I grew up in Wisconsin, and have lived in Iowa, Minnesota, and New York. Except for a two-year stint in the Bay Area. So I was surprised when my last two Vermont winters put me on my ass.
Bike maker VanMoof started shipping their bikes in boxes that look like TV boxes — and saw shipping damages drop 70-80% "overnight."
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA have predicted that our own Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31) will collide about 4 billion years from now.
By photographing two separate nighttime scenes, one in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere, amateur astrophotographer Maroun Habib cleverly produced this dazzling image of the complete galactic plane visible from Earth.
Working from remains discovered during archaeological excavations, sculptor and archaeologist Oscar Nilsson combines his two disciplines to reconstruct the faces of people who lived hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of years ago.
The AI SpaceFactory team won half a million dollars from NASA for its Mars habitat prototype, MARSHA. They are now taking the research, learnings, and technologies they developed for their winning proposal and building an earth habitat (house) using the same concepts.
For his projects Exodus and Timeout, Marcus Lyon takes overhead photographs and edits them into fantastical scenes that nonetheless seem plausible.
John Overholt, a curator of early modern books and manuscripts at Harvard's Houghton Library, has started a new blog called First Drafts of History that features the first versions of Wikipedia articles.
When social media companies manipulate the information put out by their users, it undermines the very purpose of connecting with people on the Internet.
This American Lear TIM CARMODY · JUL 28 2014 This American Life host and radio superpersonality Ira Glass went to see a play and came away more vexed than Claudius walking out of The Mousetrap in Elsinore. But it's not a one-off thing! Glass says he's been building to this conclusion for a long time, […]
Over the past century, adult per capita cigarette consumption in the U.S. rose from nearly nothing in 1900 to a peak of more than 4000 cigarettes per year in the early 60s and then fell to the current rate of around 1000/yr.
Today is National Donut/Doughnut Day, apparently a relatively venerable holiday with roots in a Depression-era Salvation Army giveaway. But just how do you spell that "edible, torus-shaped piece of dough which is deep-fried and sweetened"?
If you look at the Washington Monument in Google Maps, the monument's shadow follows the motion of the Sun throughout the day.
Finally, you can do whatever you want to these priceless works of art.
Photographer David Liittschwager captured the little ecosystem of life contained in a splash of seawater magnified 25 times.
Michael Paul Smith takes photographs of classic cars that evoke feelings of nostalgia for America in the 30's, 40s, 50s, and 60s. Take a look, these are about as "Pleasantville" as you can get.
Pixel Legend of Zelda APR 01 2014 Whoa, Ben Purdy made a 16×16 pixel remake of The Legend of Zelda in 48 hours. Here's how he did it. Over the two days of work, I built the game from the map forward. What I mean is that my first goal was to get individual map […]
He's always looked good.
It's a strange, yet strangely interesting way of thinking about life.