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• The Final Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Rare Footage from 1910, 20 Nov 2024 in History&Literature
• How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983), 19 Nov 2024 in Television
• Join Us on Bluesky. We Will Have Fun Together, 18 Nov 2024 in Random
• Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (1969), 17 Nov 2024 in Animation
• Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine, 13 Nov 2024 in Magazines&Sci Fi
• Get Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates: Coursera Is Offering 40% (or $159) Off of Coursera Plus Until December 2, 13 Nov 2024 in Online Courses
• The Mushroom Color Atlas: An Interactive Web Site Lets You Explore the Incredible Spectrum of Colors Created from Fungi, 13 Nov 2024 in Art&Nature
• Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining, 12 Nov 2024 in Books&Film
• Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy, 11 Nov 2024 in Life&Politics
• Hear the Isolated Vocals of Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up”: The Power of Perseverance, 08 Nov 2024 in Life&Music
• Carl Jung Psychoanalyzes Hitler: “He’s the Unconscious of 78 Million Germans.” “Without the German People He’d Be Nothing” (1938), 07 Nov 2024 in History&Psychology
• Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album, 05 Nov 2024 in Music
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use, 04 Nov 2024 in Art
• Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism, 01 Nov 2024 in History&Literature&Politics
• Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate, 31 Oct 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Google&Online Courses
• Watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Influential German Expressionist Horror Film (1920), 30 Oct 2024 in Film
• The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Painful Lessons of the 20th Century, 29 Oct 2024 in History&Television
• Destino: The Salvador Dalí — Walt Disney Animation That Took 57 Years to Complete, 29 Oct 2024 in Animation
• The Isolated Bass Grooves of The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh (RIP), 28 Oct 2024 in Life&Music
• When 20,000 Americans Held a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden, 27 Oct 2024 in History
• A Short Visual History of America, According to the Irreverent Comic Artist R. Crumb, 25 Oct 2024 in Comics/Cartoons
• B.B. King Changes a Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (1985), 24 Oct 2024 in Music
• Andy Warhol’s One Minute of Professional Wrestling Fame (1985), 22 Oct 2024 in Art&Sports&Television
• The Wisdom of Alan Watts in 4 Mind-Expanding Animations, 21 Oct 2024 in Philosophy&Religion
• Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964), 21 Oct 2024 in History&Politics
• Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline (1971), 18 Oct 2024 in Current Affairs&Film
• Learn Data Analytics & AI with Google, and Fast-Track Your Career, 17 Oct 2024 in Data&Online Courses
• George Harrison Explains Why Everyone Should Play the Ukulele, 16 Oct 2024 in Music
• Peanuts Creator Charles Schulz Shares with a 10-Year-Old Kid the True Meaning of Good Citizenship, 16 Oct 2024 in Comics/Cartoons&Life
• Johnny Cash & The Clash’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2002), 14 Oct 2024 in Music
• When Leonard Cohen Guest Starred on Miami Vice (1986), 14 Oct 2024 in Music&Television
• The Complete Howard Stern Interview with Kamala Harris, 10 Oct 2024 in Current Affairs&Life
• The Doctor Who Theme Reimagined as a Jacques Brel-esque Jazz Tune, 09 Oct 2024 in Comedy&Music
• Thomas Edison’s Recordings of Leo Tolstoy: Hear the Voice of the Great Russian Novelist, 08 Oct 2024 in History&Literature&Technology
• Twin Peaks Actually Explained: A 4‑Hour Video Essay Demystifies It All, 08 Oct 2024 in Film
• Private Snafu: The World War II Propaganda Cartoons Created by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra & Mel Blanc, 06 Oct 2024 in Film&History
