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Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful
Religions take the cast and hue of the cultures in which they find root. This wa...
Watch Bob Dylan Play “Mr. Tambourine Man” in Color at t...
It was at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival that Bob Dylan famously “went electric,...
Hear the Letter of Gratitude That Albert Camus Wrote to...
When Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize, he wrote a letter to one of his old schoo...
Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books...
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its chil...
Elementary School Kids Sing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity...
In 1976 and 1977 an inspired music teacher in the small school district of Langl...
When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres: An In...
In the decades after the Second World War, many countries faced the challenge of...
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)
Photo of Karlheinz Stockhausen by Kathinka Pasveer via Wikimedia Commons You may...
How Art Conservators Restore Old Paintings & Revive The...
We tend to imagine old paintings as having a muted, yellow-brown cast, and not w...
“The Vertue of the COFFEE Drink”: An Ad for London’s Fi...
The story of coffee goes back to the 13th century, when it came out of Ethiopia,...
How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigm...
Photo courtesy of Washington State University. It’s become fashionable, in recen...
The Very First Coloring Book, The Little Folks’ Paintin...
Funny how not that long ago coloring books were considered the exclusive domain ...
Why Bob Dylan’s Unreleased “Blind Willie McTell” Is Now...
Most Dylanologists disagree about which is the single greatest song in Bob Dylan...
Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Prediction That Automation Will...
One of the most propulsive forces in our social and economic lives is the rate a...
Watch the Very First YouTube Video, a Defining Moment i...
Given the dominance YouTube has achieved over large swaths of world culture, we’...
Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Fl...
Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpre...
George Orwell Reviews Salvador Dali’s Autobiography: “D...
Images or Orwell and Dali via Wikimedia Commons Should we hold artists to the sa...