I stripped my closet down to the basics. It totally didn't take... One chilly day in January, I realized that everyone I knew was giving away everything they owned. There were chatterings over Facebook about a book called The Life Changing Magic ...

The author and the illusionist might seem an odd couple, but a shared interest in the afterlife made for an unlikely bond and a bitter rift. In 1920, two of the biggest celebrities of the age met for the first time. One was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, th ...

English artist Benjamin Shine has recently made an impressive installation at the Canberra Centre. In his artwork The Dance, he shaped dancers’ faces and bodies from 2000 meters of suspended tulle. From a step back, these veiled sculpture reminds us ...

How you arrange the plot points of your life into a narrative can shape who you are—and is a fundamental part of being human. In telling the story of how you became who you are, and of who you're on your way to becoming, the story itself becomes ...

HBO just unveiled the first trailer for Westworld, a new series coming next year. Starring Anthony Hopkins, much of it looks like it could be a conventional western, but the teaser trailer has enough futuristic flashes in it to show that something el ...

From Black Friday stampedes to scapegoating Jews in the Holocaust, social delusions are a barometer of the state of a society. An excerpt from the new book "A Colorful History of Popular Delusions", by Robert E. Bartholomew and Peter Hassal ...

We quietly approached the mother and baby humpback whale keeping to the surface, yet making our presence aware to the mother. This is a baby humpback whale calf that was approximately 1 week old. As with most babies, this creature was curious. I coul ...

Would you like to be in a movie? How about inside a movie? A new film festival focused solely on virtual reality projects will give audiences that opportunity. The inaugural Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival, announced by organizers on Wednesday, will go ...

From toasters to opium, learn about the history of strangely specific and obscure topics. You're sure to learn something new from these 6 online museums.

On the way to your studio, a Cooper’s hawk dove in front of me. It left clutching yellow leaves and not a single sparrow. I knew then, somehow, that I would never take my own life...

Five women have been killed in eastern India by villagers who believed they were witches, according to local officials. The killings took place in a rural community in the state of Jharkhand, where there are frequent reports of fatal attacks on women ...

Nathalie Croquet is a French journalist who wanted to parody the high fashion ads posters through her series called Spoof that she shared on her Instagram account. She imitates Kate Moss, Gisele Bundchen, Penélope Cruz, ads of Givenchy, Lanvin, Acne ...

Since 2011, artiste Tatsuya Tanaka works on the “Miniature Calendar“, an annual calendar which feature clever and playful sceneries depicting the daily life of tiny people in interaction with common objects.

Carmen De Vos (1967) is an experimental freelance photographer with a penchant for imperfections. She started photographing for many years ago and on film only, especially with Polaroids. “Almost without exception I use old Polaroid cameras, long tim ...

Colorful murals from around the world. This mural in a restaurant in Finland, designed by Amerikka Design Office.

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Digital agency Sennep has long maintained that the key to its success is in experimentation; taking the time to play and try and test and tinker with the possibilities of digital. Sometimes it feeds into client work like projects for the "London ...

Ault and Wiborg's Art Nouveau lithographic poster ads. Color lithography was rapidly replacing letterpress in popular graphics and in a classic case of “at the right place at the right time” demand for Ault & Wiborg’s coal tar-based inks ros ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of West Africans who were infected with the Ebola virus but survived it are suffering chronic conditions such as serious joint pain and eye inflammation that can lead to blindness.

On August 6, 1945, Eugene Cotton, a Lieutenant in the US Army Air Corps, wrote to his fiancée from his posting in California. Cotton was one of hundreds of thousands who, having left service in the European theater of the war, were slated to take par ...