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• The Map of Medicine: A Comprehensive Animation Shows How the Fields of Modern Medicine Fit Together, 02 Jun 2023 in Health&Science
• Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad, 01 Jun 2023 in History&Politics
• The 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time, According to 177 Books Experts from 56 Countries, 31 May 2023 in Books
• Why French Sounds So Unlike Spanish, Italian & Other Romance Languages, Even Though They All Evolved from Latin, 30 May 2023 in History&Language
• The Art Collection of David Bowie: An Introduction, 29 May 2023 in Art&Music
• How John Keats Writes a Poem: A Line-by-Line Breakdown of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, 25 May 2023 in Poetry
• John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous Paintings: An Introduction to Madame X and Dr. Pozzi at Home, 24 May 2023 in Art&History
• Watch Ben Kingsley Play Salvador Dalí in the Trailer for the New Film, Dalíland, 23 May 2023 in Art&Film
• Martin Amis (RIP) Explains Why American Populism Is a Con, 22 May 2023 in Literature&Politics&Writing
• A Brief History of the Concept Album: From Woody Guthrie, to the Beatles and Pink Floyd, to Taylor Swift, 19 May 2023 in History&Music
• The First Full 3D Scan of the Titanic, Made of More Than 700,000 Images Capturing the Wreck’s Every Detail, 18 May 2023 in History&Technology
• Behold the International Ink Library Created by the U.S. Secret Service: Features A Collection of 12,000 Ink Samples, 17 May 2023 in History&Technology
• Hear Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Last Playlist,” Which He Created for His Own Funeral: Erik Satie, Bill Evans, Debussy, Ravel & More, 16 May 2023 in Music
• Take Carl Jung’s Word Association Test, a Quick Route Into the Subconscious (1910), 16 May 2023 in History&Psychology
• Leonard Bernstein & Opera Star Christa Ludwig Get Into a Vigorous Creative Disagreement Over the Tempo of Mahler (1972), 12 May 2023 in Music
• Theoretical Puppets: Salvador Dalí, Sigmund Freud, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Other Thinkers Come Back to Life as Hand-Operated Puppets, 11 May 2023 in Philosophy
• The Story of the Flatiron Building, “New York’s Strangest Tower”, 10 May 2023 in Architecture&History
• What the Great Pyramids of Giza Originally Looked Like, 09 May 2023 in Architecture&History
• Take Virtual Tours of Every Star Trek Enterprise Bridge: A New Interactive Web Portal Created by The Roddenberry Archive, 08 May 2023 in Sci Fi&Television
• The Amazing Engineering of Gauntlets (Armored Gloves) from the 16th Century, 05 May 2023 in History
• The Pioneering Data Visualizations of William Playfair, Who Invented the Line, Bar, and Pie Charts (Circa 1786), 04 May 2023 in Data&History
• Watch a Traditional Japanese Carpenter Make 190+ Different Joints, All Without Nails, Screws, or Glue, 03 May 2023 in Architecture&Art
• Why Renaissance Masters Added Egg Yolk to Their Paints: A New Study Sheds Light, 02 May 2023 in Art&History&Science
• How the Art of Patrick Nagel, Still Seen in Nail Salons Today, Crystallized the 1980s Aesthetic, 02 May 2023 in Art&History
• Plan Your Trip Across the Roads of the Roman Empire, Using Modern Web Mapping Technology, 28 Apr 2023 in History&Maps&Travel
• The Five Graphs That Changed the World: See Groundbreaking Data Visualizations by Florence Nightingale, W. E. B. DuBois & Beyond, 27 Apr 2023 in Data&History
• Download Free Coloring Books from Nearly 100 Museums & Libraries, 26 Apr 2023 in Art&Books
• Urine Wheels in Medieval Manuscripts: Discover the Curious Diagnostic Tool Used by Medieval Doctors, 25 Apr 2023 in Books&Health&History
• Watch Iggy Pop Perform Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, 24 Apr 2023 in Music&Poetry
