Released 40 years ago this week, New Order’s “Blue Monday” (hear the original EP version here)…
Category: Culture
A Visit to the World’s Oldest Hotel, Japan’s Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, Established in 705 AD
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot-spring hotel in the mountains of Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture, has been in…
A Student Writes a Rejection Letter Rejecting Harvard’s Rejection Letter (1981): Hear It Read by Actor Himesh Patel
The documentary filmmaker and sports editor Paul Devlin has won five Emmy awards, but he may…
Artificial Intelligence, Art & the Future of Creativity: Watch the Final Chapter of the “Everything is a Remix” Series
From 2010 to 2012, filmmaker Kirby Ferguson released “Everything is a Remix,” a four-part series (watch…
How the World’s Biggest Dome Was Built: The Story of Filippo Brunelleschi and the Duomo in Florence
Even if Florence didn’t represent the absolute pinnacle of human civilization at the end of the…
Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course: Explore the TV Series That Introduced the Wines of the World (1995)
“The word ‘connoisseur’ is not an attractive one,” writes Jancis Robinson in her memoir Tasting Pleasure:…
Why Georges Seurat’s Pointillist Painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Is a Masterpiece
Everyone knows that Georges Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte, or A…
Watch a Visual Symphony of Everyday Objects in the French Stop Motion Film, “Grands Canons”
“A brush makes watercolors appear on a white sheet of paper. An everyday object takes shape,…
How 99% of Ancient Literature Was Lost
Ancient Greece and Rome had plenty of literature, but practically none of it survives today. What…