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- January 2021 (51)
- 20: Rarely-Seen Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy Are Now Free Online, Courtesy of the Uffizi Gallery (0)
- 20: Brâncuși Captures His Sculpture & Life on Film: Watch Rare Footage Shot Between 1923-1939 (0)
- 19: Ursula K. Le Guin Stamp Getting Released by the US Postal Service (0)
- 19: How Levi’s 501 Jeans Became Iconic: A Short Documentary Featuring John Baldessari, Henry Rollins, Lee Ranaldo & More (0)
- 19: The Deadliest Garden in the World: Visit Alnwick’s Poison Garden in Northumberland, England (2)
- 19: Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Energy Accumulator Was Beloved by William S. Burroughs and Banned by the FDA: Find Plans to Build the Controversial Device Online (0)
- 18: A Magical Look Inside the Painting Process of Studio Ghibli Artist Kazuo Oga (0)
- 18: A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It (2)
- 18: What Can You Do About QAnon?: A Short Take from Documentary Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson (7)
- 18: An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting (0)
- 16: MIT’s Introduction to Economics: A Free Online Course (0)
- 15: Take a New Virtual Reality Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2)
- 15: The Anti-Gluttony Door in Portugal’s Alcobaça Monastery Shamed Plump Monks to Start Fasting (2)
- 15: David Lynch’s Projection Instructions for Mulholland Drive (2001) (0)
- 14: Why Should You Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved? An Animated Video Makes the Case (0)
- 14: The CIA Has Declassified 2,780 Pages of UFO-Related Documents, and They’re Now Free to Download (3)
- 14: How the Bicycle Accelerated the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890) (1)
- 14: Should You Race Back to Theaters When It’s Safe? Pretty Much Pop: Culture Podcast (#77) on the Big Screen Experience (0)
- 13: How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist: What the Experts Recommend (3)
- 13: A 16th-Century Astronomy Book Featured “Analog Computers” to Calculate the Shape of the Moon, the Position of the Sun, and More (0)
- 13: Social Psychologist Erich Fromm Diagnoses Why People Wear a Mask of Happiness in Modern Society (1977) (0)
- 12: Peanuts Plays Yes’ “Roundabout” (0)
- 12: A Look Inside William S. Burroughs’ Bunker (0)
- 12: How Lava Lamps Help Secure the Internet (1)
- 12: Discover the First Illustrated Book Printed in English, William Caxton’s Mirror of the World (1481) (0)
- 11: New Documentary Sisters with Transistors Tells the Story of Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers (0)
- 11: Coursera Offers $100 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 20), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates (0)
- 11: See Devo Perform Live for the Very First Time (Kent State University, 1973) (2)
- 11: 300 Rarely-Seen, Risqué Drawings by Andy Warhol Published in the New Book, Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings (1950–1962) (0)
- 10: Arnold Schwarzenegger Reflects on the Parallels Between Trumpism & Nazism, and How We Can Save Our Democracy (3)
- 09: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism: A Timely List from Yale Historian Timothy Snyder (0)
- 08: Behold an Interactive Online Edition of Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants (1868) (1)
- 08: Flair Magazine: The Short-Lived, Highly-Influential Magazine That Still Inspires Designers Today (1950) (0)
- 08: Fonts in Use: Enter a Giant Archive of Typography, Featuring 12,618 Typefaces (0)
- 08: Mayhem Inside the Capitol: 40 Minutes of Footage (7)
- 07: Thelonious Monk’s List of 25 Tips for Musicians (3)
- 07: An Animated Introduction to Baruch Spinoza: The “Philosopher’s Philosopher” (0)
- 07: How to Draw the Buddha: Explore an Elegant Tibetan Manual from the 18th-Century (0)
- 07: Wonder Woman 1984 in Context – Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #76 (0)
- 06: The 25th Amendment: An Introduction (1)
- 06: The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 709,000 Works of Art, Including Famous Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer (0)
- 06: How Tibetan Monks Use Meditation to Raise Their Peripheral Body Temperature 16-17 Degrees (3)
- 06: Animation Pioneer Lotte Reiniger Adapts Mozart’s The Magic Flute into an All-Silhouette Short Film (1935) (0)
- 05: When Iggy Pop Published an Essay, “Caesar Lives,” in an Academic Journal about His Love for Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1995) (1)
- 05: Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known and Hand-Illustrated Children’s Book, Mr. Bliss (0)
- 05: Rome’s Colosseum Will Get a New Retractable Floor by 2023 — Just as It Had in Ancient Times (25)
- 04: Discover Tokyo’s Museum Dedicated to Parasites: A Unique and Disturbing Institution (1)
- 04: Dial-a-Poem: The Groundbreaking Phone Service That Let People Hear Poems Read by Patti Smith, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & More (1968) (3)
- 04: Did Beethoven Use a Broken Metronome When Composing His String Quartets? Scientists & Musicians Try to Solve the Centuries-Old Mystery (1)
- 01: What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby & Mrs. Dalloway, Music by Irving Berlin & Duke Ellington, Comedies by Buster Keaton, and More (1)
- 01: Antonio Gramsci Writes a Column, “I Hate New Year’s Day” (January 1, 1916) (0)
- December 2020 (92)
- 31: Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated Films (1)
- 31: Technology Arbitrage: Amazon is Selling Airpods Pro Headphones for $50 Less Than Apple (1)
- 31: When Queen’s Freddie Mercury Teamed Up with Opera Superstar Montserrat Caballé in 1988: A Meeting of Two Powerful Voices (7)
- 31: The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes (1)
- 30: The Essential Bradbury: The 25 Finest Stories by the Beloved Writer (0)
- 30: Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Snack Bar in the Ruins of Pompeii (1)
- 30: How Martin Luther King Jr. Got C’s in Public Speaking–Before Becoming a Straight-A Student & a World Class Orator (2)
- 30: Your 15 Favorite Posts on Open Culture This Year–and What a Year It Has Been (0)
- 30: Why Has The Great British Baking Show Conquered America? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #75 w/ Stephen Carlile (from Broadway’s The Lion King) (0)
- 29: Coursera Offers $100 Off of Coursera Plus, Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates (0)
- 29: Listen to James Baldwin’s Record Collection in a 478-track, 32-Hour Spotify Playlist (0)
- 29: When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930) (2)
- 29: The Power of Pulp Fiction’s Dance Scene, Explained by Choreographers and Even John Travolta Himself (2)
- 28: The David Bowie Monopoly Game Is Here: Advance to GO and Collect 200 Hunky Dorys! (1)
- 28: The Ultimate 80s Medley: A Nostalgia-Inducing Performance of A-Ha, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Van Halen & More (1)
- 28: In 1896, a French Cartoonist Predicted Our Socially-Distanced Zoom Holiday Gatherings (1)
- 25: Revisit Kate Bush’s Peculiar Christmas Special, Featuring Peter Gabriel (1979) (1)
- 25: Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950 (0)
- 25: Stream 48 Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Broadcasts Featuring Orson Welles, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Ida Lupino & More (1930-1959) (0)
- 24: When Our World Became a de Chirico Painting: How the Avant-Garde Painter Foresaw the Empty City Streets of 2020 (0)
- 24: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”: To Help Lift You Out of the COVID Gloom (3)
- 24: How Jan van Eyck’s Masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, Became the Most Stolen Work of Art in History (0)
- 23: David Chase Talks Sopranos for 90 Minutes on the Talking Sopranos Podcast (0)
- 23: Carl Sagan on the Importance of Choosing Wisely What You Read (Even If You Read a Book a Week) (1)
- 23: Octavia Butler’s Four Rules for Predicting the Future (0)
- 23: Tune Into Tree.fm: An Online Radio Station That Streams the Soothing Sounds of Forests from Around the World (1)
- 23: What Has the Internet Done to Comedy? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#74) (1)
- 22: Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Sing the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the UK” While Dressed as Santa and Elf (6)
- 22: Bill Gates Picks 5 Good Books for a Lousy Year (10)
- 22: Peter Jackson Gives Us an Enticing Glimpse of His Upcoming Beatles Documentary The Beatles: Get Back (1)
- 22: Why David Sedaris Hates “The Santaland Diaries,” the NPR Piece that Made Him Famous (1)
- 22: The UN’s World Happiness Report Ranks “Socialist Friendly” Countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Sweden as Among the Happiest in the World (5)
- 21: Why Is Napoleon’s Hand Always in His Waistcoat?: The Origins of This Distinctive Pose Explained (2)
- 21: How Joni Mitchell’s Song of Heartbreak, “River,” Became a Christmas Classic (1)
- 21: The Blob Opera Lets You Create Festive Music with Ease: An Interactive Experiment Powered by Machine Learning (0)
- 21: Brian Cullman, Veteran NY Music Scenester/Journalist/Producer, Shares His Tunes and Musings About Death: Nakedly Examined Music Podcast #137 (0)
- 18: Hokusai’s Iconic Print, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” Recreated with 50,000 LEGO Bricks (0)
- 18: How Do Vaccines (Including the COVID-19 Vaccines) Work?: Watch Animated Introductions (0)
- 18: When Martin Scorsese Directed Michael Jackson in the 18-Minute “Bad” Music Video & Paid Cinematic Tribute to West Side Story (1986) (0)
- 18: Three Amateur Cryptographers Finally Decrypted the Zodiac Killer’s Letters: A Look Inside How They Solved a Half Century-Old Mystery (2)
- 17: 160,000+ Medieval Manuscripts Online: Where to Find Them (0)
- 17: Discover the Ambient Music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, the Pioneering Japanese Composer (2)
- 17: Jeff Koons and Salman Rushdie Teach New Courses on Art, Creativity & Storytelling for MasterClass (0)
- 17: A Free Online Course from Yale University Explains How the World Lapsed into the Politics of Fear & Resentment (1)
- 17: What Makes for a Beloved Bad Film? Jackey Neyman Jones (Manos: The Hands of Fate) Talks to Pretty Much Pop (ep. 73) (1)
- 16: The Dune Graphic Novel: Experience Frank Herbert’s Epic Sci-Fi Saga as You’ve Never Seen It Before (3)
- 16: Get Inside the Head of a New York City Christmas Tree: A Gonzo Short Film from Artist Nina Katchadourian (0)
- 16: Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover 8 Songs by Famous Jewish Artists for Hanukkah: Bob Dylan, Beastie Boys, Velvet Underground & More (0)
- 16: A Brief History of Talking Heads: How the Band Went from Scrappy CBGB’s Punks to New Wave Superstars (1)
- 15: David Byrne Turns His Acclaimed Musical American Utopia into a Picture Book for Grown-Ups, with Vivid Illustrations by Maira Kalman (1)
- 15: The Art of Movie Posters: View Online 40,000+ Movie Posters & Learn How They’re Made (1)
- 15: Isaac Newton Theorized That the Egyptian Pyramids Revealed the Timing of the Apocalypse: See His Burnt Manuscript from the 1680s (13)
- 15: How the Garage-Rock Anthem “Louie Louie” Became the Subject of a Lengthy FBI Investigation (1964) (1)
- 14: MIT’s Introduction to Deep Learning: A Free Online Course (1)
- 14: A Visual History of The Rolling Stones Documented in a Beautiful, 450-Page Photo Book by Taschen (0)
- 14: Watch 26 Free Episodes of Jacques Pépin’s TV Show, More Fast Food My Way (1)
- 14: A Detailed, Track-by-Track Analysis of the Doctor Who Theme Music (0)
- 13: Grumpy President Reads a Christmas Story about a Lost Election (10)
- 11: Study Less, Study Smart: A Longtime Psych Professor Explains How to Study (or Do Any Intellectual Work) Effectively (2)
- 11: Watch the Oscar-Winning “Gerald McBoing-Boing” (1950): It’s Ranked as the 9th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (2)
- 11: When Italian Futurists Declared War on Pasta (1930) (1)
- 10: The Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery: A Kyoto Woodworker Shows How Japanese Carpenters Created Wood Structures Without Nails or Glue (2)
- 10: Buddhist Monk Covers Metallica’s ”Enter Sandman,” Then Meditates (3)
- 10: Jimi Hendrix’s Home Audio System & Record Collection Gets Recreated in His London Flat (1)
- 10: Comic Book Writer Fred Van Lente Touts “Comic Supremacy” on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #72 (0)
- 09: Are You Happy, David Lynch? (0)
- 09: Don’t Think Twice: A Poignant Film Documents How Bob Dylan & The Beatles Bring Joy to a Dementia Patient (0)
- 09: A Biostatistician Uses Crochet to Visualize the Frightening Infection Rates of the Coronavirus (0)
- 09: The Map of Doom: A Data-Driven Visualization of the Biggest Threats to Humanity, Ranked from Likely to Unlikely (5)
- 08: The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made (0)
- 08: Marina Abramović’s Method for Overcoming Trauma: Go to a Park, Hug a Tree Tight, and Tell It Your Complaints for 15 Minutes (5)
- 08: The Sistine Chapel of the Ancients: Archaeologists Discover 8 Miles of Art Painted on Rock Walls in the Amazon (2)
- 08: Why Butt Trumpets & Other Bizarre Images Appeared in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts (5)
- 07: Why Japan Has the Oldest Businesses in the World?: Hōshi, a 1300-Year-Old Hotel, Offers Clues (2)
- 07: Behold the Steampunk Home Exercise Machines from the Victorian Age (2)
- 07: How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound in the Groundbreaking Recording of “My Favorite Things” (1)
- 06: For Dave Brubeck’s 100th Birthday, Watch Pakistani Musicians Play an Enchanting Version of “Take Five” (10)
- 05: Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf (2)
- 04: Why Humans Are Obsessed with Cats (3)
- 04: Watch “Jackson Pollock 51,” a Historic Short Film That Captures Pollock Creating Abstract Expressionist Art on a Sheet of Glass (1)
- 04: One of the Greatest Dances Sequences Ever Captured on Film Gets Restored in Color by AI: Watch the Classic Scene from Stormy Weather (3)
- 03: A Look into the Wondrous Life & Expansive Work of the Late Jan Morris, Who Wrote the Entire World (0)
- 03: The Power of Empathy: A Quick Animated Lesson from Brené Brown (2)
- 03: A 1913 Children’s Book Lampoons Duchamp, Picasso & Other Avant-Garde Artists: Read The Cubies’ ABC Online (0)
- 03: When Sun Ra Went to Egypt in 1971: See Film & Hear Recordings from the Legendary Afrofuturist’s First Visit to Cairo (1)
- 03: An Introduction to Rap Battles: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #71 (0)
- 02: The Internet Archive is Saving Classic Flash Animations & Games from Extinction: Explore Them Online (0)
- 02: What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like & How We Know It (0)
- 02: Japanese Art Installation Lets People Play Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” As They Walk on Socially-Distanced Notes on the Floor (1)
- 01: Quentin Tarantino’s Copycat Cinema: How the Postmodern Filmmaker Perfected the Art of the Steal (2)
- 01: Salvador Dalí Gets Surreal with 1950s America: Watch His Appearances on What’s My Line? (1952) and The Mike Wallace Interview (1958) (0)
- 01: 88 Philosophy Podcasts to Help You Answer the Big Questions in Life (1)
- November 2020 (84)
- 30: Learn How to Play Chess Online: Free Chess Lessons for Beginners, Intermediate Players & Beyond (1)
- 30: The Great Courses Offers Every Course on Sale for $60 or Less (Until December 1) (0)
- 30: Watch Digital Dancers Electrify the Streets of Istanbul (0)
- 30: An Animated Stan Lee Explains Why the F-Word Is “the Most Useful Word in the English Language” (NSFW) (0)
- 28: Hear 11-Year-Old Björk Sing “I Love to Love”: Her First Recorded Song (1976) (0)
- 27: The Great Courses Offers Every Course for $40 Until Midnight Tonight (0)
- 27: With 9,036 Pieces, the Roman Colosseum Is the Largest Lego Set Ever (1)
- 27: Toni Morrison’s 1,200 Volume Personal Library is Going on Sale: Get a Glimpse of the Books on Her Tribeca Condo Shelves (0)
- 27: A Free 700-Page Chess Manual Explains 1,000 Chess Tactics in Straightforward English (14)
- 27: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal (Until November 30) (1)
- 27: Famed New Orleans Music Producer Mark Bingham Discusses His Songs and Collaborations: A Nakedly Examined Music Conversation (#136) (0)
- 26: The Story Behind “Alice’s Restaurant,” Arlo Guthrie’s Song That’s Now a Thanksgiving Tradition (4)
- 26: A Flying Car Took to the Skies Back in 1949: See the Taylor Aerocar in Action (0)
- 26: The Beatles Create an Abstract Collaborative Painting, Images of a Woman, During Three Days of Lockdown in Japan (1966) (0)
- 25: Nikon Offers Free Online Photography Courses During the Holidays (0)
- 25: Stevie Ray Vaughan Gives a Blistering Demonstration of His Guitar Technique (12)
- 25: A Mysterious Monolith Appears in the Utah Desert, Channeling Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (5)
- 25: The Uncanny Children’s Book Illustrations of Sigmund’s Freud’s Niece, Tom Seidmann-Freud (1)
- 25: Kevin Allison (The State, RISK!) Discusses Confessional Comedy on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #70 (0)
- 24: The Polygraph: The Proto-Photocopy Machine Machine Invented in 1803 That Changed Thomas Jefferson’s Life (0)
- 24: Hear Legendary BBC Composer Delia Derbyshire’s Electronic Version of Bach’s “Air on a G String” (1)
- 24: The Eden Project Built a Rainforest Ecosystem Inside Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Geodesic Domes (0)
- 23: The Geometry of Sound: Watch Artist Kenichi Kanazawa Make Amazing Geometric Designs Out of Sand, Using Sound Waves Alone (0)
- 23: A Curious Herbal: 500 Beautiful Illustrations of Medicinal Plants Drawn by Elizabeth Blackwell in 1737 (to Save Her Family from Financial Ruin) (0)
- 23: Watch How to Be at Home, a Beautiful Short Animation on the Realities of Social Isolation in 2020 (4)
- 20: David Lynch Explains How Simple Daily Habits Enhance His Creativity (2)
- 20: Lou Reed Concert Film Berlin Streaming Free Online for the Next Week (6)
- 20: Behold One of the Earliest Known Color Charts: The Table of Physiological Colors (1686) (0)
- 19: How Errol Morris Became Obsessed with — and Figured Out — the Truth of a Famous War Photograph (2)
- 19: Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man (0)
- 19: The Beautiful Video for David Gilmour’s “The Girl in the Yellow Dress,” Featuring 9,000 Hand-Drawn Frames of Animation (2)
- 18: Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80 (1)
- 18: Discover the Cyanometer, the Device Invented in 1789 Just to Measure the Blueness of the Sky (1)
- 18: Experience Blade Runner Like You Never Have Before Through a Feature-Length Remastered Soundtrack (5)
- 18: Pop Songs with Narrative: Pretty Much Pop (#69) Discusses Tunes Ranging from Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” to “The Pina Colada Song” with Songwriter/Author Rod Picott (0)
- 17: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Designed for Middle & High School Teachers (87)
- 17: What Happens When You Spend Weeks, Months, or Years in Solitary Confinement (6)
- 17: How Soy Sauce Has Been Made in Japan for Over 220 Years: An Inside View (0)
- 17: Rubens’ Cupid Escapes His Painting & Flies Around Brussels Airport, Thanks to Projection Mapping Technology (2)
- 16: Watch Sassy Justice, the New Deepfake Satire Show Created by the Makers of South Park (3)
- 16: Dr. Fauci’s Lecture from MIT’s Free Course on COVID-19: It’s Now Online (3)
- 16: Constantly Wrong: Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson Makes the Case Against Conspiracy Theories (0)
- 16: John Waters Gives Art Collection to The Baltimore Museum Of Art in Exchange for Getting Its Bathrooms Named After Him (1)
- 16: The Biblical Sci-Fi of “Raised by Wolves”–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #68 (0)
- 13: Experience a Video Painting of Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon That Has Soothed & Relaxed Millions of People (1)
- 13: The Five Minute Museum: A Stop Motion Animation Shows the History of Civilization at Breakneck Speed (3)
- 13: How Akira Kurosawa Used Movement to Tell His Stories: A Video Essay (0)
- 13: Peter Milton Walsh of The Apartments Rejects Assembly-Line Recording: A Nakedly Examined Music Conversation (#135) (0)
- 12: 1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums: Enter Van Gogh Worldwide (0)
- 12: Eno: A 1973 Mini-Doc Shows Brian Eno at the Beginning of His Solo Career (0)
- 12: Futurist from 1901 Describes the World of 2001: Opera by Telephone, Free College & Pneumatic Tubes Aplenty (0)
- 12: The History of Rock Mapped Out on the Circuit Board of a Guitar Amplifier: 1400 Musicians, Songwriters & Producers (2)
- 11: Former Ballerina with Dementia Gracefully Comes Alive to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (0)
- 11: How the Beach Boys Created Their Pop Masterpieces: “Good Vibrations,” Pet Sounds, and More (4)
- 11: The Last Video Store: A Short Documentary on How the World’s Oldest Video Store Still Survives Today (0)
- 11: Experience the Bob Ross Experience: A New Museum Open in the TV Painter’s Former Studio Home (0)
- 10: Watch the Making of Japanese Woodblock Prints, from Start to Finish, by a Longtime Tokyo Printmaker (1)
- 10: Hear a Rare First Recording of Janis Joplin’s Hit “Me and Bobby McGee,” Written by Kris Kristofferson (9)
- 10: When ABBA Wrote Music for the Cold War-Themed Musical, Chess: “One of the Best Rock Scores Ever Produced for the Theatre” (1984) (1)
- 10: Powell’s Books Unveils a New Perfume That Smells Like Old Books (0)
- 09: Trips on the World’s Oldest Electric Suspension Railway in 1902 & 1917 Show How a City Changes Over a Century (0)
- 09: Watch Link Wray Play a Downright Dirty Version of “Rumble,” the Only Instrumental to Be Banned on Radio (1974) (2)
- 09: The Plastic Bag Store: A Pop Art Installation with a Whimsical But Deadly Serious Environmental Message (1)
- 09: Was Winston Churchill “The Greatest Briton”? A Short Claymation Looks at the Darker Side of the Prime Minister’s Life (6)
- 08: The Spinal Tap Stonehenge Debacle (1)
- 07: Patti Smith & Fred “Sonic” Smith Perform a Stripped-Down, Beautiful Version of “People Have the Power” (3)
- 06: The Cinematography That Changed Cinema: Exploring Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway & Other Auteurs (1)
- 06: Terry Gilliam Reveals the Secrets of Monty Python Animations: A 1974 How-To Guide (1)
- 06: Neil Young Releases a Never-Before-Heard Version of His 1979 Classic, “Powderfinger”: Stream It Online (2)
- 05: How Charlie Chaplin Used Groundbreaking Visual Effects to Shoot the Death-Defying Roller Skate Scene in Modern Times (1936) (1)
- 05: The Meticulous, Elegant Illustrations of the Nature Observed in England’s Countryside (1)
- 05: A Dictionary of Symbols: Juan Eduardo Cirlot’s Classic Study of Symbols Gets Republished in a Beautiful, Expanded Edition (0)
- 05: “Borat” on Politics and Embarrassment–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast Discussion #67 (0)
- 04: 40,000 Early Modern Maps Are Now Freely Available Online (Courtesy of the British Library) (1)
- 04: A Digital Library for Bartenders: Vintage Cocktail Books with Recipes Dating Back to 1753 (1)
- 04: How the Iconic Colors of the New York City Subway System Were Invented: See the 1930 Color Chart Created by Architect Squire J. Vickers (0)
- 03: 10 Hours of Nick Offerman Quietly Drinking Single Malt Scotch by the Fire (2)
- 03: Three Days in Twin Peaks: An In-Depth Journey Through the Evocative Locations of David Lynch’s TV Series (4)
- 03: Martin Luther King: “You Know Who to Vote For. I’m Just Asking You to Vote!” (1964) (2)
- 03: The Iconic Photography of Gordon Parks: An Introduction to the Renaissance American Artist (0)
- 02: A Quay Brothers Animation Explains Anamorphosis, the Renaissance Illusion That Hides Pictures within Pictures (0)
- 02: When Louis Armstrong Stopped a Civil War in The Congo (1960) (0)
- 02: Before Creating the Moomins, Tove Jansson Drew Satirical Art Mocking Hitler & Stalin (0)
- 01: Why Masks Work: A Slow Motion Demonstration (Plus a Guest Appearance by Dr. Fauci) (0)
- October 2020 (83)
- 31: Sean Connery (RIP) Reads C.P. Cavafy’s Epic Poem “Ithaca,” Set to the Music of Vangelis (8)
- 30: The Official Trailer for the New Frank Zappa Documentary Is Now Online (1)
- 30: The Legend of How Bluesman Robert Johnson Sold His Soul to the Devil at the Crossroads (4)
- 30: The Sublime Alice in Wonderland Illustrations of Tove Jansson, Creator of the Globally-Beloved Moomins (1966) (2)
- 30: The Gruesome Dollhouse Death Scenes That Reinvented Murder Investigations (1)
- 30: What Scares Us, and How Does this Manifest in Film? A Halloween Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#66) (0)
- 29: When Edward Gorey Created Set Designs & Tony Award-Winning Costumes for a Broadway Production of Dracula (1977) (0)
- 29: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment: Psychologist Daniel Goleman Explains the Power of Focus (1)
- 29: Watch a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (4)
- 28: Karen O & Willie Nelson Release a New Cover Bowie & Queen’s “Under Pressure” (4)
- 28: The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s (0)
- 28: John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” & Bach’s “Prelude in C Major” Get Turned into Dazzling Musical Animations by an Artist with Synesthesia (2)
- 28: A Glass Floor in a Dublin Grocery Store Lets Shoppers Look Down & Explore Medieval Ruins (0)
- 27: Janis Joplin & Tom Jones Bring the House Down in an Unlikely Duet of “Raise Your Hand” (1969) (12)
- 27: When Billy Idol Went Cyberpunk: See His Tribute to Neuromancer, His Recording Session with Timothy Leary, and His Limited-Edition Floppy Disk (1993) (0)
- 27: The Time When National Lampoon Parodied Mad Magazine: A Satire of Satire (1971) (2)
- 27: The Craft of Writing Effectively: Essential Lessons from the Longtime Director of UChicago’s Writing Program (2)
- 26: The Japanese Traditions of Sashiko & Boro: The Centuries-Old Craft That Mends Clothes in a Sustainable, Artistic Way (1)
- 26: How to Speak: Watch the Lecture on Effective Communication That Became an MIT Tradition for Over 40 Years (1)
- 26: When Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick, the First Couple of Pop Art, Made an Odd Appearance on the Merv Griffin Show (1965) (0)
- 26: Jazz-Zither-Piano-Man Laraaji Discusses His Decades of Meditative Improvisations: A Nakedly Examined Music Podcast Conversation (#134) (0)
- 23: Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber (4)
- 23: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O’Keeffe (1)
- 22: Glenn Gould Explains Why Mozart Was a Bad Composer in a Controversial Public TV Show (1968) (11)
- 22: “The Dark Side of the Moon” and Other Pink Floyd Songs Gloriously Performed by Irish & German Orchestras (12)
- 22: An Animated Video Shows the Building of a Medieval Bridge: 45 Years of Construction in 3 Minutes (1)
- 22: Chris Matheson, “Bill & Ted” Writer, Talks Cosmic Satire with Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #65 (0)
- 21: Tom Lehrer Releases His All of Catchy and Savage Musical Satire Into the Public Domain (12)
- 21: How the Doors Got Banned from The Ed Sullivan Show (1967) (0)
- 21: Watch Cornel West’s Course on W.E.B. Du Bois, the Great 20th Century Public Intellectual (1)
- 20: How to De-Stress with Niksen, the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing (2)
- 20: Phone Relief: The Ultimate Hands-Free Headset (1993) (0)
- 20: Take a Digital Drive Along Ed Ruscha’s Sunset Boulevard, the Famous Strip That the Artist Photographed from 1965 to 2007 (1)
- 20: The Dorothea Lange Digital Archive: Explore 600+ Photographs by the Influential Photographer (Plus Negatives, Contact Sheets & More) (1)
- 19: Watch Ridley Scott’s Controversial Nissan Sports Car Ad That Aired Only Once, During the Super Bowl (1990) (1)
- 19: The 100 Most Influential Photographs: Watch TIME’s Video Essays on Photos That Changed the World (0)
- 19: How Some of the World’s Most Famous Cheeses Are Made: Camembert, Brie, Gorgonzola & More (0)
- 18: A Master List of 1,500 Free Courses From Top Universities: 50,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures to Enrich Your Mind (5)
- 16: Mapping the Differences in How Americans Speak English: A Geographic Look at Words, Accents & Dialects (1)
- 16: Edward Hopper’s Creative Process: The Drawing & Careful Preparation Behind Nighthawks & Other Iconic Paintings (0)
- 16: The Dance Theatre of Harlem Dances Through the Streets of NYC: A Sight to Behold (0)
- 15: 11 Hypnotic, Close-Up Minutes Watching Tool’s Legendary Drummer Danny Carey in Action (17)
- 15: The Scariest Film of All Time? A Vintage Look at the Hysteria Around The Exorcist in 1973 (0)
- 15: Denmark’s Utopian Garden City Built Entirely in Circles: See Astounding Aerial Views of Brøndby Haveby (0)
- 15: “The Last of Us” Franchise: Can Video Games Be Cinema? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#64) (0)
- 14: Werner Herzog Lists All the Languages He Knows–and Why He Only Speaks French If (Literally) a Gun’s Pointed at His Head (0)
- 14: Marionette Freddie Mercury Performs on the Streets of Madrid (1)
- 14: Explore the Roman Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, the Oldest Known Cookbook in Existence (2)
- 14: How to Win an Argument (at the U.S. Supreme Court, or Anywhere Else): A Primer by Litigator Neal Katyal (0)
- 13: 10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection (5)
- 13: A Creepy 19th Century Re-Creation of the Famous Ancient Roman Statue, Laocoön and His Sons (0)
- 13: The Incredible Six-Octave Vocal Range of Opera-Singing Punk Diva Nina Hagen (7)
- 12: How Science Fiction Formed Jimi Hendrix (7)
- 12: The Great Illustration That Accompanied Eddie Van Halen’s Application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1987) (1)
- 12: The David Lynch Retrospective: A Two Hour Video Essay on Lynch’s Complete Filmography, from Eraserhead to Inland Empire (0)
- 12: A Virtual Table Read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Featuring Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Shia LaBeouf, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, John Legend & More (0)
