How the brown rat quietly spread across the world
The brown rat has spread to almost every continent around the world. But how did they get here? And are they here to stay? {read} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k04BwP9_U4
Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages
Sound changes left French unlike Latin, Italian, Spanish or Romanian.
The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops
A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs.
Celebrating 300 Imaginary Worlds
Imaginary Worlds has reached another milestone – 300 episodes! We already celebrated the 200th episode and the 10th anniversary of the show, but in those episodes, we mostly kept the…
Phoenix police sergeant under investigation for off-duty actions at student ICE protest
CHANDLER, AZ — The Phoenix Police Department is investigating the involvement of an off-duty sergeant in a late January high school walkout, which escalated to the arrest of one teenager.…
Making Paper From Grass… and Printing On It
Cory Morrison transforms locally harvested grass into handmade paper using a DIY pulp process.
Mira Nakashima Talks Family, Furniture Design, and Legacy
Mira Nakashima has spent a lifetime honoring her father’s craft. For Harper’s BAZAAR’s Legacy Issue, the architect and master furniture maker reflects on growing up in the Nakashima workshop, where…
Gap-Toothed Women
Filmmaker Les Blank breezily questions our commonly accepted standards of beauty with this paean to women with extra-wide dental spaces.
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is a 1988 documentary film about the introduction of cane toads to Australia. Cane toads were introduced to Australia with the aim of controlling a…
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Directed by Philipp Virus • 2021 • Germany, United States One of the most influential bands to emerge from the 1980s underground, East Coast rock legends Dinosaur Jr. laid the…