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Before Bill Nye, There Was Julius Sumner Miller: Watch Complete Episodes of His Classic Science Show, Why Is It So?, Free Online (1962–73)

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Meet Héloïse, the Medieval Woman Philosopher Who Turned a Doomed Love Affair into a Meditation on Ethics

The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together

Every Stanley Kubrick Film Ranked from Worst to Best

Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Make Art in Some Rare Vintage Video

The Bible’s Deleted Scenes: A Guide to the Strange Biblical Stories Known as the Apocrypha

Clare Torry’s Rare Live Performances of “Great Gig in the Sky” with Pink Floyd

David Hockney, RIP: See the Evolution of His Pop-Art Swimming-Pool Masterpiece A Bigger Splash (1967)

The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

When Roald Dahl Wrote a Story Predicting the Rise of ChatGPT and Other AI Large Language Models (1954)

How the Hagia Sophia Was Built, and How It’s Being Saved from Collapse

David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs

Harvard’s 1869 Entrance Exam: Could You Answer Tough Questions About Latin, Greek, Ancient History, Plane Geometry & More

How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972)

The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Text

How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look

The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very First

How Nick Drake’s “River Man” Has Captivated Generation after Generation of Listeners

What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City

Hear the First Book of Homer’s Iliad Read Aloud in the Original Greek

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