- 11: Requiem for a Dream: The Cast & Crew Reunite 20 Years Later (1)
- 09: Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Go Toe to Toe (Almost) in a Hilarious Boxing Scene Mash Up from Their Classic Silent Films (1)
- 09: The Story of the SynthAxe, the Astonishing 1980s Guitar Synthesizer: Only 100 Were Ever Made (0)
- 08: A Live Studio Cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Played from Start to Finish (10)
- 08: Restored Footage of 1896 Snowball Fight Makes It Seem Like the Fun Happened Yesterday (1)
- 08: Learn the Stories Behind Iconic Songs: The Rolling Stones’ “Miss You,” REM’s “Losing My Religion,” Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” & More (0)
- 08: Foreign Exchange Students Debate Whether American Teenagers Have Too Much Freedom (1954) (0)
- 07: The 1937 Experiment in Distance Learning: When Chicago Schools Went Remote, Over Radio, During a Polio Outbreak (0)
- 07: Why Do People Join Cults? An Animated Primer Explains (3)
- 07: Watch Some of Eddie Van Halen’s (RIP) Greatest Performances: “Shredding Was Eddie’s Very Essence” (2)
- 07: What Caused the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe?: A Brief Investigation into the Poet’s Demise 171 Years Ago Today (0)
- 07: What Can Superhero Media Teach Us About Ethics: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#63) Discussion with Philosophy Professor Travis Smith (0)
- 06: Ted Turner Asks Carl Sagan “Are You a Socialist?;” Sagan Responds Thoughtfully (1989) (5)
- 06: How Vividly Colorized Photos Helped Introduce Japan to the World in the 19th Century (0)
- 06: The Only Time Prince & Miles Davis Jammed Together Onstage: Watch the New Year’s Eve, 1987 Concert (2)
- 05: Watch the Dadaist Masterpiece Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928): Hans Richter’s Film Was So Avant Garde It Was Desecrated by the Nazis (0)
- 05: Jazz Typefaces Capture the Essence of 100 Iconic Jazz Musicians (1)
- 05: Dear Facebook, This is How You’re Breaking Democracy: A Former Facebook Insider Explains How the Platform’s Algorithms Polarize Our Society (0)
- 05: Watch a Young Carl Sagan Appear in His First TV Documentary, The Violent Universe (1969) (0)
- 04: The Grateful Dead Movie: Watch It Free Online (1)
- 02: GPS Tracking Reveals the Secret Lives of Outdoor Cats (1)
- 02: When Shostakovich Adapted Gogol’s “The Nose” Into an Opera: Watch Giant Noses Tap Dancing on the Stage (0)
- 02: An Animated Reading of “The Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense Poem That Somehow Manages to Make Sense (0)
- 01: We’re All Doomed!: Weird Al Yankovic Tries to Make Sense of the Disastrous Trump vs. Biden “Debate” (0)
- 01: Hear Readings of Albert Einstein’s Love Letters (and Chilly Divorce Letters) to His First Wife Mileva (0)
- 01: Explore a Digital Archive of Student Notebooks from Around the World (1773-Present) (0)
- 01: Chris Frantz Breaks Down How He Crafted Songs for Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club: A Nakedly Examined Music Interview (0)
- September 2020 (80)
- 30: What Would the World of Charlie Chaplin Look Like in Color?: Watch a Colorfully Restored Version of A Night at the Show (1915) (0)
- 30: Ella Fitzgerald Imitates Louis Armstrong’s Gravelly Voice While Singing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby” (0)
- 30: When R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe Created the Lyrics for “The Voice of Harold” by Riffing on the Liner Notes of an Old Gospel Album (1983) (0)
- 30: Mulan Re-Disneyfied: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#62) Discussion with Actor Michael Tow (0)
- 29: Explore the Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript (0)
- 29: How Storyboarding Works: A Brief Introduction to How Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson & Other Directors Storyboard Their Films (0)
- 28: The Story Behind the Iconic Photograph of 11 Construction Workers Lunching 840 Feet Above New York City (1932) (1)
- 28: Hand-Colored Maps of Wealth & Poverty in Victorian London: Explore a New Interactive Edition of Charles Booth’s Historic Work of Social Cartography (1889) (0)
- 28: Why James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano Is “the Greatest Acting Achievement Ever Committed to the Screen”: A Video Essay (3)
- 28: Discovered: The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (0)
- 26: The Beastie Boys’ Final Concert Streaming Free Online This Weekend (0)
- 25: Frida Kahlo’s Venomous Love Letter to Diego Rivera: “I’m Amputating You. Be Happy and Never Seek Me Again” (0)
- 25: Understanding Chris Marker’s Radical Sci-Fi Film La Jetée: A Study Guide Distributed to High Schools in the 1970s (0)
- 24: Studio Ghibli Puts Online 400 Images from Eight Classic Films, and Lets You Download Them for Free (0)
- 24: What Voltaire Meant When He Said That “We Must Cultivate Our Garden”: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 24: Watch Chilling Footage of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings in Restored Color (12)
- 24: The Philosophy of Photography with Amir Zaki on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #61 (0)
- 23: An Animated Introduction to Albert Camus’ Existentialism, a Philosophy Making a Comeback in Our Dysfunctional Times (8)
- 23: The Liberal Arts Can Make People Less Susceptible to Authoritarianism, a New Study Finds (3)
- 23: Is Mail-In Voting New in the United States?: It Actually Goes Back to the Civil War (2)
- 22: 31 Buster Keaton Films: “The Greatest of All Comic Actors,” “One of the Greatest Filmmakers of All Time” (2)
- 22: How Bong Joon-ho’s Storyboards for Parasite (Now Published as a Graphic Novel) Meticulously Shaped the Acclaimed Film (1)
- 22: The Internet Archive Will Digitize & Preserve Millions of Academic Articles with Its New Database, “Internet Archive Scholar” (0)
- 21: Why The Wire is One of the Most Brilliant TV Shows Ever (7)
- 21: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Opera Recordings (and Her First Appearance in an Opera) (0)
- 21: Blockbuster Courses on the U.S. Presidential Election Getting Started at Stanford Continuing Studies This Week (0)
- 21: If Werner Herzog Reviewed Trader Joe’s on Yelp: “Madness Reigns. The First Challenge Your Soul Must Endure Is the Parking Lot” (2)
- 21: The Life, Work & Philosophy of Bill Murray: Happy 70th Birthday to an American Comedy Icon (2)
- 18: A Long, Guided Tour of New York City Captured in Original Color Film (1937) (1)
- 18: Free Jazz Musicians Intentionally Play Terrible Music to Drown Out the Noise of a Danish Far-Right Politician (8)
- 18: High-Resolution Walking Tours of Italy’s Most Historic Places: The Colosseum, Pompeii, St. Peter’s Basilica & More (0)
- 17: Watch Rare Footage of Jimi Hendrix Performing “Voodoo Child” in Maui, Plus a Trailer for a New Documentary on Jimi Hendrix’s Legendary Maui Performances (1970) (1)
- 17: A Side-by-Side, Shot-by-Shot Comparison of Denis Villeneuve’s 2020 Dune and David Lynch’s 1984 Dune (10)
- 17: Good Movies as Old Books: 100 Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers (0)
- 17: A Short Introduction to Manga by Pretty Much Pop #60 with Professor Deborah Shamoon from the National University of Singapore (1)
- 16: Debbie Harry Demonstrates the Punk Pogo Dance for a U.S. Audience (1978) (5)
- 16: The Pentagon Created a Plan to Defend the US Against a Zombie Apocalypse: Read It Online (3)
- 16: Steal Like Wes Anderson: A New Video Essay Explores How Wes Anderson Pays Artful Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman & Other Directors in His Films (0)
- 16: In a Brilliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles–A Free Documentary (1)
- 15: David Byrne’s American Utopia: A Sneak Preview of Spike Lee’s New Concert Film (1)
- 15: The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh (2)
- 15: The Joy of Watching Old, Damaged Things Get Restored: Why the World is Captivated by Restoration Videos (1)
- 15: Explore Dozens of Drawings by Charles Darwin’s Creative Children (0)
- 14: David Lynch Tries to Make a List of the Good Things Happening in the World … and Comes Up Blank (10)
- 14: Monty Python’s Michael Palin Is Also an Art Critic: Watch Him Explore His Favorite Paintings by Andrew Wyeth & Other Artists (0)
- 14: Four Classic Prince Songs Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Covers: When Doves Cry, Little Red Corvette & More (0)
- 14: Behold the First Underwater Portrait in the History of Photography (Circa 1899) (0)
- 11: 19th-Century Japanese Woodblocks Illustrate the Lives of Western Inventors, Artists, and Scholars (1873) (1)
- 11: Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Studies of the Human Heart Were 500 Years Ahead of Their Time (1)
- 11: Sounds of the Forest: A Free Audio Archive Gathers the Sounds of Forests from All Over the World (3)
- 11: Watch Lime Kiln Club Field Day, One of the Earliest Surviving Feature Films with an All Black Cast (1913) (0)
- 11: Central Park Bird Watcher Christian Cooper Writes DC Comics Graphic Novel: It’s Now Free Online (2)
- 10: Drone Footage of San Francisco Set to the Music of Bladerunner 2049 (1)
- 10: Watch the First Trailer for Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s Adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Classic Sci-Fi Novel (1)
- 10: Watch Dan Aykroyd & Bill Murray Goof Off in a Newly Unearthed Ghostbusters Promotional Film (1984) (0)
- 09: Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)” (1)
- 09: In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own Cats (1)
- 09: Scorsese’s Taxi Driver Reimagined as the 1970s Sitcom, Taxi (0)
- 09: David Lynch’s Popular Surrealism Considered on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #59 (1)
- 08: The Fall of Civilizations Podcast Engagingly Explores the Collapse of Civilizations & Empires Throughout History (3)
- 08: How Charlie Parker Changed Jazz Forever (0)
- 08: IKEA Digitizes & Puts Online 70 Years of Its Catalogs: Explore the Designs of the Swedish Furniture Giant (5)
- 08: MIT Presents a Free Course on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Featuring Anthony Fauci & Other Experts (1)
- 07: A Medieval Metropolis Existed In What’s Now St. Louis, Then Mysteriously Disappeared in the 14th Century (10)
- 07: Paul Schrader Creates a Diagram Mapping the Progression of Arthouse Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Tarkovsky & Other Auteurs (0)
- 07: Watch an Epic Drum Battle, Pitting a 9-Year-Old Girl Against Foo Fighter Dave Grohl (3)
- 05: Google Introduces 6-Month Career Certificates, Threatening to Disrupt Higher Education with “the Equivalent of a Four-Year Degree” (64)
- 05: The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Hard Lessons of the 20th Century (8)
- 04: William Blake’s Paintings Come to Life in Two Animations (0)
- 04: J. Robert Oppenheimer Explains How He Recited a Line from Bhagavad Gita–“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”–Upon Witnessing the First Nuclear Explosion (0)
- 03: John Waters Designs a Witty Poster for the New York Film Festival (0)
- 03: David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds (0)
- 03: A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks–Covering 1,000 Years of Food History–Is Now Online (0)
- 03: A Short Introduction to Caravaggio, the Master Of Light (2)
- 02: Behold a Beautiful 400-Year-Old ‘Friendship Book’ Featuring the Signatures of Historic Figures (0)
- 02: Take Immersive Virtual Tours of the World’s Great Museums: The Louvre, Hermitage, Van Gogh Museum & Much More (0)
- 02: Bronze Age Britons Turned Bones of Dead Relatives into Musical Instruments & Ornaments (0)
- 01: Hear Patti Smith’s First Poetry Reading, Accompanied by Her Longtime Guitarist Lenny Kaye (St. Mark’s Church, 1971) (0)
- 01: How to Manage Your Time More Effectively: The Science of Applying Computer Algorithms to Our Everyday Lives (0)
- 01: Watch Home Movies Starring Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, Colette & Other Early 20th Century Luminaries (0)
- August 2020 (74)
- 31: Banksy Funds a Boat to Rescue Refugees at Sea–and Soon It Finds Itself in Distress in the Mediterranean (0)
- 31: Watch Bob Dylan Perform “Only A Pawn In Their Game,” His Damning Song About the Murder of Medgar Evers, at the 1963 March on Washington (1)
- 28: Composer John Philip Sousa Warns of the Threat Posed by Recorded Music (1906) (0)
- 28: A Beautiful 1897 Illustrated Book Shows How Flowers Become Art Nouveau Designs (0)
- 28: The Top 20 Russian Films, According to Russians (1)
- 27: What Did the Roman Emperors Look Like?: See Photorealistic Portraits Created with Machine Learning (7)
- 27: Billie Eilish Performs an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, with a Little Bit of Technology & Magic (0)
- 27: JamBase Launches a New Video Archive of 100,000 Streaming Concerts: Phish, Wilco, the Avett Brothers, Grateful Dead & Much More (0)
- 27: Conversation with a Swiftie: Pretty Much Pop #58 Addresses the Taylor Swift Phenomenon (1)
- 26: The Massive Harrods Catalogue from 1912 Gets Digitized: Before Amazon, Harrods Offered “Everything for Everyone, Everywhere” (0)
- 26: Take a Virtual Tour of Frida Kahlo’s Blue House Free Online (0)
- 26: Sylvia Beach Tells the Story of Founding Shakespeare and Company, Publishing Joyce’s Ulysses, Selling Copies of Hemingway’s First Book & More (1962) (0)
- 26: How Stevie Nicks Wrote “Rhiannon” & Embodied the Medieval Witch Character Onstage (2)
- 25: Documentaries on the Groundbreaking Work & Life of Ursula K. Le Guin & Four Other Trailblazing Artists, Streaming Free this Week (11)
- 25: Hear 10 of Bach’s Pieces Played on Original Baroque Instruments (0)
- 25: Hear Musicians Play the Only Playable Stradivarius Guitar in the World: The “Sabionari” (1)
- 25: A New Digital Archive Preserves Black Lives Matter & COVID-19 Street Art (0)
- 24: The Japanese Sculptor Who Dedicated His Life to Finishing Gaudí’s Magnum Opus, the Sagrada Família (0)
- 24: Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show That Stars Samuel Beckett (0)
- 24: Nina Simone Writes an Admiring Letter to Langston Hughes: “Brother, You’ve Got a Fan Now!” (1966) (0)
- 22: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: A Free Reading by Featuring Neil Gaiman, William Shatner, Susan Orlean & More (2)
- 21: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock & Other Jazz Musicians Sell Whisky & Spirits in Classic Japanese TV Commercials (1)
- 21: The Face of Bill Murray Adds Some Joy to Classic Paintings (0)
- 21: The British Museum is Full of Looted Artifacts (13)
- 20: There Are Only 37 Possible Stories, According to This 1919 Manual for Screenwriters (6)
- 20: The Story of “Wipe Out,” the Classic Surf Rock Instrumental (5)
- 20: Free Courses to Maintain Mental & Physical Health During a Pandemic (1)
- 19: Essential Reads on Feminism: The New York Public Library Creates a Reading List to Honor the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment (1)
- 19: Graphic Novels Tell the Story of David Bowie, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Jean-Michel Basquiat & Other Artists and Thinkers (3)
- 19: A New Interactive Map Shows All Four Million Buildings That Existed in New York City from 1939 to 1941 (0)
- 19: Back to the Arena: Battling the Hunger Games Prequel with Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#57) (0)
- 18: Vincent Van Gogh’s Self Portraits: Explore & Download a Collection of 17 Paintings Free Online (0)
- 18: A Record Store Designed for Mice in Sweden, Featuring Albums by Mouse Davis, Destiny’s Cheese, Dolly Parsley & More (3)
- 18: Every Possible Kind of Science Fiction Story: An Exhaustive List Created by Pioneering 1920s SciFi Writer Clare Winger Harris (1931) (4)
- 17: An Introduction to Postmodernist Thinkers & Themes: Watch Primers on Foucault, Nietzsche, Derrida, Deleuze & More (0)
- 17: 2020: An Isolation Odyssey–A Short Film Reenacts the Finale of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, with a COVID-19 Twist (2)
- 17: What Made Richard Feynman One of the Most Admired Educators in the World (4)
- 17: The Recipes of Famous Artists: Dinners & Cocktails From Tolstoy, Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch & Many More (1)
- 14: Gilda Radner Does a Comic Impersonation of Patti Smith: Watch the Classic SNL Skit, “Rock Against Yeast” (1979) (3)
- 14: When Salvador Dalí Met Alice Cooper & Turned Him into a Hologram: The Meeting of Two Kings of Camp (1973) (0)
- 14: Errol Morris Makes His Groundbreaking Series, First Person, Free to Watch Online: Binge Watch His Interviews with Geniuses, Eccentrics, Obsessives & Other Unusual Types (0)
- 13: Explore an Interactive, Online Version of the Beautifully Illustrated, 200-Year-Old British & Exotic Mineralogy (0)
- 13: One of the Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Explore the Gandhara Scroll (0)
- 13: The Flying Train: A 1902 Film Captures a Futuristic Ride on a Suspended Railway in Germany (4)
- 12: Milton Glaser’s Stylish Album Covers for The Band, Nina Simone, John Cage & Many More (1)
- 12: Ballerina Misty Copeland Recreates the Poses of Edgar Degas’ Ballet Dancers (1)
- 12: When Edward Gorey Designed Book Covers for Classic Novels: See His Ironic-Gothic Take on Dickens, Conrad, Poe & More (0)
- 12: What Is a “Blerd?” Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #56 Discusses Nerd Culture and Race with The Second City’s Anthony LeBlanc (0)
- 11: The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague (1)
- 11: How John Woo Makes His Intense Action Scenes: A Video Essay (0)
- 11: Dessert Recipes of Iconic Thinkers: Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake, George Orwell’s Christmas Pudding, Alice B. Toklas’ Hashish Fudge & More (0)
- 11: When We All Have Pocket Telephones (1923) (1)
- 10: The Wine Windows of Renaissance Florence Dispense Wine Safely Again During COVID-19 (0)
- 10: Classic Punk Rock Sketches from Saturday Night Live, Courtesy of Fred Armisen (1)
- 10: The Golden Age of Berlin Comes to Life in the Classic, Avant-Garde Film, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927) (0)
- 10: Winston Churchill Praises the Virtue of “Brevity” in Memos to His Staff: Concise Writing Leads to Clearer Thinking (0)
- 07: Divine Decks: A Visual History of Tarot: The First Comprehensive Survey of Tarot Gets Published by Taschen (2)
- 07: View 250,000 British Paintings & Sculptures Free Online (0)
- 07: Get the Ancient Roman Look: A Hair & Makeup Video Tutorial (0)
- 06: Professor Who Picked Every Election Winner Since Ronald Reagan Reveals His Prediction for the 2020 Election (32)
- 06: Roald Dahl Gives a Tour of the Small Backyard Hut Where He Wrote All of His Beloved Children’s Books (0)
- 06: A Physicist Examines the Scientific Accuracy of Physics Shown in Major Movies: Batman, Gravity, Contact, Interstellar, Star Trek & More (0)
- 06: Seriously Awesome Ukulele Covers of “Sultans of Swing,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Thunderstruck,” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (4)
- 06: Food As Pop with Prof. C. Thi Nguyen (Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #55) (1)
- 05: A Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 CE: Explore Stunning Recreations of The Forum, Colosseum and Other Monuments (1)
- 05: How Scholars Finally Deciphered Linear B, the Oldest Preserved Form of Ancient Greek Writing (0)
- 05: Istanbul Captured in Beautiful Color Images from 1890: The Hagia Sophia, Topkaki Palace’s Imperial Gate & More (0)
- 04: Explore the Ruins of Timgad, the “African Pompeii” Excavated from the Sands of Algeria (0)
- 04: The Iconic Album Covers of Hipgnosis: Meet “The Beatles of Album Cover Art” Who Created Unforgettable Designs for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel & Many More (0)
- 04: James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America & Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969) (0)
- 03: What Does the United States’ Coronavirus Response Look Like Abroad?: Watch the Rest of the World Stare Aghast at Our Handling of COVID-19 (1)
- 03: The Map of Quantum Physics: A Colorful Animation Explains the Often Misunderstood Branch of Science (2)
- 03: Revisit Scenes of Daily Life in Amsterdam in 1922, with Historic Footage Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (2)
- 03: Zamrock: An Introduction to Zambia’s 1970s Rich & Psychedelic Rock Scene (1)
- July 2020 (85)
- 31: Why “The Girl from Ipanema”‘ Is a Richer & Weirder Song Than You Ever Realized (25)
- 31: Take an 360° Interactive Tour Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza (1)
- 30: Watch Metropolis’ Cinematically Innovative Dance Scene, Restored as Fritz Lang Intended It to Be Seen (1927) (0)
- 30: The Story Behind the Iconic Black Power Salute Photo at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City (0)
- 30: Historic Mexican Recipes Are Now Available as Free Digital Cookbooks: Get Started With Dessert (49)
- 30: Rick and Morty as Absurdist Humor, Yet Legitimate Sci-Fi with Family Drama (Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #54) (0)
- 29: The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity (3)
- 29: Tony Hawk & Architectural Historian Iain Borden Tell the Story of How Skateboarding Found a New Use for Cities & Architecture (0)
- 29: New Digital Archive Opens Access to Thousands of Digitized African American Funeral Programs (1886-2019) (0)
- 28: Behold 19th-Century Japanese Firemen’s Coats, Richly Decorated with Mythical Heroes & Symbols (2)
- 28: Édith Piaf’s Moving Performance of ‘La Vie en Rose’ on French Television (1954) (0)
- 28: Comedians Speaking Truth to Power: Lenny Bruce, George Carlin & Richard Pryor (NSFW) (0)
- 27: Hear the Cristal Baschet, an Enchanting Organ Made of Wood, Metal & Glass, and Played with Wet Hands (1)
- 27: Hear the Sound Of Endangered Birds Get Turned Into Electronic Music (0)
- 27: Why Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green (RIP) Was the Most Underrated Guitarist in British Blues (6)
- 26: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Watch the Lectures Online (5)
- 24: Watch Manhatta, the First American Avant-Garde Film (1921) (0)
- 24: Watch the Last, Transcendent Performance of “Echoes” by Pink Floyd Keyboardist Richard Wright & David Gilmour (2006) (12)
- 24: Revisit Six of Elton John’s Most Iconic Concerts, Streaming in Their Entirety for 72 Hours (2)
- 23: W.E.B. Du Bois Devastates Apologists for Confederate Monuments and Robert E. Lee (1931) (8)
- 23: Raymond Chandler’s 36 Great Unused Titles: From “The Man With the Shredded Ear,” to “Quick, Hide the Body” (1)
- 23: How Ornette Coleman Freed Jazz with His Theory of Harmolodics (0)
- 23: Devo De-Evolves the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”: See Their Groundbreaking Music Video and Saturday Night Live Performance (1978) (0)
- 23: The Rolling Stones Release a Long Lost Track Featuring Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page (0)
- 23: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #53 Explores the Hamilton Phenomenon (0)
- 22: H.R. Giger’s Dark, Surrealist Album Covers: Debbie Harry, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Celtic Frost, Danzig & More (3)
- 22: The Moment When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 (4)
- 22: Lin-Manuel Miranda Breaks Down How He Wrote Hamilton‘s Big Hit, “My Shot” (0)
- 22: Artists Give Advice to the Young: Words of Wisdom from Andrei Tarkovsky, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, John Cleese & Many More (0)
- 21: When Astronomer Johannes Kepler Wrote the First Work of Science Fiction, The Dream (1609) (0)
- 21: How Vladimir Nabokov Wrote Lolita, “My Most Difficult Book”: A 1989 Documentary (1)
- 21: A Beatboxing Buddhist Monk Creates Music for Meditation (0)
- 20: Icons of Art Wearing Masks: Frida Kahlo, Mona Lisa, Girl with the Pearl Earring & More (0)
- 20: Dr. Fauci Reads an Undergrad’s Entire Thesis, Then Follows Up with an Encouraging Letter (8)
- 20: Dr. Wise on Influenza: Rare Silent Film Shows How They Tried to Educate the Public About the Spanish Flu a Century Ago (1919) (1)
- 19: 29 Free Short Stories from Some of Today’s Most Acclaimed Writers: Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell & More (0)
- 18: Modern English Performs Their 1982 Hit, “I Melt With You,” in Quarantine (19)
- 17: Everything You Need To Know About Viruses: A Quick Visual Explanation of Viruses in 9 Images (0)
- 17: Sunken Films: Watch a Cinematic Meditation on Films Found on the Ocean’s Floor (3)
- 17: You Can Play the New Samurai Video Game Ghost of Tsushima in “Kurosawa Mode:” An Homage to the Japanese Master (0)
- 16: Make Your Own Krispy Kreme Face Shield: A Primer for Making Your Own Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (0)
- 16: Hear an Enchanted Medieval Cover of Dolly Parton’s Classic Ode to Jealousy, “Jolene” (0)
- 16: Banksy Strikes Again in London & Urges Everyone to Wear Masks (0)
- 16: Michel Gondry Creates a Burger King Ad That Touts New Research on Reducing Cow Flatulence & Climate Change (2)
- 15: A Short Documentary on the Courageous Tuskegee Airmen, Narrated by Morgan Freeman (0)
- 15: What Happened When Americans Had to Wear Masks During the 1918 Flu Pandemic (13)
- 15: How Cannonball Adderley Shared the Joy of Jazz (1)
- 15: Explore Flowcharts That Japanese Aquariums Use to Document the Romantic Lives of Penguins (0)
- 15: Twilight Zone Morality Tales: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#52) (1)
- 14: Orson Welles Narrates Animations of Plato’s Cave and Kafka’s “Before the Law,” Two Parables of the Human Condition (1)
- 14: The Only Surviving Script Written by Shakespeare Is Now Online (0)
- 14: Nursing Home Residents Replace Famous Rock Stars on Iconic Album Covers (0)
- 13: Cambridge University Professor Cooks 4000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient Mesopotamia, and Lets You See How They Turned Out (3)
- 13: An Introduction to Hagia Sophia: After 85 Years as a Museum, It’s Set to Become a Mosque Again (3)
- 13: Emma Willard, the First Woman Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851) (0)
- 13: A Bear Shows Off Its Nunchuck Skills (0)
- 12: The Muppets Sing the First & Second Acts of Hamilton (3)
- 10: Bill Nye Shows How Face Masks Actually Protect You–and Why You Should Wear Them (9)
- 10: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Designed for Middle & High School Teachers (July 13 – 17) (31)
- 10: Bisa Butler’s Beautiful Quilted Portraits of Frederick Douglass, Nina Simone, Jean-Michel Basquiat & More (2)
- 09: An Introduction to Jean Baudrillard, Who Predicted the Simulation-Like Reality in Which We Live (3)
- 09: Watch the Famous James Baldwin-William F. Buckley Debate in Full, With Restored Audio (1965) (3)
- 09: Buddhist Monk Covers Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law,” Then Breaks Into Meditation (2)
- 09: Does Every Picture Tell a Story? A Conversation with Artist Joseph Watson for Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #51 (0)
- 08: Explore the Beautiful Pages of the 1902 Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai: European Modernism Meets Traditional Japanese Design (1)
- 08: A Chilling Time-Lapse Video Documents Every COVID-19 Death on a Global Map: From January to June 2020 (4)
- 08: Salvador Dalí Explains Why He Was a “Bad Painter” and Contributed “Nothing” to Art (1986) (1)
- 07: Ennio Morricone (RIP) and Sergio Leone Pose Together in Their Primary School Year Book, 1937 (0)
- 07: The Film Music of Ennio Morricone (RIP) Beautifully Performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra Play: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” & Much More (1)
- 07: Vintage Science Face Masks: Conquer the Pandemic with Science, Courtesy of Maria Popova’s BrainPickings (0)
- 07: The Ayn Rand Institute Takes a Loan from Paycheck Protection Program: Like Rand Herself, Her Followers Don’t Walk the Talk (9)
- 07: Ella Fitzgerald’s Lost Interview about Racism & Segregation: Recorded in 1963, It’s Never Been Heard Until Now (0)
- 06: Watch Vintage Footage of Tokyo, Circa 1910, Get Brought to Life with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 06: Did the CIA Write the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change,” One of the Bestselling Songs of All Time? (3)
- 06: Thomas Jefferson’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandson Poses for a Presidential Portrait (5)
- 03: Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks’ Timeless Comedy Sketch: The 2000-Year-Old-Man (0)
- 03: 16th Century Bookwheels, the E-Readers of the Renaissance, Get Brought to Life by 21st Century Designers (0)
- 03: When Debbie Harry Combined Artistic Forces with H.R. Giger (0)
- 02: An Animated Introduction to the Pioneering Anthropologist Margaret Mead (0)
- 02: An Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Groundbreaking Linguistic Theories (3)
- 02: John Prine’s Last Song Was Also His First to Go No. 1: Watch Him Perform “I Remember Everything” (5)
- 02: Michael Jordan’s “The Last Dance” and Hero Worship: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#50) (0)
- 01: How Ornette Coleman Shaped the Jazz World: An Introduction to His Irreverent Sound (2)
- 01: A 1947 French Film Accurately Predicted Our 21st-Century Addiction to Smartphones (0)
- 01: How Two Teenage Dutch Sisters Ended Up Joining the Resistance and Assassinating Nazis During World War II (4)
- June 2020 (86)
- 30: When the Beatles Refused to Play Before Segregated Audiences on Their First U.S. Tour (1964) (2)
- 30: An Immaculate Copy of Leonardo’s The Last Supper Digitized by Google: View It in High Resolution Online (3)
- 30: Rewatch Every Episode of The Sopranos with the Talking Sopranos Podcast, Hosted by Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa (0)
- 29: The Beastie Boys & Rick Rubin Reunite and Revisit Their Formative Time Together in 1980s NYC (0)
- 29: Milton Glaser (RIP) Explains Why We Must Overcome the Fear of Failure, Take Risks & Discover Our True Potential (0)
- 29: Behold Octavia Butler’s Motivational Notes to Self (3)
- 28: Milton Glaser (RIP) Presents 10 Rules for Life & Work: Wisdom from the Celebrated Designer (0)
