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• The Mystery of Who Played Bass on The White Album’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, 15 Nov 2021 in Music
• Meet the Mysterious Genius Who Patented the UFO, 12 Nov 2021 in Design&History
• What Is Sun Tzu’s The Art of War About?: A Short Introduction, 11 Nov 2021 in History&Literature&Philosophy
• How Kraftwerk Made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 10 Nov 2021 in Music
• What Makes Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ a Timeless, Great Painting?, 10 Nov 2021 in Art
• A Fascinating 3D Animation Shows the Depths of the Ocean, 09 Nov 2021 in Animation&Nature&Science
• How Martin Luther King, Jr. Wrote His Momentous “I Have a Dream” Speech (1963), 09 Nov 2021 in History&Politics
• John Cleese Presents His 5‑Step Plan for Shorter, More Productive Meetings (1976), 08 Nov 2021 in Business&Comedy&Education&Politics
• Why Leonardo da Vinci’s Greatest Painting is Not the Mona Lisa, 04 Nov 2021 in Art
• The Nine Greatest Films You’ve Never Seen, 04 Nov 2021 in Film
• The Awe-Inspiring But Tragic Story of Africa’s Festival In The Desert (2001–2012), 03 Nov 2021 in Music
• Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980), 02 Nov 2021 in Sci Fi&Science&Television
• The 10 Paradoxical Traits of Creative People, According to Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (RIP), 01 Nov 2021 in Creativity&Psychology
• Hear Hans Zimmer’s Experimental Score for the New Dune Film, 01 Nov 2021 in Film&Music
• Watch the New Trailer for a Kurt Vonnegut Documentary 40 Years In the Making, 29 Oct 2021 in Film&Literature
• New Research Confirms That the Vikings Landed in North America 471 Years Before Columbus & Exactly 1,000 Years Ago, 27 Oct 2021 in History
• Yale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies 10 Tactics of Fascism: The “Cult of the Leader,” Law & Order, Victimhood and More, 26 Oct 2021 in History&Philosophy
• Three Hours of Yo Yo Ma Playing Bach’s Six Cello Suites: Music That “Helps Us Navigate Through Troubled Times”, 26 Oct 2021 in Music
• Why–and When–Did the United States Turn Against Science?: Views from Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Margaret Atwood & More, 25 Oct 2021 in Current Affairs
• The Does and Don’ts of Putting on a Prison Concert: Johnny Cash, BB King, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Tyler & The Cramps, 21 Oct 2021 in Music
• When Salvador Dali Viewed Joseph Cornell’s Surrealist Film, Became Enraged & Shouted: “He Stole It from My Subconscious!” (1936), 20 Oct 2021 in Art&Film
• The Beautifully Illustrated Atlas of Mushrooms: Edible, Suspect and Poisonous (1827), 20 Oct 2021 in Books&History
• A Beautifully Illustrated Edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, the Bestselling Book by Historian Timothy Snyder, 19 Oct 2021 in Books&Current Affairs&History&Politics
• John Lennon Finally Meets & Jams with His Hero, Chuck Berry (1972), 18 Oct 2021 in Music
• The Little-Known Bombing of Pompeii During World War II, 15 Oct 2021 in History
• 136 Paintings by Gustav Klimt Now Online (Including 63 Paintings in an Immersive Augmented Reality Gallery), 14 Oct 2021 in Art
• Archaeologists Discover 1300-Year-Old Pair of Skis, the Best-Preserved Ancient Skis in Existence, 14 Oct 2021 in History&Sports
• Dave Grohl Falls Offstage & Breaks His Leg, Then Continues the Show as The Foo Fighters Play Queen’s “Under Pressure” (2015), 13 Oct 2021 in Music
• Watch Jaco Pastorius: The Lost Tapes Documentary, the Fan-Made Film on the Most Innovative Bass Player of All Time, 12 Oct 2021 in Jazz&Music
