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See The Guidonian Hand, the Medieval System for Reading Music, Get Brought...
Singing a piece of music for the first time while reading the notes from a sheet is hard, and requires complete control of one’s vocals. Today, the most popular ways of teaching this skill to...
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Hunter S. Thompson’s Edgy 1990s Commercial for Apple’s Macintosh Computer
Contrary to what the past decade’s TV commercials may indicate, Apple’s advertising hasn’t always been so tepid and generic. Before the era of the much-lampooned “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” commercials,...
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Watch The Touching Moment When Physicist Andrei Linde Learns That His...
On Monday, the science world joyously celebrated a seminal astrophysics discovery. Using a telescope in the South Pole, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detected...
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Free Audio: Alice In Wonderland Read by Cory Doctorow
Many of us came across our favorite book serendipitously. No surprise: it’s easiest to be completely blown away by a work of art or literature when you approach it without any pre-existing...
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A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind: A Free Online Course from Oxford
These days, neuroscience seems to have a monopoly on the mind. Flip to the science section of an established newspaper or magazine, and you’ll likely see the most alluring headlines describing the...
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A Glimpse Into How Wes Anderson Creatively Remixes/Recycles Scenes in His...
Wes Anderson’s movies always trigger a healthy buzz in the pop culture world, and his recently released Grand Budapest Hotel is no different. Already, the film has won the Silver Bear at the Berlin...
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Revered Poet Alexander Pushkin Draws Sketches of Nikolai Gogol and Other...
Ask an American or an Englishman who the best Russian poet is, and they’ll genuinely consider the question. The same query, when posed to a Russian, invariably yields a single answer: Alexander...
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Thomas Edison & His Trusty Kinetoscope Create the First Movie Filmed In The...
Thomas Edison is undoubtedly America’s best-known inventor. Nicknamed “The Wizard of Menlo Park” for his prolific creativity, Edison amassed a whopping 1093 patents throughout his lifetime. His most...
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The World Concert Hall: Listen To The Best Live Classical Music Concerts for...
While the Internet may not have helped global music sales, it’s certainly been a boon for fans wanting to listen to otherwise-inaccessible music, especially classical music. We often post classical...
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Harvard’s Free Computer Science Course Teaches You to Code in 12 Weeks
At the beginning of last year, we wrote about CS50, Harvard’s Introductory Computer Science course, taught by Professor David Malan. Today, we bring you the updated version of the class, filmed...
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World Science U Starts to Offer Innovative, Free Courses in the Sciences
In high school, my physics teacher taught the class by having us listen to his long, monotonous lectures. After I realized that I couldn’t digest his verbal lessons, I stopped listening. Instead, I...
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Download Over 325 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum
In 2014, Getty Publications announced the launch of its Virtual Library, where readers can freely browse and download 325 art books from the publisher’s backlist catalogue. The Virtual Library...
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Oxford’s Free Course Critical Reasoning For Beginners Teaches You to Think...
Image by Pablo Fernández, via Flickr Commons When I was younger, I often found myself disagreeing with something I’d read or heard, but couldn't explain exactly why. Despite being unable to pinpoint...
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Discover Friedrich Nietzsche’s Curious Typewriter, the “Malling-Hansen...
During his final decade, Friedrich Nietzsche’s worsening constitution continued to plague the philosopher. In addition to having suffered from incapacitating indigestion, insomnia, and migraines for...
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Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World:...
For decades following World War II, the world was left wondering how the atrocities of the Holocaust could have been perpetrated in the midst of—and, most horrifically, by—a modern and civilized...
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