An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

A landmark United Nations report paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought.

By Coral Davenport, for The New York Times

A study of form language in logo design.

A new web comic created by Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran.

FELICITY ROCKALL was the world’s greatest criminal investigator. She retired at the age of 35 after spending ten years working for international criminal courts. A young agent from the White House’s Intelligence Support Activity, AMY ASH, is reluctantly sent to get her. There’s been a murder, one apparently insoluble, and Rockall’s skills are required one more time.

The discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India's western state of Maharashtra has greatly excited archaeologists who believe they hold clues to a previously unknown civilisation, BBC Marathi's Mayuresh Konnur reports.

Bruce Sterling lecture on the topics of science fiction, the future, and where architecture may be in 30 years.

Deep in the Arctic Circle, the USSR was drilling deeper into the Earth than anyone before. One artist has combined archaeology and invention to bring its spirit back in sound.

By Peter Kirn, for CDM

Newly found documents from the 1980s show that fossil fuel companies privately predicted the global damage that would be caused by their products.

By Benjamin Franta, for The Guardian

Mars P.D. will have to deal with new blood-spatter patterns, different body decay rates, and space-suit sabotage—and they won’t be able to fire guns indoors.

By Geofff Manaugh, for The Atlantic

Erratic? Don’t you know that Trump is the instrument of God? He may not be capable of having a sophisticated agenda or even coherent positions on particular issues, but evangelicals, ultra-zionists, the coal industry and military lobbyists certainly do and they are firmly implanted within the administration.

By Mike Davis, for Rebel

They’re no longer in use, having been decommissioned for decades, but they’re a nationwide network of relics of fear—a fear that seems never to have left.

By Kate Ravilious, for Atlas Obscura

1960 film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T’s equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the USAF’s White Alice Communications System in Alaska. Land of White Alice introduces the people and geography of the new state as well as the Western Electric radio-relay system, which links far-flung military sites, alert stations, and missile-warning facilities.

By Knickerbocker Productions

Volume Zero has announced winners of the Marsception competition, a challenge to envision a habitat for the first colonizers of Mars. Participants were prompted to consider research conducted within the facility as well as architecture to define a future civilization on Mars.

By Hope Daley, for Archinect News

TED-Ed commissioned animation for their lesson about what it might look like if/when we colonize the moon.

By Allen Laseter, on Vimeo

The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.

By Douglas Rushkoff, for Future Human

A comprehensive library of esoteric symbols, lovingly crafted for design enthusiasts. 750 glyphs for $10.

Designed by Avana Vana

"It was as if someone my size had caught fire and walked through me."

By Matthew Gault, for Motherboard

Isolated graphics, type and illustration. Mostly from government, NGO and private studies and reports.

Curated by Jake Luck, on Instagram