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The cultural impetus to hustle is built on decades-old political language. Why not try idleness instead?
This is the story of a Windows disaster that birthed a typography disaster that turned into an ongoing joke.
When I used to ask students what a poem is, I would get answers like “a painting in words,” or “a medium for self-expression,” or “a song that rhymes and displays beauty.” None of these answers ever really satisfied me, or them, and so for a while I stopped asking the question.
For Monkey Island’s 30th anniversary, we went looking for the secret, and found more than we knew possible.
In addition to being false, a growing body of research in psychology and neuroscience suggests that believing in meritocracy makes people more selfish, less self-critical and even more prone to acting in discriminatory ways. Meritocracy is not only wrong; it’s bad.
Before YouTube and internet video, before “broadband”, Flash games and animations were the biggest viral content.
How strategy games have held on to one of colonialism’s most toxic narratives, and how they might finally be letting it go.
SimCity wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
The question surprised me at first because I had taken it for granted that Egyptian sculptures were damaged.
Thirty years after “Ice Ice Baby,” Robert Van Winkle is ready to talk about it all—his rise, his fall, and that infamous night on the balcony. And it may just change how you feel about him.
A musical advent calendar, of sort
From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, retracing 128 years of an art form that continues to draw us all in.
When imagining socialism it’s easy to picture utopian or dystopian visions pulled from Star Trek or 1984, but a near-future socialist system wouldn’t look so radically different from the one we live in.
“Dadu is a particularly empathetic illustrator who has built an extraordinary body of work for our Disability series. In this case, an image which embodies community, placemaking, and the relative…
It is thought that Euclid wrote Elements in about 300 BC, but Oliver Byrne turned it into one of the true gems of visualization — and made it about 100 times more readable. By seamlessly combining…