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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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Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora & Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)

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Explore a New Digital Edition of Printing Types, the Authoritative History of Printing & Typography from 1922

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A Tour of the World in 1900: See Restored Footage Showing Life in New York, London, India, Japan, China & Beyond

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Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test: What Do You See? (1921)

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When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969)

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Explore the Fascinating Map of Fungi: An Introduction to the Vast Mushroom Kingdom

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How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction

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A 107-Year-Old Irish Farmer Reflects on the Changes He’s Seen During His Life (1965)

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