The latest post from The Pudding starts off about as good as possible to attract the likes of me: “This is a project about o ...

Back in the earlier days of microchips, the designers would sometimes add tiny images to the chips, for fun. From NPR: Many ...

Lego is coming out with a near 1:1 replica of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy handheld video game system. It’s not play ...

On April 9, 2016, several months before Donald Trump was elected President for the first time, the Boston Globe ran an ...

Today I learned that the opening theme song for the original Iron Chef TV program was adapted from a song composed by Hans Zimme ...

The team at Tuk South visited one of the tallest sand dunes in Chile and did the obvious: threw a tire down it and followed ...

My Recent Media Diet, the Resistance Edition Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these but I’m gonna skip the apologies and get right into it. Here’s a list of what I’ve been reading, ...

Just the other day, I learned that Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the LoTR movies, did an unabridged audiobook version of ...

This is a fun new website featuring 80+ years of artifacts & memorabilia related to Smokey Bear, the famous spokesbear for ...

“New FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s” but the media disproportionately covers crime, so most Americans aren’t aware of the decrease.

From the Phonograph podcast, a look at the early days of 99% Invisible (as that podcast’s 15th anniversary approaches).

Vintage Bike Tricks, Circa 1965 Lilly Yokoi was an acrobat who specialized in performing on a bicycle. During her career, she toured around the world and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show three times.