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Helen Keller Was a “Firebrand” Socialist (or How History Whitewashed Her Political Life),
16 May 2022 in History&Politics
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How Hans Zimmer Created the Otherworldly Soundtrack for Dune,
16 May 2022 in Film&Music
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The Forgotten Women of Surrealism: A Magical, Short Animated Film,
12 May 2022 in Art&Film
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Philosopher Bertrand Russell Talks About the Time When His Grandfather Met Napoleon,
10 May 2022 in History&Philosophy
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Two Decades of Fire Island DJ Sets Get Unearthed, Digitized & Put Online: Stream 232 Mixtapes Online (1979-1999),
10 May 2022 in Music
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The Polish Artist Stanisław Witkiewicz Made Portraits While On Different Psychoactive Drugs, and Noted the Drugs on Each Painting,
09 May 2022 in Art
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea Presents a Bass Lesson, and Essential Advice That Every Bass Player Should Know,
05 May 2022 in Music
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David Byrne’s New Illustrated Book Playfully Presents A History of the World (in Dingbats),
03 May 2022 in Books
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A Creative Animation Documents What Happened When a 1970s Self-Help Seminar Turned Into a Nightmare (NSFW),
02 May 2022 in Film&Life
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Revisiting the Music of the Pioneering German Composer Klaus Schulze (RIP), the “Godfather of Techno,” Ambient, German Experimental Psych Rock & More,
30 Apr 2022 in Music
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Hear The Beatles’ Abbey Road with Only Paul McCartney’s Bass: You Won’t Believe How Good It Sounds,
29 Apr 2022 in Music
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Jon Kabat-Zinn Presents an Introduction to Mindfulness (and Explains Why Our Lives Just Might Depend on It),
28 Apr 2022 in Health&Life
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Stunningly Elaborate Ottoman Calligraphy Drawn on Dried Leaves,
26 Apr 2022 in Art&History
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The Woman Who Theorized Color: An Introduction to Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808),
21 Apr 2022 in Art
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The Birth of the Blues Brothers: How Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi Started Introducing a New Generation to the Blues,
20 Apr 2022 in Comedy&Music&Television
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Behold 3D Recreations of Pompeii’s Lavish Homes–As They Existed Before the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius,
19 Apr 2022 in Animation&Architecture&History
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The New York Public Library Provides Free Online Access to Banned Books: Catcher in the Rye, Stamped & More,
18 Apr 2022 in Books&Current Affairs
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How France Hid the Mona Lisa & Other Louvre Masterpieces During World War II,
15 Apr 2022 in Art&History
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Watch Stevie Wonder’s Amazing Drum Solo, and See Why He May Be the “Greatest Drummer of Our Time”,
14 Apr 2022 in Music
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Watch a Local TV Station Switch From Black & White to Color for First Time (1967),
12 Apr 2022 in History&Television
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Mark Knopfler Shows How to Play His Fingerpicking Guitar Style,
11 Apr 2022 in Music
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Pink Floyd Releases Its First New Song in 28 Years to Help Support Ukraine,
08 Apr 2022 in Current Affairs&Music
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What Did People Do Before the Invention of Eyeglasses?,
07 Apr 2022 in Biology&Health&History
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Jim Morrison Accurately Predicts the Future of Electronic Music in 1969,
06 Apr 2022 in Music
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A Survival Guide to the Biblical Apocalypse,
04 Apr 2022 in Religion
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A Gallery of Fantastical Alchemical Drawings,
31 Mar 2022 in Art&Books&History&Internet Archive&Libraries
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Exploring the Greatest of Italy’s 6,000 Ghost Towns: Take a Tour of Craco, Italy,
31 Mar 2022 in History&Travel
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A Field Guide to Strange Medieval Monsters,
29 Mar 2022 in Books&History
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Watch the Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins (RIP) Give a Drumming Masterclass,
28 Mar 2022 in Music
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A Vintage Short Film about the Samurai Sword, Narrated by George Takei (1969),
28 Mar 2022 in Film&History
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Pristine, Restored Footage of George Harrison & Bob Dylan Rehearsing “If Not For You” at the Concert for Bangladesh (1971),
25 Mar 2022 in Music
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The Anti-Vaxxer Who Waged War Against Jonas Salk & His Polio Vaccine: When History Keeps Repeating,
02 Feb 2022 in Health&History
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The Incredible Story of the Hoover Dam,
26 Jan 2022 in Architecture&History
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An 8-Minute Animated Flight Over Ancient Rome,
25 Jan 2022 in Animation&Architecture&History
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How French Music Teacher Nadia Boulanger Raised a Generation of Composers: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Quincy Jones, Philip Glass & More,
24 Jan 2022 in Music
