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• American Cities Then & Now: See How New York, Los Angeles & Detroit Look Today, Compared to the 1930s and 1940s, 11 Sep 2019 in Architecture&History
• Watch an Archaeologist Play the “Lithophone,” a Prehistoric Instrument That Let Ancient Musicians Play Real Classic Rock, 10 Sep 2019 in History&Music
• Watch a Short 1967 Film That Imagines How We’d Live in 1999: Online Learning, Electronic Shopping, Flat Screen TVs & Much More, 09 Sep 2019 in Film&History&Technology
• Orson Welles Trashes Famous Directors: Alfred Hitchcock (“Egotism and Laziness”), Woody Allen (“His Arrogance Is Unlimited”) & More, 06 Sep 2019 in Film
• Why Learn Latin?: 5 Videos Make a Compelling Case That the “Dead Language” Is an “Eternal Language”, 05 Sep 2019 in Education&Language Lessons&TED Talks
• The History of Europe from 400 BC to the Present, Animated in 12 Minutes, 04 Sep 2019 in Animation&History
• The Greatest Cut in Film History: Watch the “Match Cut” Immortalized by Lawrence of Arabia, 03 Sep 2019 in Film
• What Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War Mural, 02 Sep 2019 in Art&History
• The Scandalous Painting That Helped Create Modern Art: An Introduction to Édouard Manet’s Olympia, 30 Aug 2019 in Art&History
• Ray Harryhausen’s Creepy War of the Worlds Sketches and Stop-Motion Test Footage, 29 Aug 2019 in Animation&Film
• Werner Herzog Narrates the Existential Journey of a Plastic Bag: Watch a Short Film by Acclaimed Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, 28 Aug 2019 in Film
• The Timeless Beauty of the Citroën DS, the Car Mythologized by Roland Barthes (1957), 27 Aug 2019 in History&Literature
• Why Should You Read Haruki Murakami? An Animated Video on His “Epic Literary Puzzle” Kafka on the Shore Makes the Case, 27 Aug 2019 in Animation&Books&Literature
• Why Route 66 Became America’s Most Famous Road, 23 Aug 2019 in History&Travel
• Where Zombies Come From: A Video Essay on the Origin of the Horrifying, Satirical Monsters, 22 Aug 2019 in Film
• The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders: A Tokyo Restaurant Where All the Servers Are People Living with Dementia, 21 Aug 2019 in Food & Drink&Neuroscience
• The Importance of Film Editing Demonstrated by the Bad Editing of Major Films: Bohemian Rhapsody, Suicide Squad & More, 20 Aug 2019 in Film
• Aldous Huxley Trips on Acid; Talks About Cats & the Secret of Life (1962), 19 Aug 2019 in History&Psychology
• Hear Laurie Anderson Read from The Tibetan Book of the Dead on New Album Songs from the Bardo, 16 Aug 2019 in Music&Religion
• People Pose in Uncanny Alignment with Iconic Album Covers: Discover The Sleeveface Project, 15 Aug 2019 in Music&Photography
• Philip K. Dick Tarot Cards: A Tarot Deck Modeled After the Visionary Sci-Fi Writer’s Inner World, 14 Aug 2019 in Literature&Sci Fi
• View/Download the Highest Resolution MRI Scan of a Human Brain, Revealing It as We’ve Never Seen It Before, 13 Aug 2019 in Neuroscience
• Hear Glenn Gould Celebrate the Moog Synthesizer & Wendy Carlos’ Pioneering Album Switched-On Bach (1968), 12 Aug 2019 in Music&Radio&Technology
• How to Focus: Five Talks Reveal the Secrets of Concentration, 09 Aug 2019 in Creativity&Life&Neuroscience&Psychology
• How Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Computer Code That Helped Save the Apollo Moon Landing Mission, 08 Aug 2019 in Computer Science&History&Technology
• Joyce Carol Oates Teaches a New Online Course on the Art of the Short Story, 07 Aug 2019 in Literature&Online Courses&Writing
• What the First Movies Really Looked Like: Discover the IMAX Films of the 1890s, 06 Aug 2019 in Film&History
• RIP D.A. Pennebaker: Watch Scenes from His Groundbreaking Bob Dylan Documentary Dont Look Back, 05 Aug 2019 in Film&Music
