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  • Sun Mar 8

The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling

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How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

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John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band

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Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)

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Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More

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How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954

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Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow

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How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons

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Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today

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How James Cameron Shot Titanic’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene

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Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)

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How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count

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A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University

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How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)

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Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing

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When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples

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An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete

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Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897

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See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models

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How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction

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Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

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Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count

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Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online

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Why Smart People Feel Like Frauds: The Psychology of Impostor Syndrome and Its Hidden Benefits

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How Quentin Tarantino’s One-Night “Detest Fest” Changed His Life & Set Him on the Path to Pulp Fiction

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An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict

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Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

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Jim Jarmusch Picks His Favorite Films from the The Criterion Collection

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In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: “Without Hope, We Fall Into Apathy”

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Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard

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Hear Paul McCartney’s Forgotten 1967 Movie Soundtrack, Arranged by George Martin

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Enchanting Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955: The End of a 500-Year Tradition

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The Fascinating Engineering of the Titanic: How the Great Ocean Liner Was Built

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How to Read Books That Challenge Your Mind: Advice from Robert Greene, Author of The 48 Laws of Power

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Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014)

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The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans

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How the Long-Lost Body of Richard III Was Found Under a Parking Lot: Solving a 500-Year-Old Mystery

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How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer

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The Met Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More

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Watch Peter Tork Quietly Mouth Other Actors’ Lines in The Monkees: A Strange Quirk You’ll Never Unsee

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Who Would Be Emperor If the Roman Empire Still Existed Today?

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The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art

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Entries updated Apr 8, 2026 03:01:49 AM PDT

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