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
Ctrl Shift Face created the popular deepfake videos of Bill Hader impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hader doing Tom Cruise, and | Continue reading
If you need to convince yourself to go to Iceland, this short film by Vadim Sherbakov should do the trick for you. Just stunning | Continue reading
I don't talk about it much on the site for some reason, but Mario Kart is one of my all-time favorite video games. So I am very ex | Continue reading
Because of the Electoral College and the way the primary system works in the US, presidential candidates end up spending a disprop | Continue reading
I don't know about you, but I found it extremely difficult to not watch something called "A Year Ago I Put Saltwater in a Jar | Continue reading
By photographing two separate nighttime scenes, one in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere, amateur | Continue reading
For the New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten writes about this year's measles outbreak in the US, the largest such outbreak in decades. The | Continue reading
From experimental game developer Pippin Barr, several variations on the game of chess that makes the game more interesting (or a | Continue reading
From a 1972 episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Mister Rogers demonstrates how to make a record using a machine called a rec | Continue reading
Listen in as Anthony Vincent covered Metallica's classic Enter Sandman in 20 different musical styles, ranging from yodeling to | Continue reading
Working from remains discovered during archaeological excavations, sculptor and archaeologist Oscar Nilsson combines his two disci | Continue reading
Passport photos are subject to an extensive list of guidelines and restrictions -- for instance, the background has to be &q | Continue reading
In this fun BMX video, Tate Roskelley uses all sorts of props -- car tires, milk crates, trees, tennis balls -- to perform all k | Continue reading
From the folks that produced the NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual and the NASA Standards Manual comes a new book, P | Continue reading
In the 1960s, Haddon Salt built up a small empire of fish & chips shops in North America -- they eventually had more than 500 | Continue reading
Le Corbuffet was a series of performances by artist Esther Choi that sought to bring together food with notable artists and design | Continue reading
The music video for Anna Meredith's latest song, Paramour, is a single-take journey of a toy Lego train through a group of music | Continue reading
Li Ziqi is a woman who lives in Sichuan province in China with her grandmother, preparing food and making clothing from scratch wi | Continue reading
Andy Bailey is a stop-motion animator at Laika who worked on Kubo and The Boxtrolls. In this video, he shares his process while | Continue reading
In 2016, Benjamin Grant published Overview, a book of high-definition satellite photos of the Earth that were drawn from his site, | Continue reading
Circuses, like children, are always both charming and creepy. Make it a children's circus, i.e., like Greenboro, Vermont's Circu | Continue reading
Gizmodo has a pretty cool theme this week: the Alternate Internet. Not, like, the internet where they play Stone Temple Pilots b-s | Continue reading
One of the troubles with interviewing Ira Glass is that Ira Glass has a lot of thoughts about interviews.Claudia Dreifus: When | Continue reading
The servers at The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders, a series of pop-up restaurants in Tokyo, are all living with dementia, which mea | Continue reading
For the past year, a group of teens in Nigeria called the Critics Company have been uploading short sci-fi films to their YouTube | Continue reading
As he does every so often, President Obama shared a list of the books that he's reading this summer in this Facebook post. I am no | Continue reading
In most time lapse videos you see of the night sky, the stars wheel through the sky as the heavens revolve around the Earth. But | Continue reading
Photos by Daehyuk Im of the Coney Island amusement rides and other structures, framed against the sky. Looking back through | Continue reading
The first Africans to be brought as slaves to British North America landed in Port Comfort, Virginia in 1619. Thus began America's | Continue reading
Oh, I love these abstract oil paintings by Jason Anderson. They are analog and organic but also more than a little pixel-y. | Continue reading
Today I learned that ZIP Codes do not strictly represent geographic areas but rather "address groups or delivery routes" | Continue reading
The mission of Version Museum is to record and present what the interfaces of software and websites looked like, from their earlie | Continue reading
Designer Jordan Vincent has created a visualization tracking overnight stays in US National Parks, i.e. people using tents & R | Continue reading
Urban Nudges is a site that documents small efforts by cities and the people who live in them to slightly change the behaviors of | Continue reading
In 2013, University of Virginia historian Grace Elizabeth Hale wrote about "the long and often fractious history of soft drin | Continue reading
Gerry is a typeface where the letterforms are created from heavily gerrymandered Congressional districts. For example, the lette | Continue reading
In today's episode of Earworm, Estelle Caswell teams up with Matt Daniels from The Pudding to track the popularity of the falset | Continue reading
In 1965, long after his days making some of the most iconic and physically demanding silent films, pioneering physical comedian Bu | Continue reading
This is a really cool visualization of how Planet's 150+ imaging satellites take a complete satellite photo of the Earth every sin | Continue reading
Using a concept from NASA, a Finnish company called Solar Foods has figured out how to manufacture protein from carbon dioxide, wa | Continue reading
For the New Yorker, Brooke Jarvis reviews Timothy C. Winegard's The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.It turns | Continue reading
I realize that many of you have probably seen it already, but I ran across this while away on vacation and thought it was one of t | Continue reading
According to recent statistics, the number of books published about the climate crisis & the natural world aimed at children h | Continue reading
I read a short poem by Wendell Berry this morning called Questionnaire that has relevance to some of the things our society and cu | Continue reading
Nolla is a zero-waste restaurant in Helsinki, Finland.At Nolla there is no waste bin in the kitchen nor can you find any single | Continue reading
During World War II, a group of scientists led by Werner Heisenberg worked on designing a nuclear weapon for Nazi Germany. They we | Continue reading
Hey, just a short note to say that kottke.org won't be published this week. This is the first break in publishing the site since.. | Continue reading