• The Authentic Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Watch a Performance Based on Original Manuscripts & Played with 18th-Century Instruments, 05 Aug 2019 in Music
• The Authentic Pachelbel’s Canon: Watch a Performance Based on the Original Manuscript & Played with Original 17th-Century Instruments, 01 Aug 2019 in Music
• How Quentin Tarantino Steals from Other Movies: A Video Essay, 31 Jul 2019 in Film
• How Ladies & Gentlemen Got Dressed in the 18th Century: It Was a Pretty Involved Process, 30 Jul 2019 in Fashion&History
• Behold Color Photographs Taken During the Aftermath of San Francisco’s Devastating 1906 Earthquake, 29 Jul 2019 in History&Photography
• Martin Amis Explains How to Use a Thesaurus to Actually Improve Your Writing, 26 Jul 2019 in Literature&Writing
• Bryan Magee (RIP) Presents In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers, 26 Jul 2019 in Philosophy
• “I Saw the Future”: Rutger Hauer (RIP) Remembers His Most Memorable Role in Blade Runner, 24 Jul 2019 in Film
• Why 1999 Was the Year of Dystopian Office Movies: What The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space & Being John Malkovich Shared in Common, 24 Jul 2019 in Film&History
• The Velvet Underground Captured in Color Concert Footage by Andy Warhol (1967), 23 Jul 2019 in Film&Music
• What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Listens to John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space & Starts to Create Its Own Free Jazz, 22 Jul 2019 in Music&Technology
• Alexis de Tocqueville’s Prediction of How American Democracy Could Lapse Into Despotism, Read by Michel Houellebecq, 19 Jul 2019 in Books&History&Politics
• An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, 18 Jul 2019 in Books&Literature
• Beatles Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers and Magazine Pages: “Drive My Car,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” & More, 17 Jul 2019 in Books&Design&Music
• The Principles for Success by Entrepreneur & Investor Ray Dalio: A 30-Minute Animated Primer, 16 Jul 2019 in Life&Philosophy
• George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Praised as the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, Gets Digitized as Early Installments Enter the Public Domain, 15 Jul 2019 in Comics/Cartoons
• A Beautiful 1870 Visualization of the Hallucinations That Come Before a Migraine, 12 Jul 2019 in History&Science
• The Evolution of the World Map: An Inventive Infographic Shows How Our Picture of the World Changed Over 1,800 Years, 11 Jul 2019 in Maps
• Arnold Schoenberg, Avant-Garde Composer, Creates a System of Symbols for Notating Tennis Matches, 10 Jul 2019 in Music&Sports
• When MAD Magazine Ruffled the Feathers of the FBI, Not Once But Three Times, 09 Jul 2019 in Comedy&History&Magazines
• Download Beautiful Panoramic Paintings of U.S. National Parks by H.C. Berann: Maps That Look Even More Vivid Than the Real Thing, 08 Jul 2019 in Art&Maps&Nature
• The Walkman Turns 40: See Every Generation of Sony’s Iconic Personal Stereo in One Minute, 05 Jul 2019 in Music&Technology
• A Documentary Introduction to Nick Drake, Whose Haunting & Influential Songs Came Into the World 50 Years Ago Today, 03 Jul 2019 in Music
• How Sleep Can Become Your “Superpower:” Scientist Matt Walker Explains Why Sleep Helps You Learn More and Live Longer, 03 Jul 2019 in Health&TED Talks
• How to Read Many More Books in a Year: Watch a Short Documentary Featuring Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores, 02 Jul 2019 in Books&Travel
• Queen Guitarist Brian May Is Also an Astrophysicist: Read His PhD Thesis Online, 01 Jul 2019 in Astronomy&Music&Physics
• A Quick Six Minute Journey Through Modern Art: How You Get from Manet’s 1862 Painting, “The Luncheon on the Grass,” to Jackson Pollock 1950s Drip Paintings, 28 Jun 2019 in Art
• Deliberate Practice: A Mindful & Methodical Way to Master Any Skill, 27 Jun 2019 in Life&Productivity
