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• 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
• James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Draws a Sketch of Leopold Bloom (1926), 21 Apr 2025 in Art&Literature
• 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
• How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained in 7 Minutes, 17 Apr 2025 in Creativity&Productivity&Psychology
• Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue, 16 Apr 2025 in Literature&Psychology
• William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), 15 Apr 2025 in Literature
• What Was Smoot-Hawley, and Why Are We Doing It Again? Anyone? Anyone?, 14 Apr 2025 in Economics&History
• Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago, 11 Apr 2025 in History&Music
• Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder, 10 Apr 2025 in Current Affairs
• The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together, 08 Apr 2025 in Math
• Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Original Moog Synthesizer (1989), 08 Apr 2025 in Music
• Who Really Built the Egyptian Pyramids—And How Did They Do It?, 05 Apr 2025 in History&Technology
• 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
• Watch Jazz ‘Hot’, the Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt, 02 Apr 2025 in Music
• Watch Bob Dylan Make His Debut at the Newport Folk Festival in Colorized 1963 Footage, 02 Apr 2025 in Music
• The Great Gatsby: A Free Audio Book, 01 Apr 2025 in Audio Books&Literature
• A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph, 30 Mar 2025 in Photography
• Superman vs. the KKK: Hear the 1946 Superman Radio Show That Weakened the Klan, 28 Mar 2025 in Comics/Cartoons&History
• Man Ray’s Surrealist Cinema: Watch Four Pioneering Films From the 1920s, 27 Mar 2025 in Art&Film
• Spike Jonze Creates a New Short Film (aka Commercial) for Apple, 26 Mar 2025 in Apple&Film
• NASA Visualizes the Ocean Currents in Motion: A Mesmerizing View of Earth’s Underwater Highways, 25 Mar 2025 in Environment&Nature&Science
• How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz, 24 Mar 2025 in Music
• Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera: The 8th Best Film Ever Made, 19 Mar 2025 in Film
• NYU Professor Answers Your Burning Questions About Authoritarianism, 19 Mar 2025 in Current Affairs&History
• A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study, 17 Mar 2025 in Music
• A Boy and His Atom: Watch The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film, 17 Mar 2025 in Science&Technology
• Puppets of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe Star in 1957 Frank Capra Educational Film, 13 Mar 2025 in Education&Science&Television
• When Salvador Dalí Created a Chilling Anti-Venereal Disease Poster During World War II, 12 Mar 2025 in Art&History&Life
• Why “The Girl from Ipanema” Is a Richer & Weirder Song Than You Realized, 10 Mar 2025 in Music
• Watch the Sci-Fi Short Film “I’m Not a Robot”: Winner of a 2025 Academy Award, 07 Mar 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
• Historian Answers Burning Questions About The Renaissance, 06 Mar 2025 in Art&History
• Carl Jung’s Hand-Drawn, Rarely-Seen Manuscript The Red Book, 04 Mar 2025 in Art&Literature&Psychology
• Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to Young People: “Learn to Be Alone,” Enjoy Solitude, 03 Mar 2025 in Film&Life
• The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946, 03 Mar 2025 in Animation&Education
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” (1969), 27 Feb 2025 in Music
• 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
• Jimi Hendrix Plays the Beatles: “Sgt. Pepper’s,” “Day Tripper,” and “Tomorrow Never Knows”, 25 Feb 2025 in Music
• 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
• A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Saturday Night Live’s Iconic Studio, 21 Feb 2025 in Comedy&Television
• Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney, 19 Feb 2025 in Animation&Art&History
• Watch David Byrne Lead a Massive Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes”, 19 Feb 2025 in Music
• When William S. Burroughs Appeared on Saturday Night Live: His First TV Appearance (1981), 17 Feb 2025 in Comedy&Literature&Television
• Watch the Historic First Episode of Saturday Night Live with Host George Carlin (1975), 17 Feb 2025 in Comedy&Television
• Inside SNL: Al Franken Reveals How Saturday Night Live Is Crafted Every Week, 16 Feb 2025 in Comedy&Television
• Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand, 14 Feb 2025 in Literature
• Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out, 12 Feb 2025 in Literature
• Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More, 12 Feb 2025 in Film
• Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa, 11 Feb 2025 in Art&Literature
• Hear an AI Chatbot, Masquerading as a Clueless Grandmother, Waste the Time of an Internet Scam Artist, 10 Feb 2025 in Technology
• 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
• When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place, 04 Feb 2025 in Film
• 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
• Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981), 02 Feb 2025 in Music
• Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull (RIP) Singing “As Tears Go By” in 1966, 31 Jan 2025 in Music
• 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
• Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book”, 30 Jan 2025 in Books&History
• 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
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym, 28 Jan 2025 in Comedy&Random
• A 1933 Profile of Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”, 26 Jan 2025 in Art
• Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person, 24 Jan 2025 in Education&Philosophy&Politics
• The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC), 23 Jan 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922, 22 Jan 2025 in Dance
• Download a 417-Megapixel Panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy—A Decade-Long NASA Project in the Making, 21 Jan 2025 in Astronomy
• Fred Armisen & Bill Hader’s Comedic Take on the History of Simon and Garfunkel, 20 Jan 2025 in Comedy&Random
• Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981), 16 Jan 2025 in Music
• 10,000+ Free Online Certificates & Badges: A Resource for Lifelong Learners, 15 Jan 2025 in Online Courses
• Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?, 15 Jan 2025 in Health
• Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts, 13 Jan 2025 in History&Science
• Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack, 13 Jan 2025 in Music
• How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust, 09 Jan 2025 in History
• The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970), 08 Jan 2025 in Music
• The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581, 08 Jan 2025 in History&Maps
• Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965), 06 Jan 2025 in Music
• Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish”, 05 Jan 2025 in Life&Philosophy
• Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers, 03 Jan 2025 in Music
• Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931), 01 Jan 2025 in Architecture&Photography
• Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974), 29 Dec 2024 in Literature&Music&Politics
• Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006), 24 Dec 2024 in Music
• Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925), 22 Dec 2024 in Letters&Literature
• The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford Coppola (1993), 19 Dec 2024 in Film
• Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK (1977), 17 Dec 2024 in Music
• Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs, 16 Dec 2024 in Film
• A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933), 15 Dec 2024 in Life
• The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship, 13 Dec 2024 in History
• Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968), 11 Dec 2024 in Animation&History
• When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts, 10 Dec 2024 in Uncategorized
• 99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze, 10 Dec 2024 in Life
• An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large Portable Book, 09 Dec 2024 in Books
• What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”, 06 Dec 2024 in History&Music
• Unlock AI’s Potential in Your Work and Daily Life: Take a Popular Course from Google, 05 Dec 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Google