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• George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose, 04 Dec 2025 in Politics&Writing
• The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.), 03 Dec 2025 in History&Life
• Talking Heads’ David Byrne Performs a Tiny Desk Concert, 02 Dec 2025 in Music
• The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic, 27 Nov 2025 in Music
• Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899), 26 Nov 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918), 25 Nov 2025 in Animation&History
• 200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II, 24 Nov 2025 in History&Photography
• J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work, 20 Nov 2025 in Animation&Literature
• The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai: An Introduction to the Iconic Japanese Woodblock Print in 17 Minutes, 19 Nov 2025 in Art
• How a Dutch “Dementia Village” Improves Quality of Life with Intentional Design, 18 Nov 2025 in Design&Health&Life
• AC/DC Plays a Short Gig at CBGB in 1977: Hear Metal Being Played on Punk’s Hallowed Grounds, 17 Nov 2025 in Music
• Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920), 13 Nov 2025 in Literature&Poetry&Religion
• The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838, 12 Nov 2025 in History&Photography
• Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque, 11 Nov 2025 in History&Photography
• Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Have Been Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library, 10 Nov 2025 in Art
• Skiing Down Mount Everest with No Oxygen: It’s a Wild Ride, 09 Nov 2025 in Life&Random
• A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens, 06 Nov 2025 in Astronomy&Design&Fashion&History
• The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks, 03 Nov 2025 in Comedy&History&Television
• Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of Wireless Technology & the Smartphone in 1926, 03 Nov 2025 in Science&Technology
• Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price, 31 Oct 2025 in Literature
• Leck Mich Im Arsch (“Kiss My Ass”): Listen to Mozart’s Scatological Canon in B Flat (1782), 29 Oct 2025 in Music
• Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909), 28 Oct 2025 in Art&Religion
• 74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep, 27 Oct 2025 in Literature&Theatre
• Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949), 27 Oct 2025 in Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death: 19 Theories on What Caused the Poet’s Demise, 24 Oct 2025 in History&Literature
• Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Digitized and Free to View Online, 23 Oct 2025 in Art
• Alejandro Jodorowsky Explains How Tarot Cards Can Give You Creative Inspiration, 22 Oct 2025 in Creativity&Film
• How Thieves Stole Priceless Jewels at the Louvre in 8 Minutes, 21 Oct 2025 in Art&Current Affairs
• The First Electric Guitar: Behold the 1931 “Frying Pan”, 20 Oct 2025 in History&Music
• The Night When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, 16 Oct 2025 in History&Music
• Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like, 14 Oct 2025 in History&Language
• Marc Maron Wraps Up the WTF Podcast: Watch His Final Interview with Barack Obama, 14 Oct 2025 in Life&Podcasts
• Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter, 13 Oct 2025 in History&Literature
• The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online, 09 Oct 2025 in Books&History
• Mark Twain Makes a List of 60 American Comfort Foods He Missed While Traveling Abroad (1880), 08 Oct 2025 in Food & Drink&Literature&Travel
• Dr. Weil’s 60-Second Technique for Falling Asleep, 08 Oct 2025 in Health
• A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings, 06 Oct 2025 in Archives
• The Fascinating Story of How the Electric Music Pioneer Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (1963), 06 Oct 2025 in Music&Television
• The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran, 03 Oct 2025 in Art&History
• Remembering Jane Goodall (RIP): Watch Jane, the Acclaimed National Geographic Documentary, 01 Oct 2025 in Film&Life&Science
• The Night John Belushi Booked the Punk Band Fear on Saturday Night Live & They Got Banned from the Show (1981), 01 Oct 2025 in Comedy&Music
• Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679, 30 Sep 2025 in Music
• The Gilded Age: A Free Historical Documentary That Helps Make Sense of Our Own Fraught Times, 25 Sep 2025 in Film&History
• Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora & Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889), 24 Sep 2025 in Art&Biology&Science
• Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test: What Do You See? (1921), 23 Sep 2025 in Art&Psychology
• How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction, 19 Sep 2025 in History&Language Lessons
