their video short stories into a collection: 5 True Tales of Manhattan. The stories incl | Continue reading
Riffing off a remark made by Guillermo del Toro that a director's output is all part of the same movie, Andrew Saladino of The R | Continue reading
Last week we saw two absolutely incredible product introductions, and I'm having trouble picking a favorite. First, there were Gle | Continue reading
In 2012, a company called Dassault Systèmes launched an interactive application that allowed you to move about in a 3 | Continue reading
Yellowstone National Park maintains a collection of sounds and videos taken in the park that are in the public domain and free f | Continue reading
YMMV, but I laughed really hard at this (sound on, obvs). Good clean Friday fun. | Continue reading
I bet you don't think about wicker furniture that much, but Estelle Caswell does. In this video, which proves that almost anythi | Continue reading
You may remember a short piece by Errol Morris in the Times a few weeks ago that was more of a quiz than a essay. Well, the quiz t | Continue reading
Master cinematographer Roger Deakins has teamed up with director Sam Mendes on 1917, a WWI thriller that follows two soldiers ta | Continue reading
Chicago mashup masters The Hood Internet have been pretty quiet lately -- their last mixtape was released more than two years ago. | Continue reading