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Sat Aug 1
Tim Curry (RIP) Breaks Down His Most Iconic Roles: Rocky Horror, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island & More
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The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements: Visualizing the Chemical Elements That Could Vanish Before You Know It
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Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
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The Art of Splendor Solis, the Most Glorious Illuminated Alchemical Manuscript of Them All
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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
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Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)
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The Wisdom of David Bowie: On Art, Religion, Technology and More
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The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)
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The Daily Routine of Marcus Aurelius: How to Live Like a Stoic
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The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art School
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Why Americans Stopped Reading Books
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Discover the Mundaneum, an Early 20th-Century “Internet” That Put the World’s Knowledge on Millions of Index Cards
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A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom
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The Complete History of the Beatles as Told By Conan O’Brien
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NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Program
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The Secret History of the Antichrist
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5,000 Classic Movie Posters Digitized & Put Online: Free to Browse & Download
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The Genius of Airplane!: How to Make a Comedy by Playing Everything Completely Straight
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 840,000 Works of Art, Including Great Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer
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Discover the Ancient Roman Shorthand Writing System with 4,000 Symbols Commissioned by Cicero
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When the US Mail Was Delivered Underground at 35 MPH Through a Network of Pneumatic Tubes (1893–1953)
2w
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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.)
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The Most Controversial Ancient Philosophy: Epicureanism
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Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno
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How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Month
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226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online
3w
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How the Bird Sound Effects in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Were Created with a Pioneering Electronic Instrument, the Trautonium
3w
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Watch a Band Perform the Sound Effects from Pink Floyd’s “Money,” Using a Money Counter, Torn Sheets of Paper & More
3w
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The History of Glam Rock and How It Put an End to the Hippie Era
3w
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How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animation
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Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898: Read His Sci-Fi Crime Story, “From The ‘London Times’ in 1904”
3w
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Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More
3w
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How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer
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What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? A 3D Virtual Tour of the City During the Second Century AD
3w
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Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music
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Watch the Evolution of Manhattan Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 1600 to 2026
1mo
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Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
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