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• How the Ancient Mayans Used Chocolate as Money, 08 Oct 2018 in Economics&Food & Drink&History
• “Lynchian,” “Kubrickian,” “Tarantinoesque” and 100+ Film Words Have Been Added to the Oxford English Dictionary, 05 Oct 2018 in English Language&Film
• When Andy Warhol Made a Batman Superhero Movie (1964), 04 Oct 2018 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
• How Youtube’s Algorithm Turned an Obscure 1980s Japanese Song Into an Enormously Popular Hit: Discover Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love”, 03 Oct 2018 in Music
• The Outsiders: Lou Reed, Hunter S. Thompson, and Frank Zappa Reveal Themselves in Captivatingly Animated Interviews, 02 Oct 2018 in Animation&Radio
• What Makes The Night Watch Rembrandt’s Masterpiece, 01 Oct 2018 in Art&History
• Hear Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Pioneering Compositions for Music Boxes, 28 Sep 2018 in Music
• 1,100 Classic Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade: Play Them Free Online, 27 Sep 2018 in Internet Archive&Video Games
• The Talmud Is Finally Now Available Online, 26 Sep 2018 in Philosophy&Religion
• How Ancient Scrolls, Charred by the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Are Now Being Read by Particle Accelerators, 3D Modeling & Artificial Intelligence, 25 Sep 2018 in History&Physics&Science
• In 1900, a Photographer Had to Create an Enormous 1,400-Pound Camera to Take a Picture of an Entire Train, 24 Sep 2018 in Photography
• William Shatner Is Releasing a Christmas Album with Iggy Pop & Henry Rollins : Get a First Listen to “Jingle Bells”, 21 Sep 2018 in Music
• Discover Rare 1980s CDs by Lou Reed, Devo & Talking Heads That Combined Music with Computer Graphics, 20 Sep 2018 in Computer Science&Music&Software&Technology
• Get a First Listen to David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti’s Long-Lost Album, Thought Gang, 19 Sep 2018 in Film&Music&Television
• Download Classic Japanese Wave and Ripple Designs: A Go-to Guide for Japanese Artists from 1903, 18 Sep 2018 in Art&Books&Design&History
• Umberto Eco Explains Why We Make Lists, 17 Sep 2018 in History&Literature
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovered Radio Pulsars in 1974, But the Credit Went to Her Advisor; In 2018, She Gets Her Due, Winning a $3 Million Physics Prize, 14 Sep 2018 in Astronomy&Physics&Science
• One Second from Each Episode of Twin Peaks: Experience David Lynch’s Groundbreaking TV Drama in Less than a Minute, 13 Sep 2018 in Television
• Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscript of Frankenstein: This Is “Ground Zero of Science Fiction,” Says William Gibson, 12 Sep 2018 in Literature&Sci Fi
• Stephen Fry Voices a New Dystopian Short Film About Artificial Intelligence & Simulation Theory: Watch Escape, 11 Sep 2018 in Film&Technology
• A Drone’s Eye View of the Ruins of Pompeii, 10 Sep 2018 in History
• When Steve Jobs Taught Andy Warhol to Make Art on the Very First Macintosh (1984), 07 Sep 2018 in Art&History&Technology
• Watch Willem Dafoe Become Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s New Film, At Eternity’s Gate, 06 Sep 2018 in Art&Film
• How Breaking Bad Crafted the Perfect TV Pilot: A Video Essay, 06 Sep 2018 in Television
• A First Look at The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks, a Feature-Length Journey Into the Mind of the Famed Neurologist, 05 Sep 2018 in Animation&Film&Neuroscience
• “The Long Tomorrow”: Discover Mœbius’ Hard-Boiled Detective Comic That Inspired Blade Runner (1975), 04 Sep 2018 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Sci Fi
• MIT Students Solve the Spaghetti Breaking Mystery That Stumped Richard Feynman, 03 Sep 2018 in Food & Drink&Physics
