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• The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically Evolved, 11 Dec 2024 in Art&Technology
• Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019, 10 Dec 2024 in History&Music
• Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Wonders What Will Happen to Humanity (1978), 09 Dec 2024 in History&Technology&Television
• The 63 Cuisines of China Explained in 40 Minutes: A Complete Primer, 06 Dec 2024 in Food & Drink&Travel
• Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels, 05 Dec 2024 in Art&Books&Literature
• Scientists Discover that Ancient Egyptians Drank Hallucinogenic Cocktails from 2,300 Year-Old Mug, 04 Dec 2024 in History&Religion
• Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More, 03 Dec 2024 in Art&Books&Literature&Religion
• Discover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Thinking”, 02 Dec 2024 in Philosophy
• Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art to Flow, 29 Nov 2024 in Art
• The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973–2023), 29 Nov 2024 in History&Music
• Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive, 27 Nov 2024 in Archives&Books&Design&History&Museums
• How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902), 26 Nov 2024 in Film&History
• How Rasputin Inspired the “Fictitious Persons” Disclaimer Commonly Seen in Movies, 25 Nov 2024 in Film&History&Law
• How the Ancient Romans Traveled Without Maps, 22 Nov 2024 in History&Maps&Travel
• An Introduction to the Astonishing Book of Kells, the Iconic Illuminated Manuscript, 21 Nov 2024 in Books&History
• Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AI, 20 Nov 2024 in Architecture&History&Technology
• Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time, 19 Nov 2024 in Art&Biology&Books
• Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930), 18 Nov 2024 in Education&Life&Philosophy
• What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself, 15 Nov 2024 in History&Technology
• Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles, 14 Nov 2024 in Architecture&Travel
• A New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance, 13 Nov 2024 in Film&History
• How Designing Buildings Upside-Down Revolutionized Architecture, Making Possible St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sagrada Família & More, 12 Nov 2024 in Architecture&History&Physics
• Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake Arrives This December, 11 Nov 2024 in Film
• Behold the Oldest Written Text in the World: The Kish Tablet, Circa 3500 BC, 08 Nov 2024 in History&Writing
• How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years, 07 Nov 2024 in Film&Technology
• Watch 70+ Classic Literary Films Free Online: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gulliver’s Travels, Jane Eyre, and More, 06 Nov 2024 in Film
• Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More, 05 Nov 2024 in Archives&Museums
• Discover Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Still-Bizarre Proto-Surrealist Book Les Malheurs des immortels (1922), 04 Nov 2024 in Art&Books&Poetry
• How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs, 01 Nov 2024 in Film
• Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others, 31 Oct 2024 in Audio Books&Literature
• Mythology Expert Reviews Depictions of Greek & Roman Myths in Popular Movies and TV Shows, 30 Oct 2024 in Film&History&Religion&Television
• Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life, 29 Oct 2024 in Philosophy
• The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Decades & Now Considered One of the Greatest Animations (1965), 28 Oct 2024 in Animation&Film
• Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and More, 25 Oct 2024 in Books&Literature&Music
• The Evolution of Cinema: Watch Nearly 140 Years of Film History Unfold in 80 Minutes, 24 Oct 2024 in Film&History
• Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665, 23 Oct 2024 in History
• Built to Last: How Ancient Roman Bridges Can Still Withstand the Weight of Modern Cars & Trucks, 22 Oct 2024 in History&Technology
