
Here Come the Tomatoes
It’s late October and our tomatoes are out in force.
Charlie Mackesy’s illustrated book explores love, fear, acceptance and belonging. It’s a perfect anecdote for our anxious age.
Somehow, we stumbled out of New York City and into Rhode Island. It took a long time, it was a bit accidental, but we finally found home.
Giant caveats aside, capturing the spectacular of individual trees is much easier than capturing them in the woods. Let’s take a look.
Ghost’s canine bots are the scary older brother of every other dog robot you’ve ever seen, and a good reminder that we’re getting increasingly efficient at finding ways to kill ourselves.
“This virus has humbled me as a professional and a person,” said Michelle Odden, associate professor of epidemiology at Stanford. “I did not think this level of failure in a federal response was possible in the United States.”
For all its unknowns, the glorious constant of space is that it never surprises. For instance, when astronomers discovered what color it is.
A technical glitch on a Chinese video streaming platform reveals a young, popular vlogger is actually a much older woman.
Photography, illustrations and musings.
Things I’m still thinking about.
The future of propaganda is now. We’re watching it with China’s media response and social media control of information related to the Hong Kong protests.
Listening to covers affects how I hear and understand music. Here’s one that helped me rediscover John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. And here are a dozen others to make a point.
Self-driving cars are only as smart as the artificial intelligence controlling them. A new study indicates that the darker your skin, the more likely you are to be hit by one. There’s a simple, and unfortunate, reason why.
Nature shows are awesome. But what are they? Because they’re not quite documentaries.
A new Van Gogh exhibit has us wondering what the future of the museum might be.
America’s trash problem is growing and getting worse. China used to be our dumping ground. Now our waste has no place to go.