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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
• Rome Reborn: A New 3D Virtual Model Lets You Fly Over the Great Monuments of Ancient Rome, 30 Nov 2023 in History&Technology
• The Surprisingly Long History of Auto-Tune, the Vocal-Processing Technology Music Critics Love to Hate, 29 Nov 2023 in Music&Technology
• 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
• Behold Ancient Egyptian, Greek & Roman Sculptures in Their Original Color, 28 Nov 2023 in Art&History&Museums
• 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
• 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
• Oculi Mundi: A Beautiful Online Archive of 130 Ancient Maps, Atlases & Globes, 21 Nov 2023 in History&Maps
• What Is Postmodern Architecture?: An Introduction in Three Videos, 21 Nov 2023 in Architecture
• 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
• 130+ Photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece Fallingwater, 16 Nov 2023 in Architecture&Photography
• Astronomers Create a Digital Atlas of Over 380,000 Galaxies, 16 Nov 2023 in Astronomy
• Advice for Time Traveling to Medieval Europe: How to Stay Healthy & Safe, and Avoiding Charges of Witchcraft, 14 Nov 2023 in History
• Explore the Florentine Codex: A Brilliant 16th Century Manuscript Documenting Aztec Culture Is Now Digitized & Available Online, 14 Nov 2023 in Books&History
• Watch Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Get Entirely Recreated with 50,000 LEGO Bricks, 10 Nov 2023 in Art
• One Hour of David Lynch Listening to Rain, Smoking & Reflecting on Art, 09 Nov 2023 in Art&Film&Life
• Why People Hate Brutalist Buildings on American College Campuses, 08 Nov 2023 in Architecture&History
• A Secret Room with Drawings Attributed to Michelangelo Opens to Visitors in Florence, 07 Nov 2023 in Art&History&Museums
• 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
• 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
• Watch the Trailer for the Long-Lost First Film Adaptation of The Great Gatsby (1926), 02 Nov 2023 in Film&Literature
• 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
• Animated: The Rise & Fall of the Largest Cities in the World, from 3,000 BC to the 2020s, 01 Nov 2023 in History
• Jerry Garcia Explains How Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Changed His Life (1995), 31 Oct 2023 in Film&Music
• The Writing Systems of the World Explained, from the Latin Alphabet to the Abugidas of India, 30 Oct 2023 in Language&Writing
• How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock & Other Abstract Expressionists to Fight the Cold War, 27 Oct 2023 in Art&History
• Behold Gustave Doré’s Illustrations for Rabelais’ Grotesque Satirical Masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel, 26 Oct 2023 in Art&Books&Literature
• How the “Lost Cities” of the Amazon Were Finally Discovered, 25 Oct 2023 in History
• The History of the Electric Guitar Solo: A Seven-Part Series, 24 Oct 2023 in History&Music
• 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
• 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
• 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
• What Makes James Joyce’s Ulysses a Masterpiece: Great Books Explained, 17 Oct 2023 in Books&History&Literature
• 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
• Researchers Use AI to Decode the First Word on an Ancient Scroll Burned by Vesuvius, 13 Oct 2023 in History&Technology
• A Lavishly Illustrated Catalog of All Hummingbird Species Known in the 19th Century Gets Restored & Put Online, 12 Oct 2023 in Art&Books&Nature
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Why Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Rococo Masterpiece, The Swing, Is Less Innocent Than It First Appears, 06 Oct 2023 in Art&History
