culture

How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover ...

The idea of discovering a lost ancient city underground has long captured the hu...

Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860)

When inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville sang a nursery rhyme into his ph...

See Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in 3D in a New ...

You may believe that you’ve had a close enough view of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl w...

The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Se...

Who wants to be a billionaire? A few years ago, Forbes published author Roberta ...

A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About

Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought...

George Orwell’s Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea...

Several years back, Colin Marshall highlighted George Orwell’s essay, “A Nice Cu...

How a Papal Conclave Works, and Who Might Be the Next Pope

On Tuesday, the cardinals locked themselves into the Sistine Chapel, officially ...

Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel & Explore ...

Today, 133 cardinals from around the world enter the conclave to determine the n...

How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulle...

It can be tempting to view the box office’s domination by visual-effects-laden H...

How a Student’s Phone Call Averted a Skyscraper Collaps...

The Citigroup Center in Midtown Manhattan is also known by its address, 601 Lexi...

John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & Two Cita...

When John Nash wrote “Non-Cooperative Games,” his Ph.D. dissertation at Princeto...

How Our Depiction of Jesus Changed Over 2,000 Years and...

Whether or not you believe Jesus Christ is the son of God, you probably envision...

A Meditative Tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is a “house museum,” first designed as a resid...

When Queen’s Freddie Mercury Performed with Opera Super...

Combining pop music with opera was always the height of pretension. But where wo...

The Greatest Art Heist in History: How the Mona Lisa Wa...

If you happen to go to the Louvre to have a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lis...

Tom Jones Performs “Long Time Gone” with Crosby, Stills...

Welsh crooner Tom Jones made an unlikely comeback in the late 80s, covering Prin...

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