• Watch the New Trailer for Orson Welles’ Lost Film, The Other Side of the Wind: A Glimpse of Footage from the Finally Completed Film, 31 Aug 2018 in Film
• John Turturro Introduces America to the World Wide Web in 1999: Watch A Beginner’s Guide To The Internet, 30 Aug 2018 in Film&History&Web/Tech
• How Jim Jarmusch Gets Creative Ideas from William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, 29 Aug 2018 in Creativity&Film
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Online, 28 Aug 2018 in Sci Fi
• V.S. Naipaul Creates a List of 7 Rules for Beginning Writers, 27 Aug 2018 in Literature&Writing
• Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd, 24 Aug 2018 in Animation&Film&Music
• The Assassin’s Cabinet: A Hollowed Out Book, Containing Secret Cabinets Full of Poison Plants, Made in 1682, 23 Aug 2018 in Books&History
• The Hobo Code: An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s Train-Hoppers, 22 Aug 2018 in History
• Free: Download 70,000+ High-Resolution Images of Chinese Art from Taipei’s National Palace Museum, 21 Aug 2018 in Art&History&Museums
• French Illustrator Revives the Byzantine Empire with Magnificently Detailed Drawings of Its Monuments & Buildings: Hagia Sophia, Great Palace & More, 20 Aug 2018 in Architecture&Art&History
• Hundreds of Classical Sculptures from the Uffizi Gallery Now Digitized & Put Online: Explore a Collection of 3D Interactive Scans, 17 Aug 2018 in Art&Technology
• How David Lynch Got Creative Inspiration? By Drinking a Milkshake at Bob’s Big Boy, Every Single Day, for Seven Straight Years, 16 Aug 2018 in Film
• How Jean-Luc Godard Liberated Cinema: A Video Essay on How the Greatest Rule-Breaker in Film Made His Name, 15 Aug 2018 in Film
• How Leonard Cohen Wrote a Love Song, 14 Aug 2018 in Music
• Ken Burns Teaches Documentary Filmmaking with His New Online Masterclass, 13 Aug 2018 in Film&History
• What Made Robin Williams a Uniquely Expressive Actor: A Video Essay Explores a Subtle Dimension of His Comic Genius, 10 Aug 2018 in Comedy&Film
• The “Weird Objects” in the New York Public Library’s Collections: Virginia Woolf’s Cane, Charles Dickens’ Letter Opener, Walt Whitman’s Hair & More, 09 Aug 2018 in History&Literature
• A Visionary 115-Year-Old Color Theory Manual Returns to Print: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Color Problems, 08 Aug 2018 in Art&Books
• Filmmaker Wim Wenders Explains How Mobile Phones Have Killed Photography, 07 Aug 2018 in Film&Photography&Technology
• The Surprising Pattern Behind the Names of Colors Around the World, 06 Aug 2018 in Psychology
• Andrei Tarkovsky Reveals His Favorite Filmmakers: Bresson, Antonioni, Fellini, and Others, 03 Aug 2018 in Film
• Watch the First “Interactive” TV Show: Winky Dink and You Encouraged Kids to Draw on the Screen (1953), 02 Aug 2018 in History&Television
• How Charlie Kaufman Goes Deep into the Human Condition in Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Other Movies, 01 Aug 2018 in Film
• Meet Sergei Parajanov, the Filmmaker Persecuted & Imprisoned by the Soviets, and Championed by Tarkovsky, Fellini, Godard, Buñuel, and Others, 31 Jul 2018 in Film
• Every Cover of MAD Magazine, from 1952 to the Present: Behold 553 Covers from the Satirical Publication, 30 Jul 2018 in Comedy&Magazines
• Who Was Joan Vollmer, the Wife William Burroughs Allegedly Shot While Playing William Tell?, 26 Jul 2018 in History&Literature
• Watch Jean Cocteau’s Short Film About the Elegant House He Painted/“Tattooed” on the French Riviera (1952), 25 Jul 2018 in Art&Film
• The Discipline of D.E.: Gus Van Sant Adapts a Story by William S. Burroughs (1978), 24 Jul 2018 in Film&Literature
• What a Conductor Actually Does on Stage: Two Short Videos Explain the Little-Understood Art, 23 Jul 2018 in Music
• The 10 Rules for Students and Teachers Popularized by John Cage: “Nothing Is a Mistake,” “Consider Everything an Experiment” & More, 20 Jul 2018 in Creativity
