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Is Pluto a Planet? An Animated Explanation Sets the Record Straight
Is Pluto a Planet? An Animated Explanation Sets the Record Straight

A brief history of why the word “planet” isn’t very helpful.

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How We Measure the Universe, Animated
How We Measure the Universe, Animated

How to determine the distance of stars using standard candles.

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Animated Anatomy of Shakespearean Slurs
Animated Anatomy of Shakespearean Slurs

Heartless hinds, fishmongers, and lots of thumb-biting.

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Reason & Emotion: Pseudoscience Meets Gender Stereotypes in 1943 Disney Wartime Propaganda
Reason & Emotion: Pseudoscience Meets Gender Stereotypes in 1943 Disney Wartime Propaganda

What resisting a double fudge sundae has to do with Freud and defeating the Nazis.

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The Old Man and the Sea, Animated in Hand-Drawn Stop-Motion
The Old Man and the Sea, Animated in Hand-Drawn Stop-Motion

“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”

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How a Virus Conquers the World, Animated
How a Virus Conquers the World, Animated

Dynamic animated anatomy of going viral.

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Douglas Adams’s Prophetic Vision for the Evolution of the Book
Douglas Adams’s Prophetic Vision for the Evolution of the Book

How we went from boulders to scrolls to screens.

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1953 Animated Adaptation of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” The First X-Rated Cartoon in Britain
1953 Animated Adaptation of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” The First X-Rated Cartoon in Britain

A beautifully haunting animated adaptation of the Poe classic.

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The Brotherhood of Man: Vintage Animated Short Film Debunks the Myths of Racist Beliefs (1946)
The Brotherhood of Man: Vintage Animated Short Film Debunks the Myths of Racist Beliefs (1946)

An animated adaptation of a WWII-era pamphlet making a scientific case against racism.

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Heinz Dilemma: A Hand-Drawn Interactive Animation to Test Your Moral Development
Heinz Dilemma: A Hand-Drawn Interactive Animation to Test Your Moral Development

Would you steal to save a loved one’s life, and how would you justify doing or not doing it?

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