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Tom Jones Performs Prince’s “Purple Rain” Accompanied by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour (1992)

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Göbekli Tepe: The 12,000-Year-Old Ruins That Rewrite the Story of Civilization

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Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli

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The Earliest Known Customer Complaint Was Made 3,800 Years Ago: Read the Rant on an Ancient Babylonian Tablet

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Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact

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Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980)

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See What the Original Mona Lisa Likely Looked Like

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Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911)

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How Frank Gehry (RIP) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Changed Architecture

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“The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History

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The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla

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Talking Heads’ David Byrne Performs a Tiny Desk Concert

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Inside Disney’s Long, Frustrated Quest to Create Artificial Human Beings: A Six-Hour Documentary

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An Immersive, ASMR-Style Look at Japanese Woodblock Printing

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How the “Marvelization” of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking

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The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic

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What Makes Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Perhaps the Most Revolutionary Painting of the 20th Century?

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Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)

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How to Improve Your Attention Span: Daniel Pink’s Strategies for the Digital Age

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Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918)

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