Tressie McMillan Cottom, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, posted this to Bluesky yesterday: I’m going to be very honest and clear. I am fully preparing myself to die under this new ...

Wanna Sit Down? You Gotta Solve The Rubik’s Cube Chair. If you want to sit in this chair, you have to be able to solve a Rubik’s Cube because the chair is a Rubik’s Cube. (Ok, technically it looks ...

The Kindly Brontosaurus I read this piece by Jessica Winter a few months ago and it’s come in handy a few times so I thought I’d share. If you want something from someone, adopting the pose of the ...

Editorial Template for Every Time the United States Goes to War. “President [GUY WHO HAS COMMITTED MULTIPLE WAR CRIMES], a [REPUBLICAN / DEMOCRAT], sidestepped his [COMPLICIT / COWARDLY / TOTALLY ...

Large Hadron Couture Collider Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick Knight, takes place in the Compact Muon ...

The Music of Pixar’s Elio, Created by a Choir of Wooden Dolls Ok so this is weird and delightful. Swedish electronics company Teenage Engineering makes a collection of singing wooden dolls called the ...

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I Want No One Else to Succeed In this video, a writer named Hannah shares an experiment her Intro to Psychology professor ran on her class. Here’s a transcript: It’s 11 years ago, I’m in a massive ...

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

For They Shall Inherit It’s Friday and so we’ll end the week with a pair of poems. Good Bones by Maggie Smith: Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened ...

Biking Is Therapy Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the ...