The Big Wait is a lovely short documentary about a couple who live alone in the middle of nowhere in Western Australia, managing ...

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 ...

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

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 sh ...

Hey everyone. Since the membership program here at kottke.org is eight years old (tomorrow!) and the first anniversary of the new commenting system happened a couple of weeks ago, I thought it might ...

A pair of physicists from MIT and Jefferson Lab and an animator have created a new visualization of the atomic nucleaus. For the first time, the sizes, shapes and structures of nuclei in the quantum ...

Halloween is not really my thing, but I always like looking through some of the best mundane costumes from Japan via Spoon & Tamago and Nick Kapur. A few of my favorites: “Man who keeps getting ...

Over the past several months, I’ve settled into a routine that involves reading one book at a time on paper or on the Kindle and listening to one book on audiobook. This way, I can switch back and ...