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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
• 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
• 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