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99% Invisible

31 May. 2023
The unlikely battle between the creator of the New York Public Library children's reading room and the beloved children’s classic Goodnight Moon.Goodnight [...]
23 May. 2023
Happy National Train Day, everyone – for those of you who missed it: that was May 13th this year. A year ago, we started down this path with Train Set: Track One, which gave way to Track Two …and [...]
17 May. 2023
LA might be the most extreme parking city on the planet. Parking regulations have made it nearly impossible to build new affordable housing, or to renovate old buildings. And parking has a massive [...]
9 May. 2023
In her new book Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of [...]
2 May. 2023
Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but  they can be serious, too, because captions are a critical tool for lots of lots of people. There are the people learning a new language and of course [...]
25 Apr. 2023
There's a new movie out called Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game. It’s a fun and extremely meta biopic telling the story of Roger Sharpe, who, with one perfect shot, helped legalize pinball in [...]
19 Apr. 2023
Last year, Roman Mars teamed up with Hank Green to guest host Dear Hank & John -- this year he's back on the Greens' show once again, but this time with Hank's brother John Green (Turtles All the [...]
11 Apr. 2023
From scratchers to the Powerball, the lottery is the most popular form of gambling in the United States, even though the odds of winning a big jackpot is infinitesimally small. Jonathan D. Cohen is a [...]
4 Apr. 2023
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of [...]
29 Mar. 2023
The “panopticon” might be the best known prison concept in the world. In the original design, all the cells are built around a central guard tower, designed to maintain order just by making [...]

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Damn Interesting Curated Links

30 May. 2023
Can humans ever understand how animals think? (from theguardian.com)
30 May. 2023
Goldilocks Galore: Hundreds of Millions of Planets in the Milky Way Could Potentially Harbor Life• (see also) (from scitechdaily.com)
30 May. 2023
How the humble neutron can help solve some of the universe’s deepest mysteries (from ec.europa.eu)
30 May. 2023
Video: This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel [7:54] (from youtube.com)
30 May. 2023
Indoor plants are surprisingly good at devouring carcinogenic toxins (from newatlas.com)
30 May. 2023
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures View of Mars’ Belva Crater (from jpl.nasa.gov)
30 May. 2023
Expenses going up, donations going down. Looking grim. (from damninteresting.com)
30 May. 2023
Over 100 years ago, this telephone tower in Stockholm connected 5,000 telephone lines (from zmescience.com)
30 May. 2023
How rhythm shapes our lives (from bbc.com)
30 May. 2023
The Historic Grand Canyon Adventure Two Women Had For Science (from atlasobscura.com)

OPEN CULTURE

30 May. 2023
“In the criminal justice system,” the evergreen Law & Order‘s opening credits remind us, “the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who [...]
30 May. 2023
French is known as the language of romance, a reputation that, whatever cultural support it enjoys, would be difficult to defend on purely linguistic grounds. But it wouldn’t be [...]
29 May. 2023
Today, it hardly surprises us when a successful, wealthy, and influential rock star has a large art collection. But David Bowie, ahead of the culture even at the outset of his career, began [...]
26 May. 2023
Living green walls and upcycled building materials are welcome environmentally-conscious design trends, but when it comes to sustainable architecture, the living root bridges made by [...]
26 May. 2023
Back in 1982, the PBS American Playhouse series aired Jonathan Demme’s made-for-TV film based on the Kurt Vonnegut story, “Who Am I This Time?” Now, thanks to the YouTube channel [...]
25 May. 2023
The Greek term ekphrasis sounds rather exotic if you seldom come across it, but it refers to an act in which we’ve all engaged at one time or another: that is, describing a work of art. [...]
25 May. 2023
This spring, Google has launched several online certificate programs designed to help students land an entry-level job, without necessarily having a college degree. The tech [...]
24 May. 2023
Note: The great Tina Turner passed away today at her home in Switzerland. She was 83. From our archive, we’re bringing back an electric 1971 performance, a reminder of what made her [...]
24 May. 2023
Helen Keller achieved notoriety not only as an individual success story, but also as a prolific essayist, activist, and fierce advocate for poor and marginalized people. She “was a lifelong [...]
24 May. 2023
Henry James, perhaps the most famous American expatriate novelist of the nineteenth century, won a great deal of his fame with The Portrait of a Lady. John Singer Sargent, perhaps the most [...]

PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW

30 May. 2023
This silent picture offers a glimpse into the early activities of the Denishawn dance [...]
25 May. 2023
To ward off attackers this mythical animal was said to expel excrement with a devastating explosive [...]
23 May. 2023
The heart of this book is the sharp and disjointed accounts of survivors, their experience not yet shorn of its [...]
17 May. 2023
Charles Perrault is celebrated as the collector of some of the world’s best-known fairy tales. But his brothers were just as remarkable: Claude, an architect of the Louvre, and Pierre, who [...]
16 May. 2023
Painted by an unidentified artist, these opera characters are gathered from literature, military history, and [...]
11 May. 2023
These images of the LA Alligator Farm depict a level of casual proximity unthinkable [...]
10 May. 2023
An early guide to communicating in the language now known as Plains Indian Sign [...]
3 May. 2023
Those who sipped or sniffed ether and chloroform in the 19th century experienced a range of effects from these repurposed anaesthetics, including preternatural mental clarity, psychological [...]
27 Apr. 2023
Taking a child on a tour through punctuation, Mr. Stops introduces him to a cast of literal “characters”: admiring exclamation marks and militaristic [...]
27 Apr. 2023
In these images, Vérany realizes his ambition — to accurately render “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the transparency and the coloring” of cephalopods. [...]

The Marginalian

30 May. 2023
The art-science that captured the wonder of some of “the most brilliant productions of Nature.” While the French seamstress turned scientist Jeanne Villepreux-Power was solving the [...]
27 May. 2023
How to bear the gravity of being. In many ancient creation myths, everything was born of a great cosmic ocean with no beginning and no end, lapping matter and spirit into life. In the cosmogony of [...]
25 May. 2023
How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.” Life is an ongoing dance between the subjective reality of [...]
22 May. 2023
The psychological machinery of our commonest coping mechanism for the terror of hurt, rejection, and abandonment. The hardest thing in life isn’t getting what we want, isn’t even knowing [...]
20 May. 2023
“We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?” We know that the atoms composing our bodies and our brains can be traced [...]
17 May. 2023
Notes on the eternal dialogue between art and science in our yearning to know reality. On the morning of April 10, 1535, the skies of Stockholm came ablaze with three suns intersected by several [...]
17 May. 2023
“The people we love are built into us.” “There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone,” the young May Sarton (May 3, 1912–July 16, 1995) wrote in her stunning ode [...]
16 May. 2023
Searching for “that principle which keys us deeply into the pattern of all life.” “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will,” Baudelaire wrote — [...]
15 May. 2023
“Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back.” Love is both the tenderest mirror and the cruelest. How much and how well we show up for love reflects what we believe ourselves worthy of. [...]
14 May. 2023
“Self-knowledge… is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, [...]

CrimethInc.

24 May. 2023
We’ve just reprinted our classic manual for direct action, Recipes for Disaster. You can order a copy here. To celebrate, here’s one of the first chapters, a guide to [...]
3 May. 2023
On April 19, 2023, three anarchists were killed in battle near Bakhmut: an American named Cooper Andrews, an Irishman named Finbar Cafferkey, and a Russian named Dmitry [...]
27 Apr. 2023
In 2007, in the course of preparations for actions against the 2008 Republican National Convention, an insurrectionary network of queer anarchists formed under the umbrella [...]
20 Apr. 2023
In Atlanta, police seeking to secure the construction of a massive training facility known as Cop City have escalated dramatically since December, murdering one activist and [...]
15 Apr. 2023
Welcome to Steal Something from Work Day 2023! Every year, we observe this day as an opportunity to reflect on the individualized forms of anti-capitalist resistance that [...]
6 Apr. 2023
In Atlanta, Georgia, the city government is attempting to destroy the last remaining stretch of forest in order to build a vast training center for police. For two years now, [...]
30 Mar. 2023
In France, a powerful movement has erupted in response to an attempt to raise the retirement age. While millions have gone on strike and poured into the streets, President [...]
27 Mar. 2023
On Sunday, March 26, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister in an attempt to consolidate power over the country, precipitating spontaneous mass [...]
22 Mar. 2023
In France, a new surge of protest activity has erupted against the government of Emmanuel Macron in response to an unpopular pension reform. This promises to be the most [...]
16 Mar. 2023
On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.7 hit southern Turkey and Northern and Western Syria, inflicting tremendous damage. The death tolls are currently [...]

