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 it w ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing. “The Nazi push alert was only possible because of Substack’s continued commitment to not only hosting but actively promoting authoritarian, ...

My Recent Media Diet, the Resistance Edition 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’s a list of what I’ve been reading, ...

Photographer Léo Caillard makes images of classical statues dressed up as hipsters.

mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people. “Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV, according to an early-stage clinical trial.” ...

“New FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s” but the media disproportionately covers crime, so most Americans aren’t aware of the decrease.

Some facts about the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese: 1. As you can see in the photo above, purportedly taken in 1974, there was originally a Quarter Pounder without cheese, which was scrubbed ...