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• The Smithsonian Puts 4.5 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Use, 12 Apr 2023 in Archives&History&Museums
• Historical Italian Cooking: How to Make Ancient Roman & Medieval Italian Dishes, 11 Apr 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• Behold the World’s First Modern Art Amusement Park, Featuring Attractions by Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein & More (1987), 10 Apr 2023 in Art&History
• How John Singer Sargent Became the Greatest Portraitist Who Ever Lived — by Painting “Outside the Lines”, 07 Apr 2023 in Art&History
• Europe’s Oldest Map: Discover the Saint-Bélec Slab (Circa 2150–1600 BCE), 06 Apr 2023 in History&Maps
• Watch David Bowie’s Final Performance as Ziggy Stardust, Singing “I Got You Babe” with Marianne Faithfull, on The Midnight Special (1973), 05 Apr 2023 in Music&Television
• How Michelangelo’s David Still Draws Admiration and Controversy Today, 04 Apr 2023 in Art&History
• Ryuichi Sakamoto, RIP: Watch Him Create Groundbreaking Electronic Music in 1984, 03 Apr 2023 in Music
• Wes Anderson Goes Sci-Fi in 1950s America: Watch the Trailer for His New Film Asteroid City, 31 Mar 2023 in Film
• David Byrne Explains How the “Big Suit” He Wore in Stop Making Sense Was Inspired by Japanese Kabuki Theatre, 30 Mar 2023 in Fashion&Film&Music
• Watch the World’s First Film Made in Babylonian, the Language of Ancient Mesopotamia, 29 Mar 2023 in Film&History&Language
• Understanding Espresso: A Six-Part Series Explaining What It Takes to Pull the Ideal Shot, 28 Mar 2023 in Food & Drink
• A Medieval Arabic Manuscript Features the Designs for a “Perpetual Flute” and Other Ingenious Mechanical Devices, 27 Mar 2023 in History&Technology
• Beethoven’s Genome Has Been Sequenced for the First Time, Revealing Clues About the Great Composer’s Health & Family History, 24 Mar 2023 in History&Music&Science
• Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet’s Water Lilies Triptych Using 650,000 Lego Bricks, 23 Mar 2023 in Art
• The March of Intellect: Newspaper Cartoons Satirize the Belief in Technological Progress in 1820s England, 22 Mar 2023 in Comics/Cartoons&History
• Amélie Was Really a KGB Spy: Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Re-Edits His Beloved Film, Amélie, into a New Comedic Short, 21 Mar 2023 in Film
• Explore the Hereford Mappa Mundi, the Largest Medieval Map Still in Existence (Circa 1300), 20 Mar 2023 in History&Maps
• A Visit to the World’s Oldest Hotel, Japan’s Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, Established in 705 AD, 17 Mar 2023 in History&Travel
• A Student Writes a Rejection Letter Rejecting Harvard’s Rejection Letter (1981): Hear It Read by Actor Himesh Patel, 16 Mar 2023 in Education&Harvard&Letters
• How the World’s Biggest Dome Was Built: The Story of Filippo Brunelleschi and the Duomo in Florence, 15 Mar 2023 in Architecture&History
• Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course: Explore the TV Series That Introduced the Wines of the World (1995), 15 Mar 2023 in Food & Drink
• Why Georges Seurat’s Pointillist Painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Is a Masterpiece, 14 Mar 2023 in Art&History
• How 99% of Ancient Literature Was Lost, 13 Mar 2023 in History&Literature
• A New Dutch Reality TV Show Challenges Contestants to Paint Like Vermeer–and It’s a Hit!, 10 Mar 2023 in Art&Television
• Bored at Work? Here’s What Your Brain Is Trying to Tell You, 08 Mar 2023 in Life&Neuroscience&Psychology
• Essential Japanese Cinema: A Journey Through 50 of Japan’s Beautiful, Often Bizarre Films, 08 Mar 2023 in Film
• Hear De La Soul’s Highly Acclaimed & Influential Hip-Hop Albums Streaming Free for the First Time, 07 Mar 2023 in Music
