Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles . “Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep our atoms from collapsing.” (Honestly, same.) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of 5000 images from the NASA Ames Research Center . “Browsing through this amazing archive gives you a unique view of decades’ worth of breakthrough research.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"How Pokémon can save the world, one Pikachu at a time."
How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene . “The music’s association with aimless, unfocused listening — vibe music before vibe became a buzzword — means people aren’t paying as much attention to what’s real and what’s not…”
Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.
A new documentary emphasizes the political intrigues of Da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
This week: preserving Toni Morrison’s childhood home, graffiti artist Michael Stewart’s legacy, Gen Z stare discourse, a mini model of NYC, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and more.
“In Ghana, my favorite ‘museum’ isn’t a traditional building at all. It’s the local artists and artisans themselves.”
For years now, photographer Fujio Kito has been documenting cement playground equipment in Japan, often capturing them at night, lit up in captivating ways. (via laura olin and present & correct ) Tags: Fujio Kito · Japan · photography 💬 Join the discussion on
When no cultural divide is as great as urban versus rural, where are the true boundaries located?
Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions . “I’m developing new neural pathways each time I shrug off Trump’s clear violations of the Constitution and his total contempt for our system of checks and balances.”
The artist considers how organic imperfections are often ultimately a lot more interesting than anything made "perfectly" in a factory. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success . “On his free days, he loves to sleep in, then to make long phone calls to his fellow pigeon fanciers while cleaning the kitchen…” Sounds like a dream! 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work . This is the first part of a new work-in-progress called Making Software that aims to explain how software systems & tools work from the ground up. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
I don’t think anything could be more up my alley, in my wheelhouse, in my lane, my cup of tea, my speed than this upcoming retrospective of Wes Anderson’s work at London’s Design Museum . The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal
The winners of Core77 Design Awards . Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding, consumer tech, and more. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans : “trans people who go back to living as their sex assigned at birth do so because of transphobia, not because of doubts about gender or transition”.
I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about Joel Embiid by media osmosis, but for some reason I spent 45 minutes this morning reading this profile of him . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"I see my practice as a playground of soft contradictions—between seriousness and silliness, desire and failure, monumentality and deflation," Rong says. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for
Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural? - by Tim Bayne Read at Aeon
Sometimes, marriage is about learning how to braid the bitter with the sweet.
First mistake: If you meet a talking dog in the street and it makes a few grammatical errors or speaks with an accent, you don’t use a few errors to dismiss the fact that this is an actual talking dog. It’s amazing. It might even be worth having it join your team. Second
Though now in his seventies, Jackie Chan continues to appear on the big screen with regularity. For most world-famous actors, that’s hardly notable, but it’s not as if Sir John Gielgud, say, had spent decades filming scenes of hand-to-hand combat and sustaining severe injuries
In histories of early photography, Louis Daguerre faithfully appears as one of the fathers of the medium. His patented process, the daguerreotype, in wide use for nearly twenty years in the early 19th century, produced so many of the images we associate with the period,