The deadly 2013 El Reno tornado was 2.5 miles (4 km) wide and killed a team of tornado experts. But as Anton Seimon explains, his colleagues turned that tragedy into… Read the rest of the article: Watch how crowdsourced citizen data demonstrated how tornadoes form
Cory Olsen, aka The Tolkien Professor, explains how Tolkien's hobbit stories got fused with his earlier mythologic work around languages he created to become the Tolkien universe inhabited by Hobbits,… Read the rest of the article: Watch this Tolkien expert's master class on every race in Middle Earth
Koko, a cat living in the Japanese city of Toyoma, was honored by local officials after alerting rescuers to an elderly man who had fallen supine into an irrigation canal.… Read the rest of the article: Officials honor hero cat who saved an old man trapped in a canal
The pandemic has inspired a slew of great courses for young artists, like this Bite-Sized Art History course that teaches about President Obama's official portraitist Kehinde Wiley and shows young… Read the rest of the article: Online course shows young artists how to make portraits in Kehinde Wiley's style
Twitter, JPMorgan, and other organizations have announced they will stop using racially-charged coding and hardware terms like master, slave, blacklist, whitelist, and others as part of a thorough review of… Read the rest of the article: Some organizations to retire non-inclusive tech terms like "master drive" and "slave drive"
Julian Baumgartner has been sharing wonderful videos of his amazing art restorations, including one of his most ambitious projects ever, the restoration of a copy of Guido Reni's masterpiece L'Aurora.… Read the rest of the article: Spend a relaxing hour watching this amazing art restoration
As many parts of the United States have seen huge upticks in spontaneous evening fireworks, one anxiety-filled dog has finally had enough in this cute Late Show cold open.
Move over, vintage fingerboards. Mr. Manos has arrived with vintage martial arts films, featuring finger ninjas.
New data visualization project to reveal bias in media coverage on transgender topics could use your support.
As Halloween approacheth, perhaps it's time to tour the world's most troubling and terrifying toilets, courtesy of Phil from Toilets With Threatening Auras.
The Breeders have been out and about this year supporting their first studio album in ten years, and they just released a video for the single Spacewoman.
Poolboy nails one of the three most pernicious forms of marketing trends: the ironic self-deprecating brand run by some douchey social media manager:
French illustrator Linda Bouderbala did a fun exercise where she gathered some of her favorite characters from geek and pop culture and organized them by color.
The Lord of the Rings and Kim Dotcom put New Zealand on the map for wealthy tech moguls seeking a safe space to hole up when disaster strikes. The Trump… Read the rest of the article: Why Silicon Valley doomsday preppers love New Zealand
PBS premieres Dark Money on Monday October 1. It's a sobering look at how the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC is trickling down to local politics. John… Read the rest of the article: The documentary Dark Money exposes how corporations buy elections and lawmakers
Raising baby corals is a labor-intensive process that requires gathering the babies at the moment the corals spawn in the wild. Scientists compete with fish that feast on the babies,… Read the rest of the article: Scientists raising baby corals plan to plant over one million by 2021
Stella McCartney profiles David Lynch in this moody piece on the joys of cinema and transcendental meditation.
This NSFW film examines a fictional incel named Sam, starting with his agonizingly tense interaction with a young woman and reaching a disturbing culmination.
The World's Most Beautiful Libraries is a lovely collection of some of the most awe-inspiring libraries ever built.
Nothing like a relaxing bike ride where the slightest mistake will send you careening down jagged rocks and into a lake far below. The only thing less relaxing would be… Read the rest of the article: Watch a very brave biker zip along a lakeside cliff
