Death of a Fantastic Machine (aka the camera) is a short documentary on “what happens when humanity’s infatuation wi ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is operational and will soon embark on its primary mission: to take a detailed image ...

Astronomy is following in the path of scientific fields like biology, which today is awash in DNA sequences, and particle physics, in which scientists must sift through torrents of debris from ...

Harper’s published a long piece by David Foster Wallace called Shipping Out, in which Wallace, a decidedly non-luxu ...

In 1996, Harper’s published a long piece by David Foster Wallace called Shipping Out, in which Wallace, a decidedly non-luxury cruise person, goes on a week-long luxury cruise in the Caribbean.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band, Talking Heads have released a new music video for their iconic 1977 single, ...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson is now doing visual versions of her daily newsletter on YouTube. Yesterday’s video explai ...

Ok, having been all over the western Mediterranean for the past two weeks, I’m back. *sigh* Here, without comment or context ...

I love this gorgeous woodblock print from Hasui Kawase, View of Azalea Garden from Mt. Fuji. Hasui was a significant influence on Studio Ghibli & Hayao Miyazaki. After all, the influence of Kawase on ...

estimate, though I keep this from my children. This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin: They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add ...