• When J.R.R. Tolkien Worked for the Oxford English Dictionary and “Learned More … Than Any Other Equal Period of My Life” (1919–1920), 11 Oct 2021 in Books&Literature
• Watch “The Impossible Map,” a Short Animated Film That Uses a Grapefruit to Show Why Maps of the Earth Are Misleading (1947), 08 Oct 2021 in Maps
• An Animated History of the Ottoman Empire (1299 — 1922), 07 Oct 2021 in History
• A Brilliant Demonstration of Magnets & the Promise of Levitating Trains (1975), 07 Oct 2021 in Science&Technology
• A Guitarist Rocks Out on Guitars Made from Shovels, Cigar Boxes, Oil Cans & Whisky Barrels, 06 Oct 2021 in Creativity&Design&Music
• Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist: To “Create Dangerously” (1957), 06 Oct 2021 in Art&Literature&Writing
• Footage of the Last Known Tasmanian Tiger Restored in Color (1933), 05 Oct 2021 in Nature&Science
• The Medieval Ban Against the “Devil’s Tritone”: Debunking a Great Myth in Music Theory, 04 Oct 2021 in Music
• Jim Henson’s Farewell: Revisit the “Nice, Friendly” Memorial Service at St. John the Divine (1990), 30 Sep 2021 in Television
• Nirvana Refuses to Mime Along to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on Top of the Pops (1991), 29 Sep 2021 in Music
• Why Scientists Can’t Recreate the Sound of Stradivarius Violins: The Mystery of Their Inimitable Sound, 29 Sep 2021 in Art&Music
• How New Yorkers Dodged Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws by Inventing the World’s Worst Sandwich, 28 Sep 2021 in Food & Drink&History
• View 103 Discovered Drawings by Famed Japanese Woodcut Artist Katsushika Hokusai, 24 Sep 2021 in Art
• A Rare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Found & Translated, 23 Sep 2021 in History&Literature
• Hear the Brazilian Metal Band Singing in–and Trying to Save–Their Native Language of Tupi-Guarani, 23 Sep 2021 in Language&Music
• Hobbes, Locke & Rousseau: An Animated Introduction to Their Political Theories, 22 Sep 2021 in Philosophy&Politics
• When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961), 22 Sep 2021 in Books&Literature
• The Recording Secrets of Nirvana’s Nevermind Revealed by Producer Butch Vig, 20 Sep 2021 in Music
• How Italian Physicist Laura Bassi Became the First Woman to Have an Academic Career in the 18th Century, 16 Sep 2021 in Gender&History&Physics&Science
• Elvis Presley Gets the Polio Vaccine on The Ed Sullivan Show, Persuading Millions to Get Vaccinated (1956), 15 Sep 2021 in Health&History&Television
• The Roman Colosseum Has a Twin in Tunisia: Discover the Amphitheater of El Jem, One of the Best-Preserved Roman Ruins in the World, 15 Sep 2021 in Architecture&History
• What Makes Basquiat’s Untitled Great Art: One Painting Says Everything Basquiat Wanted to Say About America, Art & Being Black in Both Worlds, 14 Sep 2021 in Art
• Sci-Fi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback Predicts Telemedicine in 1925, 13 Sep 2021 in Health&Sci Fi&Technology
• William Blake’s 102 Illustrations of The Divine Comedy Collected in a Beautiful Book from Taschen, 10 Sep 2021 in Art&Books&Literature
• Tove Jansson, Beloved Creator of the Moomins, Illustrates The Hobbit, 09 Sep 2021 in Art&Books
• A Restored Vermeer Painting Reveals a Portrait of a Cupid Hidden for Over 350 Years, 08 Sep 2021 in Art
• Why Do We Dream?: An Animated Lesson, 08 Sep 2021 in Neuroscience&Psychology
• Darth Vader’s Voice: The Original Voice Versus the Vocals of James Earl Jones, 08 Sep 2021 in Film
