The Star and Director of the New James Brown Movie on What it Took to Capture the Larger-Than-Life Musician
Chadwick Boseman and Tate Taylor told us about the making of “Get On Up,” in movie theaters next month.
What Does Your Favorite Drink Look Like Under A Microscope?
Check out these colorful images of crystallized alcoholic beverages
Who Knew Fungi and Fruit Fly Ovaries Could Be So Beautiful?
Princeton University’s annual science art contest shines a light on the research world, adding a video element this year
The Failed Attempt to Design a Memorial for Franklin Roosevelt
The debacle of the Eisenhower memorial is only the most recent entry in a grand D.C. tradition of fraught monuments
Meet the Insane Surfers Who Travel to the Arctic Ocean to Catch a Wave
Photographer Chris Burkard takes pleasure in working through the misery of the ice-cold waters of Norway
How New Motion Capture Tech Transformed Actors Into Creatures for “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
The special effects team behind Gollum and King Kong took on its most-challenging feat yet: animating 2,000 apes in a real forest
Why Museums Don’t Need Gleaming New Buildings, Especially Not in Los Angeles
An award-winning architect suggests that the city reconsider its plans to raze its iconic art museum
The Hunt for the Best Ballpark Hot Dog
Tom Lohr has been traveling the country making his own list of All-Star franks. Who has the best one?
Looking for a New Place to Live? This Man Chose an Airplane
Oregon man Bruce Campbell created a home in a salvaged 727 aircraft
What Makes Soccer’s Chants So Catchy?
Songs like “Olé, Olé, Olé” and “Seven Nation Army” are dominating soccer. Music experts weigh in on why that is
Bringing the Farm to Your Backyard
Development Supported Agriculture is a growing trend in the housing world, and one subdivision is taking it mainstream
These Photos and Recipes of Authentic Thai Food Will Make You Drool for Curry
Food writer and photographer Jean-Pierre Gabriel spent 3 years traveling and developing the ultimate encyclopedia of Thai cuisine
The Universal Typeface Project Averages the World’s Handwriting to Produce an Incredibly Average Font
With your help, ballpoint pioneer BIC aims to create a font as common as their pens
Who Invented the Yellow Card?
Penalty cards are a surprisingly recent creation that were, perhaps unsurprisingly, inspired by traffic lights
14 Fun Facts About Fireworks
Number three: Fireworks are just chemical reactions
Visit These Iconic Forrest Gump Filming Locations
Unlike a box of chocolates, you can know what you’re going to get with these places from Gump’s epic life
Five All-American Cocktail Recipes from the Nation’s Top Mixologists
Raise a glass this summer to America’s vibrant cocktail history by whipping up some of these classic drinks
Samba and Sway to These Brazilian Songs Compiled By Smithsonian Folkways
Take a virtual tour through the country’s diverse musical traditions
11 Photographs of Mysterious Megaliths
Photographer Barbara Yoshida traveled across the globe to capture prehistoric stone monuments shrouded in moonlight
Five Ways to Eat Dates
During the month of Ramadan, millions of Muslims break fast with the superfood
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