Before Sir Winston Churchill became a politician, he was a writer. In the late 1890s, Churchill published a pair of boo
Wild Stallions!
If you slip on your headphones and watch this on the biggest available screen, you may feel the unbelievable sense of
America Is Becoming Steadily Less Religious
According to new data from the General Social Survey, the number of Americans who answered “no religion” in response to
What Is Our Least Useful Body Part?
Gizmodo’s Daniel Kolitz recently asked a panel of anatomists and evolutionary biologists about what the most useless pa
Why Do Some Asian Accents Swap Ls and Rs in English?
Asian speakers switching their Rs and Ls is an old Hollywood trope that you may have seen in movies like A Christmas St
The Most Endangered Animal in Every US State
These visually striking posters showcase the most endangered animals from each of the 50 US states.
Here’s the sto
Wall Disease - How Do Walls Affect How We Feel?
Jessica Wapner writes in the New Yorker about the research into how border walls affect the people living near them.
I
A Map of the Internet from May 1973
This is a map of ARPANET circa May 1973 via David Newbury, who found it among his father’s papers. The first part of A
The Impossibility of Translating Homer into English
Emily Wilson, who produced this banging translation of The Odyssey and is currently at work on The Iliad, recently twee
Timelapse of the Future
One of my favorite Wikipedia articles is the timeline of the far future, which details the predictions science makes a
The Collective Effervescence of Dancing
Why do we dance? It’s a silly question because the answer seems obvious — “because we want to, duh” — but this video f
This AI Converts Quick Sketches to Photorealistic Landscapes
NVIDIA has been doing lots of interesting things with deep learning algorithms lately (like AI-Generated Human Faces T
The Designer’s Dictionary of Type
In his forthcoming book, The Designer’s Dictionary of Type, Sean Adams profiles 48 of the best-known typefaces in the
The Impossible Fractal Triangle
Nidhal Selmi combined the fractal Sierpinski triangle with the impossible Penrose triangle to create the M.C. Escher-l
Astonishingly Photorealistic Real-Time Rendered Scene By a Video Game Engine
This two-minute scene rendered in real-time by a video game engine is almost indistinguishable from real life. Petapix
US Postal Service Unveils 50th Anniversary Apollo 11 Stamps
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the USPS is releasing a pair of stamps with lu
Ikea Hacks for People with Disabilities
Ikea furniture is so ubiquitous that all sorts of hacks and modifications have been designed by fans to coax new uses o
How Animators Created the Spider-Verse
2018’s most visually inventive movie was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In this video, Danny Dimian, Visual Effect
‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ Turns 50 Years Old
50 years ago last week, Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published for the first time. In a piece for The
Calling All Fungi & Slime Mold Fans
On her Instagram account, Marin Mushrooms, nature photographer Alison Pollack captures the otherworldly beauty of fu
The Last Days of Walter Benjamin’s Life
This Aeon essay by Giorgio van Straten, “Lost in Migration,” is excerpted from a book titled In Search of Lost Books,
Orson Welles as a Graphic Artist
There are so many sides to Orson Welles that one of them is bound to get overlooked. Welles was a groundbreaking screen
A map of Fairyland (c. 1920)
The Library of Congress has a remarkable digitized work in its collection titled “An anciente mappe of Fairyland : new
A Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth
This infographic from Language Base Camp shows where the sounds that English speakers use are produced in the mouth and
How Ian McKellen Acts With His Eyes
In the latest episode of Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak examines how Ian McKellen does a lot of heavy lifting with his eyes,
Deadwood: The Movie
Open the canned peaches because Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock, and the rest of your Deadwood favorites are back on May 31
What’s Eating Dan?
From America’s Test Kitchen and Dan Souza, the editor-in-chief of Cook’s Illustrated, a YouTube series called What’s Ea
Kinetic Alphabet
From London motion design studio Mr. Kaplin, an animated alphabet where the animation for each letter is a experiment
Actually, Mercury Is Our Closest Planetary Neighbor
If you look at the orbits of the planets adjacent to the Earth’s orbit (Venus & Mars), you’ll see that Venus’s orbi
Beautiful Hand-Colored Photographs of Flowers from 19th-Century Japan
From The Public Domain Review, Ogawa Kazumasa’s Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers.
The stunning floral images fea
Brilliant Papercraft Typographic Creations
Paper artist Alia Bright combines papercraft and typography to make these colorful, um, sculptures? Texts? They’re su
The Wasabi Farmer
By some accounts, 99% of the wasabi consumed in the world is not actually wasabi — it’s horseradish + green food color
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino brings back two of his biggest stars, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, in his new film Once Upon a T
Vibrant Oil Paintings of Clouds
Ian Fisher’s paintings of clouds are surprisingly lifelike. If you scroll through the paintings on his site, you can
The Legend of Nixon, a Data-Driven NES Soundscape
Brian Chirls took the approval ratings for Richard Nixon’s presidency and using sounds from The Legend of Zelda’s class
A Huge Collection of Apollo 11 Press Kits
When Apollo 11 landed two men on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth, thousands of people at NASA were joined in
Cutting Commentary on News Media’s Complicity in Spreading Hateful Views
Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, a pair of comedians whose hilarious cooking show I’ve previously featured, are back w
Monica Lewinsky on Public Shaming
This week, Last Week Tonight covered the topic of public shaming and the episode included an interview by host John Oli
Where Did Consciousness Come From?
Religion and philosophy have their own answers as to where our consciousness comes from, but in this video, Kurzgesagt
The Fertility Doctor’s Secret
For The Atlantic, Sarah Zhang tells the story of dozens of people who found out through DNA testing that a fertility do
Everything Is Just a Happening
This guided meditation by Alan Watts really helped me this morning. (There’s a version without music as well.)
From Th
The Problem of Writing and Money
Now this is a lede:
When I first read Virginia Woolf’s dictum that “A woman must have money and a room of her own if s
A Fan-Made Trailer for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, 2019 Edition
This trailer made by cinematographer and director Morgan Cooper imagines a contemporary reboot of The Fresh Prince of
Tetanus Has Nothing To Do With Rust
Tetanus, popularly called “lockjaw,” is a serious illness, fatal in 10 percent of cases in North America and a larger p
What Counts As Evidence in Mathematics?
The ultimate form of argument, and for some, the most absolute form of truth, is mathematical proof. But short of a co
This Photo of Farmers Contains No Farmers
This is a photo taken in Germany in 1914 by August Sander:
It’s called Young Farmers and it depicts three young men on
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