• Watch Battered & Bruised Vintage Toys Get Mesmerizingly Restored to Near Mint Condition, 26 Jun 2019 in Design&History&K-12
• The Meandering Mississippi River and How It Evolved Over Thousands of Years Visualized in Brilliant Maps from 1944, 25 Jun 2019 in Maps
• Elvis Costello’s List of 500 Albums That Will Improve Your Life, 24 Jun 2019 in Music
• Hear a Previously Unheard Freddie Mercury Song, “Time Waits for No One,” Unearthed After 33 Years, 21 Jun 2019 in Music
• The Atlas of Space: Behold Brilliant Maps of Constellations, Asteroids, Planets & “Everything in the Solar System Bigger Than 10km”, 20 Jun 2019 in Astronomy&Design&Science
• When Stanley Kubrick Banned His Own Film, A Clockwork Orange: It Was the “Most Effective Censorship of a Film in British History”, 19 Jun 2019 in Film
• How the Universe Will Come to Its Explosive End: Trillions of Years Covered in 29 Timelapse Minutes, 18 Jun 2019 in Astronomy
• Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Opens in China 18 Years After Its Original Release: See Beautiful New Posters for the Film, 17 Jun 2019 in Animation&Film
• Scenes from HBO’s Chernobyl v. Real Footage Shot in 1986: A Side-By-Side Comparison, 14 Jun 2019 in History&Television
• A Subway Map of Human Anatomy: All the Systems of Our Body Visualized in the Style of the London Underground, 13 Jun 2019 in Biology&Maps
• The Recorder Played Like You’ve Never Heard it Before: Hear a Stunning Solo from Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C Major, 12 Jun 2019 in Music
• Watch The Meaning of Life: One of the Best Animated Short Films Ever Made Traces the Evolution of Life, the Universe & Beyond, 11 Jun 2019 in Animation
• Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac, 10 Jun 2019 in Film
• How David Bowie Delivered His Two Most Famous Farewells: As Ziggy Stardust in 1973, and at the End of His Life in 2016, 07 Jun 2019 in Music
• When Kraftwerk Issued Their Own Pocket Calculator Synthesizer — to Play Their Song “Pocket Calculator” (1981), 06 Jun 2019 in Music&Technology
• 136 Maps Reveal Where Tourists & Locals Take Photos in Major Cities Across the Globe, 05 Jun 2019 in Maps
• The Giger Bar: Discover the 1980s Tokyo Bar Designed by H. R. Giger, the Same Artist Who Created the Nightmarish Monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien, 04 Jun 2019 in Art&Food & Drink
• Why You Should Read The Master and Margarita: An Animated Introduction to Bulgakov’s Rollicking Soviet Satire, 03 Jun 2019 in Books&History&Literature
• The First Museum Dedicated to Japanese Folklore Monsters Is Now Open, 31 May 2019 in History
• Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838–2019), 30 May 2019 in History&Photography
• McDonald’s Opens a Tiny Restaurant — and It’s Only for Bees, 29 May 2019 in Food & Drink&Nature
• Andy Warhol Demystified: Four Videos Explain His Groundbreaking Art and Its Cultural Impact, 28 May 2019 in Art&History
• Why You Should Read Crime and Punishment: An Animated Introduction to Dostoevsky’s Moral Thriller, 27 May 2019 in Literature
• Johannes Kepler Theorized That Each Planet Sings a Song, Each in a Different Voice: Mars is a Tenor; Mercury, a Soprano; and Earth, an Alto, 24 May 2019 in Astronomy&Music&Science
• The Creative Life of Jim Henson Explored in a Six-Part Documentary Series, 23 May 2019 in History&Television
• The Strikingly Beautiful Maps & Charts That Fired the Imagination of Students in the 1880s, 22 May 2019 in Education&History&Maps
• The Bauhaus Bookshelf: Download Original Bauhaus Books, Journals, Manifestos & Ads That Still Inspire Designers Worldwide, 21 May 2019 in Art&Design&History
• Discover Kōlams, the Traditional Indian Patterns That Combine Art, Mathematics & Magic, 20 May 2019 in Art&Math&Religion
• What Did Etruscan Sound Like? An Animated Video Pronounces the Ancient Language That We Still Don’t Fully Understand, 17 May 2019 in History
