What does the internet cost around the world? Typewriter people. Walt Whitman’s levi’s commercial. Architects Journal looks at the top 5 comic book cities. Also: Paris as star map.
Writing by hand does remind you, primally, of what this crazy thing we do is made of. The careful spilling of ink on paper, the joints and girders of letters.…
Perhaps you have a child. Perhaps you want one. Or perhaps, after reading a few articles at Let’s Panic About Babies!, you’ll be shocked barren. Let’s Panic! is The Onion…
50 years of beautiful space exploration (be sure to view the large image). Top 5 MFA rankings, rearranged. Just in time for Halloween, My Zombie Pinup: “Where Beauty Eats Brains.”…
Kevin Van Aelst uses house-hold objects to illustrate scientific principles. Silly beautiful things. Also: pantone staircase. Are you a woman trying to make it in the criminal underground? You should…
In New York this week, James Frey and Maira Kalman at the CLMP Spelling Bee, members of The National collaborate with visual artist Matthew Ritchie in The Long Count at…
You probably stood up too fast. All day? Maybe you’ve been standing up too fast all day then. No, we’re not getting one. Because, Doug, those detectors are just a scam…
Mondays are good days for best ofs and photography (this is a fact, look it up). Here are some birds eye view pictures and some taken through microscopes. 19th Century…
Can you tell the difference between E. E. Cummings and a YouTube commenter? (It’s really not as hard as it looks.) Caroline Guinzio has been guest blogging at Unstressed this…
It took me three months to pound my way through James Merrill’s epic poem, his universe, his vision of the afterlife as told through a Ouija board in a conversation…
In yet another example of how the real world is far weirder than most peoples’ imaginations, I give you brain-shrinking algae. NASA has an iPhone app. There are scientific questions…