The ocean doesn't care about New Yorkers' stress levels.
A designer, a professor, a neuro-oncologist, and an artist explain why they brave congested traffic, thick rubber, and freezing cold water to spend time in the ocean around New York City.
How to revolutionize health care with four nickels.
Introducing "the Paperfuge," a 20-cent centrifuge that can spin biological samples at thousands of revolutions per minute. Inspired by the design of a millennia-old toy, the Paperfuge is a hand-powered centrifuge made of paper, string, and plastic that can whip biological samples in circles at
The birth of cuttlefish is actually beautiful.
We really didn't expect this to be so lovely: cephalopods (squid and cuttlefish) coming to life with microscopy footage. The short video shows the cephalopods transforming from embryos (when they develop in egg capsules) to hatchlings that emerge with the resplendent, colour-shifting skin they use for communication
Plant Room
A 360-degree camera trip through four otherworldly settings.
The man who lives in 1946.
From this BBC Radio 4 segment, we learned about Ben Sansum, who's enjoying life—in his thirties—in as much of the 1940s as he can recreate, Facebook be damned.
America's first female mortician smuggled escaped slaves.
Chalk this up to things not widely known: America's first female mortician, Henrietta Duterte, turned her house into a stop on the Underground Railroad and used coffins to smuggle fugitives across Pennsylvania. From an essay about Duterte by novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge: At 14, my deepest desire was to
Different classical composers, improvised.
In case you need a music break: here's Nahre Sol improvising "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the style of different composers, from Chopin to Glass.
Boo Boo Jeffries is your new favorite video game character.
TMN favorite Tiffany Haddish became the first black woman standup to host Saturday Night Live. A solid show included this skit where Haddish plays the enlightened video game character Boo Boo Jeffries, who knows it takes much more than winning to win.
The only time Coltrane performed "A Love Supreme" live.
Here is the only surviving footage from John Coltrane's first and only live performance of "A Love Supreme" on July 26, 1965.
A short film about the right to roam and sing to cows.
In case the vile news about Louis CK and Roy Moore is too much to stomach, here's a nice, short ski film from the crew at WRKSHRT about Scotland's "right to roam"—the Scottish outdoor access code that provides public access to pretty much