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The Surprising Power of Boredom: It Lets You Confront Big Questions & Give Life Meaning

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The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts

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The Night When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965

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78 Great Directors Who Shaped the History of Cinema: An Introduction

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Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

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Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like

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Marc Maron Wraps Up the WTF Podcast: Watch His Final Interview with Barack Obama

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The 1976 Synth Album That Promised to Help Your Plants Grow: Discover Mother Earth’s Plantasia

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Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter

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Every Filmed and Televised Performance by Joy Division (1978–79)

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The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

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Mark Twain Makes a List of 60 American Comfort Foods He Missed While Traveling Abroad (1880)

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When David Bowie Starred in—and Created Music for—a Dystopian Cyberpunk Video Game: Discover Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999)

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Dr. Weil’s 60-Second Technique for Falling Asleep

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Einstein’s Divorce Letters and the Cruel List of Marital Demands He Imposed on His First Wife

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What’s the Most Banned Book of the 2024–25 School Year?: A Clockwork Orange

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A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

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The Fascinating Story of How the Electric Music Pioneer Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (1963)

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What a Lack of Social Contact Does to Your Brain

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The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran

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See Beethoven’s Entire 9th Symphony Visualized in Colorful Animations

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Remembering Jane Goodall (RIP): Watch Jane, the Acclaimed National Geographic Documentary

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Discover the Oldest, Weirdest Instrument On Earth: The Lithophone

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The Night John Belushi Booked the Punk Band Fear on Saturday Night Live & They Got Banned from the Show (1981)

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An Introduction to Moebius, the Comic Artist Who Influenced Blade Runner and Miyazaki

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Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679

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Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It

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Meryl Streep’s First Film Role Was in an Animated Film on Erik Erikson’s Stages of Life (1976)

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A Tour of the New David Bowie Archive Featuring 90,000 Artifacts from His Life & Career

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The Gilded Age: A Free Historical Documentary That Helps Make Sense of Our Own Fraught Times

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Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora & Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)

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Explore a New Digital Edition of Printing Types, the Authoritative History of Printing & Typography from 1922

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A Trip Around the World in 1900: See Restored Footage Showing Life in New York, London, India, Japan, China & Beyond

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Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test: What Do You See? (1921)

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When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969)

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Explore the Fascinating Map of Fungi: An Introduction to the Vast Mushroom Kingdom

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How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction

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Entries updated Oct 18, 2025 07:20:35 AM PDT

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