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Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)

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In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in...

How Four Masters—Michelangelo, Donatello, Verrocchio & Bernini—Sculpted David

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More than a few visitors to Florence make a beeline to the...

Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read

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Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, a Reddit user...

The Only Painting van Gogh Ever Sold: Discover The Red Vineyard (1888)

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It may have crossed your mind, while beholding paintings of Vincent van...

How 16th-Century Artist Joris Hoefnagel Made Insects Beautiful—and Changed Science Forever

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In English, most of the words we’d use to refer to insects...

A Visualization of the History of Technology: 1,889 Innovations Across Three Million Years

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So holds the third...

Listen to Never-Before-Heard Works by Erik Satie, Performed 100 Years After His Death

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If asked to name our favorite French composer of the late nineteenth...

Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years

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Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of...

Watch the Very First YouTube Video, “Me at the Zoo,” Now 20 Years Old

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Given the dominance YouTube has achieved over large swathes of world culture,...

Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Prediction That Automation Will Necessitate a Universal Basic Income

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One of the most propulsive forces in our social and economic lives...

Why Bob Dylan’s Unreleased “Blind Willie McTell” Is Now Considered a Masterpiece

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Most Dylanologists disagree about which is the single greatest song in Bob...