A chap named Brendan Carey took footage from the 1970 animated movie The Aristocats and dubbed over Lizzo's Truth Hurts to make th | Continue reading
Pixar is always trying to push the envelope of animation and filmmaking, going beyond what they've done before. For the studio's l | Continue reading
In a 2010 interview with the BBC, Alan Rickman talked about the importance of listening as an actor:You only speak because you | Continue reading
In an opinion piece for the NY Times, Thomas Edsall asks the provocative question: How and when will President Trump leave the Whi | Continue reading
With the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Soviet Union kicked off the Space Race and for the first several years (arguable up until | Continue reading
I've been slowly making my way through various aspects of the NY Times' ambitious 1619 Project spearheaded up by Nikole Hannah-Jon | Continue reading
I really enjoyed this piece by architect Scott Hines on how he would design the next generation of baseball stadiums. He starts by | Continue reading
The World Photography Organization has shared some of the early entries for the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards with In Focus. | Continue reading
Artist Banksy has opened a storefront in the South London borough of Croydon called Gross Domestic Product. It's literally a store | Continue reading
Ants are fascinating. They're small and individually dumb, but together they can form very complex societies capable of activiti | Continue reading
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears to be strategically using particular words and phrases in speeches and appearances as SEO | Continue reading
In 2008, Japanese creative agency Hakuhodo created a campaign for the World Wildlife Federation that featured photos of endangered | Continue reading
In this quick animated excerpt of a longer talk, political philosopher Michael Sandel critiques the idea of the meritocracy, the n | Continue reading
Watch as MoMA art conservator Diana Hartman repairs some weak spots of Paula Modersohn-Becker's 1907 self-portrait. The painting | Continue reading
Since the 1990s, Pulitzer prizewinning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been a fixture at the Santa Fe Institute, a transdisciplinary | Continue reading
In a letter announcing his resignation from the MacDowell Colony, novelist Michael Chabon considers what art is for. Or, I wonde | Continue reading
For decades, Kevin Kelly has been traveling in Asia documenting traditional cultures and environments while they still exist. | Continue reading
In this video, CGP Grey investigates fast and not-so-fast methods for boarding commercial airline flights. Most airlines board p | Continue reading
The Gastropod podcast turns five years old this month and to celebrate they've compiled a list of 25 of their favorite fun food fa | Continue reading
Jessica Wynne has been taking photos of mathematicians' blackboards for the past year or so, some of which were featured recently | Continue reading
For the Atlantic, Olga Khazan writes about an approach to physical fitness called "greasing the groove", which some peop | Continue reading
(Note: This post contains images of simulated crime scenes.) Frances Glessner Lee is known as "the mother of forensic science | Continue reading
Legendary skater Tony Hawk breaks down 21 increasingly complex skateboarding tricks, from a standard ollie to a kickflip to a Mc | Continue reading
Curious about the social behaviors of cephalopods, marine biologist David Scheel brought an octopus named Heidi home to live wit | Continue reading
Chess is as physically demanding as many other sports due to stress and because the human brain uses a ton of energy. Many of toda | Continue reading
Ever since Starman in 1984, Jeff Bridges has taken photos on the set of every film he's acted in using his Widelux F8 camera | Continue reading
Like many Americans, I have been hearing about climate change since the late 80s (or perhaps even longer). Back then, the story wa | Continue reading
Boston Dynamics programmed their Atlas robot to do a gymnastics routine.I lost it when it did that little jump split at about | 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
In light of the recent news of almost 30% of America's birds disappearing in the past 50 years and the ongoing news of the climate | Continue reading
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors in dense integrated circuits would double each yea | Continue reading
The Guardian recently compiled a list of the best books of the century (with a British bent). Here are a few of the picks that c | Continue reading
Abstract: The Art of Design is back for a second season on Netflix beginning September 25. The folks featured this time around a | Continue reading
After seeing some videos on my pal Jenni's Instagram of Refik Anadol's immersive display at ARTECHOUSE in NYC, it's now at the t | Continue reading
A short and compelling video from Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot about how we can harness nature to help repair our broken clim | Continue reading
You may remember my many posts about trials rider Danny MacAskill over the past decade (including Parkour On a Bicycle). Well, t | Continue reading
In Why Every CEO Needs to Think Like a Hacker, Stalker, or White Nationalist, Rob Walker argues that products should be designed w | Continue reading
You may not be particularly into the yo-yo, but any expert's explanation of their particular skill or craft is fascinating. In t | Continue reading
Tops is a short film from 1969 by legendary designers/filmmakers Charles & Ray Eames that showcases spinning toys from all o | Continue reading
For Real Life magazine, Drew Austin writes about wireless headphones and their potential effect on the public sphere if many peopl | Continue reading
The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric monument that's been around since the late Bronze Age, some 3000 years ago. Situated on | Continue reading
I love this advice from Jenny Odell (author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy):I can't give my students more | Continue reading
Even on my busiest day, I will drop everything to watch a video of pencils being made. (I am a particular sucker for sharpening pe | Continue reading
The internet is 97% hilarious animals and today we have the best of the best. The finalists for the 2019 Comedy Wildlife Photograp | Continue reading
A fellow by the name of David who goes by PixelDanc3r made this animated map of the United States in the style of 16-bit video g | Continue reading
In 1936, former director of research at the Cleveland Federal Reserve L. Merle Hostetler published 75 Yrs. of American Finance, | Continue reading
For their series The Director's Chair, Studio Binder pulls together interviews with notable filmmakers to shine some light on how | Continue reading
Using 2020 census estimates, a series of six maps and the accompanying article from William H. Frey at the Brookings Institution s | Continue reading