About: cjmarshall
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Posts by cjmarshall:
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Architect Breaks Down the Design Of Four Iconic New York City Museums: the Met, MoMA, Guggenheim & Frick,
16 Feb 2024 in Architecture&Art
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Brian Eno’s Beautiful New Turntable Glows & Constantly Changes Colors as It Plays,
15 Feb 2024 in Art&Music
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A 3D Animation Shows the Evolution of New York City (1524 — 2023),
14 Feb 2024 in Architecture&History
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Black History in Two Minutes: Watch 93 Videos Written & Narrated by Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
13 Feb 2024 in History
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Why Incompetent People Think They’re Competent: The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Explained,
12 Feb 2024 in Psychology
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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
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Is Consciousness an Illusion?? Five Experts in Science, Religion & Technology Explain,
09 Feb 2024 in Neuroscience&Philosophy&Religion
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A Cultural Tour of Istanbul, Where the Art and History of Three Great Empires Come Together,
07 Feb 2024 in Art&History&Travel
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The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol’s “The Overcoat”,
06 Feb 2024 in Animation&Film&Literature
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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
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How French Cinema Works,
05 Feb 2024 in Film
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A 500-Page Book Explores the Ghosts & Monsters from Japanese Folklore,
01 Feb 2024 in Art&Books&History
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Plato’s Dialogue Gorgias Gets Adapted into a Short Avant-Garde Film,
31 Jan 2024 in Film&Philosophy
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How Being Bilingual Helps Your Brain (Even If You Learn a New Language in Adulthood),
30 Jan 2024 in Language&Neuroscience
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The Codex Seraphinianus: How Italian Artist Luigi Serafini Came to Write & Illustrate “the Strangest Book Ever Published” (1981),
29 Jan 2024 in Art&Books
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How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking: Advice from Tim Ferriss,
26 Jan 2024 in Writing
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The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi & Beyond,
25 Jan 2024 in Film&History
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A Fan-Made Film Reconstructs an Entire Tom Waits Concert from His “Glitter and Doom Tour” (2008),
25 Jan 2024 in Music
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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
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Music Producer Steve Albini, Director Godfrey Reggio & Actor Fred Armisen Explain Why Creating Is Crucial to Human Existence,
23 Jan 2024 in Creativity&Life
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Before ChatGPT, There Was ELIZA: Watch the 1960s Chatbot in Action,
22 Jan 2024 in History&Technology
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How Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldinger,
19 Jan 2024 in Life&Psychology
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A Beautiful Visual Tour of Tirranna, One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Remarkable, Final Creations,
18 Jan 2024 in Architecture
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How George Washington Became President of the United States: It Was Weirder Than You Think,
16 Jan 2024 in History&Politics
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Why Perpetual Motion Machines Never Work, Despite Centuries of Experiments,
16 Jan 2024 in History&Physics&Technology
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AI “Completes” Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting and Controversy Erupts,
12 Jan 2024 in Art&Technology
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Ten Magnificent Historical Libraries (That You Can Still Visit Today),
11 Jan 2024 in Architecture&Books&Travel
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51 Propaganda Techniques Explained in 11 Minutes: From Cognitive Dissonance to Appeal to Fear,
10 Jan 2024 in Media&Politics&Psychology
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Hear the Dying Whistled Language of Laos, Featured in a New Short Film, “Birdsong”,
09 Jan 2024 in Language
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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
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How This Chicago Skyscraper Barely Touches the Ground,
08 Jan 2024 in Architecture
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Hortus Eystettensis: The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613),
05 Jan 2024 in Biology&Books&History&Nature
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How Londinium Became London, Lutetia Became Paris, and Other Roman Cities Got Their Modern Names,
03 Jan 2024 in History
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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
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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
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The Great Gatsby Explained: How F. Scott Fitzgerald Indicted & Endorsed the American Dream (1925),
02 Jan 2024 in Books&Literature
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How Toilets Worked in Ancient Rome and Medieval England,
