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• 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
• When the CIA Studied Psychic Techniques to Alter Human Consciousness & Unlock Time Travel: Discover “The Gateway Process”, 29 May 2024 in History&Psychology
• Ancient Greek Armor Gets Tested in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation Inspired by the Iliad, 28 May 2024 in History
• Watch Philosophy Lectures That Became a Hit During COVID by Professor Michael Sugrue (RIP): From Plato and Marcus Aurelius to Critical Theory, 27 May 2024 in History&Philosophy
• A 6‑Step Guide to Zen Buddhism, Presented by Psychiatrist-Zen Master Robert Waldinger, 24 May 2024 in Psychology&Religion
• Fritz Lang First Depicted Artificial Intelligence on Film in Metropolis (1927), and It Frightened People Even Then, 23 May 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Film&Technology
• Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed, 22 May 2024 in Art&History
• Why Medieval Bologna Was Full of Tall Towers, and What Happened to Them, 21 May 2024 in Architecture&History
• Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Online Education in 1988–and It’s Now Coming True in the Age of AI & Smartphones, 20 May 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Education&Technology
• RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and Others on His TV Show Night Music, 17 May 2024 in Music&Television
• A Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock, Kubrick, Errol Morris & Other Auteurs, 16 May 2024 in Film&YouTube
• Wes Anderson Directs & Stars in an Ad Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Montblanc’s Signature Pen, 15 May 2024 in Business&Film
• Hannah Arendt Explains How Totalitarian Regimes Arise–and How We Can Prevent Them, 14 May 2024 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• George Orwell’s Political Views, Explained in His Own Words, 14 May 2024 in History&Literature&Politics
• A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness, 13 May 2024 in History&Music
• Aldous Huxley Explains How Man Became “the Victim of His Own Technology” (1961), 10 May 2024 in History&Literature&Technology&Television
• Watch Animations Showing How Humans Migrated Across the World Over the Past 60,000 Years, 08 May 2024 in History
• Download 131,000 Historic Maps from the Huge David Rumsey Map Collection, 07 May 2024 in Archives&History&Maps
• What Is Religion Actually For?: Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury Weigh In, 06 May 2024 in Literature&Religion&Sci Fi
• High-Tech Analysis of Ancient Scroll Reveals Plato’s Burial Site and Final Hours, 03 May 2024 in History&Philosophy&Technology
• RIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a Writer, 02 May 2024 in Books&Literature&Writing
• A 5‑Hour Journey Through North Korean Entertainment: Propaganda Films, Kids’ Cartoons, Sketch Comedy & More, 01 May 2024 in Film&History
• André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto Turns 100 This Year, 30 Apr 2024 in Art&History
• How Édouard Manet Became “the Father of Impressionism” with the Scandalous Panting, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863), 29 Apr 2024 in Art&History
• What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction, 26 Apr 2024 in Politics&Technology
• Inside the Beautiful Home Frank Lloyd Wright Designed for His Son (1952), 25 Apr 2024 in Architecture
• Steven Spielberg Calls Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “the First Punk Rock Movie Ever Made”, 24 Apr 2024 in Film
• A Guided Tour of the Largest Handmade Model of Imperial Rome: Discover the 20x20 Meter Model Created During the 1930s, 23 Apr 2024 in Architecture&History
• Humans First Started Enjoying Cannabis in China Circa 2800 BC, 22 Apr 2024 in Biology&History
• Discover the Singing Nuns Who Have Turned Medieval Latin Hymns into Modern Hits, 19 Apr 2024 in Music&Religion
• Beautifully-Preserved Frescoes with Figures from the Trojan War Discovered in a Lavish Pompeii Home, 18 Apr 2024 in Architecture&History