• The Writing System of the Cryptic Voynich Manuscript Explained: British Researcher May Have Finally Cracked the Code, 16 May 2019 in Books&History
• Paris, New York & Havana Come to Life in Colorized Films Shot Between 1890 and 1931, 15 May 2019 in Film&History
• Would You Go Back to 1889 and Take Out Baby Hitler?: Time-Travel Expert James Gleick Answers the Philosophical Question, 14 May 2019 in History&Sci Fi
• Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of 46 Books: From Plants and Neuroscience, to Poetry and the Prose of Nabokov, 13 May 2019 in Books&Neuroscience
• Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols Creates a Short Film for NASA to Recruit New Astronauts (1977), 10 May 2019 in Science&Television
• What is Camp? When the “Good Taste of Bad Taste” Becomes an Aesthetic, 09 May 2019 in Fashion
• What the Theory?: Watch Short Introductions to Postmodernism, Semiotics, Phenomenology, Marxist Literary Criticism and More, 08 May 2019 in Philosophy
• How David Bowie Used William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method to Write His Unforgettable Lyrics, 07 May 2019 in Art&Music
• The Rise and Fall of Western Empires Visualized Through the Artful Metaphor of Cell Division, 06 May 2019 in Animation&History
• How to Make a Medieval Manuscript: An Introduction in 7 Videos, 03 May 2019 in Books&History
• The Last Duel Took Place in France in 1967, and It’s Caught on Film, 02 May 2019 in History
• Watch Six New Short Alien Films: Created to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Film, 01 May 2019 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Cast of Avengers: Endgame Rendered in Traditional Japanese Ukiyo‑e Style, 30 Apr 2019 in Art&Film
• Roald Dahl, Who Lost His Daughter to Measles, Writes a Heartbreaking Letter about Vaccinations: “It Is Almost a Crime to Allow Your Child to Go Unimmunised”, 29 Apr 2019 in Life&Science
• Watch the Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack Released Only in Japan: A New Way to Experience David Lynch’s Classic Show, 29 Apr 2019 in Music&Television
• Trivial Pursuit: The Shakespeare Edition Has Just Been Released: Answer 600 Questions Based on the Life & Works of William Shakespeare, 26 Apr 2019 in History&Literature&Theatre
• Animated Maps Reveal the True Size of Countries (and Show How Traditional Maps Distort Our World), 25 Apr 2019 in Maps
• An Animated Introduction to H.P. Lovecraft and How He Invented a New Gothic Horror, 24 Apr 2019 in Literature
• The Daily Rituals of 143 Famous Female Creators: Octavia Butler, Edith Wharton, Coco Chanel & More, 23 Apr 2019 in Creativity&Productivity
• Enter, Explore, and Learn About Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson with a New Augmented-Reality App, 22 Apr 2019 in Art&Technology
• Climate Change Gets Strikingly Visualized by a Scottish Art Installation, 20 Apr 2019 in Art&Science
• 9 Science-Fiction Authors Predict the Future: How Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick & More Imagined the World Ahead, 18 Apr 2019 in History&Sci Fi
• A 16th Century “Database” of Every Book in the World Gets Unearthed: Discover the Libro de los Epítomes Assembled by Christopher Columbus’ Son, 17 Apr 2019 in Books&History
• How Andy Warhol and Tintin Creator Hergé Mutually Admired and Influenced One Another, 16 Apr 2019 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• “Kubrick/Tarkovsky”: A Video Essay Explores the Visual Similarities Between the Two “Cinematic Giants”, 16 Apr 2019 in Film
• The Charlie Chaplin Archive Opens, Putting Online 30,000 Photos & Documents from the Life of the Iconic Film Star, 15 Apr 2019 in Film&History
• See the Oldest Printed Advertisement in English: An Ad for a Book from 1476, 11 Apr 2019 in History
