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• A Flying Car Took to the Skies in Back 1949: See the Taylor Aerocar in Action, 26 Nov 2020 in History&Technology
• A Mysterious Monolith Appears in the Utah Desert, Channeling Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 25 Nov 2020 in Art
• The Polygraph: The Proto-Photocopy Machine Machine Invented in 1803 That Changed Thomas Jefferson’s Life, 24 Nov 2020 in History&Technology&Writing
• The Geometry of Sound: Watch Artist Kenichi Kanazawa Make Amazing Geometric Designs Out of Sand, Using Sound Waves Alone, 23 Nov 2020 in Art&Physics
• David Lynch Explains How Simple Daily Habits Enhance His Creativity, 20 Nov 2020 in Creativity&Film&Life
• How Errol Morris Became Obsessed with — and Figured Out — the Truth of a Famous War Photograph, 19 Nov 2020 in History&Photography
• Experience Blade Runner Like You Never Have Before Through a Feature-Length Remastered Soundtrack, 18 Nov 2020 in Film&History&Music
• How Soy Sauce Has Been Made in Japan for Over 220 Years: An Inside View, 17 Nov 2020 in Food & Drink
• Watch Sassy Justice, the New Deepfake Satire Show Created by the Makers of South Park, 16 Nov 2020 in Comedy&Current Affairs&Technology&YouTube
• Experience a Video Painting of Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon That Has Soothed & Relaxed Millions of People, 13 Nov 2020 in Music
• Futurist from 1901 Describes the World of 2001: Opera by Telephone, Free College & Pneumatic Tubes Aplenty, 12 Nov 2020 in History&Magazines&Technology
• How the Beach Boys Created Their Pop Masterpieces: “Good Vibrations,” Pet Sounds, and More, 11 Nov 2020 in History&Music
• The Last Video Store: A Short Documentary on How the World’s Oldest Video Store Still Survives Today, 11 Nov 2020 in Film&History&Travel
• Watch the Making of Japanese Woodblock Prints, from Start to Finish, by a Longtime Tokyo Printmaker, 10 Nov 2020 in Art
• The Cinematography That Changed Cinema: Exploring Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway & Other Auteurs, 06 Nov 2020 in Film
• The Meticulous, Elegant Illustrations of the Nature Observed in England’s Countryside, 05 Nov 2020 in Art&Books&Nature
• 40,000 Early Modern Maps Are Now Freely Available Online (Courtesy of the British Library), 04 Nov 2020 in History&Maps
• Three Days in Twin Peaks: An In-Depth Journey Through the Evocative Locations of David Lynch’s TV Series, 03 Nov 2020 in Film&Television&Travel
• Before Creating the Moomins, Tove Jansson Drew Satirical Art Mocking Hitler & Stalin, 02 Nov 2020 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&History&Magazines
• The Legend of How Bluesman Robert Johnson Sold His Soul to the Devil at the Crossroads, 30 Oct 2020 in History&Music
• The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment: Psychologist Daniel Goleman Explains the Power of Focus, 29 Oct 2020 in Neuroscience&Psychology
• A Glass Floor in a Dublin Grocery Store Lets Shoppers Look Down & Explore Medieval Ruins, 28 Oct 2020 in Architecture&History
• When Billy Idol Went Cyberpunk: See His Tribute to Neuromancer, His Recording Session with Timothy Leary, and His Limited-Edition Floppy Disk (1993), 27 Oct 2020 in History&Music&Technology
• The Craft of Writing Effectively: Essential Lessons from the Longtime Director of UChicago’s Writing Program, 27 Oct 2020 in Writing
• Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber, 23 Oct 2020 in Architecture&History&Nature
• “The Dark Side of the Moon” and Other Pink Floyd Songs Gloriously Performed by Irish & German Orchestras, 22 Oct 2020 in Music
• Tom Lehrer Releases His All of Catchy and Savage Musical Satire Into the Public Domain, 21 Oct 2020 in Music
• Take a Digital Drive Along Ed Ruscha’s Sunset Boulevard, the Famous Strip That the Artist Photographed from 1965 to 2007, 20 Oct 2020 in Architecture&History&Photography
