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Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Colo...

In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag is waving or whether it...

A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First D...

The Austrian military engineer Conrad Haas was a man ahead of his time — indeed,...

A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music Fo...

Writing in his 1995 diary about his seminal ambient album Music for Airports, En...

Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Groundbreaking, Six-Minute Tra...

The early trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho above describes the film as “the...

NYU Professor Answers Your Burning Questions About Auth...

From WIRED comes this: NYU professor and “authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghia...

An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hie...

Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece of grotesquerie, The Garden of Earthly Delights, ...

Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera: The 8th...

Of all the cinematic trailblazers to emerge during the early years of the Soviet...

Why There Isn’t a Bridge from Italy to Sicily – And Why...

We’ve all heard of the great American road trip. If you’ve ever dreamt of taking...

The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (...

Hear a second or two of Vernon Burch’s “Get Up,” and you’re back in 1990; of “Ba...

Every Hidden Detail of New York’s Classic Skyscrapers: ...

Currently, the tallest buildings in New York City are One World Trade Center, Ce...

How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz

Music video essay maestro Polyphonic is back. What I dig about his videos is tha...

NASA Visualizes the Ocean Currents in Motion: A Mesmeri...

The mesmerizing video above lets you visualize the ocean currents around the wor...

When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a...

Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of fam...

Spike Jonze Creates a New Short Film (aka Commercial) f...

?si=UQ0XdCH-cVGe26AC With his iconic Super Bowl ad in 1984, Ridley Scott began a...

Man Ray’s Surrealist Cinema: Watch Four Pioneering Film...

Man Ray was one of the leading artists of the avant-garde of 1920s and 1930s Par...

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized Ho...

Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Di...

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