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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

To learn more about bone music, you can check out Stephen Coates’ book X-Ray Audio, The X-Ray Audio Project (which includes ...