• An Art Conservator Restores a Painting of the Doomed Party Girl Isabella de’ Medici: See the Before and After, 18 Sep 2025 in Art
• 40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language, 17 Sep 2025 in History&Language Lessons
• Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939), 16 Sep 2025 in History
• Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man, 15 Sep 2025 in Art&History
• The Earliest Known Appearance of the F‑Word (1310), 11 Sep 2025 in English Language
• Browse Thousands of Free Vintage Cocktail Recipes Online (1705–1951), 10 Sep 2025 in Food & Drink
• Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players Ever Made, 09 Sep 2025 in Music
• Explore an Online Archive of 12,700 Vintage Cookbooks, 04 Sep 2025 in Food & Drink
• Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist, 04 Sep 2025 in Art&Biology&Creativity
• The World’s Most Famous Organ Piece Played on the World’s Largest Fully Operational Pipe Organ, 03 Sep 2025 in Music
• A Massive Choir Sings “Paranoid” to Honor Ozzy Osbourne, 02 Sep 2025 in Music
• What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol, 01 Sep 2025 in Art
• 1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums, 28 Aug 2025 in Art
• Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC — 2000 AD), 27 Aug 2025 in Religion
• Take a Virtual Tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, 25 Aug 2025 in Literature&Theatre
• Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, 22 Aug 2025 in Art&Literature
• Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, 21 Aug 2025 in Music
• 75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online: Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More, 20 Aug 2025 in Music
• The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD), 19 Aug 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• Discover the World’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, from Ancient Rome, 18 Aug 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• Why Knights Fought Snails in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, 18 Aug 2025 in Art&Books&History
• Watch Joan Baez Endearingly Imitate Bob Dylan (1972), 15 Aug 2025 in Music
• 2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown, 14 Aug 2025 in Books&History&Libraries
• Behold the Very First Color Photograph (1861): Taken by Scottish Physicist & Poet James Clerk Maxwell, 13 Aug 2025 in Photography
• The Only Time Prince & Miles Davis Jammed Together Onstage: Watch the New Year’s Eve, 1987 Concert, 12 Aug 2025 in Music&Uncategorized
• David Lynch’s Weird Espresso Maker Gets Taken for a Test Drive, 11 Aug 2025 in Film&Food & Drink
• A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926), 07 Aug 2025 in Film
• Emma Willard, the First Female Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851), 06 Aug 2025 in History&Maps
• A Live Studio Cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Played from Start to Finish, 05 Aug 2025 in Music
• Watch Anémic Cinéma, Marcel Duchamp’s Whirling Avant-Garde Film (1926), 04 Aug 2025 in Art&Film
• Hear the Pieces Mozart Composed When He Was Only 5 Years Old, 31 Jul 2025 in Music
• Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look Like Fun, 31 Jul 2025 in Animation&Health
• Man as Industrial Palace: Watch an Animation of the Famous 1926 Lithograph That Depicts the Human Body as a Modern Factory, 30 Jul 2025 in Art
• Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014, 29 Jul 2025 in Sci Fi
• Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live Your Life”, 28 Jul 2025 in Food & Drink&History&Life
• The Nazis’ 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II, 24 Jul 2025 in Health&Literature&Music
• Salvador Dalí Goes to Hollywood & Creates a Wild Dream Sequence for Alfred Hitchcock, 23 Jul 2025 in Film
• A New 20-Minute Supercut of David Letterman Slamming CBS: “You Can’t Spell CBS Without BS”, 22 Jul 2025 in Current Affairs&Television
• The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion, 22 Jul 2025 in Food & Drink
• The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics Collided with the Religious Right, 21 Jul 2025 in Music
• The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826), 17 Jul 2025 in History&Photography
• A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, 16 Jul 2025 in Music
• 50+ Free Charlie Chaplin Films Online, 14 Jul 2025 in Comedy&Film
• Albert Einstein Tells His Son That the Key to Learning & Happiness Is Losing Yourself in Creativity (or “Finding Flow”), 14 Jul 2025 in Art&Creativity&Health
• Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985), 13 Jul 2025 in Music
• Stephen King’s Top 10 All-Time Favorite Books, 10 Jul 2025 in Books&Literature
• A Rabbit Rides a Chariot Pulled by Geese in an Ancient Roman Mosaic (2nd century AD), 09 Jul 2025 in Art&History
