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Explosive Cats Imagined in a Strange, 16th Century Military Manual

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Harvard Professor Answers Burning Questions About Iranian History

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Discover the Copiale Cipher: The Mysterious 18th-Century Book That Took 260 Years to Decode

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When Brazil Built Its Capital on Modernist Principles: The Controversial Design of Brasília

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An Ancient Philosophical Song Reconstructed and Played for the First Time in 1,000 Years

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What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished

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What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished

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What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished

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Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Why Animals Look So Strange in Medieval Manuscripts

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“The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More

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Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40)

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The Greatest Documentary You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Wang Bing’s Nine-Hour Tie Xi Qu

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Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC

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The $666 Board That Built Apple: How the Apple I Changed Computing 50 Years Ago

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A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

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How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

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Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line

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10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More

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Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back

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