- 26: Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Now Digitized and Free to View Online (6)
- 26: Saxophonist Plays into Large Gas Pipes & Then Uses the Echo to Accompany Himself (0)
- 26: Nile Rodgers Tells the Story of How He Turned David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” from Folk to New Wave Funk (2)
- 25: Get a First Glimpse of Foundation, the New TV Series Being Adapted from Isaac Asimov’s Iconic Series of Novels (6)
- 25: Hear Brian Eno’s Rarely-Heard Cover of the Johnny Cash Classic, “Ring of Fire” (3)
- 25: Hear the Voices of Americans Born in Slavery: The Library of Congress Features 23 Audio Interviews with Formerly Enslaved People (1932-75) (4)
- 25: The End of an Era: A Short Film About The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at The New York Times (1978) (2)
- 24: How Georgia O’Keeffe Became Georgia O’Keeffe: An Animated Video Tells the Story (1)
- 24: Martin Amis Explains His Method for Writing Great Sentences (1)
- 24: Neil Armstrong Sets Straight an Internet Truther Who Accused Him of Faking the Moon Landing (2000) (4)
- 24: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #49 Considers Conspiracy Theories as Pop (0)
- 23: The World According to Le Corbusier: An Animated Introduction to the Most Modern of All Architects (0)
- 23: Watch Hundreds of Free Films from Around the World: Explore Film Archives from Japan, France, and the U.S. (0)
- 23: John Trumbull’s Famous 1818 Painting Declaration of Independence Virtually Defaced to Show Which Founding Fathers Owned Slaves (7)
- 22: Miles Davis is Attacked, Beaten & Arrested by the NYPD Outside Birdland, Eight Days After the Release of Kind of Blue (1959) (1)
- 22: Exquisite 2300-Year-Old Scythian Woman’s Boot Preserved in the Frozen Ground of the Altai Mountains (30)
- 22: Barcelona Opera Re-Opens with a Performance for 2,300 Potted Plants: Watch It Online (0)
- 22: In 1968, a Teenager Convinced Thelonious Monk to Play a Gig at His High School to Promote Racial Unity; Now the Concert Recording Is Getting Released (3)
- 22: How One Simple Cut Reveals the Cinematic Genius of Yasujirō Ozu (0)
- 21: Public Enemy Releases a Fiery Anti-Trump Protest Song (NSFW) (0)
- 19: Rick Astley Sings an Unexpectedly Enchanting Cover of the Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” (1)
- 19: Construct Your Own Bayeux Tapestry with This Free Online App (3)
- 19: How Fast Can a Vaccine Be Made?: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 19: Why This Font Is Everywhere: How Cooper Black Became Pop Culture’s Favorite Font (1)
- 18: Take Free Courses on African-American History from Yale and Stanford: From Emancipation, to the Civil Rights Movement, and Beyond (67)
- 18: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris Shot by Shot: A 22-Minute Breakdown of the Director’s Filmmaking (1)
- 18: The Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” Played By Musicians Around the World (with Cameos by David Crosby, Jimmy Buffett & Bill Kreutzmann) (9)
- 17: Artificial Intelligence Brings to Life Figures from 7 Famous Paintings: The Mona Lisa, Birth of Venus & More (5)
- 17: Tom Jones Performs “Long Time Gone” with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young–and Blows the Band & Audience Away (1969) (5)
- 17: John Cleese’s Comedically Explains the Psychological Advantages of Extremism: “It Makes You Feel Good Because It Provides You with Enemies” (2)
- 17: When Punk & Reggae Fans Launched the “Rock Against Racism” Movement and Pushed Back Against Britain’s Racist Right (1976) (2)
- 17: Can Reality TV Save the Fine Arts? Body Painter Robin Slonina (Skin Wars) on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #47 (0)
- 16: When John Maynard Keynes Predicted a 15-Hour Workweek “in a Hundred Year’s Time” (1930) (0)
- 16: A Collection of 500 Free Textbooks from Springer (4)
- 16: The Bird Library: A Library Built Especially for Our Fine Feathered Friends (0)
- 15: Listen to Medieval Covers of “Creep,” “Pumped Up Kicks,” “Bad Romance” & More by Hildegard von Blingin’ (7)
- 15: An Introduction to Thought Forms, the Pioneering 1905 Theosophist Book That Inspired Abstract Art: It Has Returned to Print (1)
- 15: Take a Virtual Drive through London, Tokyo, Los Angeles & 45 Other World Cities (0)
- 12: Hear Enchanting Mixes of Japanese Pop, Jazz, Funk, Disco, Soul, and R&B from the 70s and 80s (0)
- 12: After MLK’s Assassination, a Schoolteacher Conducted a Famous Experiment–“Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes”–to Teach Kids About Discrimination (6)
- 12: Revisiting The Wire During 2020’s Black Lives Matter Movement (1)
- 12: Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self: A Dark, Comedic Reflection on the Last Few Months (0)
- 11: Tom Morello Responds to Angry Fans Who Suddenly Realize That Rage Against the Machine’s Music Is Political: “What Music of Mine DIDN’T Contain Political BS?” (23)
- 11: A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph (3)
- 11: Why James Baldwin’s Writing Stays Powerful: An Artfully Animated Introduction to the Author of Notes of a Native Son (1)
- 10: David Lynch Posts His Nightmarish Sitcom Rabbits Online–the Show That Psychologists Use to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects (1)
- 10: Daniel Radcliffe Writes a Thoughtful Response to J.K. Rowling’s Statements about Trans Women (24)
- 10: Is This the Most Accurate Fan Cover of the Beatles Ever? Hear a Faithful Recreation of the Abbey Road Medley (4)
- 10: Are There Limits for a Sitcom Premise? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#47) Discussion and Quiz (0)
- 09: Al Jaffee, Iconic Mad Magazine Cartoonist, Retires at Age 99 … and Leaves Behind Advice About Living the Creative Life (1)
- 09: How the “First Photojournalist,” Mathew Brady, Shocked the Nation with Photos from the Civil War (1)
- 09: Imagining the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate That Never Happened (0)
- 08: An Anti-Racist Reading List: 20 Books Recommended by Open Culture Readers (5)
- 08: Watch a Mesmerizing Stream of Unwatched YouTube Videos: Astronaut.io Lets You Discover the Hidden Dimensions of the World’s Largest Video Platform (0)
- 08: David Lynch Recounts His Surreal Dream of Being a German Solider Dying on D-Day (0)
- 08: Sir Isaac Newton’s Cure for the Plague: Powdered Toad Vomit Lozenges (1669) (0)
- 07: Noam Chomsky Explains the Best Way for Ordinary People to Make Change in the World, Even When It Seems Daunting (1)
- 06: Ava DuVernay’s Selma Is Now Free to Stream Online: Watch the Award-Winning Director’s Film About Martin Luther King’s 1965 Voting-Rights March (0)
- 06: We’ve Now Become Trump’s America
- 05: Watch Ava DuVernay’s 13th Free Online: An Award-Winning Documentary Revealing the Inequalities in the US Criminal Justice System (1)
- 05: Documentary Portraits of Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, William Carlos Williams, Anne Sexton & Other American Poets (1965) (1)
- 05: Watch Free Films by African American Filmmakers in the Criterion Collection … and the New Civil Rights Film, Just Mercy (0)
- 05: When Lucy Lawless Impersonated Stevie Nicks & Imagined Her as the Owner of a Bad Tex-Mex Restaurant: A Cult Classic SNL Skit (4)
- 04: How Jazz Helped Fuel the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (5)
- 04: How David Chase Breathed Life into the The Sopranos (0)
- 04: The History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, “The Deadliest Epidemic of All Time”: Three Free Lectures from The Great Courses (0)
- 04: An Introduction to the Sublime, Entrepreneurial Art of Christo & Jeanne-Claude (Courtesy of Alain de Botton’s School of Life) (0)
- 03: Watch Martin Scorsese’s Brand New Short Film, Made Entirely in His Office Under Quarantine (0)
- 03: Spike Lee Debuts the Short Film “3 Brothers”: A Remake of Do the Right Thing for Our Dark Times (6)
- 03: Why Should We Read Melville’s Moby-Dick? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case (2)
- 03: What Is a “Casual Game?” Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #46 Talks to Nick Fortugno, Creator of “Diner Dash” (0)
- 02: When Al Capone Opened a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression: Another Side of the Legendary Mobster’s Operation (0)
- 02: Gil Scott-Heron Spells Out Why “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (3)
- 02: When Afrobeat Legend Fela Kuti Collaborated with Cream Drummer Ginger Baker (0)
- 01: The History of the Batmobile: A Free Documentary (0)
- 01: Saul Alinsky’s 13 Tried-and-True Rules for Creating Meaningful Social Change (2)
- 01: What Makes a Cover Song Great?: Our Favorites & Yours (8)
- 01: Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy (0)
- 01: How the Visionary Artist Christo (RIP) Changed the Way We See the World (1)
- May 2020 (78)
- 31: The Best Campaign Slogan of 2020 (So Far)
- 31: Led Zeppelin’s 2007 Reunion Concert Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 29: An Analysis of Quentin Tarantino’s Films Narrated (Mostly) by Quentin Tarantino (0)
- 29: An Emotional Journey into the Heart of August Sander’s Iconic Photograph, “Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance” (1)
- 29: This Is What The Matrix Looks Like Without CGI: A Special Effects Breakdown (0)
- 28: 50 Songs from a Single Year, Mixed Together Into One 3-Minute Song (1979-89) (0)
- 28: How Humphrey Bogart Became an Icon: A Video Essay (1)
- 28: Albert Einstein Explains Why We Need to Read the Classics (0)
- 28: Is It Rude to Talk Over a Film? MST3K’s Mary Jo Pehl on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #45 (0)
- 27: The Expansive Vocal Range of Joni Mitchell: From the Early to Later Years (3)
- 27: J.K. Rowling Is Publishing Her New Children’s Novel Free Online, One Chapter Per Day (14)
- 27: This Is What an 1869 MIT Entrance Exam Looks Like: Could You Have Passed the Test? (0)
- 26: The 135 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind: An Introduction to Our New List (8)
- 26: Clare Torry’s Rare Live Performances of “Great Gig in the Sky” with Pink Floyd (5)
- 26: A Nearly Impossible Sudoku Puzzle Solved in a Mesmerizing 25-Minute Video (3)
- 25: This Huge Crashing Wave in a Seoul Aquarium Is Actually a Gigantic Optical Illusion (0)
- 25: Stream 15 Audio Drama Podcasts & Get Through COVID-19: Features Rami Malek, Catherine Keener, Tim Robbins & More (1)
- 25: Iggy Pop, David Byrne, and More Come Together with Bedtime Stories (For Grownups) (0)
- 22: Watch Joni Mitchell Sing an Immaculate Version of Her Song “Coyote,” with Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn & Gordon Lightfoot (1975) (12)
- 22: Bill Gates Recommends 5 Thought-Provoking Books to Read This Summer (3)
- 22: The Evocativeness of Decomposing Film: Watch the 1926 Hollywood Movie The Bells Become the Experimental 2004 Short Film, Light Is Calling (1)
- 22: How “Strawberry Fields Forever” Contains “the Craziest Edit” in Beatles History (4)
- 22: Studio Ghibli Producer Toshio Suzuki Teaches You How to Draw Totoro in Two Minutes (0)
- 21: Watch 36 Beastie Boys Videos Now Remastered in HD (0)
- 21: David Lynch Releases an Animated Film Online: Watch Fire (Pozar) (1)
- 21: A Soul Train-Style Detroit Dance Show Gets Down to Kraftwerk’s “Numbers” in the Late 80s (1)
- 20: The Original Star Wars Trilogy Adapted into a 14-Hour Radio Drama by NPR (1981-1996) (7)
- 20: “Prince and the Revolution: Live,” the Historic 1985 Concert Is Streaming Online (0)
- 20: Robert Fripp & King Crimson Perform a Stirring Cover of “Heroes,” Shortly after David Bowie’s Death (2016) (1)
- 20: Does Local News Deserve More of Your Attention? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #44 w/ Deion Broxton of Bison Meme Fame (0)
- 19: 1930s Phonograph Doubled as an Alarm Clock, Letting People Start Their Day with Their Favorite Record (1)
- 19: Haruki Murakami Will Host a Radio Show & Help Listeners “Blow Away Some of the Corona-Related Blues” (0)
- 19: Write Only 500 Words Per Day and Publish 50+ Books: Graham Greene’s Writing Method (2)
- 18: Nikola Tesla’s Grades from High School & University: A Fascinating Glimpse (0)
- 18: DEVO Is Now Selling COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Energy Dome Face Shields (3)
- 18: An Archive of 1,000 “Peel Sessions” Available Online: Hear David Bowie, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello & Others Play in the Studio of Legendary BBC DJ John Peel (0)
- 17: Roger Waters Performs a Socially-Distanced Version of Pink Floyd’s “Mother” (3)
- 15: Japanese Health Manual Created During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Offers Timeless Wisdom: Stay Away from Others, Cover Your Mouth & Nose, and More (1)
- 15: Breathtakingly-Detailed Tibetan Book Printed 40 Years Before the Gutenberg Bible (5)
- 15: John Mayer Teaches Guitarists How to Play the Blues in a 45-Minute Masterclass (5)
- 14: The Largest & Most Detailed Photograph of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Is Now Online: Zoom In & See Every Brush Stroke (1)
- 14: The Shakespeare and Company Project Digitizes the Records of the Famous Bookstore, Showing the Reading Habits of the Lost Generation (2)
- 14: Hyperland: The “Fantasy Documentary” in Which Douglas Adams and Doctor Who‘s Tom Baker Imagine the World Wide Web (1990) (2)
- 13: David Lynch Creates Daily Weather Reports for Los Angeles: How the Filmmaker Passes Time in Quarantine (0)
- 13: Nina Simone Song “Color Is a Beautiful Thing” Animated in a Gorgeous Video (0)
- 13: William Blake Illustrates Mary Wollstonecraft’s Work of Children’s Literature, Original Stories from Real Life (1791) (1)
- 13: Decoding Korean Cinema: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (ep. 43) (0)
- 12: 16 Ways the World Is Getting Remarkably Better: Visuals by Statistician Hans Rosling (2)
- 12: Radiohead’s “Spectre” Played Against the Title Sequence of the 2015 James Bond Film, Spectre (4)
- 12: How Music Unites Us All: Herbie Hancock & Kamasi Washington in Conversation (0)
- 11: Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards, Cookbook & Wine Guide Re-Issued as Beautiful Art Books (4)
- 11: Little Richard Burst Into the “Then-Macho World of Rock” and “Changed it Forever” (0)
- 11: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in the Time of COVID-19 (3)
- 11: Take a Virtual Tour of the Mütter Museum and Its Many Anatomically Peculiar Exhibits (1)
- 08: Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity–Take a Free & Timely Course Online (1)
- 08: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Share One Free” Deal (Until the End of the Weekend) (1)
- 08: Robert Fripp Releases Free Ambient Music to Get You Through the Lockdown: Enjoy “Music for Quiet Moments” (1)
- 08: A Virtual Tour Inside the Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Museum (0)
- 08: Download Free Doctor Who Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings (Plus Many Other BBC TV Shows) (0)
- 07: The Earliest Known Motion Picture, 1888’s Roundhay Garden Scene, Restored with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 07: Watch Florian Schneider (RIP) in Classic Early Kraftwerk Performances (2)
- 07: Patti Smith’s Self Portraits: Another Side of the Prolific Artist (0)
- 07: Star Trek: World-Building Over Generations—Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #42 (0)
- 06: Juilliard Students & the New York Philharmonic Perform Ravel’s Bolero While Social Distancing in Quarantine (1)
- 06: 3D Interactive Globes Now Online: Spin Through an Archive of Globes from the 17th and 18th Century (0)
- 06: Drive-In Concerts and Even Raves Are Becoming the Rage in Europe (0)
- 05: ‘Never Be Afraid’: William Faulkner’s Speech to His Daughter’s Graduating Class in 1951 (3)
- 05: Quarantined Family Re-Creates Journey’s “Separate Ways” Video Shot-by-Shot (3)
- 05: Take Hannah Arendt’s Final Exam for Her 1961 Course “On Revolution” (1)
- 05: Watch a Screen Test of 21-Year-Old Orson Welles (1937) (0)
- 04: Peruvian Singer & Rapper, Renata Flores, Helps Preserve Quechua with Viral Hits on YouTube (0)
- 04: Watch Jean-Luc Godard’s Filmmaking Masterclass on Instagram (0)
- 04: The Art of the New Deal: Why the Federal Government Funded the Arts During the Great Depression (0)
- 04: Take a Virtual Tour of the World’s Only Sourdough Library (0)
- 01: The Doobie Brothers Sing Their 1974 Classic, “Black Water,” Live, in Isolation (19)
- 01: The Stay At Home Museum: Your Private, Guided Tours of Rubens, Bruegel & Other Flemish Masters (1)
- 01: 500+ Beautiful Manuscripts from the Islamic World Now Digitized & Free to Download (2)
- 01: The Library of Congress Makes Its Archives Free for DJs to Remix: Introducing the “Citizen DJ” Project (2)
- April 2020 (86)
- 30: The British Museum Puts 1.9 Million Works of Art Online (2)
- 30: Bertrand Russell Remembers His Face-to-Face Encounter with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (3)
- 30: A Michigan Family Makes Everyone Passing Their House Do Monty Python Silly Walks, and Then Puts Recordings on Instagram (2)
- 30: Soundtrack Composer Craig Wedren (Zoey’s Playlist, Glow, Shrill) Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #41 on TV Musicals (0)
- 29: When David Bowie Launched His Own Internet Service Provider: The Rise and Fall of BowieNet (1998) (1)
- 29: Scenes of Ezra Pound Wandering Through Venice and Reading from His Famous Pisan Cantos (1967) (0)
- 29: An Unbelievably Detailed, Hand-Drawn Map Lets You Explore the Rich Collections of the Met Museum (1)
- 29: Metallica Is Putting Free Concerts Online: 6 Now Streaming, with More to Come (0)
- 28: Radiohead Covers The Smiths & New Order (2007) (2)
- 28: When IBM Created a Typewriter to Record Dance Movements (1973) (0)
- 28: Watch Free Plays from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & More (1)
- 28: Watch Picasso Create a Masterpiece in Just Five Minutes (1955) (2)
- 27: Hear Classic Rock Songs Played on a Baroque Lute: “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “White Room” & More (1)
- 27: Watch 12 Classic Chinese Films Online, Complete with English Subtitles (1920s-1940s) (0)
- 26: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Launch a 24/7 Livestream on YouTube, Featuring Rare Footage from the Band’s Archives (1)
- 24: New Hilma af Klint Documentary Explores the Life & Art of the Trailblazing Abstract Artist (1)
- 24: The Rolling Stones Release a Timely Track, “Living in a Ghost Town”: Their First New Music in Eight Years (2)
- 24: Experience New York City’s Fabled Mid-Century Nightclubs in an Interactive, COVID-19-Era, Student-Designed Exhibit (1)
- 24: Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii Streaming Free on YouTube Today Only (3)
- 23: Albert Einstein’s Grades: A Fascinating Look at His Report Cards (3)
- 23: How to Find Emotional Strength & Resilience During COVID-19: Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Jack Kornfield, Susan David & Other Experts (5)
- 23: David Hockney on Vincent van Gogh & the Importance of Knowing How to Truly See the World (0)
- 23: Benedict Cumberbatch, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry & Others Read Letters of Hope, Love & Support During COVID-19 (2)
- 22: Vintage Book & Record Covers Brought to Life in a Mesmerizing Animated Video (1)
- 22: Japanese Designer Creates Free Template for an Anti-Virus Face Shield: Download, and Then Use a Printer, Paper & Scissors (1)
- 22: 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More (1)
- 22: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #40 on #MeToo Depictions in TV and Film (1)
- 21: Take a Virtual Tour of the Andy Warhol Exhibition at the Tate Modern (0)
- 21: Watch 270+ Short Documentaries of Artists at Work, and Let Them Inspire Your Creative Process (0)
- 21: Museum Curators Create a Contest to See Who Has the Creepiest Object: Ancient Body Parts, Cursed Toys, and More (1)
- 21: Mark Knopfler Plays a Poignant, Overdriven Version of “The Last Post,” Remembering the Many Lives Lost in World War I (2)
- 20: Pink Floyd Streaming Free Classic Concert Films, Starting with 1994’s Pulse, the First Live Performance of Dark Side of the Moon in Full (2)
- 20: Netflix Makes Documentaries Free to Stream: Design, Politics, Sports, Sir David Attenborough & More (0)
- 20: Quarantine Cooking: 13 Professional Chefs Cook Pasta at Home with the Most Basic Ingredients Available (0)
- 20: Banksy Debuts His COVID-19 Art Project: Good to See That He Has TP at Home (0)
- 18: Watch the Rolling Stones Play “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” While Social Distancing in Quarantine (31)
- 18: Neil Finn Sings a Lovely Version of David Bowie’s “Heroes,” Live from Home (5)
- 17: Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Releases Free Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away & More (6)
- 17: Watch Samuel Beckett Walk the Streets of Berlin Like a Boss, 1969 (0)
- 17: How to Paint Water Lilies Like Monet in 14 Minutes (0)
- 16: Experience the Van Gogh Museum in 4K Resolution: A Video Tour in Seven Parts (2)
- 16: See Web Cams of Surreally Empty City Streets in Venice, New York, London & Beyond (1)
- 16: Take a Long Virtual Tour of the Louvre in Three High-Definition Videos (2)
- 15: Louis Armstrong Remembers How He Survived the 1918 Flu Epidemic in New Orleans (2)
- 15: A Playlist of Songs to Get You Through Hard Times: Stream 20 Tracks from the Alan Lomax Collection (0)
- 15: A Vintage Advertising Film Intelligently Satirizes the Selling of the American Dream: Watch The Your Name Here Story (1960) (0)
- 14: Rare Grooves on Vinyl from Around the World: Hear Curated Playlists of Arabic, Brazilian, Bollywood, Soviet & Turkish Music (0)
- 14: Why is Vermeer’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring” Considered a Masterpiece?: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 14: Free Books About Pandemic & Contagion from Duke University Press (3)
- 13: 12 Famous Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Offer Virtual Tours: Hollyhock House, Taliesin West, Fallingwater & More (0)
- 13: Watch Full Productions of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musicals, Streaming Free for 48 Hours Every Weekend (0)
- 13: Radiohead Will Stream Concerts Free Online Until the Pandemic Comes to an End (1)
- 13: Japanese Buddhist Monk Covers Ramones’ “Teenage Lobotomy,” “Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” & More (1)
- 12: Stream Andrea Bocelli’s Easter Concert from Milan (2)
- 12: Nikon Offers Free Online Photography Courses in April (2)
- 10: A 30-Minute Introduction to Japanese Jazz from the 1970s: Like Japanese Whisky, It’s Underrated, But Very High Quality (6)
- 10: Coursera Makes Courses & Certificates Free During Coronavirus Quarantine: Take Courses in Psychology, Music, Wellness, Professional Development & More Online (2)
- 10: An Art Gallery for Gerbils: Two Quarantined Londoners Create a Mini Museum Complete with Gerbil-Themed Art (1)
- 09: Musicians Around the World Play “Lean on Me,” the Uplifting Song by Bill Withers (RIP) (5)
- 09: 365 Free Movies Streaming on YouTube (8)
- 08: How Can Boccaccio’s 14th Century Decameron Help Us Live Through COVID-19? (1)
- 08: A Free Shakespeare Coloring Book: While Away the Hours Coloring in Illustrations of 35 Classic Plays (2)
- 08: Remembering American Songwriting Legend John Prine (RIP): “A True Folk Singer in the Best Folk Tradition” (0)
- 08: One of the Earliest Known Uses of the “F-word” Discovered: It Appears in a 1568 Anthology Compiled During a Plague (5)
- 08: The Power of Costuming in Film: Pretty Much Pop #38 with Whitney Anne Adams (Happy Death Day, Great Gatsby) (0)
- 07: Bill Murray Explains How He Was Saved by John Prine (3)
- 07: Dyson Creates 44 Free Engineering & Science Challenges for Kids Quarantined During COVID-19 (8)
- 07: Meet Notorious Art Forger Han Van Meegeren, Who Fooled the Nazis with His Counterfeit Vermeers (0)
- 07: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animated Short “Hair Love” (1)
- 07: A 1665 Advertisement Promises a “Famous and Effectual” Cure for the Great Plague (2)
- 07: Classic Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers During Our Troubled Times: “Under Pressure,” “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” “Shelter from the Storm” & More (0)
- 06: What is Albert Camus’ The Plague About? An Introduction (0)
- 06: Ingenious Improvised Recreations of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Using Materials Found Around the House (1)
- 06: “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” Michael Stipe Proclaims Again, and He Still Feels Fine (1)
- 06: Customize Your Zoom Virtual Background with Free Works of Art (0)
- 03: HBO Is Streaming 500 Hours of Shows for Free: The Sopranos, The Wire, and More (12)
- 03: Join Choir! Choir! Choir! for a Community Singalong in Isolation (0)
- 03: Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Turns 50: Celebrate the Funk-Jazz-Psych-Rock Masterpiece (0)
- 02: Pandemic Literature: A Meta-List of the Books You Should Read in Coronavirus Quarantine (9)
- 02: Dolly Parton Will Read Bedtime Stories to You Every Week (0)
- 02: This is What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (1)
- 02: Why Did LEGO Become a Media Empire? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #37 (0)
- 01: Samuel L. Jackson Reads “Stay the F**k at Home” (0)
- 01: Watch Online 75 Short Films from 2020’s South by Southwest Festival (1)
- 01: Pachelbel’s Canon Played by Train Horns (0)
- 01: Simulating an Epidemic: Using Data to Show How Diseases Like COVID-19 Spread (0)
- March 2020 (89)
- 31: The Band’s Classic Song, “The Weight,” Sung by Musicians Around the World: With Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr & Other Special Guests (7)
- 31: Explore the Entire World–from the Comfort of Quarantine–with 4K Walking Tours (1)
- 31: Download Classic Works of Plague Fiction: From Daniel Defoe & Mary Shelley, to Edgar Allan Poe (2)
- 31: Take a 3D Tour Through Ancient Giza, Including the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx & More (3)
- 30: The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran (4)
- 30: Bob Dylan Releases a Cryptic 17-Minute Song about the JFK Assassination: Hear a “Murder Most Foul” (1)
- 30: What the Iconic Painting, “The Two Fridas,” Actually Tells Us About Frida Kahlo (0)
- 30: The Cork-Lined Bedroom & Writing Room of Marcel Proust, the Original Master of Social Distancing (1)
- 29: Watch 3,000+ Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada (0)
- 27: The National Emergency Library Makes 1.5 Million Books Free to Read Right Now (10)
- 27: Spring Break vs. COVID-19: Mapping the Real Impact of Ignoring Social Distancing (15)
- 27: Watch a Sweet Film Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Story, “Long Walk to Forever” (0)
- 26: Nine Inch Nails Releases 2 Free Albums: They’re Now Ready to Download (0)
- 26: Patrick Stewart Is Reading Every Shakespeare Sonnet on Instagram: One a Day “to Keep the Doctor Away” (4)
- 26: How to Teach and Learn Philosophy During the Pandemic: A Collection of 450+ Philosophy Videos Free Online (4)
- 26: Stream All 18 Hours of Ken Burns’ Baseball for Free on What Would Have Been Opening Day (1)
- 26: What’s the Function of Criticism? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #36 with Critic Noah Berlatsky (0)
- 25: Free: Austin City Limits Opens Up Video Archives During COVID-19 Pandemic (0)
- 25: Take a Virtual Tour of the Paris Catacombs (0)
- 25: What Happened to U.S. Cities That Practiced–and Didn’t Practice–Social Distancing During 1918’s “Spanish Flu” (0)
- 25: Watch Curated Playlists of Experimental Videos & Films to Get You Through COVID-19: Miranda July, Jan Švankmajer, Guy Maddin & More (0)
- 25: Meet the World’s First Known Author: Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (2)
- 24: The “Feynman Technique” for Studying Effectively: An Animated Primer (0)
- 24: Japanese Artist Has Drawn Every Meal He’s Eaten for 32 Years: Behold the Delicious Illustrations of Itsuo Kobayashi (3)
- 24: Watch “Coronavirus Outbreak: What You Need to Know,” and the 24-Lecture Course “An Introduction to Infectious Diseases,” Both Free from The Great Courses (0)
- 23: Digital Archives Give You Free Access to Thousands of Historical Children’s Books (0)
- 23: Free Online Drawing Lessons for Kids, Led by Favorite Artists & Illustrators (31)
- 23: When Orson Welles Crossed Paths With Hitler (and Churchill): “He Had No Personality…. I Think There Was Nothing There.” (4)
- 21: Take a Virtual Tour of 30 World-Class Museums & Safely Visit 2 Million Works of Fine Art (2)
- 21: Dead & Company Announces Couch Tour, Letting You Stream Free Concerts at Home (1)
- 20: Soothing, Uplifting Resources for Parents & Caregivers Stressed by the COVID-19 Crisis (2)
- 20: A Short, Animated Film Shows How a Scientific Article Gets Published: “Excitement, Baby Steps and Reams of Rejections” (0)
- 20: How a Virus Spreads, and How to Avoid It: A Former NASA Engineer Demonstrates with a Blacklight in a Classroom (2)
- 20: Watch AI-Restored Film of Laborers Going Through Life in Victorian England (1901) (0)
- 19: Audible Providing Free Audio Books to Kids & Teens: Introducing the New Service, Audible Stories (0)
- 19: Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks: The 2020 Edition (0)
- 19: The Books We Can Use to Rebuild Civilization, Selected by Neal Stephenson, Brian Eno, Tim O’Reilly & More (5)
- 19: 6 Minute Reprieve From the World’s Troubles, Courtesy of Tilda Swinton, Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Five Springer Spaniels (1)
- 19: Linked Jazz: A Huge Data Visualization Maps the Relationships Between Countless Jazz Musicians & Restores Forgotten Women to Jazz History (0)
- 18: Bruce Springsteen Releases Live Concert Film Online: Watch “London Calling: Live In Hyde Park” and Practice Self Distancing (0)
- 18: “I Will Survive,” the Coronavirus Version for Teachers Going Online (7)
- 18: Live Performers Now Streaming Shows, from their Homes to Yours: Neil Young, Coldplay, Broadway Stars, Metropolitan Operas & More (0)
- 18: David Bowie’s Rise as Ziggy Stardust Documented in a New 300-Page Photo Book (1)
- 18: Are Video Games an Effective Vehicle for Storytelling? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #35 Featuring Don Marshall (0)
