“The plot of this movie aged extremely well.” A remake of The Running Man directed by Edgar Wright? Yes, please. Here’s the trailer.
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Living Colour’s Tiny Desk Concert
Living Colour recently visited the NPR Music office for a Tiny Desk Concert. Cult of Personality might be an all-time top 10 song for me — I vividly remember their 1989 appearance on Saturday Night Live.1 They still got it!
- I probably saw their performance on Arsenio as well, but the SNL set is the one that sticks in my brain.↩
Tags: Living Colour · music · Saturday Night Live · Tiny Desk Concerts · video
Slice of Life
Slice of Life (trailer) is a feature-length documentary about the American Dream through the lens of former Pizza Huts that have been transformed into everything from bars to churches to candy stores to cannabis dispensaries. A woman who runs an LGBTQ+ church out of a form...
John Nichols remembers his colleague & friend, the legendary journalist Bill Moyers....
John Nichols remembers his colleague & friend, the legendary journalist Bill Moyers. “I can’t help but think that Bill Moyers was the best president we never had.”
“[Showing] people they are not alone in caring about an issue” is...
“[Showing] people they are not alone in caring about an issue” is an important and overlooked function of protest. “Silence begets silence, which begets further misunderstanding about what a society actually collectively believes or wants.”
“When I was in high school, my friends and I had a...
“When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to make it to the back wall of the store, touch it, and exit out the front without an Apple staff person talking to us.”
ImillaSkate: The Cholita Skaters of Bolivia
ImillaSkate is a Bolivian female skate collective whose members dress in traditional cholita clothing. This is a great short documentary about the group, the challenges they face, and the change & joy they’re trying to bring to their communities.
Some people in my gen...
Busting the Top 5 Myths About the Big Bang. “Even asking this...
Busting the Top 5 Myths About the Big Bang. “Even asking this question relies on a misconception: a misconception that the Big Bang was like an explosion. As we’ve just covered, the Universe didn’t explode; it simply expanded.”
The Internet Archive estimates the Wayback Machine will hit a lifetime total...
The Internet Archive estimates the Wayback Machine will hit a lifetime total of 1 trillion archived web pages later this year in October.
Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive...
Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things, so you can tell harmless bumblebees (you can pet them!) from “asshole” yellow jackets.
“He Painted Bugs Like Jewels”
In a collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Evan Puschak made a video about 16th-century Dutch artist (and all-around polymath) Joris Hoefnagel, who painted some of the first dedicated and detailed images of insects in the world. His paintings were so accurate tha...
Trying to cut back on social media? The methaphone is a phone-shaped...
Trying to cut back on social media? The methaphone is a phone-shaped slab of clear acrylic that you can carry instead of your phone to “help you manage cravings and withdrawal symptoms”.
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers. “We want our...
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers. “We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”
“The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live...
“The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he’s building a 19th pool…”
Great Art Explained: Jackson Pollock
The fantastic art history YouTube channel Great Art Explained has a great two-episode series on Jackson Pollock.
In Part One of my film I look at how, post World War Two, the art scene shifted from Paris to New York. How America was searching for “The Great American pa...
A decade-plus in the making and now on Kickstarter: a book of...
A decade-plus in the making and now on Kickstarter: a book of Pooja Saxena’s photography of signs and lettering found on the streets of cities all over India.
Large Hadron Couture Collider
Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick Knight, takes place in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, which is maybe the most sci-fi looking thing on Earth.
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Tags: CERN · fashion · Iris van Herpen · LHC · Nick Knight · science
I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something...
I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened. “Within a week, I’d raised $6,000. Within a month, $10,000.”
The Music of Pixar’s Elio, Created by a Choir of Wooden Dolls
Ok so this is weird and delightful. Swedish electronics company Teenage Engineering makes a collection of singing wooden dolls called the Choir. The dolls are basically speakers but with some autonomy and personality…and they can work together:
what you see are eight wooden...
Could Should Might Don’t. “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and...
Could Should Might Don’t. “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and prophecies, and it makes no assertions about what the future will hold. It’s a book which unpacks how we think about the future.”
Retraction Watch: a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers....
Retraction Watch: a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers.
Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer
I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make a better movie than a book and after watching the trailer, I’m excited to see this next summer. Ryan Gosling stars and Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, produced the Spider-verse movies) are directing. Out in theaters March 2026.
Tags: Andy Weir · books · Christopher Miller · movies · Phil Lord · Project Hail Mary · Ryan Gosling · space · trailers · video
Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The...
Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The first novel about superintelligence is actually a work of horror SF, a cautionary tale about the dangers of knowing too much.”
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years...
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years 1937–2001, the collection should especially appeal to those with an avant-garde or musicological bent.”
Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police...
Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police states. I think the masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls.”
Scammers are using AI tools to sell spectacular-looking but non-existent plant species...
Scammers are using AI tools to sell spectacular-looking but non-existent plant species that resemble butterflies, Hubble photos, or psychedelic Jurassic Park flora.
Cheating Expert Answers Casino Cheating Questions
Cheating expert Sal Piacente, who’s got the perfect name, accent, demeanor, and face for someone who helps casinos catch cheaters, stops by Wired Tech Support to answer reader queries about how gamblers & casinos attempt to bamboozle each other.
Can slot machines be h...
Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960....
Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960. “They love him for who he is, which is one of them, and because he shows them every day that Stupid-Americans can reach the social mountaintop.”
Whoa, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief, a post she...
Whoa, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief, a post she has held for 37 years. Your reminder to watch the excellent documentary The September Issue.
Hope Is a Risk
From Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies (Amazon):
Hope is a risk; especially when you’ve known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites.
But despair is a concession.
Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.
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