The fantastic art history YouTube channel Great Art Explained has a great two-episode series on Jackson Pollock. In Part One ...

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

Composer Rob Simonsen used three Choirs together to help create the score for Elio, the newest Pixar movie that takes place ...

Composer Rob Simonsen used three Choirs together to help create the score for Elio, the newest Pixar movie that takes place ...

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 ...

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Cheating expert Sal Piacente, who’s got the perfect name, accent, demeanor, and face for someone who helps casinos catch c ...

Death of a Fantastic Machine (aka the camera) is a short documentary on “what happens when humanity’s infatuation with itself and an untethered free market meet 45 billion cameras”…and now AI. It’s ...

Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960. “They love him for who he is, which is one of them, and because he shows them every day that Stupid-Americans can ...

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

One of the longest and heaviest trains in the world, the 1.8-mile beast runs from the mining center of Zouerat to the port city of Nouadhibou on Africa’s Atlantic coast. The train is the bedrock of ...