• An Archive of Vividly Illustrated Japanese Schoolbooks, from the 1800s to World War II, 17 Apr 2024 in Books&History
• How the Berlin Wall Worked: The Engineering & Structural Design of the Wall That Formidably Divided East & West, 16 Apr 2024 in Architecture&History&Politics
• How the Year 2440 Was Imagined in a 1771 French Sci-Fi Novel, 15 Apr 2024 in Books&History&Literature&Sci Fi
• Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips, 15 Apr 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• Studio Ghibli Lets You Download Free Images from Hayao Miyazaki’s “Final” Film, The Boy and the Heron, 11 Apr 2024 in Animation&Film
• Ernest Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring, Young Writers (1935), 10 Apr 2024 in Literature&Writing
• How Photos Were Transmitted by Wire in 1937: The Innovative Technology of a Century Ago, 09 Apr 2024 in History&Media&Photography&Technology
• When a Medieval Monk Crowdsourced the Most Accurate Map of the World, Creating “the Google Earth of the 1450s”, 08 Apr 2024 in History&Maps
• 23 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts, 05 Apr 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• How to Rewire Your Brain in 6 Weeks: A BBC Reporter Explores How Everyday Life Changes Can Alter Our Brains, 04 Apr 2024 in Neuroscience&Psychology
• David Lynch Explains Why Depression Is the Enemy of Creativity–and Why Meditation Is the Solution, 03 Apr 2024 in Creativity&Psychology
• Download 9,200+ Free Films from the Prelinger Archives: Documentaries, Cartoons & More, 02 Apr 2024 in Archives&Film&History
• Is America Declining Like Ancient Rome?, 02 Apr 2024 in History
• Learn the Korean Language with Hundreds of Episodes of Let’s Speak Korean Free Online, 01 Apr 2024 in Language Lessons
• The Song From the 1500’s That Blows Rick Beato Away: An Introduction to John Dowland’s Entrancing Music, 28 Mar 2024 in History&Music
• Hear the Evolution of Mozart’s Music, Composed from Ages 5 to 35, 27 Mar 2024 in History&Music
• The Oldest Known Photographs of India (1863–1870), 26 Mar 2024 in Architecture&History&Photography
• The Evolution of Animation, 1833–2017: From the Phenakistiscope to Pixar, 25 Mar 2024 in Animation&History
• The Cult of the Criterion Collection: The Company Dedicated to Gathering & Distributing the Greatest Films from Around the World, 25 Mar 2024 in Film
• Laurence Fishburne Reads a Former Slave’s Incredible Letter to His Old Master (1865), 21 Mar 2024 in History&Letters
• 180,000 Years of Religion Charted on a “Histomap” in 1943, 20 Mar 2024 in Design&History&Religion
• When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Plan to Turn Ellis Island Into a Futuristic Jules Verne-Esque City (1959), 19 Mar 2024 in Architecture&History
• An Architectural Tour of Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s Audacious Church That’s Been Under Construction for 142 Years, 18 Mar 2024 in Architecture&History&Religion
• An Introduction to the Astrolabe, the Medieval Smartphone, 15 Mar 2024 in History&Technology
• The Book of Colour Concepts: A New 800-Page Celebration of Color Theory, Including Works by Newton, Goethe, and Hilma af Klint, 14 Mar 2024 in Art&Books&History
• The 15 Greatest Documentaries of All Time: Explore Films by Werner Herzog, Errol Morris & More, 13 Mar 2024 in Film
• Vincent Van Gogh’s Final Painting: Discover Tree Roots, the Last Creative Act of the Dutch Painter (1890), 12 Mar 2024 in Art
• When François Truffaut Made a Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966), 11 Mar 2024 in Film&Literature
• The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like, 08 Mar 2024 in Archives&Museums
• How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee: An Animated History, 07 Mar 2024 in Food & Drink&History
• Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969), 06 Mar 2024 in Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• Hear Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Performed in Classical Latin, 05 Mar 2024 in Language&Music
• The Most Beautiful Shots in Cinema History: Scenes from 100+ Films, 04 Mar 2024 in Film