• Watch Ridley Scott’s Controversial Nissan Sports Car Ad That Aired Only Once, During the Super Bowl (1990), 19 Oct 2020 in Film&Television
• Edward Hopper’s Creative Process: The Drawing & Careful Preparation Behind Nighthawks & Other Iconic Paintings, 16 Oct 2020 in Art
• Denmark’s Utopian Garden City Built Entirely in Circles: See Astounding Aerial Views of Brøndby Haveby, 15 Oct 2020 in Architecture&Design
• Werner Herzog Lists All the Languages He Knows–and Why He Only Speaks French If (Literally) a Gun’s Pointed at His Head, 14 Oct 2020 in Film&Language Lessons
• A Creepy 19th Century Re-Creation of the Famous Ancient Roman Statue, Laocoön and His Sons, 13 Oct 2020 in Art&History
• The David Lynch Retrospective: A Two Hour Video Essay on Lynch’s Complete Filmography, from Eraserhead to Inland Empire, 12 Oct 2020 in Film
• The Story of the SynthAxe, the Astonishing 1980s Guitar Synthesizer: Only 100 Were Ever Made, 09 Oct 2020 in History&Music&Technology
• Foreign Exchange Students Debate Whether American Teenagers Have Too Much Freedom (1954), 08 Oct 2020 in Education&History
• What Caused the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe?: A Brief Investigation into the Poet’s Demise 171 Years Ago Today, 07 Oct 2020 in History&Literature
• How Vividly Colorized Photos Helped Introduce Japan to the World in the 19th Century, 06 Oct 2020 in History&Photography
• Watch a Young Carl Sagan Appear in His First TV Documentary, The Violent Universe (1969), 05 Oct 2020 in Astronomy&Science&Television
• When Shostakovich Adapted Gogol’s “The Nose” Into an Opera: Watch Giant Noses Tap Dancing on the Stage, 02 Oct 2020 in Dance&Literature&Music&Opera
• Explore a Digital Archive of Student Notebooks from Around the World (1773-Present), 01 Oct 2020 in Archives&Books&Education&History
• What Would the World of Charlie Chaplin Look Like in Color?: Watch a Colorfully Restored Version of A Night at the Show (1915), 30 Sep 2020 in Film
• How Storyboarding Works: A Brief Introduction to How Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson & Other Directors Storyboard Their Films, 29 Sep 2020 in Art&Film
• Why James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano Is “the Greatest Acting Achievement Ever Committed to the Screen”: A Video Essay, 28 Sep 2020 in Television
• Understanding Chris Marker’s Radical Sci-Fi Film La Jetée: A Study Guide Distributed to High Schools in the 1970s, 25 Sep 2020 in Education&Film
• Watch Chilling Footage of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings in Restored Color, 24 Sep 2020 in Film&History
• An Animated Introduction to Albert Camus’ Existentialism, a Philosophy Making a Comeback in Our Dysfunctional Times, 23 Sep 2020 in Philosophy&TED Talks
• How Bong Joon-ho’s Storyboards for Parasite (Now Published as a Graphic Novel) Meticulously Shaped the Acclaimed Film, 22 Sep 2020 in Books&Film
• The Life, Work & Philosophy of Bill Murray: Happy 70th Birthday to an American Comedy Icon, 21 Sep 2020 in Comedy&Film
• High-Resolution Walking Tours of Italy’s Most Historic Places: The Colosseum, Pompeii, St. Peter’s Basilica & More, 18 Sep 2020 in History&Travel
• Good Movies as Old Books: 100 Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers, 17 Sep 2020 in Books&Design&Film
• Steal Like Wes Anderson: A New Video Essay Explores How Wes Anderson Pays Artful Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman & Other Directors in His Films, 16 Sep 2020 in Film
• The Joy of Watching Old, Damaged Things Get Restored: Why the World is Captivated by Restoration Videos, 15 Sep 2020 in Design&History
• Behold the First Underwater Portrait in the History of Photography (Circa 1899), 14 Sep 2020 in History&Photography
• 19th-Century Japanese Woodblocks Illustrate the Lives of Western Inventors, Artists, and Scholars (1873), 11 Sep 2020 in Art&History
• Watch the First Trailer for Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s Adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Classic Sci-Fi Novel, 10 Sep 2020 in Books&Film&Sci Fi
