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"The reason this topic has been so long in coming is that we've been waiting...

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OK Go Dance

OK Go + Pilobolus = All Is Not Lost

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Every day is like Monday

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Things go BOOM!

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"I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history"

On Flickr, vieilles_annonces posts scans from her "rather large magazine collection of Ebony, Jet and similar magazines from the 1910s on."

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Sacred text

Meg Hitchcock creates intricatecollages out of individual letters from spiritual and philosophical texts (via).

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"...it’s a great way to meet people, and to have sex."

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And a 1 and a 2, a 1, 2, 3, 3.984

"People prefer music that deviates from perfection in a natural way."Researchers into rhythm are trying to figure out the nature of these deviations, and what implications this has for audio...

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Cute Overload: Now with more productivity!

This is interpreted as the result of a narrowed attentional focus induced by the cuteness-triggered positive emotion that is associated with approach motivation and the tendency toward systematic...

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Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks

See how much money people make in every neighborhood in every city in America with Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks, a map that displays wealth distributions across US cities (and states).

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The Phantom Phonebooth

Whether made of wood or glass, the phone booth stands apart, and is made to stand apart, from the normal flow of life in which it is situated.

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It's the simple things

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Dance break!

The odds seem long that a thin Leno segment, Pumpcast News, would stumble across a couple willing to karaoke at a gas station. Longer still that they'd be good at it. But Will and Monifa Sims beat...

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High above the nation's capital...

Ever wondered what the view at the very top of the Washington Monument is like? Construction workers erecting scaffolding (for repairs needed after the 2011 earthquake) donned helmet cams on the day...

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Every library and museum in America, mapped

“There’s always that joke that there’s a Starbucks on every corner," says Justin Grimes, a statistician with the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington. "But when you really think about...

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Bellydancer

Shlomo uses his voice and a loop pedal to build an immersive childhood memory of his Iraqi-Jewish family.

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Bluebird Express

Dorothy, something of a diva, let the laughter subside. Then she started to sing with a voice of resounding beauty about a land she once heard of in a lullaby, about chimney tops and lemon drops and...

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Playing the bones, Soviet style

In the days before tape recorders and magnitizdat (previously), vinyl was a state-controlled resource in the Soviet Union. So how were dissidents and bootleggers to meet the demand for forbidden...

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Pachelbel's Train

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