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Tue Aug 11
Route 66 Turns 100 This Year: Take a Tour of America’s Most Famous Highway
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Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896–1940)
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The Ancient Greek Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years
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Historian Timothy Snyder Teaches a Free Course on Hitler, Stalin & How “It” Can Happen Here
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Secret Career as a Japanese Art Dealer & How It Shaped His Architecture
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How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease
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Meet Lloyd Kahn, the Counterculture Publisher Who Is Skateboarding at 91
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Bertrand Russell Explains Why Karl Marx’s Philosophy Produced the Disaster of Communism
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Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult
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Wes Anderson Picks Nine of His Favorite Criterion Films
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Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
1w
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How Leonardo da Vinci’s Procrastination Contributed to His Creativity
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Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapers
1w
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How Phone Addiction Keeps You from Achieving a Productive “Flow State”
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Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career
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Tim Curry (RIP) Breaks Down His Most Iconic Roles: Rocky Horror, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island & More
1w
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The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements: Visualizing the Chemical Elements That Could Vanish Before You Know It
1w
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Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
1w
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The Art of Splendor Solis, the Most Glorious Illuminated Alchemical Manuscript of Them All
2w
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Isaac Asimov Explains His Three Laws of Robots: Do No Harm, Follow Orders, Survive, in That Order
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Why Reading Egyptian Hieroglyphics Is Easier Than You Think
2w
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Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)
2w
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The Wisdom of David Bowie: On Art, Religion, Technology and More
2w
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The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)
2w
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The Daily Routine of Marcus Aurelius: How to Live Like a Stoic
2w
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The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art School
2w
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Why Americans Stopped Reading Books
2w
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Discover the Mundaneum, an Early 20th-Century “Internet” That Put the World’s Knowledge on Millions of Index Cards
3w
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A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom
3w
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The Complete History of the Beatles as Told By Conan O’Brien
3w
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NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Program
3w
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The Secret History of the Antichrist
3w
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5,000 Classic Movie Posters Digitized & Put Online: Free to Browse & Download
3w
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The Genius of Airplane!: How to Make a Comedy by Playing Everything Completely Straight
3w
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 840,000 Works of Art, Including Great Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer
3w
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Discover the Ancient Roman Shorthand Writing System with 4,000 Symbols Commissioned by Cicero
3w
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When the US Mail Was Delivered Underground at 35 MPH Through a Network of Pneumatic Tubes (1893–1953)
1mo
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One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)
1mo
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The Most Controversial Ancient Philosophy: Epicureanism
1mo
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Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno
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