• David Foster Wallace Explains How David Lynch’s Blue Velvet Taught Him the True Meaning of Avant Garde Art, 19 Jul 2018 in Film
• Stanley Kubrick’s “Lost” Script Burning Secret Surfaces, Complete Enough to Make into a Film, 18 Jul 2018 in Film&Literature
• Kurt Vonnegut Offers 8 Tips on How to Write Good Short Stories (and Amusingly Graphs the Shapes Those Stories Can Take), 17 Jul 2018 in Literature&Writing
• Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation, 16 Jul 2018 in Film&Television
• How the Radical Buildings of the Bauhaus Revolutionized Architecture: A Short Introduction, 13 Jul 2018 in Architecture&Art&Design&History
• New Web Site Showcases 700,000 Artifacts Dug Up from the Canals of Amsterdam, Some Dating Back to 4300 BC, 12 Jul 2018 in Archives&History
• Frank Lloyd Wright Creates a List of the 10 Traits Every Aspiring Artist Needs, 11 Jul 2018 in Architecture&Art&History
• Steely Dan Creates the Deadhead/Danfan Conversion Chart: A Witty Guide Explaining How You Can Go From Loving the Dead to Idolizing Steely Dan, 10 Jul 2018 in Music
• Stanley Kubrick Explains the Mysterious Ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a Newly Unearthed Interview, 09 Jul 2018 in Film&Sci Fi
• Nick Offerman Explains the Psychological Benefits of Woodworking–and How It Can Help You Achieve Zen in Other Parts of Your Life, 06 Jul 2018 in Art&Comedy
• All the Roman Roads of Italy, Visualized as a Modern Subway Map, 05 Jul 2018 in History&Maps
• An Animated Introduction to Anna Freud: The Psychoanalyst (and Daughter of Sigmund) Who Theorized Denial, Projection & Other Defense Mechanisms for Our Egos, 04 Jul 2018 in Psychology
• The Rise and Fall of The Simpsons: An In-Depth Video Essay Explores What Made the Show Great, and When It All Came to an End, 03 Jul 2018 in Animation&Comedy&Television
• Take a 360° Virtual Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpieces, Taliesin & Taliesin West, 02 Jul 2018 in Architecture&Technology
• Do Our Dreams Predict the Future? Vladimir Nabokov Spent Three Months Testing That Theory in 1964, 29 Jun 2018 in Books&Literature&Psychology
• Glenn Gould Plays Bach on His U.S. TV Debut … After Leonard Bernstein Explains What Makes His Playing So Great (1960), 28 Jun 2018 in Music&Television
• Joseph Heller’s Handwritten Outline for Catch-22, One of the Great Novels of the 20th Century, 27 Jun 2018 in Books&Literature
• James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, 26 Jun 2018 in History&Literature
• Get a First Glimpse of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the “Cursed” Film 29 Years in the Making, 25 Jun 2018 in Film
• A Brief, Visual Introduction to Surrealism: A Primer by Doctor Who Star Peter Capaldi, 22 Jun 2018 in Art&History
• What Makes Taxi Driver So Powerful? An In-Depth Study of Martin Scorsese’s Existential Film on the Human Condition, 21 Jun 2018 in Film
• Carl Sagan Returns to His Old Sixth-Grade Classroom to Turn a New Generation of Kids On To Science, 20 Jun 2018 in Astronomy&Science
• A Meditative Look at a Japanese Artisan’s Quest to Save the Brilliant, Forgotten Colors of Japan’s Past, 19 Jun 2018 in Art&History
• How Does Language Shape the Way We Think? Cognitive Scientist Lera Boroditsky Explains, 19 Jun 2018 in Neuroscience&TED Talks
• Hear David Lynch Read from His New Memoir Room to Dream, and Browse His New Online T‑Shirt Store, 15 Jun 2018 in Books&Fashion&Film
• Life Lessons from Anthony Bourdain: How He Developed His Iron Professionalism, Achieved Creative Freedom & Learned from Failure, 14 Jun 2018 in Food & Drink&Life
• How to Film Thought: A Close Look at the Masterful Editing of Sherlock, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, 13 Jun 2018 in Film&Television
