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Tue Sep 29
The Early Years of Electronic Pop: The Moog Craze, Psychedelic Experiments, and More
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Surreal Pinscreen Animations Bring Kafka, Gogol & Mussorgsky to Life (1933–1972)
16h
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Inside the Making of the Sagrada Família, Barcelona’s 144-Year Megaproject
1d
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The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665–1810)
1d
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How Balzac’s Extreme Coffee Habit Fueled His Productive Writing Routine
2d
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A Soviet Animation of Stephen King’s Short Story “Battleground” (1986)
2d
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Harry Houdini Died 100 Years Ago This Halloween: Was He Really Killed by a Punch to the Stomach?
3d
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Hear an Hour of the Jazzy Background Music from the Original 1967 Spider-Man Cartoon
3d
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Watch Rome Rise, Fall, and Rise Again in a Three-Minute 3D Timelapse
6d
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Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & More
1w
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What Ancient Latin Sounded Like, And How We Know It
1w
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In 1897, London’s Lampposts Dispensed Hot Coffee, Tea, and “Fluid Beef”
1w
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Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life
1w
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Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting Hyperland (1990)
1w
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Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great
1w
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The Dark Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Famous Photograph, Taken Four Days After a Laudanum Overdose
1w
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When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)
1w
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How Vincent van Gogh’s Sister-in-Law Worked Tirelessly to Make Him Famous
1w
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The Megaprojects That Even the Ancient Romans Couldn’t Pull Off: Rerouting the Tiber, Digging a Canal, and More
2w
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Watch “The Midnight Parasites,” a Surreal Japanese Animation Set in the World of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1972)
2w
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Why Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur & Other Hollywood Classics Still Look So Good
2w
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Soviet-Era Illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)
2w
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The Names of Nearly 4 Million Enslaved People in Former British Colonies Are Now Searchable Online, Helping Descendants Find Lost Ancestors
2w
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The Bialetti Moka Express: The History of Italy’s Iconic Coffee Maker, and How to Use It the Right Way
2w
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The Biggest Ship in History Was Built in China 600 Years Ago—Or Was It?
2w
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A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
2w
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David Byrne’s New Book Explores the Strange Afterlife of Good Ideas: From Vermeer’s Paintings to Roman Concrete & Dark Matter
2w
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The Strange and Brilliant Inventions of Nikola Tesla
3w
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7 Tips from Edgar Allan Poe on How to Write Vivid Stories & Poems
3w
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Why the Maps of London, Tokyo, New York, and Other Major Cities Look the Way They Do
3w
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Apocalypse Gets Visualized in an Inventive Map from 1486
3w
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Discover the Lost Horror Series Deemed Too Shocking for BBC Television (1967)
3w
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In 1704, Isaac Newton Predicted That the World Will End in 2060
3w
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300 Years Before ChatGPT, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Imagined Machines Writing Books and Producing Knowledge (1726)
3w
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Artists Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky in Mexico: Vintage Footage from 1938
3w
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When Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting a Dome Over Manhattan (1960)
1mo
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LEGO Lets You Build Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Its Largest Set Ever
1mo
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The Cable that Changed the World: How Instant Global Communication Began in 1858
1mo
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The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
1mo
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