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Aesthetic Values
Once at the pinnacle of Amsterdam’s art scene, Rembrandt van Rijn eventually found himself outcompeted by his own students.
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.
The philosophy of sex is going through a recalibration period.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a medieval airship!
Art isn't a side note in human history; it's the main text.
By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy?
Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.
Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.
The carnival spirit was in full swing when the priests got wasted and made indecent gestures while dressed like pimps.
The key to its success lies not in its understanding of technology, but in its understanding of human nature.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
You can learn a lot about life through literature's most unrespectable and heinous characters.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
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These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
The deep-thinking oddballs of West Coast cycle racing valued mid-ride marijuana over sports science.
To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.
Burj Al Babas may one day be full of wealthy vacationers, but for now it’s a ghost town in the center of Turkey.
Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It's about uniting with the divine.
We bake pies for Pi Day, so why not celebrate other mathematical achievements.
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
"Painfully forced" is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald's writing style.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.
Most popular songs are about love and heartache. But some great songs — albeit underrated and perhaps a bit weird — are about the cities we love.