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• Revisit One of the Most Polarizing Albums in Rock History: Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Which Came Out 50 Years Ago, 18 Jul 2025 in Music
• How Jackie Chan Filmed the Best Fight Scene in Cinema History, 17 Jul 2025 in Film
• The Story Told on the Famous Bayeux Tapestry Explained from Start to Finish, 16 Jul 2025 in Art&History
• The Entire History of English in 22 Minutes, 15 Jul 2025 in History&Language
• How the Ancient Greeks Built Their Magnificent Temples: The Art of Ancient Engineering, 14 Jul 2025 in Architecture&History
• The World’s Oldest Cookbook: Discover 4,000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient Babylon, 11 Jul 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• Tomorrow Never Knows: How The Beatles Invented the Future With Studio Magic, Tape Loops & LSD, 10 Jul 2025 in History&Music&Technology
• The Invisible Horror of The Shining: How Music Makes Stanley Kubrick’s Iconic Film Even More Terrifying, 09 Jul 2025 in Film
• Paradise Lost Explained: How John Milton Wrote His Epic Religious Poem from Satan’s Perspective, 08 Jul 2025 in Literature&Poetry&Religion
• J. R. R. Tolkien Reads from The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings & Other Works, 07 Jul 2025 in Literature
• The Genius Urban Design of Amsterdam: Canals, Dams & Leaning Houses, 07 Jul 2025 in Architecture&History
• How Four Masters—Michelangelo, Donatello, Verrocchio & Bernini—Sculpted David, 04 Jul 2025 in Art&History
• Discover the Only Painting Van Gogh Ever Sold During His Lifetime, 02 Jul 2025 in Art&History
• How 16th-Century Artist Joris Hoefnagel Made Insects Beautiful—and Changed Science Forever, 02 Jul 2025 in Art&History&Nature
• A Visualization of the History of Technology: 1,889 Innovations Across Three Million Years, 30 Jun 2025 in History&Technology
• Listen to Never-Before-Heard Works by Erik Satie, Performed 100 Years After His Death, 29 Jun 2025 in Music
• Watch the Very First YouTube Video, a Defining Moment in Internet History, 26 Jun 2025 in Current Affairs&Video - Arts & Culture
• Why Bob Dylan’s Unreleased “Blind Willie McTell” Is Now Considered a Masterpiece, 25 Jun 2025 in History&Music
• How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, “Egyptian Blue”, 24 Jun 2025 in Art&History&Science
• How Art Conservators Restore Old Paintings & Revive Their Original Colors, 23 Jun 2025 in Art
• When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres: An Introduction to the Bolwoningen in the Netherlands, 20 Jun 2025 in Architecture&History
• Hear the Letter of Gratitude That Albert Camus Wrote to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize, as Read by Footballer Ian Wright, 19 Jun 2025 in History&Letters&Literature
• Watch Bob Dylan Play “Mr. Tambourine Man” in Color at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, 18 Jun 2025 in History&Music
• A Grad Student Asks Carl Sagan If He Believes in God (1994), 17 Jun 2025 in Religion&Science
• How Jackson Pollock Redefined Modern Art: An Introduction, 16 Jun 2025 in Art
• The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony, 13 Jun 2025 in Music
• An Architectural Tour of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Desert Home and Studio, 12 Jun 2025 in Architecture
• Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson, 11 Jun 2025 in Film
• How the BIC Cristal Ballpoint Pen Became the Most Successful Product in History, 10 Jun 2025 in History&Technology&Writing
• The Dylatov Pass Incident: Has One of the Biggest Soviet Mysteries Been Solved?, 09 Jun 2025 in History
• An Introduction to George Orwell’s 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth, 06 Jun 2025 in Books&History&Literature&Politics
• When the State Department Used Dizzy Gillespie and Jazz to Fight the Cold War (1956), 05 Jun 2025 in History&Music&Politics
• The 100 Greatest Paintings of All Time: From Botticelli and Bosch to Bacon and Basquiat, 04 Jun 2025 in Art&History
• How John Lennon Wrote the Beatles’ Best Song, “A Day in the Life”, 03 Jun 2025 in Music
• Wim Wenders’ New Short Film Reminds Europe of the Lessons of World War II, 02 Jun 2025 in Film&History
• Harvard Lets You Take 133 Free Online Courses: Explore Courses on Justice, American Government, Literature, Religion, CompSci & More, 30 May 2025 in Education&Harvard&Online Courses
• Will Machines Ever Truly Think? Richard Feynman Contemplates the Future of Artificial Intelligence (1985), 29 May 2025 in Artificial Intelligence&Technology
• Ridley Scott’s Cinematic TV Commercials: An 80-Minute Compilation Spanning 1968–2023, 28 May 2025 in Film&Television
• The World’s Oldest Homework: A Look at Babylonian Math Homework from 4,000 Years Ago, 27 May 2025 in Education&History&Math
• How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music, 26 May 2025 in Music
• A 3D Model Reveals What the Parthenon and Its Interior Looked Like 2,500 Years Ago, 23 May 2025 in Architecture&History&Religion
• The “Dark Relics” of Christianity: Preserved Skulls, Blood & Other Grim Artifacts, 22 May 2025 in History&Religion
• How Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & Jethro Tull Financed the Making Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 21 May 2025 in Film&History
• How the First Rock Concert Ended in Mayhem (Cleveland, 1952), 20 May 2025 in History&Music
• Watch Pablo Picasso’s Creative Process Unfold in Real-Time: Rare Footage Shows Him Creating Drawings of Faces, Bulls & Chickens, 19 May 2025 in Art&Film
