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Which Way Is Up? The Answer Will Blow Your Mind.
Up and down are directions, right? Well, not exactly... Our Solar System Moving Through Space - This 3-minute video simulates the motion...


Epic & Unexpected Virtual Tours
Visit truly exceptional places, including some you perhaps never dreamed of seeing. Lesser-known World Heritage sites; the world's most...


Mystical & Magical Sunken Lanes
Originally these lanes were at ground level, but over the centuries, millions of feet and hooves have worn them down below the level of...


The World In Faces
For his stunning World In Faces project, Alexander Khimushin, a Russian photographer, has traveled the remote corners of the globe...


The Assumptions We Make: Six Short Films
These short films explore the assumptions we make about other people and how these assumptions affect our beliefs and expectations about...


Emmanuel Valtierra's Stunning Art: The Aztecs Meet The 'Avengers'...And Michelangelo, Too!
In these game-changing illustrations, Mesoamerican history and mythology are treated with the same pop-culture love that the history and...


Amazing Borders Between Countries
These international borders have a mind-blowing 'look' all their own, and stories to match. 14 Famous Tripoint Borders Around the World -...


Martha Ricks: Born Into Slavery, She Became A Proud Liberian, And Met Queen Victoria.
Working for 25 years to complete a quilt featuring a Liberian coffee tree with over 300 green leaves in the design, she made a...


Elvis Worms, Eyeballs Covered With Teeth, Jurassic Park Microbes...Nature Goes Weird!
Fasten your seat belt for an expedition through a few of the wonderfully bizarre things being discovered in the natural world! 'Elvis...


Indigenous Chefs Are Revisioning Cuisine And Reclaiming Culinary History
Across the Americas, Indigenous chefs are connecting food to culture and history, and re-imagining delicious for all of us. Today's post...


Robert S. Duncanson: An Early African-American Painter Who Took The World By Storm
The most accomplished African-American painter in the United States in the mid-1800s, and renowned across Europe, Robert S. Duncanson...


Beautiful, Quirky, And Magical Doors Around The World
From Mexico to Morocco, and Indonesia to Lithuania, these enchanting doors are much more than entryways. Some, perhaps, are portals to...


Free Resource: Stunning Solar System Posters
NASA has created some absolutely gorgeous high-resolution posters of our solar system's sun, planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. All...


The Fantastic Creatures of Vorja Sánchez: Strange And Colorful Whimsy
Fairytales and fantastic dreams explode in the colorful imagination of this Spain-based artist. Each animal is eclectic and wonderfully...


Passing The Mic To Often Unheard Voices
Amplifying vision-expanding, heart-shaking, head-moving voices that open us to wider and deeper connections with real persons, real...


JoaquÃn Orellana: Groundbreaking Guatemalan Sound Artist
Among the most influential living members of Latin America’s musical avant-garde, for more than fifty years, JoaquÃn Orellana has been...


Incredible, Delightfully Weird, Chain Reactions!
Just for the fun of it, here's some melt-your-eyeballs chain reactions! Amazing creativity! The Cake Server - Watch this insane machine...


Toshiko Akiyoshi: Jazz Trailblazer And Big Band Leader Like No Other
Ground-breaking jazz pianist, band-leader, and composer-arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi not only gave the world astonishing music, but made the...


Sheep: A Lot More Than 'Baaaa.'
Sheep are beautiful, engaging, intelligent animals, and capable of much more than the common stereotypes give them credit for. Sheepish?...


Crossing Barriers: Stunning, Heart-Expanding, Animated Shorts
Award-winning short films from across the globe about crossing generational, cultural, social, and other barriers on the road to...


Gorgeous Korean Pottery: Its Story And Spirit
Exploring the world of traditional Korean ceramics reminds us that sometimes the work of creating stunningly beautiful objects can be...


Baaeétitchish/Wendy Red Star: Recasting Native Images In Art
Baaéetitchish (One Who Is Talented), is Wendy Red Star's Apsáalooke (Crow) name. Her artwork reimagines images of Native peoples by...


Murmurations: One Of Nature's Most Incredible Wonders!
Starling murmurations (flocks) contain hundreds of thousands of birds "flying as one." Mesmerizing. Awe-Inspiring. Beautiful. The Art of...


Eye-Popping Paintings Reinvent Racist Blackamoor Images
Kajahl's stunning paintings re-imagine the images of subservient Blacks presented in European Blackamoor art as astronomers, rulers,...
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