• How Man Ray Reinvented Himself & Created One of the Most Iconic Works of Surrealist Photography, 21 Oct 2024 in Art&Photography
• Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions, 18 Oct 2024 in Art&Neuroscience
• The Night When Luciano Pavarotti & James Brown Sang “It’s a Man’s World” Together (2002), 17 Oct 2024 in Music
• The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls, 16 Oct 2024 in Architecture&History
• Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin Peaks & Countless Hollywood Films, 15 Oct 2024 in Architecture&Film
• The Amazing Recording History of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”, 14 Oct 2024 in Music
• The Writer Who Directed, The Director Who Wrote: Every Frame a Painting Explores the Genius of Billy Wilder, 11 Oct 2024 in Film
• The Story of Francis Ford Coppola’s Four-Decade-Struggle to Make Megalopolis, 10 Oct 2024 in Film
• Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Is Finally for Sale, 09 Oct 2024 in Games&Literature
• T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form, 08 Oct 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Poetry
• David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Project: 121 Stories of Real America Recorded on a 20,000-Mile Road Trip, 07 Oct 2024 in Film&Travel
• The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It, 04 Oct 2024 in Science&Technology&Television
• When Kris Kristofferson (RIP) Stood by Sinéad O’Connor at the Height of Her Controversy, 03 Oct 2024 in History&Music
• Artificial Intelligence & Drones Uncover 303 New Nazca Lines in Peru, 02 Oct 2024 in Art&History&Technology
• How Henri Matisse Scandalized the Art Establishment with His Daring Use of Color, 01 Oct 2024 in Art&History
• Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation, 01 Oct 2024 in Animation&Television
• Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive, 30 Sep 2024 in Archives
• How Kodak Invented the Snapshot in the 1800s, Making It Possible for Everyone to Be a Photographer, 27 Sep 2024 in History&Photography
• How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear: Mirrors in Movies, 26 Sep 2024 in Film&Television
• Watch the First Performance of a Mozart Composition That Had Been Lost for Centuries, 25 Sep 2024 in History&Music
• How Art Gets Stolen: What Happened to Egon Schiele’s Painting Boats Mirrored in the Water After Its Theft by the Nazis, 24 Sep 2024 in Art&History
• Watch James Earl Jones Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Urging High-School Students to Create Art & “Make Your Soul Grow”, 23 Sep 2024 in Art&Education&Letters
• Do All Roads Lead to Philosophy on Wikipedia?: They Do About 97.3% of the Time, 19 Sep 2024 in Philosophy&Wikipedia
• The Longest Drivable Distance in the World: Discover the Ultimate Road Trip, 18 Sep 2024 in Maps&Travel
• How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting, 17 Sep 2024 in Language&Television
• The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse: Rick Beato Explains, 16 Sep 2024 in Music&Technology
• How a 16th-Century Explorer’s Sailing Ship Worked: An Animated Video Takes You on a Comprehensive Tour, 13 Sep 2024 in History&Technology
• How Audrey Hepburn Risked Death to Help the Dutch Resistance in World War II, 12 Sep 2024 in History
• 13 Experimental Animations of Osamu Tezuka, “the Godfather of Manga” (1964–1987), 11 Sep 2024 in Animation&History
• Michio Kaku Demystifies the God Equation: The Key to Understanding Everything, 10 Sep 2024 in Physics
• The Big Map of Who Lived When Shows Which Cultural Figures Walked the Earth at the Same Time: From 1200 to Present, 09 Sep 2024 in History&Maps
• How 2001: A Space Odyssey Became “the Hardest Film Kubrick Ever Made”, 06 Sep 2024 in Film&History&Sci Fi
• Every Frame a Painting Returns to YouTube & Explores Why the Sustained Two-Shot Vanished from Movies, 05 Sep 2024 in Film
• A Digital Archive Features Hundreds of Audio Cassette Tape Designs, from the 1960s to the 1990s, 04 Sep 2024 in Archives&History&Music&Technology
• Behold the First American Board Game, Travellers’ Tour Through the United States (1822), 03 Sep 2024 in Games&History
• Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the Internet Archive, 02 Sep 2024 in Archives&Film&Television
• Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics, 30 Aug 2024 in Archives&History&Technology
• Solving a 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle: How a Cambridge Student Cracked an Ancient Sanskrit Code, 29 Aug 2024 in History&Language
• Frank Lloyd Wright Thought About Making the Guggenheim Museum Pink, 28 Aug 2024 in Architecture&History&Museums
• The 11 Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons That Haven’t Been Aired Since 1968, 27 Aug 2024 in Animation&Film&History
• How Marcel Duchamp Signed a Urinal in 1917 & Redefined Art, 26 Aug 2024 in Art&History
• Hear the Evolution of the London Accent Over 660 Years: From 1346 to 2006, 23 Aug 2024 in History&Language
• How the Oldest Company in the World, Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years, 22 Aug 2024 in Business&History
• How an Ancient Roman Shipwreck Could Explain the Universe, 21 Aug 2024 in History&Physics
• The Alphabet Explained: The Origin of Every Letter, 20 Aug 2024 in History&Language&Writing
• An Architect Breaks Down the 5 Most Common Styles of College Campus, 19 Aug 2024 in Architecture&History
• How Editing Saved Ferris Bueller’s Day Off & Made It a Classic, 16 Aug 2024 in Film
• What is Electronic Music?: Pioneering Electronic Musician Daphne Oram Explains (1969), 15 Aug 2024 in History&Music&Technology&Television
• J. G. Ballard Demystifies Surrealist Paintings by Dalí, Magritte, de Chirico & More, 14 Aug 2024 in Art&Books&Literature
• The Steampunk Clocks of 19th-Century Paris: Discover the Ingenious System That Revolutionized Timekeeping in the 1880s, 13 Aug 2024 in History&Technology
• Public.Work: A Smoothly Searchable Archive of 100,000+ “Copyright-Free” Images, 12 Aug 2024 in Archives&Art
• Ancient Egyptian Pyramids May Have Been Built with Water: A New Study Explore the Use of Hydraulic Lifts, 09 Aug 2024 in Architecture&History&Technology
• The World’s First Medieval Electronic Instrument: The EP-1320 Lets You Play the Sounds of Hurdy-Gurdies, Lutes, Gregorian Chants & More, 08 Aug 2024 in History&Music&Technology
• What It Takes to Pass “the Knowledge,” the “Insanely Hard” Exam to Become a London Taxicab Driver, 08 Aug 2024 in Education&History
• How Olivetti Designed the First Personal Computer in History, the Programma 101 (1965), 07 Aug 2024 in Computer Science&History&Technology
• An Introduction to The Babylonian Map of the World–the Oldest Known Map of the World, 06 Aug 2024 in History&Maps
• The Brilliant Engineering That Made Venice: How a City Was Built on Water, 05 Aug 2024 in History&Technology
• Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Sandal with Nails Used for Tread, 01 Aug 2024 in Fashion&History
• The Olympics in the 2020s Versus 1912: See Side-by-Side Comparisons of the Athletes’ Performance Then & Now, 01 Aug 2024 in History&Sports
• The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s Sun (1972), 30 Jul 2024 in Animation&Art
• Behold the Kräuterbuch, a Lavishly Illustrated Guide to Plants and Herbs from 1462, 29 Jul 2024 in Art&Books&History&Nature
• Stephen Fry Explains Why Artificial Intelligence Has a “70% Risk of Killing Us All”, 26 Jul 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Technology
• Watch the 1896 Film The Pistol Duel, a Startling Re-Creation of the Last Days of Pistol Dueling in Mexico, 25 Jul 2024 in Film&History
• Sex and Alcohol in Medieval Times: A Look into the Pleasures of the Middle Ages, 24 Jul 2024 in Food & Drink&History
• Meet Madame Inès Decourcelle, One of the Very First Female Taxi Drivers in Paris (Circa 1908), 23 Jul 2024 in History
• The Page That Changed Comics Forever: Discover the Innovative 1950s Comic Book That Almost Went Unpublished, 22 Jul 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• When Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson Debated Capitalism Versus Marxism, 22 Jul 2024 in Philosophy&Politics
• Behold James Sowerby’s Strikingly Illustrated New Elucidation of Colours (1809), 18 Jul 2024 in Art&Books
