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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A fresh approach to a classic subject, James Payne’s no-nonsense analysis sheds new light on 30 masterpieces from around the ...
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 th ...
Baggage is a short, stop-animation film by Lucy Davidson about the sometimes unpleasant experience of being seen — when going through airport security and also just generally. Big thanks to Arcustech ...
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale formed the Black Panther Party and wrote a 10-point manifesto of what the group stood for and w ...
Clocking in at almost an hour, this “definitive interview” with Wes Anderson by Vanity Fair about all 12 of his film ...
Online bookseller bookshop.org recently released a list of their bestselling books of the year (so far). The list is quite a bit ...
We Can Do Hard Things by Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, and Glennon Doyle. “When you travel through a new country, you need a guidebook. When you travel through love, heartbreak, joy, parenting, ...