The author Maria Konnikova discovered Sacks’ work in high school — “it blew my mind”, she writes. After the Aviv piece was published, Konnikova wrote a post about Sacks: The man who mistook his ...

In a recent bombshell piece for the New Yorker, Rachel Aviv explored the personal journals of the celebrated neurologist and write ...

Over his storied career, Steven Spielberg has made only four studio films about aliens: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ...

Hmm, I really don’t know about this one: an animated adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm as a sort of Ice Age- ...

Born Poor (PBS/Frontline) is a documentary filmed across 14 years about three kids in the US as they grow into young adults ...

Over his storied career, Steven Spielberg has made only four studio films about aliens: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal ...

Born Poor (PBS/Frontline) is a documentary filmed across 14 years about three kids in the US as they grow into young adults while “dealing with an economy where they face more obstacles than ...

I first posted about Nick Veasey’s work back in 2005 and thought it was worth another look. Veasey uses x-ray photography to ...

Civicus monitors the health of civic societies and their freedoms around the world. In their annual assessment on civic ...

I guess this is as good an explanation of contemporary culture as anything. Hungover from a world that told us we could be ...

From the archives of London’s V&A Museum, a selection of items that were used by Victorian-era mourners to remember and pa ...

This video by Ian Lauer is an excellent accessible explanation of the basics of astrophotography as he runs through the ...