I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened. “Within a week, I’d raised $6,000. Within a month, $10,000.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Ok so this is weird and delightful. Swedish electronics company Teenage Engineering makes a collection of singing wooden dolls called the Choir . The dolls are basically speakers but with some autonomy and personality…and they can work together: what you see are eight wooden
Could Should Might Don’t . “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and prophecies, and it makes no assertions about what the future will hold. It’s a book which unpacks how we think about the future.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Retraction Watch : a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
For Elodie Blanchard, textiles hold boundless narrative potential. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Elodie Blanchard Revitalizes Fabric Scraps into
I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir ) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make a better movie than a book and after watching the trailer , I’m excited to see this next summer. Ryan Gosling stars and Phil Lord & Christopher
Using 3D modeling software and Frank Lloyd Wright's archives, the Madrid-based designer creates realistic renderings of unrealized structures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence . “The first novel about superintelligence is actually a work of horror SF, a cautionary tale about the dangers of knowing too much.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001) . “Spanning the years 1937–2001, the collection should especially appeal to those with an avant-garde or musicological bent.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The southeast Asian crop is a complex and layered one-of-a-kind fruit that consumes the lives of the devoted
The original meaning behind the cards, first created 500 years ago, still remains elusive. But that didn't stop our reporter from traveling to Milan in an effort to find out
An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them - by Matthew McCormack Read at Aeon
Spend enough time inventing possible futures in your head and you won’t have any time to build the future we will all share. Time to get to work.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So holds the third and most famous of the “three laws” originally articulated by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Even when it was first published in the late nineteen-sixties, Clarke’s third law
If asked to name our favorite French composer of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, most of us would reach straight for Erik Satie, being able to bring to mind only his most famous pieces, the Gymnopédies and perhaps the Gnossiennes. We may not know that those
“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,” wrote Milton in Paradise Lost. Because the mind (which may in the end be a full-body phenomenon) is the cup that lifts the world to our lips to be tasted — a taste we call reality — it is