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• Build Wooden Models of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Great Building: The Guggenheim, Unity Temple, Johnson Wax Headquarters & More, 31 Aug 2021 in Architecture
• Two Haruki Murakami Stories Adapted into Short Films: Watch Attack on a Bakery (1982) and A Girl, She Is 100% (1983), 30 Aug 2021 in Film&Literature
• MoMA’s Online Courses Let You Study Modern & Contemporary Art and Earn a Certificate, 27 Aug 2021 in Art&Online Courses
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads “the Best Cover Letter Ever Written”, 26 Aug 2021 in Film&History&Letters
• How the COVID-19 Vaccines Could Be Created So Quickly: Two Animated Videos Explain the How mRNA Vaccines Were Developed, and How They Work, 25 Aug 2021 in Books&Health&Technology
• Watch Anthony Bourdain’s First Food-and-Travel Series A Cook’s Tour Free Online (2002–03), 24 Aug 2021 in Food & Drink&Television&Travel
• How Caffeine Fueled the Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution & the Modern World: An Introduction by Michael Pollan, 24 Aug 2021 in Food & Drink&History
• Alan Alda: 3 Ways to Express Your Thoughts So That Everyone Will Understand You, 20 Aug 2021 in Life&Psychology
• Make Body Language Your Superpower: A 15-Minute Primer on Body Language & Public Speaking from Stanford Business School, 19 Aug 2021 in Psychology&Stanford
• The Beatles’ 8 Pioneering Innovations: A Video Essay Exploring How the Fab Four Changed Pop Music, 18 Aug 2021 in History&Music
• Banksy’s Great British Spraycation: The Artist Spray Paints England’s Favorite Summer-Holiday Destinations, 18 Aug 2021 in Art&Travel
• Pompeii Rebuilt: A Tour of the Ancient City Before It Was Entombed by Mount Vesuvius, 16 Aug 2021 in Architecture&History
• Carl Sagan Answers the Ultimate Question: Is There a God? (1994), 13 Aug 2021 in Religion&Science
• Why Civilization Collapsed in 1177 BC: Watch Classicist Eric Cline’s Lecture That Has Already Garnered 5.5 Million Views, 12 Aug 2021 in History
• What Ancient Greece Really Looked Like: See Reconstructions of the Temple of Hadrian, Curetes Street & the Fountain of Trajan, 11 Aug 2021 in Architecture&History
• Watch Venice’s New $7 Billion Flood Defense System in Action, 11 Aug 2021 in Architecture&Nature&Technology
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088, 10 Aug 2021 in History&Letters&Literature
• How Pulp Fiction ’s Dance Scene Paid Artistic Tribute to the Classic Dance Scene in Fellini’s 8½, 10 Aug 2021 in Film
• Take a Journey Through 933 Paintings by Salvador Dalí & Watch His Signature Surrealism Emerge, 09 Aug 2021 in Art&History
• The Only Footage of Bruce Lee Fighting for Real (1967), 06 Aug 2021 in History&Sports
• When Mahatma Gandhi Met Charlie Chaplin (1931), 04 Aug 2021 in Film&History
• How West Magazine Created a Southern-California Pop-Culture Aesthetic with the Help of Milton Glaser, Gahan Wilson, and Others (1967–1972), 03 Aug 2021 in Design&History&Magazines
• 1960s Schoolchildren Imagine Life in the Year 2000: Overpopulation, Mass Unemployment, Robot Courts, Rising Seas & Beyond, 02 Aug 2021 in History&Television
• Watch the Live TV Adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Most Controversial TV Drama of Its Time (1954), 30 Jul 2021 in Literature&Television
• The Sounds of Space: An Interplanetary Sonic Journey, 29 Jul 2021 in Astronomy&Science
• Tony Hawk Breaks Down Skateboarding Into 21 Levels of Difficulty: From Easy to Complex, 28 Jul 2021 in Sports
• Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings Collects the Painter’s Entire Body of Work in a 600-Page, Large-Format Book, 27 Jul 2021 in Art&Books&History
• What Makes Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks a Great Painting?: A Video Essay, 26 Jul 2021 in Art&History
