Join National Geographic as they ride one of the most punishing train routes in the world, the Mauritania Railway, which travels ...

One of the longest and heaviest trains in the world, the 1.8-mile beast runs from the mining center of Zouerat to the port city of Nouadhibou on Africa’s Atlantic coast. The train is the bedrock of ...

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This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to reverb ...

This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to reverberate in American society and politics today.

This is a thoughtful piece from artist & illustrator Christoph Niemann about how he’s come to use AI (tactically, sparingl ...

Like many others, I became a little obsessed with Andor over the past few months. I was lukewarm on the first season when it ...

From an excerpt of his new book, It’s Only Drowning ( Amazon ), David Litt writes about the frustrating and humiliating experience of learning how to surf at the age of 35.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is operational and will soon embark on its primary mission: to take a detailed image ...

Death of a Fantastic Machine (aka the camera) is a short documentary on “what happens when humanity’s infatuation wi ...

Diego Luna is guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week and for his first monologue, the Mexico native spoke about ...

From an excerpt of his new book, It’s Only Drowning ( Amazon ), David Litt writes about the frustrating and humiliating experience of learning how to surf at the age of 35.