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• Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Commencement Address: “Effortless Is a Myth” & Other Life Lessons from Tennis, 13 Jun 2024 in Graduation Speech&Sports
• Harvard Removes the Human Skin Binding from a Book in Its Collection Since 1934, 12 Jun 2024 in Books&Harvard&History&Libraries
• How the 13th-Century Sufi Poet Rumi Became One of the World’s Most Popular Writers, 12 Jun 2024 in History&Poetry&Religion
• The Romans Stashed Hallucinogenic Seeds in a Vial Made From an Animal Bone, 10 Jun 2024 in History
• How Las Vegas’ Sphere Actually Works: A Looks Inside the New $2.3 Billion Arena, 10 Jun 2024 in Music&Technology
• Is Reality Real?: 8 Scientists Explain Whether We Can Ever Know What Objectively Exists, 06 Jun 2024 in Neuroscience
• Patti Smith Reads Her Final Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Beautiful Work of All”, 05 Jun 2024 in Art&Music&Photography
• The Radical Artistic & Philosophical World of William Blake: A Short Introduction, 04 Jun 2024 in Art&History
• Stephen King Names His Five Favorite Works by Stephen King, 03 Jun 2024 in Books&Television
• When a Drunken Charles Bukowski Walked Off the Prestigious French Talk Show Apostrophes (1978), 03 Jun 2024 in Literature&Television
• How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets You See, 30 May 2024 in History
• When the CIA Studied Psychic Techniques to Alter Human Consciousness & Unlock Time Travel: Discover “The Gateway Process”, 29 May 2024 in History&Psychology
• Ancient Greek Armor Gets Tested in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation Inspired by the Iliad, 28 May 2024 in History
• Watch Philosophy Lectures That Became a Hit During COVID by Professor Michael Sugrue (RIP): From Plato and Marcus Aurelius to Critical Theory, 27 May 2024 in History&Philosophy
• A 6‑Step Guide to Zen Buddhism, Presented by Psychiatrist-Zen Master Robert Waldinger, 24 May 2024 in Psychology&Religion
• Fritz Lang First Depicted Artificial Intelligence on Film in Metropolis (1927), and It Frightened People Even Then, 23 May 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Film&Technology
• Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed, 22 May 2024 in Art&History
• Why Medieval Bologna Was Full of Tall Towers, and What Happened to Them, 21 May 2024 in Architecture&History
• Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Online Education in 1988–and It’s Now Coming True in the Age of AI & Smartphones, 20 May 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Education&Technology
• RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and Others on His TV Show Night Music, 17 May 2024 in Music&Television
• A Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock, Kubrick, Errol Morris & Other Auteurs, 16 May 2024 in Film&YouTube
• Wes Anderson Directs & Stars in an Ad Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Montblanc’s Signature Pen, 15 May 2024 in Business&Film
• Hannah Arendt Explains How Totalitarian Regimes Arise–and How We Can Prevent Them, 14 May 2024 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• George Orwell’s Political Views, Explained in His Own Words, 14 May 2024 in History&Literature&Politics
• A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness, 13 May 2024 in History&Music
• Aldous Huxley Explains How Man Became “the Victim of His Own Technology” (1961), 10 May 2024 in History&Literature&Technology&Television
• Watch Animations Showing How Humans Migrated Across the World Over the Past 60,000 Years, 08 May 2024 in History
• Download 131,000 Historic Maps from the Huge David Rumsey Map Collection, 07 May 2024 in Archives&History&Maps
• What Is Religion Actually For?: Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury Weigh In, 06 May 2024 in Literature&Religion&Sci Fi
• High-Tech Analysis of Ancient Scroll Reveals Plato’s Burial Site and Final Hours, 03 May 2024 in History&Philosophy&Technology
• RIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a Writer, 02 May 2024 in Books&Literature&Writing
• A 5‑Hour Journey Through North Korean Entertainment: Propaganda Films, Kids’ Cartoons, Sketch Comedy & More, 01 May 2024 in Film&History
• André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto Turns 100 This Year, 30 Apr 2024 in Art&History
• How Édouard Manet Became “the Father of Impressionism” with the Scandalous Panting, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863), 29 Apr 2024 in Art&History
• What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction, 26 Apr 2024 in Politics&Technology
