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

Ok, having been all over the western Mediterranean for the past two weeks, I’m back. *sigh* Here, without comment or context ...

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

I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my fa ...

This is a map of how people in different geographic regions of the US refer to athletic footwear, courtesy of Josh Katz, author of Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and You Guys Talk and co-creator ...

A few weeks ago, I shared the following image on Instagram: It’s a scale for measuring how people visualize objects in their heads. I’m between 4 & 5, which means I have a condition called aphantasia.

I realize how it sounds, but I’m going to say it anyway because it’s the truth. When I first clapped eyes on the World Wide Web, I fell in love. Here’s how I described the experience in a 2016 post ...

I just got back from the XOXO Festival and one of things that happened was that Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou showed their new short film The Second and their first new Every Frame A Painting video essay ...

In this video, 98-year-old British WWII veteran Ken Turner demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. Here’s what Turner had to say before getting down to business: I’m old enough to have seen fascism ...

In the city of Poznań, Poland, a group of eight clams controls the local water supply through a clever bio-monitoring system: These biological systems are comprised of eight mussels with sensors ...

I have one kid entering college this fall and one a few years away, so I’ve been thinking (with fury and sadness) about the effect that Trump’s authoritarian regime is having on American colleges and ...

Do yourself a favor and watch this: Erin Morton is a junior in the BFA Musical Theatre program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and she absolutely blisters the paint off ...