Lex Fridman

The MIT Press Reader

29 May. 2023
An excerpt from François Caradec’s book “Dictionary of Gestures.”
22 May. 2023
As an object, “TV Bra” perfectly encapsulates Paik’s artistic goals, Moorman’s brilliance as a performer, their personal history, and its cultural context.
17 May. 2023
The quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with surveillance capitalism but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the 19th century.
15 May. 2023
Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.
11 May. 2023
Bonnie Marranca, the longtime editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, speaks with the legendary performer, visual artist, composer, poet, and filmmaker.
8 May. 2023
A track record of successful progressive investments has been refracted through decades of bad data, bad statistics, bad analysis, and propaganda.
4 May. 2023
Sociologist Madison Van Oort offers a firsthand account of retail worker surveillance and resistance in the fast fashion industry.
1 May. 2023
Barbara Mazzolai’s roboplants could analyze and enrich soil, search for water and other chemicals, or even be used to grow infrastructure from scratch.
27 Apr. 2023
For immigrants, linking citizenship to using up one’s body and mind exerts an additional pressure to downplay damage and push through pain.
24 Apr. 2023
“Usually, those who do seem to understand the essence of the house begin to behave a little strangely, as if they were under its spell.”

Aesthetica Magazine

30 May. 2023
Wangyingzhi Janny Ji is an award-winning designer with a varied creative background. Her work has been recognised by the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, Graphis, Adobe, STA 100, [...]
28 May. 2023
If you could list some of the innumerable objects multimedia artist Sarah Sze uses in the site-specific installations in Timelapse, it would be a myriad of items that do not seemingly belong [...]
26 May. 2023
“I still hesitate when anyone asks me where I’m from, no doubt a question owing to my unusual accent,” writes Brighton-based Ian Howorth. The photographer, who was born in Peru, spent time in [...]
26 May. 2023
Helen Blejerman is a Mexican artist based in the UK. She uses her practice to explore “the spiritual aspect of people in the context of violence, in particular the context of femicide. My [...]
26 May. 2023
In a series of black and white images shot on 35mm film, Paddy Summerfield (b. 1947) documents his mother’s Alzheimer’s and his father’s dedication to caring for her. The photobook, titled [...]
25 May. 2023
“When a new direction in art appears, it always seems strange at first.” – Julius Voegtli (1879-1944). When the first Impressionist exhibition launched in 1874, it was met with [...]
25 May. 2023
Alchemy emerged after the eighth century with the aim of transforming metal into gold. The protoscientific idea originated and developed in various strands, including ancient China, countries in [...]
24 May. 2023
The V&A, London, has collected and exhibited photography since it was founded in the 1850s. On 25 May 2023, the final phase of its Photography Centre will open – the largest galleries in the [...]
24 May. 2023
London Gallery Weekend (LGW) originated at the grassroots level during the pandemic. Now, it takes place the 2 – 4 June and unites over 80 galleries across the capital. This year’s event [...]
23 May. 2023
Tom Wood (b. 1951) is affectionately known as the “Photie Man” across Merseyside. The Irish-born artist has certainly earned this title; it’s the result of 50 years dedicated to photographing [...]

