Culture

Thousands of cars shooting around in an endless loop: just because it looks like dystopia doesn't mean it's not delightful.

The history of the attention span is very distracting.

Some of the earliest examples of scientific imagery have proven the most durable.

Allan Grant's evocative photos document Destination Moon, the trendsetting 1950 film about space travel.

Ian Bogost's retrofuturist art game A Slow Year explores the traditions and aesthetic possibilities of the medium.

It's never too early to have "the talk."

Larry Page tells us to ask ourselves if the work we do is changing the world. But is change always and everywhere for the better?

The renaissance Vitruvian Man helped to bring about was above all a rehabilitation of the human being as the pinnacle of creation and the expression of a divine ideal; with the discovery of new cultures and ideals that followed, the notion of a single human ideal would be put to the severest test.

The electronic collage-music duo The Books give leisure time one more crank of the handle, and it all becomes funny and vaguely unsettling: an 18-hole course deep in the uncanny valley.

Coffee isn't only a stimulant, but also a social glue and fuel for creative lives. A proposed mobile app would allow caffeinated bloggers, writers, artists, and designers to share their coffeehouse-generated work in real-time.