CULTURE
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Who Really Built the Egyptian Pyramids—And How Did They Do It?
Although it’s certainly more plausible than hypotheses like ancient aliens or lizard people, the idea that slaves built the Egyptian…
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The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Grok
Just out of curiosity, and apropos of nothing, we asked Grok (the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk) the following…
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Did the Tower of Babel Actually Exist?: A Look at the Archaeological Evidence
For all the means of communication and exchange we’ve established between the cultures of the world, no matter how distant…
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Superman vs. the KKK: Hear the 1946 Superman Radio Show That Weakened the Klan
Years ago, back in 2016, we featured a 1950 Superman poster that urged students to defend the American way and…
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When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper
Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert…
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The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2024)
Hear a second or two of Vernon Burch’s “Get Up,” and you’re back in 1990; of “Balance and Rehearsal” from…
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An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hieronymus Bosch’s Wildly Creative Vision
Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece of grotesquerie, The Garden of Earthly Delights, contains a young God, Adam and Eve, oversized fruits and…
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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having originated in Asia, that…
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Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952)
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were the two biggest comedy stars of the silent era, but as it happened, they…
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Watch “The Birth of the Robot,” Len Lye’s Surreal 1935 Stop-Motion Animation
Robots seem to have been much on the public mind back in the nineteen-thirties. Matt Novak at Paleofuture gives the…
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