The Big Wait is a lovely short documentary about a couple who live alone in the middle of nowhere in Western Australia, managing an emergency airport and a small row of guest cottages that are rarely ...

I missed this back in May: the Boy Scouts of America is changing its name to Scouting America “in an effort to emphasize inc ...

In 2015, the BBC & PBS adapted the first two books of Hilary Mantel’s excellent Wolf Hall trilogy into a six-episode miniseries called Wolf Hall, starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damian ...

Hey everyone. I don’t have a whole lot to say about the election results and probably won’t talk about it too much h ...

Laura Olin’s newsletter of “art, internet, and ideas” is a favorite of mine (subscribe here), and I appreciated her comments ...

If you need some last minute cajoling to not sit out this election, consider these words of warning about abstention in 1968. “Nixon prevailed, thus paving the way for the modern right-wing shift in ...

Trials rider Danny MacAskill finally got the chance to ride the angularly futuristic Adidas campus in Herzogenaurach, Germany ...

Over the past several months, I’ve settled into a routine that involves reading one book at a time on paper or on the Kind ...

Halloween is not really my thing, but I always like looking through some of the best mundane costumes from Japan via Spoon & ...

No seriously, how is everyone doing today? We’re coming down to the wire on the most cuckoo bananapants presidential electio ...

The NY Times has had a difficult time covering the 2024 election in a clear, responsible manner. But I wanted to highlight this short opinion piece from the paper’s editorial board, which I’m ...

From the NIH, a collection of 2,000+ public domain science and medical art visuals (molecules, plants, viruses, proteins, ...