This newly released photo of the chaotic clouds of Jupiter would make a great marbled paper pattern.
NASA’s Juno spac
100 Useful Things
100 useful things “is an expanding collection of durable objects presented by the people who use them every day”.
We
A pair of Asian chefs demonstrate the art of making noodles by hand
Watch as Peter Song of Kung Fu Kitchen and Shuichi Kotani of Worldwide Soba make noodles by hand.
I can watch people p
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: we are all confident idiots
In a lesson for TED-Ed, David Dunning explains the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a cognitive bias in which people with lesser
Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a good story
In this 90-second video, Kurt Vonnegut provides eight guidelines for writing a good short story.
1. Use the time of a
The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth was unbelievably huge and fast
Humans are so small compared to the size of the Earth, it’s sometimes difficult to comprehend the scale of things like,
James Hansen’s 1988 climate predictions have proved to be remarkably accurate
In 1988, Dr. James Hansen testified in front of Congress about the future dangers of climate change caused by human act
The Ten Stages of Genocide
From Dr. Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch and Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at Geor
The history of straws
Alexis Madrigal is great at the systemic sublime — taking an everyday object or experience and showing how it implicate
The poster child problem
This week’s crisis of children separated from their parents, and both parents and children sent to jails or camps (in
Cooking Babylonian stews, the oldest recipes ever found
The Yale Babylonian Collection has four cuneiform tablets that contain the world’s oldest known food recipes — nearly
Huge online collection of Frida Kahlo art and artifacts
In partnership with over 30 museums and institutions from around the world, Google Arts & Culture has launched Face
There’s no scientific or genetic basis for race
Elizabeth Kolbert writing for National Geographic: There’s No Scientific Basis for Race — It’s a Made-Up Label.
“What
What made the Nazis possible? Why didn’t anyone stop them?
With an eye on the current political situations in the US, Turkey, Russia, and China, Cass Sunstein reviews three books
Dancing in movies
A supercut montage of dance scenes from over 300 movies (like School of Rock, The Wizard of Oz, Footloose, Dances With
Those grainy Moon photos from the 60s? The actual high-res images looked so much better.
In 1966 and 1967, NASA sent five spacecraft to orbit the Moon to take high-resolution photos to aid in finding a good l
Iceland’s goalkeeper directed a TV commercial for the World Cup
The Iceland men’s soccer team is nearly impossible not to root for in this World Cup. They are the smallest nation by p
America’s inhumane child separation policy & our border concentration camps
No use sugar-coating it: the federal government of the United States of America now has a policy of taking children aw
Are we completely fucked because of climate change?
In a review of William T. Vollman’s Carbon Ideologies, a two-volume set of books that the review calls “the Infinite Je
Who could jump higher on a trampoline, LeBron James or Simone Biles?
An interesting question, courtesy of Marginal Revolution:
Who could launch themselves higher on a trampoline? LeBron
In Search of Forgotten Colors
The Victoria and Albert Museum filmed this short four-part documentary about the Somenotsukasa Yoshioka dye workshop n
The comic tragedy of Balloonfest ‘86
In September 1986, as part of a United Way fundraiser, the city of Cleveland released 1.5 million balloons simultaneou
“Today’s Masculinity Is Stifling”
For The Atlantic, Sarah Rich writes about how stifling masculinity can be for some children and their parents.
As much
Flat Earthers and the double-edged sword of American magical thinking
Alan Burdick recently wrote a piece for The New Yorker about the “burgeoning” flat Earth movement, a group of people wh
Locate modern addresses on Earth 240 million years ago
Ian Webster built a tool to plot modern addresses on a map of the Earth from up to 750 million years ago. Just input a
The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence
Jessica Winter writing for the New Yorker:
In the final scene of Frederick Wiseman’s landmark documentary “Domestic Vi
The trailer for a HBO documentary on Robin Williams
In mid July, HBO will premiere a 2-hour documentary about Robin Williams called, cheekily, Robin Williams: Come Inside
Amazing geometric weathering on a chain link fence
Amateur photographer @Ben_On_The_Moon noticed some peculiar weathering patterns on a plastic-coated chain link fence.
Freddish, the special language Mister Rogers used when talking to children
Maxwell King, the former director of the Fred Rogers Center and author of the forthcoming book The Good Neighbor: The L
Wine and storytelling
At Vinepair, Felix Salmon waxes metaphysical on the value of mythology and narrative in shaping our experience of food
In the dark
Rebecca Boyle writes about her daughter’s first power outage:
“It’s too dark in here. Mommy, I want you to turn my nig
10 hours of extremely relaxing ocean scenes
From BBC Earth, the team behind Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II, a 10-hour video of soothing oceanscapes: whales sw
Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest ever human
When I was a kid, I devoured books like locusts ravage crops on the plains. My sister and I would go to the library, ge
An 11-foot long ribbon map of the Mississippi River from 1866
The Mississippi River runs for more than 2300 miles straight through the heartland of America, more or less straight f
A Summer 2018 reading list for America
The other day, Erika Hall asked on Twitter: “If you could assign every American to read one book over the summer, what
Norman, the world’s first psychopath AI
A research team at MIT’s Media Lab have built what they call the “world’s first psychopath AI”. Meet Norman…it provides
An AI learned to see in the dark
Cameras that can take usable photos in low light conditions are very useful but very expensive. A new paper presented a
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