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• 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
• The First Full 3D Scan of the Titanic, Made of More Than 700,000 Images Capturing the Wreck’s Every Detail, 18 May 2023 in History&Technology
• Behold the International Ink Library Created by the U.S. Secret Service: Features A Collection of 12,000 Ink Samples, 17 May 2023 in History&Technology
• Hear Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Last Playlist,” Which He Created for His Own Funeral: Erik Satie, Bill Evans, Debussy, Ravel & More, 16 May 2023 in Music
• Take Carl Jung’s Word Association Test, a Quick Route Into the Subconscious (1910), 16 May 2023 in History&Psychology
• Leonard Bernstein & Opera Star Christa Ludwig Get Into a Vigorous Creative Disagreement Over the Tempo of Mahler (1972), 12 May 2023 in Music
• Theoretical Puppets: Salvador Dalí, Sigmund Freud, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Other Thinkers Come Back to Life as Hand-Operated Puppets, 11 May 2023 in Philosophy
• The Story of the Flatiron Building, “New York’s Strangest Tower”, 10 May 2023 in Architecture&History
• What the Great Pyramids of Giza Originally Looked Like, 09 May 2023 in Architecture&History
• Take Virtual Tours of Every Star Trek Enterprise Bridge: A New Interactive Web Portal Created by The Roddenberry Archive, 08 May 2023 in Sci Fi&Television
• The Amazing Engineering of Gauntlets (Armored Gloves) from the 16th Century, 05 May 2023 in History
• The Pioneering Data Visualizations of William Playfair, Who Invented the Line, Bar, and Pie Charts (Circa 1786), 04 May 2023 in Data&History
• Watch a Traditional Japanese Carpenter Make 190+ Different Joints, All Without Nails, Screws, or Glue, 03 May 2023 in Architecture&Art
• Why Renaissance Masters Added Egg Yolk to Their Paints: A New Study Sheds Light, 02 May 2023 in Art&History&Science
• How the Art of Patrick Nagel, Still Seen in Nail Salons Today, Crystallized the 1980s Aesthetic, 02 May 2023 in Art&History
• Plan Your Trip Across the Roads of the Roman Empire, Using Modern Web Mapping Technology, 28 Apr 2023 in History&Maps&Travel
• The Five Graphs That Changed the World: See Groundbreaking Data Visualizations by Florence Nightingale, W. E. B. DuBois & Beyond, 27 Apr 2023 in Data&History
• Download Free Coloring Books from Nearly 100 Museums & Libraries, 26 Apr 2023 in Art&Books
• Urine Wheels in Medieval Manuscripts: Discover the Curious Diagnostic Tool Used by Medieval Doctors, 25 Apr 2023 in Books&Health&History
• Watch Iggy Pop Perform Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, 24 Apr 2023 in Music&Poetry
• Why the Ancient Romans Had Better Teeth Than Modern Europeans, 21 Apr 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• Succession Star Brian Cox Tells the Entire Histories of Ancient Greece and Rome in 20 Minutes Each, 20 Apr 2023 in History
• Jazz Drummer Larnell Lewis Hears Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” for the Very First Time, Then Plays It Near-Perfectly, 19 Apr 2023 in Music
• How to Paint Like Yayoi Kusama, the Avant-Garde Japanese Artist, 18 Apr 2023 in Art&Online Courses
• Wes Anderson Re-Creates The Truman Show, Armageddon & Out of Sight as Stage Plays Performed by the Cast of Rushmore (1999), 18 Apr 2023 in Comedy&Film&Television
• Discover the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, “the World’s Most Beautiful Calendar” (1416), 17 Apr 2023 in Art&Books&History
• The History of Ancient Japan: The Story of How Japan Began, Told by Those Who Witnessed It (297‑1274), 13 Apr 2023 in History
• 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