• Bruce Springsteen Endorses Kamala Harris & Makes the Case Against Donald Trump, 03 Oct 2024 in Current Affairs
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show Is Now a Retro Video Game, 02 Oct 2024 in Video Games
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Perform a Rollicking Cover of the Mary Tyler Moore Theme Song (1996), 01 Oct 2024 in Music&Television
• David Bowie’s Fashionable Mug Shot From His 1976 Marijuana Bust, 30 Sep 2024 in Music
• The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online, 25 Sep 2024 in Art&Books&History
• Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry & More, 24 Sep 2024 in Audio Books&Literature
• Orson Welles Narrates Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner in an Experimental Film Featuring the Art of Gustave Doré, 23 Sep 2024 in Film&Literature
• David Bowie’s 100 Must Read Books, 23 Sep 2024 in Uncategorized
• Behold a Creative Animation of the Bayeux Tapestry, 19 Sep 2024 in Animation&Art&History
• Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett, 18 Sep 2024 in Literature&Writing
• John Waters’ RISD Graduation Speech: Real Wealth Is Life Without A*Holes, 17 Sep 2024 in Graduation Speech&Life
• Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists, 16 Sep 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• David Bowie Songs Reimagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers: Space Oddity, Heroes, Life on Mars & More, 15 Sep 2024 in Comics/Cartoons&Literature&Music
• Stanford Continuing Studies Offering an Online Course Exploring the Music of the Grateful Dead, 12 Sep 2024 in Music
• Why You Can Never Tune a Piano, 11 Sep 2024 in Music&Science
• Death: A Free Online Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable, 10 Sep 2024 in Online Courses&Philosophy&Yale
• James Earl Jones (RIP) Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, 10 Sep 2024 in Literature&Poetry
• Watch The Idea, the First Animated Film to Deal with Big, Philosophical Ideas (1932), 08 Sep 2024 in Animation&History&Philosophy
• Bringing Tsarist Russia to Life: Vivid Color Images from 1905–1915, 05 Sep 2024 in Photography
• Watch Fantasmagorie, the World’s First Animated Cartoon (1908), 04 Sep 2024 in Animation&Film
• 20 Mesmerizing Videos of Japanese Artisans Creating Traditional Handicrafts, 03 Sep 2024 in Art&Design
• The Night Frank Zappa Jammed With Pink Floyd … and Captain Beefheart Too (Belgium, 1969), 03 Sep 2024 in Music
• The World’s First Mobile Phone Shown in 1922 Vintage Film, 01 Sep 2024 in Technology
• Maurice Sendak’s First Published Illustrations: Discover His Drawings for a 1947 Popular Science Book, 30 Aug 2024 in Art&Science
• Is Andrew Huberman Ruining Your Morning Coffee Routine?, 28 Aug 2024 in Food & Drink&Science
• The Enchanting Opera Performances of Klaus Nomi, 26 Aug 2024 in Music
• Richard Feynman Creates a Simple Method for Telling Science From Pseudoscience (1966), 25 Aug 2024 in Philosophy&Science
• George Orwell Reviews Mein Kampf: “He Envisages a Horrible Brainless Empire” (1940), 22 Aug 2024 in History&Literature
• When Samuel Beckett Drove Young André the Giant to School, 21 Aug 2024 in Literature&Random
• Jimi Hendrix Arrives in London in 1966, Asks to Get Onstage with Cream, and Blows Eric Clapton Away: “You Never Told Me He Was That F‑ing Good”, 20 Aug 2024 in Music
• Soviet Inventor Léon Theremin Shows Off the Theremin, the Early Electronic Instrument That Could Be Played Without Being Touched (1954), 20 Aug 2024 in Music
• Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Cover for On the Road (1952), 19 Aug 2024 in Art&Books
• Hear the Very First Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 in a Radio Play Starring David Niven (1949), 16 Aug 2024 in Literature&Theatre
• Ray Bradbury Explains Why Literature is the Safety Valve of Civilization (in Which Case We Need More Literature!), 14 Aug 2024 in Literature
• Jean-Paul Sartre Rejects the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964: “It Was Monstrous!”, 14 Aug 2024 in History&Literature&Philosophy&Politics
• Keith Moon, Drummer of The Who, Passes Out at 1973 Concert; 19-Year-Old Fan Takes Over, 12 Aug 2024 in Music
• Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation That Revolutionized Map Design (1943), 11 Aug 2024 in Design&Maps
• The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839, 08 Aug 2024 in Uncategorized
• An Oscar-Winning Animation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” Painted on 29,000 Frames of Glass, 07 Aug 2024 in Animation&Literature
• Mark Twain & Helen Keller’s Special Friendship: He Treated Me Not as a Freak, But as a Person Dealing with Great Difficulties, 05 Aug 2024 in History&Life&Literature
• The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure, 04 Aug 2024 in Creativity
• Carl Jung Offers an Introduction to His Psychological Thought in a 3‑Hour Interview (1957), 01 Aug 2024 in Psychology
• David Bowie Predicts the Good & Bad of the Internet in 1999: “We’re on the Cusp of Something Exhilarating and Terrifying”, 31 Jul 2024 in Music&Technology
• Nick Cave Narrates an Animated Film about the Cat Piano, the Twisted 18th Century Musical Instrument Designed to Treat Mental Illness, 30 Jul 2024 in History&Psychology&Random
• The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments of the 20th Century” (1965), 29 Jul 2024 in History&Music&Television
• Jimi Hendrix Opens for The Monkees on a 1967 Tour; Then Flips Off the Crowd and Quits, 28 Jul 2024 in Music
• 37 Hitchcock Cameo Appearances Over 50 Years: All in One Video, 24 Jul 2024 in Film
• Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975), 23 Jul 2024 in Architecture&Design&Science&Technology
• When the Grateful Dead Played at the Egyptian Pyramids, in the Shadow of the Sphinx (1978), 23 Jul 2024 in History&Music
• The Cramps Play a Mental Health Hospital in Napa, California in 1978: The Punkest of Punk Concerts, 19 Jul 2024 in Music&Psychology
• Face to Face with Carl Jung: ‘Man Cannot Stand a Meaningless Life’ (1959), 18 Jul 2024 in Psychology
• Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Rare TV Interview (1975), 17 Jul 2024 in History&Philosophy
• Martin Scorsese Plays Vincent Van Gogh in a Short, Surreal Film by Akira Kurosawa, 16 Jul 2024 in Art&Film
• Oscar-Winning Director Frank Capra Made an Educational Science Film Warning of Climate Change in 1958, 15 Jul 2024 in Education&Environment&Film&Science
• Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Great Recordings of Hendrix Playing Acoustic Guitar, 11 Jul 2024 in Music
• Honoré de Balzac Writes About “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee,” and His Epic Coffee Addiction, 09 Jul 2024 in Food & Drink&Literature
• Andy Warhol Hosts Frank Zappa on His Cable TV Show, and Later Recalls, “I Hated Him More Than Ever” After the Show, 09 Jul 2024 in Art&Music
• Watch Tom Waits For No One, the Pioneering Animated Music Video from 1979, 08 Jul 2024 in Animation&Music
• “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language, 07 Jul 2024 in Books&Literature
• Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger Recipe, 03 Jul 2024 in Food & Drink&Literature
• The Original Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Manuscript, Handwritten & Illustrated By Lewis Carroll (1864), 02 Jul 2024 in Art&Literature
• Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the “Incubation Period”, 01 Jul 2024 in Creativity&Psychology
• See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen, 26 Jun 2024 in Philosophy
• Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926, 26 Jun 2024 in Archives&Sci Fi
• Gustave Doré’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884), 24 Jun 2024 in Art&Books&Poetry
• Watch Patti Smith Read from Virginia Woolf, and Hear the Only Surviving Recording of Woolf’s Voice, 23 Jun 2024 in Literature&Music
• Tracking Pianist Yuja Wang’s Heartbeats During Her Marathon Rachmaninoff Performance, 21 Jun 2024 in Music&Science
• Medievalist Professor Answers Medieval Questions From Twitter: Why Is It called the “Middle” Ages?, What Did Medieval English Sound Like?, and More, 20 Jun 2024 in History
