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Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More

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Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”

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Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More

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What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light

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Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More

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9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971

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The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling

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How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

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John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band

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Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)

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Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More

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How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954

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Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow

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How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons

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Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today

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How James Cameron Shot Titanic/i>‘s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene

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Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)

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How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count

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A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University

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How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)

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