• How to Read Five Books Per Month & Become a Serious Reader: Tips from Deep Work Author Cal Newport, 05 Oct 2023 in Books&Life
• A BBC Science Show Introduces the Moog Synthesizer in 1969, 04 Oct 2023 in History&Music&Television
• Venice Explained: Its Architecture, Its Streets, Its Canals, and How Best to Experience Them All, 03 Oct 2023 in Architecture&History&Travel
• What Makes Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square (1915) Not Just Art, But Important Art, 02 Oct 2023 in Art&History
• How Japanese Kintsugi Masters Restore Pottery by Beautifying the Cracks, 29 Sep 2023 in Art
• When a Young Sofia Coppola & Zoe Cassavetes Made Their Own TV Show: Revisit Hi-Octane (1994), 29 Sep 2023 in Television
• Noam Chomsky Explains Why Nobody Is Really a Moral Relativist, Even Michel Foucault, 28 Sep 2023 in Philosophy
• Martin Scorsese Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, and More, 27 Sep 2023 in Film
• 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
• 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
• How Big Ben Works: A Detailed Look Inside London’s Beloved Victorian Clock Tower, 22 Sep 2023 in Architecture&History
• Why Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Gas Station in Minnesota (1958), 21 Sep 2023 in Architecture&History
• Scientists Working in Antarctica Unwittingly Started to Develop a New Accent, 20 Sep 2023 in Language
• The 500-Year-Old Chinese “Bagel” That Helped Win a War, 20 Sep 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• Why the Leaning Tower of Pisa Still Hasn’t Fallen Over, Even After 650 Years, 19 Sep 2023 in Architecture&History
• The Only Color Picture of Tolstoy, Taken by Photography Pioneer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1908), 18 Sep 2023 in History&Literature&Photography
• The 50 Greatest Music Videos of All Time, Ranked by AV Club, 14 Sep 2023 in Film&Music
• 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
• How to Make Medieval Mead: A 13th Century Recipe, 12 Sep 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• 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
• A Mischievous Samurai Describes His Rough-and-Tumble Life in 19th Century Japan, 07 Sep 2023 in History
• Behold 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Socks Made with Nålbindning, an Ancient Proto-Knitting Technique, 06 Sep 2023 in Fashion&History
• 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
• How Artists Get Famous: A Physicist Reveals How Networks (and Not Just Talent) Contribute to Artistic Success, 05 Sep 2023 in Art&Data
• 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
• The Stoic Wisdom of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius: An Introduction in Six Short Videos, 31 Aug 2023 in History&Philosophy
• A Mesmerizing Music Video for Brian Eno’s “Emerald and Stone” Made with Paint, Soap & Water, 30 Aug 2023 in Film&Music
• The Lunar Codex Will Digitize the Work of 30,000 Artists, and Then Archive Them on the Moon, 29 Aug 2023 in Art
• When the Wind Blows: An Animated Tale of Nuclear Apocalypse With Music by Roger Waters & David Bowie (1986), 28 Aug 2023 in Animation&History
• Clocks Around the World: How Other Languages Tell Time, 25 Aug 2023 in Language
• 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
• Watch Rare Videos Showing Steely Dan Performing Live During the Early 1970s, 23 Aug 2023 in Music&Television
• Hokusai’s Action-Packed Illustrations of Japanese & Chinese Warriors (1836), 22 Aug 2023 in Art
• Why You Have an Accent When You Speak a Foreign Language, 21 Aug 2023 in Language
• 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
• Neuroscientists Reconstruct a Pink Floyd Song from Listeners’ Brain Activity, with a Little Help from AI, 17 Aug 2023 in Music&Neuroscience
• The Birth and Rapid Rise of Islam, Animated (622‑1453), 16 Aug 2023 in History&Religion
