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• Can You Spot Liars Through Their Body Language? A Former FBI Agent Breaks Down the Clues in Non-Verbal Communication, 21 Jan 2020 in Psychology
• How to Draw Like an Architect: An Introduction in Six Videos, 20 Jan 2020 in Architecture&Art
• Hear Christopher Tolkien (RIP) Read the Work of His Father J.R.R. Tolkien, Which He Tirelessly Worked to Preserve, 17 Jan 2020 in Books&Literature
• How Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Incited a Riot? An Animated Introduction, 16 Jan 2020 in Dance&History&Music
• How Sam Mendes’ WWI Film 1917 Was Made to Look Like One Long, Harrowing Shot, 15 Jan 2020 in Film
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Inventions Come to Life as Museum-Quality, Workable Models: A Swing Bridge, Scythed Chariot, Perpetual Motion Machine & More, 14 Jan 2020 in History&Physics&Technology
• Discover the Apprehension Engine: Brian Eno Called It “the Most Terrifying Musical Instrument of All Time”, 13 Jan 2020 in Music
• 14 Paris Museums Put 390,000 Works of Art Online: Download Classics by Monet, Cézanne & More, 10 Jan 2020 in Archives&Art&Museums
• The Art & Philosophy of Bonsai, 09 Jan 2020 in Art&Nature&Philosophy
• A Map of the Disney Entertainment Empire Reveals the Deep Connections Between Its Movies, Its Merchandise, Disneyland & More (1967), 08 Jan 2020 in Business&Comics/Cartoons&Film&Television
• Watch Peluca, the Student Film That Became the Cultural Phenomenon Napoleon Dynamite (2002), 07 Jan 2020 in Film
• The Vatican Library Goes Online and Digitizes Tens of Thousands of Manuscripts, Books, Coins, and More, 06 Jan 2020 in Books&History
• How Anna Karina (RIP) Became the Mesmerizing Face of the French New Wave, 03 Jan 2020 in Film
• The Music, Books & Films Liberated into the Public Domain in 2020: Rhapsody in Blue, The Magic Mountain, Sherlock, Jr., and More, 02 Jan 2020 in Books&Film&Music
• RIP Syd Mead: Revisit the Life and & Art of the Designer Behind Blade Runner, Alien & More, 01 Jan 2020 in Art&Film&Sci Fi
• A Recently-Discovered 44,000-Year-Old Cave Painting Tells the Oldest Known Story, 31 Dec 2019 in Art&History
• Why You Should Read Dune: An Animated Introduction to Frank Herbert’s Ecological, Psychological Sci-Fi Epic, 30 Dec 2019 in Animation&Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book Your Name? Robot, Created by Tarkovsky Art Director Mikhail Romadin (1979), 27 Dec 2019 in Art&Books
• Watch Annie Leibovitz Photograph and Get Scolded by Queen Elizabeth: “What Do You Think This Is?”, 26 Dec 2019 in Photography
• Hear Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas Carol Just as Dickens Read It, 25 Dec 2019 in Audio Books&History&Literature
• When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960), 25 Dec 2019 in Art&History
• Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Most Troubling Christmas Film Ever Made, 24 Dec 2019 in Film
• A Beautiful New Book of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Visual History of 200 Japanese Masterpieces Created Between 1680 and 1938, 23 Dec 2019 in Art&Books
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication in a New Online Course, 20 Dec 2019 in Online Courses&Science
• The Zen of Bill Murray: I Want to Be “Really Here, Really in It, Really Alive in the Moment”, 19 Dec 2019 in Life&Philosophy&Religion
• Why the University of Chicago Rejected Kurt Vonnegut’s Master’s Thesis (and How a Novel Got Him His Degree 27 Years Later), 18 Dec 2019 in Literature&Writing
• Seven Videos Explain How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Expressed American Loneliness and Alienation, 17 Dec 2019 in Art
• How Andrew Wyeth Made a Painting: A Journey Into His Best-Known Work Christina’s World, 16 Dec 2019 in Art
