I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make ...

Join National Geographic as they ride one of the most punishing train routes in the world, the Mauritania Railway, which ...

Like many others, I became a little obsessed with Andor over the past few months. I was lukewarm on the first season when it ...

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 ...

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This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to ...

This is a thoughtful piece from artist & illustrator Christoph Niemann about how he’s come to use AI (tactically, sparingl ...

The sport is not so geared towards young learners as surfing, but it presents sufficient physical challenges and danger for the older human that feeling “frustrated, exhausted, humiliated, terrified, ...

Diego Luna is guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week and for his first monologue, the Mexico native spoke about ...

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

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