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• An Architect Breaks Down the Design Details of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, 17 May 2022 in Architecture&Film
• The White House’s Forgotten 1970s Vinyl Record Collection: Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, Captain Beefheart, Donna Summer & More, 16 May 2022 in History&Music
• This Is Spinal Tap Will Get a Sequel 40 Years Later, Reuniting Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer, 13 May 2022 in Film&Music
• Quentin Tarantino Names His 20 Favorite Movies, Covering Two Decades, 12 May 2022 in Film
• Real Interviews with People Who Lived in the 1800s, 11 May 2022 in History
• Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Spent Years Debating How to Depict the Aliens in 2001: A Space Odyssey; Carl Sagan Provided the Answer: Don’t Depict Them at All, 10 May 2022 in Sci Fi
• Hayao Miyazaki, The Mind of a Master: A Thoughtful Video Essay Reveals the Driving Forces Behind the Animator’s Incredible Body of Work, 09 May 2022 in Animation&Film
• Self-Encounter: The 10-Episode TV Show That Introduced Existentialism to Americans in 1961, 06 May 2022 in Philosophy&Television
• The Ghosts and Monsters of Hokusai: See the Famed Woodblock Artist’s Fearsome & Amusing Visions of Strange Apparitions, 05 May 2022 in Art&History
• How Postwar Italian Cinema Created La Dolce Vita and Then the Paparazzi, 04 May 2022 in Film&History&Media
• The Last Morning in Pompeii & The Night Pompeii Died: A New Video Series Explores the End of the Doomed Roman City, 03 May 2022 in History
• Experience Seinfeld’s Famous “Soup Nazi” Scenes With & Without Laugh Tracks, 02 May 2022 in History&Television
• Coca-Cola Was Originally Sold as an Intellectual Stimulant & Medicine: The Unlikely Story of the Iconic Soft Drink’s Invention, 29 Apr 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• An Online Archive of Beautiful, Early 20th Century Japanese Postcards, 28 Apr 2022 in Archives&Art&History&Museums
• A Whirlwind Architectural Tour of the New York Public Library–“Hidden Details” and All, 27 Apr 2022 in Architecture&History
• Why Do Oreos Never Come Apart Evenly?: MIT Researchers Build an “Oreometer” to Find the Answer, 27 Apr 2022 in Food & Drink&Science
• Why Does This Lady Have a Fly on Her Head?: A Curious Look at a 15th-Century Portrait, 26 Apr 2022 in Art&History
• How Thomas Edison & Henry Ford Envisioned a Low-Priced Electric Vehicle in 1914, Almost Changing the Direction of Automobile History, 25 Apr 2022 in History&Technology
• The Sistine Chapel: A $22,000 Art-Book Collection Features Remarkable High-Resolution Views of the Murals of Michelangelo, Botticelli & Other Renaissance Masters, 22 Apr 2022 in Art&Books&History&Religion
• 100-Year-Old Music Recordings Can Now Be Heard for the First Time, Thanks to New Digital Technology, 21 Apr 2022 in History&Music&Technology
• What Great Archaeological Sites Used To Actually Look Like: Machu Picchu, the Colossus of Rhodes, Hadrian’s Wall & More in All Their Glory, 20 Apr 2022 in History
• The Library of Esoterica: Taschen’s Visual History of Tarot, Astrology & Witchcraft, 18 Apr 2022 in Art&Books&Religion
• Make Your Own Medieval Memes with a New Tool from the Dutch National Library, 14 Apr 2022 in Art&History&Web/Tech
• How Did Roman Aqueducts Work?: The Most Impressive Achievement of Ancient Rome’s Infrastructure, Explained, 13 Apr 2022 in History&Technology
• Why Algorithms Are Called Algorithms, and How It All Goes Back to the Medieval Persian Mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi, 12 Apr 2022 in History&Math&Technology
• How Ukraine’s Works of Art Are Being Saved in Wartime–Using the Lessons of World War II, 11 Apr 2022 in Art&Current Affairs&History
• Why Dutch & Japanese Cities Are Insanely Well Designed (and American Cities Are Terribly Designed), 07 Apr 2022 in Environment&Technology