• A Brief History of IDEO: A Short Documentary Takes You Inside the Design Firm That Changed the Way We Think about Design, 10 Apr 2019 in Design
• Behold the Sola-Busca Tarot Deck, the Earliest Complete Set of Tarot Cards (1490), 09 Apr 2019 in History
• Watch Great Directors, a Documentary That Explores the Minds of 10 Great Auteurs: David Lynch, Agnès Varda, Richard Linklater & More, 08 Apr 2019 in Film
• The Fantastical Sketchbook of a Medieval Inventor: See Designs for Flamethrowers, Mechanical Camels & More (Circa 1415), 05 Apr 2019 in History&Technology
• 800+ Treasured Medieval Manuscripts to Be Digitized by Cambridge & Heidelberg Universities, 04 Apr 2019 in Books&History&Libraries&Philosophy
• High School Kids Stage Alien: The Play, Get Kudos from Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver, 03 Apr 2019 in Film&Theatre
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Beauty of Brutalist Architecture: An Introduction in Six Videos, 02 Apr 2019 in Architecture&History
• Modern Corporate Logos Reimagined in a Classic Bauhaus Style: Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Bauhaus Movement Today, 01 Apr 2019 in Art&Design
• Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts: Why So Many Drawings in the Margins Depict Bunnies Going Bad, 29 Mar 2019 in Art&Books&Comedy&History
• Newly Discovered Shipwreck Proves Herodotus, the “Father of History,” Correct 2500 Years Later, 28 Mar 2019 in History
• Salvador Dalí & the Marx Brothers’ 1930s Film Script Gets Released as a Graphic Novel, 27 Mar 2019 in Film&History
• Why Nobody Smiles in Old Photos: The Technological & Cultural Reasons Behind All those Black-and-White Frowns, 26 Mar 2019 in History&Photography
• Does Playing Music for Cheese During the Aging Process Change Its Flavor? Researchers Find That Hip Hop Makes It Smellier, and Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Makes It Milder, 25 Mar 2019 in Food & Drink&Music
• Beautiful Hand-Colored Japanese Flowers Created by the Pioneering Photographer Ogawa Kazumasa (1896), 22 Mar 2019 in Art&Photography
• Why We Dance: An Animated Video Explains the Science Behind Why We Bust a Move, 21 Mar 2019 in Dance&Neuroscience
• David Lynch Teaches an Online Course on Film & Creativity, 20 Mar 2019 in Film&Online Courses
• Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Civilization–and Recommends Ways to Ensure That It Survives (1978), 19 Mar 2019 in Sci Fi
• Take a Journey Inside Vincent Van Gogh’s Paintings with a New Digital Exhibition, 18 Mar 2019 in Art&Technology
• The CIA’s Rectal Tool Kit for Spies–Created for Truly Desperate Situations During The Cold War, 15 Mar 2019 in History&Technology
• Jack Kerouac’s “Beat Paintings:” Now Gathered in One Book and Exhibition for the First Time, 14 Mar 2019 in Art&Literature
• An Animated Introduction to the Famous Thought Experiment, the “Trolley Problem,” Narrated by Harry Shearer, 13 Mar 2019 in Animation&Philosophy
• The Roman Roads of Spain & Portugal Visualized as a Subway Map: Ancient History Meets Modern Graphic Design, 12 Mar 2019 in Design&History
• Bill Murray Explains How a 19th-Century Painting Saved His Life, 11 Mar 2019 in Art
• The Cringe-Inducing Humor of The Office Explained with Philosophical Theories of Mind, 08 Mar 2019 in Comedy&Neuroscience&Photography&Television
• Van Gogh’s Ugliest Masterpiece: A Break Down of His Late, Great Painting, The Night Café (1888), 07 Mar 2019 in Art
• 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Her Letter About How Books Save Lives, 06 Mar 2019 in Books&History
• 60 Free-to-Stream Movies for Women’s History Month: Classic Agnès Varda, a Portrait of Susan Sontag, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, and More, 05 Mar 2019 in Film
• An Animated Introduction to the Chaotic Brilliance of Jean-Michel Basquiat: From Homeless Graffiti Artist to Internationally Renowned Painter, 04 Mar 2019 in Animation&Art