- 17: Why Fighting the Coronavirus Depends on You (0)
- 17: While Away the Hours with a Free H.P. Lovecraft Call of Cthulhu Coloring Book (0)
- 17: The Met Opera Streaming Free Operas Online to Get You Through COVID-19 (7)
- 17: Isaac Newton Conceived of His Most Groundbreaking Ideas During the Great Plague of 1665 (0)
- 17: A 5-Hour, One-Take Cinematic Tour of Russia’s Hermitage Museum, Shot Entirely on an iPhone (2)
- 16: Use Your Time in Isolation to Learn Everything You’ve Always Wanted To: Free Online Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Coloring Books & More (14)
- 16: How Patti Smith “Saved” Rock and Roll: A New Video Makes the Case (8)
- 16: Italians’ Nightly Singalongs Prove That Music Soothes the Savage Beast of Coronavirus Quarantine & Self-Isolation (0)
- 15: Quarantined Italians Send a Message to Themselves 10 Days Ago: What They Wish They Knew Then (76)
- 13: Zoom Providing K-12 Schools Free Access to Videoconferencing Tools During COVID-19 Crisis: They’ll Power Your Online Courses (5)
- 13: Why You Should Read The Plague, the Albert Camus Novel the Coronavirus Has Made a Bestseller Again (2)
- 13: Covering Robert Johnson’s Blues Became a Rite of Rock ‘n’ Roll Passage: Hear Covers by The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Howlin’ Wolf, Lucinda Williams & More (3)
- 12: Coursera Providing Free Access to Its Course Catalog to Universities Impacted by COVID-19 (0)
- 12: Spanish Flu: A Warning from History (2)
- 12: The Meaning of Life According to Simone de Beauvoir (0)
- 12: The History of the Plague: Every Major Epidemic in an Animated Map (3)
- 12: How Schools Can Start Teaching Online in a Short Period of Time: Free Tutorials from the Stanford Online High School (2)
- 11: Bill Gates Describes His Biggest Fear: “I Rate the Chance of a Widespread Epidemic Far Worse Than Ebola at Well Over 50 Percent” (2015) (5)
- 11: Take a Drive Through 1940s, 50s & 60s Los Angeles with Vintage Through-the-Car-Window Films (1)
- 11: Watch 85,000 Historic Newsreel Films from British Pathé Free Online (1910-2008) (0)
- 11: Why New Diseases Like COVID-19 Keep Appearing in China (6)
- 11: The Allure of Puzzlement: Pretty Much Pop #34 w/ Adal Rifai on Escape Rooms and Other Puzzling Pastimes (0)
- 10: See How Traditional Japanese Carpenters Can Build a Whole Building Using No Nails or Screws (7)
- 10: Meet the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female (and Now Forgotten) Rock Band (0)
- 10: Watch Scenes from Czarist Moscow Vividly Restored with Artificial Intelligence (May 1896) (3)
- 09: Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison Film Captured It in Action (0)
- 09: Hear the Sound of the Hagia Sophia Recreated in Authentic Byzantine Chant (1)
- 09: The Summerhill School, the Radical Educational Experiment That Let Students Learn What, When, and How They Want (1966) (5)
- 09: Jeremy Bentham’s Mummified Body Is Still on Display–Much Like Other Aging British Rock Stars (1)
- 06: Watch Scenes from Belle Époque Paris Vividly Restored with Artificial Intelligence (Circa 1890) (1)
- 06: Hear H.P. Lovecraft Horror Stories Read by Roddy McDowall (0)
- 05: The Internet Archive Hosts 20,000 VHS Recordings of Pop Culture from the 1980s & 1990s: Enter the VHS Vault (1)
- 05: How African-American Explorer Matthew Henson Became the First Person to Reach the North Pole, Then Was Forgotten for Almost 30 Years (1)
- 05: The Earth Archive Will 3D-Scan the Entire World & Create an “Open-Source” Record of Our Planet (0)
- 05: Updating Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” to Cover Female Action Heroes–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #33 (1)
- 04: Every Possible Melody Has Been Copyrighted, and They’re Now Released into the Public Domain (2)
- 04: Meet ‘The Afronauts’: An Introduction to Zambia’s Forgotten 1960s Space Program (1)
- 04: Mister Rogers Makes a List of His 10 Favorite Books (0)
- 03: Americans Visited Libraries Almost Twice as Often as They Went to the Movies Last Year, a New Survey Shows (0)
- 03: What Happened Hazel Scott? Meet the Brilliant Jazz Musician & Activist Who Disappeared into Obscurity When She Was Blacklisted During the McCarthy Era (0)
- 03: An Interactive Social Network of Abstract Artists: Kandinsky, Picasso, Brancusi & Many More (0)
- 03: How to Protect Yourself Against COVID-19/Coronavirus (1)
- 02: The Library of Congress Wants You to Help Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Poems & Letters: Almost 4000 Unpublished Documents Are Waiting (3)
- 02: 10 Rules of Self Discipline from the 1930 Self Help/Business Guru Napoleon Hill (0)
- 02: Chinese Museums, Closed by the Coronavirus, Put Their Exhibitions Online (0)
- February 2020 (74)
- 29: The Documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Is Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 28: Free: Read the Original 23,000-Word Essay That Became Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) (0)
- 28: The Story of Physics Animated in 4 Minutes: From Galileo and Newton, to Einstein (3)
- 28: The Photos That Ended Child Labor in the US: See the “Social Photography” of Lewis Hine (1911) (2)
- 27: The Smithsonian Puts 2.8 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain (1)
- 27: A Trip Through New York City in 1911: Vintage Video of NYC Gets Colorized & Revived with Artificial Intelligence (3)
- 27: The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences (3)
- 27: Bernie Sanders Time as an Educational Filmmaker: Watch His Documentary on Socialist Activist Eugene V. Debs (1979) (0)
- 26: Janis Joplin’s Last TV Performance & Interview: The Dick Cavett Show (1970) (4)
- 26: How France Invented a Popular, Profitable Internet of Its Own in the 80s: The Rise and Fall of Minitel (0)
- 26: The Size of Asteroids Compared to New York City (0)
- 26: The Peanuts Gang Performs Pink Floyd’s Classic Rock Opera in the Mashup “Charlie Brown vs. The Wall“ (2)
- 26: Judith Butler on Nonviolence and Gender: Hear Conversation with The Partially Examined Life (0)
- 25: The Opera Database: Find Scores, Libretti & Synopses for Thousands of Operas Free Online (0)
- 25: Watch the Spectacular Hieronymus Bosch Parade, Which Floats Through the Garden of Earthly Delights Painter’s Hometown Every Year (0)
- 25: A Tribute to NASA’s Katherine Johnson (RIP): Learn About the Extraordinary Mathematician Who Broke Through America’s Race & Gender Barriers (1)
- 24: Free Courses on the Coronavirus: What You Need to Know About the Emerging Pandemic (1)
- 24: Conquer Your Vertigo and Watch this Dazzling Footage of Construction Workers Atop the Chrysler Building in 1929 (0)
- 24: Wes Anderson’s Shorts Films & Commercials: A Playlist of 8 Short Andersonian Works (0)
- 24: Military Vet Floored (Literally) by Discovery That Rolex Purchased for $341 Is Now Worth $500,000-$700,000 (0)
- 24: Why We Should Read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 23: Interactive Web Site Tracks the Global Spread of the Coronavirus: Created and Supported by Johns Hopkins (2)
- 21: How Nina Simone Became Hip Hop’s “Secret Weapon”: From Lauryn Hill to Jay Z and Kanye West (0)
- 21: Peanuts Rock: Watch the Peanuts Gang Play Classic Rock Songs by Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey & More (3)
- 21: Hunter Thompson Died 15 Years Ago: Hear Him Remembered by Tom Wolfe, Johnny Depp, Ralph Steadman, and Others (4)
- 20: How William S. Burroughs Influenced Rock and Roll, from the 1960s to Today (1)
- 20: Electronic Musician Shows How He Uses His Prosthetic Arm to Control a Music Synthesizer with His Thoughts (0)
- 20: Salvador Dalí Strolls onto The Dick Cavett Show with an Anteater, Then Talks About Dreams & Surrealism, the Golden Ratio & More (1970) (1)
- 20: Moral Philosophy on TV? Pretty Much Pop #32 Judges The Good Place (0)
- 19: Use the “Eisenhower Matrix” to Manage Your Time & Increase Your Productivity: The System Designed by the 34th President of the United States (0)
- 19: The City of Nashville Built a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in 1897, and It’s Still Standing Today (1)
- 19: New Digital Archive Will Bring Medieval Chants Back to Life: Project Amra Will Feature 300 Digitized Manuscripts and Many Audio Recordings (1)
- 18: Watch More Than 400 Classic Korean Films Free Online Thanks to the Korean Film Archive (5)
- 18: Bob Marley’s Redemption Song Finally Gets an Official Video: Watch the Animated Video Made Up of 2747 Drawings (9)
- 18: Bertrand Russell’s Prison Letters Are Now Digitized & Put Online (1918 – 1961) (0)
- 17: Scientist Creates a Working Rotary Cellphone (0)
- 17: Watch the Grateful Dead Slip Past Security & Play a Gig at Columbia University’s Anti-Vietnam Protest (1968) (1)
- 17: Explore Ancient Athens 3D, a Digital Reconstruction of the Greek City-State at the Height of Its Influence (8)
- 17: The New York Public Library Creates a List of 125 Books That They Love (11)
- 14: Discover the Artist Who Mentored Edward Hopper & Inspired “Nighthawks” (0)
- 14: America’s First Drag Queen Was Also America’s First LGBTQ Activist and a Former Slave (0)
- 14: Watch This Year’s Oscar-Winning Short The Neighbor’s Window, a Surprising Tale of Urban Voyeurism (0)
- 13: Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961) (2)
- 13: Wes Anderson Releases the Official Trailer for His New Film, The French Dispatch: Watch It Online (0)
- 13: How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built: The Story of One of the Greatest Engineering Feats in History (0)
- 13: Robin Williams’ Celebrity Struggles: A Discussion with Dave Itzkoff by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (ep. 31) (0)
- 12: David Bowie Became Ziggy Stardust 48 Years Ago This Week: Watch Original Footage (0)
- 12: An Archive of Handwritten Traditional Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online (4)
- 12: The Experimental Abstract Films of Pioneering American Animator Mary Ellen Bute (1930s-1950s) (1)
- 11: Old Book Illustrations: An Online Database Lets You Download Thousands of Illustrations from the 19th & 20th Centuries (0)
- 11: When Miles Davis Discovered and Then Channeled the Musical Spirit of Jimi Hendrix (1)
- 11: The Biodiversity Heritage Library Makes 150,000 High-Res Illustrations of the Natural World Free to Download (0)
- 10: Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece, Featuring 4,000 Illustrations: See Them Online (5)
- 10: Chick Corea’s 16 Pieces of “Cheap But Good Advice for Playing Music in a Group” (1985) (0)
- 10: The Woman Who Invented Rock n’ Roll: An Introduction to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (0)
- 07: Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download & Color Hundreds of Free Images (3)
- 07: Daphne Oram Created the BBC’s First-Ever Piece of Electronic Music (1957) (4)
- 07: Iconic Film from 1896 Restored with Artificial Intelligence: Watch an AI-Upscaled Version of the Lumière Brothers’ The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (1)
- 07: An Artist Tricks Google Maps Into Creating a Virtual Traffic Jam, Using a Little Red Wagon & 99 Smartphones (0)
- 06: The Graphic Novel Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Coming Out This Year (0)
- 06: 42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor Who Will Help You Relax & Sleep (3)
- 06: Why Every Nominated Film Will Win the 2020 Oscar: A Pretty Much Pop Podcast Debate (ep. 30) (0)
- 05: The Most Complete Collection of Salvador Dalí’s Paintings Published in a Beautiful New Book by Taschen: Includes Never-Seen-Before Works (0)
- 05: Terry Jones, the Late Monty Python Actor, Helped Turn Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Into a Free App: Explore It Online (1)
- 05: The Met Puts 650+ Japanese Illustrated Books Online: Marvel at Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji and More (4)
- 04: Free for Audible Subscribers: James Taylor Releases a New Audio Memoir, and Michael Pollan a New Audio Book on Caffeine (0)
- 04: What is a Blade Runner? How Ridley Scott’s Movie Has Origins in William S. Burroughs’ Novella, Blade Runner: A Movie (1)
- 04: 36,000 Flash Games Have Been Archived and Saved Before Flash Goes Extinct: Play Them Offline (1)
- 04: The Word “Robot” Originated in a Czech Play in 1921: Discover Karel Čapek’s Sci-Fi Play R.U.R. (a.k.a. Rossum’s Universal Robots) (0)
- 04: The Dark Side of the Moon Project: Watch an 8-Part Video Essay on Pink Floyd’s Classic Album (10)
- 03: Deconstructing Bach’s Famous Cello Prelude–the One You’ve Heard in Hundreds of TV Shows & Films (4)
- 03: How Walter Murch Revolutionized the Sound of Modern Cinema: A New Video Essay Explores His Innovations in American Graffiti, The Godfather & More (0)
- 03: Radical Women: Stream the Getty’s Podcast That Features Six Major 20th-Century Artists, All Female (0)
- 03: These Boots Are Made for Walkin’: The Story Behind Nancy Sinatra’s Enduring #1 Hit (1966) (0)
- January 2020 (87)
- 31: Monty Python Pays Tribute to Terry Jones: Watch Their Montage of Jones’ Beloved Characters in Action (0)
- 31: Take an Aerial Tour of Medieval Paris (3)
- 30: Beautiful Taschen Art Books on Sale Through Sunday: 25%-75% Off (0)
- 30: Crowd Breaks into Singing Bon Jovi in the Park: The Power of Music in 46 Seconds (2)
- 30: Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (1)
- 30: Evelyn Waugh’s “Victorian Blood Book”: A Most Strange & Macabre Illustrated Book (0)
- 30: Why the Soviets Doctored Their Most Iconic World War II Victory Photo, “Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag” (17)
- 30: Scorsese’s The Irishman in the Context of his Oeuvre–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #29 Featuring Colin Marshall (0)
- 29: How the Psychedelic Mellotron Works: An In-Depth Demonstration (0)
- 29: Hear the Voice of a 3,0000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy: Scientists 3-D Print His Throat & Mouth and Get Him to Speak … a Little (0)
- 29: The e-Book Imagined in 1935 (0)
- 28: Discover the Disappearing Turkish Language That is Whistled, Not Spoken (2)
- 28: The Secret of the “Perfect Montage” at the Heart of Parasite, the Korean Film Now Sweeping World Cinema (0)
- 28: The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book (1)
- 28: What Is the Coronavirus?: Answers to Common Questions About the Mysterious New Virus Spreading Across China (0)
- 27: Jim Lehrer’s 16 Rules for Practicing Journalism with Integrity (6)
- 27: China’s 8,000 Terracotta Warriors: An Animated & Interactive Introduction to a Great Archaeological Discovery (0)
- 27: Iconic Songs Played by Musicians Around the World: “Stand by Me,” “Redemption Song,” “Ripple” & More (2)
- 27: How Humans Domesticated Cats (Twice) (0)
- 24: Monty Python’s Terry Jones (RIP) Was a Comedian, But Also a Medieval Historian: Get to Know His Other Side (1)
- 24: A Concise Breakdown of How Time Travel Works in Popular Movies, Books & TV Shows (4)
- 24: The Lost Neighborhood Buried Under New York City’s Central Park (0)
- 23: Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger, the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler, Dissed by Disney (1)
- 23: The Flute of Shame: Discover the Instrument/Device Used to Publicly Humiliate Bad Musicians During the Medieval Period (4)
- 23: Watch Marcel Duchamp’s Hypnotic Rotoreliefs: Spinning Discs Creating Optical Illusions on a Turntable (1935) (1)
- 23: Actor Margaret Colin (VEEP, Independence Day) Joins Pretty Much Pop #28 to Take On the Trope of the Alpha Female (0)
- 22: How the Female Scientist Who Discovered the Greenhouse Gas Effect Was Forgotten by History (1)
- 22: When Salvador Dali Met Sigmund Freud, and Changed Freud’s Mind About Surrealism (1938) (1)
- 22: The First Real Museum of Philosophy Prepares to Launch: See the Museo della Filosofia in Milan (0)
- 21: Introducing The Radiohead Public Library: Radiohead Makes Their Full Catalogue Available via a Free Online Web Site (0)
- 21: Can You Spot Liars Through Their Body Language? A Former FBI Agent Breaks Down the Clues in Non-Verbal Communication (0)
- 21: The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain (5)
- 21: Drunk History Takes on the Father of Prohibition: The Ban on Alcohol in the U.S. Started 100 Years Ago This Month (0)
- 20: Fellini’s Fantastic TV Commercials for Barilla, Campari & More: The Italian Filmmaker Was Born 100 Years Ago Today (0)
- 20: A Medical Student Creates Intricate Anatomical Embroideries of the Brain, Heart, Lungs & More (0)
- 20: Watch Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman Head to Hollywood in a Revealing 1978 Documentary (4)
- 20: How to Draw Like an Architect: An Introduction in Six Videos (1)
- 17: Hear Christopher Tolkien (RIP) Read the Work of His Father J.R.R. Tolkien, Which He Tirelessly Worked to Preserve (0)
- 17: The Anti-Conformist, Libertarian Philosophy That Shaped Rush’s Classic Albums (1)
- 17: Cooking with Wool: Watch Mouthwatering Tiny Woolen Food Animations (0)
- 16: The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People, Presented in an Interactive Infographic (2)
- 16: When People Gave Anti-Valentine’s Day Cards: Revisit the “Vinegar Valentines” That Spread Ridicule and Contempt (1)
- 16: How Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Incited a Riot? An Animated Introduction (0)
- 16: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #27 Discusses the Impact and Aesthetics of Star Wars (0)
- 15: How Sam Mendes’ WWI Film 1917 Was Made to Look Like One Long, Harrowing Shot (2)
- 15: The Amazing Artistry & Ingenuity of the Furniture Enjoyed by 18th Century Aristocrats (1)
- 15: How a Philip Glass Opera Gets Made: An Inside Look (0)
- 15: Celebrating Women Composers: A New BBC Digital Archive Takes You from Hildegard of Bingen (1098) to Nadia Boulanger (1979) (1)
- 14: The New York Public Library Announces the Top 10 Checked-Out Books of All Time (0)
- 14: Art Record Covers: A Book of Over 500 Album Covers Created by Famous Visual Artists (0)
- 14: What the Earth Would Look Like If We Drained the Water from the Oceans (4)
- 14: Leonardo da Vinci’s Inventions Come to Life as Museum-Quality, Workable Models: A Swing Bridge, Scythed Chariot, Perpetual Motion Machine & More (3)
- 13: Witness Rush Drummer Neil Peart’s (RIP) Finest Moments On Stage and Screen (0)
- 13: Discover the Apprehension Engine: Brian Eno Called It “the Most Terrifying Musical Instrument of All Time” (4)
- 13: Artist Ed Ruscha Reads From Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in a Short Film Celebrating His 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip (0)
- 13: The First & Last Time Mister Rogers Sang “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” (1968-2001) (0)
- 10: 14 Paris Museums Put 300,000 Works of Art Online: Download Classics by Monet, Cézanne & More (6)
- 10: “Mr. Tambourine Man” & Other Bob Dylan Classics, Sung Beautifully by Kids (2)
- 10: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (1)
- 09: How Dick Cavett Brought Sophistication to Late Night Talk Shows: Watch 270 Classic Interviews Online (0)
- 09: The Magic of Chess: Kids Share Their Uninhibited, Philosophical Insights about the Benefits of Chess (1)
- 09: Vincent Van Gogh’s Favorite Books (0)
- 09: The Art & Philosophy of Bonsai (2)
- 09: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #26 Discusses Alan Moore’s Watchmen Comic and the HBO Show with Cornell Psychology Professor David Pizarro (2)
- 08: A Map of the Disney Entertainment Empire Reveals the Deep Connections Between Its Movies, Its Merchandise, Disneyland & More (1967) (0)
- 08: Free Online Writing & Journalism Courses (2)
- 08: The Strange, Spiritual Origins of the Ouija Board (0)
- 08: An Animated Look at the Charade of the Global Elites: Claiming They Want to “Change the World,” They End Up Preserving the Unjust Status Quo (1)
- 07: Pink Floyd Films a Concert in an Empty Auditorium, Still Trying to Break Into the U.S. Charts (1970) (1)
- 07: John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme (4)
- 07: Watch Peluca, the Student Film That Became the Cultural Phenomenon Napoleon Dynamite (2002) (0)
- 06: A Brief History of John Baldessari (RIP) Narrated by Tom Waits: A Tribute to the Late “Godfather of Conceptual Art” (1)
- 06: Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save Available as a Free AudioBook and eBook: Features Narrations by Paul Simon, Kristen Bell & Stephen Fry (1)
- 06: A Brief Animated History of Alcohol (1)
- 06: The Vatican Library Goes Online and Digitizes Tens of Thousands of Manuscripts, Books, Coins, and More (6)
- 03: The Names of 1.8 Million Emancipated Slaves Are Now Searchable in the World’s Largest Genealogical Database, Helping African Americans Find Lost Ancestors (35)
- 03: 38 Major Pop Songs Played with the Exact Same Four Chords: Watch a Captivating Medley Performed by the Axis of Awesome (4)
- 03: How Anna Karina (RIP) Became the Mesmerizing Face of the French New Wave (0)
- 03: Love the Art, Hate the Artist: How to Approach the Art of Disgraced Artists (11)
- 02: Watch A-ha’s “Take On Me” Video Newly Remastered in 4K …. and Learn About the Band’s Struggle to Make the Classic Song (1)
- 02: How Cartoons Saved R. Crumb’s Life, and How R. Crumb Turned Cartoons into an Art Form (NSFW) (1)
- 02: The Music, Books & Films Liberated into the Public Domain in 2020: Rhapsody in Blue, The Magic Mountain, Sherlock, Jr., and More (1)
- 02: When Robin Williams & Steve Martin Starred in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot (1988) (2)
- 02: Sportscaster Dave Revsine (Big 10 Network) Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast to Discuss the Role of Sports in Pop Culture (0)
- 01: Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running (0)
- 01: RIP Syd Mead: Revisit the Life and & Art of the Designer Behind Blade Runner, Alien & More (1)
- 01: The Voynich Manuscript: A New Documentary Takes a Deep Dive Into the Mysteries of the Bizarre Manuscript (8)
- December 2019 (83)
- 31: The History of the Fisheye Photo Album Cover (1)
- 31: A Recently-Discovered 44,000-Year-Old Cave Painting Tells the Oldest Known Story (0)
- 31: Steve Martin Performs Stand-Up Comedy for Dogs (1973) (2)
- 30: John Coltrane Talks About the Sacred Meaning of Music in the Human Experience: Listen to One of His Final Interviews (1966) (7)
- 30: Why You Should Read Dune: An Animated Introduction to Frank Herbert’s Ecological, Psychological Sci-Fi Epic (2)
- 30: A Visual Introduction to Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Broken Pottery and Finding Beauty in Imperfection (4)
- 30: Itzhak Perlman Appears on Sesame Street and Poignantly Shows Kids How to Play the Violin and Push Through Life’s Limits (1981) (0)
- 27: Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book Your Name? Robot, Created by Tarkovsky Art Director Mikhail Romadin (1979) (0)
- 27: An Animated Introduction to Cynicism, the Anti Conformist Philosophy That Originated in Ancient Greece (1)
- 27: Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors (8)
- 27: Download Beautiful Free Posters Celebrating the Achievements of Living Female STEM Leaders (1)
- 26: Watch Annie Leibovitz Photograph and Get Scolded by Queen Elizabeth: “What Do You Think This Is?” (1)
- 26: Hear Every Sample on the Beastie Boys’ Acclaimed Album, Paul’s Boutique–and Discover Where They Came From (1)
- 25: A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933) (1)
- 25: Hear Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas Carol Just as Dickens Read It (3)
- 25: Bob Ross’ Christmas Special: Celebrate, Relax, Nod Off (0)
- 25: When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960) (3)
- 25: Revisiting Band Aid’s Cringe-Inducing 1984 Single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (23)
- 24: Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs (0)
- 24: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal for the Holidays (0)
- 24: Ram Dass (RIP) Offers Wisdom on Confronting Aging and Dying (0)
- 24: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Most Troubling Christmas Film Ever Made (0)
- 24: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #24 Considers Holiday Viewing: What’s Canon? (1)
- 23: Richard Feynman’s “Lost Lecture:” An Animated Retelling (1)
- 23: A Beautiful New Book of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Visual History of 200 Japanese Masterpieces Created Between 1680 and 1938 (0)
- 23: Hear the Trippy Mystical Sounds of Giant Gongs (0)
- 21: Radiohead Puts Every Official Album on YouTube, Making Them All Free to Stream (5)
- 20: 20+ Knitters and Crochet Artists Stitch an Astonishing 3-D Recreation of Picasso’s Guernica (1)
- 20: Neil deGrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication in a New Online Course (0)
- 20: Malcolm Gladwell Rebuts the Terrible Advice Given to Students: Don’t Go to “the Best College You Can,” Go to Where You Can Have “Deeply Interesting Conversations with People” at Night (1)
- 19: The Zen of Bill Murray: I Want to Be “Really Here, Really in It, Really Alive in the Moment” (0)
- 19: The Phenomena of Physics Illustrated with Psychedelic Art in an Influential 19th-Century Textbook (0)
- 19: Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill Podcast: Stream a Gripping ‘Audio Companion’ to His Bestselling Book (1)
- 18: An Introduction to Surrealism: The Big Aesthetic Ideas Presented in Three Videos (0)
- 18: Why the University of Chicago Rejected Kurt Vonnegut’s Master’s Thesis (and How a Novel Got Him His Degree 27 Years Later) (3)
- 18: How Yoga Changes the Brain and May Guard Against Alzheimer’s and Dementia (0)
- 18: The Singer or the Song? Ken Stringfellow (Posies, R.E.M., Big Star) and Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #23 Discuss (0)
- 17: “The Philosophy of “Flow”: A Brief Introduction to Taoism (2)
- 17: Discover the Stendhal Syndrome: The Condition Where People Faint, or Feel Totally Overwhelmed, in the Presence of Great Art (1)
- 17: Seven Videos Explain How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Expressed American Loneliness and Alienation (1)
- 16: Jimi Hendrix Hosts a Jam Session Where Jim Morrison Sings Drunkenly; Jimi Records the Moment for Posterity (1968) (4)
- 16: How Andrew Wyeth Made a Painting: A Journey Into His Best-Known Work Christina’s World (0)
- 16: The Prado Museum Digitally Alters Four Masterpieces to Strikingly Illustrate the Impact of Climate Change (2)
- 16: Blues Musician Plays a Soul-Stirring Version of “Amazing Grace” at His Mother’s Funeral (47)
- 15: Neil Gaiman Talks Dreamily About Fountain Pens, Notebooks & His Writing Process in His Long Interview with Tim Ferriss (1)
- 13: Meet the Americans Who Speak with Elizabethan English Accents: An Introduction to the “Hoi Toiders” from Ocracoke, North Carolina (1)
- 13: Traditional Inuit Thoat Singing and the Modern World Collide in This Astonishing Video (2)
- 13: “Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski (1)
- 12: Steve Martin on How to Look at Abstract Art (2)
- 12: Why Should We Read William Shakespeare? Four Animated Videos Make the Case (3)
- 12: Bill Gates Recommends Books for the Holidays (1)
- 12: Malcolm Gladwell Admits His Insatiable Love for Thriller Novels and Recommends His Favorites (1)
- 11: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal (0)
- 11: David Lynch Turns Twin Peaks into a Virtual Reality Game: Watch the Official Trailer (1)
- 11: Meditation for Artists: Learn Moebius’ Meditative Technique Called “Automatic Drawing” (1)
- 11: Author Imagines in 1893 the Fashions That Would Appear Over the Next 100 Years (0)
- 11: Pretty Much Pop #22 Untangles Time-Travel Scenarios in the Terminator Franchise and Other Media (0)
- 10: Plants Emit High-Pitched Sounds When They Get Cut, or Stressed by Drought, a New Study Shows (9)
- 10: 82 Vintage Cookbooks, Free to Download, Offer a Fascinating Illustrated Look at Culinary and Cultural History (12)
- 10: How Martin Scorsese Directs a Movie: The Techniques Behind Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and More (0)
- 09: Watch an Incredible Performance of “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1964) (2)
- 09: How to Improve Your Memory: Four TED Talks Explain the Techniques to Remember Anything (1)
- 09: Revisit the Infamous Rolling Stones Free Festival at Altamont: The Ill-Fated Concert Took Place 50 Years Ago (0)
- 09: The Trick That Made Animation Realistic: Watch a Short History of Rotoscoping (0)
- 07: How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant. (4)
- 06: Radical Tea Towels Offer a Graphic Crash Course in Progressive American History (0)
- 06: Music Is Truly a Universal Language: New Research Shows That Music Worldwide Has Important Commonalities (1)
- 06: David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling & Humor His New Masterclass (1)
- 05: The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure (1)
- 05: What the Great Pyramid of Giza Would’ve Looked Like When First Built: It Was Gleaming, Reflective White (9)
- 05: For the First Time, Studio Ghibli’s Entire Catalog Will Soon Be Available for Digital Purchase (0)
- 04: Kabuki Star Wars: Watch The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi Reinterpreted by Japan’s Most Famous Kabuki Actor (0)
- 04: Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Get Used in Making Everyday Things (0)
- 04: A New Digitized Menu Collection Lets You Revisit the Cuisine from the “Golden Age of Railroad Dining” (0)
- 04: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #21 Considers Role-Playing Video Games (0)
- 03: Punk Dulcimer: The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” Played on the Dulcimer (1)
- 03: 160,000 Pages of Glorious Medieval Manuscripts Digitized: Visit the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis (0)
- 03: How Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Helps Us Understand the Meaning of Life (0)
- 03: Clive James & Jonathan Miller (Both RIP) Talk Together About How the Brain Works (0)
- 02: Watch a Hand-Drawn Animation of Neil Gaiman’s Poem “The Mushroom Hunters,” Narrated by Amanda Palmer (1)
- 02: You Can Sleep in an Edward Hopper Painting at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Is This the Next New Museum Trend? (1)
- 02: Twin Peaks Actually Explained: A Four-Hour Video Essay Demystifies It All (4)
