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Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)
about 17 hours ago
?si=HOvgnTtB4xSNqpNE In 1894, archaeologist Édouard Piette discovered the “Venus of Brassempouy,” otherwise...
The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII
about 18 hours ago
Juan Pujol García was one of the rare individuals whose participation in...
How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)
4 days ago
A vast, miserable proletariat squanders its days in meaningless toil. Society is...
How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics
5 days 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
5 days 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
6 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)
6 days ago
We seem to be living through yet another major moment for podcasting...
How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did
7 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”
7 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
8 days ago
Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book...
Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
8 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
11 days ago
We’ve all stayed at the Chelsea Hotel, though most of us have...