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Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine,
28 May 2025 in History&Science
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A Young Jim Henson Teaches You How to Make Puppets with Socks, Tennis Balls & Other Household Goods (1969),
27 May 2025 in Art
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They Study Authoritarianism. And They’re Leaving the U.S.: Why Three Yale Professors Have Moved to U. Toronto,
27 May 2025 in Current Affairs&History
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George Orwell Reviews Salvador Dali’s Autobiography: “Dali is a Good Draughtsman and a Disgusting Human Being” (1944),
26 May 2025 in Art&Literature
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Leo Tolstoy’s Family Recipe for Mac and Cheese,
23 May 2025 in Food & Drink&Literature
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60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang,
21 May 2025 in Film
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1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults,
20 May 2025 in Music&Psychology
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The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words,
16 May 2025 in Math
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The Secret Link Between Jazz and Physics: How Einstein & Coltrane Shared Improvisation and Intuition in Common,
15 May 2025 in Music&Physics
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The Cleanest Recordings of 1920s Louis Armstrong Songs You Will Ever Hear,
13 May 2025 in Music
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David Bowie/Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold The World” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument from the 6th Century,
13 May 2025 in Music
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John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & Two Citations,
12 May 2025 in Math
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How a Papal Conclave Works, and Who Might Be the Next Pope,
07 May 2025 in History&Religion
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George Orwell’s Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea: A Short Animation,
06 May 2025 in Food & Drink&Literature
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The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life,
05 May 2025 in History
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Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860),
04 May 2025 in History&Music
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How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom,
02 May 2025 in Biology
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Marvin Gaye’s Classic Vocals on ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’: The A Cappella Version,
01 May 2025 in Music
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A Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well,
29 Apr 2025 in Fashion&History
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Tom Jones Performs “Long Time Gone” with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young–and Blows the Band & Audience Away (1969),
29 Apr 2025 in Music
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When Queen’s Freddie Mercury Performed with Opera Superstar Montserrat Caballé in 1988: A Meeting of Two Powerful Voices,
28 Apr 2025 in Music&Opera
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Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations,
23 Apr 2025 in History
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The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses,
23 Apr 2025 in Games
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Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi–Walt Disney’s 1943 Film Shows How Fascists Are Made,
22 Apr 2025 in Film&History
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James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Draws a Sketch of Leopold Bloom (1926),
21 Apr 2025 in Art&Literature
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Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline of Scientific Thinking in America: Watch His Final Interview (1996),
18 Apr 2025 in Current Affairs&Science
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How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained in 7 Minutes,
17 Apr 2025 in Creativity&Productivity&Psychology
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Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue,
16 Apr 2025 in Literature&Psychology
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William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952),
15 Apr 2025 in Literature
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What Was Smoot-Hawley, and Why Are We Doing It Again? Anyone? Anyone?,
14 Apr 2025 in Economics&History
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Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago,
11 Apr 2025 in History&Music
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Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder,
10 Apr 2025 in Current Affairs
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The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together,
08 Apr 2025 in Math
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Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Original Moog Synthesizer (1989),
08 Apr 2025 in Uncategorized
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Who Really Built the Egyptian Pyramids—And How Did They Do It?,
05 Apr 2025 in History&Technology
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The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Grok,
03 Apr 2025 in Artificial Intelligence&Politics
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Watch Jazz ‘Hot’, the Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt,
02 Apr 2025 in Music
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Watch Bob Dylan Make His Debut at the Newport Folk Festival in Colorized 1963 Footage,
02 Apr 2025 in Music
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The Great Gatsby: A Free Audio Book,
01 Apr 2025 in Audio Books&Literature
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A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph,
30 Mar 2025 in Photography
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Superman vs. the KKK: Hear the 1946 Superman Radio Show That Weakened the Klan,
28 Mar 2025 in Comics/Cartoons&History
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Man Ray’s Surrealist Cinema: Watch Four Pioneering Films From the 1920s,
27 Mar 2025 in Art&Film
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Spike Jonze Creates a New Short Film (aka Commercial) for Apple,
26 Mar 2025 in Apple&Film
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NASA Visualizes the Ocean Currents in Motion: A Mesmerizing View of Earth’s Underwater Highways,
25 Mar 2025 in Environment&Nature&Science