• The “Nonsense” Botanical Illustrations of Victorian Artist-Poet Edward Lear (1871–77), 18 Jul 2024 in Art&Biology&Comedy
• How Rome Began: The History As Told by Ancient Historians, 17 Jul 2024 in History
• Eno: The New “Generative Documentary” on Brian Eno That’s Never the Same Movie Twice, 15 Jul 2024 in Art&Film&Music&Technology
• How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Became Beloved Among Generations of Readers, 15 Jul 2024 in Books&Games
• You Can Buy Historic Italian Houses for €1 — But What’s the Catch?, 12 Jul 2024 in Architecture&Business&Travel
• Watch Hardware Wars, the Original Star Wars Parody, in HD (1978), 11 Jul 2024 in Comedy&Film
• Behold Gustave Doré’s Dramatic Illustrations of the Bible (1866), 09 Jul 2024 in Art&Books&Religion
• The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again, 08 Jul 2024 in Internet Archive&Media&Music
• 2000-Year-Old Bottle of White Wine Found in a Roman Burial Site, 05 Jul 2024 in Food & Drink&History
• Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Now Appears on Japanese Banknotes, 04 Jul 2024 in Art&Current Affairs&Economics
• How a Steady Supply of Coffee Helped the Union Win the U.S. Civil War, 03 Jul 2024 in Food & Drink&History
• The Story of Lee Miller: From the Cover of Vogue to Hitler’s Bathtub, 02 Jul 2024 in History&Photography
• Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Young Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night (1977), 01 Jul 2024 in Music&Television
• A Close Look at Beowulf-Era Helmets & Swords, Courtesy of the British Museum, 28 Jun 2024 in History
• Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive, 27 Jun 2024 in Art&Museums&Online Courses
• Watch a Japanese Artisan Hand-Craft a Cello in 6 Months, 26 Jun 2024 in Music
• How the 18th-Century French Media Stoked a Werewolf Panic, 25 Jun 2024 in Art&History
• How Sci-Fi Writers Isaac Asimov & Robert Heinlein Contributed to the War Effort During World War II, 24 Jun 2024 in History&Sci Fi&Science
• World Religions Explained with Useful Charts: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity & More, 21 Jun 2024 in Religion
• How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Beautiful Purple Dye from Snail Glands, 20 Jun 2024 in History
• The Amazing Engineering of Roman Baths, 19 Jun 2024 in Architecture&History&Technology
• The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave: A Study of 113 Known Copies of the Iconic Woodblock Print, 18 Jun 2024 in Art&History
• 16th-Century Japanese Historians Describe the Oddness of Meeting the First Europeans They Ever Saw, 17 Jun 2024 in History&Religion
• What’s Under London? Discover London’s Forbidden Underworld, 14 Jun 2024 in Architecture&History&Technology
• Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Commencement Address: “Effortless Is a Myth” & Other Life Lessons from Tennis, 13 Jun 2024 in Graduation Speech&Sports
• Harvard Removes the Human Skin Binding from a Book in Its Collection Since 1934, 12 Jun 2024 in Books&Harvard&History&Libraries
• How the 13th-Century Sufi Poet Rumi Became One of the World’s Most Popular Writers, 12 Jun 2024 in History&Poetry&Religion
• The Romans Stashed Hallucinogenic Seeds in a Vial Made From an Animal Bone, 10 Jun 2024 in History
• How Las Vegas’ Sphere Actually Works: A Looks Inside the New $2.3 Billion Arena, 10 Jun 2024 in Music&Technology
• Is Reality Real?: 8 Scientists Explain Whether We Can Ever Know What Objectively Exists, 06 Jun 2024 in Neuroscience
• Patti Smith Reads Her Final Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Beautiful Work of All”, 05 Jun 2024 in Art&Music&Photography
• The Radical Artistic & Philosophical World of William Blake: A Short Introduction, 04 Jun 2024 in Art&History
• Stephen King Names His Five Favorite Works by Stephen King, 03 Jun 2024 in Books&Television
• When a Drunken Charles Bukowski Walked Off the Prestigious French Talk Show Apostrophes (1978), 03 Jun 2024 in Literature&Television
• How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets You See, 30 May 2024 in History