• The Dos & Don’ts of Driving to West Berlin During the Cold War: A Weird Piece of Ephemera from the 1980s, 06 Mar 2023 in History
• Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 50: Hear It Get Psychoanalyzed by Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, 02 Mar 2023 in Music
• The Military Adventures of Alexander the Great: An Animated Documentary Shows How He Conquered Most of the Known World (336–323 BC), 01 Mar 2023 in History
• Venice’s Canals Have Run Dry During a Winter Drought, Leaving Gondolas Stuck in the Mud, 28 Feb 2023 in Nature
• Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories: From Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” to “Cinderella”, 27 Feb 2023 in Literature
• How One Man Keeps Showing Films in a Japanese Cinema That Closed 58 Years Ago: A Moving, Short Documentary, 24 Feb 2023 in Film&Travel
• The Art of Making Movie Trailers: A Longtime Movie Trailer Editor Breaks Down Classic Previews for Dr. Strangelove, Carrie, and Others, 23 Feb 2023 in Film
• When a UFO Came to Japan in 1803: Discover the Legend of Utsuro-bune, 22 Feb 2023 in History&Sci Fi
• Leonardo’s Lost Sketches Suggest That He Theorized Gravity Before Galileo & Newton, 21 Feb 2023 in History&Science
• Watch 80 Minutes of Never-Released Footage Showing the Wreckage of the Titanic (1986), 20 Feb 2023 in History
• How to Silence the Negative Chatter in Our Heads: Psychology Professor Ethan Kross Explains, 18 Feb 2023 in Psychology
• How to Solve the Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Gloriously Animated Explanation of the Classic Game-Theory Problem, 17 Feb 2023 in Animation&Economics&Photography
• A 3D Computer Animation of the Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham’s 18th Century Design for an All-Controlling Prison, 16 Feb 2023 in Architecture&Philosophy
• The Futurist Architectural Designs Created by Étienne-Louis Boullée in the 18th Century, 15 Feb 2023 in Architecture&Art&History
• An Introduction to the World-Renowned Architect Zaha Hadid, “the Queen of the Curve”, 13 Feb 2023 in Architecture
• Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: It’s “Basically High-Tech Plagiarism” and “a Way of Avoiding Learning”, 10 Feb 2023 in Education&Technology
• LEGO Releases the Most Elaborate Lord of the Rings Set: A 6,167-Piece Rivendell, 10 Feb 2023 in Literature
• How The Beatles Reviewed Songs Topping the Charts During the 1960s: Hear Their Takes on the Beach Boys, Ray Charles, the Byrds, Joan Baez & More, 09 Feb 2023 in History&Magazines&Music
• Coffee College: Everything You Wanted to Know about Coffee Making in One Lecture, 08 Feb 2023 in Food & Drink
• The Unrealized Projects of Frank Lloyd Wright Get Brought to Life with 3D Digital Reconstructions, 07 Feb 2023 in Architecture
• A Guided Tour Through All of Vermeer’s Famous Paintings, Narrated by Stephen Fry, 06 Feb 2023 in Art&History&Museums
• YouTube & Arizona State University Team Up to Offer Online Courses for Real College Credits, 02 Feb 2023 in MOOCs&Online Courses&YouTube
• What People Named Their Cats in the Middle Ages: Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán & More, 01 Feb 2023 in History&Poetry
• Why We All Need Subtitles Now, 31 Jan 2023 in Film&Technology&Television
• When Leonard Bernstein Turned Voltaire’s Candide into an Opera (with Help from Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker & Stephen Sondheim), 30 Jan 2023 in Literature&Opera
• The Two Fridas: An Introduction to Frida Kahlo’s Famous Large-Scale Painting (1939), 27 Jan 2023 in Art&History
• Stream 385,000 Vintage 78 RPM Records at the Internet Archive: Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday & More, 26 Jan 2023 in History&Internet Archive&Music
