When something dark and ominous happens onscreen, there's a good chance that the action is accompanied by a four-note snippet fr | Continue reading
Just a reminder that the Global Climate Strike begins this Friday, September 20. A coalition of young activists led by Greta Thu | Continue reading
For their latest video, Kurzgesagt takes a typically informative journey from the surface of the ocean all the way down to the d | Continue reading
Based on handwriting analysis, Jason Scott-Warren, the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts, has discovered that | Continue reading
Writer Rachel Monroe recently shared a bunch of "odd synonyms for 'died'" that her mother collects from obituaries. Here | Continue reading
French economist Thomas Piketty has come out with a new book. The 1200-page Capital and Ideology is a followup to Capital in the 2 | Continue reading
Kirk Weddle took the iconic photograph of the underwater baby for the cover of Nirvana's breakthrough album Nevermind. On his webs | Continue reading
SmokyMountains.com is back this year with their best-of-web foliage prediction map. Here in Vermont, things are starting to look | Continue reading
For some of his latest street art, Portuguese graffiti artist Vile has been creating optical illusions of his name "cut" | Continue reading
Some of you may have noticed that kottke.org was unavailable for more than 36 hours on Thursday and Friday last week. That's the | Continue reading
The light and the wind happened to be just right for Greg Harlow to catch this rainbow emanating from upper portion of Yosemite | Continue reading
The Natural History Museum has released a sneak preview of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for 2019, sharing | Continue reading
For years, researchers have identified a link between a person's "moral foundations" and their political views. In a pie | Continue reading
A team of researchers exploring about a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean ran across this graceful octopus that put | Continue reading
For Forest -- The Unending Attraction of Nature is an art installation from Klaus Littmann that features a forest made up of 300 | Continue reading
Treasures in the Trash is a short film by Nicolas Heller about former NYC sanitation worker Nelson Molina, who started (and stil | Continue reading
This video is an animated history of the shifting borders of Europe from 400 BCE to the present. This is a very nation-centric v | Continue reading
Historian Ibram X. Kendi first crossed my radar as a frequent contributor on the podcast series Seeing White (which I loved and ur | Continue reading
In this slow motion video clip from a BBC program called Secrets of Bones, you can see how a pigeon takes off so quickly. Pigeon | Continue reading
For her O.P.P. series, Heather Oelklaus weaves together strips of cut-up prints to form new scenes.In the series O.P.P. (Oth | Continue reading
Director Christian Stangl and composer Wolfgang Stangl used millions of photos (that's right, millions!) taken by the ESA's Rose | Continue reading
Bloomberg Businessweek dedicated their entire Sept 2, 2019 issue to the periodic table (it's 150 years old this year) and the elem | Continue reading
As I mentioned in a post about my west coast roadtrip, one of the things I heard about during my visit to Pixar was their AI spide | Continue reading
Twitter user @WPCelebration recently compiled a list of nine activities and rights denied to women in America in 1971, just 48 yea | Continue reading
I love cross-disciplinary lists like this: The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years.We polled critics and other cul | Continue reading
YouTuber Lord Vinheteiro recently played the same pair of tunes on six different pianos, ranging from a $499 used upright to a $ | Continue reading
Twenty-five years ago, physicist Cesare Marchetti argued that people, on average, tend to keep their commutes to about an hour a d | Continue reading
Guernica is one of Pablo Picasso's greatest masterpieces, and, like a lot of his other work, can be difficult to decipher. The p | Continue reading
Holy moly I love these glitched still lifes by Olan Ventura. (via colossal) | Continue reading
Kurzgesagt are known for their animated explainers about science and society. For their latest video, they've applied their sign | Continue reading
Randall Munroe's new book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, just came out and Wired has a lengthy | Continue reading
Modern society has an air conditioning problem. One of the most popular responses by the world's population to global warming is t | Continue reading
Every year on Aug 31, the residents of Nejapa, El Salvador throw flaming kerosene-soaked balls at each other in the streets surrou | Continue reading
Waffle House is prepared to make you breakfast at all hours of the day in any kind of weather. The restaurant chain is so widely r | Continue reading
In partnership with the Institute for the Future, Errol Morris has produced a series of 30-second spots about climate change that | Continue reading
For the past 6 years, Tycho has done a 2-hour DJ set at Burning Man to coincide with the sunrise. He's just posted 2019's installm | Continue reading
The Beautiful Ones, a memoir/autobiography/scrapbook by the artist forever after known as Prince, comes out next month. Prince wan | Continue reading
The late 1930s were a time of explosive creativity in the comics industry, with the creation of Superman, Batman, and Marvel Com | Continue reading
The Atavist's "Masterpiece Theater," by Anna Altman, traces the works of an art forger, Geert Jan Jansen (aka, among o | Continue reading
Video essayist Jacob T. Swinney makes makes these great little supercuts of the stylistic habits of filmmakers. His two latest one | Continue reading
From Kaiser Kuo, a long piece attempting to answer the question: "Why do so many people feel that the Chinese can't possibly | Continue reading
Yesterday I linked to a thread discussing old school bloggers who are still active. One of the best of the old guard is very much | Continue reading
A recent poll of almost 2000 likely 2020 voters suggests that the anti-abortion movement is not really about protecting life but m | Continue reading
Since reading Gregory Shill's writing about how heavily subsidized cars are in the United States, I've been on the lookout for dif | Continue reading
An endling is the last known member of a species and once it dies, the species becomes extinct. George was a tree snail that died | Continue reading
SpaceX took its Starhopper rocket out for a little test run in Texas the other day, taking off and then landing about 300 feet a | Continue reading
In late July after visiting my kids at camp, I flew into LA, rented a car, and spent two weeks driving up the coast from there t | Continue reading
A photo of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in late June was recently released by NASA. Among other things, it shows | Continue reading