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• Surreal Pinscreen Animations Bring Kafka, Gogol & Mussorgsky to Life (1933–1972), 29 Oct 2026 in Animation&Film&Literature&Uncategorized
• The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665–1810), 28 Oct 2026 in Art&Science
• A Soviet Animation of Stephen King’s Short Story “Battleground” (1986), 27 Oct 2026 in Animation&Literature
• Hear an Hour of the Jazzy Background Music from the Original 1967 Spider-Man Cartoon, 26 Oct 2026 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
• What Ancient Latin Sounded Like, And How We Know It, 22 Oct 2026 in History&Language Lessons
• Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life, 21 Oct 2026 in Architecture&History
• Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great, 20 Oct 2026 in Music
• When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975), 19 Oct 2026 in Physics&Random
• Watch “The Midnight Parasites,” a Surreal Japanese Animation Set in the World of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1972), 15 Oct 2026 in Animation
• Soviet-Era Illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976), 14 Oct 2026 in Art&Literature
• The Bialetti Moka Express: The History of Italy’s Iconic Coffee Maker, and How to Use It the Right Way, 13 Oct 2026 in Food & Drink&History
• A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan, 12 Oct 2026 in Art
• 7 Tips from Edgar Allan Poe on How to Write Vivid Stories & Poems, 08 Oct 2026 in Literature
• It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Apocalypse Gets Visualized in an Inventive Map from 1486, 07 Oct 2026 in History&Maps
• In 1704, Isaac Newton Predicted That the World Will End in 2060, 06 Oct 2026 in Religion&Science
• Artists Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky in Mexico: Vintage Footage from 1938, 05 Oct 2026 in Art
• LEGO Lets You Build Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Its Largest Set Ever, 01 Oct 2026 in Architecture
• The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online, 30 Sep 2026 in Books&History
• Mick Jagger Tells the Story Behind ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Merry Clayton’s Haunting Background Vocals, 29 Sep 2026 in Music
• The Little Albert Experiment: The Perverse 1920 Study That Made a Baby Afraid of Santa Claus & Bunnies, 28 Sep 2026 in History&Psychology&Science
• How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from “Moby Dick”: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, 24 Sep 2026 in Books&Education&Neuroscience&Science
• Watch Interplanetary Revolution (1924): The Most Bizarre Soviet Animated Propaganda Film You’ll Ever See, 23 Sep 2026 in Film
• The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Movement Online, 22 Sep 2026 in Art
• Listen to 4+ Hours of Jazz & Classical Music from Haruki Murakami’s Novels, 21 Sep 2026 in Literature&Music
• An In-Depth, Immersive Journey Through the Bayeux Tapestry, 17 Sep 2026 in Art&History
• Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961), 16 Sep 2026 in Psychology
• Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”), 15 Sep 2026 in Business&Psychology&TED Talks
• How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America, 14 Sep 2026 in Philosophy
• “Evil Mickey Mouse” Invades Japan in a 1934 Japanese Anime Propaganda Film, 11 Sep 2026 in Film
• Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896–1940), 10 Sep 2026 in Art&Magazines
• Historian Timothy Snyder Teaches a Free Course on Hitler, Stalin & How “It” Can Happen Here, 09 Sep 2026 in History
• How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease, 08 Sep 2026 in Health&Nature&Psychology
• Meet Lloyd Kahn, the Counterculture Publisher Who Is Skateboarding at 91, 07 Sep 2026 in Life
• Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, 03 Sep 2026 in Art&Books&Design&Literature
• Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapers, 02 Sep 2026 in History
• Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career, 01 Sep 2026 in Creativity&Design&Life
• The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements: Visualizing the Chemical Elements That Could Vanish Before You Know It, 31 Aug 2026 in Chemistry
• Isaac Asimov Explains His Three Laws of Robots: Do No Harm, Follow Orders, Survive, in That Order, 27 Aug 2026 in Books&Sci Fi
• Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP), 26 Aug 2026 in Gender&Life&Music&Technology
• The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910), 25 Aug 2026 in Film&Literature
• The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art School, 24 Aug 2026 in Art
• A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom, 20 Aug 2026 in Comics/Cartoons&History&Maps&Music
• NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Program, 19 Aug 2026 in Art&Astronomy&History&Science&Technology
• 5,000 Classic Movie Posters Digitized & Put Online: Free to Browse & Download, 18 Aug 2026 in Archives&Film
• The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 840,000 Works of Art, Including Great Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, 17 Aug 2026 in Art
• One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.), 13 Aug 2026 in History&Literature
• Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno, 12 Aug 2026 in Architecture&Film
• 226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online, 11 Aug 2026 in Photography
• Watch a Band Perform the Sound Effects from Pink Floyd’s “Money,” Using a Money Counter, Torn Sheets of Paper & More, 10 Aug 2026 in Music
• Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898: Read His Sci-Fi Crime Story, “From The ‘London Times’ in 1904”, 06 Aug 2026 in Literature&Sci Fi