• “Back in Black,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “Welcome to the Jungle,” and Other Classic Rock Songs Played on Traditional Japanese Instruments, 12 Jun 2018 in Music
• Watch Anthony Bourdain’s Free Show, Raw Craft Where He Visits Craftsmen Making Guitars, Tattoos, Motorcycles & More (RIP), 11 Jun 2018 in Food & Drink&Travel
• A Deep Study of Terence Malick’s Filmography, 08 Jun 2018 in Film
• “The Directors Series” Presents Free Immersive Studies of Stanley Kubrick, the Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson & Christopher Nolan, 07 Jun 2018 in Film
• Ralph Steadman Creates an Unorthodox Illustrated Biography of Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis (1979), 06 Jun 2018 in Art&Books&History&Psychology
• Winston Churchill’s List of Tips for Surviving a German Invasion: See the Never-Distributed Document (1940), 05 Jun 2018 in History
• The Mother of All Maps of the “Father of Waters”: Behold the 11-Foot Traveler’s Map of the Mississippi River (1866), 04 Jun 2018 in History&Maps
• A Pakistani Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis Play an Enchanting Version of John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things”, 01 Jun 2018 in Music
• Hear Philip Roth Read from Five of His Major Novels: Sabbath’s Theater, The Ghost Writer and More, 31 May 2018 in Books&Literature
• David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called “Rabbits”: It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects, 30 May 2018 in Film&Television
• You Can Now Airbnb the Home of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Where the Author Wrote Tender Is the Night, 29 May 2018 in History&Literature&Travel
• Buckminster Fuller Appears on the Los Angeles New Age Cable TV Shows, Psychic Phenomena and Quest Four (1979–82), 28 May 2018 in Television
• Discover the Lost Early Computer Art of Telidon, Canada’s TV Proto-Internet from the 1970s, 25 May 2018 in Art&Technology
• When Robert Rauschenberg Asked Willem De Kooning for One of His Paintings … So That He Could Erase It, 24 May 2018 in Art
• The Art of Europe’s Forgotten Avant-Garde Artists Now Digitized and Put Online, 23 May 2018 in Archives&Art&History
• Discover David Lynch’s Bizarre & Minimalist Comic Strip, The Angriest Dog in the World (1983–1992), 22 May 2018 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
• The Art of Sci-Fi Book Covers: From the Fantastical 1920s to the Psychedelic 1960s & Beyond, 21 May 2018 in Art&Books&Sci Fi
• How Women Got Dressed in the 14th & 18th Centuries: Watch the Very Painstaking Process Get Cinematically Recreated, 18 May 2018 in Fashion&History
• How the Sounds You Hear in Movies Are Really Made: Discover the Magic of “Foley Artists”, 17 May 2018 in Film&Television
• Hear Tom Wolfe (RIP) Tell Studs Terkel All About Custom-Car Culture, the Subject of His Seminal Piece of New Journalism (1965), 16 May 2018 in Literature
• Groundbreaking Map from 1858 Colorfully Visualizes 6,000 Years of World History, 15 May 2018 in History&Maps
• The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online, 14 May 2018 in Art&History
• Erich Fromm’s Six Rules of Listening: Learn the Keys to Understanding Other People from the Famed Psychologist, 11 May 2018 in Psychology
• How the Mysteries of the Vatican Secret Archives Are Being Revealed by Artificial Intelligence, 10 May 2018 in History&Technology
• You Could Soon Be Able to Text with 2,000 Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, 09 May 2018 in History&Technology
• The Cutting-Edge Science That Can Turn Everyday Objects, Like a Bag of Chips, Into a Listening Device, 08 May 2018 in Science&Technology
• Europe After the Rain: Watch the Vintage Documentary on the Two Great Art Movements, Dada & Surrealism (1978), 07 May 2018 in Art&Film&History
