Fun and Games on the SpaceX Interplanetary Travel System

As SpaceX works toward launching humans into space—first with astronauts to the International Space Station in the next few years, under contract with NASA which will yield incredibly valuable information in return—founder Elon Musk’s vision extends beyond cost-saving, reusable rockets. In his master plan to take people to Mars, he’s recently shared with the New Science journal that he hopes for a very comfortable, engaging …

Moby + The Void Pacific Choir: In This Cold Place

Moby continues his string of surprise releases, after last week’s new Void Pacific Choir collaborative album dubbed More Fast Songs About The Apocalypse. The latest drop is a clever, colorful animated video for “In This Cold Place.” The vision of satirical illustrator Steve Cutts, the piece plays off of classic Sunday morning cartoons and commercials, only incorporating dark societal elements—from violence to misogyny, gross consumerism …

India’s Dr Seuss, Anushka Ravishankar

Today marks the last day of Children’s Literature Week and while we can easily recall the milestone books of our own developmental years, authors continue to produce prose of exceptional merit. Anushka Ravishankar, commonly referred to as India’s Dr Seuss, has long been a master of silliness—from her debut “Tiger on a Tree,” which was translated into eight languages and sold 50,000 copies globally to …