CULTURE
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The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which “skeletons hoof…
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” & “Ithaca”
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient…
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The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not…
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then…
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Bob Dylan Reads “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John…
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear…
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine (1983)
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard…
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known…
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was…
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true…
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