• How Master Japanese Animator Satoshi Kon Pushed the Boundaries of Making Anime: A Video Essay, 04 May 2018 in Animation&Film
• Enter an Archive of Over 95,000 Aerial Photographs Taken Over Britain from 1919 to 2006, 03 May 2018 in History&Photography
• Studio Ghibli Releases Tantalizing Concept Art for Its New Theme Park, Opening in Japan in 2022, 02 May 2018 in Animation&Film&Travel
• What Is Blockchain? Three Videos Explain the New Technology That Promises to Change Our World, 01 May 2018 in Technology
• Hear the Famously Controversial Concert Where Leonard Bernstein Introduces Glenn Gould & His Idiosyncratic Performance of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto (1962), 30 Apr 2018 in Music
• Hear the Very First Pieces of Ambient Music, Erik Satie’s Furniture Music (Circa 1917), 27 Apr 2018 in Music
• Braille Neue: A New Version of Braille That Can Be Simultaneously Read by the Sighted and the Blind, 26 Apr 2018 in Design
• A Cinematic Journey Through Paris, As Seen Through the Lens of Legendary Filmmaker Éric Rohmer: Watch Rohmer in Paris, 25 Apr 2018 in Film
• Watch Life on the Streets of Tokyo in Footage Recorded in 1913: Caught Between the Traditional and the Modern, 24 Apr 2018 in Film&History
• Watch the Trailer for a Stunning New 70-Millimeter Print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Released by Christopher Nolan on the Film’s 50th Anniversary, 23 Apr 2018 in Film
• Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911, 20 Apr 2018 in Film&History
• Martin Scorsese Teaches His First Online Course on Filmmaking: Features 30 Video Lessons, 19 Apr 2018 in Film&Online Courses
• Dress Like an Intellectual Icon with Japanese Coats Inspired by the Wardrobes of Camus, Sartre, Duchamp, Le Corbusier & Others, 18 Apr 2018 in Design&Fashion
• What Made Studio Ghibli Animator Isao Takahata (RIP) a Master: Two Video Essays, 17 Apr 2018 in Animation&Film
• Malcolm Gladwell Explains Where His Ideas Come From, 16 Apr 2018 in Creativity&Writing
• Watch Ancient Ruins Get Restored to their Glorious Original State with Animated GIFs: The Temple of Jupiter, Luxor Temple & More, 13 Apr 2018 in Architecture&History
• A Map Showing How the Ancient Romans Envisioned the World in 40 AD, 12 Apr 2018 in History&Maps
• The Political Thought of Confucius, Plato, John Locke & Adam Smith Introduced in Animations Narrated by Aidan Turner, 11 Apr 2018 in Philosophy&Politics
• Stephen King Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Novels, 10 Apr 2018 in Books
• Behold 3,000 Digitized Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina: The Mother of All Medieval Libraries Is Getting Reconstructed Online, 09 Apr 2018 in Books&History
• Gustave Flaubert Tells His Mother Why Serious Writers Shouldn’t Bother with Day Jobs (1850), 06 Apr 2018 in Letters&Life&Writing
• Enter “The Magazine Rack,” the Internet Archive’s Collection of 34,000 Digitized Magazines, 05 Apr 2018 in Magazines
• Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958), 04 Apr 2018 in Politics&Technology&Television
• Hidden Ancient Greek Medical Text Read for the First Time in a Thousand Years — with a Particle Accelerator, 03 Apr 2018 in Books&History&Physics&Stanford&Technology
• Brian Eno’s Advice for Those Who Want to Do Their Best Creative Work: Don’t Get a Job, 02 Apr 2018 in Art&Economics&Music
• Japanese Designer Creates Incredibly Detailed & Realistic Maps of a City That Doesn’t Exist, 30 Mar 2018 in Maps
• Martin Scorsese Creates a List of 38 Essential Films About American Democracy, 29 Mar 2018 in Film&History&Politics
• Read and Hear Tristan Tzara’s “Dada Manifesto,” the Avant-Garde Document Published 100 Years Ago (March 23, 1918), 28 Mar 2018 in Art&History
• The Museum of Failure: A Living Shrine to New Coke, the Ford Edsel, Google Glass & Other Epic Corporate Fails, 27 Mar 2018 in Business&Design