• The Story of Googie Architecture, the Iconic Architectural Style of Los Angeles, 06 Apr 2022 in Architecture&History
• The Little Prince: Footage Gets Unearthed Of the Pop Star at Age 11, 05 Apr 2022 in History&Music&Television
• How To Build a 13th-Century Castle, Using Only Authentic Medieval Tools & Techniques, 31 Mar 2022 in Architecture&History&Television
• How Previous Decades Predicted the Future: The 21st Century as Imagined in the 1900s, 1950s, 1980s, and Other Eras, 30 Mar 2022 in History&Technology
• Francis Ford Coppola Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films: The Godfather, Apocalypse Now & More, 30 Mar 2022 in Film
• When Stalin Starved Ukraine, 29 Mar 2022 in Current Affairs&History
• How Yayoi Kusama, Obsessed with Polka Dots, Became One of the Most Radical Artists of All Time, 25 Mar 2022 in Art
• Japanese Toy Designs from the Late 19th & Early 20th Century: Explore an Online Archive, 24 Mar 2022 in Art&History
• Watch David Hockney Paint with Light, Using the Quantel Paintbox Graphics System (1986), 24 Mar 2022 in Art&Technology&Television
• Marina Abramović Brings Back Her Iconic Performance Art Piece, The Artist Is Present, to Raise Money for Ukraine, 23 Mar 2022 in Art&Current Affairs
• Explore Rarely-Seen Art by J. R. R. Tolkien in a New Web Site Created by the Tolkien Estate, 22 Mar 2022 in Art&Literature
• What Was Actually Lost When the Library of Alexandria Burned?, 22 Mar 2022 in History
• Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road: The Only Known Footage of the Beat Icon Reading His Work (1959), 17 Mar 2022 in History&Literature&Television
• When Oliver Stone & Vladimir Putin Chillingly Watched Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove Together, 16 Mar 2022 in Current Affairs&Film&Television
• The Iconic Design of the Doomsday Clock Was Created 75 Years Ago: It Now Says We’re 100 Seconds to Midnight, 15 Mar 2022 in Current Affairs&Design&History
• Real Footage of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance: Watch Clips from the First Documentary Feature Film Ever Made (1919), 14 Mar 2022 in Film&History
• Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online: 1,000+ Librarians Digitally Preserve Artifacts of Ukrainian Civilization Before Russia Can Destroy Them, 11 Mar 2022 in Current Affairs&Technology
• See the Well-Preserved Wreckage of Ernest Shackleton’s Ship Endurance Found in Antarctica, 10 Mar 2022 in History
• The First Work of Science Fiction: Read Lucian’s 2nd-Century Space Travelogue A True Story, 09 Mar 2022 in History&Literature&Sci Fi
• When Movies Came on Vinyl: The Early-80s Engineering Marvel and Marketing Disaster That Was RCA’s SelectaVision, 09 Mar 2022 in History&Technology
• Behold the Strandbeest, the Mechanical Animals That Roam the Beaches of Holland, 08 Mar 2022 in Art
• When Rod Serling Turned TV Pitchman: See His Post-Twilight Zone Ads for Ford, Mazda, Gulf Oil & Smokey Bear, 07 Mar 2022 in Television
• The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel: 120 Woodcuts Envision the Grotesque Inhabitants of Rabelais’ World (1565), 03 Mar 2022 in Art&Books&History
• How Volodymyr Zelenskyy Went from Playing a President on a Comedy TV Show to Very Real Life, 02 Mar 2022 in Comedy&Current Affairs&Politics&Television
• How Aladdin Sane Became the Most Expensive Album Cover Ever — and David Bowie’s Defining Image, 01 Mar 2022 in Art&History&Music&Photography
• Hear the Uncensored Original Version of “Hurricane,” Bob Dylan’s Protest Song About Jailed Boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (1976), 28 Feb 2022 in History&Music
• Are You a Fascist?: Take Theodor Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality Test Created to Combat Fascism (1947), 25 Feb 2022 in History&Politics