- 01: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal: It Gives You and a Family Member/Friend Access to Their Complete Course Catalog (0)
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- 29: A New Online Archive Lets You Listen to 40 Years Worth of Terry Gross’ Fresh Air Interviews: Stream 22,000 Segment Online (5)
- 29: Depeche Mode Before They Were Actually Depeche Mode: Stream Their Early Demo Recordings from 1980 (5)
- 29: The Dream-Driven Filmmaking of Werner Herzog: Watch the Video Essay, “The Inner Chronicle of What We Are: Understanding Werner Herzog” (1)
- 28: The Great Courses (Formerly The Teaching Company) Offers Every Course at $60 or Less Until the End of Black Friday (1)
- 28: The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (3)
- 28: An Illustrated Map of Every Known Object in Space: Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, Black Holes & Much More (1)
- 28: William S. Burroughs Reads His “Thanksgiving Prayer” in a 1988 Film By Gus Van Sant (2)
- 28: The Isamu Noguchi Museum Puts Online an Archive of 60,000 Photographs, Manuscripts & Digitized Drawings by the Japanese Sculptor (0)
- 27: Watch the Hot Guitar Solos of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “America’s First Gospel Rock Star” (0)
- 27: Watch Life-Affirming Performances from David Byrne’s New Broadway Musical American Utopia (0)
- 27: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912): The Truly Weird Origin of Modern Stop-Motion Animation (0)
- 26: Hannah Arendt Explains Why Democracies Need to Safeguard the Free Press & Truth … to Defend Themselves Against Dictators and Their Lies (2)
- 26: Prisons Around the U.S. Are Banning and Restricting Access to Books (1)
- 26: Doris Kearns Goodwin Teaches U.S. Presidential History & Leadership (1)
- 26: Watch 21 Animated Ideas from Big Thinkers: Steven Pinker, Carol Dweck, Philip Zimbardo, David Harvey & More (0)
- 25: London Calling: A New Museum Exhibition Celebrates The Clash’s Iconic Album (0)
- 25: What Is Higher Consciousness?: How We Can Transcend Our Petty, Day-to-Day Desires and Gain a Deeper Wisdom (0)
- 25: Neuroscience & Jazz Improvisation: How Improvisation Shapes Creativity and What Happens Inside Our Brain (1)
- 25: How to Behave in a British Pub: A World War II Training Film from 1943, Featuring Burgess Meredith (2)
- 22: Sacha Baron Cohen Links the Decline of Democracy to the Rise of Social Media, “the Greatest Propaganda Machine in History” (10)
- 22: Neurosymphony: A High-Resolution Look into the Brain, Set to the Music of Brain Waves (0)
- 22: Lynda Barry’s New Book Offers a Master Class in Making Comics (0)
- 22: How Blade Runner Captured the Imagination of a Generation of Electronic Musicians (0)
- 21: Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Explained in Animation (0)
- 21: Dramatic Color Footage Shows a Bombed-Out Berlin a Month After Germany’s WWII Defeat (1945) (14)
- 21: Watch 9 Classic & Lost Punk Films (1976-1981): All Restored and Now Streaming Online (0)
- 21: Trump’s Denials Turned into a Ramones Song: “I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO.” (12)
- 20: Every Nuclear Bomb Explosion in History, Animated (0)
- 20: The 1926 Silent Film The Flying Ace Tells the Alternative Universe Story of a Black Fighter Pilot, Many Years Before African-Americans Were Allowed to Serve as Pilots in the US Army (0)
- 20: 10 Paintings by Edward Hopper, the Most Cinematic American Painter of All, Turned into Animated GIFs (0)
- 20: Alice B. Toklas Reads Her Famous Recipe for Hashish Fudge (1963) (1)
- 20: Improv Comedy (Live and Otherwise) Examined on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #20 (0)
- 19: Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of the Internet & Smart Phone in 1926 (0)
- 19: Quentin Tarantino’s World War II Reading List (0)
- 19: Watch Klaus Nomi Debut His New Wave Vaudeville Show: The Birth of the Opera-Singing Space Alien (1978) (0)
- 19: 82 Animated Interviews with Living, Dead, Celebrated & Sometimes Disgraced Celebrities (1)
- 18: Download Stunning 3D Scans of the Bust of Nefertiti, Now Released by Berlin’s Neues Museum (1)
- 18: David Lynch Visualizes How Transcendental Meditation Works with Sharpie & Big Pad of Paper (2)
- 18: How Art Nouveau Inspired the Psychedelic Designs of the 1960s (1)
- 18: What Ancient Chinese Sounded Like — and How We Know It: An Animated Introduction (2)
- 15: Salvador Dalí’s Iconic Deck of Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: It’s Out Today (0)
- 15: The Seven Road-Tested Habits of Effective Artists (0)
- 15: Download Hellvetica, a Font that Makes the Elegant Spacing of Helvetica Look as Ugly as Possible (0)
- 14: How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look (9)
- 14: Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Best Adaptation of Dante’s Classic (1)
- 14: The Velvet Underground as Peanuts Characters: Snoopy Morphs Into Lou Reed, Charlie Brown Into Andy Warhol (1)
- 14: The First High-Resolution Map of America’s Food Supply Chain: How It All Really Gets from Farm to Table (3)
- 14: Pretty Much Pop #19 Discusses Race and the Target Audience w/ Rodney Ramsey (0)
- 13: John Cleese’s Eulogy for Monty Python’s Graham Chapman: ‘Good Riddance, the Free-Loading Bastard, I Hope He Fries’ (0)
- 13: A Brief History of Chess: An Animated Introduction to the 1,500-Year-Old Game (2)
- 13: Watch the Serpentine Dance, Created by the Pioneering Dancer Loie Fuller, Performed in an 1897 Film by the Lumière Brothers (0)
- 13: The Virtual Choir: Watch a Choir Conductor Digitally Unite 3500 Singers from Around the World (5)
- 12: Watch the Buddhism-Inspired Video for Leonard Cohen’s Newly-Released Song, “Happens to the Heart” (1)
- 12: A Schoolhouse Rock-Inspired Guide to Impeachment (0)
- 12: Watch Nirvana Go Through Rehearsals for Their Famous MTV Unplugged Sessions: “Polly,” “The Man Who Sold the World” & More (1993) (0)
- 12: An MRI Shows How a Singer Sings Two Tones at Once (With the Music of Mozart and Brian Eno) (0)
- 11: The Internet Archive Is Digitizing & Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now (6)
- 11: Why David Sedaris Hates America’s Favorite Word, “Awesome” (9)
- 11: An Animated Leonard Cohen Offers Reflections on Death: Thought-Provoking Excerpts from His Final Interview (8)
- 11: Lou Reed’s Mixtape for Andy Warhol Discovered by Cornell University Professor: Features 12 Previously Unreleased Songs (1)
- 08: A Map of How the Word “Tea” Spread Across the World (6)
- 08: What to Wear to a Successful PhD Thesis Defense? A Skirt’s Worth of Academic Rejection Letters (0)
- 07: The Benefits of Boredom: How to Stop Distracting Yourself and Get Creative Ideas Again (0)
- 07: The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Movement Online (1)
- 07: When White Supremacists Overthrew a Government (1898): The Hidden History of an American Coup (1)
- 06: Martin Scorsese Explains the Difference Between Cinema and Movies (2)
- 06: Comic Sans Turns 25: Graphic Designer Vincent Connare Explains Why He Created the Most Hated Font in the World (1)
- 06: The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England: A (Pre-Brexit) Video Explains (4)
- 06: Behold Félix Nadar’s Pioneering Photographs of the Paris Catacombs (1861) (0)
- 06: Pretty Much Pop #18 Discusses Stephen King’s Media Empire (0)
- 05: Watch J.S. Bach’s “Air on the G String” Played on the Actual Instruments from His Time (6)
- 05: Women Scientists Launch a Database Featuring the Work of 9,000 Women Working in the Sciences (2)
- 05: The Very First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon, Taken 60 Years Ago (0)
- 04: The Time When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place (0)
- 04: Oscar-Nominated Composer Danny Elfman Teaches an Online Course on Writing Music for Film: A Look Inside His Creative Process (0)
- 04: Art Class Instead Of Jail: New Program Lets Young Offenders Take Free Art Classes Rather Than Spend Time in the Criminal System (3)
- 04: 2,600+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in November: Enroll Today (0)
- 01: How to Find Silence in a Noisy World (4)
- 01: The Entire History of the British Isles Animated: 42,000 BCE to Today (3)
- 01: Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Novel Adaptation (1)
- October 2019 (81)
- 31: What Happens to the Clothes We Throw Away?: Watch Unravel, a Short Documentary on the Journey Our Waste Takes (0)
- 31: Bowie’s Bookshelf: A New Essay Collection on The 100 Books That Changed David Bowie’s Life (0)
- 31: An Animated Introduction to Medieval Taverns: Learn the History of These Rough-and-Tumble Ancestors of the Modern Pub (0)
- 30: The Entire Archive of Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music Has Been Digitized and Put Online (0)
- 30: Watch the Opening of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with the Original, Unused Score (5)
- 30: What Guitars Were Like 400 Years Ago: An Introduction to the 9 String Baroque Guitar (0)
- 30: Are Stand-Up Comedians Our Modern Day Philosophers? Pretty Much Pop #17 Considers (0)
- 29: Frank Zappa’s Surreal Movie 200 Motels: The First Feature Film Ever Shot on Videotape (1971) (0)
- 29: How Monument Valley Became the Most Iconic Landscape of the American West (1)
- 29: Peruvian Scholar Writes & Defends the First Thesis Written in Quechua, the Main Language of the Incan Empire (0)
- 29: The Beauty of Degraded Art: Why We Like Scratchy Vinyl, Grainy Film, Wobbly VHS & Other Analog-Media Imperfection (1)
- 28: The Paintings of Miles Davis: Discover Visual Art Inspired by Kandinsky, Basquiat, Picasso, and Joni Mitchell (3)
- 28: A Collection of Vintage Fruit Crate Labels Offers a Voluptuous Vision of the Sunshine State (0)
- 28: Explore 1400 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh–and Much More–at the Van Gogh Museum’s Online Collection (0)
- 28: Watch 700 Videos Nostalgia-Inducing Videos from the Early Days of MTV (0)
- 26: Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: The Occult Meets Surrealism in a Classic Tarot Card Deck (2)
- 26: Joni Mitchell Publishes a Book of Her Rarely Seen Paintings & Poetry (5)
- 25: Beautiful New Photo Book Documents Patti Smith’s Breakthrough Years in Music: Features Hundreds of Unseen Photographs (3)
- 25: A 108-Year-Old Woman Recalls What It Was Like to Be a Woman in Victorian England (2)
- 25: A Flowchart of Philosophical Novels: Reading Recommendations from Haruki Murakami to Don DeLillo (10)
- 25: Pretty Much Pop #16 Considers the Sitcom “Friends” 25 Years Later (0)
- 24: Discover the Persian 11th Century Canon of Medicine, “The Most Famous Medical Textbook Ever Written” (0)
- 24: The Provocative Art of Modern Sketch, the Magazine That Captured the Cultural Explosion of 1930s Shanghai (0)
- 24: Werner Herzog Offers 24 Pieces of Filmmaking and Life Advice (1)
- 24: F. Scott Fitzgerald Creates a List of 22 Essential Books (1936) (0)
- 23: Behold the New York City Street Tree Map: An Interactive Map That Catalogues the 700,000 Trees Shading the Streets of New York City (2)
- 23: The Night When John Coltrane Soloed in a Bathroom and David Crosby, High as a Kite, Nearly Lost His Mind (0)
- 23: Is Opera Part of Pop Culture? Pretty Much Pop #15 with Sean Spyres (1)
- 22: Found: A Long Lost Chapter from the World’s Oldest Novel, the 11th-Century Japanese Classic, The Tale of Genji (0)
- 22: The First Faked Photograph (1840) (1)
- 22: The Story of Ziggy Stardust Gets Chronicled in a New Graphic Novel, Featuring a Foreward by Neil Gaiman (5)
- 21: Meet Viola Smith, the World’s Oldest Drummer: Her Career Started in the 1930s, and She Played Until She Was 107 (0)
- 21: The Best of the Edward Gorey Envelope Art Contest (1)
- 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains the Importance of Jazz: Hear the Speech He Gave at the First Berlin Jazz Festival (1964) (5)
- 21: The Internet Archive Makes 2,500 More Classic MS-DOS Video Games Free to Play Online: Alone in the Dark, Doom, Microsoft Adventure, and Others (0)
- 18: Banksy Launches a New Online Store: Make Purchases Through October 28 (1)
- 18: Watch Teenage Kurt Cobain and Friends’ Horror Movie from 1984 (0)
- 18: Chill Out to 70 Hours of Oceanscape Nature Videos Filmed by BBC Earth (1)
- 17: How to Paint Like Willem De Kooning: Watch Visual Primers from the Museum of Modern Art (1)
- 17: The Politics & Philosophy of the Bauhaus Design Movement: A Short Introduction (0)
- 16: Stream Dozens of Classic & Contemporary Horror Movies Free Online in October (1)
- 16: How Magazine Pages Were Created Before Computers: A Veteran of the London Review of Books Demonstrates the Meticulous, Manual Process (6)
- 16: Watch a Newly-Created “Epilogue” For Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (6)
- 15: Fight Club Came Out 20 Years Ago Today: Watch Five Video Essays on the Film’s Philosophy and Lasting Influence (0)
- 15: Watching Nature Documentaries Can Produce “Real Happiness,” Finds a Study from the BBC and UC-Berkeley (0)
- 15: MIT Researchers 3D Print a Bridge Imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in 1502— and Prove That It Actually Works (1)
- 15: Yo-Yo Ma Performs the First Classical Piece He Ever Learned: Take a 12-Minute Mental Health Break and Watch His Moving “Tiny Desk” Concert (0)
- 14: Why Should We Read Dante’s Divine Comedy? An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 14: Treasures in the Trash: A Secret Museum Inside a New York City Department of Sanitation Garage (0)
- 14: William Burroughs Meets Francis Bacon: See Never-Broadcast Footage (1982) (0)
- 14: H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds Becomes a New BBC Miniseries Set in Edwardian England (3)
- 11: How Grace Slick Wrote “White Rabbit”: The 1960s Classic Inspired by LSD, Lewis Carroll, Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain, and Hypocritical Parents (3)
- 11: Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America (4)
- 10: Free: Download the Sublime Sights & Sounds of Yellowstone National Park (0)
- 10: David Gilmour Makes His Live at Pompeii Concert Film Free to Watch Online (2)
- 10: The Women of Rock: Discover an Oral History Project That Features Pioneering Women in Rock Music (0)
- 10: Where Did Human Beings Come From? 7 Million Years of Human Evolution Visualized in Six Minutes (4)
- 09: The Simulation Theory Explained In Three Animated Videos (0)
- 09: Watch 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki Free Online: A Four Part-Part Documentary on the Unstoppable Japanese Animator (0)
- 09: Download Full Issues of MAVO, the Japanese Avant-Garde Magazine That Announced a New Modernist Movement (1923-1925) (1)
- 09: The Appeal of UFO Narratives: Investigative Journalist Paul Beban Visits Pretty Much Pop #14 (1)
- 08: Hear a Radio Opera Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut, Based on His Adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s 1918 L’Histoire du Soldat (0)
- 08: Talking Heads Songs Become Midcentury Pulp Novels, Magazines & Advertisements: “Burning Down the House,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and More (1)
- 08: 26-Year-Old Steve Jobs Debates the Utopian & Dystopian Promise of the Computer (1981) (0)
- 07: Lost Depeche Mode Documentary Is Now Online: Watch Our Hobby is Depeche Mode (4)
- 07: Hear a Full-Cast Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, the Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale (0)
- 07: See Why Ginger Baker (RIP) Was One of the Greatest Drummers in Rock & World Music (1)
- 07: Do Octopi Dream? An Astonishing Nature Documentary Suggests They Do (0)
- 04: Watch Animated Scores of Beethoven’s 16 String Quartets: An Early Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of His Birth (1)
- 04: Patti Smith Sings “People Have the Power” with a Choir of 250 Fellow Singers (3)
- 04: When Ted Turner Tried to Colorize Citizen Kane: See the Only Surviving Scene from the Great Act of Cinematic Sacrilege (2)
- 03: The Morals That Determine Whether We’re Liberal, Conservative, or Libertarian (1)
- 03: Novelist Cormac McCarthy Gives Writing Advice to Scientists … and Anyone Who Wants to Write Clear, Compelling Prose (1)
- 03: 1,600+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in October: Enroll Today (2)
- 03: Is It Really Ever a Good Idea to Revive an Old TV Show? Pretty Much Pop #13 Considers (0)
- 02: Metropolis Remixed: Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist Sci-Fi Classic Gets Fully Colorized and Dubbed (9)
- 02: The First Music Streaming Service Was Invented in 1881: Discover the Théâtrophone (0)
- 02: 19th-Century Skeleton Alarm Clock Reminded People Daily of the Shortness of Life: An Introduction to the Memento Mori (0)
- 01: Watch Queen Rehearse & Meticulously Prepare for Their Legendary 1985 Live Aid Performance (3)
- 01: A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete Digital Scan (2)
- 01: Quentin Tarantino Explains How to Write & Direct Movies (0)
- September 2019 (75)
- 30: The Japanese Fairy Tale Series: The Illustrated Books That Introduced Western Readers to Japanese Tales (1885-1922) (2)
- 30: Robert Johnson Finally Gets an Obituary in The New York Times 81 Years After His Death (3)
- 30: Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Original Moog Synthesizer (1989) (3)
- 27: The Beatles Release the First Ever Video for “Here Comes the Sun” (0)
- 27: Free: A Professionally-Read Version of the Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint, Released by Penguin Random House Audio (22)
- 27: What’s the Key to American Gothic’s Enduring Fame? An Introduction to the Iconic American Painting (1)
- 27: Libraries & Archivists Are Digitizing 480,000 Books Published in 20th Century That Are Secretly in the Public Domain (0)
- 26: A New Kurt Vonnegut Museum Opens in Indianapolis … Right in Time for Banned Books Week (0)
- 26: Human All Too Human: A Roman Woman Visits the Great Pyramid in 120 AD, and Carves a Poem in Memory of Her Deceased Brother (0)
- 26: 20 Years Before John Cage’s 4’33”, a Man Named Hy Cage Created a Cartoon about a Silent Piano Composition (1932) (0)
- 25: The Proper Way to Eat Ramen: A Meditation from the Classic Japanese Comedy Tampopo (1985) (0)
- 25: Watch 15 Films by Designers Charles & Ray Eames (0)
- 25: Watch Robert Hunter (RIP), Grateful Dead Lyricist, Perform His Legendary Songs “Bertha,” “Sugaree,” “Box of Rain,” “Friend of the Devil” & More (0)
- 25: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood Examined on Pretty Much Pop #12 (0)
- 24: An Animated Michael Sandel Explains How Meritocracy Degrades Our Democracy (3)
- 24: “Thou Shalt Not”: A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Movie Censorship Code (0)
- 24: A Brief History of the Great American Road Trip (1)
- 23: The Sex Pistols Riotous 1978 Tour Through the U.S. South: Watch/Hear Concerts in Dallas, Memphis, Tulsa & More (1)
- 23: How Bicycles Can Revolutionize Our Lives: Case Studies from the United States, Netherlands, China & Britain (0)
- 23: Make an Adorable Crocheted Freddie Mercury; Download a Free Crochet Pattern Online (0)
- 23: Wes Anderson Explains How He Writes and Directs Movies, and What Goes Into His Distinctive Filmmaking Style (0)
- 23: The Coddling of the American Mind: Malcolm Gladwell Leads a Conversation with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff & Lenore Skenazy (0)
- 20: Nine Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971 (16)
- 20: Why Time Seems to Fly By As You Get Older, and How to Slow It Down: A Scientific Explanation by Neuroscientist David Eagleman (2)
- 20: Watch 16 Hours of Historic Live Aid Performances: Queen, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young & Much More (1)
- 19: Musicians Around the World Play The Band’s Classic Song, “The Weight,” with Help from Robbie Robertson and Ringo Starr (2)
- 19: Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour Teaches a Course on Creativity & Leadership (2)
- 19: Martin Scorsese Makes a List of 85 Films Every Aspiring Filmmaker Needs to See (3)
- 19: The Creepy 13th-Century Melody That Shows Up in Movies Again & Again: An Introduction to “Dies Irae” (9)
- 18: What Did People Eat in Medieval Times? A Video Series and New Cookbook Explain (4)
- 18: Jimi Hendrix Wreaks Havoc on the Lulu Show, Gets Banned From the BBC (1969) (4)
- 18: Visit the Homes That Great Architects Designed for Themselves: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius & Frank Gehry (2)
- 18: Is the Live Music Experience Irreplaceable? Pretty Much Pop #11 (0)
- 17: Ric Ocasek and The Cars Perform Live in Concert After Their Groundbreaking Debut Album: Watch the Complete Show (January 13, 1979) (0)
- 17: Learn the Number One Rule of Funk: Bootsy Collins Explains the Importance of “Keeping It on the One” (3)
- 17: Art Trips: Visit the Art of Cities Around the World, from Los Angeles & London, to Venice and New York (0)
- 16: 25 John Lennon Fans Sing His Album, Working Class Hero, Word for Word, and Note for Note (1)
- 16: How Sergio Leone Made Music an Actor in His Spaghetti Westerns, Creating a Perfect Harmony of Sound & Image (1)
- 16: John Milton’s Hand Annotated Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio: A New Discovery by a Cambridge Scholar (6)
- 16: Imagined Medieval Comics Illuminate the Absurdities of Modern Life (0)
- 13: Bob Moog Demonstrates His Revolutionary Moog Model D Synthesizer (1)
- 13: Watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice in Strikingly Restored Footage (1931) (4)
- 13: Discover the Jacobean Traveling Library: The 17th Century Precursor to the Kindle (1)
- 13: How Eric Clapton Created the Classic Song “Layla” (6)
- 12: How E.E. Cummings Writes a Poem (0)
- 12: Charles Bukowski Explains What Good Writing and the Good Life Have in Common (0)
- 12: Expressionist Dance Costumes from the 1920s, and the Tragic Story of Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt (1)
- 11: American Cities Then & Now: See How New York, Los Angeles & Detroit Look Today, Compared to the 1930s and 1940s (1)
- 11: Animated Series Drawn & Recorded Tells “Untold Stories” from Music History: Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, Blind Willie Johnson & More (1)
- 11: Pretty Much Pop #10 Examines Margaret Atwood’s Nightmare Vision: The Handmaid’s Tale (1)
- 10: What Would Michel Foucault Think of Social Media, Fake News & Our Post Truth World? (0)
- 10: Watch an Archaeologist Play the “Lithophone,” a Prehistoric Instrument That Let Ancient Musicians Play Real Classic Rock (1)
- 10: Sun Ra Applies to NASA’s Art Program: When the Inventor of Space Jazz Applied to Make Space Art (0)
- 09: Monty Python’s Eric Idle Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters (2)
- 09: Watch a Short 1967 Film That Imagines How We’d Live in 1999: Online Learning, Electronic Shopping, Flat Screen TVs & Much More (1)
- 09: The Secret Student Group Who Took on the Nazis: An Introduction to “The White Rose” (0)
- 09: 30 Fans Joyously Sing the Entirety of Bob Marley’s Legend Album in Unison (3)
- 06: Medieval Monks Complained About Constant Distractions: Learn How They Worked to Overcome Them (0)
- 06: Orson Welles Trashes Famous Directors: Alfred Hitchcock (“Egotism and Laziness”), Woody Allen (“His Arrogance Is Unlimited”) & More (14)
- 06: Bob Odenkirk & Errol Morris Create Comedic Shorts to Help You Take Action Against Global Warming: Watch Them Online (0)
- 05: Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them” (3)
- 05: Why Learn Latin?: 5 Videos Make a Compelling Case That the “Dead Language” Is an “Eternal Language” (0)
- 05: Yale Presents an Archive of 170,000 Photographs Documenting the Great Depression (0)
- 05: Hear the Very Moment When World War I Came to an End (0)
- 04: The Paul McCartney is Dead Conspiracy Theory, Explained (1)
- 04: The History of Europe from 400 BC to the Present, Animated in 12 Minutes (2)
- 04: The Wisdom of Ram Dass Is Now Online: Stream 150 of His Enlightened Spiritual Talks as Free Podcasts (2)
- 04: Demystifying the Falsetto Obsession in Pop & Rock Music (2)
- 04: Voice Actor Dee Bradley Baker (Clone Wars,American Dad) Defends Cartoons on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #9 (0)
- 03: Meditation for Beginners: Buddhist Monks & Teachers Explain the Basics (1)
- 03: The Greatest Cut in Film History: Watch the “Match Cut” Immortalized by Lawrence of Arabia (2)
- 03: 3,700+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in September: Enroll Today (3)
- 02: What Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War Mural (1)
- 02: Watch I Signed the Petition, a Philosophical Meditation on the Decision to Sign a Petition Asking Radiohead to Boycott Tel Aviv (2)
- 02: Harvard Students Perform Amazing Boomwhacker Covers of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,” Toto’s “Africa” & More (1)
- August 2019 (85)
- 30: How Marion Stokes, an Activist Librarian, Recorded 30 Years of TV News on 70,000 Video Tapes: It’s All Now Being Digitized and Put Online (1)
- 30: The Scandalous Painting That Helped Create Modern Art: An Introduction to Édouard Manet’s Olympia (2)
- 30: Lemony Snicket Reveals His Edward Gorey Obsession in an Upcoming Animated Documentary (0)
- 29: Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapers (1)
- 29: Ray Harryhausen’s Creepy War of the Worlds Sketches and Stop-Motion Test Footage (2)
- 29: The Glorious Poster Art of the Soviet Space Program in Its Golden Age (1958-1963) (2)
- 29: A Digital Animation Compares the Size of Trees: From the 3-Inch Bonsai, to the 300-Foot Sequoia (0)
- 28: David Byrne Launches Reasons to Be Cheerful, an Online Magazine Featuring Articles by Byrne, Brian Eno & More (4)
- 28: Public Library Receipt Shows How Much Money You’ve Saved by Borrowing Books, Instead of Buying Them (9)
- 28: Werner Herzog Narrates the Existential Journey of a Plastic Bag: Watch a Short Film by Acclaimed Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (0)
- 28: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #8 Discusses Spider-Man: Far From Home and the Function of Super-Hero Films (0)
- 27: David Gilmour Invites a Street Performer to Play Wine Glasses Onstage With Him In Venice: Hear Them Play “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (0)
- 27: The Timeless Beauty of the Citroën DS, the Car Mythologized by Roland Barthes (1957) (0)
- 27: Why Should You Read Haruki Murakami? An Animated Video on His “Epic Literary Puzzle” Kafka on the Shore Makes the Case (0)
- 27: Klaus Nomi Performs with Kraftwerk on German Television (1982) (0)
- 26: Nigerian Teenagers Are Making Slick Sci Fi Films With Their Smartphones (0)
- 26: Harvard Gives Free Online Access to 40 Million Pages of U.S. Case Law: Explore 6.4 Million Cases Dating Back to 1658 (0)
- 26: Discover the Spelling Dictionary That Ludwig Wittgenstein Created for Elementary School Students (0)
- 25: Stream Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, a BBC Production Featuring Derek Jacobi (Free for a Limited Time) (0)
- 23: How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz Music (5)
- 23: Why Route 66 Became America’s Most Famous Road (0)
- 23: Mister Rogers Demonstrates How to Cut a Record (0)
- 22: What Happens To Your Body & Brain If You Don’t Get Sleep? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains (0)
- 22: Marilyn Monroe Recounts Her Harrowing Experience in a Psychiatric Ward (1961) (0)
- 22: Where Zombies Come From: A Video Essay on the Origin of the Horrifying, Satirical Monsters (1)
- 21: The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders: A Tokyo Restaurant Where All the Servers Are People Living with Dementia (14)
- 21: See How Zildjian Cymbals Are Made In a Fascinating 10-Minute Short Film (0)
- 21: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue at 60: A New Video Essay Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Iconic Album (2)
- 21: Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music: An Interactive, Encyclopedic Data Visualization of 120 Years of Electronic Music (0)
- 21: Actor Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks & Rec, Magnificent Seven) Discusses Indigenous American Representation on Pretty Much Pop Podcast #7 (0)
- 20: Miles Davis Iconic 1959 Album Kind of Blue Turns 60: Revisit the Album That Changed American Music (1)
- 20: Watch Some of the Most Powerful Bass Guitar Solos Ever: Geddy Lee, Flea, Bootsy Collins, John Deacon & More (5)
- 20: The Importance of Film Editing Demonstrated by the Bad Editing of Major Films: Bohemian Rhapsody, Suicide Squad & More (0)
- 20: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (0)
- 19: Newly-Discovered John Coltrane Album, Blue World, To Be Released in September: Hear the Title Track Now (0)
- 19: Cy Kuckenbaker’s Time Collapse Videos Let You See Daily Life As You’ve Never Seen It Before (0)
- 19: Aldous Huxley Trips on Acid; Talks About Cats & the Secret of Life (1962) (0)
- 19: The Books on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List (2019) (2)
- 16: How Joni Mitchell Wrote “Woodstock,” the Song that Defined the Legendary Music Festival, Even Though She Wasn’t There (1969) (1)
- 16: Hear Laurie Anderson Read from The Tibetan Book of the Dead on New Album Songs from the Bardo (1)
- 16: Science Shows That Snowball the Cockatoo Has 14 Different Dance Moves: The Vogue, Headbang & More (1)
- 15: Listen Online to Every Minute of the Original Woodstock Festival (0)
- 15: A Short Animated Introduction to Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria’s Great Female Philosopher (2)
- 15: Watch John Entwistle’s Bass-Playing Genius on Display in Isolated Tracks for “Won’t Be Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Reilly” (2)
- 15: People Pose in Uncanny Alignment with Iconic Album Covers: Discover The Sleeveface Project (0)
- 15: Philosopher Portraits: Famous Philosophers Painted in the Style of Influential Artists (0)
- 14: Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine (11)
- 14: Philip K. Dick Tarot Cards: A Tarot Deck Modeled After the Visionary Sci-Fi Writer’s Inner World (0)
- 14: Legendary Protest Songs from Woodstock: Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & More Perform Protest Songs During the Music Festival That Launched 50 Years Ago This Week (0)
- 14: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #6: Why Adults Might Play Video Games (0)
