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How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)
about 16 hours ago
A vast, miserable proletariat squanders its days in meaningless toil. Society is...
How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics
1 day ago
Science and engineering may be conflated to some degree in the public...
What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them
1 day ago
Welcome to The Garden of Earthly Delights You’ll find no angelic strings...
The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China
3 days ago
The Silk Road’s long period of high activity spanned the second century...
Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57)
3 days ago
We seem to be living through yet another major moment for podcasting...
How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did
4 days ago
In ancient Egypt, writing hieroglyphs was a highly specialized skill, one commanded...
How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”
4 days ago
In Italy, roughly 70% of households have a Bialetti Moka Pot. And...
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
5 days ago
Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book...
Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
5 days ago
Here’s another thing you can credit Thomas Jefferson with: being the first...
A Tour Inside the Chelsea Hotel: Once Home to Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen & More
8 days ago
We’ve all stayed at the Chelsea Hotel, though most of us have...
How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction
8 days ago
Built during the depths of the Great Depression (from 1933 to 1937),...
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for Surviving the Afterlife
9 days ago
The saying “You can’t take it with you” may be a cliché...