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12 Famous Artists Who Attended École des Beaux-Arts The long list of famous students of the French art school École des Beaux-Arts included Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Henri Matisse, and many other…
This Medieval Astrolabe Turns 1,000 Years Old A rare astronomical instrument made in medieval Spain has reached an extraordinary milestone. Now held by National Museums Scotland, the astrolabe offers …
Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog "Investigations of a Dog" is a funny and deeply philosophical tale of a lone, maladjusted dog who defies scientific dogma and pioneers …
How Five Points Became The Most Infamous Slum In The History Of New York City By Ella Spitz Located in Lower Manhattan, Five Points was a poor, overcrowded neighborhood where disease spread rapidly, r…
The Many Lives of Libraries By The Editors These stories span centuries and continents, revealing how libraries have shaped culture, politics, and public life https://daily.jstor.org/we-love-libraries…
Science, religion, and political omens: the meaning of eclipses in ancient Rome by Javier Andreu Pintado Romans could predict eclipses, but still interpreted them as signs from the gods. https://theco…
💾 Culture is increasingly shaped by platforms we don’t control. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, the final episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series Vanishing Culture, series host Vida Vojić reflec…
2️⃣/2️⃣ Hosted by Dave Hansen & Chris Freeland, this conversation with Vida Vojić and Alice Bridgwood brings together lessons from the series, from community archives and endangered languages to the chang…
9 Supernatural Creatures in the Works of Oscar Wilde Mermaids, giants, and witches are some of the supernatural characters readers encounter in the words of the brilliant writer Oscar Wilde. https://w…
Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature by Brian Lewis https://theconversation.com/who-were-the-luddites-their-legacy-ripples-through-politics-…
How storytelling can help us grasp climate change As glaciers melt, a writer considers what stories can do that data cannot by Adam Loften, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee https://aeon.co/videos/as-glaciers-melt…
Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920) Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlantic-cit…
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air." Witches, Scene I This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably) Toil an…
The Case for Aesthetic Education Why Friedrich Schiller believed art belongs at the heart of education—and why it matters for equal opportunity today. By: Marco Elvis Joven Domínguez https://daily.jst…
🚤🌊 Nancy Drew's lakeside adventure takes a dangerous turn in this clip from a LibriVox reading of the 1930 public domain classic, THE BUNGALOW MYSTERY. 🔍 📚It's just one of tens of thousands of free pu…
Project Gutenberg News - August 2026 Contents Visit to the Gutenberg Museum Early American printers Women in Translation (WIT) Month Coming Website Changes New Releases at Gutenberg.org — July 2026 ht…
How Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” Defined Old English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales have come to define Old English literature and offer a unique window into life in medieval …
📚 The cultures most at risk of vanishing are often created and sustained by communities with the fewest resources. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, the final episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special seri…
Can empathy levels predict whether someone goes into the physical sciences? And is there a gendered component? Who are we kidding? Of course there is. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/ald-report-…
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Our July POTM looks at the life of Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived most of her adult life with rheumatoid arthritis. by Elizabeth Wood…