• Albert Einstein Appears in Remarkably Colorized Video & Contemplates the Fate of Humanity After the Atomic Bomb (1946), 15 Aug 2023 in History&Science
• How the Avant-Garde Art of Gustav Klimt Got Perversely Appropriated by the Nazis, 14 Aug 2023 in Art&History
• Why Hiroshima, Despite Being Hit with the Atomic Bomb, Isn’t a Nuclear Wasteland Today, 14 Aug 2023 in History&Travel
• How to Be a Stoic in Your Everyday Life: Philosophy Professor Massimo Pigliucci Explains, 11 Aug 2023 in Philosophy
• Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD), 10 Aug 2023 in Books&History
• The Live Music Archive Lets You Stream/Download More Than 250,000 Concert Recordings–for Free, 10 Aug 2023 in Internet Archive&Music
• The Oldest Known Photographs of Rome (1841–1871), 09 Aug 2023 in History&Photography
• William Friedkin, RIP: Why the 80s Action Movie To Live and Die in L.A. Is His “Subversive Masterpiece”, 08 Aug 2023 in Film
• How to Enter Flow State, Increase Your Ability to Concentrate, and Let Your Ego Fall Away : An Animated Primer, 07 Aug 2023 in Psychology
• Novelist Michael Chabon Digitally Re-Creates the Science Fiction & Fantasy Section of His Favorite 1970s Bookstore, 04 Aug 2023 in Books&History&Sci Fi
• Behold a Digitization of “The Most Beautiful of All Printed Books,” The Kelmscott Chaucer, 03 Aug 2023 in Books
• Why Einstein Was a “Peerless” Genius, and Hawking Was an “Ordinary” Genius: A Scientist Explains, 01 Aug 2023 in Data&Science
• Christopher Nolan Visits a Paris Video Store & Talks with Cillian Murphy About the Films That Influenced Him, 28 Jul 2023 in Film
• Oppenheimer’s Secret City: The Story Behind the Stealthy Creation of Los Alamos, New Mexico, 27 Jul 2023 in History&Physics
• How a 1930s Architectural Masterpiece Harnesses the Sun to Keep Warm in the Winter & Cool in the Summer, 27 Jul 2023 in Architecture
• How the Ancient Greeks Invented the First Computer: An Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism (Circa 87 BC), 26 Jul 2023 in History&Technology
• A Collection of Hokusai’s Drawings Are Being Carved Onto Woodblocks & Printed for the First Time Ever, 26 Jul 2023 in Art
• How Streaming Led to the TV Writers Strike: Four TV Writers Explain the Logic of the Strike, 25 Jul 2023 in Business&Television
• Noam Chomsky Teaches a MasterClass on Critical Thinking & Media Literacy, 21 Jul 2023 in Online Courses
• Does Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity Suggest That There Is an Afterlife?: A Theoretical Physicist Explains, 20 Jul 2023 in Physics
• Take a High Def, Guided Tour of Pompeii, 20 Jul 2023 in Architecture&History
• How to Make the 2000-Year-Old “Pizza” Discovered on a Pompeii Fresco, 18 Jul 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• Wes Anderson Explains How He Built Asteroid City, the Fictional American Desert Town in His New Film, 17 Jul 2023 in Film
• George Bernard Shaw’s Famous Writing Hut, Which Could Be Rotated 360 Degrees to Catch the Sun All Day, 13 Jul 2023 in Architecture&History&Theatre&Writing
• Download Instructions for More Than 6,800 LEGO Kits at the Internet Archive, 13 Jul 2023 in Internet Archive
• The Remarkable Story of a Black Holocaust Survivor, Told in a Short Documentary, 12 Jul 2023 in Film&History
• Watch the Newly-Released Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, Starring Joaquin Phoenix, 11 Jul 2023 in Film&History
• Demystifying the Activist Graffiti Art of Keith Haring: A Video Essay, 11 Jul 2023 in Art&History
• Can Modern-Day Italians Understand Latin? A Youtuber Puts It to the Test on the Streets of Rome, 10 Jul 2023 in Language
• Wes Anderson Visits a Paris Video Store and Highlights the Films He Loves: Kurosawa, Truffaut, Buñuel & More, 06 Jul 2023 in Film
• A 3D Animation Reveals What Paris Looked Like When It Was a Roman Town, 05 Jul 2023 in History
• How Much of What You See Is Actually a Hallucination?: An Animated TED-Ed Lesson, 05 Jul 2023 in Animation&Neuroscience
