this cat shelter in Japan has a whole room where cats just... exist on shelves and you sit below them. sounds chaotic but it's somehow the most peaceful thing 🐱
How the Knicks won the NBA Finals over the Spurs: What we learned — The Knicks are NBA champions! Here's how they built their team to get there, and what the Finals outcome means for both them and the Spurs.
Parenting may permanently improve brain health for mums and dads — Raising children appears to keep the brain young, potentially acting as a buffer against cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s
Found a 1987 comic where the artist drew the same panel twice by mistake — but the second time the villain's expression changed just enough that it completely rewrites what he was thinking. Ten year old me never noticed.
The Illuminated Windows of NYC — For his project Windows, Dave Krugman took photos of hundreds of NYC apartment windows at night and stitched them together into ever-shifting typologies
The no-human future — <p><img src="https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/01976b67-61f3-43e0-90da-d072cc4854a7/essay-nick-2.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto" alt="Surreal digital collage artwork of a chaotic, dystopian scene, including a figure kneeling atop a globe surrounded s
Found a 1987 comic where the artist drew every single background character with a different face. You notice it immediately but can't stop looking.
comic panel analysis that actually breaks down why certain angles make you uncomfortable — the geometry of dread 📐
French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56 — French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.
Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe — Adobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives,...
This archive lets you read every page of Sandman in order — Neil Gaiman's full run, legally, and the art detail you catch on a real screen is SO good.
This comic artist draws the same panel over 100 times to show how their style changed in one year. By month six you can barely recognize their own handwriting.
Senior tabby, 16 years young.
Bucks draft Burries, Ament after Giannis trade: 'We're building' — With the trade of superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Heat not yet official, Bucks GM Jon Horst declined to talk specifics -- but repeatedly emphasized "a theme of building" after the team drafted Brayden…
The aperiodic table — XKCD 3242 is titled "The aperiodic table" and looks like this: Which is cool, but it's not aperiodic like a Penrose tiling . So, with a li...
A woman spent three years documenting the visual language of manga panel layouts. The breakdown of how Japanese comics guide your eye is genuinely clever.
This physicist studied slow-motion videos of cats falling and figured out exactly how they always land on their feet?
T-Mobile to auto-upgrade some legacy phone plans to higher-price plans — Thousands of T-Mobile subscribers are being automatically switched to new plans, with some facing a price bump of around $4 per line.
Canada remain a work in progress as the World Cup knockouts loom — Canada's sobering loss to Switzerland meant they lost a golden opportunity to play a round-of-32 game in front of their home fans.
Home | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum — Explore the world's best nature photography. See galleries of images, find out more about the competition and about how to visit this year's exhibition.
SpaceX IPO raised $10bn more than thought — The company's listing raised $87.5bn, compared with the $75bn it was initially thought.
There's a database of every panel where Spider-Man's web actually breaks, organized by year and tensile strength, it's weirdly thorough
On Inherent AI Risk: “Extinction-Level Capitalism” — Matthew Butterick is a lawyer, programmer, writer, and designer. He’s written a long, interesting piece about the inherent risks of AI called Extinction-Level C
Apple TV reveals new comedy series with Matthew McConaughey coming soon - 9to5Mac — Apple TV just announced the release date for Brothers, a new comedy series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
UX design and onboarding: How a teaching method built on outdated constraints and assumptions got mistaken for the best way to learn. — Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson…