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Russian stylist Georgiy Kot creates astonishingly elaborate hair styles. PopSugar collected a few styling videos from his Instagram. [more inside]
posted by jacquilynne at 5:06 PM PST - 15 comments

"Me and Izi have started small adventure company this year. We have started too late and all people has asked us about 2010 ;) This story begun when one journalist has called me and asked about Afganistan tour. - Have you been there? I have heard you intend to take people for Afganistan? Is this true? Well, we have seen Afganistan and road to Wakhan from other bank of Pyanzh but we have not been there. No clients this year, why not take a little ride to Afghanistan just for fun?"
posted by the man of twists and turns at 4:47 PM PST - 27 comments

Kind Twitter user ♡ brian essbe ♡ says, "Everything is awful this week so please enjoy this short video I saw today of duckings base-jumping." [quacking, peeping and delighted laughter]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 1:26 PM PST - 35 comments

Since the announcement in February of this year that the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 has seven earth-size planets orbiting it, popular understanding of its complex orbital mechanics has been enhanced by insights from Jazz Music and a Graphic Novel.
posted by Rumple at 11:56 AM PST - 10 comments

Two articles from the Paris Review about the work of Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, best known for the Andrei Tarkovsky adaptations of their work. Strugatsky Brothers: Yet the ambiguous ending of the novel, and its insistence on disrupting the conventional mystery narrative with fantastic elements, also speaks to the hopefulness of science fiction. The idea that there is something else out there implies that the situation here can potentially improve. Even the most grim dystopias are rarely without their redemptive escape hatch—a way out of the bind in which humanity has trapped itself. [more inside]
posted by byanyothername at 11:15 AM PST - 8 comments

It’s the nature of fashion that proportions are tweaked, colours altered and ways of presenting garments change. The result is something new despite itself. What about clothes that try expressly to be the clothing of tomorrow? The shape of clothes to come? Not just modern but forward-looking. The concept of purposefully modern clothing is a fairly recent one and has intertwined with science fiction cinema and literature from the beginning. This is a very subjective overview but we’ve tried to tie the various strands of modernity that have come together in the last century, in doing so we attempt to draw attention to the cultural influences that define our era and shape our idea of what it means to be ‘modern’.
posted by rebent at 9:56 AM PST - 41 comments

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? Colin Morris tests this hypothesis with data by analyzing the repetitiveness of a dataset of 15,000 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1958 and 2017.
posted by Room 641-A at 8:28 AM PST - 58 comments

Want to know how the future can be invented? Ask visionary computer scientist Alan Kay.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:43 AM PST - 17 comments