• “Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski, 13 Dec 2019 in Creativity&Life&Literature
• Malcolm Gladwell Admits His Insatiable Love for Thriller Novels and Recommends His Favorites, 12 Dec 2019 in Books
• David Lynch Turns Twin Peaks into a Virtual Reality Game: Watch the Official Trailer, 11 Dec 2019 in Games&Technology&Television
• How Martin Scorsese Directs a Movie: The Techniques Behind Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and More, 10 Dec 2019 in Film
• How to Improve Your Memory: Four TED Talks Explain the Techniques to Remember Anything, 09 Dec 2019 in Psychology&TED Talks
• David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling & Humor His New Masterclass, 06 Dec 2019 in Online Courses&Writing
• For the First Time, Studio Ghibli’s Entire Catalog Will Soon Be Available for Digital Purchase, 05 Dec 2019 in Animation&Film
• Kabuki Star Wars: Watch The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi Reinterpreted by Japan’s Most Famous Kabuki Actor, 04 Dec 2019 in Film&Sci Fi&Theatre
• Clive James & Jonathan Miller (Both RIP) Talk Together About How the Brain Works, 03 Dec 2019 in Neuroscience&Podcasts
• Watch a Hand-Drawn Animation of Neil Gaiman’s Poem “The Mushroom Hunters,” Narrated by Amanda Palmer, 02 Dec 2019 in Animation&Poetry&Science
• The Dream-Driven Filmmaking of Werner Herzog: Watch the Video Essay, “The Inner Chronicle of What We Are: Understanding Werner Herzog”, 29 Nov 2019 in Film
• The Isamu Noguchi Museum Puts Online an Archive of 60,000 Photographs, Manuscripts & Digitized Drawings by the Japanese Sculptor, 28 Nov 2019 in Archives&Art
• The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912): The Truly Weird Origin of Modern Stop-Motion Animation, 27 Nov 2019 in Animation&Film&History
• Watch 21 Animated Ideas from Big Thinkers: Steven Pinker, Carol Dweck, Philip Zimbardo, David Harvey & More, 26 Nov 2019 in Animation&Economics&Education&Psychology
• What Is Higher Consciousness?: How We Can Transcend Our Petty, Day-to-Day Desires and Gain a Deeper Wisdom, 25 Nov 2019 in Neuroscience&Philosophy&Psychology
• Neurosymphony: A High-Resolution Look into the Brain, Set to the Music of Brain Waves, 22 Nov 2019 in Neuroscience
• Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Explained in Animation, 21 Nov 2019 in Astronomy&Physics&Science
• 10 Paintings by Edward Hopper, the Most Cinematic American Painter of All, Turned into Animated GIFs, 20 Nov 2019 in Animation&Art
• Quentin Tarantino’s World War II Reading List, 19 Nov 2019 in Books&Film&History
• What Ancient Chinese Sounded Like — and How We Know It: An Animated Introduction, 18 Nov 2019 in History
• Download Hellvetica, a Font that Makes the Elegant Spacing of Helvetica Look as Ugly as Possible, 15 Nov 2019 in Design
• The First High-Resolution Map of America’s Food Supply Chain: How It All Really Gets from Farm to Table, 14 Nov 2019 in Food & Drink&Maps
• The Virtual Choir: Watch a Choir Conductor Digitally Unite 3500 Singers from Around the World, 13 Nov 2019 in Music&Technology
• An MRI Shows How a Singer Sings Two Tones at Once (With the Music of Mozart and Brian Eno), 12 Nov 2019 in Music
• Why David Sedaris Hates America’s Favorite Word, “Awesome”, 11 Nov 2019 in English Language
• A Map of How the Word “Tea” Spread Across the World, 08 Nov 2019 in Food & Drink&History
• The Benefits of Boredom: How to Stop Distracting Yourself and Get Creative Ideas Again, 07 Nov 2019 in Creativity&Neuroscience&Psychology
• Comic Sans Turns 25: Graphic Designer Vincent Connare Explains Why He Created the Most Hated Font in the World, 06 Nov 2019 in Design
• Watch J.S. Bach’s “Air on the G String” Played on the Actual Instruments from His Time, 05 Nov 2019 in Music
