Typically, marine photography is done in rich, saturated color — the better to show off the riot of life beneath the waves. But the photographer Christian Vizl has done it… Read the rest of the article: Gorgeous photos of undersea life, in black and white

Hurricane maps, like the ones created by the National Hurricane Center, tend to show a cone that indicates the predicted path of the hurricane. But it turns out those maps… Read the rest of the article: Why hurricane maps do a terrible job of communicating the danger of a hurricane

I'm coming late to this one, because it was posted last year — but hey, better late than never: Behold this fascinating set of Pricenomics graphics about what types of… Read the rest of the article: Apple tech, jewelry, guns: Dataviz of what Americans pawn

Apparently YouTube has been removing videos of battlebots, after their system flagged the videos for containing "animal suffering".

There's an AI algorithmic technique known as "Progressive Face Super-Resolution", which can take low-rez photos of people's faces and enhance them into higher-rez versions. It's actually a rather unsettling development… Read the rest of the article: AI increases the resolution of emoji, turning them into horrifying creatures

I am a sucker for a good flowchart; furthermore, a fan of hand-drawn infographics; and also a partisan of overly-systematized grammatical guides. So this chart on how and when to… Read the rest of the article: How to Capitalize Headlines, Codified in a Flowchart

For Popular Science, the photographer and journalist Stan Horaczek took a deep dive into NYC's repair shops — places that repair cameras, musical gear, lighting fixtures and even jeans. Horaczek… Read the rest of the article: Inside NYC's slowly-vanishing repair shops

Behold StoryAI: Type in a few sentences, and the model autocompletes your story, writing a few hundred more words that, by its calculations, could plausibly follow.

Photographer Claire Droppert experiments with using gravity as a mechanic for art, tossing natural objects in the air and snapshotting how they fly and fall.

Hackaday has a great post about a recreation of the GENIAC, an electric toy from 1955 that used simple switches to creative a turn-based interactive game narrative. The GENIAC, short… Read the rest of the article: The GENIAC, a narrative interactive game from 1955

So, there's a new theory about what happened to Amelia Earhart: She crash-landed on a Pacific island, and after death, her body was slowly eaten and pulled apart by coconut… Read the rest of the article: How coconut crabs may have absconded with Amelia Earhart's skeleton

The market-research firm Market Force Information surveyed 7,600 people to find out which burger chains the liked the most and least, ranking them by eight attributes, like "food quality", "speed… Read the rest of the article: Dataviz of burger-satisfaction rankings

Behold the "One HTML Page Challenge" — to build a one-page site using just the code in a single html file: "Practice your skills with no assistance from libraries, no… Read the rest of the article: The "One HTML Page Challenge", a great example of view-source culture

Hey upstate NY state folks: My band The Delorean Sisters is in your neck of the woods, tonight and tomorrow! We're a country-Americana band — our first album was a… Read the rest of the article: Rochester, Buffalo: My band The Delorean Sisters plays your cities this weekend

Tom Hegen (previously) is a photographer who specializes in aerial photography of landscapes, often with a focus on mass industrial activity that reshapes the natural world. His latest work is… Read the rest of the article: Aerial photos of sea-salt flats

Thermochromic materials change color as they heat or cool. You know the mood ring? Like that!

Fortnite is popular for tons of reasons, but chief among it is the "battle royale" style of combat — 100 random players dropped on an island, foraging for defenses and… Read the rest of the article: Collaborating in Fortnite

In the last few years, the subway in New York has become clotted with delays. For just as long, the MTA — the agency that runs the subway — has… Read the rest of the article: Interactive animation of why NYC's subway is so slow

Here's an interesting experiment: Using mouse-movement as a lie-detection technique. Cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists have long noted a big "tell" in human behavior: Crafting a lie takes more mental work… Read the rest of the article: Analyzing mouse-movement to see if you're lying

Damjanski, a really witty digital artist, has released his latest work — "The Age Gate". I won't give any spoilers, but it's pretty funny.