The latest post from The Pudding starts off about as good as possible to attract the likes of me: “This is a project about o ...

Back in the earlier days of microchips, the designers would sometimes add tiny images to the chips, for fun. From NPR: Many ...

On April 9, 2016, several months before Donald Trump was elected President for the first time, the Boston Globe ran an ...

The team at Tuk South visited one of the tallest sand dunes in Chile and did the obvious: threw a tire down it and followed ...

Just the other day, I learned that Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the LoTR movies, did an unabridged audiobook version of ...

Today I learned that the opening theme song for the original Iron Chef TV program was adapted from a song composed by Hans Zimme ...

Lego is coming out with a near 1:1 replica of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy handheld video game system. It’s not play ...

This is a fun new website featuring 80+ years of artifacts & memorabilia related to Smokey Bear, the famous spokesbear for ...

Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these but I’m gonna skip the apologies and get right into it. Here ...

This is a great piece from Jamelle Bouie on the likely death of the Voting Rights Act and, zooming out, the end of an era in Ameri ...

In this video, Maurice Moves highlights a pair of flashlights that are extremely useful & well-designed but also shockingly ...

Ross Anderson writes about how scientific empires, from the ancient Sumerians to the Nazis to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, have ...