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How Radio Broadcasting Works: An Animated Explanation from 1937
How Radio Broadcasting Works: An Animated Explanation from 1937

From oscillator to audience, or how the music of the orchestra travels from the studio to your home.

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Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity
Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity

The art of uncertainty, why awards are the wrong pursuit, and how to find wonder in truth.

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1951 Black-and-White Animation on How Different Drugs Work
1951 Black-and-White Animation on How Different Drugs Work

From poppies to paupers, or what Cold War politics have to do with the social psychology of addiction.

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This Must Be The Place: Poetic Short Films Explore ‘Home’
This Must Be The Place: Poetic Short Films Explore ‘Home’

What 19th-century farming has to do with solar panels and the creative losses of digital photography.

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Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words
Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words

From high school dropout to design legend, or what the Oxford English Dictionary has to do with iconic logos.

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Perversion for Profit: Vintage Anti-Porn Propaganda
Perversion for Profit: Vintage Anti-Porn Propaganda

A vintage card from the Tea Party playbook, or what the Kama Sutra has to do with the fall of the Roman Empire.

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Lessons for the Living from the Brink of Death
Lessons for the Living from the Brink of Death

How to take life one ephemeral dinner party at a time, or why hope is a gift of the hopeless.

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Pump Up The Volume: A History of House Music
Pump Up The Volume: A History of House Music

From John Travolta to Eurotrash, or what Chicago’s basements have to do with Moscow’s nightlife.

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Ray: A Life Underwater
Ray: A Life Underwater

What antique cannon balls have to do with walking on the moon and life on the bottom of the world.

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Lewis Mumford on the City: Rare Footage from 1963
Lewis Mumford on the City: Rare Footage from 1963

What Dutch highways have to do with Canadian documentaries and the psychology of protests.

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