• When Orson Welles Denounced Elia Kazan as a Traitor for Giving Other Filmmakers’ Names to Joe McCarthy (1982), 25 Jan 2023 in Film&History
• Bell Telephone Launched a Mobile Phone During the 1940s: Watch Bell’s Film Showing How It Worked, 24 Jan 2023 in Film&History&Technology
• Watch Classic Performances by Yellow Magic Orchestra, the Japanese Band That Became One of the Most Innovative Electronic Music Acts of All Time, 23 Jan 2023 in Music
• The Mystery Finally Solved: Why Has Roman Concrete Been So Durable?, 20 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• A Virtual Tour of Ancient Athens: Fly Over Classical Greek Civilization in All Its Glory, 19 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• ChatGPT Writes a Song in the Style of Nick Cave–and Nick Cave Calls it “a Grotesque Mockery of What It Is to Be Human”, 18 Jan 2023 in Music&Technology
• The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery: A New Online Collection Presents All of the Original Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels, 17 Jan 2023 in Art&Books&Literature
• How Futurists Envisioned the Future in the 1920s: Moving Walkways, Personal Helicopters, Glass-Domed Cities, Dream Recorders & More, 16 Jan 2023 in History&Sci Fi&Technology
• Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, You Can Now Chat with Historical Figures: Shakespeare, Einstein, Austen, Socrates & More, 13 Jan 2023 in History&Technology
• An Architect Demystifies the Art Deco Design of the Iconic Chrysler Building (1930), 12 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• Humans First Started Wearing Clothes At Least 300,000 Years Ago, New Research Finds, 11 Jan 2023 in Fashion&History
• The Oldest Known Sentence Written in an Alphabet Has Been Found on a Head-Lice Comb (Circa 1700 BC), 10 Jan 2023 in History
• Visit the “Cat Islands” of Japan, Where Felines Outnumber Humans, 09 Jan 2023 in Nature&Travel
• How to Watch Hundreds of Free Movies on YouTube, 06 Jan 2023 in Film
• How to Make Ancient Mesopotamian Beer: See the 4,000-Year-Old Brewing Method Put to the Test, 05 Jan 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2023: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Franz Kafka’s Amerika & More, 04 Jan 2023 in Books&Film&Music
• “Weird Al” Yankovic Breaks Down His Most Iconic Tracks: “Eat It,” “Amish Paradise,” “White and Nerdy,” and His Other Hilarious Songs, 03 Jan 2023 in Comedy&Music
• The Archives of the Planet: Explore 72,000 Photos Taken a Century Ago to Document Human Cultures Around the World, 03 Jan 2023 in History&Photography&Travel
• How the Ancient Romans Built Their Roads, the Lifelines of Their Vast Empire, 02 Jan 2023 in History
• Watch Restored Versions of Classic Fleischer Cartoons on Youtube, Featuring Betty Boop, Koko the Clown & Others, 30 Dec 2022 in Animation&Film&History
• How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials, 28 Dec 2022 in Architecture&History
• How Fast Food Began: The History of This Thoroughly American (and Now Global) Form of Dining, 28 Dec 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• American Gothic Explained: How Grant Wood Created His Iconic American Painting (1930), 27 Dec 2022 in Art&History
• How a Lavish 17th-Century Study of Fish Almost Prevented the Publication of Newton’s Principia, One of the Most Important Science Books Ever Written, 26 Dec 2022 in Books&History&Nature&Science
• An Old-Time Radio Yuletide: Hear 20+ Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Shows (1938–1956), 23 Dec 2022 in Radio
• Tom Lehrer Puts His Songs into the Public Domain & Makes Them Free to Download (for a Limited Time), 22 Dec 2022 in Music
