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

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

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

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How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos

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An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes

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The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)

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The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library

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Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More

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Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks, Separated for 400 Years, Have Been Reunited and Put Online

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

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

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Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago

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A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions

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The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

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Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989)

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M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040

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Hear Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen” in Remarkably Restored Audio, Taken from a Rare Test Pressing

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The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974)

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Revisit Daily Life in China in 1917 Through Footage Enhanced and Colorized by AI

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