Artist Dasha Plesen combines molds, bacteria, spores, and other objects in petri dishes to create these colorful ab
The Book Blob
Over at Print, R.E. Hawley writes about a book cover design trend you may have noticed: Behold, the Book Blob.
This d
Nomad Architecture: Pitching a Yurt in the Arctic Winter
Every few days, Nenet reindeer herders in the Siberian Arctic break camp and erect their tents (called chums) in a new
Raptors in Flight
Colossal has a selection of photos of predatory birds taken by Mark Harvey — prints are available in his shop.
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Continuous Sidewalks
This video highlights one of the ways in which the Netherlands makes their streets safer for pedestrians: continuous s
HERMITS: Mechanical Shells for Reconfigurable Robots
HERMITS are tiny experimental robots developed by researchers at MIT’s Media Lab that can move between different “shel
Three Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
This story broke right through my pandemic numbness – I'm almost shaking in rage. Please PLEASE get vaccinated and star
“Profoundly Unequal” US is Unprepared for the Next Pandemic
Ed Yong: We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic. The US is throwing too little money at high-tech, ultimately
Frenchie’s Castle of Iron
In 1976, Santos “Frenchie” Ramos opened a gym in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Every day of his life from that point forwar
Five Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
Jackie Chan breaks down how he choreographs fight scenes in his action/comedies. "I want the fighting to be like dancin
Lego Versions of Iconic Album Covers
Check out these iconic album covers rendered in Lego by Adnan Lotia on Instagram. (thx, jenni)
Tags: Adnan Lotia&nb
Four Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
Behold, I Have Returned from a Hike! "I've moved beyond the world you live in. I cut the tether. It was just me, the gr
Fine Balloon Art
Balloon artist DJ Morrow has been branching out recently. Morrow makes elaborate balloon animals and other things but
Trailer for PT Anderson’s Licorice Pizza
I don’t know anything about this film but if you like PT Anderson, you’ll probably like this. From the synopsis:
“Lic
A Grand Day Out
Hey all. Today is my birthday and the boss has given me the day off. I’m gonna spend time with some of my favorite hum
One Complaint Per Table
Laura Olin is right; this recorded lunch conversation with Orson Welles from 1983 is well worth a read. I mean:
Waiter
The Most Difficult Shot in Movie History (And Why It Matters)
I don’t know if a 10-second sequence of a plane landing in one of Brian De Palma’s worst films properly qualifies as “
The Circular, Drought-Resistant Gardens of Senegal
As part of the Great Green Wall initiative, Senegal has been building circular, drought-resistant gardens to keep the
Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
Astronomers have found a potential remnant nebula for a supernova recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181
The Diamond Seekers
The Diamond is a contemplative short documentary by Caitlyn Greene about the people who look for diamonds in an ancien
The Many Colors of the Moon
Marcella Giulia Pace photographed the Moon in 48 different hues and arranged them in a lovely spiral pattern.
I have
The Forgotten Craft & Community of Ice Harvesting
Ice Ball is a short documentary that follows legendary polar explorer Will Steger and the community that he’s built up
Three Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
Unvaccinated Mom Wants To Know If You're Coming Home For Covid This Year. "After all, Grandma's going to be here, and c
“Caffeine Was an Amazing Aid to the Rise of Capitalism”
In this video, Michael Pollan explains how caffeine is woven into the fabric of modern society. Here’s the short versi
Have We Reached Peak Car?
Tom Standage, whose The Victorian Internet was hugely influential to me in how to think about the history of technology
How to Solve Thorny Global Programs
Within the past 50 years, the global community has solved two huge problems that had the potential to harm every perso
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Netflix plans to combat Disney (Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar) with – *checks notes* – the Roald Dahl Cinematic Universe. "[
Winners of the Ocean Photography Awards for 2021
Oceanographic Magazine has announced the winners of their annual Ocean Photography Awards for 2021. The official site
Attention Deconcentration and the Secrets of Freediving
This is a lovely, almost poetic piece by Daniel Riley about the sport of freediving and one of the best freedivers in t
Three Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
I don't know about you, but I will read any article titled "How Humans Lost Their Tails", especially if it's written by
Today Is September 21st
Every year for the past several years on September 21, Demi Adejuyigbe makes a video featuring the 1978 Earth, Wind &a
L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
For the next two weeks, L’Arc de Triomphe in Paris will be wrapped, an installation that realizes a project begun by
Four Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
So many female body parts are named for men; here are their official medical names. Fallopian tube = uterine tube, G-sp
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Welp, from the small glimpses we get in this trailer, Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington a
Full Moon
The full moon was wonderful last night and Andrew McCarthy captured this colorful image of our nearest celestial compa
Living While Black, in Japan
In Living While Black, in Japan, directed by Keith Bedford and Shiho Fukada, a group of African-Americans talk about w
Rock & Roll Pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
If you’re talking about the origins of rock & roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe has to be included in those conversation
Eight Quick Links for Monday Noonish
"Range anxiety is the fear that [an electric vehicle] has insufficient range to reach its destination and would thus st
The Psychology of Pandemics
I don’t know if this is comforting or what, but psychologist Steven Taylor published a book two months before the start
Doctor Explains Why He Violated Texas’s Extremist Abortion Ban
Dr. Alan Braid, a practicing OB/GYN in the state of Texas for 45 years, explains why he provided medical care in the fo
Guerilla Grazing and Ingenious Off-Grid Living
In this engaging video we meet Aaron Fletcher, a traveling shepherd who has been “guerrilla grazing” and living off th
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year for 2021
The Royal Museum Greenwich has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year for 2021. Zhong Wu won
Three Quick Links for Friday Noonish
This piece by @tressiemcphd (feat. @shrinkthinks) about Covid denial, empathy, and grief is really interesting. "I am a
The Avocado Test
That’s Meredith Southard’s cartoon for the New Yorker, a play on the marshmallow test. It’s funny because it’s true. I
Watch Flamingos Eat Underwater
As we learned from reading about the pink salt ponds of Camargue, France, flamingos get their distinctive pink colorin
Four Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
Mirroring most of Europe (where recycling rates are high), Maine has passed a law that makes manufacturers (and not con
The Winners of the 2021 Drone Photo Awards
Drones have been around for awhile now, but I have yet to tire of the bird’s-eye images captured from above this r
How to Cut & Serve Every Different Kind of Cheese
Join cheesemonger Anne Saxelby as she shows us how to cut, serve, store, and accompany more than two dozen cheeses tha
Two Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
China Has Fully Vaccinated More Than 1 Billion People, over 70% of its total population. [bloomberg.com]
The History of
Watch A Cook’s Tour, Bourdain’s First Travel/Food TV Show, for Free Online
After Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, I listened to the audiobook version of his fantastic Kitchen Confidential (read b
Fiat’s Rooftop Racetrack
When it was built in the 1920s in Turin, Italy, the Fiat factory was designed with a racetrack on the top of the buil
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
Ikea is launching a US program to buy back used furniture and resell it as part of "the company's ambitious goals to be
The Winners of the 2021 Small World Photomicrography Competition
This is always a favorite of mine… Nikon has announced the winners of the Small World Photomicrography Competitio
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Season 5 of the excellent Scene on Radio podcast is about the climate crisis. "We'll trace the evolution of the coloniz
Every Sport a Bowling Ball
What if you substituted a bowling ball for the ball in sports like ping pong, golf, cricket, tennis, and soccer — but
Surrealist Architecture
For his City Portraits series, Victor Enrich digitally modified photos to create absurdist and surrealist buildings
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