• Inside the Beautiful Home Frank Lloyd Wright Designed for His Son (1952), 25 Apr 2024 in Architecture
• Steven Spielberg Calls Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “the First Punk Rock Movie Ever Made”, 24 Apr 2024 in Film
• A Guided Tour of the Largest Handmade Model of Imperial Rome: Discover the 20x20 Meter Model Created During the 1930s, 23 Apr 2024 in Architecture&History
• Humans First Started Enjoying Cannabis in China Circa 2800 BC, 22 Apr 2024 in Biology&History
• Discover the Singing Nuns Who Have Turned Medieval Latin Hymns into Modern Hits, 19 Apr 2024 in Music&Religion
• Beautifully-Preserved Frescoes with Figures from the Trojan War Discovered in a Lavish Pompeii Home, 18 Apr 2024 in Architecture&History
• An Archive of Vividly Illustrated Japanese Schoolbooks, from the 1800s to World War II, 17 Apr 2024 in Books&History
• How the Berlin Wall Worked: The Engineering & Structural Design of the Wall That Formidably Divided East & West, 16 Apr 2024 in Architecture&History&Politics
• How the Year 2440 Was Imagined in a 1771 French Sci-Fi Novel, 15 Apr 2024 in Books&History&Literature&Sci Fi
• Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips, 15 Apr 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• Studio Ghibli Lets You Download Free Images from Hayao Miyazaki’s “Final” Film, The Boy and the Heron, 11 Apr 2024 in Animation&Film
• Ernest Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring, Young Writers (1935), 10 Apr 2024 in Literature&Writing
• How Photos Were Transmitted by Wire in 1937: The Innovative Technology of a Century Ago, 09 Apr 2024 in History&Media&Photography&Technology
• When a Medieval Monk Crowdsourced the Most Accurate Map of the World, Creating “the Google Earth of the 1450s”, 08 Apr 2024 in History&Maps
• 23 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts, 05 Apr 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• How to Rewire Your Brain in 6 Weeks: A BBC Reporter Explores How Everyday Life Changes Can Alter Our Brains, 04 Apr 2024 in Neuroscience&Psychology
• David Lynch Explains Why Depression Is the Enemy of Creativity–and Why Meditation Is the Solution, 03 Apr 2024 in Creativity&Psychology
• Download 9,200+ Free Films from the Prelinger Archives: Documentaries, Cartoons & More, 02 Apr 2024 in Archives&Film&History
• Is America Declining Like Ancient Rome?, 02 Apr 2024 in History
• Learn the Korean Language with Hundreds of Episodes of Let’s Speak Korean Free Online, 01 Apr 2024 in Language Lessons
• The Song From the 1500’s That Blows Rick Beato Away: An Introduction to John Dowland’s Entrancing Music, 28 Mar 2024 in History&Music
• Hear the Evolution of Mozart’s Music, Composed from Ages 5 to 35, 27 Mar 2024 in History&Music
• The Oldest Known Photographs of India (1863–1870), 26 Mar 2024 in Architecture&History&Photography
• The Evolution of Animation, 1833–2017: From the Phenakistiscope to Pixar, 25 Mar 2024 in Animation&History
• The Cult of the Criterion Collection: The Company Dedicated to Gathering & Distributing the Greatest Films from Around the World, 25 Mar 2024 in Film
• Laurence Fishburne Reads a Former Slave’s Incredible Letter to His Old Master (1865), 21 Mar 2024 in History&Letters
• 180,000 Years of Religion Charted on a “Histomap” in 1943, 20 Mar 2024 in Design&History&Religion
• When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Plan to Turn Ellis Island Into a Futuristic Jules Verne-Esque City (1959), 19 Mar 2024 in Architecture&History
• An Architectural Tour of Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s Audacious Church That’s Been Under Construction for 142 Years, 18 Mar 2024 in Architecture&History&Religion
• An Introduction to the Astrolabe, the Medieval Smartphone, 15 Mar 2024 in History&Technology
• The Book of Colour Concepts: A New 800-Page Celebration of Color Theory, Including Works by Newton, Goethe, and Hilma af Klint, 14 Mar 2024 in Art&Books&History
• The 15 Greatest Documentaries of All Time: Explore Films by Werner Herzog, Errol Morris & More, 13 Mar 2024 in Film
• Vincent Van Gogh’s Final Painting: Discover Tree Roots, the Last Creative Act of the Dutch Painter (1890), 12 Mar 2024 in Art
• When François Truffaut Made a Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966), 11 Mar 2024 in Film&Literature
• The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like, 08 Mar 2024 in Archives&Museums
• How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee: An Animated History, 07 Mar 2024 in Food & Drink&History
• Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969), 06 Mar 2024 in Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• Hear Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Performed in Classical Latin, 05 Mar 2024 in Language&Music
• The Most Beautiful Shots in Cinema History: Scenes from 100+ Films, 04 Mar 2024 in Film
• How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever, 01 Mar 2024 in Books&Literature&Writing
• Watch the Film That Invented Cinema: Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895), 29 Feb 2024 in Film&History
• The Armored-Knight “Robot” Designed by Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495), 28 Feb 2024 in History&Technology
• The Life & Work of Richard Feynman Explored in a Three-Part Freakonomics Radio Miniseries, 27 Feb 2024 in Physics&Science
• A Preview of Sora, the New OpenAI Tool That Creates Remarkable AI-Generated Videos, 26 Feb 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Film&Technology
• A Walking Tour of Los Angeles Architecture: From Art Deco to California Bungalow, 26 Feb 2024 in Architecture
• Discover the World’s Oldest University, Which Opened in 427 CE, Housed 9 Million Manuscripts, and Then Educated Students for 800 Years, 22 Feb 2024 in Education&History&Religion
• Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future in 1982: Computers Will Be “at the Center of Everything;” Robots Will Take Human Jobs, 21 Feb 2024 in History&Technology&Television
• Scenes from Life in Paris During the 1920s, Colorized and Restored: Cafés, Notre Dame, Street Life & More, 20 Feb 2024 in Film&History
• Watch a 1915 Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Enhanced in 4K, with Costumes Based on Original Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, 20 Feb 2024 in Film&Literature
• Architect Breaks Down the Design Of Four Iconic New York City Museums: the Met, MoMA, Guggenheim & Frick, 16 Feb 2024 in Architecture&Art
• Brian Eno’s Beautiful New Turntable Glows & Constantly Changes Colors as It Plays, 15 Feb 2024 in Art&Music
• A 3D Animation Shows the Evolution of New York City (1524 — 2023), 14 Feb 2024 in Architecture&History
• Black History in Two Minutes: Watch 93 Videos Written & Narrated by Henry Louis Gates Jr., 13 Feb 2024 in History
• Why Incompetent People Think They’re Competent: The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Explained, 12 Feb 2024 in Psychology
• Ten of the Most Expensive Arts & Art Supplies in the Worlds: Japanese Bonsai Scissors & Calligraphy Brushes, Tunisian Dye Made from Snails and More, 12 Feb 2024 in Art
• Is Consciousness an Illusion?? Five Experts in Science, Religion & Technology Explain, 09 Feb 2024 in Neuroscience&Philosophy&Religion
• A Cultural Tour of Istanbul, Where the Art and History of Three Great Empires Come Together, 07 Feb 2024 in Art&History&Travel
• The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol’s “The Overcoat”, 06 Feb 2024 in Animation&Film&Literature
• The Disney Artist Who Developed Donald Duck & Remained Anonymous for Years, Despite Being “the Most Popular and Widely Read Artist-Writer in the World”, 05 Feb 2024 in Comics/Cartoons
• How French Cinema Works, 05 Feb 2024 in Film
• A 500-Page Book Explores the Ghosts & Monsters from Japanese Folklore, 01 Feb 2024 in Art&Books&History
• Plato’s Dialogue Gorgias Gets Adapted into a Short Avant-Garde Film, 31 Jan 2024 in Film&Philosophy
• How Being Bilingual Helps Your Brain (Even If You Learn a New Language in Adulthood), 30 Jan 2024 in Language&Neuroscience
• The Codex Seraphinianus: How Italian Artist Luigi Serafini Came to Write & Illustrate “the Strangest Book Ever Published” (1981), 29 Jan 2024 in Art&Books
• How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking: Advice from Tim Ferriss, 26 Jan 2024 in Writing
• The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi & Beyond, 25 Jan 2024 in Film&History
• A Fan-Made Film Reconstructs an Entire Tom Waits Concert from His “Glitter and Doom Tour” (2008), 25 Jan 2024 in Music
• Read Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666), 24 Jan 2024 in Books&History&Literature&Sci Fi
• Music Producer Steve Albini, Director Godfrey Reggio & Actor Fred Armisen Explain Why Creating Is Crucial to Human Existence, 23 Jan 2024 in Creativity&Life
• Before ChatGPT, There Was ELIZA: Watch the 1960s Chatbot in Action, 22 Jan 2024 in History&Technology
• How Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldinger, 19 Jan 2024 in Life&Psychology