• Discover The Grammar of Ornament, One of the Great Color Books & Design Masterpieces of the 19th Century, 22 Jul 2021 in Art&Books&Design
• The Aesthetic of Evil: A Video Essay Explores Evil in the Films of Bergman, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese & Beyond, 21 Jul 2021 in Film
• The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s Spellbinding Triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 20 Jul 2021 in Art&History&Television
• An Introduction to Japanese Kabuki Theatre, Featuring 20th-Century Masters of the Form (1964), 19 Jul 2021 in Dance&Film&Theatre
• Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: A Deluxe New Art Book Presents Hokusai’s Masterpiece, Including “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa”, 16 Jul 2021 in Art&Books&History
• Discover Japan’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook Ryori Monogatari (1643), 15 Jul 2021 in Books&Food & Drink&History
• Carl Sagan Tells Johnny Carson What’s Wrong with Star Wars: “They’re All White” & There’s a “Large Amount of Human Chauvinism in It” (1978), 14 Jul 2021 in Film&Sci Fi&Science&Television
• An Introduction to Nicolas Bourbaki, One of the Most Influential Mathematicians of All Time … Who Never Actually Lived, 13 Jul 2021 in Animation&Math&TED Talks
• A Billion Years of Tectonic-Plate Movement in 40 Seconds: A Quick Glimpse of How Our World Took Shape, 12 Jul 2021 in History&Science
• Hunter Thompson Explains What Gonzo Journalism Is, and How He Writes It (1975), 09 Jul 2021 in Writing
• Eastern Philosophy Explained: From the Buddha to Confucius and Haiku to the Tea Ceremony, 09 Jul 2021 in Philosophy&Religion
• Watch Artisans Make Hand-Carved Championship Chess Sets: Each Knight Takes Two Hours, 07 Jul 2021 in Games&History
• Hiroshige, Master of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Creates a Guide to Making Shadow Puppets for Children (1842), 06 Jul 2021 in Art&History
• The Intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portraits: A Video Essay, 06 Jul 2021 in Art&History
• Haruki Murakami’s Daily Routine: Up at 4:00 a.m., 5–6 Hours of Writing, Then a 10K Run, 02 Jul 2021 in Literature&Sports&Writing
• Klaus Kinski Has a Tantrum on the Set of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, 01 Jul 2021 in Film
• A First Look at How Tony Soprano Became Tony Soprano: Watch the New Trailer for The Many Saints of Newark, 30 Jun 2021 in Film&Television
• The Making of a Marble Sculpture: See Every Stage of the Process, from the Quarry to the Studio, 29 Jun 2021 in Art
• Take 193 Free Tech and Business Courses Online at Udacity: Product Design, Programming, A.I., Marketing & More, 29 Jun 2021 in Online Courses&Technology
• The Long-Lost Pieces of Rembrandt’s Night Watch Get Reconstructed with Artificial Intelligence, 25 Jun 2021 in Art&History&Technology
• The Artistic & Mystical World of Tarot: See Decks by Salvador Dalí, Aleister Crowley, H.R. Giger & More, 24 Jun 2021 in Art&Games&History
• The Story of the MiniDisc, Sony’s 1990s Audio Format That’s Gone But Not Forgotten, 23 Jun 2021 in Music&Technology
• AI & X‑Rays Recover Lost Artworks Underneath Paintings by Picasso & Modigliani, 22 Jun 2021 in Art&Technology
• Igor Stravinsky Appears on American Network TV & Tells Stories About His Unconventional Musical Life (1957), 21 Jun 2021 in Music&Television
• Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (in English or Italian), 18 Jun 2021 in Literature&Writing
• What Makes Leonardo’s Mona Lisa a Great Painting?: An Explanation in 15 Minutes, 17 Jun 2021 in Art&History
• Download Great Works of Art from 40+ Museums Worldwide: Explore Artvee, the New Art Search Engine, 16 Jun 2021 in Art&Technology