• How Stanley Kubrick Adapted Stephen King’s The Shining into a Cinematic Masterpiece, 03 Jul 2023 in Books&Film
• The Rarest Sounds Across All Human Languages: Learn What They Are, and How to Say Them, 30 Jun 2023 in Language
• A Brief History of Japanese Art: From Prehistoric Pottery to Yayoi Kusama in Half an Hour, 29 Jun 2023 in Art&History
• How Wes Anderson Uses Miniatures to Create His Aesthetic: A Primer from His Model Maker & Prop Painter, 28 Jun 2023 in Film
• Why Hasn’t the Pantheon’s Dome Collapsed?: How the Romans Engineered the Dome to Last 19 Centuries and Counting, 27 Jun 2023 in Architecture&History
• Watch Mall City, the Original Gonzo Documentary That Captures the Height of Shopping-Mall Culture (1983), 26 Jun 2023 in Film&History
• An Animated Introduction to the Avant-Garde Music of John Cage, 23 Jun 2023 in History&Music
• Watch the Oldest Japanese Anime Film, Jun’ichi Kōuchi’s The Dull Sword (1917), 22 Jun 2023 in Animation&Film&History
• When David Bowie Starred in The Elephant Man on Broadway (1980), 22 Jun 2023 in Theatre
• Hear a Recently-Discovered 12,000-Year-Old Flute That Musically Mimics the Sound of Raptor Calls, 20 Jun 2023 in History&Music
• What Is Gender Theory? Berkeley Professor Judith Butler Explains, 19 Jun 2023 in Philosophy
• Discover The Plastics, the Influential Japanese New Wave Band from the 1980s, 16 Jun 2023 in Music&Television
• What Did Music in Ancient Rome Sound Like?, 15 Jun 2023 in History&Music
• Some of the Oldest Photos You Will Ever See: Discover Photographs of Greece, Egypt, Turkey & Other Mediterranean Lands (1840s), 14 Jun 2023 in History&Photography&Travel
• Charlie Chaplin’s Final Speech in The Great Dictator: A Statement Against Greed, Hate, Intolerance & Fascism (1940), 13 Jun 2023 in Film&History&Politics
• The Destruction of Penn Station: How New York City Lost Its Majestic Beaux-Arts Rail Terminal, 13 Jun 2023 in Architecture&History
• When There Were Three Popes at Once: An Animated Video Drawn in the Style of Medieval Illuminated Manuscript, 09 Jun 2023 in History&Religion
• A Kubrick Scholar Discovers an Eerie Detail in The Shining That’s Gone Unnoticed for More Than 40 Years, 08 Jun 2023 in Film
• Behold the Microscopically Tiny Handwriting of Novelist Robert Walser, Which Took Four Decades to Decipher, 07 Jun 2023 in History&Literature&Writing
• Why Movies Don’t Feel Like Movies Anymore: The Rise of Metamodernist Films, and How They Grew Out of Modernism & Postmodernism, 06 Jun 2023 in Film
• J. R. R. Tolkien Writes & Speaks in Elvish, a Language He Invented for The Lord of the Rings, 06 Jun 2023 in Language&Literature
• The Map of Medicine: A Comprehensive Animation Shows How the Fields of Modern Medicine Fit Together, 02 Jun 2023 in Health&Science
• Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad, 01 Jun 2023 in History&Politics
• The 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time, According to 177 Books Experts from 56 Countries, 31 May 2023 in Books
• Why French Sounds So Unlike Spanish, Italian & Other Romance Languages, Even Though They All Evolved from Latin, 30 May 2023 in History&Language
• The Art Collection of David Bowie: An Introduction, 29 May 2023 in Art&Music
• How John Keats Writes a Poem: A Line-by-Line Breakdown of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, 25 May 2023 in Poetry
• John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous Paintings: An Introduction to Madame X and Dr. Pozzi at Home, 24 May 2023 in Art&History
• Watch Ben Kingsley Play Salvador Dalí in the Trailer for the New Film, Dalíland, 23 May 2023 in Art&Film
• Martin Amis (RIP) Explains Why American Populism Is a Con, 22 May 2023 in Literature&Politics&Writing
• A Brief History of the Concept Album: From Woody Guthrie, to the Beatles and Pink Floyd, to Taylor Swift, 19 May 2023 in History&Music