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Listen and subscribe to the Atlas Obscura Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Baudelaire: The city of Greensburg is a city in the southwest part of Kansas. It’s pretty small, less than twice the size of New York’s Central Park, and it’s a hundred miles west of Wichita. In...

Dreaming of a Sea of Time by Martin Kuiper feels like the culmination of an entire life's work that challenges time, with the joys of finally following your dreams.

From brain folds to insect architecture, L. Mahadevan explains how complex biological forms and behaviors emerge through the interplay of physical forces, environment and embodiment. The post Does Form Really Shape Function? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

I’ve been following RethinkX for years — their work consistently challenges how we think about technology and the future. So when I sat down with James Arbib and Tony Seba (my third time interviewing Tony) for The Long Game, I knew it would be a fascinating ride. It turned out to be one of the most ...

'FBC: Firebreak's director details some of the game's out-there early concepts, and the wild ideas that made it in — and embraced the chaos of multiplayer games.

The anniversary of the date has come and gone. And do you know what? This is the way life goes. Minutes add up to become hours and hours become days.Days become weeks, and weeks become months and months become years.Year . . . can you believe that?There is nothing as unstoppable and seemingly unmerc...

Ahead of the release of her new album 2t2, Cosey Fanni Tutti is interviewed by inimitable film director Peter Strickland, before the tables are turned, with both parties free from any kind of interference from us Music writers. Who needs 'em? We recently had the opportunity to get artist, author and...

A new book by Thomas Levenson examines how germ theory arose, launched modern medicine, and helped us limit fatal infectious diseases.

Without fanfare, something remarkable has happened. Plus, the largest marine protected area in history, a major breakthrough on HIV, good news for animals in Italy, and artificial intelligence versus black holes.

What climate lessons can we learn from a pair of cozy solarpunk novellas?