The Big Picture’s annual year in review make the years worth living. Map collages! Item: Chinese scientists want you to walk through walls. This is what it looks like when…
In Tokyo, at the Shibuya Station, there is a statue of a dog named Hachiko who would come and greet his master every day after week, even after his master…
Flavorwire kindly directs to the best scientific images of 2010. Did you read the New Yorker profile on Shigeru Miyamoto? I did. . . Here are some very simple illustrations…
Read this powerful essay by Tracy Clark-Flory about her mother’s battle with third stage lung cancer and her father’s attempt to maintain some level of normalcy during the Christmas holidays.
I am very cold so lets all just watch this solar storm. What’s that? You don’t think the universe could be any more awesome? oh hey ICE VOLCANO. Here are…
This week in New York Rumpus Women take over!, New Yorker writer’s 20 Under 40 share their stories, Jonathan Ames and Justin Taylor are among writers who read from A…
Take a look inside the Madagascar stone forest. Or not, it’s entirely up to you. Here are some more very old botanical drawings for you. Very important: sleepy bees are…
This week in San Francisco, it’s Ladies Night at The Rumpus! Also, Dave Eggers plays ping pong, art for the blind, sitting and lying in protest of the Sit/Lie law,…
Christmas is just around the corner, so look at this Spanish Santa vending machine robot. Your skin is the oldest thing about you. Philippe Jullian, connoisseur of the exotic. This…
“(F)ully half of … Twitter users basically never listen to a word anyone else says. In other words, half of Twitter users use Twitter as a sort of digital closet…
Next up for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club: Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. We’re hammering out the selections for the next three months right now, so stay tuned. There’s some…