• The First Air Raid Happened When Austria Dropped Bombs on Venice from Pilotless Hot-Air Balloons (1849), 07 Sep 2021 in History
• Meet Brushy One String, the One String Guitar Player Who Will Blow Your Mind, 06 Sep 2021 in Music
• Hear Charlie Watts Inimitable Isolated Drum Tracks on “Gimme Shelter,” “Beast of Burden,” and “Honky Tonk”, 06 Sep 2021 in Music
• The Evolutionary History of Fat: Biologists Explain Why It’s Necessary for Our Survival & Why We’re Biased Against It, 02 Sep 2021 in Biology&Health
• What Makes Rodin’s The Thinker a Great Sculpture: An Introduction to Rodin Life, Craft & Iconic Work, 01 Sep 2021 in Art
• Chinese Youth Announce That They’re “Lying Flat” and Resisting the Pressures of Modern Life, 01 Sep 2021 in Current Affairs&Economics&Politics
• An Archaeologist Creates the Definitive Guide to Beer Cans, 31 Aug 2021 in Food & Drink&History
• Watch Lost Studio Footage of Brian Wilson Conducting “Good Vibrations,” The Beach Boys’ Brilliant “Pocket Symphony”, 31 Aug 2021 in Music
• An 18-Year-Old Spends a Year Alone Building a Log Cabin in the Swedish Wilderness: Watch from Start to Finish, 30 Aug 2021 in Life
• 17th Century Scientist Gives First Description of Alien Life: Hear Passages from Christiaan Huygens’ Cosmotheoros (1698), 27 Aug 2021 in Astronomy&Sci Fi&Science
• Medieval Scribes Discouraged Theft of Manuscripts by Adding Curses Threatening Death & Damnation to Their Pages, 26 Aug 2021 in Books&History&Religion
• Saying Goodbye to Charlie Watts (RIP), the Engine of the Rolling Stones for Half a Century, 25 Aug 2021 in Music
• The Wicked Scene in Amadeus When Mozart Mocked the Talents of His Rival Antonio Salieri: How Much Does the Film Square with Reality?, 24 Aug 2021 in Film&History&Music
• 360 Degree Virtual Tours of the Hagia Sophia, 23 Aug 2021 in Architecture&Art&History&Travel
• An Interactive Map of 530 Female Composers from Across the Globe, 23 Aug 2021 in Music
• Hear Philip K. Dick’s Famous Metz Speech: “If You Find this World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others” (1977), 20 Aug 2021 in Literature&Philosophy&Sci Fi
• Songs That Use “Word Painting”: The Art of Creating Music That Sounds Like the Lyrics, 19 Aug 2021 in Music
• How Doctor Who First Started as a Family Educational TV Program (1963), 19 Aug 2021 in Education&Sci Fi&Television
• Brian Eno Day: Hear 10 Hours of Radio Programming Featuring Brian Eno Talking About His Life & Career (1988), 18 Aug 2021 in Music
• Hear 45 Minutes of Funky Old Soundtracks from 1960s-70s Japanese Films & TV Shows, 17 Aug 2021 in Film&Music&Television
• Listen to Plato Invent the Myth of Atlantis (360 B.C), 17 Aug 2021 in History&Philosophy
• Take a Trip to the LSD Museum, the Largest Collection of “Blotter Art” in the World, 16 Aug 2021 in Art&Chemistry&History&Museums&Random
• 200 Comic Book Adaptations of Classic Novels Created (1941–1971): Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Hamlet & More, 13 Aug 2021 in Comics/Cartoons&Literature
• Hear Sherlock Holmes Stories Read by The Great Christopher Lee, 12 Aug 2021 in Audio Books&Literature
• Every Christmas, Peruvians Living in the Andes Settle Their Scores at Fist-Fighting Festivals, 12 Aug 2021 in Life&Travel
• Hear Vincent Price Star in a Classic Radio Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, 10 Aug 2021 in Books&Literature&Politics
• What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol, 09 Aug 2021 in Art
• A Charlie Watts-Centric View of the Rolling Stones: Watch Martin Scorsese’s Footage of Charlie & the Band Performing “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “All Down the Line”, 09 Aug 2021 in Music
