Browsing: Culture

Visual snark from the early 20th century, or what haunted mirrors have to do with the lover of your dreams.

How to woo like an artist, or what the overuse of the dash has to do with finding the muse.

From book-burning to the iPad, or what Pompeii has to do with Gutenberg’s printing press.

Beneath the biases of intuition, or how your experiencing self and your remembering self shape your life – cerebral candy from legendary psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman.

The most compelling visual storytelling by a new generation of designers, illustrators, graphic editors, and data journalists tackling the grand sensemaking challenge of our time amidst a culture of information overload.

Watching the master at work from the other side of the glass.

One of history’s greatest downfalls is its asymmetry of acclaim, catapulting some figures into legend status while making others, even those of great cultural contribution, mere footnotes.

An irreverent, artful antidote to GPS appification, or what the NYC subway has to do with tsunamis.

From Ancient Greece to quantum mechanics, or what a Chinese room and a cat have to do with infinity.

75 years of existential generosity, or what the ocean floor can teach us about existence, ego and impermanence.