CULTURE
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T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form
The phrase “April is the cruelest month” was first printed more than 100 years ago, and it’s been in common…
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The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It
The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or another.…
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Artificial Intelligence & Drones Uncover 303 New Nazca Lines in Peru
If you visit one tourist site in Peru, it will almost certainly be the ruined Incan city of Machu Picchu.…
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How Kodak Invented the Snapshot in the 1800s, Making It Possible for Everyone to Be a Photographer
We still occasionally speak of “Kodak moments,” making conscious or unconscious reference to the slogan of the Eastman Kodak Company…
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How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear: Mirrors in Movies
If you’ve never tried your hand at filmmaking, you might assume that its hardest visual challenges are the creation of…
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Watch James Earl Jones Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Urging High-School Students to Create Art & “Make Your Soul Grow”
As cultural figures, the late James Earl Jones and Kurt Vonnegut would seem to have had little in common, but…
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Behold a Creative Animation of the Bayeux Tapestry
In previous centuries, unless you were a member of the nobility, a wealthy religious order, or a merchant guild, your…
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How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting
Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their owners ever actually got through…
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How a 16th-Century Explorer’s Sailing Ship Worked: An Animated Video Takes You on a Comprehensive Tour
These days, it feels as if you can’t go very long at all before scrolling past another announcement about some…
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13 Experimental Animations of Osamu Tezuka, “the Godfather of Manga” (1964-1987)
If you enjoy modern Japanese animation, you can no doubt name several masterpieces of the form off the top of…
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