films 13-minute mini-doc on the cult of the Criterion Collection Gareth Branwyn

chess Examining the carefully selected color palette of Netflix's THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT Thom Dunn

star wars The original Star Wars would have been trash if not for Marcia Lucas's editing Thom Dunn

happy mutants Visual Disturbances: what eye-tracking and 187 unlicensed clips reveal about change blindness and our perception of films Eric Faden

Weird How military jargon infected your workplace with endless stupid phrases Popkin

politics Public historians slam Trump's statue garden plan Jennifer Sandlin

New documentary about John C. Lilly, the scientist who used LSD to communicate with dolphins and invented the sensory deprivation tank (video) Allan Rose Hill

graphic novel "Big Jim and the White Boy" is a fascinating re-telling of Huck Finn Thom Dunn

television This TV commercial for beef stew delivers the psychological tension of a Kubrick or Tarkovsky film David Pescovitz

politics Trump keeps confusing "Silence of the Lambs" with "My Dinner with Andre" Jason Weisberger

medieval studies University professor is also a medievalist meme master Jennifer Sandlin

SETI Strange starlight patterns could be evidence of alien technology, according to two new scientific studies David Pescovitz

artificial intelligence "Pooky Park" is an 1950s-style AI nightmare fuel TV commercial Jennifer Sandlin

david cronenberg Watch David Cronenberg's "Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection" (2023), featuring four 18th-century life-size wax anatomical models Jennifer Sandlin

new york city Witness the birth of Pride: Footage of the first Gay Liberation Day March (1970) Rusty Blazenhoff

animation Interview: legendary Japanese director Mamoru Oshii Devin Nealy

hawaii Adventurer to set sail from Sausalito to Hawaii in hand-built reed boat Rusty Blazenhoff

Science Do some animals have pretty privilege? Elías Villoro

Science A Carl Sagan documentary is coming from Nat Geo & Seth MacFarlane Rusty Blazenhoff

movies Stepping Softly on the Earth and Beyond Fordlandia, two documentaries by Marcos Colón Elías Villoro