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Dance Like David Byrne! An Easy-to-Follow Instructional Video Shows You How
This dance is serious. This dance is necessary. Do you feel that change? — David Byrne...
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Watch the Moment When a 13-Year-Old Becomes the First Person to Ever “Beat” Tetris
On December 21, Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old from Stillwater, Oklahoma, became the first person to push...
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Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 11), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates
A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its...
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How Londinium Became London, Lutetia Became Paris, and Other Roman Cities Got Their Modern Names
They Might Be Giants achieved pop-cultural immortality when they covered Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat...
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The Surprising Map of Plants: A New Animation Shows How All the Different Plants Relate to Each Other
Are pinecones related to pineapples? This was the unexpected question with which my wife confronted me...
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2024: Enjoy Classic Works by Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, D. H. Lawrence, Bertolt Brecht & More
More than thirty years after it was first privately published in 1928, Lady Chatterley’s Lover became...
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The Great Gatsby Explained: How F. Scott Fitzgerald Indicted & Endorsed the American Dream (1925)
When The Great Gatsby was first published, it flopped; nearly a century later, its place at...
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An Early Version of Mickey Mouse Enters the Public Domain on January 1, 2024
Happy New Year! We can now “do to Disney what Disney did to the great works...
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The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan
From 2006 to 2009, Bob Dylan hosted the Theme Time Radio Hour on Sirius Satellite Radio. Each show...
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The Beautiful Anarchy of the Earliest Animated Cartoons: Explore an Archive with 200+ Early Animations
Early in his collecting odyssey, animation historian, archivist, and educator Tommy José Stathes earned the honorific...
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A New Database Captures the Smells of European History, from 16th-Century to the Early 20th-Century
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things...