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2026
How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composeroriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
24 Sept 2026
How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from “Moby Dick”: The Art and Science of Remembering Everythingoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
When Salvador Dalí Gave a Surrealist Lecture in a Diving Suit … and Almost Suffocated (1936)original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Watch Interplanetary Revolution (1924): The Most Bizarre Soviet Animated Propaganda Film You’ll Ever Seeoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
22 Sept 2026
The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Movement Onlineoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
16 Sept 2026
Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961)original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”)original ↗
15 Sept 2026
How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in Americaoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896–1940)original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Historian Timothy Snyder Teaches a Free Course on Hitler, Stalin & How “It” Can Happen Hereoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Secret Career as a Japanese Art Dealer & How It Shaped His Architectureoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Diseaseoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
7 Sept 2026
3 Sept 2026
Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapersoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Careeroriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
Tim Curry (RIP) Breaks Down His Most Iconic Roles: Rocky Horror, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island & Moreoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements: Visualizing the Chemical Elements That Could Vanish Before You Know Itoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
The Art of Splendor Solis, the Most Glorious Illuminated Alchemical Manuscript of Them Alloriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Isaac Asimov Explains His Three Laws of Robots: Do No Harm, Follow Orders, Survive, in That Orderoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)original ↗
26 Aug 2026
The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)original ↗
25 Aug 2026
The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art Schooloriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
Discover the Mundaneum, an Early 20th-Century “Internet” That Put the World’s Knowledge on Millions of Index Cardsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroomoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Programoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
17 Aug 2026
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 840,000 Works of Art, Including Great Works by Rembrandt and Vermeeroriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
Discover the Ancient Roman Shorthand Writing System with 4,000 Symbols Commissioned by Cicerooriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
When the US Mail Was Delivered Underground at 35 MPH Through a Network of Pneumatic Tubes (1893–1953)original ↗
13 Aug 2026
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.)original ↗
13 Aug 2026
12 Aug 2026
How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Monthoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
How the Bird Sound Effects in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Were Created with a Pioneering Electronic Instrument, the Trautoniumoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
Watch a Band Perform the Sound Effects from Pink Floyd’s “Money,” Using a Money Counter, Torn Sheets of Paper & Moreoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animationoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898: Read His Sci-Fi Crime Story, “From The ‘London Times’ in 1904”original ↗
6 Aug 2026
Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and Moreoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026
How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computeroriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026
What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? A 3D Virtual Tour of the City During the Second Century ADoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Musicoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)original ↗
3 Aug 2026
31 Jul 2026
A Guide to Every Major Film Adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey Before Christopher Nolan’s Movieoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
30 Jul 2026
How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Worksoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improviseoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
28 Jul 2026
The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animationoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Bodyoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of Historyoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Andersonoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Themoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967)original ↗
22 Jul 2026
Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Againoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great Waroriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
The World’s Greatest Song That Simply Shouldn’t Exist: The Making of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life”original ↗
20 Jul 2026
Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsureoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
A Walk Through Homer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Epic Before Seeing Christopher Nolan’s Filmoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2026
16 Jul 2026
Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983original ↗
16 Jul 2026
Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Onlineoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026
11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mixoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026