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  1. 2 hours ago

    Hear a 1930 Recording of Boléro, Conducted by Ravel Himself

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Yo-Yo Ma Performs the First Classical Piece He Ever Learned Take a 12-Minute Mental Health Break and Watch His Moving "Tiny Desk" Concert

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Watch the Making of a Hand-Crafted Violin, from Start to Finish, in a Beautifully-Shot Documentary

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with "Purposeful Stupidity" (1944)

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    Jun 25

    The story of the MiniDisc, Sony’s 1990s audio format that’s gone but not forgotten:

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  6. 7 hours ago

    How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City

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  7. 8 hours ago

    The Long-Lost Pieces of Rembrandt’s "Night Watch" Get Reconstructed with Artificial Intelligence

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  8. 9 hours ago

    This Is "The End": A Video Exploration of The Doors’ Existential Epic

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  9. 10 hours ago

    Michelangelo’s David: The Fascinating Story Behind the Renaissance Marble Creation

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  10. 10 hours ago

    The Acoustics of Stonehenge Researchers Build a Model to Understand How Sound Reverberated within the Ancient Structure

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  11. 21 hours ago

    A History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 100 Riffs As they say, old but gold.

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  12. 21 hours ago

    The Doors’ Ray Manzarek Walks You Through the Writing of the Band’s Iconic Song, "Riders on the Storm"

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    Jun 26

    Classic

    “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― The Great Gatsby (1925)
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    Jun 27

    How Quentin Tarantino Shoots a Film at 3 Different Budget Levels: Reservoir Dogs ($1 Million), Pulp Fiction ($8 Million), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ($95 Million)

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  15. Jun 27

    See a Full Jimi Hendrix Experience Concert on Restored Footage Thought Lost for 35 Years

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    Jun 27

    Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (in English or Italian) 🖊 👉 via

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    Jun 26

    How to Paint Water Lilies Like Monet in 14 Minutes via

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  18. Jun 27

    Explore an Interactive, Online Version of the Beautifully Illustrated, 200-Year-Old British & Exotic Mineralogy

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  19. Jun 26

    Leo Tolstoy Makes a List of the 50+ Books That Influenced Him Most (1891)

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  20. Jun 26

    Classic

    “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― The Great Gatsby (1925)
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