• The Roman Roads and Bridges You Can Still Travel Today, 21 Dec 2022 in Architecture&History
• The History of Western Art in 23 Minutes: From the Prehistoric to the Contemporary, 20 Dec 2022 in Art&History
• The Avant-Garde Animated Films of Walter Ruttmann, Still Strikingly Fresh a Century Later (1921–1925), 19 Dec 2022 in Animation&Film
• Behold Beautiful Original Movie Posters for Metropolis from France, Sweden, Germany, Japan & Beyond, 16 Dec 2022 in Design&Film
• Watch 80 Free Documentaries from Kino Lorber: Includes Films on M. C. Escher, Stanley Kubrick, Hannah Arendt, Hilma af Klint & More, 16 Dec 2022 in Film
• Hear the Best of Angelo Badalamenti (RIP) from 1986–2017: Features Music from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More, 15 Dec 2022 in Film&Music
• The Museum of Wonky English, a Japanese Exhibition Dedicated to Hilarious Mistranslations, 14 Dec 2022 in Language Lessons&Museums&Writing
• How to Get Dressed & Fight in 14th Century Armor: A Reenactment, 14 Dec 2022 in History
• How Will AI Change the World?: A Captivating Animation Explores the Promise & Perils of Artificial Intelligence, 13 Dec 2022 in Animation&Artificial Intelligence&Technology
• The Disturbing Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch: A Short Introduction, 13 Dec 2022 in Art&History&Psychology
• 480 Filmmakers Reveal the 100 Greatest Movies in the World, 08 Dec 2022 in Film
• The 30 Greatest Films Ever Made: A Video Essay, 07 Dec 2022 in Film
• How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A British Museum Curator Explains, 06 Dec 2022 in History&Museums&Writing
• The 100 Greatest Films of All Time According to 1,639 Film Critics & 480 Directors: See the Results of the Once-a-Decade Sight and Sound Poll, 02 Dec 2022 in Film
• A Chinese Painter Specializing in Copying Van Gogh Paintings Travels to Amsterdam & Sees Van Gogh’s Masterpieces for the First Time, 01 Dec 2022 in Art
• See 21 Historic Films by Lumière Brothers, Colorized and Enhanced with Machine Learning (1895–1902), 30 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• 8th Century Englishwoman Scribbled Her Name & Drew Funny Pictures in a Medieval Manuscript, According to New Cutting-Edge Technology, 29 Nov 2022 in Books&History
• Ancient Roman Coins Reveal the Existence of a Forgotten Roman Emperor, 28 Nov 2022 in History
• A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More, 25 Nov 2022 in History
• When Salvador Dalí Dressed — and Angrily Demolished — a Department Store Window in New York City (1939), 25 Nov 2022 in Art&History
• A Relaxing, ASMR Re-Creation of People Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner in the 1820s, 23 Nov 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• The First Kiss Captured on Film: Behold “The Kiss” Shot by Photography Pioneer Eadweard Muybridge (1887), 22 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• Why Recent Decades All Feel Culturally the Same, and Why Mark Fisher Thought Capitalism Was to Blame, 22 Nov 2022 in Politics
• Banksy Spray Paints Murals in War-Torn Ukraine, 21 Nov 2022 in Art&Politics
• Did Psychedelic Mushrooms Appear in Medieval Christian Art?: A Video Essay, 18 Nov 2022 in Art&History&Psychology&Religion
• Watch Videos for 10 Songs on Brian Eno’s Brand New Album, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, 17 Nov 2022 in Music
• A Tour of Studio Ghibli’s Brand New Theme Park in Japan, Which Re-Creates the Worlds of Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Other Classics, 16 Nov 2022 in Animation&Travel
• When the World Got Introduced to the Amazing Compact Disc (CD) in 1982, 16 Nov 2022 in Music&Technology
