Hello everyone. Today is my birthday, and I’m taking the day off. My pal Tim will be here tomorrow to share some knowle
Conserve the Sound, an Online Museum for Old Technology Sounds
Conserve the Sound is a project aimed at the preservation of sounds from old technologies.
»Conserve the sound« is an
Dear Young People: “Don’t Vote”
The old white people of America have a message for the young adults of America: we’ll be dead soon but if you don’t vot
What If… Movies Reimagined for Another Time/Place
Illustrator Tom Stults imagines what the posters of popular movies would look like in an alternate universe…if they’d b
Hand-Pulled Noodle School
Lanzhou, a city in northwestern China, is well-known for its beef noodle soup…and the shops serving them. In order to k
Making a Murderer, season two
In season one of Making a Murderer, filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos profiled Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey
No Jail Time: The Movie
This short film by Lance Oppenheim is uncomfortably fascinating. It’s about sentencing mitigation videos, short films
A Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
For those of us who have never quite gotten the hang of solving the popular puzzle, some wonderful genius has construc
Instagram Founders Resign from Facebook
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the two co-founders of Instagram, have resigned from Facebook.
Mr. Systrom, Instagram’
The 2018 Fall Foliage Prediction Map
Well, I really can’t ignore it any longer. Here in Vermont, we’ve paid our last visit to the swim hole, the heat is on
Incomplete Open Cubes Revisited
In Incomplete Open Cubes Revisited, Rob Weychert extends a 1974 project by Sol LeWitt called Variations on Incomplete
Notable Women
As Treasurer of the United States in the Obama administration, Rosie Rios pushed hard for the inclusion of more women o
A Fan-Made Trailer for an Anime Version of Star Wars
Dmitry Grozov is a Russian comic artist who has made a trailer for an anime version of Star Wars: A New Hope. This tre
Riemann Hypothesis proved?
Mathematician Michael Atiyah claims that he’s solved the Riemann hypothesis, one of the great unsolved problems in math
Putting the Talmud online
Sefaria is a free online resource for Jewish texts, specifically the Talmud, which (amazingly) wasn’t previously easil
The oral history of OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
On Sunday, September 23, OutKast’s double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below will be fifteen years old. About ready for
The geometric zen of solving Rubik’s Cubes
I’ve never been a great fan of Rubik’s Cubes (or chess, or crossword puzzles, or Scrabble, or most obsession-rewarding
Google Pays Tribute to Mister Rogers with an Animated Short
In partnership with Fred Rogers Productions and The Fred Rogers Center, Google is honoring Mister Rogers today with a
The Fish Copter, Cactus Binky, and Other Clever Visual Mashups
I love these fun visual mashups created by French creative agency Les Créatonautes. (via colossal)
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First Man
I don’t know why I’m so skeptical about First Man, the upcoming biopic about Neil Armstrong and the first Moon landing
What Would a Truly Representational US Congress Look Like?
Even though the diversity of the US Congress has increased in recent years, a trend that looks to continue after the mi
Meet Feng E, an 11-Year-Old Taiwanese Ukelele Prodigy
Feng E started playing the ukelele when he was just five years old. His father pushed him into it but saying that he wo
Stan & Ollie
Stan & Ollie is an upcoming film about the legendary comedy duo of Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the twilight
A Short Tour of the Manufacturing Might of China
“Commodity City” is a short documentary directed by Jessica Kingdon about a huge wholesale market in China with 75,000
Law & Order: Martian Victims Unit
I loved this imaginative and clever piece by Geoff Manaugh called How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars? about how a fu
Shoreline Maps of the World
In a book called Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries, scientist Athelstan Spilhaus published a series of wor
Some Cool Projects I’ve Noticed on Kickstarter Recently
I seem to have a bunch of links to Kickstarter campaigns up in browser tabs right now so instead of dripping them out o
What’s My Name?
What’s My Name? is an upcoming HBO documentary about Muhammad Ali. This is a teaser trailer so there’s not much to go
The Harriet Tubman $20 Stamp
Frustrated that the US Treasury Department is walking back plans to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill
Alexa Meade’s Living Paintings
Artist Alexa Meade paints right on the bodies and clothes of living models to create the illusion that they’re in 2D pa
A New Twitter Feature: Smart Accounts
Last night, Twitter gave its users the option to switch back to a purely chronological timeline.
Meanwhile, today we u
Wes Anderson’s Movies, Ranked
For NME, Sophie Charara ranks Wes Anderson’s nine feature films in order of greatness. Her top 3 picks are correct, I
Jamie Lee Curtis Recreates the Psycho Shower Scene
For an episode of a TV show called Scream Queens, Jamie Lee Curtis recreated the shower scene from Psycho performed by
A List of the 100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century (So Far)
After consulting dozens of authors, critics, and voracious readers, Vulture has come up with A Premature Attempt at the
Seven Species So Endangered that Their Remaining Members Could Fit in a Single NYC Subway Car
Some animals are so endangered that fewer than 100 members of their species remain in the world. For The Guardian, Mona
For Sale: Han Solo’s Jacket & Indiana Jones’ Fedora
A huge cache of rare Hollywood memorabilia is up for sale at a London auction on September 20. The catalog includes ove
How We Could Build a Moon Base Today
This video explores how humans could begin to colonize the Moon today, using currently available technology.
We actua
How Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will become President
My friend, the novelist/fabulist/media inventor Robin Sloan, has a charming new short story that imagines how Dwayne “
Rituals of democracy
At The Atlantic, Yoni Applebaum argues that a decline in democracy isn’t just about voter disenfranchisement, gerrymand
Making useful three-dimensional maps
I’ve often said that every two-dimensional map is a lie; a perfect map would be able to show a city in three dimensions
Finalists in the 2018 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
Each year to promote wildlife conservation, the folks behind The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards select the funniest
Theo Jansen’s New Wind-Powered “Strandbeest” Is Super Fast
Earlier this summer, Theo Jansen released an improved iteration of his strandbeests, wind-powered machines that walk a
Now Online in Its Entirety: The First Episode of “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”
To mark the 25th anniversary of its airing, the very first episode of Late Night With Conan O’Brien has been made avai
A Map of the World Where the Sizes of Countries Are Determined by Population
Max Roser has constructed a cartogram of the world where the size of the countries are determined by their populations
How Did “OK” Become One of the Most Popular Words in the World?
Where did the word “OK” come from and how did it become so popular?
Young Boston intellectuals in the early 1800s use
Dark Matter: Looking for Whispers in the Cosmic Silence
For Motherboard’s The Most Unknown series, physicist Davide D’Angelo and geomicrobiologist Jennifer Macalady travel to
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