Biblioklept

29 May. 2023
Skin Graft (Transplantation), from The War series, 1924 by Otto Dix [...]
29 May. 2023
“A Way You’ll Never Be” by Ernest Hemingway The attack had gone across the field, been held up by machine-gun fire from the sunken road and from the group of farm houses, encountered [...]
27 May. 2023
I brought a box of old books to my spot; I did not intend to pick up any books but then I picked up six: I’d been looking for a handsome and/or cheap copy of Aldous Huxley’s The Devils [...]
26 May. 2023
Lord Candlestick’s Horses, 1938 by Leonora Carrington [...]
25 May. 2023
Une après-midi, 2022 by Xiao Guo Hui (b. [...]
24 May. 2023
Penelope, 1923 by Glyn Philpot [...]
24 May. 2023
Q. It’s interesting that you say your new book is surreal but not magical realism. You’ve said that you don’t consider your earlier books to be surrealistic. Why not? A. Surrealism [...]
23 May. 2023
“Wet” by Joy Williams from 99 Stories of God The Lord was drinking some water out of a glass. There was nothing wrong with the glass, but the water tasted terrible. This was in a white building [...]
23 May. 2023
This is not a review of Fernanda Melchor’s collection This Is Not Miami. First published in 2013, This Is Not Miami is now available in English translation by Sophie Hughes. Hughes [...]
22 May. 2023
The War Crime, 2022 by Ben Quilty (b. [...]

Spoon & Tamago

25 May. 2023
all images courtesy Gaku Yamazaki Gaku Yamazaki, a 21-year old college senior, spends his spare time traversing Japan in search of what he has dubbed ikei-yajirushi, or ‘unusual arrows.’ [...]
18 May. 2023
These white and intricate forms appear to be the work of mother nature, sculpted over hundreds and thousands of years. Instead, they’re the work of Japanese ceramicist Eriko Inazaki, who [...]
16 May. 2023
If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of touristy Kyoto, head to this newly opened oasis of books and coffee. Located slightly north of central Kyoto is the Donkou Kissa Fang, a serene cafe and [...]
14 May. 2023
All images © Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office “Buy a vacation home that doubles as a hotel.” That’s the tagline for ‘Not A Hotel,’ a real estate start-up founded [...]
13 May. 2023
the Kyoto Aqarium’s 2020 Penguin Relationship Flowchart Penguins, the way they waddle around and protect their eggs, are often thought of as cute, cuddly and romantic. But those who observe [...]
13 May. 2023
Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, one of Japan’s most-historically and culturally significant shrines, will undergo a massive renovation beginning in May of 2023. And for three years the honden main [...]
7 May. 2023
Come for the art, stay for the coffee. Japan’s numerous museums offer a little bit of everything. Whether it’s cutting edge, contemporary art in Tokyo or a tiny museum in the countryside [...]
6 May. 2023
The moment we saw this foldable electric bike, something awakened our inner child. We couldn’t quite put our finger on it bit it was a feeling akin to seeing a brand new toy in a toy shop. It [...]
4 May. 2023
photo courtesy Sabogawa Koinobori Kawanagashi Association Around this time of year, Japan becomes decorated with scenes of fish fluttering in the sky. Known as koinobori, the carp streamers are an [...]
23 Apr. 2023
All images © Simose Art Museum Stretching over an area of 4.6 hectares and situated alongside the picturesque Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima is the Simose Art Garden Villa. Designed by architect [...]

swissmiss

26 May. 2023
R.I.P Tina Turner. What a force! Proud to be her namesake. Fun fact, she became Swiss. I became American. A Tina-trade of nations. – Yahia Lababidi, an Egyptian author I follow and [...]
23 May. 2023
Composed of over 1000 engravings from the 19th century, Still Life is a meditation on subject/object dualism. [...]
22 May. 2023
“It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, [...]
22 May. 2023
Made me look. Coffee break by Borje Alegre and Javier [...]
22 May. 2023
Love this illustration by Paul Davis. [...]
22 May. 2023
These surreal multi-decker caravans by Ulises Design Studio made me smile. [...]
16 May. 2023
I love me some vintage tiny cars. [...]
16 May. 2023
(via [...]
16 May. 2023
“There is a door between the logical and intuitive worlds, and we must put a smooth hinge on it, and let it swing…” – Lorna Crozier
15 May. 2023
“Developing tenderness towards yourself allows you to see both your problems and your potential accurately. You don’t feel that you have to ignore your problems or exaggerate your [...]