• The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary”, 15 Nov 2022 in Books
• How to Argue Effectively: Harvard Negotiation Expert Shares Techniques for Arguing Effectively, Especially About Politics, 14 Nov 2022 in Psychology
• Behold Illustrations of Every Shakespeare Play Created by Artificial Intelligence, 11 Nov 2022 in Art&Artificial Intelligence&Technology&Theatre
• The Rise and Fall of Concorde, the Midcentury Supersonic Jetliner That Still Inspires Awe Today, 10 Nov 2022 in History&Technology&Travel
• Cats in Japanese Woodblock Prints: How Japan’s Favorite Animals Came to Star in Its Popular Art, 10 Nov 2022 in Art&History
• The Fiske Reading Machine: The 1920s Precursor to the Kindle, 09 Nov 2022 in Books&History&Technology
• Around the World in 1896: 40 Minutes of Real Footage Lets You Visit Paris, New York, Venice, Rome, Budapest & More, 08 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• The History of Jazz Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Phonograph: Features 1,000+ Musicians, Artists, Songwriters and Producers, 07 Nov 2022 in Design&Music
• The Comiclopedia: An Online Archive of 14,000 Comic Artists, From Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, to Mœbius and Hergé, 04 Nov 2022 in Comics/Cartoons
• Michael Pollan, Sam Harris & Others Explain How Psychedelics Can Change Your Mind, 02 Nov 2022 in Psychology
• Kierkegaard on Why We All Misunderstand the True Meaning of Love: An Animated Explanation, 01 Nov 2022 in Life&Philosophy
• How a Mondrian Painting Has Accidentally Hung Upside-Down for 75 Years, 31 Oct 2022 in Art
• Hear 149 Vintage Halloween Radio Shows from the Golden Age of Radio, 28 Oct 2022 in Radio
• See Metropolis’ Scandalous Dance Scene Colorized, Enhanced, and Newly Soundtracked, 27 Oct 2022 in Film
• What Sex Was Like in Medieval Times?: Historians Look at How People Got It On in the Dark Ages, 26 Oct 2022 in History
• Discover Nüshu, a 19th-Century Chinese Writing System That Only Women Knew How to Write, 25 Oct 2022 in History&Language&Writing
• There Are Eight Forms of Intelligence, Not Just One: Which Apply to You?, 25 Oct 2022 in Psychology
• The Internet Archive Launches Democracy’s Library, a Free Online Library of 500,000 Documents Supporting Democracy, 24 Oct 2022 in Archives&Politics
• The French Designed a Fake Replica of Paris to Fool German Bombers During World War I, 21 Oct 2022 in History
• What the Rosetta Stone Actually Says, 19 Oct 2022 in History&Language
• Why Quentin Tarantino Will Only Make 10 Movies, 19 Oct 2022 in Film
• DALL‑E, the New AI Art Generator, Is Now Open for Everyone to Use, 18 Oct 2022 in Art&Technology
• How Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” Went from 80s Pop Smash to Bastion of Internet Culture: A Short Documentary, 14 Oct 2022 in History&Music
• Behold the World’s Oldest Animation Made on a Vase in Iran 5,200 Years Ago, 13 Oct 2022 in Animation&History
• Simone de Beauvoir Speaks on American TV (in English) About Feminism, Abortion & More (1976), 13 Oct 2022 in Philosophy&Television
• Watch Vintage Videos Capturing Life in Japan from the 1960s Through Today, 12 Oct 2022 in Film&History&Travel
• How to Predict What the World Will Look Like in 2122: Insights from Futurist Peter Schwartz, 10 Oct 2022 in Harvard&History&Technology
• 1950s Pulp Comic Adaptations of Ray Bradbury Stories Getting Republished, 07 Oct 2022 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Literature
• Why Monet Painted The Same Haystacks 25 Times, 06 Oct 2022 in Art&History
• When a Modern Director Makes a Fake Old Movie: A Video Essay on David Fincher’s Mank, 06 Oct 2022 in Film
• Why Goya Made His Haunting “Black Paintings” at the End of His Life, 05 Oct 2022 in Art&History