There was a lot of pre-launch buzz about Kelsey Dionne's Shadowdark tabletop roleplaying game. Under the banner of Arcane Library, Dionne is known for her innovative, imaginative, and critically-acclaimed RPG… Read the rest of the article: Shadowdark, the classic dungeon crawler that mixes old-school character with modern rules

Oakland, CA found object artist, kinetic sculptor, and self-described "master accumulator," Nemo Gould, has a number of affordable objets d'art on his website. His most recent offering tickles me to… Read the rest of the article: Artist Nemo Gould's "Click Bait" is the "painful reminder of our folly" we all need

If a 20-minute stroll through San Francisco with Adam Savage and his wire border terrier, Maggie, sounds like your idea if a good time, grab your poop bag and follow… Read the rest of the article: Adam Savage takes his dog Maggie for a walk

Back in November, I wrote about YouTube woodworker, Dave Piccuito, ordering all the tools from sketchy-looking Facebook ads that he was served that day. He's baaaaack. This time, Dave orders… Read the rest of the article: Buying tools from shady Facebook ads so you don't have to

Well-known maker and homesteader Caleb Kraft was having trouble with his chickens constantly being eaten by wild critters. So, he got a goose, who he named Lucy, to help protect… Read the rest of the article: Caleb Kraft says goodbye to TikTok sensation Lucy the Goose

Depeche Mode were on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote their forthcoming record, Momento Mori. They performed "Ghosts Again" from the new record and a classic, "Personal Jesus,"… Read the rest of the article: Depeche Mode performing on The Late Show

In this Oceanliner Designs video, they look at 5 of the most well-preserved shipwrecks in the world. Four of them are still underwater, one (the amazing Vasa) is in a… Read the rest of the article: Some of the world's best-preserved shipwrecks

This segment from Art21's program, London, explores the work of visual artist and composer, Christian Marclay. Marclay is probably best known for his "turntablism," a technique that involves manipulating vinyl… Read the rest of the article: Artist and composer Christian Marclay on Art21's "London" series

Roleplaying gamers reading this may have seen a story making the rounds recently about a DM being asked by one of their players to change their campaign to be cruelty-free,… Read the rest of the article: Should a Dungeon Master change a game campaign to be "cruelty free?"

On February 18, Yoko Ono celebrated her 90th birthday. In the wake of that milestone, this performance from 2010 began showing up on social media. The event was the 30th… Read the rest of the article: Patti Smith singing "Oh Yoko!" to Yoko Ono at John Lennon Tribute

I'm as fascinated by pneumatic tube delivery systems as the next dead medianaut, but I'm not sure I understand delivering some food on a café menu through a tube while… Read the rest of the article: A café that delivers your food through pneumatic tubes

In this episode of Rob Words, Rob looks at the origins of strange collective nouns, terms like "murder of crows," "gaggle of geese," "swarm of bees," etc. Many of these… Read the rest of the article: A "skulk of foxes," a "superfluity of nuns," a "business of ferrets" and other weird collective nouns

In this feature piece on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discusses the growing interest and acceptance of psychedelic assisted therapy. He looks at the sad history of the treatment, the… Read the rest of the article: John Oliver looks at psychedelic assisted therapy

In this fascinating Aeon piece, archaeologist April Nowell explores our changing understanding of Paleolithic childhood and how modern socio-cultural prejudices, along with the difficulty in finding skeletal remains of children,… Read the rest of the article: What was it like being a child during the last Ice Age

The reality competition show formula continues to march towards its singularity, now with a fine art re-skin. The Smithsonian (shame on you) has partnered with MTV (natch) to auto-generate The… Read the rest of the article: Fine art as a reality competition show? Of course

In this "Hot Take" segment from the animated Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News, the Fox & Friends-like hosts question comedian Tig Notaro on her reaction to the wokeness… Read the rest of the article: Tig Notaro questioned about a "Super Bowl gone woke"

In this Tested video, Norm Chan visits Blackhawk Films, a scanning facility in Southern California, to watch the restoration process as a 100-year-old Max Fleischer classic, Koko the Clown, is… Read the rest of the article: Restoring 100-year-old Max Fleischer cartoons

We all know the tragic, mythic story of the library of Alexandria, filled with priceless, critical knowledge of the ancient world, destroyed at the hands of Julius Caesar and his… Read the rest of the article: What really happened to the library of Alexandria?

As Becky Stern says in the introduction to her latest With Becky Stern video for Digi-Key, "one of the Arduino community's superpowers is code libraries: bundles of specialized programming that… Read the rest of the article: Understanding code libraries for Arduino programming

The Duché de Bicolline is a permanent LARPing (Live Action Roleplaying) village in Quebec, Canada. There are hundreds of wooden structures, tent villages, a fort, and a battlefield. Because cellphones,… Read the rest of the article: Taking a tour of the world's largest permanent LARPing town