28 Dec 2023 in History&Life
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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
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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
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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
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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
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John Waters’ Hand-Made, Oddball Christmas Cards: 1964-Present,
22 Dec 2023 in Creativity&Film
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Hear the Haunting Aztec “Death Whistle,” the Instrument That Made Sounds Resembling a Human Scream,
20 Dec 2023 in History&Music
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Why Abel Gance’s 1927 Napoléon Is “the Most Creative Film Ever Made”,
20 Dec 2023 in Film&History
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The World Map That Introduced Scientific Mapmaking to the Medieval Islamic World (1154 AD),
15 Dec 2023 in History&Maps
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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
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Who Is Killing Cinema?: A Murder Mystery Identifies the Cultural & Economic Culprits,
14 Dec 2023 in Film
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The Ten Earliest Depictions of Jesus: How Art Visualized Jesus in the First Centuries After His Death,
13 Dec 2023 in Art&History&Religion
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101 Hidden Gems: The Greatest Films You’ve Never Seen,
12 Dec 2023 in Film
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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
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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
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A Visit to Tianducheng, China’s Eerily Empty $1 Billion Copy of Paris,
06 Dec 2023 in Architecture&Travel
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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
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All the Rivers of the World Shown in Rainbow Colors: A Data Visualization to Explore,
05 Dec 2023 in Maps
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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
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RIP Shane MacGowan: Watch the Celtic Punk Rocker Perform with Nick Cave, Kirsty MacColl & the Dubliners,
01 Dec 2023 in Music
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Rome Reborn: A New 3D Virtual Model Lets You Fly Over the Great Monuments of Ancient Rome,
30 Nov 2023 in History&Technology
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The Surprisingly Long History of Auto-Tune, the Vocal-Processing Technology Music Critics Love to Hate,
29 Nov 2023 in Music&Technology
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The New York Public Library Presents an Archive of 860,000 Historical Images: Download Medieval Manuscripts, Japanese Prints, William Blake Illustrations & More,
28 Nov 2023 in Archives&History&Libraries
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Behold Ancient Egyptian, Greek & Roman Sculptures in Their Original Color,
28 Nov 2023 in Art&History&Museums
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Stephen Fry Reads Nick Cave’s Stirring Letter About ChatGPT and Human Creativity: “We Are Fighting for the Very Soul of the World”,
24 Nov 2023 in Letters&Technology
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A Deep, Track-by-Track Analysis of The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd’s Musical Journey Through the Stresses & Anxieties of Modern Existence,
24 Nov 2023 in Music
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Oculi Mundi: A Beautiful Online Archive of 130 Ancient Maps, Atlases & Globes,
21 Nov 2023 in History&Maps
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What Is Postmodern Architecture?: An Introduction in Three Videos,
21 Nov 2023 in Architecture
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The Entire Manuscript Collection of Geoffrey Chaucer Gets Digitized: A New Archive Features 25,000 Images of The Canterbury Tales & Other Illustrated Medieval Manuscripts,
20 Nov 2023 in Archives&Books&Literature
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130+ Photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece Fallingwater,
16 Nov 2023 in Architecture&Photography
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Astronomers Create a Digital Atlas of Over 380,000 Galaxies,
16 Nov 2023 in Astronomy
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Advice for Time Traveling to Medieval Europe: How to Stay Healthy & Safe, and Avoiding Charges of Witchcraft,
14 Nov 2023 in History
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Explore the Florentine Codex: A Brilliant 16th Century Manuscript Documenting Aztec Culture Is Now Digitized & Available Online,
14 Nov 2023 in Books&History
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Watch Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Get Entirely Recreated with 50,000 LEGO Bricks,
10 Nov 2023 in Art
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One Hour of David Lynch Listening to Rain, Smoking & Reflecting on Art,
09 Nov 2023 in Art&Film&Life
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Why People Hate Brutalist Buildings on American College Campuses,
08 Nov 2023 in Architecture&History
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A Secret Room with Drawings Attributed to Michelangelo Opens to Visitors in Florence,
07 Nov 2023 in Art&History&Museums
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Watch David Bowie Perform “Starman” on Top of the Pops: Voted the Greatest Music Performance Ever on the BBC (1972),