• The Rashomon Effect: The Phenomenon, Named After Akira Kurosawa’s Classic Film, Where Each of Us Remembers the Same Event Differently, 15 Jun 2021 in Film&Literature&Psychology
• Stream 160 In-Depth Radio Interviews with Clive James, Pico Iyer, Greil Marcus & Other Luminaries from the Marketplace of Ideas Archive, 15 Jun 2021 in Archives&Podcasts&Radio
• Wikipedia’s Surprising Power in Shaping Science: A New MIT Shows How Wikipedia Shapes Scientific Research, 14 Jun 2021 in Science&Wikipedia
• Scientists Create an Interactive Map of the 13 Emotions Evoked by Music: Joy, Sadness, Desire, Annoyance, and More, 10 Jun 2021 in Music&Neuroscience&Science
• Sci-Fi “Portal” Connects Citizens of Lublin & Vilnius, Allowing Passersby Separated by 376 Miles to Interact in Real Time, 09 Jun 2021 in Art&Technology&Travel
• Discover the Ghost Towns of Japan–Where Scarecrows Replace People, and a Man Lives in an Abandoned Elementary School Gym, 08 Jun 2021 in Travel
• Tasting History: A Hit YouTube Series Shows How to Cook the Foods of Ancient Greece & Rome, Medieval Europe, and Other Places & Periods, 07 Jun 2021 in Food & Drink&History
• The Art of Creating a Bonsai: One Year Condensed Condensed Into 22 Mesmerizing Minutes, 04 Jun 2021 in Art&Nature
• Download 1,000+ Beautiful Woodblock Prints by Hiroshige, the Last Great Master of the Japanese Woodblock Print Tradition, 03 Jun 2021 in Art&History
• Martin Scorsese Introduces Classic Movies: From Citizen Kane and Vertigo to Lawrence of Arabia and Gone with the Wind, 02 Jun 2021 in Film
• Meet the Inventor of Karaoke, Daisuke Inoue, Who Wanted to “Teach the World to Sing”, 01 Jun 2021 in History&Music&Technology
• The Art of Balancing Stones: How Artists Use Simple Materials to Make Impossible Sculptures in Nature, 31 May 2021 in Art&Nature
• Leonardo da Vinci Designs the Ideal City: See 3D Models of His Radical Design, 28 May 2021 in Architecture&History
• What Makes the Art of Bonsai So Expensive?: $1 Million for a Bonsai Tree, and $32,000 for Bonsai Scissors, 27 May 2021 in Art
• The Creation & Restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Animated, 26 May 2021 in Architecture&History
• Real D‑Day Landing Footage, Enhanced & Colorized with Artificial Intelligence (June 6, 1944), 26 May 2021 in History
• How the Survivors of Pompeii Escaped Mount Vesuvius’ Deadly Eruption: A TED-Ed Animation Tells the Story, 25 May 2021 in History&TED Talks
• John Steinbeck Wrote a Werewolf Novel, and His Estate Won’t Let the World Read It: The Story of Murder at Full Moon, 24 May 2021 in History&Literature
• The First Cellphone: Discover Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, a 2‑Pound Brick Priced at $3,995 (1984), 20 May 2021 in History&Technology
• The Largest Free Kitchen in the World: Discover India’s Golden Temple Which Serves 100,000 Free Meals Per Day, 19 May 2021 in Food & Drink&Religion&Travel
• How to Shop Online & Check Your E‑Mail on the Go: A 1980s British TV Show Demonstrates, 18 May 2021 in History&Technology&Television
• One Man’s Quest to Build the Best Stereo System in the World, 18 May 2021 in Music&Technology
• Rick Steves Tells the Story of Fascism’s Rise & Fall in Germany, 14 May 2021 in History&Politics&Television&Travel
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks Get Digitized: Where to Read the Renaissance Man’s Manuscripts Online, 13 May 2021 in Archives&Art&History&Science
• In 1926, Nikola Tesla Predicts the World of 2026, 12 May 2021 in History&Technology
• Sonic Explorations of Japanese Jazz: Stream 8 Mixes of Japan’s Jazz Tradition Free Online, 11 May 2021 in Music
• David Hockney Shows Us His Sketch Book, Page by Page, 10 May 2021 in Art
• An Immersive Pink Floyd Museum Exhibition Is Coming to the U.S.: Get Tickets Online, 07 May 2021 in History&Music
• Electronic Music Pioneer Wendy Carlos Demonstrates the Moog Synthesizer on the BBC (1970), 06 May 2021 in Music&Technology&Television