• Why the Ancient Romans Had Better Teeth Than Modern Europeans, 21 Apr 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• Succession Star Brian Cox Tells the Entire Histories of Ancient Greece and Rome in 20 Minutes Each, 20 Apr 2023 in History
• Jazz Drummer Larnell Lewis Hears Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” for the Very First Time, Then Plays It Near-Perfectly, 19 Apr 2023 in Music
• How to Paint Like Yayoi Kusama, the Avant-Garde Japanese Artist, 18 Apr 2023 in Art&Online Courses
• Wes Anderson Re-Creates The Truman Show, Armageddon & Out of Sight as Stage Plays Performed by the Cast of Rushmore (1999), 18 Apr 2023 in Comedy&Film&Television
• Discover the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, “the World’s Most Beautiful Calendar” (1416), 17 Apr 2023 in Art&Books&History
• The History of Ancient Japan: The Story of How Japan Began, Told by Those Who Witnessed It (297-1274), 13 Apr 2023 in History
• The Smithsonian Puts 4.5 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Use, 12 Apr 2023 in Archives&History&Museums
• Historical Italian Cooking: How to Make Ancient Roman & Medieval Italian Dishes, 11 Apr 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• Behold the World’s First Modern Art Amusement Park, Featuring Attractions by Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein & More (1987), 10 Apr 2023 in Art&History
• How John Singer Sargent Became the Greatest Portraitist Who Ever Lived — by Painting “Outside the Lines”, 07 Apr 2023 in Art&History
• Europe’s Oldest Map: Discover the Saint-Bélec Slab (Circa 2150–1600 BCE), 06 Apr 2023 in History&Maps
• Watch David Bowie’s Final Performance as Ziggy Stardust, Singing “I Got You Babe” with Marianne Faithfull, on The Midnight Special (1973), 05 Apr 2023 in Music&Television
• How Michelangelo’s David Still Draws Admiration and Controversy Today, 04 Apr 2023 in Art&History
• Ryuichi Sakamoto, RIP: Watch Him Create Groundbreaking Electronic Music in 1984, 03 Apr 2023 in Music
• Wes Anderson Goes Sci-Fi in 1950s America: Watch the Trailer for His New Film Asteroid City, 31 Mar 2023 in Film
• David Byrne Explains How the “Big Suit” He Wore in Stop Making Sense Was Inspired by Japanese Kabuki Theatre, 30 Mar 2023 in Fashion&Film&Music
• Watch the World’s First Film Made in Babylonian, the Language of Ancient Mesopotamia, 29 Mar 2023 in Film&History&Language
• Understanding Espresso: A Six-Part Series Explaining What It Takes to Pull the Ideal Shot, 28 Mar 2023 in Food & Drink
• A Medieval Arabic Manuscript Features the Designs for a “Perpetual Flute” and Other Ingenious Mechanical Devices, 27 Mar 2023 in History&Technology
• Beethoven’s Genome Has Been Sequenced for the First Time, Revealing Clues About the Great Composer’s Health & Family History, 24 Mar 2023 in History&Music&Science
• Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet’s Water Lilies Triptych Using 650,000 Lego Bricks, 23 Mar 2023 in Art
• The March of Intellect: Newspaper Cartoons Satirize the Belief in Technological Progress in 1820s England, 22 Mar 2023 in Comics/Cartoons&History
• Amélie Was Really a KGB Spy: Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Re-Edits His Beloved Film, Amélie, into a New Comedic Short, 21 Mar 2023 in Film
• Explore the Hereford Mappa Mundi, the Largest Medieval Map Still in Existence (Circa 1300), 20 Mar 2023 in History&Maps
• A Visit to the World’s Oldest Hotel, Japan’s Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, Established in 705 AD, 17 Mar 2023 in History&Travel
• A Student Writes a Rejection Letter Rejecting Harvard’s Rejection Letter (1981): Hear It Read by Actor Himesh Patel, 16 Mar 2023 in Education&Harvard&Letters
