This video from December is about a pair of teenaged ICE trackers . “Armed with phone and body cameras, Ben and Sam patrol the Chicago suburbs in hopes of tracking ICE agents and filming raids they see as unwarranted and unjustified.”
"The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."
Collision and convergence in Truth and Beauty at the intersection of science and spirituality.
"What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious."
The history of our species is the history of mistaking the limits of our imagination for the limits of the possible. It is salutary, I think, for us to be reminded regularly that this world is far wilder and more alien than we suppose it to be, that flowers are not what we
A 90-minute ICE Watch training session via Zoom “on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions”. Jan 28, 7pm ET. Sign up here .
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong . “Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents.”
"The Trump administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled."
Artworks in homage to the 37-year-old nurse killed by federal agents, an exhibition of Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and remembering Marian Goodman.
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) - by Toby Green Read on Aeon
When energy is cheap, people build buildings that are poorly insulated. It’s faster and cheaper in the short run. In the long run, though, insulation always wins. You invest in it once and get the rewards forever. And of course, this is true for all things, not just buildings.
If you’ve heard Run‑D.M.C.‘s Raising Hell, Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut, Johnny Cash’s American Recordings, or Adele’s 21, you’ve heard the work of Rick Rubin. Yet even if you’ve listened closely to every song on which he’s been credited as a producer over the
Nine essays and interviews from literature's favorite laureate of compassion.
?si=2xjPU8WlS7Yk5tRI During her lifetime, the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) composed roughly 77 songs and hymns. She remains the earliest known woman composer in Western classical music and one of the most important composers of the High Middle Ages. In her
Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in
A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.
"The universe is the ultimate free lunch."
Above, Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher explain how everyday Americans can push back against government overreach—by focusing on the economic decisions they make each day. “Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets,” says Galloway. Ergo, it’s time for an
Fury and grief are reverberating through the creative community after federal agents shot the 37-year-old ICU nurse.
"Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters."
The gallerist who put many European artists on the map in the US described her approach as finding a “humanistic concern” across different visual practices.
Julia Fernandez's stop-motion animation for "Dirt" is a poetic ode to two tactile media. 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 A Delightfully Tactile
Plus, a sexual history of the internet as told by sex workers and cyberfeminists.
Ravishing otherworldly wonders of the cosmos beneath the surface, from the first expedition to prove that life exists in the depths.
A new exhibition rejects Western colonialism as a framework for understanding African aesthetic production.
The painting predates 66,000-year-old rock art attributed to Neanderthals in Spain, which was previously believed to be the earliest example of its kind.
A collection of dartboards used in different areas of the UK . “The closure of pubs and leagues not being fed with new players, unfortunately, leads to some of the boards just being consigned to history.”
Scientists have detected a swole neutrino , a potential signal from a primordial black hole, which may have formed “before there were even atoms, let alone stars”.
Every year since 2016, Literary Hub has asked a group of book cover designers for their picks for the best book covers of the year. Using 10 years of data, here are their picks for the best covers of the last decade . I’ve included a few of my personal favorites below.
The Vancouver-based artist employs the colorful bricks in a variety of geometric patterns and low-relief textures. 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
"An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls... A peace for gods; a divine emptiness."
“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which I can only use to text, call and play Snake; also, a Walkman and a film camera. I picked up physical copies of books, newspapers…” What Emma Russell learned from her digital detox .
An exhibition sets out to rescue Morisot from the assumption that she was under Manet’s influence, but it's far from academic or revisionist.
