The Dog Photographer
William Wegman is a photographer famous for his portraits of dogs. For the last 45 years, Wegman has been dressing up his Weimaraners in human...
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Remembering MLK in restored NBC video
In some rarely-seen footage from 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. talks about the new phase of the Civil Rights movement for “genuine equality.” For 26...
Zeynep Tufekci: We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
Are we selling our souls for ads? Technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki seems to think so. The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook debacle demonstrates the Wild West of data exploitation....
Why great athletes enjoy suffering pain
Author Malcolm Gladwell sits down with Alex Hutchison, author of the new book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance to...
Video: Life is pain
Burnt toast, half-torn tape, uncooperative mobile screen orientations, the torn wine cork–those are just some of the everyday things that drive us crazy. In this...
‘The right to disconnect’ 📱
Stop working from home and get some rest. Even better, plan some unscheduled time. Sincerely, France Wait, what? On January 1st of this year, France...
Simon Sinek: Do little things
Consistency is a series of small efforts that over time add up to create a big impact. Seth Godin calls this ‘the drip.’ Simon Sinek refers to...
Picasso: Art as a form of diary
Art is where our mind’s eye merges with reality to create a theater inside our head, resulting in the form of a diary. This was...
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
Francis Bacon painted ghostly, violent images. Some say he emptied his darkest thoughts on canvass, mostly as a manifestation of his relationship with his sadistic...
Your vocation chooses you
We all start out with a dream, a goal of someone or something we want to emulate. We keep that dream close, putting up bedroom posters...
Are we living in a computer simulation?
Perhaps what we see isn’t what we get. Instead, life is just computer code and humans are information. So does a simulated life mean that...
Fire Opal
Fire Opal is a variety of opal that has a bright yellow, bright orange or bright red background color. The stones in the first photo...