• Watch “Degrees of Uncertainty,” an Animated Documentary about Climate Science, Uncertainty & Knowing When to Trust the Experts, 05 May 2021 in Current Affairs&Data&Science
• How the Internet Archive Has Digitized More than 250,000 78 R.P.M. Records: See the Painstaking Process Up-Close, 04 May 2021 in History&Internet Archive&Music
• The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback), 03 May 2021 in History&Technology
• The Story of the Rolling Stones: A Selection of Documentaries on the Quintessential Rock-and-Roll Band, 03 May 2021 in History&Music
• What Makes Citizen Kane a Great Film: 4 Video Essays Revisit Orson Welles’ Masterpiece on the 80th Anniversary of Its Premiere, 29 Apr 2021 in Film&History
• Watch 400+ Documentaries from German Broadcaster Deutsche Welle: Art Forgery, Fashion Photography, the Mona Lisa, and More, 28 Apr 2021 in Art&Photography&Television
• Behold the 1940s Typewriter That Could Type in English, Chinese & Japanese: Watch More Than a Thousand Different Characters in Action, 27 Apr 2021 in History&Technology
• The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Explained, 26 Apr 2021 in Art&History
• Critics Celebrate Two-Lane Blacktop, the 1971 Existential Road-Movie Masterpiece by Monte Hellman (RIP), Starring James Taylor & Dennis Wilson, 23 Apr 2021 in Film
• Hear Joni Mitchell’s Earliest Recording, Rediscovered After More than 50 Years, 22 Apr 2021 in Music
• How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Son Invented Lincoln Logs, “America’s National Toy” (1916), 21 Apr 2021 in Architecture&History
• The Beautiful, Innovative & Sometimes Dark World of Animated Soviet Propaganda (1925–1984), 20 Apr 2021 in Animation&Film&History&Politics
• How Pixar’s Movement Animation Became So Realistic: The Technological Breakthroughs Behind the Animation, 20 Apr 2021 in Animation&Film
• Exquisite Watercolors of Demons, Magic & Signs: Behold the Compendium Of Demonology and Magic from 1775, 16 Apr 2021 in Books&History&Religion
• Experience Footage of Roaring 1920s Berlin, Restored & Colorized with Artificial Intelligence, 15 Apr 2021 in Film&History
• Free Software Lets You Create Traditional Japanese Wood Joints & Furniture: Download Tsugite, 14 Apr 2021 in Architecture&Art
• The Decay of Cinema: Susan Sontag, Martin Scorsese & Their Lamentations on the Decline of Cinema Explored in a New Video Essay, 13 Apr 2021 in Film
• The Ingenious Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci Recreated with 3D Animation, 12 Apr 2021 in History&Technology
• Watch a Master Japanese Printmaker at Work: Two Unintentionally Relaxing ASMR Videos, 09 Apr 2021 in Art
• The Story of Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Troubled (and Even Deadly) Sci-Fi Masterpiece, 08 Apr 2021 in Film
• A Long-Lost Soviet Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings Resurfaces on YouTube–and Tolkien Fans Rejoice (1991), 07 Apr 2021 in Literature&Television
• How Filippo Brunelleschi, Untrained in Architecture or Engineering, Built the World’s Largest Dome at the Dawn of the Renaissance, 06 Apr 2021 in Architecture&History
• The World of Wong Kar-Wai: How the Films of Hong Kong’s Most Acclaimed Auteur Have Stayed Thrilling, 05 Apr 2021 in Film
• The Rules of 100 Sports Clearly Explained in Short Videos: Baseball, Football, Jai Alai, Sumo Wrestling, Cricket, Pétanque & Much More, 05 Apr 2021 in Sports
• When the Indiana Bell Building Was Rotated 90° While Everyone Worked Inside in 1930 (by Kurt Vonnegut’s Architect Dad), 01 Apr 2021 in Architecture&History
• What Andrei Tarkovsky’s Most Notorious Scene Tells Us About Time During the Pandemic: A Video Essay, 31 Mar 2021 in Current Affairs&Film
• Hear J.S. Bach’s Music Performed on the Lautenwerck, Bach’s Favorite Lost Baroque Instrument, 30 Mar 2021 in History&Music
