You, Under the Sun

Remembering Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall, the USPS' long-overdue rebrand, smartphones charged by sound and more in our weekly look at the web

In all the carefree glory of summer, it’s easy to forget just how powerful the sun is and just how vulnerable we are to it. Artist Thomas Leveritt used a special UV camera to capture our major sensitivity to the sun, with shocking results. The camera has the power to reveal what are essentially future changes in the skin—in other words how the sun sees …

A Moment of Wet Ridiculousness

Remembering Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall, the USPS' long-overdue rebrand, smartphones charged by sound and more in our weekly look at the web

Photographer Krista Long’s latest series of photographs for her project “I Love Sumer!” captures people that are simply out of control. In fact, she snaps at the exact moment that they are being shot out of a water slide. From every drop of water to bulging, warped and wild bodies, the images are as funny as they are endearing. The photos are a thoughtful execution …

[x] to Escape

Remembering Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall, the USPS' long-overdue rebrand, smartphones charged by sound and more in our weekly look at the web

While today it seems like second nature to click the [x] symbol to close a computer program or browser window, this wasn’t always the case. In fact, early operating systems lacked the simple symbol all together. Medium digs deeper into the mysterious origins of this now ubiquitous and all-essential part of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) design, and the findings are pretty surprising (including an insightful …