Pocket Archive: Inspiration & Cool Stuff

The Art of Photography Finding Your Voice The two images here are taken minutes apart, with lenses that are decades apart. One, a 35mm Nikkor-O f/2, so old, it’s pre-AI. And the other a relatively …

Every idea needs a Medium

Every idea needs a Medium

Every idea needs a Medium

Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals. Now researchers have discovered the first example of an animal domesticating another animal, with a fish species found to recruit shrimp to tend their algae farms.

Every idea needs a Medium

The immigration crisis of 1620.

The 14 years between the two Borat films also peel back the layers on another journey undertaken in North America — from post-racial pretensions to full-on racism.

Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.

You're about to stumble into the looking-glass world of contronyms—words that are their own antonyms.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

In the late ‘90s, a group of Microsoft engineers started tinkering with old Dell laptops in the hopes of creating a console based on Microsoft’s DirectX

A former nurse and recovering alcoholic explains

This month in Uncovering the Past several new finds and research provide new details for understanding the practices of past cultures.

The holographic universe principle suggests that we're living in a simulated reality. Essentially, it claims our physical world is nothing more than a detailed illusion, and while this is unlikely, the idea does have some interesting science supporting it.

Camera stores are great at enticing you with shiny new toys. But there is one secret that none of them will tell you.

Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones)

Hallucinogens like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin (a compound derived from certain species of mushrooms) were being researched in medicine as therapeutic agents before their recreational popularity boomed in the 1960s. Unfortunately, that era gave them a negative connotation and since then the research

Study suggests women with long or irregular menstrual cycles face greater chance of premature death

No, but they may make you less afraid of risk.

Over the years, we've explored the psyche of photographers who shoot boudoir. In this roundup, we feature at least 7 women who shoot boudoir photography. And we've got tips and tricks.

Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.

What might Earth be like crowned with rings? Space and science- fiction illustrator Ron Miller created extraordinary images of how the sky might look if Earth possessed such rings.

A strange, but surprisingly accurate, ancient Egyptian pregnancy test survived for millennia and was spread around Africa and Europe because it was just that effective.

We Are Not Against Civilization, Civilization is Against Us

Time Anomalies, Time Slips, Time Disortions. True stories of unexplained travel through time.