Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)

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Un Chien Andalou means “an Andalu­sian dog,” though the much-stud­ied 1929 short film of that title con­tains no dogs at all, from Andalu­sia or any­where else. In fact, it alludes to a Span­ish expres­sion about how the howl­ing of an Andalu­sian sig­nals that some­one has died. And indeed, there is death in Un Chien Andalou,…

Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing

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In 2004, the Brazil­ian musi­cian Seu Jorge record­ed a series of Por­tuguese cov­ers of David Bowie songs for Wes Anderson’s film The Life Aquat­ic with Steve Zis­sou. The next year, he released a full album of 13 Bowie clas­sics, and in 2016–2017, he even took the songs on tour. Now, in 2026, to mark the 10th anniver­sary of Bowie’s pass­ing, Jorge returns with the per­for­mance above. Set against a beau­ti­ful Brazil­ian coast­line, he sings some of Bowie’s most beloved tracks, all while in char­ac­ter as Pelé dos San­tos, the role he played in Anderson’s film. See the full track list below and enjoy.

Lady Star­dust
Rock ’n’ Roll Sui­cide
Queen Bitch
Oh! You Pret­ty Things
Suf­fragette City
Changes
Rebel Rebel
Quick­sand
Five Years
Team Zis­sou
Zig­gy Star­dust
Space Odd­i­ty
When I Live My Dream
Life on Mars?
Star­man

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A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas

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Buck­min­ster Fuller was, in many ways, a twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry man: an achieve­ment in itself, con­sid­er­ing he was born in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry and died in the twen­ti­eth. In fact, it may actu­al­ly count as his defin­ing achieve­ment. For all the inven­tions pre­sent­ed as rev­o­lu­tion­ary that nev­er real­ly caught on — the Dymax­ion house…

Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes

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FYI: Sesame Street has released on YouTube more than 140 full episodes from past sea­sons. On the Sesame Street Clas­sics chan­nel, you’ll find some icon­ic episodes, start­ing with the very first 1969 broad­cast. Watch it above. Also on that same chan­nel you can revis­it episodes where Big Bird reveals that Snuffy…

Watch the Evolution of Paris Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 300 BCE to 2025

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Though it’s eas­i­ly for­got­ten in our age of air trav­el and instan­ta­neous glob­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion, many a great city is locat­ed where it is because of a riv­er. That holds true every­where from Lon­don to Buenos Aires to Tokyo to New York — and even to Los Ange­les, despite its own once-uncon­trol­lable riv­er hav­ing long since…