07 Nov 2023 in Music&Television
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The Beatles Release Their Final Song, “Now and Then”: Hear the Song & Watch the Music Video Directed by Peter Jackson,
03 Nov 2023 in Music
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Watch the Trailer for the Long-Lost First Film Adaptation of The Great Gatsby (1926),
02 Nov 2023 in Film&Literature
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Leonardo da Vinci Created the Design for the Miter Lock, Which Is Still Used in the Panama and Suez Canals,
01 Nov 2023 in History&Technology
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Animated: The Rise & Fall of the Largest Cities in the World, from 3,000 BC to the 2020s,
01 Nov 2023 in History
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Jerry Garcia Explains How Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Changed His Life (1995),
31 Oct 2023 in Film&Music
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The Writing Systems of the World Explained, from the Latin Alphabet to the Abugidas of India,
30 Oct 2023 in Language&Writing
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How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock & Other Abstract Expressionists to Fight the Cold War,
27 Oct 2023 in Art&History
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Behold Gustave Doré’s Illustrations for Rabelais’ Grotesque Satirical Masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel,
26 Oct 2023 in Art&Books&Literature
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How the “Lost Cities” of the Amazon Were Finally Discovered,
25 Oct 2023 in History
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The History of the Electric Guitar Solo: A Seven-Part Series,
24 Oct 2023 in History&Music
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Watch the Sesame Street Episode Banned for Being Too Scary, Featuring The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West (1976),
23 Oct 2023 in Television
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Watch David Byrne Practice His Dance Moves for Stop Making Sense in Newly Released Behind-the-Scenes Footage,
19 Oct 2023 in Dance&Film&Music
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Meet Jason Arday, the Cambridge Professor Who Didn’t Learn to Talk Until Age 11, or to Read Until Age 18,
18 Oct 2023 in Education&Psychology
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What Makes James Joyce’s Ulysses a Masterpiece: Great Books Explained,
17 Oct 2023 in Books&History&Literature
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A New Online Archive Lets You Read the Whole Earth Catalog and Other Whole Earth Publications, Taking You from 1970 to 2002,
16 Oct 2023 in Archives&Internet Archive&Magazines
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Researchers Use AI to Decode the First Word on an Ancient Scroll Burned by Vesuvius,
13 Oct 2023 in History&Technology
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A Lavishly Illustrated Catalog of All Hummingbird Species Known in the 19th Century Gets Restored & Put Online,
12 Oct 2023 in Art&Books&Nature
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Discover the Regions in Italy Where the People Descended from the Medieval or Ancient Greeks, and Still Speak Greek,
12 Oct 2023 in History&Language&Travel
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How Artemisia Gentileschi, the Pioneering 17th-Century Female Painter, Outdid Caravaggio with the Striking, Violent Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1620),
11 Oct 2023 in Art&History
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An Introduction to René Magritte, and How the Belgian Artist Used an Ordinary Style to Create Extraordinarily Surreal Paintings,
10 Oct 2023 in Art&History
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Why Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Rococo Masterpiece, The Swing, Is Less Innocent Than It First Appears,
06 Oct 2023 in Art&History
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How to Read Five Books Per Month & Become a Serious Reader: Tips from Deep Work Author Cal Newport,
05 Oct 2023 in Books&Life
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A BBC Science Show Introduces the Moog Synthesizer in 1969,
04 Oct 2023 in History&Music&Television
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Venice Explained: Its Architecture, Its Streets, Its Canals, and How Best to Experience Them All,
03 Oct 2023 in Architecture&History&Travel
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What Makes Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square (1915) Not Just Art, But Important Art,
02 Oct 2023 in Art&History
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How Japanese Kintsugi Masters Restore Pottery by Beautifying the Cracks,
29 Sep 2023 in Art
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When a Young Sofia Coppola & Zoe Cassavetes Made Their Own TV Show: Revisit Hi-Octane (1994),
29 Sep 2023 in Television
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Noam Chomsky Explains Why Nobody Is Really a Moral Relativist, Even Michel Foucault,
28 Sep 2023 in Philosophy
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Martin Scorsese Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, and More,
27 Sep 2023 in Film
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Stream Hundreds of Hours of Studio Ghibli Movie Music That Will Help You Study, Work, or Simply Relax: My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & More,
26 Sep 2023 in Animation&Film&Music
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Do You Think About Ancient Rome Every Day? Then Browse a Wealth of Videos, Maps & Photos That Explore the Roman Empire,
25 Sep 2023 in History
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How Big Ben Works: A Detailed Look Inside London’s Beloved Victorian Clock Tower,