• The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,00 Works of Art, 29 Mar 2021 in Art&Museums
• BirdCast: You Can Now Forecast the Migration of Birds Across the U.S. Just Like the Weather, 26 Mar 2021 in Maps&Nature
• How Sounds Are Faked For Nature Documentaries: Meet the Artists Who Create the Sounds of Fish, Spiders, Orangutans, Mushrooms & More, 25 Mar 2021 in Film&Nature&Television
• Explore a New Archive of 2,200 Historical Wildlife Illustrations (1916–1965): Courtesy of The Wildlife Conservation Society, 24 Mar 2021 in Art&Nature&Science
• The Mathematics Behind Origami, the Ancient Japanese Art of Paper Folding, 23 Mar 2021 in Art&Math&Technology&TED Talks
• How Edward Munch Signaled His Bohemian Rebellion with Cigarettes (1895): A Video Essay, 23 Mar 2021 in Art&History
• The Aesthetic of Anime: A New Video Essay Explores a Rich Tradition of Japanese Animation, 22 Mar 2021 in Animation&Television
• A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from World-Class Museums, 18 Mar 2021 in Art&Technology
• The Bayeux Tapestry Gets Digitized: View the Medieval Tapestry in High Resolution, Down to the Individual Thread, 17 Mar 2021 in Art&History
• Listen to Wikipedia: A Web Site That Turns Every Wikipedia Edit Into Ambient Music in Real Time, 16 Mar 2021 in Music&Web/Tech
• The Letters of Mozart’s Sister Maria Anna Get Transformed into Music, 15 Mar 2021 in Music&Technology
• Google & Coursera Launch Career Certificates That Prepare Students for Jobs in 6 Months: Data Analytics, Project Management and UX Design, 12 Mar 2021 in Education&Google&Online Courses
• Rare Vincent van Gogh Painting Goes on Public Display for the First Time: Explore the 1887 Painting Online, 11 Mar 2021 in Art&History
• The Iconic Dance Scene from Hellzapoppin’ Presented in Living Color with Artificial Intelligence (1941), 10 Mar 2021 in Dance&Film&Technology
• John Cleese’s Very Favorite Comedy Sketches, 09 Mar 2021 in Comedy&Television
• Alexander Calder’s Archive Goes Online: Explore 1400 Works of Art by the Modernist Sculptor, 08 Mar 2021 in Archives&Art
• The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross & Banksy: Watch Banksy Paint a Mural on the Jail That Once Housed Oscar Wilde, 05 Mar 2021 in Art
• “The Cinematic Universe”: A Video Essay on How Films Cinematize Cities & Places, from Manhattan to Nashville, Rome Open City to Taipei Story, 05 Mar 2021 in Film
• Haruki Murakami Has Created New T‑Shirts Featuring Words & Imagery from Norwegian Wood, 1Q84 and More, 04 Mar 2021 in Books&Fashion
• The Last Interview Book Series Features the Final Words of Cultural Icons: Borges to Bowie, Philip K. Dick to Frida Kahlo, 03 Mar 2021 in Literature&Music
• Hear Brian Eno Reinvent Pachelbel’s Canon (1975), 01 Mar 2021 in Music
• Download 280 Pictographs That Put Japanese Culture Into a New Visual Language: They’re Free for the Public to Use, 26 Feb 2021 in Design&Language&Travel
• Flim: a New AI-Powered Movie-Screenshot Search Engine, 25 Feb 2021 in Film&Technology
• Watch Orson Welles’ Intoxicating Wine Commercials That Became an 80s Cultural Phenomenon, 24 Feb 2021 in Food & Drink&Television
• The Roman Roads of Gaul Visualized as a Modern Subway Map, 23 Feb 2021 in History&Maps
• The 69 Pages of Writing Advice Denis Johnson Collected from Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Werner Herzog & Many Others, 23 Feb 2021 in Writing
• Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly Gives 36 Lectures on Our Future World: Education, Movies, Robots, Autonomous Cars & More, 22 Feb 2021 in Education&Technology
• The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses, 18 Feb 2021 in Education
• Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme, 17 Feb 2021 in Music&Religion