Inside a Painter’s Mythical NYC Studio of 55 Years
A self-taught artist, John Willenbecher (b. 1936) initially set out to be an art historian. Born in the Lehigh Valley in Pensylvania, he attended Brown University and then he took…
PBS Eons: There’s No Single Cradle of Humankind
It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that maybe they’d been asking the wrong question all along.
PBS Eons: When Did the First Flower Bloom?
During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs were more diverse, more fierce, and more strange than ever. But something else was happening under the feet of the terrible lizards: for the first…
Le petit déjeuner, un repas mondialisé
"Frühstück", "breakfast" et petit déjeuner sont des inventions récentes, fruits de l'importation de boissons exotiques charriées de tous les continents dans l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle. Du café matinal aux récipients…
WTF is Dancehall?
The Insanely Influential Genre That Inspired Sampling, Hip Hop, Dubstep & More
Where the $ symbol actually comes from
Why is the $ sign an S? What does 'dollar' even mean? In this video, I answer both of those questions, while also explaining what the British pound is a…
In the Year of the Pig
In the Year of the Pig is an American documentary film directed by Emile de Antonio about American involvement in the Vietnam War. It was released in 1968 while the…
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How the brown rat quietly spread across the world
The brown rat has spread to almost every continent around the world. But how did they get here? And are they here to stay? {read} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k04BwP9_U4
Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages
Sound changes left French unlike Latin, Italian, Spanish or Romanian.