Lovely short video about artist Jas Knight, who is a participant in the Met Museum’s Copyist Program: The Copyist Program ...

We haven’t done an open thread for awhile, so… What have you been working on? How are you feeling? What’s on your mind these days? What’s the best thing you’ve ...

An Absolute Climate Catastrophe” British climate scientist Kevin Anderson (from a 2024 video): So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, l ...

So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, lots of optimism about the future. But given ...

So, I’m not exactly sure what this is, but what it appears to be is a fan-assembled album of the recording sessions for Tron: ...

Lovely short video about artist Jas Knight, who is a participant in the Met Museum’s Copyist Program: The Copyist Program offers time and space for artists to develop their own interpretation of an ...

I don’t know what sort of neurodiverse bucket this puts me in, but I think a lot about mowing the lawn1 relative to how much ...

This is a completely fantastic look at how the Enigma Machine works. Jared Owen constructed a 3D model of the German cipher ...

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Jared Owen constructed a 3D model of the German cipher device and clearly walks the viewer through how the electricity flows through the machine to scramble and unscramble secret messages. When ...

This 17-minute interview about the Odyssey with Christopher Nolan conducted by philosophy doctoral student Zhong Shu is one ...

Death Cab for Cutie rolled into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert, which featured two new songs from their current album and some oldies: Title and Re ...