• In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own Cats, 09 Sep 2020 in History&Poetry
• MIT Presents a Free Course on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Featuring Anthony Fauci & Other Experts, 08 Sep 2020 in Biology&Current Affairs&Health&MIT&Online Courses
• Paul Schrader Creates a Diagram Mapping the Progression of Arthouse Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Tarkovsky & Other Auteurs, 07 Sep 2020 in Film
• Google Introduces 6-Month Career Certificates, Threatening to Disrupt Higher Education with “the Equivalent of a Four-Year Degree”, 05 Sep 2020 in Education&Technology
• J. Robert Oppenheimer Explains How He Recited a Line from Bhagavad Gita–“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”–Upon Witnessing the First Nuclear Explosion, 04 Sep 2020 in History&Physics&Religion
• Take Immersive Virtual Tours of the World’s Great Museums: The Louvre, Hermitage, Van Gogh Museum & Much More, 02 Sep 2020 in Art&Museums
• How to Manage Your Time More Effectively: The Science of Applying Computer Algorithms to Our Everyday Lives, 01 Sep 2020 in Computer Science&Productivity&TED Talks
• Banksy Funds a Boat to Rescue Refugees at Sea–and Soon It Finds Itself in Distress in the Mediterranean, 31 Aug 2020 in Art&Current Affairs
• Composer John Philip Sousa Warns of the Threat Posed by Recorded Music (1906), 28 Aug 2020 in History&Music
• What Did the Roman Emperors Look Like?: See Photorealistic Portraits Created with Machine Learning, 27 Aug 2020 in Art&History&Technology
• Take a Virtual Tour of Frida Kahlo’s Blue House Free Online, 26 Aug 2020 in Art&Museums
• Hear 10 of Bach’s Pieces Played on Original Baroque Instruments, 25 Aug 2020 in Music
• The Japanese Sculptor Who Dedicated His Life to Finishing Gaudí’s Magnum Opus, the Sagrada Família, 24 Aug 2020 in Architecture&Film
• Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock & Other Jazz Musicians Sell Whisky & Spirits in Classic Japanese TV Commercials, 21 Aug 2020 in Food & Drink&Music&Television
• There Are Only 37 Possible Stories, According to This 1919 Manual for Screenwriters, 20 Aug 2020 in Books&Film&Writing
• Graphic Novels Tell the Story of David Bowie, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Jean-Michel Basquiat & Other Artists and Thinkers, 19 Aug 2020 in Art&Books&Comics/Cartoons
• Vincent Van Gogh’s Self Portraits: Explore & Download a Collection of 17 Paintings Free Online, 18 Aug 2020 in Art&History
• What Made Richard Feynman One of the Most Admired Educators in the World, 17 Aug 2020 in Education&Science
• Errol Morris Makes His Groundbreaking Series, First Person, Free to Watch Online: Binge Watch His Interviews with Geniuses, Eccentrics, Obsessives & Other Unusual Types, 14 Aug 2020 in Television
• One of the Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Explore the Gandhara Scroll, 13 Aug 2020 in History&Religion
• When Edward Gorey Designed Book Covers for Classic Novels: See His Ironic-Gothic Take on Dickens, Conrad, Poe & More, 12 Aug 2020 in Art&Books
• How John Woo Makes His Intense Action Scenes: A Video Essay, 11 Aug 2020 in Film
• Dessert Recipes of Iconic Thinkers: Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake, George Orwell’s Christmas Pudding, Alice B. Toklas’ Hashish Fudge & More, 11 Aug 2020 in Food & Drink&Literature
• The Golden Age of Berlin Comes to Life in the Classic, Avant-Garde Film, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), 10 Aug 2020 in Film&History
• Divine Decks: A Visual History of Tarot: The First Comprehensive Survey of Tarot Gets Published by Taschen, 07 Aug 2020 in Art&Books&History
• Roald Dahl Gives a Tour of the Small Backyard Hut Where He Wrote All of His Beloved Children’s Books, 06 Aug 2020 in Books&Writing
• Istanbul Captured in Beautiful Color Images from 1890: The Hagia Sophia, Topkaki Palace’s Imperial Gate & More, 05 Aug 2020 in History&Photography
