The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was Tsar Bomba, a 50-megaton device detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961. That made ...

Fun fact: Edward Teller was one of Stanley Kubrick’s inspirations for the bomb-giddy character of Dr. Strangelove in the 1964 film of the same name.

In striking aerial images, he captures the massive scale of 21st-century agriculture that has sculpted 40 percent of the ...

For his book Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food ( Bookshop ), George Steinmetz travelled the world with his drone, spending “a decade documenting food production in more than ...

Lawson’s, a convenience store in Japan, has begun selling Nomu mayo, a drinkable mayonnaise forgetting the important adage: ...

At an event last month marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, actor Bryan Cranst ...

In the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, a book published in 2010 by Rutgers Law professor Jay Feinman has hit t ...

In the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, a book published in 2010 by Rutgers Law professor Jay Feinman has hit the bestseller charts: Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a pair of visualizations of the phases the Moon will go through in 2025, o ...

As you know, I am passionate about sweet things. All different kinds. So imagine my dismay back in 2017 when I discovered the ...

Several years ago, Brandon Silverman become obsessed with the lettering and typography on the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fun fact: Silverman first learned about the fire insurance maps from a 2011 post on kottke.org .