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Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

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21 Rules for Living from Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s Samurai Philosopher (1584–1645)

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75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online: Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More

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Yuval Noah Harari Explains How to Protect Your Mind in the Age of AI

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The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD)

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Discover the World’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, from Ancient Rome

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Why Knights Fought Snails in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

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Watch Joan Baez Endearingly Imitate Bob Dylan (1972)

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What Is Kabbalah? An Introduction to the Jewish Mystical Tradition

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2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

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The Stunt That Ended Buster Keaton’s Brilliant Career

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Tim Burton Visits a Paris Video Store & Talks About His Favorite Movies

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Behold the Very First Color Photograph (1861): Taken by Scottish Physicist & Poet James Clerk Maxwell

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The Only Time Prince & Miles Davis Jammed Together Onstage: Watch the New Year’s Eve, 1987 Concert

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How Ancient Greek Technology Was Used to Sculpt Mount Rushmore

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Why Ancient Romans Paid a Fortune for the Color Purple — More Than Even Silver

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David Lynch’s Weird Espresso Maker Gets Taken for a Test Drive

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One-in-70-Trillion: An Evolutionary Biologist Explains the Mind-Bending Probability of Our Existence

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Memento Mori: How Smiling Skeletons Have Reminded Us to Live Fully Since Ancient Times

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A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)

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