CULTURE
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Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson
That Wes Anderson is perhaps the most assiduous maker of short films today becomes clear when you look closely at…
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An Introduction to George Orwell’s 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth
Soon after the first election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four became…
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When the State Department Used Dizzy Gillespie and Jazz to Fight the Cold War (1956)
It’s been said that the United States won the Cold War without firing a shot — a statement, as P.…
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Wim Wenders’ New Short Film Reminds Europe of the Lessons of World War II
World War II officially ended on September 2, 1945. It followed, by less than three weeks, an equally momentous event,…
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Harvard Lets You Take 133 Free Online Courses: Explore Courses on Justice, American Government, Literature, Religion, CompSci & More
Image by Rizka, via Wikimedia Commons In South Korea, where I live, there may be no brand as respected as…
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The World’s Oldest Homework: A Look at Babylonian Math Homework from 4,000 Years Ago
Homework has lately become unfashionable, at least according to what I’ve heard from teachers in certain parts of the United…
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A 3D Model Reveals What the Parthenon and Its Interior Looked Like 2,500 Years Ago
Standing atop the Acropolis in Athens as it has for nearly 2,500 years now, the Parthenon remains an impressive sight…
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How Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & Jethro Tull Financed the Making Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail isn’t a big-budget spectacle, and nobody knew that better than the Pythons themselves. Necessity…
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The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
In 2004, John Conway and Alexander Soifer, both working on mathematics at Princeton University, submitted to the American Mathematical Monthly what they believed…
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The PhD Theses of Richard Feynman, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein & Others, Explained with Illustrations
Raise your children with a love of science, and there’s a decent chance they’ll grow up wanting to be like…
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