Artists Put Rooms on City Streets and Invite You to Play House

Bettman and Eker dismantled their first set—the living room where two children sit on a couch with a typewriter and a goldfish bowl—shortly after the shoot, but then decided to leave them up with a sign that invited pedestrians to snap and post a photo with #setinthestreet.

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Underground Railroad Images Retrace the Steps of Fleeing Slaves

Few photos of this Underground Railroad exist, which is why Jeanine Michna-Bales has spent months following some of the known routes north, photographing the homes, forests and caves where those escaping slavery sought shelter.

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Our brains lied to us about blowing into Nintendo cartridges

It’s been widely discredited that blowing into the cartridge had any real effect, but then why did people keep doing it? In the latest installment of It’s Okay To Be Smart, host Joe Hanson looked at the cognitive biases that lead people to ascribe various victories and failures to actions that, really, had no bearing on the outcome at all.

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