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2026
How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hatsoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026
How an Edward Hopper Painting Inspired Norman Bates’ Iconic House in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psychooriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In Itoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Albert Camus’ Touching Thank You Letter to His Elementary School Teacheroriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Millionoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
6 Jul 2026
The Declaration of Independence Performed by Morgan Freeman, Benicio del Toro, Winona Ryder & Other Actorsoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
Meet the Syntopicon: The Ambitious Index That Tried to Organize All of Western Thought (1952)original ↗
2 Jul 2026
An Entire Ancient Greek Philosophical Treatise Burned by Mount Vesuvius Has Been Deciphered with X‑Ray and AI Technologiesoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborateoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
How Japan Invented Daisugi, the Ancient Method of Growing Lumber Without Cutting Down Treesoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
When Bill Murray Unexpectedly Adapted a W. Somerset Maugham Novel: The Razor’s Edge (1984)original ↗
29 Jun 2026
When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934)original ↗
25 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
How Can I Know Right From Wrong? Watch Philosophy Animations on Ethics Narrated by Harry Sheareroriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modernoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
Before Bill Nye, There Was Julius Sumner Miller: Watch Complete Episodes of His Classic Science Show, Why Is It So?, Free Online (1962–73)original ↗
19 Jun 2026
Meet Héloïse, the Medieval Woman Philosopher Who Turned a Doomed Love Affair into a Meditation on Ethicsoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
18 Jun 2026
17 Jun 2026
The Bible’s Deleted Scenes: A Guide to the Strange Biblical Stories Known as the Apocryphaoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
David Hockney, RIP: See the Evolution of His Pop-Art Swimming-Pool Masterpiece A Bigger Splash (1967)original ↗
15 Jun 2026
The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
When Roald Dahl Wrote a Story Predicting the Rise of ChatGPT and Other AI Large Language Models (1954)original ↗
12 Jun 2026
Harvard’s 1869 Entrance Exam: Could You Answer Tough Questions About Latin, Greek, Ancient History, Plane Geometry & Moreoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972)original ↗
10 Jun 2026
The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Textoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very Firstoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
8 Jun 2026
What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin Cityoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2026
3 Jun 2026
Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicagooriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
1 Jun 2026
Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & Moreoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989)original ↗
27 May 2026
Hear Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen” in Remarkably Restored Audio, Taken from a Rare Test Pressingoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
26 May 2026
25 May 2026
25 May 2026
21 May 2026
21 May 2026
The Lost Scenes of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons Are Being Controversially Restored with AIoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
Hand-Colored Photographs from 19th Century Japan: 110 Images Capture the Waning Days of Traditional Japanese Societyoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
What Happens When a Musician Plays Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” on a $25 Kids’ Guitar at Walmartoriginal ↗
19 May 2026
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Through the Afterlifeoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
15 May 2026
14 May 2026
When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961)original ↗
12 May 2026
How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound with His Recording of “My Favorite Things” (1961)original ↗
12 May 2026
Buckminster Fuller Creates an Animated Visualization of Human Population Growth from 1000 B.C.E. to 1965original ↗
7 May 2026
How Yasujirō Ozu Learned to Use Color in His Masterful Films: A New Every Frame a Painting Video Essayoriginal ↗
7 May 2026
6 May 2026
When Francis Bacon Shocked the Art World: Viewers Were Horrified by His Paintings, But Couldn’t Look Awayoriginal ↗
5 May 2026
4 May 2026
Chuck Jones’ The Dot and the Line Celebrates Geometry & Hard Work: An Oscar-Winning Animation (1965)original ↗
4 May 2026
How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With a Radical Recut, Cutting It From 3½ Hours to 93 Minutesoriginal ↗
1 May 2026
30 Apr 2026
The Simpsons Present Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and Teachers Now Use It to Teach Kids the Joys of Literatureoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2026
The Productive Writing Routines of Haruki Murakami, Stephen King, and Virginia Woolf, Explainedoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
The Psychology Behind Why Some Homes Feel Good But Most Don’t: Interior Design Principles Explainedoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
Discover the Copiale Cipher: The Mysterious 18th-Century Book That Took 260 Years to Decodeoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
When Brazil Built Its Capital on Modernist Principles: The Controversial Design of Brasíliaoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026