• Explore the Ruins of Timgad, the “African Pompeii” Excavated from the Sands of Algeria, 04 Aug 2020 in Architecture&History
• The Map of Quantum Physics: A Colorful Animation Explains the Often Misunderstood Branch of Science, 03 Aug 2020 in Physics&Science
• Watch Metropolis’ Cinematically Innovative Dance Scene, Restored as Fritz Lang Intended It to Be Seen (1927), 30 Jul 2020 in Film&History
• Tony Hawk & Architectural Historian Iain Borden Tell the Story of How Skateboarding Found a New Use for Cities & Architecture, 29 Jul 2020 in Architecture&Sports
• Behold 19th-Century Japanese Firemen’s Coats, Richly Decorated with Mythical Heroes & Symbols, 28 Jul 2020 in Fashion&History
• Hear the Cristal Baschet, an Enchanting Organ Made of Wood, Metal & Glass, and Played with Wet Hands, 27 Jul 2020 in Music
• Watch Manhatta, the First American Avant-Garde Film (1921), 24 Jul 2020 in Film&History
• Devo De-Evolves the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”: See Their Groundbreaking Music Video and Saturday Night Live Performance (1978), 23 Jul 2020 in Music&Television
• Artists Give Advice to the Young: Words of Wisdom from Andrei Tarkovsky, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, John Cleese & Many More, 22 Jul 2020 in Art&Life
• How Vladimir Nabokov Wrote Lolita, “My Most Difficult Book”: A 1989 Documentary, 21 Jul 2020 in Books&Literature&Television
• A Beatboxing Buddhist Monk Creates Music for Meditation, 21 Jul 2020 in Music&Religion
• You Can Play the New Samurai Video Game Ghost of Tsushima in “Kurosawa Mode:” An Homage to the Japanese Master, 17 Jul 2020 in Film&History&Video Games
• Michel Gondry Creates a Burger King Ad That Touts New Research on Reducing Cow Flatulence & Climate Change, 16 Jul 2020 in Film&Science
• Explore Flowcharts That Japanese Aquariums Use to Document the Romantic Lives of Penguins, 15 Jul 2020 in Nature
• Orson Welles Narrates Animations of Plato’s Cave and Kafka’s “Before the Law,” Two Parables of the Human Condition, 14 Jul 2020 in Animation&Literature&Philosophy
• An Introduction to Hagia Sophia: After 85 Years as a Museum, It’s Set to Become a Mosque Again, 13 Jul 2020 in Architecture&History&Travel
• Bill Nye Shows How Face Masks Actually Protect You–and Why You Should Wear Them, 10 Jul 2020 in Health&Science
• An Introduction to Jean Baudrillard, Who Predicted the Simulation-Like Reality in Which We Live, 09 Jul 2020 in Philosophy
• Salvador Dalí Explains Why He Was a “Bad Painter” and Contributed “Nothing” to Art (1986), 08 Jul 2020 in Art&Television
• The Film Music of Ennio Morricone (RIP) Beautifully Performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra Play: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” & Much More, 07 Jul 2020 in Film&Music
• Watch Vintage Footage of Tokyo, Circa 1910, Get Brought to Life with Artificial Intelligence, 06 Jul 2020 in Film&History&Technology
• 16th Century Bookwheels, the E-Readers of the Renaissance, Get Brought to Life by 21st Century Designers, 03 Jul 2020 in Books&History&Technology
• An Animated Introduction to the Pioneering Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 02 Jul 2020 in Books&History
• A 1947 French Film Accurately Predicted Our 21st-Century Addiction to Smartphones, 01 Jul 2020 in Film&Television
• Rewatch Every Episode of The Sopranos with the Talking Sopranos Podcast, Hosted by Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa, 30 Jun 2020 in Podcasts&Television
• Milton Glaser (RIP) Explains Why We Must Overcome the Fear of Failure, Take Risks & Discover Our True Potential, 29 Jun 2020 in Design&Life
• Saxophonist Plays into Large Gas Pipes & Then Uses the Echo to Accompany Himself, 26 Jun 2020 in Music
• Hear Brian Eno’s Rarely-Heard Cover of the Johnny Cash Classic, “Ring of Fire”, 25 Jun 2020 in Music
• Martin Amis Explains His Method for Writing Great Sentences, 24 Jun 2020 in Literature&Writing
