In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho ...

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

Ah, this is awesome: Great Art Explained is one of my favorite YouTube channels and there’s a book version coming out in the ...

Baggage is a short, stop-animation film by Lucy Davidson about the sometimes unpleasant experience of being seen — when going ...

This is a unique look at the history of the world from 1925 to 2025, told through the lens of movies whose plots take place ...

Clocking in at almost an hour, this “definitive interview” with Wes Anderson by Vanity Fair about all 12 of his film ...

Slice of Life (trailer) is a feature-length documentary about the American Dream through the lens of former Pizza Huts that ...

A fresh approach to a classic subject, James Payne’s no-nonsense analysis sheds new light on 30 masterpieces from around the ...

Ok so this is weird and delightful. Swedish electronics company Teenage Engineering makes a collection of singing wooden ...

Living Colour recently visited the NPR Music office for a Tiny Desk Concert. Cult of Personality might be an all-time top 10 ...

ImillaSkate is a Bolivian female skate collective whose members dress in traditional cholita clothing. This is a great short ...

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this ...