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How Karl Marx Influenced Abraham Lincoln and His Position on Slavery & Labor,
20 Jan 2022 in History
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Bob Dylan’s Famous Televised Press Conference After He Went Electric (1965),
13 Jan 2022 in Music
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How to Decode NASA’s Message to Aliens,
12 Jan 2022 in Astronomy&Science
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Behold Medieval Snowball Fights: A Timeless Way of Having Fun,
11 Jan 2022 in Art&History
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Watch Nirvana Perform as an Opening Band, Two Years Before Their Breakout Album Nevermind (1989),
06 Jan 2022 in Music
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Animals Laugh Too: UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows,
05 Jan 2022 in Biology
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Brian Eno Shares His Critical Take on Art & NFTs: “I Mainly See Hustlers Looking for Suckers”,
30 Dec 2021 in Art&Economics
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The Famous Downfall Scene Explained: What Really Happened in Hitler’s Bunker at the End?,
29 Dec 2021 in Film&History&YouTube
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Enjoy Classic Songs from A Charlie Brown Christmas, Performed by Vince Guaraldi Trio Drummer Jerry Granelli (RIP),
28 Dec 2021 in Music
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What Does It Take to Be a Great Artist?: An Aging Painter Reflects on His Creative Process & Why He Will Never Be a Picasso,
23 Dec 2021 in Art&Life
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The 850 Books a Texas Lawmaker Wants to Ban Because They Could Make Students Feel Uncomfortable,
22 Dec 2021 in Current Affairs
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How the Beatles Experimented with Indian Music & Pioneered a New Rock and Roll Sound,
21 Dec 2021 in Music
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How Jean Renoir’s Great Anti-War Film Grand Illusion Became “Cinematographic Enemy Number One” to the Nazis,
20 Dec 2021 in Film&History
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New York’s Lost Skyscraper: The Rise and Fall of the Singer Tower,
15 Dec 2021 in Architecture
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Before Bauhaus: How Goth Became Goth,
15 Dec 2021 in Music
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Rick Rubin: The Invisibility of Hip Hop’s Greatest Producer,
14 Dec 2021 in Music
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Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals: What Makes Them Great Art,
13 Dec 2021 in Art
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Punks, Goths, and Mods on TV (1983),
08 Dec 2021 in Fashion&Music&Television
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Pink Floyd’s Entire Studio Discography is Now on YouTube: Stream the Studio & Live Albums,
06 Dec 2021 in Music
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The Quirky Self-Portraits of 18th Century Painter Joseph Ducreux,
06 Dec 2021 in Art
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Stephen Fry on the Power of Words in Nazi Germany: How Dehumanizing Language Laid the Foundation for Genocide,
02 Dec 2021 in Current Affairs&History&Language
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Browse a Huge Collection of Prison Newspapers: 1800-2020,
01 Dec 2021 in History&Libraries
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How Drummer Moe Tucker Defined the Sound of the Velvet Underground,
01 Dec 2021 in Music
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How a Mosaic from Caligula’s Party Boat Became a Coffee Table in a New York City Apartment 50 Years Ago,
30 Nov 2021 in Art&History
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The 17th Century Japanese Samurai Who Sailed to Europe, Met the Pope & Became a Roman Citizen,
29 Nov 2021 in History
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Jazz Virtuoso Oscar Peterson Gives Dick Cavett a Dazzling Piano Lesson (1979),
24 Nov 2021 in Jazz&Music&Television
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Legendary DJ John Peel Makes a List of His 20 Favorite Albums,
23 Nov 2021 in Music
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8 Hours of David Bowie’s Historic 1980 Floor Show: Complete & Uncut Footage,
19 Nov 2021 in Music&Television
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How Led Zeppelin Stole Their Way to Fame and Fortune,
18 Nov 2021 in Music
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How the World’s First Anti-Vax Movement Started with the First Vaccine for Smallpox in 1796, and Spread Fears of People Getting Turned into Half-Cow Babies,
17 Nov 2021 in Current Affairs&Health&History&Science
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Meet the Oud, the “King of All Instruments” Whose Origins Stretch Back 3500 Years Ago to Ancient Persia,
17 Nov 2021 in Music
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When John Belushi Booked the Punk Band Fear on SNL, And They Got Banned from the Show: A Short Documentary,
16 Nov 2021 in Film&Music&Television
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The Mystery of Who Played Bass on The White Album’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”,
15 Nov 2021 in Music
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Meet the Mysterious Genius Who Patented the UFO,
12 Nov 2021 in Design&History
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What Is Sun Tzu’s The Art of War About?: A Short Introduction,
11 Nov 2021 in History&Literature&Philosophy
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How Kraftwerk Made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
10 Nov 2021 in Music
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What Makes Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ a Timeless, Great Painting?,
10 Nov 2021 in Art
