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The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Text
The “Amen Break”: The Most Famous 6‑Second Drum Loop & How It Spawned a Sampling Revolution
How Nick Drake’s “River Man” Has Captivated Generation after Generation of Listeners
How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look
Ian McKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by William Shakespeare, Written in Defense of Immigrants
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This Man Flew to Japan to Sing ABBA’s “Mamma Mia” in a Big Cold River
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained with Animation
The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very First
The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library
David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds
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Coverage of the refugee crisis peaked in 2015. By the end of the year, note researchers at the University of Bergen, “this was one of the hottest topics, not only for politicians, but for participants...
In 1999, Volkswagen aired a television commercial for the Golf Mk3 Cabrio. Dealerships were soon inundated with calls, as popular culture history remembers it, but not from people inquiring about the ...
So much of what enters the popular lexicon depends upon small happy accidents: chance encounters, misreadings, gaffes, extemporaneous bursts of inspiration. Artists attuned to the strange in the munda...
Though seldom heard these days, the term 'desktop publishing' once opened a great many eyes to the promise of the personal computer. It meant that one could create a publication without owning a press...
Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal 'the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.' That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn't at all obvio...
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If you grew up in the last few generations, chances are you didn't get much of an education, if any, in Latin or ancient Greek.
Madman or visionary? A little of both? A genius? A brand? A mensch? David Lynch was all these things and more, and this fan-made video above serves as a quick reminder of the career and the consistenc...
