For his Spurious Correlations project , Tyler Vigen compares data sets that are the very definition of “correlation is not causation”. For instance, the number of Walmart stores worldwide correlates very strongly with the current distance between the Earth & Saturn. Or Google
'Latin American Puzzle' assembles sprawling visual narratives like jigsaws. 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 Regina Silveira Pieces Together an
Minnesota community leaders are calling for an “ICE Out” general strike and protests on Friday, January 30 . “No work. No school. No shopping. Stop funding ICE.” KDO will be participating.
What can an early painting tell us about an Old Master? We asked the Morgan Library’s curator to find out.
A huge collection of graphic design archives and resources , like The People’s Graphic Design Archive , Book Cover Archive , and Letterform Archive . This is great!
“There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to buy a gas mask, especially for the specific purpose of living under state repression. But hopefully after reading this guide you’ll feel equipped to make an educated decision.”
Time to thaw out that C.V. 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 February 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists appeared
"My boyfriend won a free cruise playing Tetris. I went along, fully expecting to hate it."
“I like seeing how my pieces change in the daylight versus the dawn.”
For a project called Tag Clouds, street artist Mathieu Tremblin paints over graffiti tags and makes them more legible. The result looks like when Word says that the Hardkaze and Aerosol fonts are used in the document you’re trying to open but are missing from your computer
The point, of course, is to make yourself alive — to feel the force of being in your sinew and your spirit, to tremble with the beauty and the terror of it all, to breathe lungfuls of life that gasp you awake from the trance of near-living induced by the system of waste and
"That point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all."
“AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of cause for concern, plenty of room to hit these companies for unethical behavior, resource demands, etc, but we are so, so far past the era of ‘stochastic parrots’ ”.
Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know what comes next: Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’ .
Your Friends Are Still Acting Like Everything is Normal in America. What Do You Do? “The first obligation we all have is an epistemic one: It’s to know what kind of reality we are actually inhabiting.” (gift link)
Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education. “We have a very focused and intense effort across the board to set America back a generation, at least, for education, health, research, climate policy.”
Thing I did not know I was looking for (but totally was): a deep dive into ASCII rendering . Super interesting!
Where does the mind go in solitary confinement? An evocative animation exploring three individual experiences - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The Smithsonian repatriates Indian bronzes, another NFT platform bites the dust, and was Michelangelo and Titian's rivalry real?
Despite associations with the idle rich, the fact that inheritances are rising is a sign of a healthy, growing economy - by Daniel Waldenström Read on Aeon
"In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest."
You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that the loving face too will one day fade to indifference or bone, and you love
Every important medical innovation of the last five hundred years has been ridiculed, undermined and ignored by doctors and the medical establishment. Every single one. Hand-washing, antibiotics, and the dangers of smoking, just to pick a few. This happens in any system where
If there’s a silver lining to our tumultuous times, it’s that musicians are reviving the protest song, a tradition that has withered since the end of the Vietnam War. Credence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son,” Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Machine
With "The Silence of the Lambs" hitting theaters, Orion wanted a hit. They didn't anticipate an antihero.
Dissecting the philosophical conundrum of our "integrity of identity that persists over time, undergoing changes and yet still continuing to be."
Having previously considered whether comedians are the philosophers of our time, we must now ask whether they, too, build upon the work of other philosophers. Few of today’s most prominent funny men and women live a philosophical life — or have cultivated the temperament
From the artist's kitchen table to international travels, animated digital collages celebrate a sense of place. 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
If entering the country suddenly requires surrendering your digital life and private information, how long before artists and collectors simply choose not to come?
The sculptures of Hindu gods and their followers were stolen from Tamil temples and smuggled out of India in the mid-20th century.
Nifty Gateway, which was plagued with reports of user issues, is the latest marketplace to call it quits amid a protracted NFT slump.
William E. Wallace openly uses what he calls “informed imagination” to explore the relationship between the two masters in his new study.
"Between the opening credits and the 3 a.m. feedings, as I watched films in 20-minute increments, something profound happened."
This week, we honor an architect who mended our urban social fabric, a giant of the gallery world, and a groundbreaking Modernist.
The gang at Present & Correct found a cache of pre-war tourist maps of Japan while rummaging around in Tokyo’s Jinbōchō used book district. They photographed them for a new self-published book called Paper Trails . Tags: books · design · Japan · maps · Paper Trails