- 13: Watch Animated Scores of Eric Satie’s Most Famous Pieces: “Gymnopedie No. 1” and “Gnossienne No. 1” (0)
- 13: Enjoy Dazzling & Dizzying 360° Virtual Tours of Los Angeles Landmarks (0)
- 13: View/Download the Highest Resolution MRI Scan of a Human Brain, Revealing It as We’ve Never Seen It Before (0)
- 13: An Hour-Long Collection of Live Footage Documents the Early Days of Pink Floyd (1967-1972) (4)
- 12: Manuscript Reveals How Medieval Nun, Joan of Leeds, Faked Her Own Death to Escape the Convent (1)
- 12: Take a Virtual Tour of Jane Austen’s Library (1)
- 12: Hear Glenn Gould Sing the Praise of the Moog Synthesizer and Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach, the “Record of the Decade” (1968) (3)
- 12: Johnny Knoxville Breaks Down Every Injury of His Career (0)
- 09: NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Program (1)
- 09: How to Focus: Five Talks Reveal the Secrets of Concentration (1)
- 09: Watch the Talking Heads Play Material From Their Groundbreaking Album Remain in Light in an Incredible Concert from 1980 (2)
- 08: Who Are the Best Drum Soloists in Rock? See Legendary Performances by Neil Peart (RIP), John Bonham, Keith Moon, Terry Bozzio & More (59)
- 08: How Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Computer Code That Helped Save the Apollo Moon Landing Mission (1)
- 08: How Scientists Colorize Those Beautiful Space Photos Taken By the Hubble Space Telescope (1)
- 08: Lucy Lawless Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #5 on True Crime (0)
- 07: Leonard Cohen’s Cocktail Recipe: Learn How to Make “The Red Needle” (0)
- 07: Toni Morrison Deconstructs White Supremacy in America (4)
- 07: Joyce Carol Oates Teaches a New Online Course on the Art of the Short Story (0)
- 06: Hear Toni Morrison (RIP) Present Her Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993) (0)
- 06: What the First Movies Really Looked Like: Discover the IMAX Films of the 1890s (0)
- 06: Discover Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Collection of Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online (1)
- 06: Why Is Jackie Chan the King of Action Comedy? A Video Essay Masterfully Makes the Case (0)
- 05: Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin: Stream Online (for a Limited Time) a New Documentary Exploring the Life & Work of the Legendary Sci-Fi Writer (4)
- 05: RIP D.A. Pennebaker: Watch Scenes from His Groundbreaking Bob Dylan Documentary Dont Look Back (0)
- 05: The Authentic Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Watch a Performance Based on Original Manuscripts & Played with 18th-Century Instruments (0)
- 05: An Artist Crochets a Life-Size, Anatomically-Correct Skeleton, Complete with Organs (0)
- 04: 3,500+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in August: Enroll Today (1)
- 02: Why a Cat Always Lands on Its Feet: How a French Scientist Used Photography to Solve the Problem in 1894 (0)
- 02: The Library of Congress Digitizes Over 16,000 Pages of Letters & Speeches from the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and You Can Help Transcribe Them (2)
- 02: The Unexpected Ways Eastern Philosophy Can Make Us Wiser, More Compassionate & Better Able to Appreciate Our Lives (2)
- 02: Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” Sung in the Style of David Bowie (0)
- 02: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #4 – HBO’s “Chernobyl”: Why Do We Enjoy Watching Suffering? (1)
- 01: The Authentic Pachelbel’s Canon: Watch a Performance Based on the Original Manuscript & Played with Original 17th-Century Instruments (10)
- 01: Mont Saint-Michel Beautifully Viewed from a Drone (0)
- 01: How the Yamaha DX7 Digital Synthesizer Defined the Sound of 1980s Music (2)
- July 2019 (81)
- 31: How Quentin Tarantino Steals from Other Movies: A Video Essay (3)
- 31: An Introduction to Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda: Romantic, Radical & Revolutionary (0)
- 31: David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs: Listen to Them Online (5)
- 30: Watch Pink Floyd Play Live Amidst the Ruins of Pompeii in 1971 … and David Gilmour Does It Again in 2016 (2)
- 30: How Ladies & Gentlemen Got Dressed in the 18th Century: It Was a Pretty Involved Process (0)
- 30: The Therapeutic Benefits of Ambient Music: Science Shows How It Eases Chronic Anxiety, Physical Pain, and ICU-Related Trauma (1)
- 29: Behold Color Photographs Taken During the Aftermath of San Francisco’s Devastating 1906 Earthquake (2)
- 29: Sir Ian McKellen Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter to High School Students: Make Art and “Make Your Soul Grow” (0)
- 29: How B.B. King & Stevie Ray Vaughan Dealt With Breaking Strings Onstage Mid-Song: A Masterclass in Handling Onstage Mishaps (1)
- 29: Pretty Much Pop #3: CONFORM with Yakov Smirnoff (0)
- 28: Moonlight Strikes 107,000 Solar Mirrors & Creates a Portrait of Apollo 11 Computer Programmer Margaret Hamilton (0)
- 26: Martin Amis Explains How to Use a Thesaurus to Actually Improve Your Writing (1)
- 26: Bryan Magee (RIP) Presents In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers (7)
- 26: How Kurt Cobain Confronted Violence Against Women in His “Darkest Song”: Nevermind‘s “Polly” (0)
- 26: Watch an Animated Documentary About the Pioneering Journalist & Feminist Icon Nellie Bly (1)
- 25: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins Go Through Customs and Sign Immigration Form After the First Moon Landing (1969) (1)
- 24: “I Saw the Future”: Rutger Hauer (RIP) Remembers His Most Memorable Role in Blade Runner (1)
- 24: Why Should We Read Virgil’s Aeneid? An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 24: Deconstructing Brian Eno’s Music for Airports: Explore the Tape Loops That Make Up His Groundbreaking Ambient Music (0)
- 24: The Jane Austen Fiction Manuscript Archive Is Online: Explore Handwritten Drafts of Persuasion, The Watsons & More (0)
- 24: Why 1999 Was the Year of Dystopian Office Movies: What The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space & Being John Malkovich Shared in Common (0)
- 23: Can Artificial Intelligence Decipher Lost Languages? Researchers Attempt to Decode 3500-Year-Old Ancient Languages (1)
- 23: A 9th Century Manuscript Teaches Astronomy by Making Sublime Pictures Out of Words (0)
- 23: The Velvet Underground Captured in Color Concert Footage by Andy Warhol (1967) (0)
- 23: Pretty Much Pop #2: Binge Watching (0)
- 22: A New Interactive Visualization of the 165,000 Most-Frequently Assigned Texts in College Courses (1)
- 22: Mister Rogers Creates a Prime Time TV Special to Help Parents Talk to Their Children About the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968) (1)
- 22: What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Listens to John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space & Starts to Create Its Own Free Jazz (3)
- 19: Every Harrowing Second of the Apollo 11 Landing Revisited in a New NASA Video: It Took Place 50 Years Ago Today (July 20, 1969) (1)
- 19: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Prediction of How American Democracy Could Lapse Into Despotism, Read by Michel Houellebecq (5)
- 19: Songs by Joni Mitchell Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers & Vintage Movie Posters (2)
- 18: Richard Feynman’s Technique for Learning Something New: An Animated Introduction (3)
- 18: Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975) (2)
- 18: Introducing Pretty Much Pop (A Culture Podcast): Episode 1 – Pop Culture vs. High Culture (0)
- 18: An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges (0)
- 18: There’s a Tiny Art Museum on the Moon That Features the Art of Andy Warhol & Robert Rauschenberg (0)
- 17: The Romanovs’ Last Spectacular Ball Brought to Life in Color Photographs (1903) (22)
- 17: When Neil Young & Devo Jammed Together: Watch Them Play “Hey Hey, My My” in a Clip from the 1982 Film Human Highway (0)
- 17: Beatles Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers and Magazine Pages: “Drive My Car,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” & More (0)
- 16: Alan Turing Will Be Featured on England’s New £50 Banknote (0)
- 16: Behold Fantastical Illustrations from the 13th Century Arabic Manuscript Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (0)
- 16: The Piano Played with 16 Increasing Levels of Complexity: From Easy to Very Complex (0)
- 16: The Principles for Success by Entrepreneur & Investor Ray Dalio: A 30-Minute Animated Primer (0)
- 15: What Happened to the 1200 Paintings Painted by Bob Ross? The Mystery Has Finally Been Solved (7)
- 15: The 1855 Map That Revolutionized Disease Prevention & Data Visualization: Discover John Snow’s Broad Street Pump Map (0)
- 15: Why Should We Read Pioneering Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler? An Animated Video Makes the Case (0)
- 15: George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Praised as the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, Gets Digitized as Early Installments Enter the Public Domain (2)
- 14: An Illustrated Version of The Mueller Report: Read Online an Edition Created by the Author of Black Hawk Down and an Illustrator from Archer (2)
- 12: A Beautiful 1870 Visualization of the Hallucinations That Come Before a Migraine (10)
- 12: Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860) (2)
- 12: The New David Bowie Barbie Doll Released to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of “Space Oddity” (2)
- 11: The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online (6)
- 11: The Evolution of the World Map: An Inventive Infographic Shows How Our Picture of the World Changed Over 1,800 Years (1)
- 11: Napoleon’s Disastrous Invasion of Russia Detailed in an 1869 Data Visualization: It’s Been Called “the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn” (0)
- 10: The Restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Begins: Watch the Painstaking Process On-Site and Online (0)
- 10: Arnold Schoenberg, Avant-Garde Composer, Creates a System of Symbols for Notating Tennis Matches (0)
- 10: David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Turn 50 This Month: Celebrate Two Giant Leaps That Took Place 9 Days Apart (3)
- 10: Lennon or McCartney? Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence to Figure Out Who Wrote Iconic Beatles Songs (1)
- 09: The Simpsons Reimagined as a Russian Art Film (5)
- 09: When MAD Magazine Ruffled the Feathers of the FBI, Not Once But Three Times (0)
- 09: The Most Disturbing Painting: A Close Look at Francisco Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” (7)
- 08: Deconstructing Stevie Wonder’s Ode to Jazz and His Hero Duke Ellington: A Great Breakdown of “Sir Duke” (3)
- 08: Download Beautiful Panoramic Paintings of U.S. National Parks by H.C. Berann: Maps That Look Even More Vivid Than the Real Thing (0)
- 08: Remembering the “Father of Bossa Nova” João Gilberto (RIP) with Four Classic Live Performances: “The Girl From Ipanema,” “Corcovado” & More (1)
- 05: The Secret Language of Trees: A Charming Animated Lesson Explains How Trees Share Information with Each Other (3)
- 05: The End of an Era: MAD Magazine Will Publish Its Last Issue With Original Content This Fall (9)
- 05: The Walkman Turns 40: See Every Generation of Sony’s the Iconic Personal Stereo in One Minute (0)
- 04: How Intellectual Humility Can Boost Our Curiosity & Ability to Learn: Read the Findings of a New Study (0)
- 04: Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944) (3)
- 04: When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place (1)
- 03: A Documentary Introduction to Nick Drake, Whose Haunting & Influential Songs Came Into the World 50 Years Ago Today (0)
- 03: Anton Chekhov’s Six Rules For Writing Fiction (1)
- 03: Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition (0)
- 03: A Witty Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909) (0)
- 03: How Sleep Can Become Your “Superpower:” Scientist Matt Walker Explains Why Sleep Helps You Learn More and Live Longer (0)
- 02: How to Read Many More Books in a Year: Watch a Short Documentary Featuring Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores (2)
- 02: Segregated By Design: An Animated Look at How African-American Enclaves in U.S. Cities Is Hardly an Accident (0)
- 02: Watch The Velvet Underground Perform in Rare Color Footage: Scenes from a Vietnam War Protest Concert (1969) (0)
- 01: The First Museum Dedicated Exclusively to Poster Art Opens Its Doors in the U.S.: Enter the Poster House (1)
- 01: Watch a Star-Studded Cast Read The Mueller Report: John Lithgow, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Annette Bening & More (2)
- 01: Queen Guitarist Brian May Is Also an Astrophysicist: Read His PhD Thesis Online (6)
- June 2019 (69)
- 28: A Quick Six Minute Journey Through Modern Art: How You Get from Manet’s 1862 Painting, “The Luncheon on the Grass,” to Jackson Pollock 1950s Drip Paintings (0)
- 28: How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats (1)
- 28: 3 Iconic Paintings by Frida Kahlo Get Reborn as Vans Skate Shoes (0)
- 27: Meet Emma Willard, the First Female Map Maker in the U.S., and Her Brilliantly Inventive Maps (Circa 1826) (0)
- 27: 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body (1)
- 27: How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer (4)
- 27: Deliberate Practice: A Mindful & Methodical Way to Master Any Skill (2)
- 26: Arab Photography Archive Puts 22,000 Historic Images Online: Get a Rare Glimpse into Life and Art in the Arab World (1)
- 26: Joy Harjo, Newly-Appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, Reads Her Poems, “Remember,” “A Poem to Get Rid of Fear,” “An American Sunrise” and More (2)
- 26: Watch Battered & Bruised Vintage Toys Get Mesmerizingly Restored to Near Mint Condition (1)
- 25: In 1886, the US Government Commissioned 7,500 Watercolor Paintings of Every Known Fruit in the World: Download Them in High Resolution (12)
- 25: Two Animated Maps Show the Expansion of the U.S. from the Different Perspectives of Settlers & Native Peoples (1)
- 25: The Meandering Mississippi River and How It Evolved Over Thousands of Years Visualized in Brilliant Maps from 1944 (2)
- 25: Cartoonist Lynda Barry Teaches You How to Draw (0)
- 24: Elvis Costello’s List of 500 Albums That Will Improve Your Life (0)
- 24: An Introduction to the Life & Music of Fela Kuti: Radical Nigerian Bandleader, Political Hero, and Creator of Afrobeat (4)
- 24: Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink “Unlimited” Alcohol in Prohibition America (1932) (1)
- 21: Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason Presents the History of Music & Technology in a Nine-Part BBC Podcast (0)
- 21: What the Textbooks Don’t Tell Us About The Atlantic Slave Trade: An Animated Video Fills In Historical Gaps (2)
- 21: What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self?: What Research Shows, and What You Have to Say (3)
- 21: Hear a Previously Unheard Freddie Mercury Song, “Time Waits for No One,” Unearthed After 33 Years (0)
- 20: The Atlas of Space: Behold Brilliant Maps of Constellations, Asteroids, Planets & “Everything in the Solar System Bigger Than 10km” (0)
- 20: Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky Demystifies Depression, Which, Like Diabetes, Is Rooted in Biology (0)
- 20: Apollo 11 in Real Time: A New Web Site Lets You Take a Real-Time Journey Through First Landing on the Moon (0)
- 19: How to Argue With Kindness and Care: 4 Rules from Philosopher Daniel Dennett (1)
- 19: How Blondie’s Debbie Harry Learned to Deal With Superficial, Demeaning Interviewers (1)
- 19: When Stanley Kubrick Banned His Own Film, A Clockwork Orange: It Was the “Most Effective Censorship of a Film in British History” (0)
- 18: Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV (1971) (1)
- 18: How the Universe Will Come to Its Explosive End: Trillions of Years Covered in 29 Timelapse Minutes (1)
- 18: The Ruins of Chernobyl Captured in Three Haunting, Drone-Shot Videos (2)
- 17: Lost Miles Davis Album, Rubberband, Will Finally Be Released This Fall: Hear the Title Track, “Rubberband,” in Five Different Versions (0)
- 17: Women Who Draw: Explore an Open Directory That Showcases the Work of 5,000+ Female Illustrators (1)
- 17: Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Opens in China 18 Years After Its Original Release: See Beautiful New Posters for the Film (0)
- 16: A Wild 40-Minute Race Down Alpe D’Huez (0)
- 14: Scenes from HBO’s Chernobyl v. Real Footage Shot in 1986: A Side-By-Side Comparison (1)
- 14: Hear What’s Likely the Only Known Recording of Frida Kahlo’s Voice (1954) (4)
- 14: The Brilliant Colors of the Great Barrier Revealed in a Historic Illustrated Book from 1893 (0)
- 13: An Interactive Map of Odysseus’ 10-Year Journey in Homer’s Odyssey (8)
- 13: New Interactive “Murder Map” Reveals the Meanest Streets of Medieval London (2)
- 13: Atheists & Agnostics Also Frequently Believe in the Supernatural, a New Study Shows (3)
- 13: A Subway Map of Human Anatomy: All the Systems of Our Body Visualized in the Style of the London Underground (0)
- 12: Radiohead Releases 18 Hours of Demos from OK Computer for a Limited Time–After Hackers Try to Hold Them for Ransom (0)
- 12: The Recorder Played Like You’ve Never Heard it Before: Hear a Stunning Solo from Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C Major (1)
- 12: Leonardo da Vinci’s Huge Notebook Collections, the Codex Forster, Now Digitized in High-Resolution: Explore Them Online (2)
- 11: Meet Gerda Taro, the First Female Photojournalist to Die on the Front Lines (3)
- 11: Oliver Sacks Promotes the Healing Power of Gardens: They’re “More Powerful Than Any Medication” (0)
- 11: Watch The Meaning of Life: One of the Best Animated Short Films Ever Made Traces the Evolution of Life, the Universe & Beyond (0)
- 10: Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac (0)
- 10: Andy Warhol Explains Why He Decided to Give Up Painting & Manage the Velvet Underground Instead (1966) (4)
- 10: Jeff Tweedy Explains How to Learn to Love Music You Hate: Watch a Video Animated by R. Sikoryak (1)
- 07: How David Bowie Delivered His Two Most Famous Farewells: As Ziggy Stardust in 1973, and at the End of His Life in 2016 (2)
- 07: What Did Old English Sound Like? Hear Reconstructions of Beowulf, The Bible, and Casual Conversations (4)
- 07: A New Photo Book Documents the Wonderful Homemade Cat Ladders of Switzerland (1)
- 07: The Longest of the Grateful Dead’s Epic Long Jams: “Dark Star” (1972), “The Other One” (1972) and “Playing in The Band” (1974) (1)
- 06: Bryan Cranston Narrates the Landing on Omaha Beach on the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion (0)
- 06: Download Iconic National Park Fonts: They’re Now Digitized & Free to Use (0)
- 06: The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps (0)
- 06: When Kraftwerk Issued Their Own Pocket Calculator Synthesizer — to Play Their Song “Pocket Calculator” (1981) (3)
- 05: See the Very First Solar Eclipse Captured on Film: A Magical Moment in Science and Filmmaking (1900) (0)
- 05: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jared Diamond Describes How the U.S. Could Become a Dictatorship in 10 Years (13)
- 05: 136 Maps Reveal Where Tourists & Locals Take Photos in Major Cities Across the Globe (0)
- 04: Marie Curie Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize, the First Person to Win Twice, and the Only Person in History to Win in Two Different Sciences (1)
- 04: Watch the First Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s New Film, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (3)
- 04: Exercise May Prove an Effective Natural Treatment for Depression & Anxiety, New Study Shows (0)
- 04: The Giger Bar: Discover the 1980s Tokyo Bar Designed by H. R. Giger, the Same Artist Who Created the Nightmarish Monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1)
- 03: What If We’re Wrong?: An Animated Video Challenges Our Most Deeply Held Beliefs–With the Help of a Ludwig Wittgenstein Thought Experiment (8)
- 03: Watch John Bonham’s Blistering 13-Minute Drum Solo on “Moby Dick,” One of His Finest Moments Live Onstage (1970) (2)
- 03: Why You Should Read The Master and Margarita: An Animated Introduction to Bulgakov’s Rollicking Soviet Satire (1)
- 03: Elton John Takes Us Through the Creative Process of His Early Hit “Tiny Dancer” (1970) (1)
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- 31: The Cure Performed the Entire “Disintegration” Album on the 30th Anniversary of Its Release: Watch The Complete Concert Online (2)
- 31: The First Museum Dedicated to Japanese Folklore Monsters Is Now Open (0)
- 31: The Art & Cooking of Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali, Georgia O’Keeffe, Vincent Van Gogh & More (0)
- 31: Metallica, REM, Led Zeppelin & Queen Sung in the Style of Gregorian Chant (1)
- 30: 1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults (14)
- 30: Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838-2019) (1)
- 30: When Boris Pasternak Won–and Then the Soviets Forced Him to Decline–the Nobel Prize (1958) (1)
- 29: The Story of Pure Hell, the “First Black Punk Band” That Emerged in the 70s, Then Disappeared for Decades (2)
- 29: How Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Recreates the Epic Hero’s Journey Described by Joseph Campbell (1)
- 29: The Psychological Dimensions of Game of Thrones: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast Explores the Fantasy Spectacle (0)
- 29: McDonald’s Opens a Tiny Restaurant — and It’s Only for Bees (0)
- 28: Download 91,000 Historic Maps from the Massive David Rumsey Map Collection (5)
- 28: Bill Gates Recommends Five Books to Read This Summer (0)
- 28: Hear the Song That Two Teenage Musicians, Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, Recorded Together in 1958 (0)
- 28: Andy Warhol Demystified: Four Videos Explain His Groundbreaking Art and Its Cultural Impact (0)
- 27: How Carl Jung Inspired the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous (6)
- 27: Watch Patti Smith’s New Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud (0)
- 27: Why You Should Read Crime and Punishment: An Animated Introduction to Dostoevsky’s Moral Thriller (5)
- 25: Todd Rundgren’s Advice to Young Artists: Be Free and Fearless, Make Art That Expresses Your True Self, and Never Mind the Critics (2)
- 25: The Mueller Report Released as a Free Well-Formatted eBook (by The Digital Public Library of America) (3)
- 24: How Computers Ruined Rock Music (3)
- 24: Johannes Kepler Theorized That Each Planet Sings a Song, Each in a Different Voice: Mars is a Tenor; Mercury, a Soprano; and Earth, an Alto (1)
- 23: New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s (18)
- 23: The Creative Life of Jim Henson Explored in a Six-Part Documentary Series (0)
- 23: When John Waters Appeared on The Simpsons and Changed America’s LGBTQ Views (1997) (5)
- 22: Banksy Strikes Again in Venice (2)
- 22: Fleetwood Mac Unveils Their New Singer Stevie Nicks, and The World Takes Notice: Watch Bewitching Performances of “Rhiannon” (1975-1976) (2)
- 22: The Strikingly Beautiful Maps & Charts That Fired the Imagination of Students in the 1880s (0)
- 22: The Lives of John Coltrane & Billie Holiday Are Now Told in Two Graphic Novels (2)
- 21: The Bauhaus Bookshelf: Download Original Bauhaus Books, Journals, Manifestos & Ads That Still Inspire Designers Worldwide (1)
- 21: James Taylor Gives Guitar Lessons, Teaching You How to Play Classic Songs Like “Fire and Rain,” “Country Road” & “Carolina in My Mind” (2)
- 21: The Story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Rise in the 1980s Art World Gets Told in a New Graphic Novel (1)
- 20: MIT Robot Breaks Rubik’s Cube World Record, Solving It in 0.38 Seconds (1)
- 20: Who Is Neil Young?: A Video Essay Explores the Two Sides of the Versatile Musician–Folk Icon and Father of Grunge (4)
- 20: Keith Moon Plays Drums Onstage with Led Zeppelin in What Would Be His Last Live Performance (1977) (4)
- 20: Discover Kōlams, the Traditional Indian Patterns That Combine Art, Mathematics & Magic (0)
- 19: Graduation Highlight: Billionaire Robert F. Smith Announces That He’ll Pay Off the Student Loans of Morehouse’s Class of 2019 (2)
- 17: Pink Floyd Songs Played Splendidly on a Harp Guitar: “Comfortably Numb,” “Wish You Were Here” & More (0)
- 17: A New Archive Transcribes and Puts Online the Diaries & Notebooks of Women Artists, Art Historians, Critics and Dealers (0)
- 17: What Did Etruscan Sound Like? An Animated Video Pronounces the Ancient Language That We Still Don’t Fully Understand (1)
- 16: The Who and Jimmy Fallon Sing “Won’t Get Fooled Again” with Classroom Instruments (0)
- 16: When The New York Times Got Duped into Publishing “The Lexicon of Grunge” in 1992–Words Like “Lamestain,” “Wack Slacks,” “Harsh Realm” & More (2)
- 16: Critical Thinking: A Free Course (2)
- 16: Hunter S. Thompson’s Ballsy Job Application Letter (1958) (0)
- 16: The Writing System of the Cryptic Voynich Manuscript Explained: British Researcher May Have Finally Cracked the Code (0)
- 15: A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Existing Collection of His Drawings & Writings (1)
- 15: When Dracula Author Bram Stoker Wrote a Gushing Fan Letter to Walt Whitman (1870) (0)
- 15: Creative Commons Officially Launches a Search Engine That Indexes 300+ Million Public Domain Images (0)
- 15: Paris, New York & Havana Come to Life in Colorized Films Shot Between 1890 and 1931 (0)
- 14: Free: Play the Original “Minecraft” in Your Browser (15)
- 14: Learn Philosophy with a Wealth of Free Courses, Podcasts and YouTube Videos (1)
- 14: Watch “Critical Living,” a Stop-Motion Film Inspired by the 1960s Movement That Rejected Modern Ideas About Mental Illness (0)
- 14: Would You Go Back to 1889 and Take Out Baby Hitler?: Time-Travel Expert James Gleick Answers the Philosophical Question (9)
- 13: Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of 46 Books: From Plants and Neuroscience, to Poetry and the Prose of Nabokov (2)
- 13: An Animated Introduction to the World’s Five Major Religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity & Islam (2)
- 13: Watch the World’s First Animated Cartoon, 1908’s Trippy, Funny Fantasmagorie (1)
- 10: The Artistry of the Mentally Ill: The 1922 Book That Published the Fascinating Work of Schizophrenic Patients, and Influenced Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky & Other Avant Garde Artists (3)
- 10: Why Knights Fought Snails in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts (10)
- 10: Star Trek‘s Nichelle Nichols Creates a Short Film for NASA to Recruit New Astronauts (1977) (0)
- 09: “Gonzo” Defined by Hunter S. Thompson’s Personal Copy of the Random House Dictionary (0)
- 09: Tangled Up in Blue: Deciphering a Bob Dylan Masterpiece (0)
- 09: A Mesmerizing Trip Across the Brooklyn Bridge: Watch Footage from 1899 (0)
- 09: Discover Friedrich Nietzsche’s Curious Typewriter, the “Malling-Hansen Writing Ball” (Circa 1881) (1)
- 09: What is Camp? When the “Good Taste of Bad Taste” Becomes an Aesthetic (0)
- 08: Discover Frida Kahlo’s Wildly-Illustrated Diary: It Chronicled the Last 10 Years of Her Life, and Then Got Locked Away for Decades (0)
- 08: Mapping Emotions in the Body: A Finnish Neuroscience Study Reveals Where We Feel Emotions in Our Bodies (4)
- 08: Is the Leonardo da Vinci Painting “Salvator Mundi” (Which Sold for $450 Million in 2017) Actually Authentic?: Michael Lewis Explores the Question in His New Podcast (2)
- 08: What the Theory?: Watch Short Introductions to Postmodernism, Semiotics, Phenomenology, Marxist Literary Criticism and More (0)
- 07: How David Bowie Used William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method to Write His Unforgettable Lyrics (3)
- 07: Mr. Rogers’ Nine Rules for Speaking to Children (1977) (0)
- 07: Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Japanese Chalk (2)
- 07: Pioneering Computer Scientist Grace Hopper Shows Us How to Visualize a Nanosecond (1983) (0)
- 06: Venerable Female Artists, Musicians & Authors Give Advice to the Young: Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson & More (0)
- 06: What Is Performance Art?: We Explain It with Video Introductions and Classic Performances (0)
- 06: The Shifting Power of the World’s Largest Cities Visualized Over 4,000 Years (2050 BC-2050 AD) (0)
- 06: The Rise and Fall of Western Empires Visualized Through the Artful Metaphor of Cell Division (0)
- 03: How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from “Moby Dick”: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (1)
- 03: How to Make a Medieval Manuscript: An Introduction in 7 Videos (0)
- 03: 2,500+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in May: Enroll Today (3)
- 02: The Last Duel Took Place in France in 1967, and It’s Caught on Film (10)
- 02: 53 Years of Nuclear Testing in 14 Minutes: A Time Lapse Film by Japanese Artist Isao Hashimoto (0)
- 02: When American Financiers and Business Leaders Plotted to Overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and Install a Fascist Government in the U.S. (1933) (6)
- 02: Behold the Ingenious Musical Marble Machine (0)
- 01: Meanwhile, Inside the Box, Schrodinger’s Cat Plans Its Revenge… (3)
- 01: Elizabeth Cotten Wrote “Freight Train” at 11, Won a Grammy at 90, and Changed American Music In-Between (0)
- 01: Classic Children’s Books Now Digitized and Put Online: Revisit Vintage Works from the 19th & 20th Centuries (0)
- 01: Watch Six New Short Alien Films: Created to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Film (0)
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- 30: A Dictionary of Words Invented to Name Emotions We All Feel, But Don’t Yet Have a Name For: Vemödalen, Sonder, Chrysalism & Much More (5)
- 30: High School Kids Stage Alien: The Play and You Can Now Watch It Online (0)
- 30: Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the Original Fat Albert TV Special (1969) (1)
- 30: The Cast of Avengers: Endgame Rendered in Traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e Style (0)
- 29: Hear Debbie Harry’s Stunning Ethereal Vocal Tracks from “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “Rapture,” and “One Way or Another” (3)
