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  • How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years

    For many a classic action-movie enthusiast, no car chase will ever top the one in Bullitt. The...

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    Carl Jung Psychoanalyzes Hitler: “He’s the Unconscious of 78 Million Germans.” “Without the German People He’d Be Nothing” (1938)

    Were you to google “Carl Jung and Nazism”—and I’m not suggesting that you do—you would find...

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    Watch 70+ Classic Literary Films Free Online: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gulliver’s Travels, Jane Eyre, and More

    The term gaslight has gained so much traction in popular discourse so recently that you’d swear it...

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    Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More

    Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

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    Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album

    Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World,...

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    Discover Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Still-Bizarre Proto-Surrealist Book Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)

    When the names of French poet Paul Éluard and German artist Max Ernst arise, one subject...

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

    Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even...

  • Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

    Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing...

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    How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs

    In a future where humanity has been driven underground by an apocalyptic event, a prisoner is...

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    Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate

    ?si=TMflasoogRfSD14h Back in 2021, Google released a series of certificate programs, including one focused on Project...

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    Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others

    Here on Halloween of 2024, we have a greater variety of scary stories — and arguably,...

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    Watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Influential German Expressionist Horror Film (1920)

    In early 1920, posters began appearing all over Berlin with a hypnotic spiral and the mysterious...

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    Mythology Expert Reviews Depictions of Greek & Roman Myths in Popular Movies and TV Shows

    It’s safe to say that we no longer believe in the gods of the ancient world...

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    The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Painful Lessons of the 20th Century

    From Rick Steves comes a thought-provoking documentary that revisits the rise of fascism in Europe, reminding...

  • Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life

    This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid who’s reinvented himself over...

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    Destino: The Salvador Dalí — Walt Disney Animation That Took 57 Years to Complete

    In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a...

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    The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Decades & Now Considered One of the Greatest Animations (1965)

    For obvious reasons, most art produced under oppressive regimes comes off as painstakingly inoffensive. For equally...

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    The Isolated Bass Grooves of The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh (RIP)

    This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84....

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    When 20,000 Americans Held a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939

    Above, two-time Academy Award nominee Marshall Curry presents A Night at The Garden, a film that...

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    Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and More

    Haruki Murakami’s hit novel 1Q84 features a memorable scene in a taxicab on a gridlocked freeway whose radio...

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    A Short Visual History of America, According to the Irreverent Comic Artist R. Crumb

    As a founder of the “underground comix” movement in the 1960s, R. Crumb is either revered...

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    The Evolution of Cinema: Watch Nearly 140 Years of Film History Unfold in 80 Minutes

    The video above from YouTuber Alex Day includes clips from about 500 movies, and you’ve almost...

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    B.B. King Changes a Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (1985)

    The scene is Farm Aid, 1985, attended by a crowd of 80,000 people. The song is...

  • Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665

    A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they...

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    Andy Warhol’s One Minute of Professional Wrestling Fame (1985)

    Andy Warhol did for art what the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) did for wrestling. He made it a...

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    Built to Last: How Ancient Roman Bridges Can Still Withstand the Weight of Modern Cars & Trucks

    A foreign traveler road-tripping across Europe might well feel a wave of trepidation before driving a...

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    The Wisdom of Alan Watts in 4 Mind-Expanding Animations

    Perhaps no single person did more to popularize Zen Buddhism in the West than Alan Watts....

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    How Man Ray Reinvented Himself & Created One of the Most Iconic Works of Surrealist Photography

    It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his...

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    Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)

    In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop...

  • Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions

    We may appreciate living in an era that doesn’t require us to travel across the world...

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    Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline (1971)

    More than 50 years and 10 presidential administrations have passed since Orson Welles narrated Freedom River...

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    Learn Data Analytics & AI with Google, and Fast-Track Your Career

    ?si=azZbGLEr_9EFWypL We’re living in the age of data and artificial intelligence (AI). Every second, vast amounts...

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    The Night When Luciano Pavarotti & James Brown Sang “It’s a Man’s World” Together (2002)

    Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown are remembered as larger-than-life performers with an almost mythical-seeming presence and...

  • George Harrison Explains Why Everyone Should Play the Ukulele

    George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the...

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    The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls

    You can’t go on a walk with a serious enthusiast of New York history without hearing...

  • Peanuts Creator Charles Schulz Shares with a 10-Year-Old Kid the True Meaning of Good Citizenship

    In 1970, when 10-year-old Joel Linton asked Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, “What do you...

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    Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin Peaks & Countless Hollywood Films

    There are more than a few of us who’d enjoy the opportunity to live in a...

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    Johnny Cash & The Clash’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2002)

    In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing...

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    The Amazing Recording History of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”

    The most streamed Beatles song isn’t “She Loves You,” “Hey Jude,” or “All You Need Is...

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    When Leonard Cohen Guest Starred on Miami Vice (1986)

    Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who...

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    The Writer Who Directed, The Director Who Wrote: Every Frame a Painting Explores the Genius of Billy Wilder

    When the acclaimed cinema video-essay channel Every Frame a Painting made its comeback this past summer,...

  • The Complete Howard Stern Interview with Kamala Harris

    It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether we want to...

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    The Story of Francis Ford Coppola’s Four-Decade-Struggle to Make Megalopolis

    This past summer, out came a trailer for Megalopolis, the movie Francis Ford Coppola has spent...

  • The Doctor Who Theme Reimagined as a Jacques Brel-esque Jazz Tune

    Written by Ron Grainer, and then famously arranged and recorded by Delia Derbyshire in 1963, the...

  • Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Is Finally for Sale

    Kurt Vonnegut’s life was not without its ironies. Fighting in World War II, that descendant of...

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    Thomas Edison’s Recordings of Leo Tolstoy: Hear the Voice of the Great Russian Novelist

    Born 196 years ago, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s life (1828–1910) spanned a period of immense social,...

  • T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form

    The phrase “April is the cruelest month” was first printed more than 100 years ago, and...

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    Twin Peaks Actually Explained: A 4‑Hour Video Essay Demystifies It All

    I don’t know about you, but my YouTube algorithms can act like a nagging friend, suggesting...

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    David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Project: 121 Stories of Real America Recorded on a 20,000-Mile Road Trip

    Take a sufficiently long road trip across America, and you’re bound to encounter something or someone...

  • Private Snafu: The World War II Propaganda Cartoons Created by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra & Mel Blanc

    Private Snafu was the U.S. Army’s worst soldier. He was sloppy, lazy and prone to shooting...