PRRI’s 2026 American Values Survey reveals some, uh, interesting views on whether Americans think empathy is a good thing or ...

According to NASA, the Perseverance rover has driven just over 28 miles on the surface of Mars, making it the vehicle that has driven the farthest distance outs ...

Gregory Wieber does these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history — I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video back ...

For more than a year, marshalled by animator Andy Bailey, more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, ...

Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way ...

Prometheus collects gift links to paywalled news articles shared by subscribers — from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more. Links are gathered from Bluesky, Mastodon, and ...

Diego Poncelet recently set a new world record for the fastest speed on a skateboard. The old record was 146.7 km/h (91.2 mph) and he hit 151.8 km/h (94.3 mph). There are a couple of parts you can ...

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A lovely little mountain biking video with some incredible locations and cinematography. The drone piloting is A+. Also available on Vimeo. (via alastair h ...