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A Fascinating 3D Animation Shows the Depths of the Ocean,
09 Nov 2021 in Animation&Nature&Science
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How Martin Luther King, Jr. Wrote His Momentous “I Have a Dream” Speech (1963),
09 Nov 2021 in History&Politics
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John Cleese Presents His 5-Step Plan for Shorter, More Productive Meetings (1976),
08 Nov 2021 in Business&Comedy&Education&Politics
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Why Leonardo da Vinci’s Greatest Painting is Not the Mona Lisa,
04 Nov 2021 in Art
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The Nine Greatest Films You’ve Never Seen,
04 Nov 2021 in Film
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The Awe-Inspiring But Tragic Story of Africa’s Festival In The Desert (2001-2012),
03 Nov 2021 in Music
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Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980),
02 Nov 2021 in Sci Fi&Science&Television
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The 10 Paradoxical Traits of Creative People, According to Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (RIP),
01 Nov 2021 in Creativity&Psychology
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Hear Hans Zimmer’s Experimental Score for the New Dune Film,
01 Nov 2021 in Film&Music
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Watch the New Trailer for a Kurt Vonnegut Documentary 40 Years In the Making,
29 Oct 2021 in Film&Literature
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New Research Confirms That the Vikings Landed in North America 471 Years Before Columbus & Exactly 1,000 Years Ago,
27 Oct 2021 in History
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Yale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies 10 Tactics of Fascism: The “Cult of the Leader,” Law & Order, Victimhood and More,
26 Oct 2021 in History&Philosophy
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Three Hours of Yo Yo Ma Playing Bach’s Six Cello Suites: Music That “Helps Us Navigate Through Troubled Times”,
26 Oct 2021 in Music
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Why–and When–Did the United States Turn Against Science?: Views from Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Margaret Atwood & More,
25 Oct 2021 in Current Affairs
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The Does and Don’ts of Putting on a Prison Concert: Johnny Cash, BB King, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Tyler & The Cramps,
21 Oct 2021 in Music
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When Salvador Dali Viewed Joseph Cornell’s Surrealist Film, Became Enraged & Shouted: “He Stole It from My Subconscious!” (1936),
20 Oct 2021 in Art&Film
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The Beautifully Illustrated Atlas of Mushrooms: Edible, Suspect and Poisonous (1827),
20 Oct 2021 in Books&History
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A Beautifully Illustrated Edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, the Bestselling Book by Historian Timothy Snyder,
19 Oct 2021 in Books&Current Affairs&History&Politics
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John Lennon Finally Meets & Jams with His Hero, Chuck Berry (1972),
18 Oct 2021 in Music
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The Little-Known Bombing of Pompeii During World War II,
15 Oct 2021 in History
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136 Paintings by Gustav Klimt Now Online (Including 63 Paintings in an Immersive Augmented Reality Gallery),
14 Oct 2021 in Art
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Archaeologists Discover 1300-Year-Old Pair of Skis, the Best-Preserved Ancient Skis in Existence,
14 Oct 2021 in History&Sports
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Dave Grohl Falls Offstage & Breaks His Leg, Then Continues the Show as The Foo Fighters Play Queen’s “Under Pressure” (2015),
13 Oct 2021 in Music
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Watch Jaco Pastorius: The Lost Tapes Documentary, the Fan-Made Film on the Most Innovative Bass Player of All Time,
12 Oct 2021 in Jazz&Music
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When J.R.R. Tolkien Worked for the Oxford English Dictionary and “Learned More … Than Any Other Equal Period of My Life” (1919-1920),
11 Oct 2021 in Books&Literature
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Watch “The Impossible Map,” a Short Animated Film That Uses a Grapefruit to Show Why Maps of the Earth Are Misleading (1947),
08 Oct 2021 in Maps
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An Animated History of the Ottoman Empire (1299 – 1922),
07 Oct 2021 in History
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A Brilliant Demonstration of Magnets & the Promise of Levitating Trains (1975),
07 Oct 2021 in Science&Technology
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A Guitarist Rocks Out on Guitars Made from Shovels, Cigar Boxes, Oil Cans & Whisky Barrels,
06 Oct 2021 in Creativity&Design&Music
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Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist: To “Create Dangerously” (1957),
06 Oct 2021 in Art&Literature&Writing
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Footage of the Last Known Tasmanian Tiger Restored in Color (1933),
05 Oct 2021 in Nature&Science
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The Medieval Ban Against the “Devil’s Tritone”: Debunking a Great Myth in Music Theory,
04 Oct 2021 in Music
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Jim Henson’s Farewell: Revisit the “Nice, Friendly” Memorial Service at St. John the Divine (1990),
30 Sep 2021 in Television
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Nirvana Refuses to Mime Along to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on Top of the Pops (1991),
29 Sep 2021 in Music