• Watch Animated Sheet Music for Miles Davis’ “So What,” Coltrane’s “Giant Steps,” and Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation”, 08 Jul 2025 in Music
• Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944), 04 Jul 2025 in Music
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read, 03 Jul 2025 in Audio Books&Books&e-books
• Iconic Animator Chuck Jones Creates an Oscar-Winning Animation About the Virtues of Universal Health Care (1949), 01 Jul 2025 in Animation&Health&Literature
• Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years, 27 Jun 2025 in History&Music
• Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Prediction That Automation Will Necessitate a Universal Basic Income, 26 Jun 2025 in Economics&Politics&Technology
• The Very First Coloring Book, The Little Folks’ Painting Book (Circa 1879), 25 Jun 2025 in Coloring Books&History
• “The Vertue of the COFFEE Drink”: An Ad for London’s First Cafe Printed Circa 1652, 24 Jun 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001), 23 Jun 2025 in Music
• Elementary School Kids Sing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” & Other Rock Hits: A Cult Classic Recorded in 1976, 20 Jun 2025 in Music
• Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online, 19 Jun 2025 in Books&K-12
• Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful, 18 Jun 2025 in History&Music&Religion
• A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures, 17 Jun 2025 in History&Online Courses&Yale
• The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985), 16 Jun 2025 in Music&Politics
• Read the Original 32-Page Program for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), 12 Jun 2025 in Uncategorized
• The History of the World in One Beautiful, 5‑Foot-Long Chart (1931), 11 Jun 2025 in History&Maps
• Marie Curie Invented Mobile X‑Ray Units to Help Save Wounded Soldiers in World War I, 10 Jun 2025 in History&Life&Science
• Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation, 09 Jun 2025 in Language
• Talking Heads Release the First Official Video for “Psycho Killer”: Watch It Online, 06 Jun 2025 in Music
• William Faulkner Resigns From His Post Office Job With a Spectacular Letter (1924), 05 Jun 2025 in Literature
• Leonard Bernstein: The Greatest 5 Minutes in Music Education, 04 Jun 2025 in Education&Music
• Albert Einstein’s Grades: A Fascinating Look at His Report Cards, 03 Jun 2025 in Education&Physics
• Pablo Picasso’s Childhood Paintings: Precocious Works Painted Between the Ages of 8 and 15, 02 Jun 2025 in Art
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine, 28 May 2025 in History&Science
• A Young Jim Henson Teaches You How to Make Puppets with Socks, Tennis Balls & Other Household Goods (1969), 27 May 2025 in Art
• 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
• George Orwell Reviews Salvador Dali’s Autobiography: “Dali is a Good Draughtsman and a Disgusting Human Being” (1944), 26 May 2025 in Art&Literature
• Leo Tolstoy’s Family Recipe for Mac and Cheese, 23 May 2025 in Food & Drink&Literature
• 60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang, 21 May 2025 in Film
• 1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults, 20 May 2025 in Music&Psychology
• The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words, 16 May 2025 in Math
• The Secret Link Between Jazz and Physics: How Einstein & Coltrane Shared Improvisation and Intuition in Common, 15 May 2025 in Music&Physics
• The Cleanest Recordings of 1920s Louis Armstrong Songs You Will Ever Hear, 13 May 2025 in Music
• 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
• John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & Two Citations, 12 May 2025 in Math
• How a Papal Conclave Works, and Who Might Be the Next Pope, 07 May 2025 in History&Religion
• George Orwell’s Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea: A Short Animation, 06 May 2025 in Food & Drink&Literature
• The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life, 05 May 2025 in History
• Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860), 04 May 2025 in History&Music
• How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom, 02 May 2025 in Biology
• Marvin Gaye’s Classic Vocals on ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’: The A Cappella Version, 01 May 2025 in Music
• A Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well, 29 Apr 2025 in Fashion&History
• Tom Jones Performs “Long Time Gone” with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young–and Blows the Band & Audience Away (1969), 29 Apr 2025 in Music
• 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
• Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations, 23 Apr 2025 in History
• The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses, 23 Apr 2025 in Games
• Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi–Walt Disney’s 1943 Film Shows How Fascists Are Made, 22 Apr 2025 in Film&History