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Weird & Wonderful Historical Photos From the 20th Century

August 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Zim&Zou’s ’80s-Inspired Paper Cassettes and Boombox Radiate with Color. Strange, now I...

What It Takes to Crew the Hardest Race on Earth

Someone Played a Perfect Game of Tetris

Note to self: spend some time checking out Tapestry, Iconfactory’s universal feed/social...

Winging It

Seventy Years Ago, Johnny Cash Recorded 'Folsom Prison Blues' and Became a Folk Hero for the Ignored and Downtrodden

Geographies of racial capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Mostly unreasonable

An Introduction to Aleister Crowley, History’s Most Infamous Occultist

Man as Industrial Palace: Watch an Animation of the Famous 1926 Lithograph That Depicts the Human Body as a Modern Factory

Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. “Substack is primarily...

Trailer for Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, a documentary film on...

What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?

New York City and Upstate Shows to See Right Now

Twenty Years of Life in Chinatown

Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation

Fire on Miccosukee Reservation Engulfs Homes and Artifacts

Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful...

In Miniature Models, Thomas Doyle Envisions an Unsettling Future of Technological Takeover

I’m Giving My Kids a ’90s Summer — the 1890s. “Just like...

Macbook Air M4s Are on Sale

Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting

Video Mashup Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

Auto? Polo! Auto? Polo! Auto? Polo! Photographs of Auto Polo (ca. 1912)....

The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

Hypnotic Patterns Envelop Sofia Bonati’s Nostalgic and Stylish Imagined Portraits

XKCD: Kite Incident. “I don’t know. Lemme look up a map of...

Oooh, George Saunders’ next novel comes out in January. “Vigil transports us,...

Science Is Winning the Tour de France. Data, nutrition, equipment, and training...

An Expansive Survey in Scotland Celebrates Five Decades of Land Art by Andy Goldsworthy

Confessions of the Working Poor

The Set Design of Sesame Street (Feat. Jane Jacobs)

An analysis of every word that’s visible on NYC’s streets (from 18...

For the Back Street Kids

How to run the world

Dimes, Dunks, and Devotion: A Basketball Reading List

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Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014

Tom Lehrer, RIP: Hear All of His Witty, Satirical Songs in One Playlist

Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is going to feature...

A list of the top 100 “most innovative, influential, and informative” podcasts...

Is This the Best Downhill Mountain Biker in the World?

‘Outcasts’ Highlights the Scientific Contributions of Trailblazing Artist and Naturalist Mary Banning

A Glimpse Inside the Dizzying Psyche of Daniel Johnston

Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear. “Israeli...

Notes on Bed Rest

The Poetic Optimism of Latina Lesbian Activism