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Why Scientists Can’t Recreate the Sound of Stradivarius Violins: The Mystery of Their Inimitable Sound,
29 Sep 2021 in Art&Music
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How New Yorkers Dodged Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws by Inventing the World’s Worst Sandwich,
28 Sep 2021 in Food & Drink&History
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View 103 Discovered Drawings by Famed Japanese Woodcut Artist Katsushika Hokusai,
24 Sep 2021 in Art
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A Rare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Found & Translated,
23 Sep 2021 in History&Literature
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Hear the Brazilian Metal Band Singing in–and Trying to Save–Their Native Language of Tupi-Guarani,
23 Sep 2021 in Language&Music
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Hobbes, Locke & Rousseau: An Animated Introduction to Their Political Theories,
22 Sep 2021 in Philosophy&Politics
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When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961),
22 Sep 2021 in Books&Literature
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The Recording Secrets of Nirvana’s Nevermind Revealed by Producer Butch Vig,
20 Sep 2021 in Music
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How Italian Physicist Laura Bassi Became the First Woman to Have an Academic Career in the 18th Century,
16 Sep 2021 in Gender&History&Physics&Science
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Elvis Presley Gets the Polio Vaccine on The Ed Sullivan Show, Persuading Millions to Get Vaccinated (1956),
15 Sep 2021 in Health&History&Television
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The Roman Colosseum Has a Twin in Tunisia: Discover the Amphitheater of El Jem, One of the Best-Preserved Roman Ruins in the World,
15 Sep 2021 in Architecture&History
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What Makes Basquiat’s Untitled Great Art: One Painting Says Everything Basquiat Wanted to Say About America, Art & Being Black in Both Worlds,
14 Sep 2021 in Art
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Sci-Fi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback Predicts Telemedicine in 1925,
13 Sep 2021 in Health&Sci Fi&Technology
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William Blake’s 102 Illustrations of The Divine Comedy Collected in a Beautiful Book from Taschen,
10 Sep 2021 in Art&Books&Literature
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Tove Jansson, Beloved Creator of the Moomins, Illustrates The Hobbit,
09 Sep 2021 in Art&Books
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A Restored Vermeer Painting Reveals a Portrait of a Cupid Hidden for Over 350 Years,
08 Sep 2021 in Art
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Why Do We Dream?: An Animated Lesson,
08 Sep 2021 in Neuroscience&Psychology
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Darth Vader’s Voice: The Original Voice Versus the Vocals of James Earl Jones,
08 Sep 2021 in Film
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The First Air Raid Happened When Austria Dropped Bombs on Venice from Pilotless Hot-Air Balloons (1849),
07 Sep 2021 in History
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Meet Brushy One String, the One String Guitar Player Who Will Blow Your Mind,
06 Sep 2021 in Music
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Hear Charlie Watts Inimitable Isolated Drum Tracks on “Gimme Shelter,” “Beast of Burden,” and “Honky Tonk”,
06 Sep 2021 in Music
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The Evolutionary History of Fat: Biologists Explain Why It’s Necessary for Our Survival & Why We’re Biased Against It,
02 Sep 2021 in Biology&Health
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What Makes Rodin’s The Thinker a Great Sculpture: An Introduction to Rodin Life, Craft & Iconic Work,
01 Sep 2021 in Art
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Chinese Youth Announce That They’re “Lying Flat” and Resisting the Pressures of Modern Life,
01 Sep 2021 in Current Affairs&Economics&Politics
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An Archaeologist Creates the Definitive Guide to Beer Cans,
31 Aug 2021 in Food & Drink&History
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Watch Lost Studio Footage of Brian Wilson Conducting “Good Vibrations,” The Beach Boys’ Brilliant “Pocket Symphony”,
31 Aug 2021 in Music
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An 18-Year-Old Spends a Year Alone Building a Log Cabin in the Swedish Wilderness: Watch from Start to Finish,
30 Aug 2021 in Life
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17th Century Scientist Gives First Description of Alien Life: Hear Passages from Christiaan Huygens’ Cosmotheoros (1698),
27 Aug 2021 in Astronomy&Sci Fi&Science
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Medieval Scribes Discouraged Theft of Manuscripts by Adding Curses Threatening Death & Damnation to Their Pages,
26 Aug 2021 in Books&History&Religion
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Saying Goodbye to Charlie Watts (RIP), the Engine of the Rolling Stones for Half a Century,
25 Aug 2021 in Music
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The Wicked Scene in Amadeus When Mozart Mocked the Talents of His Rival Antonio Salieri: How Much Does the Film Square with Reality?,
24 Aug 2021 in Film&History&Music
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360 Degree Virtual Tours of the Hagia Sophia,
23 Aug 2021 in Architecture&Art&History&Travel
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An Interactive Map of 530 Female Composers from Across the Globe,
23 Aug 2021 in Music
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Hear Philip K. Dick’s Famous Metz Speech: “If You Find this World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others” (1977),
20 Aug 2021 in Literature&Philosophy&Sci Fi