• How Carl Jung Inspired the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, 19 Jun 2024 in Health&Life&Psychology
• Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Explained in One of the Earliest Science Films Ever Made (1923), 17 Jun 2024 in Film&Science
• Watch the Earliest-Known Charles Dickens Film: The Death of Poor Joe, 17 Jun 2024 in Film&Literature
• Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More, 13 Jun 2024 in Film&Literature&Music
• Download Issues of “Weird Tales” (1923–1954): The Pioneering Pulp Horror Magazine Features Original Stories by Lovecraft, Bradbury & Many More, 11 Jun 2024 in Literature&Magazines
• How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant., 11 Jun 2024 in Music
• Oh My God! Winston Churchill Received the First Ever Letter Containing “O.M.G.” (1917), 07 Jun 2024 in English Language&History
• The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps, 05 Jun 2024 in History&Maps
• Behold the Codex Gigas (aka “Devil’s Bible”), the Largest Medieval Manuscript in the World, 05 Jun 2024 in Books&History
• James Joyce Picked Drunken Fights, Then Hid Behind Ernest Hemingway, 04 Jun 2024 in History&Literature
• Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80, 31 May 2024 in Literature
• Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977), 29 May 2024 in Sci Fi&Technology
• This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience, 28 May 2024 in History&Life
• Philip K. Dick Theorizes The Matrix in 1977, Declares That We Live in “A Computer-Programmed Reality”, 27 May 2024 in Literature&Sci Fi
• Hunter S. Thompson’s Harrowing, Chemical-Filled Daily Routine, 26 May 2024 in Food & Drink
• Hear the Song Written on a Sinner’s Buttock in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, 23 May 2024 in Art&Music
• 9‑Year-Old Edward Hopper Draws a Picture on the Back of His 3rd Grade Report Card, 22 May 2024 in Art
• The First Professional Footage of Pink Floyd Gets Captured in a 1967 Documentary (and the Band Also Provides the Soundtrack), 22 May 2024 in Film&Music
• Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts, 21 May 2024 in History&Life
• Hear Leo Tolstoy Read From His Last Major Work in Four Languages, 1909, 20 May 2024 in Books&Language
• “The Virtues of Coffee” Explained in 1690 Ad: The Cure for Lethargy, Scurvy, Dropsy, Gout & More, 17 May 2024 in Food & Drink&History
• Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them”, 15 May 2024 in Music
• Read 20 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro (RIP) Free Online, 15 May 2024 in Literature
• Jerry Seinfeld Delivers Commencement Address at Duke University: You Will Need Humor to Get Through the Human Experience, 13 May 2024 in Comedy&Life
• The First Recording of Allen Ginsberg Reading “Howl” (1956), 09 May 2024 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Watch an Enthusiast Drive the First Car Ever Made, the 1885 Mercedes Benz, 09 May 2024 in History&Technology
• Read the Uncompromising Letter That Steve Albini (RIP) Wrote to Nirvana Before Producing In Utero (1993), 08 May 2024 in Music
• A Bicycle Trip: Watch an Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip in 1943, 07 May 2024 in Film&History
• 4 Franz Kafka Animations: Watch Creative Animated Shorts from Poland, Japan, Russia & Canada, 06 May 2024 in Animation&Literature
• Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified Version of Bach’s “Little Fugue in G”, 06 May 2024 in Music
• Artist Draws 9 Portraits on LSD During 1950s Research Experiment, 02 May 2024 in Art&Psychology
• Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to Increase Your Productivity, 30 Apr 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Google
• Behold The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907–1917), 30 Apr 2024 in Art&Literature
• Bukowski Reads Bukowski: Watch a 1975 Documentary Featuring Charles Bukowski at the Height of His Powers, 29 Apr 2024 in Poetry
• The Origins of Anime: Watch Early Japanese Animations (1917 to 1931), 26 Apr 2024 in Animation
• Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign, 25 Apr 2024 in Music