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How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos
about 15 hours ago
Even among the most acclaimed albums ever recorded, not a single one...
Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago
about 16 hours ago
“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut...
An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes
1 day ago
References to Islam in major media can make it sound monolithic and...
The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
1 day ago
It’s almost 35 years ago now that Nirvana’s video for “Smells Like...
The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library
3 days ago
If you grew up in the last few generations, chances are you...
Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More
3 days ago
I’ve interacted with many entertaining language-learning resources in various classes—from miniseries in...
A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions
6 days ago
Since it was first built as a Mycenaean fortress in the thirteenth...
The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
7 days ago
If you’ve taken a good art history course on the Impressionists and...
Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989)
8 days ago
Officially, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Demolition would take...
M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040
8 days ago
In 1704, Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world sometime around...
Hear Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen” in Remarkably Restored Audio, Taken from a Rare Test Pressing
9 days ago
Robert Johnson died at just 27 years old, some say as a...
The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974)
9 days ago
Even if you don’t know the myth by name, you know the...