Miscellaneous

Simone Giertz, bringer of joy and self-described expert in shitty robots, makes machines…

Doug Mills, reporting for The New York Times: Echoing his days as a…

Have you seen this yet? Illustrator Alexander Perrin experimented with bringing a hand-drawn…

This clip of Obi-Wan saying “Hello there” 67 million times amused me too…

Last year the New York Times interviewed Justin Bieber, Diplo, and Skrillex about…

Mathematician Katie Steckles shows logical solutions to wrapping variously shaped presents. I could’ve…

From Gemma Correll. I am amused.…

I have no idea what’s going on here, and I prefer to keep…

There were some blips on Twitter last week for the DrunkTufte hashtag for…

By Emily McDowell, this recounting of dates initiated by the internet is funny.…

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Gift-buying season is in full swing, and it’s time to get stuff for…

TNT described NBA player Anthony Davis’ growth and accompanied the discussion with a…

Sweet, I guess Fox News had it right all along. I’m going to…

Alinea is a restaurant by Grant Achatz known for deconstructing flavors and piecing…

A one-off tumblr that catalogs stock images that depict the tumultuous, rising sea…

Philip Guo provides three practical reasons on why it’s worth pursuing a PhD.…

When you hear about sports analytics in the news or when announcers talk…

Malke Rosenfeld uses percussive dance to teach math to her elementary students. The…

A Truncated Story of Infinity, a short film by Paul Trillo, explores the…

By Ben Shabad, full-time graduate student and part-time cartoon-drawing person.…

I don’t know about you, but I like my bagel as two roughly…

Numbers is a short film by Robert Hloz where some people see numbers…

By Matthew Freeman. This is important.…

Not sure where this is from, but feel that tingle in the back…

Based on a column by Tim McEown, the animated video Modern Love by…

Sir Francis Galton, creator of the concept of correlation and regression toward the…

I’m not sure how I just came across this now, but the Truth…

— Using Dates and Times in R. — Jerzy Wieczorek describes his first…

The person in this cartoon nailed it. I’m going to do the same…