• The New Herbal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Botanical Illustrations Gets Republished in a Beautiful 900-Page Book by Taschen, 24 Feb 2022 in Art&Biology&Books&History
• Haruki Murakami’s Five Favorite Books, 23 Feb 2022 in Books
• The Dune Encyclopedia: The Controversial, Definitive Guide to the World of Frank Herbert’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece (1984), 22 Feb 2022 in Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• What Made Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus a Revolutionary Painting, 21 Feb 2022 in Art&History
• How Quentin Tarantino Remixes History: A Brief Study of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, 18 Feb 2022 in Film&History
• 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work: “The Scorpion Bit Him,” “Brewing Beer” & More, 17 Feb 2022 in History&Museums
• P.J. O’Rourke (RIP) Explains Why You Can Never Win Over Your Political Adversaries by Mocking Them, 16 Feb 2022 in Comedy&Politics
• Howard Zinn’s Recommended Reading List for Activists Who Want to Change the World, 15 Feb 2022 in Books&History
• The First Illustrated Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses Gets Published, Featuring the Work of Spanish Artist Eduardo Arroyo, 14 Feb 2022 in Art&Books&Literature
• How Insulated Glass Changed Architecture: An Introduction to the Technological Breakthrough That Changed How We Live and How Our Buildings Work, 11 Feb 2022 in Architecture&History&Technology
• That Time When the Mediterranean Sea Dried Up & Disappeared: Animations Show How It Happened, 10 Feb 2022 in History&Science
• The Code of Charles Dickens’ Shorthand Has Been Cracked by Computer Programmers, Solving a 160-Year-Old Mystery, 09 Feb 2022 in History&Literature&Writing
• The Fiendishly Complicated Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Play: Discover The Campaign for North Africa, 08 Feb 2022 in Games
• Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984), 07 Feb 2022 in Music&Television
• John Locke’s Personal Pancake Recipe: “This Is the Right Way” to Make the Classic Breakfast Treat, 04 Feb 2022 in Food & Drink&History&Philosophy
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Bialetti Moka Express: A Deep Dive Into Italy’s Most Popular Coffee Maker, 03 Feb 2022 in Food & Drink&History&Technology
• In 1922, a Novelist Predicts What the World Will Look Like in 2022: Wireless Telephones, 8-Hour Flights to Europe & More, 02 Feb 2022 in History&Technology
• 17th-Century Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate: How “Buddhist Emoji” Made the Sūtra Legible for Those Who Couldn’t Read, 01 Feb 2022 in Books&History&Language&Religion
• A Brief Animated History of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses & the Reformation–Which Changed Europe and Later the World, 31 Jan 2022 in Animation&History&Religion
• The Marcel Duchamp Research Portal Opens, Making Available 18,000 Documents and 50,000 Images Related to the Revolutionary Artist, 28 Jan 2022 in Archives&Art&History
• Watch the Renaissance Painting, The Battle of San Romano, Get Brought Beautifully to Life in a Hand-Painted Animation, 27 Jan 2022 in Animation&Art&History
• Archaeologists Discover a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Glass Bowl in Perfect Condition, 26 Jan 2022 in History
• How Bob Dylan Created a Musical & Literary World All His Own: Four Video Essays, 25 Jan 2022 in Music
• Lou Reed Turns Rock Critic, Sizing Up Everyone from the “Amazingly Talented” Beatles to the “Two Bit, Pretentious” Frank Zappa, 25 Jan 2022 in Magazines&Music
• New Study Finds That Humans Are 33,000 Years Older Than We Thought, 24 Jan 2022 in History&Science
• Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Reading Letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Sol LeWitt, and Others, 21 Jan 2022 in Literature