• How the World’s Biggest Dome Was Built: The Story of Filippo Brunelleschi and the Duomo in Florence, 15 Mar 2023 in Architecture&History
• Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course: Explore the TV Series That Introduced the Wines of the World (1995), 15 Mar 2023 in Food & Drink
• Why Georges Seurat’s Pointillist Painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Is a Masterpiece, 14 Mar 2023 in Art&History
• How 99% of Ancient Literature Was Lost, 13 Mar 2023 in History&Literature
• A New Dutch Reality TV Show Challenges Contestants to Paint Like Vermeer–and It’s a Hit!, 10 Mar 2023 in Art&Television
• Bored at Work? Here’s What Your Brain Is Trying to Tell You, 08 Mar 2023 in Life&Neuroscience&Psychology
• Essential Japanese Cinema: A Journey Through 50 of Japan’s Beautiful, Often Bizarre Films, 08 Mar 2023 in Film
• Hear De La Soul’s Highly Acclaimed & Influential Hip-Hop Albums Streaming Free for the First Time, 07 Mar 2023 in Music
• The Dos & Don’ts of Driving to West Berlin During the Cold War: A Weird Piece of Ephemera from the 1980s, 06 Mar 2023 in History
• Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 50: Hear It Get Psychoanalyzed by Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, 02 Mar 2023 in Music
• The Military Adventures of Alexander the Great: An Animated Documentary Shows How He Conquered Most of the Known World (336-323 BC), 01 Mar 2023 in History
• Venice’s Canals Have Run Dry During a Winter Drought, Leaving Gondolas Stuck in the Mud, 28 Feb 2023 in Nature
• Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories: From Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” to “Cinderella”, 27 Feb 2023 in Literature
• How One Man Keeps Showing Films in a Japanese Cinema That Closed 58 Years Ago: A Moving, Short Documentary, 24 Feb 2023 in Film&Travel
• The Art of Making Movie Trailers: A Longtime Movie Trailer Editor Breaks Down Classic Previews for Dr. Strangelove, Carrie, and Others, 23 Feb 2023 in Film
• When a UFO Came to Japan in 1803: Discover the Legend of Utsuro-bune, 22 Feb 2023 in History&Sci Fi
• Leonardo’s Lost Sketches Suggest That He Theorized Gravity Before Galileo & Newton, 21 Feb 2023 in History&Science
• Watch 80 Minutes of Never-Released Footage Showing the Wreckage of the Titanic (1986), 20 Feb 2023 in History
• How to Silence the Negative Chatter in Our Heads: Psychology Professor Ethan Kross Explains, 18 Feb 2023 in Psychology
• How to Solve the Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Gloriously Animated Explanation of the Classic Game-Theory Problem, 17 Feb 2023 in Animation&Economics&Photography
• A 3D Computer Animation of the Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham’s 18th Century Design for an All-Controlling Prison, 16 Feb 2023 in Architecture&Philosophy
• The Futurist Architectural Designs Created by Étienne-Louis Boullée in the 18th Century, 15 Feb 2023 in Architecture&Art&History
• An Introduction to the World-Renowned Architect Zaha Hadid, “the Queen of the Curve”, 13 Feb 2023 in Architecture
• Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: It’s “Basically High-Tech Plagiarism” and “a Way of Avoiding Learning”, 10 Feb 2023 in Education&Technology
• LEGO Releases the Most Elaborate Lord of the Rings Set: A 6,167-Piece Rivendell, 10 Feb 2023 in Literature
• How The Beatles Reviewed Songs Topping the Charts During the 1960s: Hear Their Takes on the Beach Boys, Ray Charles, the Byrds, Joan Baez & More, 09 Feb 2023 in History&Magazines&Music
• Coffee College: Everything You Wanted to Know about Coffee Making in One Lecture, 08 Feb 2023 in Food & Drink
• The Unrealized Projects of Frank Lloyd Wright Get Brought to Life with 3D Digital Reconstructions, 07 Feb 2023 in Architecture
• A Guided Tour Through All of Vermeer’s Famous Paintings, Narrated by Stephen Fry, 06 Feb 2023 in Art&History&Museums