• The Very First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon, Taken 60 Years Ago, 05 Nov 2019 in Astronomy&History&Photography
• The Entire History of the British Isles Animated: 42,000 BCE to Today, 01 Nov 2019 in Animation&History
• Bowie’s Bookshelf: A New Essay Collection on The 100 Books That Changed David Bowie’s Life, 31 Oct 2019 in Books&Music
• Watch the Opening of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with the Original, Unused Score, 30 Oct 2019 in Film&Music
• The Beauty of Degraded Art: Why We Like Scratchy Vinyl, Grainy Film, Wobbly VHS & Other Analog-Media Imperfection, 29 Oct 2019 in Art&Film&Music
• Explore 1400 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh–and Much More–at the Van Gogh Museum’s Online Collection, 28 Oct 2019 in Art&Museums
• Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: The Occult Meets Surrealism in a Classic Tarot Card Deck, 26 Oct 2019 in Art&Books
• A Flowchart of Philosophical Novels: Reading Recommendations from Haruki Murakami to Don DeLillo, 25 Oct 2019 in Literature&Philosophy
• The Provocative Art of Modern Sketch, the Magazine That Captured the Cultural Explosion of 1930s Shanghai, 24 Oct 2019 in Art&History&Magazines
• The First Faked Photograph (1840), 22 Oct 2019 in History&Photography
• The Internet Archive Makes 2,500 More Classic MS-DOS Video Games Free to Play Online: Alone in the Dark, Doom, Microsoft Adventure, and Others, 21 Oct 2019 in Games&Internet Archive
• Banksy Launches a New Online Store: Make Purchases Through October 28, 18 Oct 2019 in Art
• The Politics & Philosophy of the Bauhaus Design Movement: A Short Introduction, 17 Oct 2019 in Art&Design&History&Politics
• How Magazine Pages Were Created Before Computers: A Veteran of the London Review of Books Demonstrates the Meticulous, Manual Process, 16 Oct 2019 in Design&History&Magazines
• Fight Club Came Out 20 Years Ago Today: Watch Five Video Essays on the Film’s Philosophy and Lasting Influence, 15 Oct 2019 in Film
• MIT Researchers 3D Print a Bridge Imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in 1502— and Prove That It Actually Works, 15 Oct 2019 in History&MIT&Technology
• William Burroughs Meets Francis Bacon: See Never-Broadcast Footage (1982), 14 Oct 2019 in Art&Literature&Television
• H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds Becomes a New BBC Miniseries Set in Edwardian England, 14 Oct 2019 in Literature&Sci Fi&Television
• Where Did Human Beings Come From? 7 Million Years of Human Evolution Visualized in Six Minutes, 10 Oct 2019 in Biology
• Watch 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki Free Online: A Four Part-Part Documentary on the Unstoppable Japanese Animator, 09 Oct 2019 in Animation&Film
• Talking Heads Songs Become Midcentury Pulp Novels, Magazines & Advertisements: “Burning Down the House,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and More, 08 Oct 2019 in Art&Design&Music
• 26-Year-Old Steve Jobs Debates the Utopian & Dystopian Promise of the Computer (1981), 08 Oct 2019 in History&Technology
• When Ted Turner Tried to Colorize Citizen Kane: See the Only Surviving Scene from the Great Act of Cinematic Sacrilege, 04 Oct 2019 in Film
• Metropolis Remixed: Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist Sci-Fi Classic Gets Fully Colorized and Dubbed, 02 Oct 2019 in Film&Sci Fi
• Quentin Tarantino Explains How to Write & Direct Movies, 01 Oct 2019 in Film
• The Japanese Fairy Tale Series: The Illustrated Books That Introduced Western Readers to Japanese Tales (1885–1922), 30 Sep 2019 in Art&Books
• Libraries & Archivists Are Digitizing 480,000 Books Published in 20th Century That Are Secretly in the Public Domain, 27 Sep 2019 in Archives&Books&Internet Archive
• A New Kurt Vonnegut Museum Opens in Indianapolis … Right in Time for Banned Books Week, 26 Sep 2019 in Literature&Museums
