What’s surprising about Robert Greenberg’s iconic Great Music course is that the joy is not in hearing the music per se. Its doom-scroll-era joy of listening with intent. Of paying close attention to music made with intent and bearing historical context.

It's my birthday so we're jumping to my fav, episode 8 on married women's dependent citizenship & Ruth Bryan Owen, from "Forgotten America" w/ The Great Courses & Audible 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/@phdrachel/v...

A reference my kids will never get: Talking about 17th-c Rome banning opera during Lent Robert Greenberg quipped, “What’s an Italian opera addict supposed to do? Watch 40 straight days of Hogan’s Heroes re-runs?!” 😂

Archaeologists next to one of the many massive Olmec heads. The Olmec civilization is considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, and these sculptures are their most iconic artifacts

Was today years old when I learned the French Open tennis stadium Roland Garros is named for the first pilot to fly across the Mediterranean and who was shot down and killed in WWI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_...

This 👇

I had no idea the most interesting parts of Great Courses’ history of the Mediterranean course would be its role in WWI and WWII. Best part was learning of the obsolete planes flown to great effect by Maltese volunteers in WWII. www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

History told through coins is always fascinating to me. archaeology.org/news/2026/05...

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Jeopardy contestants should get a bonus for running a category

Struggled to choose my next read, but I am so psyched about this book

Just learned that Milan’s name derives from Celtic origins: Medhelanon (“middle plain”). I can’t wait to bore people with that nugget.

What would happen to all 57 LIV golfers if the tour folds? I don't care. Do you?

I had no idea this was a thing and now i want to read everything i can about it and specualtion on its implications for Rome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_W...

Dear Today Show: Stop inventing reasons to give air time to weight loss drugs on every show. We get it. You’re paying back their ad dollars. Just say it’s paid promotion.

Suburban Sisyphus: a guy whose just-filled lawn bag has the bottom blow out, so he now has to re-bag everything. (Aka me.)

I’m such a painfully slow reader, but I sprinted thru the final 200 pages of Intermezzo yesterday and today. Absolutely loved it. Ivan and Margaret need their own dedicated novel btw.

news.artnet.com/art-world/hu... The Library of Ashurbanipal was to the ancient Greeks and Romans what the Library of Alexandria is to us today: a lost archive of unparalleled, almost mythical proportions. Ashurbanipal collected texts on every subject, from astronomy to medicine.”

If your mind is a bit famished, and with these mergers happening in streaming land, you might try Great Courses Plus. I think there’s a free trial and with annual or quarterly sub it costs a few fast food meals a month. Instead, you get slow food for your brain😍👍 plus.thegreatcourses.com/home

Very cool to see an undergrad joining Dr. Sarah Rugheimer’s Great Courses Journey Live event and asking about switching his comp sci major for astronomy and what he can do with that degree. Inspiring a new generation of astronomers via TGC!

Come with us on a journey through The Great Courses Enchanted England, where folklore and fairy tales come to life. Explore a Shakespeare performance in London, a day trip to Oxford University, and a quest for King Arthur in Cornwall! www.thegreatcoursesjourneys.com/enchantedeng... #enchantedengland

Omg this is so exciting. I clearly remember listening to the CD box set religiously. www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Heard in one lecture parts of Beethoven’s 9th and 5th, Handel’s Water Music, something from Bach I can’t remember the name of, and losing myself in appreciating classical music for an hour while running is pure bliss.

Just started listening this for the first time in several years and am loving it. I need much more medieval and plainchant music in my life, I think.

Remember our series Urban Legends Explained streaming on Great Courses Plus? We covered the Vanishing Hitchhiker, Slenderman, cryptids, and MORE. It's shortlisted for a Telly Award! Please vote for our show! Voting ends April 17! peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting... #urbanlegends #tellyawards

Amazing discovery and another piece in the piece of Shakespeare’s puzzle solved. apnews.com/article/shak...

There’s a religious retirement community in Bruges in continuous operation for nearly 800 years. Imagine the ghosts shuffling thru there and the stories those walls could tell www.visitbruges.be/en/things-to...

Happy Jackie Robinson Day to all who celebrate!

Folks, let’s help bring home a Telly. This was such a fun and fascinating course.

I know im getting old when medieval coins are exciting to me, but here we are. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Really interested to see the reaction to this new course. shop.thegreatcourses.com/medicine-rec...

A bonkers stat: Tomorrow, Robert Greenberg will record his 700th Great Courses lecture! It’s an absolutely mind-boggling number.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I learned that Dali was obsessed with the landscape background of the Mona Lisa and “quoted” it in some paintings. He was so inventive that it’s amazing to me he found inspiration in Leonardo.

Just finished Dorsey Armstrong’s Great Courses - King Arthur:History and Legend - she’s a great lecturer

Galileo was so proud of being from the same town (Florence) as Michelangelo that he claimed a kind of cosmic connection by telling people he was born the same day Michelangelo died (he was actually born 3 days prior) in 1564.

I love this so much. Made my whole team’s day ❤️

I had no idea Michelangelo painted The Last Judgment 24 yrs AFTER The Creation of Adam. He was literally in dialogue with his younger self and staring at his earlier masterpiece the whole time.

There a lot of might’ve and possibly, but still amazing archaeological and archival work www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Hearing an astrobiologist explain patiently why even if we do find biosignatures of life beyond Earth we may not recognize it is kind of scary.

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Teen daughter just asked, “So, what did the Vatican think about the Holocaust.” Uhhh….

Hearing an astronomer enthuse over the immense vastness of space captured in this one (and first) Webb Deep Field image is nothing short of thrilling science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/w...

Ok, time to put Michelangelo aside briefly so I can get to our new James Webb Telescope course. Not only is it taught by Dr. Sarah Rugheimer, who’s amazing, but her friend and guitarist for Incubus composed/performed the music for it.

The linguistic and epigraphic analyses are as fascinating as the fact that some thought this king was only a legend and not real 🤯 archaeology.org/news/2026/03...

“I have finished the chapel l have been painting. The pope is very well satisfied.” Michelangelo in maybe history’s greatest understatement, writing home having just finished the Sistine Chapel.

This delightful little painted wooden horse was a child’s toy around 2,000 years ago. It dates from 1st - 3rd century AD Roman Egypt. The wood has been preserved so well by the intense dryness of the Egyptian climate. 🏛️📷 British Museum #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Learning how many potentially great works of art Leonardo and Michelangelo abandoned makes me wonder about great authors and any works we know they started but quit to write another.

Michelangelo becoming a real estate tycoon was not on my bingo card for him, gonna be honest.

The Author's Guild is on it! authorsguild.org/human-author...