• 1,100 Delicate Drawings of Root Systems Reveals the Hidden World of Plants, 20 Jan 2022 in Archives&Art&Biology
• When Andy Warhol Guest-Starred on The Love Boat (1985), 18 Jan 2022 in Art&Television
• People in the Middle Ages Slept Not Once But Twice Each Night: How This Lost Practice Was Rediscovered, 17 Jan 2022 in Biology&History
• How Pulp Fiction Uses the Socratic Method, the Philosophical Method from Ancient Greece, 14 Jan 2022 in Film&Philosophy
• Why the U.S. Photographed Its Own World War II Concentration Camps (and Commissioned Photographs by Dorothea Lange), 13 Jan 2022 in History&Photography
• Toni Morrison Lists the 10 Steps That Lead Countries to Fascism (1995), 12 Jan 2022 in History&Literature&Politics
• An Introduction to the Painting of Caspar David Friedrich, Romanticism & the Sublime, 11 Jan 2022 in Art&History&Philosophy
• Watch Laurie Anderson’s Hypnotic Harvard Lecture Series on Poetry, Meditation, Death, New York & More, 10 Jan 2022 in Art&Harvard&Poetry
• Jon Hamm Narrates a Modernized Version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Helping to Diagnose Our Social Media-Induced Narcissism, 10 Jan 2022 in Philosophy&Psychology&Technology&Television
• Hear Debussy Play Debussy’s Most Famous Piece, “Clair de lune” (1913), 06 Jan 2022 in Music
• Explore the New 717-Gigapixel Scan of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, the Most Detailed Photo Ever Taken of a Work of Art, 05 Jan 2022 in Art&History&Technology
• 400,000+ Sound Recordings Made Before 1923 Have Entered the Public Domain, 04 Jan 2022 in Archives&History&Internet Archive&Music
• In 1953, a Telephone-Company Executive Predicts the Rise of Modern Smartphones and Video Calls, 03 Jan 2022 in History&Technology
• What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2022: The Sun Also Rises, Winnie-the-Pooh, Buster Keaton Comedies & More, 31 Dec 2021 in Books&Film&Music
• The Amazing Engineering of James Webb Telescope, 30 Dec 2021 in Astronomy&Technology
• 500 Years of Haircuts: One Youtuber Tries Out the Hair Styles That Were Fashionable Between 1500 and 2000, 29 Dec 2021 in Fashion&History
• Why Europe Has So Few Skyscrapers, 28 Dec 2021 in Architecture&History
• Is There Life After Death?: John Cleese and a Panel of Scientists Discuss That Eternal Question, 27 Dec 2021 in Life&Neuroscience
• Watch Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas Special, Featuring a Famous Duet with Bowie, and Bowie Introducing His New Song, “Heroes” (1977), 24 Dec 2021 in Music&Television
• Watch the Building of the Empire State Building in Color: The Creation of the Iconic 1930s Skyscraper From Start to Finish, 23 Dec 2021 in Architecture&Film&History
• Why “White Christmas,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Let It Snow,” and Other Classic Christmas Songs Come from the 1940s, 23 Dec 2021 in History&Music
• J.R.R. Tolkien Sent Illustrated Letters from Father Christmas to His Kids Every Year (1920-1943), 22 Dec 2021 in Art&Law&Literature
• An AI Computer Watched Hitchcock’s Vertigo 20 Times & Then Made Its Own Disturbing Movie, 21 Dec 2021 in Film&Technology
• How Eating Kentucky Fried Chicken Became a Christmas Tradition in Japan, 20 Dec 2021 in Business&Food & Drink
• The True Meaning of Queen’s Rock Epic “Bohemian Rhapsody”, 16 Dec 2021 in Music
• How George Martin Defined the Sound of the Beatles: From String Quartets to Backwards Guitar Solos, 15 Dec 2021 in Music
• Watch the 1907’s Nightmare-Inducing Short Film The Dancing Pig, Now Fully Colorized, 14 Dec 2021 in Film&History
• Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: Discover One of the Most Prized Natural History Books of All Time (1734-1765), 13 Dec 2021 in Biology&Books&Nature
• What Makes Salvador Dalí’s Iconic Surrealist Painting “The Persistence of Memory” a Great Work of Art, 10 Dec 2021 in Art&History