• How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer, 05 Aug 2026 in Computer Science&History&Science&Technology
• Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music, 04 Aug 2026 in History&Music
• Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992), 03 Aug 2026 in Music
• The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book, 30 Jul 2026 in Art&Psychology&Religion
• Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek, 29 Jul 2026 in History&Literature&Music
• What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise, 28 Jul 2026 in Life&Music
• The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation, 27 Jul 2026 in Animation&Creativity&Writing
• 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body, 24 Jul 2026 in Art
• How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson, 23 Jul 2026 in Philosophy&Religion&Science
• Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967), 22 Jul 2026 in Music
• Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War, 21 Jul 2026 in Fashion&History
• Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure, 20 Jul 2026 in History&Religion
• A Walk Through Homer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Epic Before Seeing Christopher Nolan’s Film, 17 Jul 2026 in History&Literature
• Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983, 16 Jul 2026 in Philosophy
• 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix, 15 Jul 2026 in Architecture&Comedy&History&Travel
• How Russian Artists Imagined in 1914 What Moscow Would Look Like in 2259, 14 Jul 2026 in History&Sci Fi
• How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats, 13 Jul 2026 in Film
• Albert Einstein Imposes on His First Wife a Cruel List of Marital Demands, 09 Jul 2026 in Letters&Physics&Science
• A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It, 08 Jul 2026 in Art&History&Museums
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Albert Camus’ Touching Thank You Letter to His Elementary School Teacher, 07 Jul 2026 in K-12&Letters&Life&Literature
• When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930), 06 Jul 2026 in Film&History&Science
• Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980), 01 Jul 2026 in Education&Politics&Sci Fi
• Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate, 30 Jun 2026 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• Rare Film of Sculptor Auguste Rodin Working at His Studio in Paris (1915), 26 Jun 2026 in Art&Film
• When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934), 25 Jun 2026 in Art
• How to Cook Like Frida Kahlo & Georgia O’Keeffe, 24 Jun 2026 in Art&Food & Drink
• How Can I Know Right From Wrong? Watch Philosophy Animations on Ethics Narrated by Harry Shearer, 23 Jun 2026 in Animation&Philosophy
• The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern, 22 Jun 2026 in Gender&Philosophy
• The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together, 18 Jun 2026 in Physics
• Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Make Art in Some Rare Vintage Video, 17 Jun 2026 in Art
• Clare Torry’s Rare Live Performances of “Great Gig in the Sky” with Pink Floyd, 16 Jun 2026 in Music
• The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 15 Jun 2026 in Books&Design
• David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs, 11 Jun 2026 in Music
• How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972), 10 Jun 2026 in Creativity&Film&Literature
• How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look, 09 Jun 2026 in History&Maps
• Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago, 03 Jun 2026 in Design&Literature&Writing
• The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991), 02 Jun 2026 in Music
• Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More, 01 Jun 2026 in Language&Music
• The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, 28 May 2026 in Art&Math
• M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040, 27 May 2026 in Computer Science&Data&Life
• The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974), 26 May 2026 in Film
• Enjoy Three Hours of Free Nature Videos Narrated by David Attenborough, 22 May 2026 in Nature
• Watch Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Rock the Theremin, the Early Soviet Electronic Instrument, 21 May 2026 in Music
• Hand-Colored Photographs from 19th Century Japan: 110 Images Capture the Waning Days of Traditional Japanese Society, 20 May 2026 in History&Photography
• What Happens When a Musician Plays Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” on a $25 Kids’ Guitar at Walmart, 19 May 2026 in Music
• The Forgotten Moment When Superman Fought Prejudice in America Instead of Villains (1950), 15 May 2026 in Comics/Cartoons&Education&Life
• The Tarot Card Deck Created by Salvador Dalí, 14 May 2026 in Art
• When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961), 12 May 2026 in Books&Literature
• How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound with His Recording of “My Favorite Things” (1961), 12 May 2026 in Music
• Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station, 11 May 2026 in Music&Television
• Buckminster Fuller Creates an Animated Visualization of Human Population Growth from 1000 B.C.E. to 1965, 07 May 2026 in Design&Maps
• Confidence: The Cartoon That Helped America Get Through the Great Depression (1933), 06 May 2026 in Animation&History&Music
• You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes, 04 May 2026 in Life&Music
• Chuck Jones’ The Dot and the Line Celebrates Geometry & Hard Work: An Oscar-Winning Animation (1965), 04 May 2026 in Animation&Education&Film&Math
• 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