Sputnik Observatory For the Study of Contemporary Culture is a thoughtful new website that doesn't seem to be about selling shit. From the "About" page:

Sputnik Observatory is a New York not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the study of contemporary culture. We fulfill this mission by documenting, archiving, and disseminating ideas that are shaping modern thought by interviewing leading thinkers in the arts, sciences and technology from around the world. Our philosophy is that ideas are NOT selfish, ideas are NOT viruses. Ideas survive because they fit in with the rest of life. Our position is that ideas are energy, and should interconnect and re-connect continuously because by linking ideas together we learn, and new ideas emerge.

Our goal is to encourage life-long learning, and we have created this website as a portal of possibilities. A democratic space where people can listen and engage with ideas that inform contemporary history. Ideas that we believe will empower everyone to be a part of today’s cultural conversation.

On this page, you can choose from themes by alphabetical order, and listen to conversations with smart people about those topics. One theme, for example, is Twenty-One Senses (The section opens "We are all superheroes (already you are smiling)...").

This website is especially great because it forgoes the magazine structure to create something that could only exist on the internet. I wish there was a little more text, but I'm sure that will come as Sputnik Observatory expands and grows over time.