Gregory Wieber does these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history — I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video back ...

This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period. How katsuobushi — Japanese dried ...

Perfect Play ran over 300 million games of Monopoly to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make. I turned eight classic Monopoly st ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era. Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, a ...

I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called Hyperland. It begins with a frustrated Adams throw ...

The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter ...

This engineer was inspired by Wenting Zhang’s e-paper Game Boy emulator: ...

Circumventing the limitations of ‘linear’ broadcast TV, the 50-minute programme imagines a new world in which an AI software ‘agent’ - brought to life here by Doctor Who favourite Tom Baker - helps ...

This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen. If you’re ...

Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID ...

Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds ...

Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the ...