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Sun Mar 16
A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Modern Rockets
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Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue
1h
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The Ark Before Noah: Discover the Ancient Flood Myths That Came Before the Bible
1d
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William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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What the World Will Look Like in 250 Million Years: Mapping the Distant Future
2d
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What Was Smoot-Hawley, and Why Are We Doing It Again? Anyone? Anyone?
2d
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How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System
5d
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Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago
5d
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What Is Kafkaesque?: The Philosophy of Franz Kafka
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Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder
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The Medieval Manuscript That Features “Yoda”, Killer Snails, Savage Rabbits & More: Discover The Smithfield Decretals
1w
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The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together
1w
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Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity: Watch His Last Major Interview (1992)
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Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Original Moog Synthesizer (1989)
1w
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Dante’s Inferno: A Visitor’s Guide to Hell
1w
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Who Really Built the Egyptian Pyramids—And How Did They Do It?
1w
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How Italy Became the Most Divided Country in Europe: Understanding the Great Divide Between North & South
1w
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The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Grok
1w
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Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books
1w
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Watch Jazz ‘Hot’, the Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt
1w
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The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home
2w
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Watch Bob Dylan Make His Debut at the Newport Folk Festival in Colorized 1963 Footage
2w
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The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity
2w
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The Great Gatsby: A Free Audio Book
2w
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Did the Tower of Babel Actually Exist?: A Look at the Archaeological Evidence
2w
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A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph
2w
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This Is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like: A Precise Simulation
2w
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Superman vs. the KKK: Hear the 1946 Superman Radio Show That Weakened the Klan
2w
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The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi
2w
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Man Ray’s Surrealist Cinema: Watch Four Pioneering Films From the 1920s
2w
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When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)
3w
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Spike Jonze Creates a New Short Film (aka Commercial) for Apple
3w
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When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper
3w
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NASA Visualizes the Ocean Currents in Motion: A Mesmerizing View of Earth’s Underwater Highways
3w
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How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz
3w
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Every Hidden Detail of New York’s Classic Skyscrapers: The Chrysler, Empire State & Woolworth Buildings
3w
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The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990–2024)
3w
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Why There Isn’t a Bridge from Italy to Sicily – And Why the 2,000-Year-Old Dream of Building the Bridge May Soon Be Realized
3w
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Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera: The 8th Best Film Ever Made
3w
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An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hieronymus Bosch’s Wildly Creative Vision
1mo
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NYU Professor Answers Your Burning Questions About Authoritarianism
1mo
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Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Groundbreaking, Six-Minute Trailer for Psycho (1960)
1mo
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A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study
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