It’s been a really tough year for many of us, the citizens of the world. But on this day of thanksgiving in the US, I wanted ...

Konnichiwa! I’m back from Japan and finally getting over my jetlag, which took much longer than I expected. Here’s a l ...

This is the trailer for an HBO documentary called Thoughts and Prayers about “the impact of the $3 billion active shooter pr ...

Chindōgu is the Japanese practice of inventing things that are not exactly useful but neither are they useless; they’re more ...

So I’ve been watching Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus on Apple TV and this review from Inkoo Kang res ...

Vanity Fair sat down with Harrison Ford and asked him to identify which of his lines he’d said in which movie, mostly as a ...

We’ve talked before about how some people can picture things in their heads quite vividly and others can’t at all. T ...

I’ve posted about Korean artist Lee Hyun-Joung ’s swirling and swooping work before, but I recently saw one of her pieces in ...

Larissa MacFarquhar wrote a fascinating article about aphantasia (and its opposite, hyperphantasia) for the New Yorker: Some ...

This is the trailer for an HBO documentary called Thoughts and Prayers about “the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities across America”. Big thanks ...

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Even when an answer seems straightforward, the devil is in the details. And with respect to the details, Munroe does his due diligence. In this case, the answer to “what’s the longest possible sunset ...