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The Spinal Tap Sequel Arrives Next Month: Watch the Trailer and a Scene with Elton John & Paul McCartney

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Watch Meshes of the Afternoon, the Experimental Short Voted the 16th Best Film of All Time

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Emma Willard, the First Female Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851)

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When Medieval & Early Modern Europeans Cleansed with Poison: The Strange History of Antimony Cups and Pills

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A Live Studio Cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Played from Start to Finish

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A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online

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Watch Anémic Cinéma, Marcel Duchamp’s Whirling Avant-Garde Film (1926)

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Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles

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Hear the Pieces Mozart Composed When He Was Only 5 Years Old

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Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look Like Fun

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An Introduction to Aleister Crowley, History’s Most Infamous Occultist

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Man as Industrial Palace: Watch an Animation of the Famous 1926 Lithograph That Depicts the Human Body as a Modern Factory

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Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014

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Tom Lehrer, RIP: Hear All of His Witty, Satirical Songs in One Playlist

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W.H. Auden’s 1941 Syllabus Asked Students to Read 32 Great Literary Works, Totaling 6,000 Pages

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Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live Your Life”

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How Disney Fought Fascism with Propaganda Cartoons During World War II & Averted Financial Collapse

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The Nazis’ 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II

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Plato, Aristotle & Other Greek Philosophers in Raphael’s Renaissance Masterpiece, The School of Athens

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Watch The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne: A Documentary on the Heavy Metal Pioneer (RIP)

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