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How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz,
24 Mar 2025 in Music
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Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera: The 8th Best Film Ever Made,
19 Mar 2025 in Film
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NYU Professor Answers Your Burning Questions About Authoritarianism,
19 Mar 2025 in Current Affairs&History
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A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study,
17 Mar 2025 in Music
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A Boy and His Atom: Watch The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film,
17 Mar 2025 in Science&Technology
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Puppets of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe Star in 1957 Frank Capra Educational Film,
13 Mar 2025 in Education&Science&Television
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When Salvador Dalí Created a Chilling Anti-Venereal Disease Poster During World War II,
12 Mar 2025 in Art&History&Life
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Why “The Girl from Ipanema” Is a Richer & Weirder Song Than You Realized,
10 Mar 2025 in Music
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Watch the Sci-Fi Short Film “I’m Not a Robot”: Winner of a 2025 Academy Award,
07 Mar 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
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Historian Answers Burning Questions About The Renaissance,
06 Mar 2025 in Art&History
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Carl Jung’s Hand-Drawn, Rarely-Seen Manuscript The Red Book,
04 Mar 2025 in Art&Literature&Psychology
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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to Young People: “Learn to Be Alone,” Enjoy Solitude,
03 Mar 2025 in Film&Life
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The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946,
03 Mar 2025 in Animation&Education
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” (1969),
27 Feb 2025 in Music
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When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from Absalom, Absalom!,
26 Feb 2025 in Books&Literature&Writing
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Jimi Hendrix Plays the Beatles: “Sgt. Pepper’s,” “Day Tripper,” and “Tomorrow Never Knows”,
25 Feb 2025 in Music
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David Bowie Performs an Ethereal Acoustic Version of “Heroes,” with a Bottle Cap Strapped to His Shoe, Keeping the Beat (1996),
23 Feb 2025 in Music
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A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Saturday Night Live’s Iconic Studio,
21 Feb 2025 in Comedy&Television
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Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney,
19 Feb 2025 in Animation&Art&History
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Watch David Byrne Lead a Massive Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes”,
19 Feb 2025 in Music
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When William S. Burroughs Appeared on Saturday Night Live: His First TV Appearance (1981),
17 Feb 2025 in Comedy&Literature&Television
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Watch the Historic First Episode of Saturday Night Live with Host George Carlin (1975),
17 Feb 2025 in Comedy&Television
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Inside SNL: Al Franken Reveals How Saturday Night Live Is Crafted Every Week,
16 Feb 2025 in Comedy&Television
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Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand,
14 Feb 2025 in Literature
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Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out,
12 Feb 2025 in Literature
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Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More,
12 Feb 2025 in Film
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Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa,
11 Feb 2025 in Art&Literature
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Hear an AI Chatbot, Masquerading as a Clueless Grandmother, Waste the Time of an Internet Scam Artist,
10 Feb 2025 in Technology
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Behold Harry Clarke’s Hallucinatory Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Story Collection, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1923),
05 Feb 2025 in Art&Books&Literature
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When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place,
04 Feb 2025 in Film
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Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995),
03 Feb 2025 in Science
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981),
02 Feb 2025 in Music
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Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull (RIP) Singing “As Tears Go By” in 1966,
31 Jan 2025 in Music
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Google Unveils a Digital Marketing & E‑Commerce Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students for an Entry-Level Job in 6 Months,
30 Jan 2025 in Google&Online Courses
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Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book”,
30 Jan 2025 in Books&History
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Mahatma Gandhi’s List of the Seven Social Sins; or Tips on How to Avoid Living the Bad Life,
29 Jan 2025 in History&Life&Religion&Uncategorized
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym,
28 Jan 2025 in Comedy&Random
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A 1933 Profile of Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”,
26 Jan 2025 in Art
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Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person,
24 Jan 2025 in Education&Philosophy&Politics
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Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 27), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates,
23 Jan 2025 in Deals
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The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC),
23 Jan 2025 in Food & Drink&History
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Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922,
22 Jan 2025 in Dance
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Download a 417-Megapixel Panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy—A Decade-Long NASA Project in the Making,
21 Jan 2025 in Astronomy
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Fred Armisen & Bill Hader’s Comedic Take on the History of Simon and Garfunkel,
20 Jan 2025 in Comedy&Random
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Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981),
16 Jan 2025 in Music