• The Proper Way to Eat Ramen: A Meditation from the Classic Japanese Comedy Tampopo (1985), 25 Sep 2019 in Film&Food & Drink
• “Thou Shalt Not”: A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Movie Censorship Code, 24 Sep 2019 in Film
• A Brief History of the Great American Road Trip, 24 Sep 2019 in History&Travel
• Wes Anderson Explains How He Writes and Directs Movies, and What Goes Into His Distinctive Filmmaking Style, 23 Sep 2019 in Film
• Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour Teaches a Course on Creativity & Leadership, 19 Sep 2019 in Fashion&Magazines&Online Courses
• Visit the Homes That Great Architects Designed for Themselves: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius & Frank Gehry, 18 Sep 2019 in Architecture
• Art Trips: Visit the Art of Cities Around the World, from Los Angeles & London, to Venice and New York, 17 Sep 2019 in Art&Travel
• How Sergio Leone Made Music an Actor in His Spaghetti Westerns, Creating a Perfect Harmony of Sound & Image, 16 Sep 2019 in Film&Music
• Watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice in Strikingly Restored Footage (1931), 13 Sep 2019 in Film&History&Sports
• Expressionist Dance Costumes from the 1920s, and the Tragic Story of Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt, 12 Sep 2019 in Dance&History
• American Cities Then & Now: See How New York, Los Angeles & Detroit Look Today, Compared to the 1930s and 1940s, 11 Sep 2019 in Architecture&History
• Watch an Archaeologist Play the “Lithophone,” a Prehistoric Instrument That Let Ancient Musicians Play Real Classic Rock, 10 Sep 2019 in History&Music
• Watch a Short 1967 Film That Imagines How We’d Live in 1999: Online Learning, Electronic Shopping, Flat Screen TVs & Much More, 09 Sep 2019 in Film&History&Technology
• Orson Welles Trashes Famous Directors: Alfred Hitchcock (“Egotism and Laziness”), Woody Allen (“His Arrogance Is Unlimited”) & More, 06 Sep 2019 in Film
• Why Learn Latin?: 5 Videos Make a Compelling Case That the “Dead Language” Is an “Eternal Language”, 05 Sep 2019 in Education&Language Lessons&TED Talks
• The History of Europe from 400 BC to the Present, Animated in 12 Minutes, 04 Sep 2019 in Animation&History
• The Greatest Cut in Film History: Watch the “Match Cut” Immortalized by Lawrence of Arabia, 03 Sep 2019 in Film
• What Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War Mural, 02 Sep 2019 in Art&History
• The Scandalous Painting That Helped Create Modern Art: An Introduction to Édouard Manet’s Olympia, 30 Aug 2019 in Art&History
• Ray Harryhausen’s Creepy War of the Worlds Sketches and Stop-Motion Test Footage, 29 Aug 2019 in Animation&Film
• Werner Herzog Narrates the Existential Journey of a Plastic Bag: Watch a Short Film by Acclaimed Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, 28 Aug 2019 in Film
• The Timeless Beauty of the Citroën DS, the Car Mythologized by Roland Barthes (1957), 27 Aug 2019 in History&Literature
• Why Should You Read Haruki Murakami? An Animated Video on His “Epic Literary Puzzle” Kafka on the Shore Makes the Case, 27 Aug 2019 in Animation&Books&Literature
• Why Route 66 Became America’s Most Famous Road, 23 Aug 2019 in History&Travel
• Where Zombies Come From: A Video Essay on the Origin of the Horrifying, Satirical Monsters, 22 Aug 2019 in Film
• The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders: A Tokyo Restaurant Where All the Servers Are People Living with Dementia, 21 Aug 2019 in Food & Drink&Neuroscience
• The Importance of Film Editing Demonstrated by the Bad Editing of Major Films: Bohemian Rhapsody, Suicide Squad & More, 20 Aug 2019 in Film
• Aldous Huxley Trips on Acid; Talks About Cats & the Secret of Life (1962), 19 Aug 2019 in History&Psychology