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell Changed Astronomy Forever; Her Ph.D. Advisor Won the Nobel Prize for It, 05 Aug 2021 in Astronomy&Gender&History&Science
• Footage of Cities Around the World in the 1890s: London, Tokyo, New York, Venice, Moscow & More, 05 Aug 2021 in History
• Is the Viral “Red Dress” Music Video a Sociological Experiment? Performance Art? Or Something Else?, 04 Aug 2021 in Life&Media&Music
• How Steven Van Zandt Organized the Sun City Boycott and Helped Catalyze the Anti-Apartheid Movement (1985), 03 Aug 2021 in Music&Politics
• Watch Beautiful Footage of the Rarely Seen Glass Octopus, 03 Aug 2021 in Biology&Science
• The Cramps Legendary Concert at a California Psychiatric Hospital Gets Revisited in the New Documentary, We Were There to Be There: Watch It Online, 02 Aug 2021 in Music
• Take an Intellectual Odyssey with a Free MIT Course on Douglas Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, 02 Aug 2021 in Computer Science&Creativity&Math&MIT&Music&Neuroscience&Philosophy&Psychology
• A Gallery of 1,800 Gigapixel Images of Classic Paintings: See Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring, Van Gogh’s Starry Night & Other Masterpieces in Close Detail, 29 Jul 2021 in Art
• An Animated History of Writing: From Ancient Egypt to Modern Writing Systems, 29 Jul 2021 in History&Writing
• Are We All Getting More Depressed?: A New Study Analyzing 14 Million Books, Written Over 160 Years, Finds the Language of Depression Steadily Rising, 28 Jul 2021 in Data&Psychology
• How ABBA Won Eurovision and Became International Pop Stars (1974), 27 Jul 2021 in Music
• The Making of a Violin from Start to Finish: Watch a French Luthier Practice a Time-Honored Craft, 27 Jul 2021 in Music
• The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Oldest-Known Work of Literature in World History, 22 Jul 2021 in History&Literature
• Explore Divine Comedy Digital, a New Digital Database That Collects Seven Centuries of Art Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, 21 Jul 2021 in Art&Literature
• Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Artist, 21 Jul 2021 in Art
• They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell Releases an EP of Songs in Latin, 20 Jul 2021 in Language&Music
• When Rage Against the Machine Interviewed Noam Chomsky (1999), 20 Jul 2021 in Music&Politics
• Neil Young Plays “Hey, Hey, My, My” with Devo: Watch a Classic Scene from the Improvised Movie Human Highway (1980), 19 Jul 2021 in Film&Music
• How American Bandstand Changed American Culture: Revisit Scenes from the Iconic Music Show, 16 Jul 2021 in Music&Television
• Hear Isabella Rossellini Sing “Blue Velvet” in Its Entirety, 15 Jul 2021 in Film
• B.F. Skinner Demonstrates His “Teaching Machine,” the 1950s Automated Learning Device, 15 Jul 2021 in Education&History&Psychology
• What the Eagles’ “Hotel California” Really Means, 13 Jul 2021 in Music
• Watch Blondie Perform a Classic Concert During The Breakout Year: “Dreamin,” “One Way Or Another,” “Heart of Glass” & More (1979), 13 Jul 2021 in Music
• Hear Louis Armstrong’s Last Reel-to-Reel Tape, Made Hours Before His Death (1971), 12 Jul 2021 in Music
• Leon Theremin Advertises the First Commercial Production Run of His Revolutionary Electronic Instrument (1930), 09 Jul 2021 in History&Music
• Watch the Tate Modern Restore Mark Rothko’s Vandalized Painting, Black on Maroon: 18 Months of Work Condensed Into 17 Minutes, 08 Jul 2021 in Art