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10,000+ Free Online Certificates & Badges: A Resource for Lifelong Learners,
15 Jan 2025 in Online Courses
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Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?,
15 Jan 2025 in Health
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Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts,
13 Jan 2025 in History&Science
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Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack,
13 Jan 2025 in Music
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How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust,
09 Jan 2025 in History
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The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970),
08 Jan 2025 in Music
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The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581,
08 Jan 2025 in History&Maps
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Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965),
06 Jan 2025 in Music
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Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish”,
05 Jan 2025 in Life&Philosophy
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers,
03 Jan 2025 in Music
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931),
01 Jan 2025 in Architecture&Photography
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Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974),
29 Dec 2024 in Literature&Music&Politics
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Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006),
24 Dec 2024 in Music
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Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925),
22 Dec 2024 in Letters&Literature
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford Coppola (1993),
19 Dec 2024 in Film
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK (1977),
17 Dec 2024 in Music
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs,
16 Dec 2024 in Film
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933),
15 Dec 2024 in Life
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship,
13 Dec 2024 in History
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968),
11 Dec 2024 in Animation&History
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts,
10 Dec 2024 in Uncategorized
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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze,
10 Dec 2024 in Life
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large Portable Book,
09 Dec 2024 in Books
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”,
06 Dec 2024 in History&Music
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Unlock AI’s Potential in Your Work and Daily Life: Take a Popular Course from Google,
05 Dec 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Google
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The BBC Creates Step-by-Step Instructions for Knitting the Iconic Dr. Who Scarf: A Document from the Early 1980s,
05 Dec 2024 in Fashion&Television
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Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane Mallarmé (1875),
04 Dec 2024 in Art&Literature
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The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Explore the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes,
03 Dec 2024 in Biology&Science
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Mary Tyler Moore Accidentally Nails a Perfect Pool Shot on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1962),
02 Dec 2024 in Random&Television
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The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic,
27 Nov 2024 in Music
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William S. Burroughs’ Scathing “Thanksgiving Prayer,” Shot by Gus Van Sant,
27 Nov 2024 in Literature&Poetry
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Ken Burns’ New Documentary on Leonardo da Vinci Streaming Online (in the US) for a Limited Time,
26 Nov 2024 in Art&Film
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Isaac Newton Creates a List of His 57 Sins (Circa 1662),
25 Nov 2024 in History&Physics&Religion&Science
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14 Self-Portraits by Pablo Picasso Show the Evolution of His Style: See Self-Portraits Moving from Ages 15 to 90,
25 Nov 2024 in Art
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How to Potty Train Your Cat: A Handy Manual by Jazz Musician Charles Mingus,
21 Nov 2024 in Life&Music
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Google Creates a Career Certificate That Prepares Students for Cybersecurity Jobs in 6 Months,
21 Nov 2024 in Google&Technology
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Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944),
20 Nov 2024 in History&Politics
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The Final Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Rare Footage from 1910,
20 Nov 2024 in History&Literature
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How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983),
19 Nov 2024 in Television
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Join Us on Bluesky. We Will Have Fun Together,
18 Nov 2024 in Random
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Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (1969),
17 Nov 2024 in Animation
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Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine,
13 Nov 2024 in Magazines&Sci Fi
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The Mushroom Color Atlas: An Interactive Web Site Lets You Explore the Incredible Spectrum of Colors Created from Fungi,
13 Nov 2024 in Art&Nature
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Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining,
12 Nov 2024 in Books&Film
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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy,
11 Nov 2024 in Life&Politics
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Hear the Isolated Vocals of Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up”: The Power of Perseverance,
08 Nov 2024 in Life&Music
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Carl Jung Psychoanalyzes Hitler: “He’s the Unconscious of 78 Million Germans.” “Without the German People He’d Be Nothing” (1938),
07 Nov 2024 in History&Psychology
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Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album,
05 Nov 2024 in Music
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use,
04 Nov 2024 in Art
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Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism,
01 Nov 2024 in History&Literature&Politics
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Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate,
31 Oct 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Google&Online Courses