22 Sep 2023 in Architecture&History
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Why Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Gas Station in Minnesota (1958),
21 Sep 2023 in Architecture&History
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Scientists Working in Antarctica Unwittingly Started to Develop a New Accent,
20 Sep 2023 in Language
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The 500-Year-Old Chinese “Bagel” That Helped Win a War,
20 Sep 2023 in Food & Drink&History
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Why the Leaning Tower of Pisa Still Hasn’t Fallen Over, Even After 650 Years,
19 Sep 2023 in Architecture&History
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The Only Color Picture of Tolstoy, Taken by Photography Pioneer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1908),
18 Sep 2023 in History&Literature&Photography
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The 50 Greatest Music Videos of All Time, Ranked by AV Club,
14 Sep 2023 in Film&Music
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The Earliest Surviving Photos of Iran: Photos from 1850s-60s Capture Everything from Grand Palaces to the Ruins of Persepolis,
13 Sep 2023 in History&Photography
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How to Make Medieval Mead: A 13th Century Recipe,
12 Sep 2023 in Food & Drink&History
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When Salvador Dalí Gave a Lecture at the Sorbonne & Arrived in a Rolls Royce Full of Cauliflower (1955),
11 Sep 2023 in Art&History&Television
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A Mischievous Samurai Describes His Rough-and-Tumble Life in 19th Century Japan,
07 Sep 2023 in History
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Behold 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Socks Made with Nålbindning, an Ancient Proto-Knitting Technique,
06 Sep 2023 in Fashion&History
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All This and World War II: The Forgotten 1976 Film That Mashed Up WWII Film Clips & Beatles Covers by Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Keith Moon & More,
06 Sep 2023 in Film&History&Music
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How Artists Get Famous: A Physicist Reveals How Networks (and Not Just Talent) Contribute to Artistic Success,
05 Sep 2023 in Art&Data
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The Oldest Restaurant in the World: How Madrid’s Sobrino de Botín Has Kept the Oven Hot Since 1725,
04 Sep 2023 in Food & Drink&History
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The Stoic Wisdom of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius: An Introduction in Six Short Videos,
31 Aug 2023 in History&Philosophy
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A Mesmerizing Music Video for Brian Eno’s “Emerald and Stone” Made with Paint, Soap & Water,
30 Aug 2023 in Film&Music
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The Lunar Codex Will Digitize the Work of 30,000 Artists, and Then Archive Them on the Moon,
29 Aug 2023 in Art
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When the Wind Blows: An Animated Tale of Nuclear Apocalypse With Music by Roger Waters & David Bowie (1986),
28 Aug 2023 in Animation&History
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Clocks Around the World: How Other Languages Tell Time,
25 Aug 2023 in Language
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How the Human Population Reached 8 Billion: An Animated Video Covers 300,000 Years of History in Four Minutes,
24 Aug 2023 in Data&History
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Watch Rare Videos Showing Steely Dan Performing Live During the Early 1970s,
23 Aug 2023 in Music&Television
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Hokusai’s Action-Packed Illustrations of Japanese & Chinese Warriors (1836),
22 Aug 2023 in Art
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Why You Have an Accent When You Speak a Foreign Language,
21 Aug 2023 in Language
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Revisit “Turn-On,” the Innovative TV Show That Got Canceled Right in the Middle of Its First Episode (1969),
18 Aug 2023 in History&Television
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Neuroscientists Reconstruct a Pink Floyd Song from Listeners’ Brain Activity, with a Little Help from AI,
17 Aug 2023 in Music&Neuroscience
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The Birth and Rapid Rise of Islam, Animated (622‑1453),
16 Aug 2023 in History&Religion
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Albert Einstein Appears in Remarkably Colorized Video & Contemplates the Fate of Humanity After the Atomic Bomb (1946),
15 Aug 2023 in History&Science
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How the Avant-Garde Art of Gustav Klimt Got Perversely Appropriated by the Nazis,
14 Aug 2023 in Art&History
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Why Hiroshima, Despite Being Hit with the Atomic Bomb, Isn’t a Nuclear Wasteland Today,
14 Aug 2023 in History&Travel
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How to Be a Stoic in Your Everyday Life: Philosophy Professor Massimo Pigliucci Explains,
11 Aug 2023 in Philosophy
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Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD),
10 Aug 2023 in Books&History
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The Live Music Archive Lets You Stream/Download More Than 250,000 Concert Recordings–for Free,
10 Aug 2023 in Internet Archive&Music
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The Oldest Known Photographs of Rome (1841–1871),
09 Aug 2023 in History&Photography
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William Friedkin, RIP: Why the 80s Action Movie To Live and Die in L.A. Is His “Subversive Masterpiece”,
08 Aug 2023 in Film