• How Steven Soderbergh Directs a Scene & Makes It Great, 19 May 2025 in Film
• The PhD Theses of Richard Feynman, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein & Others, Explained with Illustrations, 15 May 2025 in Science
• How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities, 14 May 2025 in History
• How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Evolved Over 70 Years and Changed America, 13 May 2025 in Architecture&History
• How Our Depiction of Jesus Changed Over 2,000 Years and What He May Have Actually Looked Like, 12 May 2025 in History&Religion
• How a Student’s Phone Call Averted a Skyscraper Collapse: The Tale of the Citicorp Center, 09 May 2025 in Architecture&History
• How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age, 08 May 2025 in Film&History
• Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel & Explore Michelangelo’s Masterpieces Up Close, 07 May 2025 in Art&History&Religion
• A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About, 06 May 2025 in Life&Religion
• See Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in 3D in a New 108-Gigapixel Scan, 05 May 2025 in Art&History
• Was William Shakespeare’s Marriage Closer—and Less Estranged—Than We Thought?: A 17th-Century Letter Changes What We Know About the Bard’s Life., 02 May 2025 in History&Literature
• Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary, 01 May 2025 in Comedy&Film
• The Heavy-Metal Band Disturbed Covered Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” Ten Years Ago, and It’s Still Topping the Charts, 30 Apr 2025 in Music
• The Simple, Ingenious Design of the Ancient Roman Javelin: How the Romans Engineered a Remarkably Effective Weapon, 29 Apr 2025 in History
• The Greatest Art Heist in History: How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen from the Louvre (1911), 28 Apr 2025 in Art&History
• A Meditative Tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpiece, 25 Apr 2025 in Architecture&History
• Miles Davis’ Album On the Corner Tried to Woo Young Rock & Funk Fans: First Considered a Disaster, It’s Now Hailed as a Masterpiece, 24 Apr 2025 in Music
• The Roman Colosseum Deconstructed: 3D Animation Reveals the Hidden Technology That Powered Rome’s Great Arena, 23 Apr 2025 in Architecture&History
• How Zaha Hadid Revolutionized Architecture & Drew Inspiration from Russian Avant-Garde Art, 22 Apr 2025 in Architecture&Art
• The Extreme Life and Philosophy of Hunter S. Thompson: Gonzo Journalism and the American Condition, 21 Apr 2025 in Books&Writing
• The Real Story of Easter: How We Got from the First Easter in the Bible to Bunnies, Eggs & Chocolate, 18 Apr 2025 in Religion
• How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome: A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals an Ancient Tax Evasion Scheme, 17 Apr 2025 in History&Law
• A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Modern Rockets, 16 Apr 2025 in History&Science&Technology
• The Ark Before Noah: Discover the Ancient Flood Myths That Came Before the Bible, 15 Apr 2025 in History&Religion
• What the World Will Look Like in 250 Million Years: Mapping the Distant Future, 14 Apr 2025 in Science
• How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System, 11 Apr 2025 in History&Language&Writing
• What Is Kafkaesque?: The Philosophy of Franz Kafka, 10 Apr 2025 in Literature
• The Medieval Manuscript That Features “Yoda”, Killer Snails, Savage Rabbits & More: Discover The Smithfield Decretals, 09 Apr 2025 in Art&Books&History
• Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity: Watch His Last Major Interview (1992), 08 Apr 2025 in Artificial Intelligence&Technology
• Dante’s Inferno: A Visitor’s Guide to Hell, 07 Apr 2025 in Literature
• How Italy Became the Most Divided Country in Europe: Understanding the Great Divide Between North & South, 04 Apr 2025 in Economics&History&Politics
• Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books, 03 Apr 2025 in Books&History
• The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home, 02 Apr 2025 in Film&History
• The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity, 01 Apr 2025 in Books&History&Poetry
• Did the Tower of Babel Actually Exist?: A Look at the Archaeological Evidence, 31 Mar 2025 in Architecture&History
• This Is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like: A Precise Simulation, 28 Mar 2025 in Current Affairs&Science&Technology
• The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi, 27 Mar 2025 in History&Photography
• When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942), 26 Mar 2025 in History&Politics
• When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper, 25 Mar 2025 in History&Television
• Every Hidden Detail of New York’s Classic Skyscrapers: The Chrysler, Empire State & Woolworth Buildings, 24 Mar 2025 in Architecture&History
• The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990–2024), 21 Mar 2025 in Music
• Why There Isn’t a Bridge from Italy to Sicily – And Why the 2,000-Year-Old Dream of Building the Bridge May Soon Be Realized, 20 Mar 2025 in Architecture
• An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hieronymus Bosch’s Wildly Creative Vision, 19 Mar 2025 in Art&History
• Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Groundbreaking, Six-Minute Trailer for Psycho (1960), 18 Mar 2025 in Film
• A Tour of Ancient Rome’s Best Graffiti: “We Have Urinated in Our Beds … There Was No Chamber Pot” & More, 17 Mar 2025 in History&Writing
• The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism, 14 Mar 2025 in History&Religion
• Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952), 13 Mar 2025 in Film&History
• Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse, 12 Mar 2025 in Music
• When Charlie Chaplin First Spoke Onscreen: How His Famous Great Dictator Speech Came About, 11 Mar 2025 in Film&History
• Watch “The Birth of the Robot,” Len Lye’s Surreal 1935 Stop-Motion Animation, 10 Mar 2025 in Animation
• A Tour of the Final Home Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Circular Sun House, 07 Mar 2025 in Architecture
• The Classic 1972 Concert Film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii Gets Restored & Will Soon Hit IMAX Theaters, 06 Mar 2025 in Film&Music
• How Stephen King Predicted the Rise of Trump in a 1979 Novel, 05 Mar 2025 in Books&Politics
• How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937, 04 Mar 2025 in Art&History
• Where The Simpsons Began: Discover the Original Shorts That Appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1989), 03 Mar 2025 in Animation&Comedy&Television
• The Experimental Movement That Created The Beatles’ Weirdest Song, “Revolution 9”, 28 Feb 2025 in Music
• Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album, 27 Feb 2025 in Artificial Intelligence&Current Affairs&Music
• What Makes Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas One of the Most Fascinating Paintings in Art History, 26 Feb 2025 in Art&History
• The 48 Laws of Power Explained in 30 Minutes: “Never Outshine the Master,” “Re-Create Yourself,” and More, 25 Feb 2025 in Books&Politics
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More, 24 Feb 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
• How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference, 21 Feb 2025 in Artificial Intelligence
• The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes, 20 Feb 2025 in Architecture&History
• Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977), 19 Feb 2025 in Music&Sci Fi
• Why Are the Names of British Towns & Cities So Hard to Pronounce?: A Humorous But Informative Primer, 18 Feb 2025 in History&Language&Travel
• Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A, 17 Feb 2025 in Art&Books
• Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More, 14 Feb 2025 in Current Affairs&Music
• How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music, 13 Feb 2025 in History&Music&Technology
• What It Was Like to Get a Meal at a Medieval Tavern, 12 Feb 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• Tracing English Back to Its Oldest Known Ancestor: An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European, 11 Feb 2025 in History&Language
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Who Was the Greatest Scientific Mind in History, 10 Feb 2025 in History&Science
• Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More, 07 Feb 2025 in Film
• See Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Animated Scores, 06 Feb 2025 in Animation&Music
• How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish, 05 Feb 2025 in History&Science
• How Wearing Ridiculously Long Pointed Shoes Became a Medieval Fashion Trend, 04 Feb 2025 in Fashion&History
• Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn’t? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains His “Feud” with Elon Musk, 03 Feb 2025 in Science&Technology
• The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene, 31 Jan 2025 in Psychology
• How Robert Frost Wrote One of His Most Famous Poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, 30 Jan 2025 in Poetry
• How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction, 29 Jan 2025 in Architecture&History
• When Neapolitans Used to Eat Pasta with Their Bare Hands: Watch Footage from 1903, 28 Jan 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• How Erik Satie’s ‘Furniture Music’ Was Designed to Be Ignored and Paved the Way for Ambient Music, 27 Jan 2025 in History&Music
• Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors, 24 Jan 2025 in Film
• Revisit Pop-Up Video: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos & Pop Culture, 23 Jan 2025 in Music&Television
• Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home, 22 Jan 2025 in Film&YouTube
• The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin Tarantino, 21 Jan 2025 in Film
• Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation, 20 Jan 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Wide-Ranging Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials, Paintings, Photography & More, 16 Jan 2025 in Art&Film
• Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires, 16 Jan 2025 in Current Affairs&History
• Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in Chronological Order, 15 Jan 2025 in Art&Television
• Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation (1911–1914), 14 Jan 2025 in Animation&Film&History
• Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic Comedy Show, 13 Jan 2025 in Comedy&History&Television
• In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts, 10 Jan 2025 in Books&History&Technology
• Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images, 09 Jan 2025 in Archives&History
• Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Performance at the Newport Folk Festival, 08 Jan 2025 in Film&History&Music
• Why the Tavern Scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Is a Master Class in Filmmaking, 07 Jan 2025 in Film
• The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929), 06 Jan 2025 in Animation&History