• YouTube & Arizona State University Team Up to Offer Online Courses for Real College Credits, 02 Feb 2023 in MOOCs&Online Courses&YouTube
• What People Named Their Cats in the Middle Ages: Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán & More, 01 Feb 2023 in History&Poetry
• Why We All Need Subtitles Now, 31 Jan 2023 in Film&Technology&Television
• When Leonard Bernstein Turned Voltaire’s Candide into an Opera (with Help from Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker & Stephen Sondheim), 30 Jan 2023 in Literature&Opera
• The Two Fridas: An Introduction to Frida Kahlo’s Famous Large-Scale Painting (1939), 27 Jan 2023 in Art&History
• Stream 385,000 Vintage 78 RPM Records at the Internet Archive: Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday & More, 26 Jan 2023 in History&Internet Archive&Music
• When Orson Welles Denounced Elia Kazan as a Traitor for Giving Other Filmmakers’ Names to Joe McCarthy (1982), 25 Jan 2023 in Film&History
• Bell Telephone Launched a Mobile Phone During the 1940s: Watch Bell’s Film Showing How It Worked, 24 Jan 2023 in Film&History&Technology
• Watch Classic Performances by Yellow Magic Orchestra, the Japanese Band That Became One of the Most Innovative Electronic Music Acts of All Time, 23 Jan 2023 in Music
• The Mystery Finally Solved: Why Has Roman Concrete Been So Durable?, 20 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• A Virtual Tour of Ancient Athens: Fly Over Classical Greek Civilization in All Its Glory, 19 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• ChatGPT Writes a Song in the Style of Nick Cave–and Nick Cave Calls it “a Grotesque Mockery of What It Is to Be Human”, 18 Jan 2023 in Music&Technology
• The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery: A New Online Collection Presents All of the Original Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels, 17 Jan 2023 in Art&Books&Literature
• How Futurists Envisioned the Future in the 1920s: Moving Walkways, Personal Helicopters, Glass-Domed Cities, Dream Recorders & More, 16 Jan 2023 in History&Sci Fi&Technology
• Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, You Can Now Chat with Historical Figures: Shakespeare, Einstein, Austen, Socrates & More, 13 Jan 2023 in History&Technology
• An Architect Demystifies the Art Deco Design of the Iconic Chrysler Building (1930), 12 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• Humans First Started Wearing Clothes At Least 300,000 Years Ago, New Research Finds, 11 Jan 2023 in Fashion&History
• The Oldest Known Sentence Written in an Alphabet Has Been Found on a Head-Lice Comb (Circa 1700 BC), 10 Jan 2023 in History
• Visit the “Cat Islands” of Japan, Where Felines Outnumber Humans, 09 Jan 2023 in Nature&Travel
• How to Watch Hundreds of Free Movies on YouTube, 06 Jan 2023 in Film
• How to Make Ancient Mesopotamian Beer: See the 4,000-Year-Old Brewing Method Put to the Test, 05 Jan 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2023: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Franz Kafka’s Amerika & More, 04 Jan 2023 in Books&Film&Music
• “Weird Al” Yankovic Breaks Down His Most Iconic Tracks: “Eat It,” “Amish Paradise,” “White and Nerdy,” and His Other Hilarious Songs, 03 Jan 2023 in Comedy&Music
• The Archives of the Planet: Explore 72,000 Photos Taken a Century Ago to Document Human Cultures Around the World, 03 Jan 2023 in History&Photography&Travel
• How the Ancient Romans Built Their Roads, the Lifelines of Their Vast Empire, 02 Jan 2023 in History
• Watch Restored Versions of Classic Fleischer Cartoons on Youtube, Featuring Betty Boop, Koko the Clown & Others, 30 Dec 2022 in Animation&Film&History