• Hear Laurie Anderson Read from The Tibetan Book of the Dead on New Album Songs from the Bardo, 16 Aug 2019 in Music&Religion
• People Pose in Uncanny Alignment with Iconic Album Covers: Discover The Sleeveface Project, 15 Aug 2019 in Music&Photography
• Philip K. Dick Tarot Cards: A Tarot Deck Modeled After the Visionary Sci-Fi Writer’s Inner World, 14 Aug 2019 in Literature&Sci Fi
• View/Download the Highest Resolution MRI Scan of a Human Brain, Revealing It as We’ve Never Seen It Before, 13 Aug 2019 in Neuroscience
• Hear Glenn Gould Celebrate the Moog Synthesizer & Wendy Carlos’ Pioneering Album Switched-On Bach (1968), 12 Aug 2019 in Music&Radio&Technology
• How to Focus: Five Talks Reveal the Secrets of Concentration, 09 Aug 2019 in Creativity&Life&Neuroscience&Psychology
• How Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Computer Code That Helped Save the Apollo Moon Landing Mission, 08 Aug 2019 in Computer Science&History&Technology
• Joyce Carol Oates Teaches a New Online Course on the Art of the Short Story, 07 Aug 2019 in Literature&Online Courses&Writing
• What the First Movies Really Looked Like: Discover the IMAX Films of the 1890s, 06 Aug 2019 in Film&History
• RIP D.A. Pennebaker: Watch Scenes from His Groundbreaking Bob Dylan Documentary Dont Look Back, 05 Aug 2019 in Film&Music
• The Authentic Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Watch a Performance Based on Original Manuscripts & Played with 18th-Century Instruments, 05 Aug 2019 in Music
• The Authentic Pachelbel’s Canon: Watch a Performance Based on the Original Manuscript & Played with Original 17th-Century Instruments, 01 Aug 2019 in Music
• How Quentin Tarantino Steals from Other Movies: A Video Essay, 31 Jul 2019 in Film
• How Ladies & Gentlemen Got Dressed in the 18th Century: It Was a Pretty Involved Process, 30 Jul 2019 in Fashion&History
• Behold Color Photographs Taken During the Aftermath of San Francisco’s Devastating 1906 Earthquake, 29 Jul 2019 in History&Photography
• Martin Amis Explains How to Use a Thesaurus to Actually Improve Your Writing, 26 Jul 2019 in Literature&Writing
• Bryan Magee (RIP) Presents In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers, 26 Jul 2019 in Philosophy
• “I Saw the Future”: Rutger Hauer (RIP) Remembers His Most Memorable Role in Blade Runner, 24 Jul 2019 in Film
• Why 1999 Was the Year of Dystopian Office Movies: What The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space & Being John Malkovich Shared in Common, 24 Jul 2019 in Film&History
• The Velvet Underground Captured in Color Concert Footage by Andy Warhol (1967), 23 Jul 2019 in Film&Music
• What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Listens to John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space & Starts to Create Its Own Free Jazz, 22 Jul 2019 in Music&Technology
• Alexis de Tocqueville’s Prediction of How American Democracy Could Lapse Into Despotism, Read by Michel Houellebecq, 19 Jul 2019 in Books&History&Politics
• An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, 18 Jul 2019 in Books&Literature
• Beatles Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers and Magazine Pages: “Drive My Car,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” & More, 17 Jul 2019 in Books&Design&Music
• The Principles for Success by Entrepreneur & Investor Ray Dalio: A 30-Minute Animated Primer, 16 Jul 2019 in Life&Philosophy
• George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Praised as the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, Gets Digitized as Early Installments Enter the Public Domain, 15 Jul 2019 in Comics/Cartoons
• A Beautiful 1870 Visualization of the Hallucinations That Come Before a Migraine, 12 Jul 2019 in History&Science