• George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Will Be Retold from a Woman’s Point of View, 09 Dec 2021 in Books&Literature
• Download 215,000 Japanese Woodblock Prints by Masters Spanning the Tradition’s 350-Year History, 08 Dec 2021 in Archives&Art&Museums
• Stephen Fry Explains How to Deal with Bullying, 07 Dec 2021 in Life
• When the Colosseum in Rome Became the Home of Hundreds of Exotic Plant Species, 07 Dec 2021 in Architecture&Biology&History
• How Peter Jackson Used Artificial Intelligence to Restore the Video & Audio Featured in The Beatles: Get Back, 06 Dec 2021 in Film&Music&Technology
• Behold the Glass Armonica, the Unbelievably Fragile Instrument Invented by Benjamin Franklin, 03 Dec 2021 in History&Music
• What Movies Teach Us About Mozart: Exploring the Cinematic Uses of His Famous Lacrimosa, 01 Dec 2021 in Film&Music
• Watch Paul McCartney Compose The Beatles Classic “Get Back” Out of Thin Air (1969), 30 Nov 2021 in Film&Music
• Hear Haruki Murakami Play Beatles Covers on His Radio Show, Murakami Radio, 30 Nov 2021 in Music
• Watch John Cage’s 4’33” Played by Musicians Around the World, 29 Nov 2021 in Music
• The Drugs Used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, 26 Nov 2021 in History&Psychology
• Read 800+ Thanksgiving Books Free at the Internet Archive, 24 Nov 2021 in Books&Internet Archive
• In 1997, Wired Magazine Predicts 10 Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century: “An Uncontrollable Plague,” Climate Crisis, Russia Becomes a Kleptocracy & More, 23 Nov 2021 in Current Affairs&History&Magazines
• Get Unlimited Access to 3,000+ Courses for $1: Sign Up for Coursera’s Black Friday Special (Available Until December 4), 22 Nov 2021 in Deals&Online Courses
• Cornel West Teaches You How to Think Like a Philosopher, 19 Nov 2021 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• Bach on a Möbius Strip: Marcus du Sautoy Visualizes How Bach Used Math to Compose His Music, 18 Nov 2021 in Math&Music
• Carl Sagan Warns Congress about Climate Change (1985), 18 Nov 2021 in Current Affairs&Nature&Television
• How Stanley Kubrick Made 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Seven-Part Video Essay, 17 Nov 2021 in Film
• Albert Einstein in Four Color Films, 16 Nov 2021 in Film&History&Physics
• Stephen Fry Takes Us Inside the Story of Johannes Gutenberg & the First Printing Press, 15 Nov 2021 in History&Technology
• Life Magazine Predicts in 1914 How People Would Dress in the 1950s, 11 Nov 2021 in History&Life&Magazines
• Violinist Breaks a String While Performing Tchaikovsky in Concert, and Gracefully Recovers, 10 Nov 2021 in Music
• Rare Book Featuring the Concept Art for Jodorowsky’s Dune Goes Up for Auction (1975), 09 Nov 2021 in Books&Film&History&Sci Fi
• When Nikola Tesla Claimed to Have Invented a “Death Ray,” Capable of Destroying Enemies 250 Miles Away & Making War Obsolete, 08 Nov 2021 in History&Technology
• What Makes the Mona Lisa a Great Painting: A Deep Dive, 05 Nov 2021 in Art&History
• Michelangelo Entered a Competition to Put a Missing Arm Back on Laocoön and His Sons — and Lost, 04 Nov 2021 in Art&History
• Watch Wes Anderson’s Animated Music Video for The French Dispatch, Featuring a Track by Jarvis Cocker, 03 Nov 2021 in Animation&Film&Music
• Hear Brian Eno’s Contribution to the Soundtrack of David Lynch’s Dune (1984), 02 Nov 2021 in Film&Music&Sci Fi
• Watch the Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” Music Video Re-Enacted by Robots, 01 Nov 2021 in Music&Technology
• Metallica Teaches a New Masterclass on How to Build & Sustain a Band, 31 Oct 2021 in Music&Online Courses
• Play a Kandinsky: A New Simulation Lets You Experience Kandinsky’s Synesthesia & the Sounds He May Have Heard When Painting “Yellow-Red-Blue”, 28 Oct 2021 in Art&History&Music