Art

Every year around the holidays, you see a ton of discarded Christmas trees dragged out onto driveways to be hauled off by garbage trucks. I’ve never really thought about what comes next for this near-endless supply of trees, but I suppose they just decompose in the dump, releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere. Great. That’s...

Describing colors seems easy when you think about it. Maybe you point to a tree or the sky, and your description is ready, right? But if you’re trying to explain colors to someone who is blind, you’ll have to be a lot more creative than that. One Twitter user was curious about how someone could...

Art takes so many forms and plays so many roles. It can make us think, push us out of our comfort zone, challenge us, please us, and connect us. In some cases, like Yee Chong’s adorable illustrations of fantastical animals living as pets, it can utterly delight us. Below are 12 of my favorite images...

Recently, The Q science channel featured one of their designers who brilliantly constructed a walking bicycle using the same mechanical design developed by Dutch artist Theo Jansen for his Strandbeests. The Strandbeests are a famous set of amazing kinetic sculptures. When the wind is right, the sculptures, made mostly of plastic pipe, appear to walk down...

Art is notoriously subjective – beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that – but when the owners of the Facebook page Smol Animal Memes posted a partially drawn duck and asked people to fill in the rest, they never guessed how much delight their followers would get from the request. Check...

If there’s one thing that our divided nation can all get together to support, it’s helping out our veterans. And even though the task may seem daunting to many of us, one easy way we can all help out is by purchasing these new stamps the United States Postal Service has put out to benefit...

While you wait for the next episode of The Mandalorian, perhaps you’d like your very own Baby Yoda to keep you company? You’re in luck: someone has made a pattern from which you can crochet your very own Baby Yoda small enough to fit into your pocket. Even if you’re not an avid crocheter, this pattern...

An MIT Professor was asked a question: Does the complex rosette found in the middle of a lute make a difference to the sound? Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and amate*r musician, wasn’t sure. But he was going to find out. Makris teamed up with another MIT researcher, Yuming Liu, to study...