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Inside SNL: Al Franken Reveals How Saturday Night Live ...

As Saturday Night Live celebrates its 50th anniversary, Al Franken takes you ins...

When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Conte...

Charlie Chaplin started appearing in his first films in 1914—40 films, to be pre...

How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of ...

We made sand think: this phrase is used from time to time to evoke the particula...

Behold Harry Clarke’s Hallucinatory Illustrations for E...

As you’ve probably noticed if you’re a regular reader of this site, we’re big fa...

See Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Ani...

Music is often described as the most abstract of all the arts, and arguably the ...

Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David...

It’s Friday, which means that tonight, many of us will sit down to watch a movie...

Hear an AI Chatbot, Masquerading as a Clueless Grandmot...

And now for a good use of AI. The UK-based telecom company O2 has developed a ch...

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Who Was the Greatest Scien...

Neil deGrasse Tyson has spent his career talking up not just science itself, but...

Tracing English Back to Its Oldest Known Ancestor: An I...

People understand evolution in all sorts of different ways. We’ve all heard a va...

Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the...

H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds has terrified and fascinated readers and writers f...

Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, T...

In 1913, Germany, flush with a new nation’s patriotic zeal, looked like it might...

What It Was Like to Get a Meal at a Medieval Tavern

At least since The Canterbury Tales, the setting of the medieval tavern has held...

Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before t...

Before the word processor, before White-Out, before Post-It Notes, there were st...

Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand

In a letter dated May 31, 1960, Flannery O’Connor, the author best known for her...

How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music

In the credits of Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required appears the disclaimer that “...

Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into ...

At first glance, Jesse Welles resembles nothing so much as a time traveler from ...

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