Death of a Fantastic Machine (aka the camera) is a short documentary on “what happens when humanity’s infatuation wi ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is operational and will soon embark on its primary mission: to take a detailed image ...

Astronomy is following in the path of scientific fields like biology, which today is awash in DNA sequences, and particle physics, in which scientists must sift through torrents of debris from ...

Premiering this Friday June 27 on the PBS, an episode of the series American Masters on Hannah Arendt, historian, philosopher, and one of the 20th century’s most influential political thinkers. Hannah ...

Big thanks to Arcustech for hosting the site and offering amazing tech support. When you buy through links on kottke.org, I ...