- 29: Roald Dahl, Who Lost His Daughter to Measles, Writes a Heartbreaking Letter about Vaccinations: “It Is Almost a Crime to Allow Your Child to Go Unimmunised” (5)
- 29: Is Modern Society Stealing What Makes Us Human?: A Glimpse Into Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra by The Partially Examined Life (4)
- 29: Meet Freddie Mercury and His Faithful Feline Friends (1)
- 29: Watch the Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack Released Only in Japan: A New Way to Experience David Lynch’s Classic Show (0)
- 28: How to Take 70+ MasterClass Courses For Less Than a Cup of Good Coffee (2)
- 26: Why Do Sad People Like to Listen to Sad Music? Psychologists Answer the Question in Two Studies (15)
- 26: Steven Pinker & Rebecca Goldstein Debate the Value of Reason in an Animated Socratic Dialogue (0)
- 26: Steve Jobs Shares a Secret for Success: Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help (0)
- 26: Trivial Pursuit: The Shakespeare Edition Has Just Been Released: Answer 600 Questions Based on the Life & Works of William Shakespeare (0)
- 25: David Bowie’s Mystical Appearances in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (4)
- 25: Listen to Last Seen, a True-Crime Podcast That Takes You Inside an Unsolved, $500 Million Art Heist (0)
- 25: Animated Maps Reveal the True Size of Countries (and Show How Traditional Maps Distort Our World) (2)
- 25: The Ten Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers (52)
- 24: An Animated Introduction to H.P. Lovecraft and How He Invented a New Gothic Horror (1)
- 24: A Short Animated Film Explores the Fluidity of Gender in the Thought of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler (1)
- 24: Stream Free Online 200 Films from Tribeca Film Festivals (0)
- 24: Freddie Mercury Reimagined as Comic Book Heroes (1)
- 23: Hear J.R.R. Tolkien Read from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in Vintage Recordings from the Early 1950s (4)
- 23: Hear Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig in the Sky” Played on the Theremin (0)
- 23: The Medieval City Plan Generator: A Fun Way to Create Your Own Imaginary Medieval Cities (0)
- 23: The Daily Rituals of 143 Famous Female Creators: Octavia Butler, Edith Wharton, Coco Chanel & More (0)
- 22: Here’s What Ancient Dogs Looked Like: A Forensic Reconstruction of a Dog That Lived 4,500 Years Ago (3)
- 22: Enter, Explore, and Learn About Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson with a New Augmented-Reality App (0)
- 22: What Is a Zen Koan? An Animated Introduction to Eastern Philosophical Thought Experiments (0)
- 22: Paris in Beautiful Color Images from 1890: The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, The Panthéon, and More (1890) (0)
- 20: Experience the Majesty of Notre Dame by Getting a Free Download of the Video Game Assassin’s Creed Unity (Free for a Limited Time) (0)
- 20: Climate Change Gets Strikingly Visualized by a Scottish Art Installation (10)
- 19: Billy Collins Teaches Poetry in a New Online Course (1)
- 19: Street Art for Book Lovers: Dutch Artists Paint Massive Bookcase Mural on the Side of a Building (1)
- 19: The Mueller Report Is #1, #2 and #3 on the Amazon Bestseller List: You Can Get It Free Online (2)
- 18: 9 Science-Fiction Authors Predict the Future: How Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick & More Imagined the World Ahead (1)
- 18: How the Vietnam War Shaped Classic Rock–And How Classic Rock Shaped the War (5)
- 18: 150 Renowned Secular Academics & 20 Christian Thinkers Talking About the Existence of God (0)
- 18: How Venice Works: 124 Islands, 183 Canals & 438 Bridges (1)
- 17: How Digital Scans of Notre Dame Can Help Architects Rebuild the Burned Cathedral (0)
- 17: A 16th Century “Database” of Every Book in the World Gets Unearthed: Discover the Libro de los Epítomes Assembled by Christopher Columbus’ Son (2)
- 17: Animations Visualize the Evolution of London and New York: From Their Creation to the Present Day (2)
- 16: A Virtual Time-Lapse Recreation of the Building of Notre Dame (1160) (0)
- 16: How Andy Warhol and Tintin Creator Hergé Mutually Admired and Influenced One Another (0)
- 16: “Kubrick/Tarkovsky”: A Video Essay Explores the Visual Similarities Between the Two “Cinematic Giants” (1)
- 16: How Leonardo da Vinci Drew an Accurate Satellite Map of an Italian City (1502) (0)
- 15: Notre Dame Captured in an Early Photograph, 1838 (2)
- 15: The Charlie Chaplin Archive Opens, Putting Online 30,000 Photos & Documents from the Life of the Iconic Film Star (1)
- 15: Should Literature Be Political? A Glimpse into Sartre by The Partially Examined Life (0)
- 15: Salvador Dalí’s Illustrations for The Bible (1963) (0)
- 15: Fashion Designers in 1939 Predict How People Would Dress in the Year 2000 (0)
- 15: How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole: Watch the 2017 Ted Talk by Katie Bouman, the MIT Grad Student Who Helped Take the Groundbreaking Photo (0)
- 14: Google Celebrates the Bauhaus School’s 100th Anniversary with an Animated Doodle (0)
- 12: Nick Cave Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Songs–His Favorite “Hiding Songs” (2)
- 12: Jorge Luis Borges Draws a Self-Portrait After Going Blind (0)
- 12: Thomas Mann Explains the Nazis’ Ulterior Motive for Spreading Anti-Semitism in Rare 1940 Audio (1)
- 11: See the Oldest Printed Advertisement in English: An Ad for a Book from 1476 (0)
- 11: The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics Collided with the Religious Right (1)
- 11: Economics 101: Hedge Fund Investor Ray Dalio Explains How the Economy Works in a 30-Minute Animated Video (0)
- 10: Nick Cave Creates a List of His Top 10 Love Songs (6)
- 10: A Brief History of IDEO: A Short Documentary Takes You Inside the Design Firm That Changed the Way We Think about Design (0)
- 10: New Augmented Reality App Celebrates Stories of Women Typically Omitted from U.S. History Textbooks (3)
- 09: When the Nazis Declared War on Expressionist Art (1937) (2)
- 09: 550 Million Years of Human Evolution in an Illustrated Flipbook (0)
- 09: What Does “Machiavellian” Really Mean?: An Animated Lesson (0)
- 09: Behold the Sola-Busca Tarot Deck, the Earliest Complete Set of Tarot Cards (1490) (2)
- 08: Watch the Trailer for Echo in the Canyon, the New Documentary on the 1960s Laurel Canyon Music Scene (1)
- 08: Neurons as Art: See Beautiful Anatomy Drawings by the Father of Neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (0)
- 08: Cinema Lovers Rejoice, the New Criterion Channel Launches Today: Get a 14-Day Free Trial (2)
- 08: Deconstructing Steely Dan: The Band That Was More Than Just a Band (14)
- 08: Watch Great Directors, a Documentary That Explores the Minds of 10 Great Auteurs: David Lynch, Agnès Varda, Richard Linklater & More (0)
- 05: 700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized and Available Online (13)
- 05: Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape in the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back (10)
- 05: The Fantastical Sketchbook of a Medieval Inventor: See Designs for Flamethrowers, Mechanical Camels & More (Circa 1415) (0)
- 05: An Animated History of Dogs, Inspired by Keith Haring (0)
- 04: Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful (0)
- 04: Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings (10)
- 04: 800+ Treasured Medieval Manuscripts to Be Digitized by Cambridge & Heidelberg Universities (0)
- 04: NASA Captures First Air-to-Air Images of Supersonic Shockwaves Interacting in Flight (1)
- 03: A Brief Animated Introduction to the Life and Work of Frida Kahlo (0)
- 03: 2,400+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in April: Enroll Today (0)
- 03: High School Kids Stage Alien: The Play, Get Kudos from Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver (1)
- 03: It’s Official: The “Nones”– People Who Profess No Religion–Are Now as Big as Catholics & Evangelicals in the United States (3)
- 02: Noam Chomsky Makes His First Power Point Presentation (6)
- 02: The First American Picture Book, Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928) (2)
- 02: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Beauty of Brutalist Architecture: An Introduction in Six Videos (7)
- 02: See Classic Performances of Joni Mitchell from the Very Early Years–Before She Was Even Named Joni Mitchell (1965/66) (1)
- 01: The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: A New Documentary (0)
- 01: David Bowie Songs Reimagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers: Space Oddity, Heroes, Life on Mars & More (4)
- 01: Do Ethicists Behave Any Better Than the Rest of Us?: Here’s What the Research Shows (0)
- 01: Modern Corporate Logos Reimagined in a Classic Bauhaus Style: Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Bauhaus Movement Today (0)
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- 29: Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist (10)
- 29: Does Democracy Demand the Tolerance of the Intolerant? Karl Popper’s Paradox (13)
- 29: Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts: Why So Many Drawings in the Margins Depict Bunnies Going Bad (18)
- 28: 140 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (0)
- 28: Isaac Asimov’s Guide to the Bible: A Witty, Erudite Atheist’s Guide to the World’s Most Famous Book (6)
- 28: Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: A Digital Celebration of the Founding of the Bauhaus School 100 Years Ago (0)
- 28: The Amazing Isolated Drums of Dennis Davis, David Bowie’s Master Drummer, Revisited by Producer Tony Visconti (2)
- 28: Newly Discovered Shipwreck Proves Herodotus, the “Father of History,” Correct 2500 Years Later (1)
- 27: The Venice Time Machine: 1,000 Years of Venice’s History Gets Digitally Preserved with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (2)
- 27: Steven Pinker’s 13 Rules for Good Writing (1)
- 27: Salvador Dalí & the Marx Brothers’ 1930s Film Script Gets Released as a Graphic Novel (0)
- 26: New Archive Digitizes 80,000 Historic Watercolor Paintings, the Medium Through Which We Documented the World Before Photography (5)
- 26: A Visual Map of the World’s Major Religions (and Non-Religions) (1)
- 26: Why Nobody Smiles in Old Photos: The Technological & Cultural Reasons Behind All those Black-and-White Frowns (0)
- 25: William S. Burroughs’ Manifesto for Overthrowing a Corrupt Government with Fake News and Other Prophetic Methods: It’s Now Published for the First Time (1)
- 25: Does Playing Music for Cheese During the Aging Process Change Its Flavor? Researchers Find That Hip Hop Makes It Smellier, and Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Makes It Milder (2)
- 25: The Sax Solo on Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” on a 10 Hour, Endless Loop (6)
- 25: Journalism Under Siege: A Free Course from Stanford Explores the Imperiled Freedom of the Press (5)
- 25: Watch Seder-Masochism, Nina Paley’s Animated, Feminist Take on the Passover Holiday: The Animated Feature Film Is Free and in the Public Domain (1)
- 24: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100: Hear the Great San Francisco Poet Read “Trump’s Trojan Horse,” “Pity the Nation” & Many Other Poems (4)
- 22: 24 Common Cognitive Biases: A Visual List of the Psychological Systems Errors That Keep Us From Thinking Rationally (4)
- 22: Beautiful Hand-Colored Japanese Flowers Created by the Pioneering Photographer Ogawa Kazumasa (1896) (0)
- 22: An Archive of Animations/Cartoons of Ancient Greece & Rome: From the 1920s Through Today (1)
- 21: The Case for Why Captain Beefheart’s Awful Sounding Album, Trout Mask Replica, Is a True Masterpiece (5)
- 21: Why We Dance: An Animated Video Explains the Science Behind Why We Bust a Move (1)
- 21: Oxford’s Free Course Critical Reasoning For Beginners Teaches You to Think Like a Philosopher (8)
- 20: Mythos: An Animation Retells Timeless Greek Myths with Abstract Modern Designs (1)
- 20: David Lynch Teaches an Online Course on Film & Creativity (1)
- 20: Christopher Hitches Makes the Case for Paying Reparations for Slavery in the United States (7)
- 20: Behold the Anciente Mappe of Fairyland, a Fantastical 1917 Mashup of Tales from Homer’s Odyssey, King Arthur, the Brothers Grimm & More (1)
- 19: Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Civilization–and Recommends Ways to Ensure That It Survives (1978) (0)
- 19: Virginia Woolf & Friends Name Their Favorite and Least Favorite Writers in a Newly Unearthed 1923 Survey (0)
- 19: Artificial Intelligence for Everyone: An Introductory Course from Andrew Ng, the Co-Founder of Coursera (2)
- 19: The Gnarly Surf Rock of Dick Dale (RIP): Watch the Legend Play “Misirlou,” Surfin’ the Wedge,” and “Pipeline” (with Stevie Ray Vaughan) (1)
- 18: Take a Journey Inside Vincent Van Gogh’s Paintings with a New Digital Exhibition (1)
- 18: How Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?: An Animated Primer (1)
- 18: The Lou Reed Archive Opens at the New York Public Library: Get Your Own Lou Reed Library Card and Check It Out (0)
- 18: Bohemian Rhapsody’s Bad Editing: A Breakdown (0)
- 15: An Animated Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Life & Thought (1)
- 15: The CIA’s Rectal Tool Kit for Spies–Created for Truly Desperate Situations During The Cold War (2)
- 15: Leonard Bernstein Awkwardly Turns the Screws on Tenor Jose Carreras While Recording West Side Story (1984) (3)
- 14: Natalie Portman Teaches a MasterClass in Acting (3)
- 14: When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from Absalom, Absalom! (17)
- 14: Watch an Animated Score for Steve Reich’s Minimalist Piece “Clapping Music“–and Try Your Hardest to Follow Along (0)
- 14: Jack Kerouac’s “Beat Paintings:” Now Gathered in One Book and Exhibition for the First Time (1)
- 13: The Band Everyone Thought Was The Beatles: Revisit the Klaatu Conspiracy of 1976 (2)
- 13: William Faulkner’s Review of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952) (3)
- 13: Buckminster Fuller Rails Against the “Nonsense of Earning a Living”: Why Work Useless Jobs When Technology & Automation Can Let Us Live More Meaningful Lives (11)
- 13: An Animated Introduction to the Famous Thought Experiment, the “Trolley Problem,” Narrated by Harry Shearer (0)
- 12: A Stunning Live Concert Film of Queen Performing in Montreal, Digitally Restored to Perfection (1981) (2)
- 12: Discover the Great Medieval Manuscript, the Book of Kells, in a Free Online Course (0)
- 12: Why Should We Read Sylvia Plath? An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 12: The Roman Roads of Spain & Portugal Visualized as a Subway Map: Ancient History Meets Modern Graphic Design (1)
- 11: The Amazing Franz Kafka Workout!: Discover the 15-Minute Exercise Routine That Swept the World in 1904 (3)
- 11: Alan Watts Presents a 15-Minute Guided Meditation: A Time-Tested Way to Stop Thinking About Thinking (1)
- 11: Bill Murray Explains How a 19th-Century Painting Saved His Life (1)
- 10: The Big Pond: Stream 50 Audio Stories from the Goethe-Institut, Available Free Online (0)
- 08: Artificial Intelligence Identifies the Six Main Arcs in Storytelling: Welcome to the Brave New World of Literary Criticism (5)
- 08: Here’s John Steinbeck Asking Marilyn Monroe for Her Autograph (1955) (1)
- 08: The Cringe-Inducing Humor of The Office Explained with Philosophical Theories of Mind (0)
- 07: Hear Patti Smith’s New Work With The Soundwalk Collective, a Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud (1)
- 07: “Stay Free: The Story of the Clash” Narrated by Public Enemy’s Chuck D: A New 8-Episode Podcast (3)
- 07: Sleep or Die: Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains How Sleep Can Restore or Imperil Our Health (1)
- 07: Van Gogh’s Ugliest Masterpiece: A Break Down of His Late, Great Painting, The Night Café (1888) (1)
- 06: The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized & Put Online (17)
- 06: Download the ModulAir, a Free Polyphonic Synthesizer, and Make Your Own Electronic Sounds (1)
- 06: 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Her Letter About How Books Save Lives (1)
- 06: John Cleese Revisits His 20 Years as an Ivy League Professor in His New Book, Professor at Large: The Cornell Years (3)
- 05: 97-Year-Old Philosopher Ponders the Meaning of Life: “What Is the Point of It All?” (10)
- 05: A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) (2)
- 05: 2,000 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in March: Enroll Today (0)
- 05: 60 Free-to-Stream Movies for Women’s History Month: Classic Agnès Varda, a Portrait of Susan Sontag, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, and More (1)
- 04: Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Perform the Earliest Version of Hamilton at the White House, Six Years Before the Play Hit the Broadway Stage (2009) (0)
- 04: A Tactile Map of the Roman Empire: An Innovative Map That Allowed Blind & Sighted Students to Experience Geography by Touch (1888) (0)
- 04: An Animated Introduction to the Chaotic Brilliance of Jean-Michel Basquiat: From Homeless Graffiti Artist to Internationally Renowned Painter (0)
- 01: 40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language (20)
- 01: Jim Morrison Declares That “Fat is Beautiful” …. And Means It (0)
- 01: The Elaborate Pictogram Ernest Hemingway Received in the Hospital During WWI: Can You Decode Its Meaning? (0)
- February 2019 (71)
- 28: Download 10,000+ Books in Arabic, All Completely Free, Digitized and Put Online (18)
- 28: The British Library Digitizes Its Collection of Obscene Books (1658-1940) (0)
- 28: Behold The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907-1917) (0)
- 28: Hear Underground 12, the Earliest Known Case of Musicians Recording While Under the Influence of LSD (1966) (2)
- 27: The 100 Top Punk Songs of All Time, Curated by Readers of the UK’s Sounds Magazine in 1981 (28)
- 27: All the Rembrandts: The Rijksmuseum Puts All 400 Rembrandts It Owns on Display for the First Time (0)
- 27: Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, and A Christmas Carol Written in Shorthand (Circa 1919) (1)
- 26: A Brief Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Linguistic Theory, Narrated by The X-Files‘ Gillian Anderson (2)
- 26: Watch Marc Martel, Who Supplied Vocals for the Award-Winning Queen Film, Sing Just Like Freddie Mercury: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are The Champions” & More (6)
- 26: The New Normal: Spike Jonze Creates a Very Short Film About America’s Complex History with Cannabis (3)
- 26: The Life & Work of Edvard Munch, Explored by Patti Smith and Charlotte Gainsbourg (0)
- 25: The Lifespan of Ancient Civilizations Detailed in a Handy Infographic: Are We Headed Towards Our Own Collapse? (5)
- 25: To Save Civilization, the Rich Need to Pay Their Taxes: Historian Rutger Bregman Speaks Truth to Power at Davos and to Fox’s Tucker Carlson (4)
- 25: Discover the KattenKabinet: Amsterdam’s Museum Devoted to Works of Art Featuring Cats (1)
- 22: Hear a Six-Hour Mix Tape of Hunter S. Thompson’s Favorite Music & the Songs Name-Checked in His Gonzo Journalism (1)
- 22: 18 Classic Myths Explained with Animation: Pandora’s Box, Sisyphus & More (0)
- 22: Watch the Last Time Peter Tork (RIP) & The Monkees Played Together During Their 1960s Heyday: It’s a Psychedelic Freakout (1)
- 21: Has the Voynich Manuscript Finally Been Decoded?: Researchers Claim That the Mysterious Text Was Written in Phonetic Old Turkish (28)
- 21: Hear the First Musical Composition Created by a Computer: The Illiac Suite (1956) (0)
- 21: 23 Million Patrons of California’s Public Libraries Can Now Read The New York Times for Free Online (1)
- 21: The History of Ancient Greece in 18 Minutes: A Brisk Primer Narrated by Brian Cox (0)
- 20: The History of Ancient Rome in 20 Quick Minutes: A Primer Narrated by Brian Cox (0)
- 20: How the Mona Lisa Went From Being Barely Known, to Suddenly the Most Famous Painting in the World (1911) (0)
- 20: Haruki Murakami Announces an Archive That Will House His Manuscripts, Letters & Collection of 10,000+ Vinyl Records (0)
- 19: Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy (0)
- 19: Watch Bauhaus World, a Free Documentary That Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Germany’s Legendary Art, Architecture & Design School (0)
- 19: How Obsessive Artists Colorize Old Photographs & Restore the True Colors of the Past (0)
- 19: An Interactive Map of the 2,000+ Sounds Humans Use to Communicate Without Words: Grunts, Sobs, Sighs, Laughs & More (1)
- 18: Jimi Hendrix Arrives in London in 1966, Asks to Get Onstage with Cream, and Blows Eric Clapton Away: “You Never Told Me He Was That F-ing Good” (42)
- 18: A New Collection of Official, Authorized Prince GIFs! (0)
- 18: Famous Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci Celebrated in a New Series of Stamps (0)
- 18: A Telecaster Made Out of 1200 Colored Pencils (0)
- 15: 800 Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts Are Now Online: Browse & Download Them Courtesy of the British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale de France (5)
- 15: When Fred Rogers and Francois Clemmons Broke Down Race Barriers on a Historic Episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1969) (1)
- 15: Lucille Ball Demos a Precursor to Peter Frampton’s “Talk Box” (1939) (2)
- 15: Watch the Trailers for Tolkien and Catch-22, Two New Literary Films (0)
- 14: A Six-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study (6)
- 14: 10 Tips on How to Write a Great Screenplay from Billy Wilder: Pearls of Wisdom from the Director of Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity & More (0)
- 14: Hear Neil Gaiman Read Aloud 15 of His Own Works, and Works by 6 Other Great Writers: From The Graveyard Book & Coraline, to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven & Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (2)
- 14: Women’s Hidden Contributions to Modern Genetics Get Revealed by New Study: No Longer Will They Be Buried in the Footnotes (0)
- 13: Hear Siouxsie Sioux’s Powerful Isolated Vocals on “The Killing Jar,” “Hong Kong Garden,” “Cities In Dust” & “Kiss Them for Me” (0)
- 13: “Odyssey of the Ear”: A Beautiful Animation Shows How Sounds Travel Into Our Ears and Become Thoughts in Our Brain (1)
- 13: An Animated Reconstruction of Ancient Rome: Take A 30-Minute Stroll Through the City’s Virtually-Recreated Streets (6)
- 12: How Talking Heads and Brian Eno Wrote “Once in a Lifetime”: Cutting Edge, Strange & Utterly Brilliant (3)
- 12: Michel Foucault Offers a Clear, Compelling Introduction to His Philosophical Project (1966) (0)
- 12: Why Should We Read Flannery O’Connor? An Animated Video Makes the Case (0)
- 12: Becoming: A Short Timelapse Film Shows a Single Cell Morphing Into a Complete, Complex Living Organism (2)
- 11: Dieter Rams Lists the 10 Timeless Principles of Good Design–Backed by Music by Brian Eno (0)
- 11: Neil Gaiman Reads His Manifesto on Making Art: Features the 10 Things He Wish He Knew As a Young Artist (0)
- 11: Historic Manuscript Filled with Beautiful Illustrations of Cuban Flowers & Plants Is Now Online (1826 ) (0)
- 08: George Orwell’s Essay “British Cookery” is Officially Published 70 Years After It Was Rejected by the British Council (1946) (1)
- 08: Download Free Coloring Books from 113 Museums (39)
- 08: The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: A Free Online Atlas That Helps Preserve Writing Systems That May Soon Disappear (4)
- 07: In the 1920s America, Jazz Music Was Considered Harmful to Human Health, the Cause of “Neurasthenia,” “Perpetually Jerking Jaws” & More (0)
- 07: The East German Secret Police’s Illustrated Guide for Identifying Youth Subcultures: Punks, Goths, Teds & More (1985) (0)
- 07: The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious Sings Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”: Is Nothing Sacred? (1)
- 06: A Short History of How Punk Became Punk: From Late 50s Rockabilly and Garage Rock to The Ramones & Sex Pistols (11)
- 06: Watch The Journey, the New Ridley Scott Short Film Teased During the Super Bowl (0)
- 06: The Origins of the “Amen Break,” The Most Sampled Piece of Recorded Music Ever (0)
- 06: A Vintage Grand Piano Gets Reengineered to Play 20 Different Instruments with a Push of Its Keys (2)
- 05: Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada (3)
- 05: The Mastermind of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, Presents His Personal Synthesizer Collection (0)
- 05: Watch a Towering Orchestral Tribute to Kate Bush: A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Her First Single, “Wuthering Heights” (2)
- 05: Pioneering Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (1)
- 04: The Case for Why Ringo Starr Is One of Rock’s Greatest Drummers (30)
- 04: The “Slave Bible” Removed Key Biblical Passages In Order to Legitimize Slavery & Discourage a Slave Rebellion (1807) (5)
- 04: Explore an Interactive Version of The Wall of Birds, a 2,500 Square-Foot Mural That Documents the Evolution of Birds Over 375 Million Years (0)
- 04: How Dorothea Lange Shot, Migrant Mother, Perhaps the Most Iconic Photo in American History (5)
- 01: Monty Python’s Best Philosophy Sketches: “The Philosophers’ Football Match,” “Philosopher’s Drinking Song” & More (1)
- 01: How the Clavichord & Harpsichord Became the Modern Piano: The Evolution of Keyboard Instruments, Explained (2)
- 01: A History of the Entire World in Less Than 20 Minutes (0)
- January 2019 (88)
- 31: The Evolution of the Alphabet: A Colorful Flowchart, Covering 3,800 Years, Takes You From Ancient Egypt to Today (6)
- 31: CBGB’s Heyday: Watch The Ramones, The Dead Boys, Bad Brains, Talking Heads & Blondie Perform Live (1974-1982) (2)
- 31: The Real Locations of Ukiyo-e, Historic Japanese Woodblock Prints, Plotted on a Google Map (0)
- 31: 2,400 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in February: Enroll Today (4)
- 30: Watch The Beatles Perform Their Famous Rooftop Concert: It Happened 50 Years Ago Today (January 30, 1969) (2)
- 30: Artificial Intelligence Brings Salvador Dalí Back to Life: “Greetings, I Am Back” (4)
- 30: Watch Black Panther For Free in Theaters, Starting This Friday (0)
- 30: Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling in His New Online Course (3)
- 30: Enter an Online Interactive Documentary on Rembrandt’s The Night Watch and Learn About the Painting’s Many Hidden Secrets (0)
- 29: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Daily Routine: The Discipline That Fueled Her Imagination (3)
- 29: The Cleveland Museum of Art Digitizes Its Collection, Putting 30,000 Works Online and Into the Public Domain (1)
- 29: Watch a New Virtual Reality Production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Modern Take on a Classic Play (0)
- 28: Nick Cave Answers the Hotly Debated Question: Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Be Able to Write a Great Song? (0)
- 28: Scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody Compared to Real Life: A 21-Minute Compilation (0)
- 28: How Michel Legrand (RIP) Gave the French New Wave a Sound: Revisit the Influential Music He Composed for Jean-Luc Godard & Jacques Demy’s Films (0)
- 28: Hear Neil Gaiman Read a Beautiful, Profound Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin to His Cousin on Her 100th Birthday (0)
- 25: Watch Oscar-Nominated Documentary Universe, the Film that Inspired the Visual Effects of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and Gave the HAL 9000 Computer Its Voice (1960) (0)
- 25: Why Should We Read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451? A New TED-Ed Animation Explains (0)
- 25: Watch the Meditative Cinepoem “H20”: A Landmark Avant-Garde Art Film from 1929 (1)
- 24: Visualizing the Bass Playing Style of Motown’s Iconic Bassist James Jamerson: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “For Once in My Life” & More (3)
- 24: Watch 110 Lectures by Donald Knuth, “the Yoda of Silicon Valley,” on Programming, Mathematical Writing, and More (0)
- 24: Moebius Draws Adventurous Ads for Maxwell House Coffee (1989) (0)
- 24: Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera, the 8th Best Film Ever Made (2)
- 23: Nutritional Psychiatry: Why Diet May Play an Essential Role in Treating Mental Health Conditions, Including Depression, Anxiety & Beyond (1)
- 23: Mountain Monks: A Vivid Short Documentary on the Monks Who Practice an Ancient, Once-Forbidden Religion in Japan (0)
- 23: The 1959 Project: A New Photoblog Takes a Day-By-Day Look at 1959, the Great Watershed Year in Jazz (0)
- 22: A Virtual Tour of Every Place Referenced in The Beatles’ Lyrics: In 12 Minutes, Travel 25,000 Miles Across England, France, Russia, India & the US (0)
- 22: The Only Surviving Text Written in Arabic by an American Slave Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Read the Autobiography of Enslaved Islamic Scholar, Omar Ibn Said (1831) (8)
- 22: The Ancient Romans First Committed the Sartorial Crime of Wearing Socks with Sandals, Archaeological Evidence Suggests (2)
- 22: Discover the Ingenious Typewriter That Prints Musical Notation: The Keaton Music Typewriter Patented in 1936 (0)
- 21: Jodie Foster Teaches Filmmaking in Her First Online Course (0)
- 21: Librarian Honors a Dying Tree by Turning It Into a Little Free Library (2)
- 21: How Zora Neale Hurston & Eleanor Roosevelt Helped Create the First Realistic African American Baby Doll (1951) (1)
- 21: To Help Digitize and Preserve the Sound of Stradivarius Violins, a City in Italy Has Gone Silent (1)
- 18: Oodles of Classic Doctor Who Episodes Streaming Free Online This Month (0)
- 18: Hear Mary Oliver (RIP) Read Five of Her Poems: “The Summer Day,” “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night,” “Many Miles” and “Night and the River” (2)
- 18: Vintage Geological Maps Get Turned Into 3D Topographical Wonders (0)
- 18: Hear the Sounds of the Actual Instruments for Which Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and Handel Originally Composed Their Music (0)
- 17: Behold Moebius’ Many Psychedelic Illustrations of Jimi Hendrix (3)
- 17: A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926) (1)
- 17: An Animated History of Cheese: 10,000 Years in Under Six Minutes (1)
