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Architecture
From Vitruvius to Zaha Hadid — the art and science of designing built space.
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Cinema
From Bazin to Tarantino — film history, theory, and the craft of moviemaking.
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Music & Opera
From Bach to neuroscience — classical music, opera, and the science of sound.
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Painting & Visual Arts
From Gombrich to Basquiat — painting, art history, and visual culture.
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Sculpture
From Michelangelo to Louise Bourgeois — sculpture from ancient Greece to the contemporary.
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Dance & Performing Arts
From Balanchine to Pina Bausch — ballet, contemporary dance, and performance.
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Literature
From Nabokov to Sontag — literary criticism, the art of fiction, and world literature.
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Philosophy & Ideas
From Aristotle to Arendt — ethics, metaphysics, and the great ideas of Western thought.
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Paleoanthropology
From Lucy to Sapiens — human origins, fossil discoveries, and the deep history of our species.
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Wellness & Mind
From neuroscience to mindfulness — psychology, sleep, habits, and human wellbeing.
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AI & Technology
From Alan Turing to the alignment problem — artificial intelligence and the technologies reshaping our world.
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