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How AI Is Reshaping Our World – SXSW 2023 Conference Videos
From search engines and self-driving cars to film, artificial intelligence is already disrupting major industries and…
The Five Graphs That Changed the World: See Groundbreaking Data Visualizations by Florence Nightingale, W. E. B. DuBois & Beyond
Almost two and a half centuries after its first publication, Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the…
Hear the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago
In the early 1950s, archaeologists unearthed several clay tablets from the 14th century BCE. Found, WFMU…
Behold an Astonishing Near-Nightly Spectacle in the Lightning Capital of the World
Extreme weather conditions have become a topic of grave concern. Are floods, earthquakes, tornadoes and catastrophic…
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:…
The Military Adventures of Alexander the Great: An Animated Documentary Shows How He Conquered Most of the Known World (336-323 BC)
To learn about history is to learn about war, or so it can feel when you…
Bohemian Rhapsody Played on the Largest Pipe Organ in the World
Back in 2016, we showed you Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” getting played on a 1905 fairground organ.…
An Introduction to Hokusai’s Great Wave, One of the Most Recognizable Artworks in the World
You need not be a student of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints to recognize artist Katsushika Hokusai’s…
The Archives of the Planet: Explore 72,000 Photos Taken a Century Ago to Document Human Cultures Around the World
The world, we often hear, used to be bigger. Today, if you feel the faintest twinge…