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Martin Scorsese Has a Free Streaming Platform for Classic Movies: How to Watch

Since its founding in 1990, Martin Scorsese’s nonprofit organization, The Film Foundation, has helped to restore over 925 films. And in April, the foundation launched a free streaming service called Restoration Screening Room to introduce these restored classic movies to new and old generations of moviegoers alike. On the second Monday of each month, a […]

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three well-dressed people sit in a living room still from a classic movie

Therapist and Filmmaker Team Up to Talk Mental Health Through the Lens of Movies

You may see your movie watching sessions and therapy sessions as completely separate activities, but they’re probably more linked than you think. For example, The Incredible Hulk sheds light on anger management, Titanic is a study on relationship compatibility, and the horror film It is an easy segue to talking about childhood trauma.  Those are

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Cinema Therapy's creators smile and lounge in theater-style reclining chairs

65,000-Year-Old “Swiss Army Knives” Suggest Social Connectivity Among Early Humans

The ubiquitous Swiss Army knife was first invented in the late 19th century, but humans have been using and sharing similar multipurpose tools for much, much longer. Sixty-thousand to 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens ventured out of Africa, eventually landing in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. While that migration was not the first, scientists

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Pieces of ancient stone knives that suggest connectivity

Adventurer Twins Embarking on Emission-Free Expedition to Atlantic’s Most Remote Spot

Meet Ross and Hugo Turner, a.k.a. The Turner Twins. They’re professional adventurers who’ve rowed across the Atlantic (netting the duo two world records), scaled Mount Elbrus in Russia, and have traveled to four of the world’s Continental Poles of Inaccessibility — by bicycle and paramotor, no less — to list but a few of their

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Artist Brings the “Mystical” Vibrations of Notre Dame’s Historic Bells to the Public — Listen to the Sonic Landscape

After a devastating fire tore through the 859-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 2019, the sounds of its 10 bronze bells ceased to echo through the city. They’d escaped damage but have been rung only once since — on April 15, 2020, the one-year anniversary of the blaze. Then the chapel returned to silence,

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People gather around the big shiny bells of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral during their blessing mass

Meet Maria Pepe: The Little Leaguer Who Paved the Way for Girls in Baseball

Got a daughter, niece, cousin, or little sister who loves baseball? Thanks to trailblazer Maria Pepe, they can make lifelong memories and forge important bonds while competing in their favorite game as Little League baseball players — an experience that was historically reserved only for boys. In an interview with Today, Pepe, who grew up

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Maria Pepe smiles and holds a large black and white framed photo of herself in her baseball uniform

Meet the First Man to Visit Every U.N. Recognized Country and Travel to Space

Jim Kitchen dreamt of becoming an astronaut as a child. While in college in the 1980s, he worked selling low-orbit space travel, despite constant ribbing from his friends about the then far-off idea. And when he married his wife, he asked for a prenup with the sole stipulation that he be allowed to go to

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Jim Kitchen smiles in front of a wall filled with bright posters and mementos from his travels

Woman “Addicted” to Giving Back Donates More Than Half of Her Lottery Fortune

Frances Connolly can’t get enough of giving.  The 55-year-old in Hartlepool, England, won 115 million pounds (about $144 million in USD at the time) in the lottery in 2019, and she’s already given over half of it away to friends, family, and charities.  Connolly has set up two organizations in the years since her and

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