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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

I’m headed out on an unexpected trip this afternoon, to attend the funeral of Dr. Steve Feller, who was my advisor in college ...

I’m headed out on an unexpected trip this afternoon, to attend the funeral of Dr. Steve Feller, who was my advisor in coll ...