Built by NEXT architects in the Chinese city of Changsha,1 the Lucky Knot bridge is a wonderfully inventive piece of
This is women’s work
For a photo project called Women’s Work, Chris Crisman made portraits of women who have jobs not typically done by wo
A massive billion-dollar movable arch now covers the destroyed reactor at Chernobyl
A building which cost $1.5 billion and was 20 years in the making was moved into position over the highly radioactive
How the NY Times prepared for Castro’s death
In a peek at how the media sausage is made, the NY Times has documented how the newspaper prepared for the death of Fid
Fighting authoritarianism: 20 lessons from the 20th century
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder took to Facebook to share some lessons from 20th century about how to protect our
Every story is the same
A few years ago, Dan Harmon broke the structure of stories down into eight basic parts:
A character is in a zone of c
Evolution at work: ivory poaching and tuskless elephants
Poachers in Africa in search of the biggest ivory tusks have altered the gene pool of African elephants in the process
Is liberal democracy in trouble? “Warning signs are flashing red.”
Political scientists Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa have been doing research on the stability of contemporary libe
Come Together, a short film by Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson directed a short holiday film starring Adrien Brody for H&M. It is delightful. You can criticize the
Hamilton/Beyonce mashup
A singing group delivers a tight six-minute mashup of songs by Beyonce and the hit Broadway show Hamilton. It starts a
Voting under the influence of celebrity
Dave Pell from Nextdraft on the connection between OJ Simpson and Donald Trump and how celebrity warps American minds.
Boo, Cyber Monday! Yay, giving!
The eagerly awaited kottke.org holiday gift guide for this year is coming soon (here is last year’s in the meantime), b
President Obama names 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Lost in the shuffle over the past two weeks — with the focus on the incoming presidential administration and the Thanks
Why chess has failed to catch on as a spectator sport
Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin are competing in the FIDE World Chess Championship Match in NYC and are currently ti
A world map of every country’s tourism slogan
A site called FamilyBreakFinder produced a world map with every country’s tourism slogan on it. A few of my favorite s
An animated interpretation of The Garden of Earthly Delights
The MOTI Museum in The Netherlands commissioned Studio Smack to interpret the middle panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s The G
Five Steps to Tyranny
In 2000, the BBC broadcast an hour-long documentary called Five Steps to Tyranny, a look at how ordinary people can do
Silence, a new film by Martin Scorsese
It’s been three years since The Wolf of Wall Street and Martin Scorsese is finally coming out with a new film. Based o
Mesmerizing mushroom time lapse from Planet Earth II
Damn the Brits! First Brexit paves the way for Trump (ok, not entirely accurate) and now they are currently enjoying P
The trans community of Christopher Street
Over a number of recent summers, well-known portrait photographer Mark Seliger has been documenting the transgender
The 100 most influential images of all time
Time Magazine has selected the 100 most influential photos of all time, from the first permanent photograph taken (i
Can hypothermia save lives in the trauma center?
Nicola Twilley reports on a relatively new technique being used in a Baltimore trauma center: freezing trauma victims t
Casey Neistat ends his vlog
For the past year and a half, Casey Neistat has been putting out a not-quite-daily 10-minute video blog about his day.
The Atlas of Design
The North American Cartographic Information Society has published the third volume of The Atlas of Design, a book cons
NASA’s analysis of seemingly impossible engine: it works
NASA has published their highly anticipated and peer-reviewed analysis of the EM Drive and they’ve concluded the engin
Actors’ movie accents, rated
Erik Singer is a dialect coach who works with actors to perfect different accents and dialects. In this video, he quic
Beastie Boys / Daft Punk mashup
This is pretty simple: 8 songs from the Beastie Boys remixed using beats and samples from Daft Punk. If you need furthe
The last steps on the Moon
In May of 1961, President John F. Kennedy told Congress and the rest of the American public that the US was going to s
A reading list for resistance
Over at Literary Hub, Emily Temple offers a “reading list for resistance”, a list of 25 Works of Fiction and Poetry for
Beeeeeeeeeeeee Mooooooovie
This is the trailer for the animated film Bee Movie, except that the action and audio is slowed down every time someon
Global weirding continues with massive Arctic warm-up
Something is rotten to the north of Denmark. Climate scientists are alarmed at the extreme warmth in the Arctic right
The Aberdeen Bestiary, a gorgeous medieval illuminated manuscript
A bestiary was a type of book popular in the Middle Ages, featuring descriptions of animals accompanied by moral les
Urged to eat less meat, Americans are actually eating more
For most of the past decade, consumption of meat in the United States remained flat or declined.
For environmental, hea
The United Red and Blue States of America
The New York Times took a map of the US and split it in two based on areas that voted for Clinton and Trump in the 201
Paperholm: a tiny paper metropolis
Originally conceived as a year-long project, artist Charles Young keep going and has built an entire model city out of
Photographic reunions
Photographer Chris Porsz has been taking candid photos of people on the streets of the English city of Peterborough s
Legacy: David Bowie’s greatest hits compilation
A pair of greatest hits albums by David Bowie have been released.
The album collects together a selection of Bowie’s
The 14 Features of Eternal Fascism
In 1995, Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco wrote a piece for The New York Review of Books on fascism.1 As pa
Human landscapes of the American Southwest
Alan Taylor has compiled a bunch of satellite photography showing how humans have altered the landscape of the Ameri
Important victory for the kids suing the US over climate change
A group of children and young adults are suing the United States over climate change.
The young plaintiffs, who range
Found: van Gogh’s lost sketchbook
In 2013, art historian Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov was asked to look at some drawings that may have been done by Vincent v
The most relaxing song in the world
According to a marketing study conducted by Dr. David Lewis-Hodgson, the most relaxing song in the world is Weightless,
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
In this video, American poet Maya Angelou recites her poem Still I Rise, which was published in 1978. The recitation i
Black Mirror soundtracks
Perhaps listening to the pulsing, creepy, and foreboding music from Black Mirror is too much at a time like this, but i
NYC’s 14th Street Grief Wall
In the wake of the election, Matthew Chavez, who goes by “Levee” and is the instigator of Subway Therapy, encourage
Over-The-Knee Boots That'll Actually Fit Women With Big Calves
Newsflash: Over-the-knee boots aren’t going anywhere. Just ask the Kardashians.
And yet, we’re filled with dread ever
President-Elect Trump's Environmental Agenda
I did not expect Donald Trump to be elected president and, like most people, I was surprised when he won. On January 20
Sean Hannity: Donald Trump Should Deny Press Credentials To Major News Outlets
Fox News host Sean Hannity apparently believes that CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times should be excluded
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