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New book from James Gleick about the history of the...
New book from James Gleick about the history of the telephone . “It gave us the party line, the busy signal, dial tones, wiretapping, the late-night DJ, and the booty call. It magnified the possibilities of government, of business, of friendship, of love.”
Sunset Park, Where You Can Still Get an Artist Studio for Under $600
At the Brooklyn neighborhood's Open Studios festival, artists showed off the works they make in converted factories, warehouses, and three-story walk-ups
V&A Museum Staff Set to Strike Across All Four London Sites
Allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions and calls for pay raises prompted unionized workers to authorize yet another strike at the UK museum network.
‘The Department of Objects’ Brings the Charm of Sleep-Away Camp to Chicago
Wyatt Hersey, Melissa Lakey, Esther Pearl Watson, and Anna Valdez joined Joy Machine at Camp Wandawega for five days of arctic magic. 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
“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...
“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green star , documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky debris from planets that once had orbited it.”
The MIT Professors Bedazzling Security Cameras to Highlight Campus Surveillance
The intervention is responding to the university’s recent $3 million investment in more than 500 new AI-integrated campus surveillance cameras.
The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games
Perfect Play ran over 300 million games of Monopoly to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make. I turned eight classic Monopoly strategies into computer players and made them play 312,898,560 games against each other. At a table of four, the best
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First . “It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off.”
The Man Who Taught Us How to Pay Attention
"The works of the British art critic John Berger offer the antidote to our age of infinite scrolling."
How to Grow Old without Letting Life Become a Parody of Itself
"In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves."
The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Language and the Poetry of Presence
"The poem is nothing but information. It is the Constitution of the inner country."
Art Basel Paris Undergoes Lockdown Ahead of Opening
Police ordered the Grand Palais to briefly shut down amid the nationwide student protests.
To Be Alone With Your Thoughts in '70s New York
Fred Camper's contemplative film "Suicide Note" was born out of grief and a city in collapse.
Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...
Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data”, a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate . MIT is going to point their satellite at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.
Applications Open for the MFA in Studio Art at Maine College of Art & Design
Apply by January 17, 2027 to be considered for a full-tuition scholarship.
Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years After Its Debut
'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures. 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 Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal
How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period . How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world’s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882,
How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything."
Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...
Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites . “Impeding the Wayback Machine’s preservation work will not prevent powerful AI companies from gathering training data.”
Death by a Thousand Dams
"Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States."
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jasper Craven
He wrote the book on how the military shapes masculine identity. He'll also tell you about Disney adults, Pharaoh Sanders, and his favorite spot for a burger and negroni.
Paris Students Shut Down the Louvre
Artist Rosana Paulino makes a self-portrait of Brazil, protests in France and Colombia, and this month’s edition of Beer With a Painter.
How intuitions work
Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away - by Marc A Moffett Read on Aeon
Thieves’ cant slang
Insider jargon, previously known as cant, is designed to keep outsiders out. The burglars in cartoons are often seen wearing a black mask over their eyes (like Robin in Batman but for a different reason) and carrying a bulging sack over their shoulders. [Of course, the
Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting Hyperland (1990)
Cast your mind, if you will, back to the year 2020. It now feels like a different time, what with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the heated sociopolitical battles being waged online, and indeed in the (socially distanced) streets. That spring, we featured here on Open
Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great
Smack in the middle of Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon sits a song many listeners may hear as an extended bridge between the two true centerpieces, “Time” and “Money.” But I’ve always thought of “The Great Gig in the Sky” as the album’s true center, a swirling,
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
Art Books on Needles and Threads
We recommend titles on fiber art, weaving, and textiles, plus Megan O’Grady on a new John Berger biography.
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds and interviewed Panic’s Cabel Sasser about how they decided to refund their Playdate -buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.
Hundreds Protest in Colombia After Far-Right President Removes Works From National Museum
In a Trumpian move, the government of Abelardo de la Espriella took down works referencing LGBTQ+ and women’s rights and political violence.
