According to NASA’s YouTube page:

My friend Brendan Scannell wrote and stars in this funny, sad, thoughtful short film about love and robots called Telton 7.

By pairing classic pictures of George Washington with contemporary captions, the Tumblr LadyHistory turns one of our greatest Founding Fathers into an utterly relatable dude. Only Hamilton has done more… Read the rest of the article: The Captioned Adventures Of George Washington

In a great piece for Fusion from last month, Lux Alptraum explores the ways in which the distinctions between rape and consensual sex aren’t always so clear cut in practice.

“My mom said to me, ‘You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I am a rich man.’”

Whether you realize it or not, you’ve spent your entire life being trained to empathize with white men. From Odysseus to Walter White, Hamlet to Bruce Wayne, James Bond to… Read the rest of the article: To find Hillary Clinton likable, we must learn to view women as complex beings

Strong typhoon winds in Fuzhou, China caused a giant inflatable moon balloon to be blown from its home outside a shopping mall. It was originally part of a Mid-Autumn Moon… Read the rest of the article: A giant moon balloon briefly terrorized China

This is the best "Pixar-Off" I’ve ever seen.

What happens when a socially anxious Edgar Allan Poe and his sarcastic ghost companion Lenore invite their favorite authors over for a murder mystery dinner party? Real murder, of course!… Read the rest of the article: "Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party" has murder, mayhem, and literary humor

The White House released a video of Barack Obama making history as the first U.S. president to visit Laos. Reflecting on his visit, Obama explains:

The ladies of WhatsUpMoms always have the best suggestions for parents. And in this new video, Elle Walker talks through the process of creating a family calendar that makes scheduling… Read the rest of the article: Here’s how to make a family calendar for kids who can’t read yet

When asked to draw pictures of firefighters, surgeons, and fighter pilots, a group of British grade school children produced 61 pictures of men and only five pictures of women. But… Read the rest of the article: A surprising way to change the way kids think about gender and jobs

Any true NASA nerd knows that Michael Collins was the third astronaut who joined Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. But even for… Read the rest of the article: Celebrating Michael Collins, 'forgotten astronaut' of Apollo 11

Published on Medium, Jennifer Coates’ “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.” is a thoughtful, empathetic, challenging personal essay about identity.

In this poignant video, Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Peter Capaldi, Stanley Tucci, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kit Harington, Douglas Booth, Jesse Eisenberg, and Neil Gaiman lend their voices to uplifting… Read the rest of the article: #WithRefugees: Cate Blanchett, Neil Gaiman, and other celebs lend voices to refugee crisis

The Scottish sketch comedy series Limmy’s Show! explores that classic riddle in the best way possible. As someone wrote on Tumblr, “This is me during every moment of math class.”

https://youtu.be/5KORLrUGIo4 In this three-minute video, MTV News senior national correspondent Jamil Smith explores the ways toxic masculinity perpetuates rape culture.

Not all people of color deal with the same issues around discrimination and prejudice. This BuzzFeed video explores experiences that people of color with darker skin tones have, and how… Read the rest of the article: BuzzFeed invites people with dark skin to discuss colorism

If you like puns you’ll love Keren Rosen’s work, which turns idioms into adorable chariactures. You can find Rosen's art on her Facebook page or as prints on her Etsy… Read the rest of the article: Punny artwork makes idioms literal

Star Trek celebrated its 50th anniversary last week and one of the sci-fi series' biggest legacies is shaping our modern concept of “fandom." The original 1960s series inspired everything from… Read the rest of the article: Women are the backbone of the Star Trek fandom