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

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

Jon Stewart is back on The Daily Show on a regular basis and the other day he took on the manufactured outrage that is cancel ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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 ...

I tried to push through it – until, suddenly, neither my body nor my brain could find a reason to carry on. I slowed to a ...