A visual history of exploring the far side of the Moon . “The Moon is tidally locked, meaning that only one side of the Moon ever faces the Earth. [For millenia,] there was an entire half of our natural satellite that no human had ever seen before.”
New research suggests that games of chance developed much earlier—to the tune of 6,000 years—than originally thought. 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
Livestream: Artemis II is about to fly around the Moon . At around 1:56pm ET, they’ll surpass the Apollo 13 distance record. And: “At their closest point, they’ll pass roughly 4,000 miles above the lunar surface.”
New vocabulary word: “RAM harvester” . RAM chips are so expensive right now that RAM harvesters are stealing them out of demo computers at electronics stores.
"An entirely avoidable problem is killing dozens of homeless people across the country. Why is it being ignored?"
Missed this last week: Lane 8 dropped their Spring 2026 Mixtape . Available on YouTube and Soundcloud .
Max Cooper’s music videos are always worth a look. This one , directed by Katia Schutz , is for a song called Pattern Index from his forthcoming album ( Feeling Is Structure , May 8). Cooper describes Feeling Is Structure as an “audiovisual album”, which I take to mean that
EXPO CHICAGO is back at Navy Pier. Here's what we're planning to see. 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 7 Artists We’re Excited to See at EXPO
The first US museum exhibition to focus on the artist’s late work, produced in response to the fascism of the 1930s. On view at the Jewish Museum through July 26, 2026.
Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting authoritarianism . 1. We need each other. 2. We must move, even when on uncertain ground. 3. Past trauma will bring us down if we do not release its effects on us. And more…
“The promise of the open web was colonized by internet giants. But the power of LLMs and agentic coding means we can start to take it back . We can build customized, personal software for ourselves that does what we want.”
Flower petals, seeds, and foliage combine into an album of places the artist has been. 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 Hillary Waters Fayle Creates
Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland: only five US states have ever had a Black governor .
This year’s best photos command attention by capturing intimate moments and bold colors
Why it’s difficult and perhaps even morally perilous to rule out the possibility of AI consciousness - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Plus, solace in Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s divine paintings, Ali Cherri accuses Israel of war crimes, and a revealing new survey of POC-led arts orgs.
Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis - by Assa Doron & Alex Broom Read on Aeon
If it’s just the right amount of necessary kindness, it’s not really kindness. It’s pleasantness. If the people in our circle begin to experience behavior that’s kinder than necessary, the expectations for what’s necessary will ratchet forward, making everything more pleasant.
Much has been written lately about the crisis in Hollywood, which has left many apparently sure-fire blockbusters floundering, theaters empty, and production jobs lost. There are many factors in play — some of them, as few diagnoses fail to point out, structural — but can we
Not too far back, we revisited some Cold War propaganda that taught upstanding American citizens How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism. It’s a gem, but it has nothing on the 1954 film, The House in the Middle. Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry
War is an ism — nationalism, dogmatism, capitalism — paid for by an is: the living beingness of human beings made a sacrificial offering to an ideology so powerful it has quelled the two things that make us most human: compassion and critical thinking. “Those people who see
"Our neurons must be used ... not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to construct."