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Why You Should Read The Handmaid’s Tale: A Timely Animated Introduction

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When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Doghouse, His Smallest Architectural Creation (1956)

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Watch the Hugely-Ambitious Soviet Film Adaptation of War and Peace Free Online (1966-67)

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Mama Cass and John Denver Sing a Lovely Duet of “Leaving On a Jet Plane” (1972)

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Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)

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The Timeline of World War II (Month by Month) Told With Scenes Made from Dozens of WWII Movies

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The Young Punk Rockers The Linda Lindas Play a Tiny Desk Concert Gig (at the Public Library)

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Sir Ben Kingsley Reads a Letter Written by Gandhi to Hitler (in the Voice of Mahatma Gandhi)

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Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro Is Getting Adapted for the Stage by The Royal Shakespeare Company & Jim Henson’s Creature Shop

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Take Graphic Design Courses to Launch Your Career as a Graphic Designer, Video Game Designer, UI Designer & More

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How to Get into a Creative “Flow State”: A Short Masterclass

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Bars, Beer & Wine in Ancient Rome: An Introduction to Roman Nightlife and Spirits

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What Makes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid a Masterpiece?: A Video Introduction

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Free Online: Watch Stalker, Mirror, and Other Masterworks by Soviet Auteur Andrei Tarkovsky

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Why 99% Of Smithsonian’s Specimens Are Hidden In High-Security

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Free: Watch Battleship Potemkin and Other Films by Sergei Eisenstein, the Revolutionary Soviet Filmmaker

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Marie Curie’s Ph.D. Thesis on Radioactivity–Which Made Her the First Woman in France to Receive a Doctoral Degree in Physics

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Lou Reed Album With Demos of Velvet Underground Classics Getting Released: Hear an Early Version of “I’m Waiting for the Man”

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Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949)

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Color Footage of the Liberation of Paris, Shot by Hollywood Director George Stevens (1944)

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Karl Marx & the Flaws of Capitalism: Lex Fridman Talks with Professor Richard Wolff

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The Only Surviving Manuscript of John Milton’s Paradise Lost Gets Published in Book Form for the First Time

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The Oldest House in New York City: Meet the Wyckoff House (1652)

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Rapper Post Malone Performs a 15-Song Set of Nirvana Songs, Paying Tribute to Kurt Cobain

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Beautiful Taschen Art Books on Sale Through Sunday: 25%-75% Off

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The Otherworldly Art of William Blake: An Introduction to the Visionary Poet and Painter

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What Is the House of the Rising Sun?: An Introduction to the Origins of the Classic Song

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Computer Scientist Andrew Ng Presents a New Series of Machine Learning Courses–an Updated Version of the Popular Course Taken by 5 Million Students

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The Biology of Bonsai Trees: The Science Behind the Traditional Japanese Art Form

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Hear a Neuroscientist-Curated 712-Track Playlist of Music that Causes Frisson, or Musical Chills

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George Harrison Breaks Down Abbey Road Track-By-Track on the Day of Its Release (September 26, 1969)

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An Introduction to Stanislaw Lem, the Great Polish Sci-Fi Writer, by Jonathan Lethem

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The Revolutionary Paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Video Essay

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Discover DALL-E, the Artificial Intelligence Artist That Lets You Create Surreal Artwork

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Ziggy Stardust Turns 50: Celebrate David Bowie’s Signature Character with a Newly Released Version of “Starman”

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How Wealthy Women (Like the Mona Lisa) Got Dressed in Renaissance Florence

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A Special New, Two-Volume Collection of Philip K. Dick Stories Comes Illustrated by 24 Different Artists

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Danny Boyle’s New Sex Pistols Series Tells the Story of Punk Rock in the UK

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Ambient Kyoto: Brian Eno Stages His First Large-Scale Exhibition in Japan

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Revisit Vintage Issues of Astounding Stories, the 1930s Magazine that Gave Rise to Science Fiction as We Know It

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Watch Two Courses by Beloved Yale Historian John Merriman (RIP): “France Since 1871” and “European Civilization, 1648 to 1945”

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Julia Child Shows Fred Rogers How to Make a Quick & Delicious Pasta Dish (1974)

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Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: An Animated Chapter-by-Chapter Breakdown of the Ancient Chinese Treatise

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Enter the Franz Kafka Caption Contest for a Chance to Win a New Book of the Author’s Drawings (Until June 13)

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Werner Herzog’s New Novel, The Twilight World, Tells the Story of the WWII Japanese Soldier Who Famously Refused to Surrender

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What Happened to the Missing Half of the Roman Colosseum?

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Watch the First Movie Ever Streamed on the Net: Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991)

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The History of the Byzantine Empire (or East Roman Empire): An Animated Timeline Covering 1,100 Years of History

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When David Bowie & Brian Eno Made a Twin Peaks-Inspired Album, Outside (1995)

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Remembering Dave Smith (RIP), the Father of MIDI & the Creator of the 80s’ Most Beloved Synthesizer, the Prophet-5

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