• How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials, 28 Dec 2022 in Architecture&History
• How Fast Food Began: The History of This Thoroughly American (and Now Global) Form of Dining, 28 Dec 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• American Gothic Explained: How Grant Wood Created His Iconic American Painting (1930), 27 Dec 2022 in Art&History
• How a Lavish 17th-Century Study of Fish Almost Prevented the Publication of Newton’s Principia, One of the Most Important Science Books Ever Written, 26 Dec 2022 in Books&History&Nature&Science
• An Old-Time Radio Yuletide: Hear 20+ Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Shows (1938-1956), 23 Dec 2022 in Radio
• Tom Lehrer Puts His Songs into the Public Domain & Makes Them Free to Download (for a Limited Time), 22 Dec 2022 in Music
• The Roman Roads and Bridges You Can Still Travel Today, 21 Dec 2022 in Architecture&History
• The History of Western Art in 23 Minutes: From the Prehistoric to the Contemporary, 20 Dec 2022 in Art&History
• The Avant-Garde Animated Films of Walter Ruttmann, Still Strikingly Fresh a Century Later (1921-1925), 19 Dec 2022 in Animation&Film
• Behold Beautiful Original Movie Posters for Metropolis from France, Sweden, Germany, Japan & Beyond, 16 Dec 2022 in Design&Film
• Watch 80 Free Documentaries from Kino Lorber: Includes Films on M. C. Escher, Stanley Kubrick, Hannah Arendt, Hilma af Klint & More, 16 Dec 2022 in Film
• Hear the Best of Angelo Badalamenti (RIP) from 1986-2017: Features Music from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More, 15 Dec 2022 in Film&Music
• The Museum of Wonky English, a Japanese Exhibition Dedicated to Hilarious Mistranslations, 14 Dec 2022 in Language Lessons&Museums&Writing
• How to Get Dressed & Fight in 14th Century Armor: A Reenactment, 14 Dec 2022 in History
• How Will AI Change the World?: A Captivating Animation Explores the Promise & Perils of Artificial Intelligence, 13 Dec 2022 in Animation&Technology
• The Disturbing Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch: A Short Introduction, 13 Dec 2022 in Art&History&Psychology
• 480 Filmmakers Reveal the 100 Greatest Movies in the World, 08 Dec 2022 in Film
• The 30 Greatest Films Ever Made: A Video Essay, 07 Dec 2022 in Film
• How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A British Museum Curator Explains, 06 Dec 2022 in History&Museums&Writing
• The 100 Greatest Films of All Time According to 1,639 Film Critics & 480 Directors: See the Results of the Once-a-Decade Sight and Sound Poll, 02 Dec 2022 in Film
• A Chinese Painter Specializing in Copying Van Gogh Paintings Travels to Amsterdam & Sees Van Gogh’s Masterpieces for the First Time, 01 Dec 2022 in Art
• See 21 Historic Films by Lumière Brothers, Colorized and Enhanced with Machine Learning (1895-1902), 30 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• 8th Century Englishwoman Scribbled Her Name & Drew Funny Pictures in a Medieval Manuscript, According to New Cutting-Edge Technology, 29 Nov 2022 in Books&History
• Ancient Roman Coins Reveal the Existence of a Forgotten Roman Emperor, 28 Nov 2022 in History
• A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More, 25 Nov 2022 in History
• When Salvador Dalí Dressed — and Angrily Demolished — a Department Store Window in New York City (1939), 25 Nov 2022 in Art&History
• A Relaxing, ASMR Re-Creation of People Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner in the 1820s, 23 Nov 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• The First Kiss Captured on Film: Behold “The Kiss” Shot by Photography Pioneer Eadweard Muybridge (1887), 22 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• Why Recent Decades All Feel Culturally the Same, and Why Mark Fisher Thought Capitalism Was to Blame, 22 Nov 2022 in Politics