Researchers have determined how the world's largest geode grew to its massive size of 11 cubic meters: Although the cave is now dry, when the geode was growing, its cavity was filled with hot, mineral-rich water. The oldest layer of crystals, which include the mineral barite (barium
For fans of print publishing, this is pretty cute: a breezy look at an edition of the London Review of Books coming together. See also: A look at the London Review of Books’ cover archive over the past 40 years.
Pasta Grannies is just a joy. Weekly updates show Italian nonne (grandmothers) painstakingly making traditional pasta dishes in their own homes.
A fascinating explanation of the musical trends shared by today's chart-topping songs. For example, songs with tempos between 109 and 118 BPM are a wasteland for hits right now—especially surprising given that the most common tempo in Rolling Stone's top 500 songs of all
Today's coffee break meditation (with some non-Zen backing music): how to make realistic trees for your trainset. Via The Kid Should See This.
Currently on the cover of Thrasher magazine, Felipe Nunes manages to skate professionally despite a train accident when he was six that left him with one leg lost from above the knee, the other just below. My parents were essential in my recovery because they never stopped me from doing
A video of the streets of New York, reimagined by AI in a cubist style.
This list on African Arguments about the best African films (so far) of 2019 brought us a clip from Atlantics by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop. Diop became the first black female director in the history of Cannes to compete for the festival's Grand Prix award this year—
Banksy opens a shop in London to fight a greeting card company that's contesting the trademark he holds to his art. Lawyer Mark Stephens, who is advising the artist, explains, “Banksy is in a difficult position because he doesn’t produce his own range of shoddy merchandise and
A new collaboration from Jadasea and King Krule (as Edgar the Beatmaker): the moody "Half-Life."
