Oh man, I screwed up big-time you guys and owe you an apology. The great Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City, The ...

Anyway, the book is called The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War ( ...

There was a big solar storm this weekend and photos of the aurora borealis took over social media; it was delightful. For ...

The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it ...

Rupert Friend, Jason Schwartzman, and Wes Anderson star in an Anderson-directed commercial for Montblanc pens. You know the ...

Here are a couple newish lyric videos that share a nice spirit of “Good riddance!!!”-ness. I learned of the Chappell ...

NASA used one of their supercomputers to model what it would look like if you flew into a supermassive black hole. (You can ...

Using the Barbie movie and other media (movies, TV shows) as a guide, Pop Culture Detective delves into what “patriarchy&# ...

A couple years ago, the NYT columnist David Brooks published a story called “The Greatest Life Hacks in the World (For Now) ...

In 2019, artist and engineer Tega Brain gave some kids the opportunity to create targeted advertising relevant to their ...

I love these (haunting? are they haunting?) photos of Cate Blanchett taken by Jack Davison for this 2022 profile in the NY ...

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