• A Beautiful Visual Tour of Tirranna, One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Remarkable, Final Creations, 18 Jan 2024 in Architecture
• How George Washington Became President of the United States: It Was Weirder Than You Think, 16 Jan 2024 in History&Politics
• Why Perpetual Motion Machines Never Work, Despite Centuries of Experiments, 16 Jan 2024 in History&Physics&Technology
• AI “Completes” Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting and Controversy Erupts, 12 Jan 2024 in Art&Technology
• Ten Magnificent Historical Libraries (That You Can Still Visit Today), 11 Jan 2024 in Architecture&Books&Travel
• 51 Propaganda Techniques Explained in 11 Minutes: From Cognitive Dissonance to Appeal to Fear, 10 Jan 2024 in Media&Politics&Psychology
• Hear the Dying Whistled Language of Laos, Featured in a New Short Film, “Birdsong”, 09 Jan 2024 in Language
• Why Caspar David Friedrich’s Painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) Is a Romantic Masterpiece, Evoking the Power of the Sublime, 08 Jan 2024 in Art&History
• How This Chicago Skyscraper Barely Touches the Ground, 08 Jan 2024 in Architecture
• Hortus Eystettensis: The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613), 05 Jan 2024 in Biology&Books&History&Nature
• How Londinium Became London, Lutetia Became Paris, and Other Roman Cities Got Their Modern Names, 03 Jan 2024 in History
• The Surprising Map of Plants: A New Animation Shows How All the Different Plants Relate to Each Other, 03 Jan 2024 in Biology&Maps&Nature
• What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2024: Enjoy Classic Works by Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, D. H. Lawrence, Bertolt Brecht & More, 02 Jan 2024 in Books&Film&Law&Music
• The Great Gatsby Explained: How F. Scott Fitzgerald Indicted & Endorsed the American Dream (1925), 02 Jan 2024 in Books&Literature
• How Toilets Worked in Ancient Rome and Medieval England, 28 Dec 2023 in History&Life
• Behold the “Double Helix” Staircase Often Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci: It Features Two Intertwined Spiral Staircases That Let People Ascend & Descend Without Obstructing Each Other, 27 Dec 2023 in Architecture&History
• Two Ways To Shoot The Same Scene: A Comparison of The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and You’ve Got Mail (1998) Shows How Filmmaking Changed Over the Decades, 27 Dec 2023 in Film&History
• For 500 Years, Every Student Who Attained a BA from Oxford Had to Swear Enmity Towards a Person Named Henry Symeonis, 26 Dec 2023 in History
• An Introduction to Vince Guaraldi, the Jazz Composer Who Created the Best Christmas Album Ever, A Charlie Brown Christmas, 23 Dec 2023 in Animation&Music
• John Waters’ Hand-Made, Oddball Christmas Cards: 1964-Present, 22 Dec 2023 in Creativity&Film
• Hear the Haunting Aztec “Death Whistle,” the Instrument That Made Sounds Resembling a Human Scream, 20 Dec 2023 in History&Music
• Why Abel Gance’s 1927 Napoléon Is “the Most Creative Film Ever Made”, 20 Dec 2023 in Film&History
• The World Map That Introduced Scientific Mapmaking to the Medieval Islamic World (1154 AD), 15 Dec 2023 in History&Maps
• Björk Takes You on a Journey into the Vast Kingdom of Mushrooms with the New Documentary Fungi: Web of Life, 14 Dec 2023 in Film&Nature
• Who Is Killing Cinema?: A Murder Mystery Identifies the Cultural & Economic Culprits, 14 Dec 2023 in Film
• The Ten Earliest Depictions of Jesus: How Art Visualized Jesus in the First Centuries After His Death, 13 Dec 2023 in Art&History&Religion
• 101 Hidden Gems: The Greatest Films You’ve Never Seen, 12 Dec 2023 in Film
• What the Romans Saw When They Reached New Parts of the World: Hear First-Hand Accounts by Appian, Pliny, Tacitus & Other Ancient Historians, 12 Dec 2023 in History
• RIP Norman Lear: Watch Full Episodes of His Daring 70s Sitcoms, Including All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, and More, 07 Dec 2023 in History&Television
• A Visit to Tianducheng, China’s Eerily Empty $1 Billion Copy of Paris, 06 Dec 2023 in Architecture&Travel
• How Central Park Was Created Entirely By Design & Not By Nature: An Architect Breaks Down America’s Greatest Urban Park, 06 Dec 2023 in Architecture&Nature
• All the Rivers of the World Shown in Rainbow Colors: A Data Visualization to Explore, 05 Dec 2023 in Maps
• A Map of All the Countries Mentioned in the Bible: What The Countries Were Called Then, and Now, 04 Dec 2023 in History&Maps&Religion
• RIP Shane MacGowan: Watch the Celtic Punk Rocker Perform with Nick Cave, Kirsty MacColl & the Dubliners, 01 Dec 2023 in Music