• The World According to Le Corbusier: An Animated Introduction to the Most Modern of All Architects, 23 Jun 2020 in Animation&Architecture&History
• How One Simple Cut Reveals the Cinematic Genius of Yasujirō Ozu, 22 Jun 2020 in Film
• Why This Font Is Everywhere: How Cooper Black Became Pop Culture’s Favorite Font, 19 Jun 2020 in Design&History
• Take Free Courses on African-American History from Yale and Stanford: From Emancipation, to the Civil Rights Movement, and Beyond, 18 Jun 2020 in History&Online Courses&Stanford&Yale
• John Cleese’s Comedically Explains the Psychological Advantages of Extremism: “It Makes You Feel Good Because It Provides You with Enemies”, 17 Jun 2020 in History&Politics&Television
• The Bird Library: A Library Built Especially for Our Fine Feathered Friends, 16 Jun 2020 in Libraries&Nature
• Take a Virtual Drive through London, Tokyo, Los Angeles & 45 Other World Cities, 15 Jun 2020 in Radio&Travel
• After MLK’s Assassination, a Schoolteacher Conducted a Famous Experiment–“Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes”–to Teach Kids About Discrimination, 12 Jun 2020 in Current Affairs&History
• Why James Baldwin’s Writing Stays Powerful: An Artfully Animated Introduction to the Author of Notes of a Native Son, 11 Jun 2020 in History&Literature
• David Lynch Posts His Nightmarish Sitcom Rabbits Online–the Show That Psychologists Use to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects, 10 Jun 2020 in Film&Television
• Al Jaffee, Iconic Mad Magazine Cartoonist, Retires at Age 99 … and Leaves Behind Advice About Living the Creative Life, 09 Jun 2020 in Art&Comedy&Magazines
• Sir Isaac Newton’s Cure for the Plague: Powdered Toad Vomit Lozenges (1669), 08 Jun 2020 in Health&History&Science
• Documentary Portraits of Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, William Carlos Williams, Anne Sexton & Other American Poets (1965), 05 Jun 2020 in Film&Poetry
• An Introduction to the Sublime, Entrepreneurial Art of Christo & Jeanne-Claude (Courtesy of Alain de Botton’s School of Life), 04 Jun 2020 in Art
• Watch Martin Scorsese’s Brand New Short Film, Made Entirely in His Office Under Quarantine, 03 Jun 2020 in Current Affairs&Film
• When Al Capone Opened a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression: Another Side of the Legendary Mobster’s Operation, 02 Jun 2020 in History
• Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy, 01 Jun 2020 in Architecture&History
• An Analysis of Quentin Tarantino’s Films Narrated (Mostly) by Quentin Tarantino, 29 May 2020 in Film
• This Is What The Matrix Looks Like Without CGI: A Special Effects Breakdown, 29 May 2020 in Film&Sci Fi&Technology
• J.K. Rowling Is Publishing Her New Children’s Novel Free Online, One Chapter Per Day, 27 May 2020 in Books
• The 135 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind: An Introduction to Our New List, 26 May 2020 in Podcasts
• This Huge Crashing Wave in a Seoul Aquarium Is Actually a Gigantic Optical Illusion, 25 May 2020 in Art&Technology
• The Evocativeness of Decomposing Film: Watch the 1926 Hollywood Movie The Bells Become the Experimental 2004 Short Film, Light Is Calling, 22 May 2020 in Film&History
• David Lynch Releases an Animated Film Online: Watch Fire (Pozar), 21 May 2020 in Animation&Film
• The Original Star Wars Trilogy Adapted into a 14-Hour Radio Drama by NPR (1981-1996), 20 May 2020 in Film&Radio&Sci Fi
• Write Only 500 Words Per Day and Publish 50+ Books: Graham Greene’s Writing Method, 19 May 2020 in Books&Creativity&Writing
• An Archive of 1,000 “Peel Sessions” Available Online: Hear David Bowie, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello & Others Play in the Studio of Legendary BBC DJ John Peel, 18 May 2020 in Music&Radio
• Breathtakingly-Detailed Tibetan Book Printed 40 Years Before the Gutenberg Bible, 15 May 2020 in Books&History&Religion