We Make Money Not Art

25 May. 2023
Varosha had been a ghost town for almost 50 years when the Turkish-backed government of Northern Cyprus unilaterally decided to reopen the former beach resort to tourists. Once a fashionable [...]
11 May. 2023
The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War. Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions, by Neta C. Crawford, professor of international relations at Oxford University and co-director of the [...]
27 Apr. 2023
How do you convey the methodical coldness of Russian colonial violence? How do you document the dawning of an invasion that has been repeatedly denied by the aggressor? How do you expose its stealth? [...]
24 Apr. 2023
Off-Earth. Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space, by astrophysicist Erika Nesvold. Published by MIT Press. While books on interplanetary travel typically focus on technology, [...]
11 Apr. 2023
I remember the incensed headlines when the opera Carmen, directed by Leo Moscato, premiered at the Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino in 2018. In the revised final scene, Carmen -who lives in a Roma camp- [...]
7 Apr. 2023
The Art of Protest: Political Art and Activism. Published by Gestalten. Edited by Alain Bieber & Francesca Gavin. Bieber is the artistic director of the cultural institution NRW-Forum [...]
3 Apr. 2023
In some rental housing across the British Isles, mould blackens parts of walls and ceilings. It takes over clothes while damp and leaks damage food items and furniture. The health of tenants living [...]
30 Mar. 2023
If you were studying medicine in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you usually didn’t have access to corpse dissections at universities and hospitals. It wasn’t easy to [...]
20 Mar. 2023
“This book is a reminder of the world as it is, not the world of exaggerated claims or, even worse, the imaginary world of indefensible fantasies,” writes scientist and policy analyst [...]
14 Mar. 2023
Machines were supposed to free us from efforts. So why do we find ourselves in a situation where algorithms and electronic devices have made it possible for work to reach us wherever we are, at any [...]

אירועי תרבות בירושלים

31 May. 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 18:00 18:00 סינמטק 1 הם יורים גם בסוסים בימוי: סידני פולאק 129 דקות סביב תחרות ריקודים עד מוות בימי [...]
31 May. 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 19:00 הילד מגן עדן שוודיה/צרפת/פינלנד, 2022 סרטו של טאריק סאלח בהשתתפות: תאופיק בארהום, פארס פארס, [...]
31 May. 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 20:30 צלילי המוסיקה התיאטרון העברי המחזמר הקלאסי המצליח ביותר בכל הזמנים בגרסתו המלאה (נוסח [...]
31 May. 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 20:30 הֱיֵה שלום, מר הַפְמַן #תיאטרון החאן הצגות החאן
31 May. 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 21:00 ג'אז "מטייל בברזיל" סדרת הג'אז שלישיית ליאוניד פטשקה ופרננדו סיישס שירים נפלאים בסגנון לטיני ואלתורים במקצבים ברזילאים. #מוסיקה אולם רבקה קראון
31 May. 2023
Monday, May 1, 2023 - 16:20 Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 16:20 קחו שליטה מלאה על מה שאתם צופים, מאזינים וקוראים באינטרנט. אין אלגוריתם או AI [...]
31 May. 2023
Sunday, May 28, 2023 - 9:00 Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 10:30 להציל ספרים מן הדליקה: תרבות הספר החז״לית לאור עיון במסכת שבת ד"ר יעקב [...]
31 May. 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023 - 12:00 Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 14:00 ★ טיפול תקופתי ★ שיר סניור וקרן קינברג #תערוכה חדשה בבית הנסן מאז ומעולם [...]
31 May. 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 18:30 Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 23:59 Queenta – Woman Jazz Festival 2023 #פסטיבל הג'אז המוקדש כולו ליצירה הנשית הפועמת בכל [...]
31 May. 2023
Friday, December 2, 2022 - 20:00 Saturday, June 10, 2023 - 14:00 רוח בחומר פסלי אלים מהמוזיאון הלאומי של הודו אוצרת: מרים מלאכי מעצבת: [...]
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