• How Caravaggio Painted: A Re-Creation of the Great Master’s Process, 07 Jul 2021 in Art
• Hear Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Played on Original Baroque Instruments, 07 Jul 2021 in History&Music
• Why Finland & Denmark Are Happier Than the United States, 06 Jul 2021 in Life
• Quentin Tarantino Releases His First Novel: A Pulpy Novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 05 Jul 2021 in Film
• Discover the 1820’s Color-Coded System for Memorizing Historical Events, Which Resembled Modern Art (1820), 05 Jul 2021 in History
• Alfred Hitchcock Explains the Difference Between Suspense & Surprise: Give the Audience Some Information & Leave the Rest to Their Imagination, 01 Jul 2021 in Film
• How Jaco Pastorius Invented the Electric Bass Solo & Changed Musical History (1976), 30 Jun 2021 in Music
• Watch 194 Films by Georges Méliès, the Filmmaker Who “Invented Everything” (All in Chronological Order), 30 Jun 2021 in Film
• The Acoustics of Stonehenge: Researchers Build a Model to Understand How Sound Reverberated within the Ancient Structure, 28 Jun 2021 in History&Science
• Tom Jones Covers Talking Heads “Burning Down the House”–and Burns Down the House (1999), 25 Jun 2021 in Music
• 1540 Monet Paintings in a Two Hour Video, 24 Jun 2021 in Art
• Every Roman Emperor: A Video Timeline Moving from Augustus to the Byzantine Empire’s Last Ruler, Constantine XI, 24 Jun 2021 in History
• Hear Demos & Outtakes of Joni Mitchell’s Blue on the 50th Anniversary of the Classic Album, 23 Jun 2021 in Music
• The Captivating Art of Restoring Vintage Guitars, 23 Jun 2021 in Music
• David Bowie on Why It’s Crazy to Make Art–and We Do It Anyway (1998), 22 Jun 2021 in Art&Music&Television
• British Actor Bob Hoskins Helped Thousands Learn to Read in On the Move, a 1970s “Sesame Street for Adults”, 22 Jun 2021 in Education&Television
• Discover Ikaria, the Greek Island With the Oldest Life Expectancy in the World, 21 Jun 2021 in Health&Life
• The Horrors of Bull Island, “the Worst Music Festival of All Time” (1972), 18 Jun 2021 in Music
• Hear an Excerpt from the Newly-Released, First Unabridged Audiobook of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, 17 Jun 2021 in Audio Books&Literature
• Watch Franz Liszt’s “Un Sospiro” Played with the Mesmerizing “Three-Hand Technique”, 16 Jun 2021 in Music
• Hear The Velvet Underground’s “Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes,” Which Showcases the Brilliance & Innovation of Lou Reed’s Guitar Playing (1969), 15 Jun 2021 in Music
• Watch an Accurate Reconstruction of the World’s Oldest Computer, the 2,200 Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, from Start to Finish, 14 Jun 2021 in Astronomy&History&Science
• Hear the Amati “King” Cello, the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (c. 1560), 11 Jun 2021 in History&Music
• Ethan Hawke Explains How to Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative, 10 Jun 2021 in Art&Creativity&Poetry
• A Data Visualization of Every Italian City & Town Founded in the BC Era, 10 Jun 2021 in Data&History
• Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue, 09 Jun 2021 in Literature&Psychology
• How Egyptian Papyrus Is Made: Watch Artisans Keep a 5,000-Year-Old Art Alive, 09 Jun 2021 in Art&History
• An Illustrated History of Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn, 08 Jun 2021 in Music&Photography
• What Happened During the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, One of the Worst Episodes of Racial Violence in U.S. History, 07 Jun 2021 in History