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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
4 days ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, a Reddit user...
The Only Painting van Gogh Ever Sold: Discover The Red Vineyard (1888)
5 days ago
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...
Iconic Animator Chuck Jones Creates an Oscar-Winning Animation About the Virtues of Universal Health Care (1949)
6 days ago
While our country looks like it might be coming apart at the...
A Visualization of the History of Technology: 1,889 Innovations Across Three Million Years
7 days ago
“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
10 days ago
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
11 days ago
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
11 days ago
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
12 days ago
Most Dylanologists disagree about which is the single greatest song in Bob...