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• The Simpsons Present Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and Teachers Now Use It to Teach Kids the Joys of Literature, 30 Apr 2026 in Animation&Literature&Television
• Explosive Cats Imagined in a Strange, 16th Century Military Manual, 28 Apr 2026 in History
• Harvard Professor Answers Burning Questions About Iranian History, 28 Apr 2026 in History
• An Ancient Philosophical Song Reconstructed and Played for the First Time in 1,000 Years, 24 Apr 2026 in History&Music
• What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished, 23 Apr 2026 in History
• Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche, 23 Apr 2026 in Music&Philosophy
• “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More, 22 Apr 2026 in History&Photography&Science
• Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40), 21 Apr 2026 in History&Letters
• Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC, 20 Apr 2026 in Health&History
• Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line, 16 Apr 2026 in Animation
• Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back, 15 Apr 2026 in Literature
• Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More, 13 Apr 2026 in Science&Technology
• 9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971, 09 Apr 2026 in Gender&History
• How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War, 08 Apr 2026 in Art&History
• John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band, 07 Apr 2026 in Music
• How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954, 06 Apr 2026 in History
• Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today, 02 Apr 2026 in Life&Music
• Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921), 01 Apr 2026 in Art&Literature&Magazines
• A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University, 31 Mar 2026 in Economics&Philosophy
• When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples, 27 Mar 2026 in Film&History&Music
• Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897, 26 Mar 2026 in Music&Technology
• Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom, 24 Mar 2026 in Art&Creativity&Productivity&Technology
• Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count, 24 Mar 2026 in Animation&Music&Television
• An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict, 19 Mar 2026 in Current Affairs&Economics
• Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings, 19 Mar 2026 in Music
• Jim Jarmusch Picks His Favorite Films from the The Criterion Collection, 19 Mar 2026 in Film
• Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard, 18 Mar 2026 in Language Lessons
• Enchanting Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955: The End of a 500-Year Tradition, 17 Mar 2026 in Maps
• Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014), 13 Mar 2026 in Music
• The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans, 13 Mar 2026 in Comedy&Sports
• How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer, 12 Mar 2026 in Books
• Watch Peter Tork Quietly Mouth Other Actors’ Lines in The Monkees: A Strange Quirk You’ll Never Unsee, 11 Mar 2026 in Random&Television
• The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art, 10 Mar 2026 in Art&Food & Drink
• Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors, 06 Mar 2026 in Art&History
• Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”, 05 Mar 2026 in Life&Philosophy
• Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More, 04 Mar 2026 in Art
• Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More, 03 Mar 2026 in History&Photography&Travel
• Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE), 02 Mar 2026 in Art&History
• What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them, 26 Feb 2026 in Art&Music
• Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57), 25 Feb 2026 in Radio&Sci Fi
• How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”, 24 Feb 2026 in Food & Drink
• An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published, 23 Feb 2026 in Art&Books
• Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe, 23 Feb 2026 in Food & Drink&History
• How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction, 20 Feb 2026 in Design
• Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity, 19 Feb 2026 in Life&Music
• Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen, 18 Feb 2026 in History
• An Animated Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism: The World’s First Analog Computer from Ancient Greece, 17 Feb 2026 in History&Technology
• David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds, 16 Feb 2026 in Film
• Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments, 12 Feb 2026 in Music
• Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose, 11 Feb 2026 in Uncategorized
• Rare Video: Vince Guaraldi’s First Televised Performance of “Linus and Lucy” (1964), 10 Feb 2026 in Music&Television
• Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots, 06 Feb 2026 in Design&History&Language
• The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”, 06 Feb 2026 in English Language
• Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings, 05 Feb 2026 in Art&History&Religion
• The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796), 04 Feb 2026 in Food & Drink&History
• The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”, 03 Feb 2026 in Music&Politics
• Bruce Springsteen Won’t Back Down: Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” Live in Minneapolis, 02 Feb 2026 in Current Affairs&Life&Music
• Scott Galloway Unveils “Resist and Unsubscribe,” an Action Plan for Consumers to Push Back Against Government Overreach, 01 Feb 2026 in Current Affairs&Economics
• Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”, 29 Jan 2026 in Current Affairs&Music
• Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935), 28 Jan 2026 in Film&History
• Enjoy a Medieval Cover of R.E.M.‘s “Losing My Religion”, 27 Jan 2026 in Music
• Scott Galloway Explains How YOU Can Stop Government Overreach Using the Power of Your Purse, 26 Jan 2026 in Current Affairs
• Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism, 26 Jan 2026 in History&Politics
• Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing, 22 Jan 2026 in Film&Music
• Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes, 21 Jan 2026 in Television
• Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970), 20 Jan 2026 in Music
• What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol, 19 Jan 2026 in Food & Drink&History&Life
• Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America, 15 Jan 2026 in Art&Biology&Nature
• “Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World, 14 Jan 2026 in Music
• Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt “Vigorous” and “Alert”, 13 Jan 2026 in Biology&Life&Science
• Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir, 12 Jan 2026 in Life&Music
• Hear James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929), 08 Jan 2026 in Literature
• Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online, 07 Jan 2026 in History&Language
• 300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library, 06 Jan 2026 in Art&Nature&Photography&Science
• J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952), 05 Jan 2026 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life, 02 Jan 2026 in Food & Drink&History
• Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running, 01 Jan 2026 in Uncategorized
• Brian Eno’s Book & Music Recommendations, 30 Dec 2025 in Books&Music
• How to Jumpstart Your Creative Process with William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique, 29 Dec 2025 in Literature&Writing
• Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950, 22 Dec 2025 in Life&Literature&Poetry
• Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Nearly Burning His House Down (1990), 19 Dec 2025 in Literature&Random
• Hear Debussy Play Debussy: A Vintage Recording from 1913, 18 Dec 2025 in History&Music&Photography
• Why Coffee Makes You Go #2, 17 Dec 2025 in Food & Drink&Science
• How Many Humans Have Ever Lived, and How Many Are Alive Right Now?, 16 Dec 2025 in Biology&History
• Tom Jones Performs Prince’s “Purple Rain” Accompanied by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour (1992), 15 Dec 2025 in Music
• The Earliest Known Customer Complaint Was Made 3,800 Years Ago: Read the Rant on an Ancient Babylonian Tablet, 11 Dec 2025 in Archaeology&History&Life
• Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980), 10 Dec 2025 in Sci Fi&Television
• Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911), 09 Dec 2025 in Chemistry&Letters&Physics
• “The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History, 08 Dec 2025 in Gender&History&Science
• 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 Archaeology&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