Kurzgesagt is back with another video about black holes; it has the innocuous-seeming title of The Easiest Way To Build a ...

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the world’s most iconic pieces of art. Hokusai created the woodb ...

The Gyermekvasút (Children’s Railway) is a 7-mile-long rail line in Budapest that’s operated by children aged 10-14 (a ...

This is such a wild story. Two men, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker, founded the Doves Press in London in 1900.

San Francisco’s Arion Press still uses decades-old machines to make beautiful books by hand. They’re one of the few re ...

From Business Insider’s series Still Standing, a look at La Maison du Pastel, a 300-year-old French company that makes pas ...

In this video, pianist David Bennett explains three pieces composed by Johann Sebastian Bach that show how much of a musical ...

Kirkus’s list of 20 Books That Should Be Bestsellers reminds me that Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new book, Long Island C ...

If you don’t like exercise or are getting sick of your workout routine, a few recent essays will keep you in good company.

Based on an analysis of leaked PIN numbers by Nick Berry, Information is Beautiful made this visualization of the most common PINs.

Oh man, I screwed up big-time you guys and owe you an apology. The great Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City, The ...

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