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The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

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Mark Twain Makes a List of 60 American Comfort Foods He Missed While Traveling Abroad (1880)

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When David Bowie Starred in—and Created Music for—a Dystopian Cyberpunk Video Game: Discover Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999)

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Dr. Weil’s 60-Second Technique for Falling Asleep

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Einstein’s Divorce Letters and the Cruel List of Marital Demands He Imposed on His First Wife

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The Most Banned Book of the 2024–25 School Year: A Clockwork Orange

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A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

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The Fascinating Story of How the Electric Music Pioneer Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (1963)

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What a Lack of Social Contact Does to Your Brain

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The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran

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See Beethoven’s 9th Visualized in Colorful Animations

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Remembering Jane Goodall (RIP): Watch Jane, the Acclaimed National Geographic Documentary

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Discover the Oldest, Weirdest Instrument On Earth: The Lithophone

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The Night John Belushi Booked the Punk Band Fear on Saturday Night Live & They Got Banned from the Show (1981)

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An Introduction to Moebius, the Comic Artist Who Influenced Blade Runner and Miyazaki

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Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679

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Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It

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Meryl Streep’s First Film Role Was in an Animated Film on Erik Erikson’s Stages of Life (1976)

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A Tour of the New David Bowie Archive Featuring 90,000 Artifacts from His Life & Career

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The Gilded Age: A Free Historical Documentary That Helps Make Sense of Our Own Fraught Times

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