GEARFUSE Technology, Science, Culture.

The earliest known Monopoly board to have survived to this day, made in 1933, sold at auction for over $145,000. Read More »

Art, subjective as it is, can be created in many forms. While today's artwork frequently utilizes graphic design programs or Photoshop to "touch up" images, this reminds us that there is still room for the good ol' fashioned method of creating art known as "blowing things up." Read More »

Robert Krulwich can't believe Kevin Kelly is correct about technologies never disappearing. But even if it's true, are past results a guarantee of future progress? Read More »

Jonah Lehrer asks what happens in the brain to give music the kind of unique, uncanny power that Ton Koopman's organ performance exudes in spades. Video and quotes after the jump. Read More »

"EACH FLUID OUNCE CONTAINS THE VIRTUES OF TWO OUNCES OF FRESH BEEF WITH ONE OUNCE SHERRY WINE." From the design blog codex99, a collection of early twentieth-century tonic labels illustrates the fickle nature of pharmaceutical progress. Read More »

More domestic style than you or I can hope to amass in a lifetime—displayed in ten seconds. We might want to think about what that says for style... We so badly want to be our things. Video after the jump. Read More »

In a lodge in the shadow of New Hampshire's Mount Washington, reading tales of the summit's almost-implausibly calamitous past. Read More »

In astronomical imagery, false colors abound: ultraviolet, infrared, x-ray—and now, green and red checks. Read More »

Japanese artist Kazumasa Nagai's posters put animal spirits at the heart of a floating modern world. Read More »

Emeco's famously sturdy aluminum "Navy chairs" aren't cast—they're cut, pressed, rolled, and buffed—but their manufacture shows them to be part of a metal caste system, and players in a dance of fabrication. Video after the jump. Read More »