- 16: An Ancient Egyptian Homework Assignment from 1800 Years Ago: Some Things Are Truly Timeless (1)
- 16: America at War: Infographic Reveals How the U.S. Military Is Operating in 40% of the World’s Nations (5)
- 16: Stephen Fry Narrates Two Animated Videos Explaining How Fear, Loathing & Misinformation Drove the Brexit Campaign (7)
- 15: Download Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of 500 Japanese Prints, Which Inspired Him to Create “the Art of the Future” (2)
- 15: Complex Math Made Simple With Engaging Animations: Fourier Transform, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Neural Networks & More (1)
- 15: Making Sense of White Paintings: A Short Art History Lesson on Minimalism and the All-White Painting (4)
- 14: The Strange Dancing Plague of 1518: When Hundreds of People in France Could Not Stop Dancing for Months (1)
- 14: The Musical Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Get Brought to Life, and It Turns Out That They Sound “Painful” and “Horrible” (5)
- 14: A Fender Stratocaster Made Out of 1200 Colored Pencils (0)
- 14: A New Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 That’s Only Readable When You Apply Heat to Its Pages: Pre-Order It Today (2)
- 13: 150 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (0)
- 11: Philip Glass Finishes His David Bowie Trilogy, Debuting His Lodger Symphony (0)
- 11: Marie Kondo v. Tsundoku: Competing Japanese Philosophies on Whether to Keep or Discard Unread Books (13)
- 11: The Books That Samuel Beckett Read and Really Liked (1941-1956) (1)
- 11: An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick (3)
- 10: The Getty Digital Archive Expands to 135,000 Free Images: Download High Resolution Scans of Paintings, Sculptures, Photographs & Much Much More (0)
- 10: Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy (3)
- 10: Artist Hand-Cuts an Intricate Octopus From a Single Piece of Paper: Discover the Japanese Art of Kirie (0)
- 10: The Art of Creating Special Effects in Silent Movies: Ingenuity Before the Age of CGI (1)
- 09: The Hu, a New Breakthrough Band from Mongolia, Plays Heavy Metal with Traditional Folk Instruments and Throat Singing (29)
- 09: Actress Lucy Lawless Performs the Proto-Feminist Comedy “Lysistrata” for The Partially Examined Life Podcast (1)
- 09: When Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire Were Accused of Stealing the Mona Lisa (1911) (1)
- 09: Classic Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories by Gustave Doré, Édouard Manet, Harry Clarke, Aubrey Beardsley & Arthur Rackham (1)
- 08: The “David Bowie Is” Exhibition Is Now Available as an Augmented Reality Mobile App That’s Narrated by Gary Oldman: For David Bowie’s Birthday Today (1)
- 08: 1,700 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in January: Enroll Today (0)
- 08: Watch Four Daring Films by Lois Weber, “the Most Important Female Director the American Film Industry Has Known” (1913-1921) (2)
- 08: The Bustling Streets of Mumbai, India in 1929: Vintage Footage Captured with Very Early Sound Cameras (2)
- 07: The Largest J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit in Generations Is Coming to the U.S.: Original Drawings, Manuscripts, Maps & More (18)
- 07: Free: Download Thousands of Ottoman-Era Photographs That Have Been Digitized and Put Online (2)
- 07: Bill Gates, Book Critic, Names His Top 5 Books of 2018 (0)
- 07: How a Word Enters the Dictionary: A Quick Primer (0)
- 04: 11,000 Digitized Books From 1923 Are Now Available Online at the Internet Archive (0)
- 04: Watch the Painstaking and Nerve-Racking Process of Restoring a Drawing by Michelangelo (0)
- 04: The King and the Mockingbird: The Surreal French Animated Film That Took 30 Years to Complete, and Profoundly Influenced Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (2)
- 03: An Animated History of Versailles: Six Minutes of Animation Show the Construction of the Grand Palace Over 400 Years (0)
- 03: An Illustrated and Interactive Dante’s Inferno: Explore a New Digital Companion to the Great 14th-Century Epic Poem (0)
- 03: Safety Last, the 1923 Movie Featuring the Most Iconic Scene from Silent Film Era, Just Went Into the Public Domain (0)
- 03: Look How Young They Are!: The Beastie Boys Performing Live Their Very First Hit, “Cooky Puss” (1983) (0)
- 02: A 3D Animated History of Paris: Take a Visual Journey from Ancient Times to 1900 (1)
- 02: How the Inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Nobel, Read an Obituary That Called Him “The Merchant of Death” and Made Amends by Creating the Nobel Prize (0)
- 02: 450+ Movie Scenes Where Actors Break the Fourth Wall, Presented in Two Big Supercuts (2)
- 02: Why Is English So Hard to Learn?: The Ingenious Poem, “The Chaos,” Documents 800 Irregularities in English Spelling and Pronunciation (1)
- 01: Public Domain Day Is Finally Here!: Copyrighted Works Have Entered the Public Domain Today for the First Time in 21 Years (3)
- 01: Watch an Art Conservator Bring Classic Paintings Back to Life in Intriguingly Narrated Videos (4)
- 01: The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan (0)
- 01: How Nirvana’s Iconic “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Came to Be: An Animated Video Narrated by T-Bone Burnett Tells the True Story (0)
- 01: Make Orwell Fiction Again (19)
- December 2018 (78)
- 31: Haruki Murakami Day: Stream Seven Hours of Mixes Collecting All the Jazz, Classical & Classic American Pop Music from His Novels (1)
- 31: Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1983 What the World Will Look Like in 2019: Computerization, Global Co-operation, Leisure Time & Moon Mining (1)
- 31: 10 Rules for Appreciating Art by Sister Wendy Beckett (RIP), the Nun Who Unexpectedly Popularized Art History on TV (3)
- 28: President Obama Names His Favorite Books, Movies & Songs of 2018 (16)
- 28: Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War (1)
- 28: Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure (3)
- 28: Earthrise, Apollo 8’s Photo of Earth from Space, Turns 50: Download the Iconic Photograph from NASA (3)
- 27: Guillermo del Toro Names Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can the Most Underrated Great Movie of All Time (1)
- 27: NASA Creates Movie Parody Posters for Its Expedition Flights: Download Parodies of Metropolis, The Matrix, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and More (2)
- 26: Napoleon’s English Lessons: How the Military Leader Studied English to Escape the Boredom of Life in Exile (1)
- 26: Buckminster Fuller Documented His Life Every 15 Minutes, from 1920 Until 1983 (2)
- 26: Jazz Musician Plays Acoustic Guitar While Undergoing Brain Surgery, Helping Doctors Monitor Their Progress (0)
- 25: David Bowie and Bing Crosby’s “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy” Gets Psychedelically Covered by The Flaming Lips (0)
- 25: When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts (3)
- 25: Watch The Smiths Play Their Last Live Show (December 12th, 1986) (1)
- 25: What Makes Music Sound Like Christmas Music? Hear the Single Most Christmassy Chord of All Explained (0)
- 24: How David Lynch Stole Christmas (0)
- 24: New Digital Archive Will Feature the Complete Works of Egon Schiele: Start with 419 Paintings, Drawings & Sculptures (0)
- 24: Banksy Paints a Grim Holiday Mural: Season’s Greetings to All (0)
- 24: Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Photos of People, None of Whom Actually Exist (5)
- 24: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Emily Blunt Take You Through 22 Classic Musicals in 12 Minutes (3)
- 21: Researchers Recreate the Sounds Worshippers Heard in the Mosque of Cordoba Over 1,200 Years Ago (4)
- 21: The Moonlight Sonata But the Bass Is a Bar Late, and the Melody Is a Bar Early (4)
- 21: Discover Isotype, the 1920s Attempt to Create a Universal Language with Stylish Icons & Graphic Design (1)
- 21: Listen to a Heartfelt Musical Retelling of O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” with Hanky in Hand (1)
- 20: Masterclass Is Running a Special “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal: It Gives You & Family Member/Friend Access to Their Complete Course Catalog (0)
- 20: Watch a Playthrough of the Oldest Board Game in the World, the Sumerian Royal Game of Ur, Circa 2500 BC (5)
- 20: Take a Virtual Tour of Brazil’s National Museum & Its Artifacts: Google Digitized the Museum’s Collection Before the Fateful Fire (0)
- 20: Every Spider-Man Movie and TV Show Explained By Kevin Smith (0)
- 19: The Beastie Boys Release a New Freewheeling Memoir, and a Star-Studded 13-Hour Audiobook Featuring Snoop Dogg, Elvis Costello, Bette Midler, John Stewart & Dozens More (0)
- 19: Meet the Hurdy Gurdy, the Hand-Cranked Medieval Instrument with 80 Moving Parts (5)
- 19: Watch the First-Ever Kiss on Film Between Two Black Actors, Just Honored by the Library of Congress (1898) (0)
- 19: A Beautifully-Designed Edition of Euclid’s Elements from 1847 Gets Digitized: Explore the New Online, Interactive Reproduction (0)
- 18: Meet Henry Darger, the Most Famous of Outsider Artists, Who Died in Obscurity, Leaving Behind Hundreds of Unseen Fantasy Illustrations and a 15,000-Page Novel (3)
- 18: Apple Lets You Download Six Free Audio Books Read by Celebrity Narrators: Start with Kate Beckinsale Reading Pride & Prejudice (4)
- 18: See Classic Japanese Woodblocks Brought Surreally to Life as Animated GIFs (1)
- 17: Pristine Footage Lets You Revisit Life in Paris in the 1890s: Watch Footage Shot by the Lumière Brothers (5)
- 17: A Short Video Introduction to Hilma af Klint, the Mystical Female Painter Who Helped Invent Abstract Art (1)
- 17: How Emily Dickinson Writes A Poem: A Short Video Introduction (1)
- 17: The Revolutionary Title Sequences and Trailers Created by Pablo Ferro: Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Stop Making Sense, Bullitt & Other Films (0)
- 14: How the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing Scene in America (4)
- 14: A Beautiful Short Documentary Takes You Inside New York City’s Last Great Chess Store (2)
- 14: How the Astonishing Sushi Scene in Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Was Animated: A Time-Lapse of the Month-Long Shoot (0)
- 14: Carlos Santana & Tom Morello Launch Online Courses on How to Play the Guitar (0)
- 13: The Evolution of The Great Wave off Kanazawa: See Four Versions That Hokusai Painted Over Nearly 40 Years (1)
- 13: David Byrne Curates a Playlist of Great Protest Songs Written Over the Past 60 Years: Stream Them Online (21)
- 13: Take a Close Look at Basquiat’s Revolutionary Art in a New 500-Page, 14-Pound, Large Format Book by Taschen (0)
- 12: Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal” (19)
- 12: Watch Andy Warhol Eat an Entire Burger King Whopper–While Wishing the Burger Came from McDonald’s (1981) (6)
- 12: The Story of The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” the Boozy Ballad That Has Become One of the Most Beloved Christmas Songs of All Time (2)
- 11: In Bill Gates Office, There’s a Wall with the Entire Periodic Table with Samples of Each Element (2)
- 11: Wes Anderson’s Breakthrough Film, Rushmore, Revisited in Five Video Essays: It Came Out 20 Years Ago Today (1)
- 11: Take Animated Virtual Reality Tours of Ancient Rome at Its Architectural Peak (Circa 320 AD) (0)
- 11: Historic Console Used to Record “Stairway to Heaven” and Other Rock Classics Goes Up for Auction Today (0)
- 10: How Music Can Awaken Patients with Alzheimer’s and Dementia (2)
- 10: John Lennon’s Report Card at Age 15: “He Has Too Many Wrong Ambitions and His Energy Is Too Often Misplaced” (0)
- 10: Celebrate Emily Dickinson’s 188th Birthday with Her Own Cake Recipes: Coconut Cake, Gingerbread, Doughnuts & More (1)
- 10: Hear the Very First Sounds Ever Recorded on Mars, Courtesy of NASA (0)
- 07: How J.R.R. Tolkien Influenced Classic Rock & Metal: A Video Introduction (5)
- 07: The Strange History of Smooth Jazz: The Music We All Know and Love … to Hate (22)
- 07: Movie Accent Expert Analyzes 31 Actors Playing Other Famous People: Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy, Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan, and More (0)
- 07: 2,000 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in December: Enroll Today (0)
- 06: In 1964, Isaac Asimov Predicts What the World Will Look Like Today: Self-Driving Cars, Video Calls, Fake Meats & More (0)
- 06: Stream 48 Classic & Contemporary German Films Free Online: From Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (1)
- 06: Andy Kaufman Reads Earnestly from The Great Gatsby and Enrages His Audience (1)
- 06: Hunter S. Thompson, Existentialist Life Coach, Presents Tips for Finding Meaning in Life (0)
- 06: The Full Rotation of the Moon: A Beautiful, High Resolution Time Lapse Film (0)
- 05: Introducing the Mellotron: A Groovy 1965 Demonstration of the “Musical Computer” Used by The Beatles, Moody Blues & Other Psychedelic Pop Artists (0)
- 05: David Byrne Creates a Playlist of Eclectic Music for the Holidays: Stream It Free Online (0)
- 04: See the Complete Works of Vermeer in Augmented Reality: Google Makes Them Available on Your Smartphone (0)
- 04: Download Over 325 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum (1)
- 04: How Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” Video Changed Pop Culture Forever: Revisit the 13-Minute Short Film Directed by John Landis (0)
- 04: Why Should We Read Kurt Vonnegut? An Animated Video Makes the Case (6)
- 03: Watch Classic Performances by Peter Green (RIP), Founder of Fleetwood Mac & the Only British Blues Guitarist Who Gave B.B. King “the Cold Sweats” (3)
- 03: Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” Movingly Performed by the Six-String Soldiers, of The United States Army Field Band (11)
- 03: Behold the Original Deck of Oblique Strategies Cards, Handwritten by Brian Eno Himself (0)
- 03: Anatomy of a Fake: Forgery Experts Reveal 5 Ways To Spot a Fake Painting by Jackson Pollock (or Any Other Artist) (0)
- 01: The Thoughtful Note That George H.W. Bush Left on Bill Clinton’s Desk Before Leaving the White House (1993) (6)
- November 2018 (81)
- 30: When South Africa Banned Pink Floyd’s The Wall After Students Chanted “We Don’t Need No Education” to Protest the Apartheid School System (1980) (3)
- 30: Mira Nair, Director of Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, Teaches an Online Course on Indie Filmmaking (0)
- 30: Blade Runner Getting Adapted into a New Anime Series, Produced by Cowboy Bebop Animator Shinichiro Watanabe (1)
- 30: Andy Kaufman Creates Mayhem on Late Night TV: When Comedy Becomes Performance Art (1981) (0)
- 29: Watch Queen’s Dragtastic “I Want to Break Free” Video: It Was More Than America & MTV Could Handle (1984) (5)
- 29: How David Lynch Manipulates You: A Close Reading of Mulholland Drive (2)
- 29: How Peter Jackson Made His State-of-the-Art World War I Documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old: An Inside Look (0)
- 28: Watch 99 Movies Free Online Courtesy of YouTube & MGM: Rocky, The Terminator, Four Weddings and a Funeral & More (2)
- 28: “More Barn!” The Story of How Neil Young First Played Harvest for Graham Nash (1972) (4)
- 28: How the Inca Used Intricately-Knotted Cords, Called Khipu, to Write Their Histories, Send Messages & Keep Records (2)
- 27: Alan Watts Dispenses Wit & Wisdom on the Meaning of Life in Three Animated Videos (3)
- 27: Watch Jeff Beck Smash His Guitar While Jimmy Page & the Yardbirds Jam By His Side: A Classic Scene from Antonioni’s Blowup (1966) (5)
- 27: How Nicolas Roeg (RIP) Used David Bowie, Mick Jagger & Art Garfunkel in His Mind-Bending Films (0)
- 26: Watch David Bowie Take MTV to Task for Failing to Play Music Videos by Black Artists (1983) (3)
- 26: Two Cats Keep Trying to Get Into a Japanese Art Museum … and Keep Getting Turned Away: Meet the Thwarted Felines, Ken-chan and Go-chan (1)
- 26: Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin Launch a New Music Podcast, Broken Record: Listen Online (0)
- 26: In 17th-Century Japan, Creaking Floors Functioned as Security Systems That Warned Palaces & Temples of Approaching Intruders and Assassins (0)
- 23: Japanese Artist Creates Bookshelf Dioramas That Magically Transport You Into Tokyo’s Back Alleys (4)
- 23: The Solar System Quilt: In 1876, a Teacher Creates a Handcrafted Quilt to Use as a Teaching Aid in Her Astronomy Class (0)
- 23: Masterclass Is Running a Special “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal: It Gives You & Family Member/Friend Access to Their Complete Course Catalog (0)
- 23: Psilocybin Could Soon Be a Legal Treatment for Depression: Johns Hopkins Professor, Roland Griffiths, Explains How Psilocybin Can Relieve Suffering (0)
- 22: The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (3)
- 22: The Impossibly Cool Album Covers of Blue Note Records: Meet the Creative Team Behind These Iconic Designs (2)
- 22: The Making of “Bohemian Rhapsody”: Take a Deep Dive Into the Iconic Song with Queen’s 2002 Mini Documentary (3)
- 22: How to Write a Bestselling Page Turner: Learn from The Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown’s New Masterclass (0)
- 21: Free: Download 15,000+ Free Golden Age Comics from the Digital Comic Museum (3)
- 21: The Psychedelic 1970s Animations of Keiichi Tanaami: A Music Video for John Lennon’s “Oh Yoko!,” Surreal Tributes to Elvis & Marilyn Monroe, and More (1)
- 21: These Four Manuscripts Contain All of the Literature Written in Old English–and Beyond That, There’s Nothing More (3)
- 21: Classic Radiohead Songs Re-Imagined as a Sci-Fi Book, Pulp Fiction Magazine & Other Nostalgic Artifacts (1)
- 20: Download 584 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (7)
- 20: Hear the Sounds of World War I: A Gas Attack Recorded on the Front Line, and the Moment the Armistice Ended the War (1)
- 20: Watch “The Midnight Parasites,” a Surreal Japanese Animation Set in the World of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1972) (0)
- 20: Glenn Gould’s Heavily Marked-Up Score for the Goldberg Variations Surfaces, Letting Us Look Inside His Creative Process (3)
- 19: An Animated Introduction to the Forgotten Pioneer in Quantum Theory, Grete Hermann (0)
- 19: The Captivating Story Behind the Making of Ansel Adams’ Most Famous Photograph, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1)
- 19: Watch the First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1910): It’s Newly Restored by the Library of Congress (0)
- 19: A New Christmas Commercial Takes You on a Sentimental Journey Through Elton John’s Rich Musical Life (0)
- 17: An Archive of 800+ Imaginative Propaganda Maps Designed to Shape Opinions & Beliefs: Enter Cornell’s Persuasive Maps Collection (1)
- 16: Criterion Announces New Streaming Service To Replace FilmStruck: Become a Charter Subscriber Today (0)
- 16: A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861): Features George Washington Punching Tigers, John Adams Slaying Snakes & Other Fantastic Scenes (0)
- 16: Pachelbel’s Chicken: Your Favorite Classical Pieces Played Masterfully on a Rubber Chicken (1)
- 15: At Folsom Prison: A Mini-Doc on Johnny Cash’s Historic & Career-Changing Concert (1)
- 15: Leonard Cohen’s Last Work, The Flame Gets Published: Discover His Final Poems, Drawings, Lyrics & More (1)
- 15: NASA Digitizes 20,000 Hours of Audio from the Historic Apollo 11 Mission: Stream Them Free Online (0)
- 15: David Lynch Releases a Disturbing, New Short Film: Watch “Ant Head” Online (2)
- 14: 7 Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction (8)
- 14: The Art of Letterlocking: The Elaborate Folding Techniques That Ensured the Privacy of Handwritten Letters Centuries Ago (0)
- 14: How Glenn Gould’s Eccentricities Became Essential to His Playing & Personal Style: From Humming Aloud While Playing to Performing with His Childhood Piano Chair (3)
- 14: The Journal of Controversial Ideas, Co-Founded by Philosopher Peter Singer, Will Publish & Defend Pseudonymous Articles, Regardless of the Backlash (4)
- 13: A Map of the U.S. Created Out of 1,000 Song Titles That Reference Cities, States, Landmarks & More (0)
- 13: Jazz Deconstructed: What Makes John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” So Groundbreaking and Radical? (3)
- 13: R.I.P. Stan Lee: Take His Free Online Course “The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture” (0)
- 13: Stan Lee (RIP) Gets an Exuberant Fan Letter from 15-Year-Old George R.R. Martin, 1963 (1)
- 12: British Doctors To Prescribe Arts & Culture to Patients: “The Arts Are Essential to our Health and Wellbeing” (2)
- 12: Hundreds of Wonderful Japanese Firework Designs from the Early-1900s: Digitized and Free to Download (2)
- 12: Living Paintings: 13 Caravaggio Works of Art Performed by Real-Life Actors (2)
- 12: “A Great Day in Harlem,” Art Kane’s Iconic Photo of 57 Jazz Legends (with a Detailed Listing of Who Appears in the Photo) (1)
- 09: A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries (30)
- 09: Download Digitized Copies of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, the Pre-Civil Rights Guide to Traveling Safely in the U.S. (1936-66) (3)
- 08: A Database of Paper Airplane Designs: Hours of Fun for Kids & Adults Alike (0)
- 08: The First House Powered by Coffee (2)
- 08: Freddie Mercury’s Final Days: Watch a Poignant Montage That Documents the Last Chapter of the Singer’s Life (0)
- 08: The Disgusting Food Museum Curates 80 of the World’s Most Repulsive Dishes: Maggot-Infested Cheese, Putrid Shark & More (0)
- 07: An Atlas of Literary Maps Created by Great Authors: J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island & More (0)
- 07: Behind the Banksy Stunt: An In-Depth Breakdown of the Artist’s Self-Shredding Painting (3)
- 07: What Are the Most Influential Books Written by Scholars in the Last 20 Years?: Leading Academics Pick “The New Canon” (4)
- 06: The Top 100 Foreign-Language Films of All-Time, According to 209 Critics from 43 Countries (0)
- 06: The Exhilarating Filmmaking of Robert Bresson Explored in Eight Video Essays (0)
- 06: Edward Gorey Talks About His Love Cats & More in the Animated Series, “Goreytelling” (0)
- 05: The “Most Secretive Library in the World”: The Future Library Will Collect 100 Original Manuscripts by Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell & More, to Be Read for the First Time in 2114 (1)
- 05: Bette Davis Divorced: “She Read Too Much,” Says Husband (1938) (2)
- 05: How to Make and Wear Medieval Armor: An In-Depth Primer (1)
- 05: 157 Animated Minimalist Mid-Century Book Covers (1)
- 04: 2,000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in November: Enroll Today (0)
- 02: The Library of Congress Makes Thousands of Fabulous Photos, Posters & Images Free to Use & Reuse (2)
- 02: The Philosophy of Hayao Miyazaki: A Video Essay on How the Traditional Japanese Religion Shinto Suffuses Miyazaki’s Films (1)
- 02: Growing Up Surrounded by Books Has a Lasting Positive Effect on the Brain, Says a New Scientific Study (12)
- 02: Hear How Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Would Sound If Sung by Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra & 38 Other Artists (1)
- 01: George Washington Writes to the First Jewish Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island: “The Government… Gives to Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance” (1790) (10)
- 01: The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596): A Stunningly Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Created over Three Decades (0)
- 01: Watch/Hear Led Zeppelin’s Earliest Performances from 1968-69 & Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Band’s Birth (2)
- October 2018 (79)
- 31: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Gets Released on Instagram as a Digital “Insta Novel”: It’s Free from The New York Public Library (0)
- 31: 36 Artists Give Advice to Young Creators: Wim Wenders, Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis, Patti Smith, David Byrne, Umberto Eco & More (0)
- 31: Martin Scorsese Creates a List of the 11 Scariest Horror Films (4)
- 31: Patti Smith’s Award-Winning Memoir, Just Kids, Now Available in a New Illustrated Edition (0)
- 30: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Performs Songs from His New Soundtrack for the Horror Film, Suspiria (0)
- 30: Wagashi: Peruse a Digitized, Centuries-Old Catalogue of Traditional Japanese Candies (1)
- 30: The World’s Largest Collection of Tibetan Buddhist Literature Now Online (2)
- 30: The Evolution of Bob Dylan: Early Recordings Let You Hear an Unknown Singer Turn Into a 60s Superstar (1958-1965) (1)
- 29: A Data Visualization of Modern Philosophy, 1950-2018 (1)
- 29: How to Practice Effectively: Lessons from Neuroscience Can Help Us Master Skills in Music, Sports & Beyond (0)
- 29: RIP Todd Bol, Founder of the Little Free Library Movement: He Leaves Behind 75,000 Small Libraries That Promote Reading Worldwide (1)
- 29: Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life (3)
- 26: Akira Kurosawa’s 100 Favorite Movies (2)
- 26: The Ancient Egyptians Wore Fashionable Striped Socks, New Pioneering Imaging Technology Imaging Reveals (3)
- 26: The CIA’s Former Chief of Disguise Show How Spies Use Costumes in Undercover Operations (1)
- 25: David Lynch Is Creating a Virtual Reality Experience for Twin Peaks (1)
- 25: Yale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies 3 Essential Features of Fascism: Invoking a Mythic Past, Sowing Division & Attacking Truth (17)
- 25: The Art Institute of Chicago Puts 44,000+ Works of Art Online: View Them in High Resolution (8)
- 25: The Golden Age of Ancient Greece Gets Faithfully Recreated in the New Video Game Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (1)
- 24: Leonardo da Vinci Saw the World Differently… Thanks to an Eye Disorder, Says a New Scientific Study (0)
- 24: The Lenny Bruce Archive: Brandeis Digitally Preserves the Legacy of the Pathbreaking Comedian (0)
- 24: Early Japanese Animations: The Origins of Anime (1917 to 1931) (0)
- 24: Laurie Anderson Creates a Virtual Reality Installation That Takes Viewers on an Unconventional Tour of the Moon (0)
- 23: How an 18th-Century Monk Invented the First Electronic Instrument (1)
- 23: Take a Free Animation Course from a Renowned French Animation School (0)
- 23: Free Guided Imagery Recordings Help Kids Cope with Pain, Stress & Anxiety (0)
- 22: Roger Waters Adapts and Narrates Igor Stravinsky’s Theatrical Piece, The Soldier’s Story (5)
- 22: Why Read Waiting For Godot?: An Animated Case for Samuel Beckett’s Classic Absurdist Play (1)
- 22: The Big Lebowski at 20: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman & Steve Buscemi Reunite to Discuss the Coen Brothers’ Beloved Film (2)
- 19: Rembrandt’s Masterpiece, The Night Watch, Will Get Restored and You Can Watch It Happen Live, Online (0)
- 19: Behold Kurt Vonnegut’s Drawings: Writing is Hard. Art is Pure Pleasure. (0)
- 19: Iggy Pop’s Totally Bonkers Contract Rider for Concerts (0)
- 18: How the Sears Catalog Disrupted the Jim Crow South and Helped Give Birth to the Delta Blues & Rock and Roll (0)
- 18: Stephen Hawking’s Final Book and Scientific Paper Just Got Published: Brief Answers to the Big Questions and “Information Paradox” (0)
- 18: The Serial Killer Who Loved Jazz: The Infamous Story of the Axeman of New Orleans (1919) (0)
- 18: Twerking, Moonwalking AI Robots–They’re Now Here (0)
- 17: Philosophers Name the Best Philosophy Books: From Stoicism and Existentialism, to Metaphysics & Ethics for Artificial Intelligence (12)
- 17: Watch Richard Linklater’s Anti-Ted Cruz Political Ads: The Texas Director Versus the Texas Senator (5)
- 17: Meet Berea College, the Innovative College That Charges No Tuition & Gives Students a Chance to Graduate Debt-Free (2)
- 16: A Medieval Book That Opens Six Different Ways, Revealing Six Different Books in One (0)
- 16: The Library of Congress Launches the National Screening Room, Putting Online Hundreds of Historic Films (2)
- 16: A 26-Hour Playlist Featuring Music from Haruki Murakami’s Latest Novel, Killing Commendatore (0)
- 16: How Do You Help a Grieving Friend? Acknowledge Their Pain and Skip the Platitudes & Facile Advice (0)
- 15: 130,000 Photographs by Andy Warhol Are Now Available Online, Courtesy of Stanford University (0)
- 15: Haruki Murakami Became a DJ on a Japanese Radio Station for One Night: Hear the Music He Played for Delighted Listeners (0)
- 15: Learn Anatomy Through a Pictorial History of James Bond 007 (0)
- 15: Why Should You Read Don Quixote?: An Animated Video Makes the Case (3)
- 12: Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers (25)
- 12: Buckminster Fuller Creates Striking Posters of His Own Inventions (0)
- 12: Noam Chomsky Talks About How Kids Acquire Language and Ideas in an Animated Video by Michel Gondry (1)
- 11: The 10 Commandments of Chindōgu, the Japanese Art of Creating Unusually Useless Inventions (0)
- 11: A New Academic Hoax–Complete with Fake Articles Published in Academic Journals–Ventures to Show the “Corruption” of Cultural Studies (6)
- 11: The Origins of the Death Growl in Metal Music (0)
- 10: The Cornell Note-Taking System: Learn the Method Students Have Used to Enhance Their Learning Since the 1940s (10)
- 10: The History of Philosophy Visualized in an Interactive Timeline (2)
- 10: Museum Discovers Math Notebook of an 18th-Century English Farm Boy, Adorned with Doodles of Chickens Wearing Pants (0)
- 09: Wendy Carlos’ Switched on Bach Turns 50 This Month: Learn How the Classical Synth Record Introduced the World to the Moog (0)
- 09: A Radical Map Puts the Oceans–Not Land–at the Center of Planet Earth (1942) (0)
- 09: Aphex Twin’s Massive Catalog, Including Rare Unreleased Tracks, Is Now Free to Stream Online (2)
- 08: How the Ancient Mayans Used Chocolate as Money (0)
- 08: You’re Only As Old As You Feel: Harvard Psychologist Ellen Langer Shows How Mental Attitude Can Potentially Reverse the Effects of Aging (1)
- 08: Banksy Shreds His $1.4 Million Painting at Auction, Taking a Tradition of Artists Destroying Art to New Heights (0)
- 05: The Emperor of Japan, Akihito, Is Still Publishing Scientific Papers in His 80s (2)
- 05: “Lynchian,” “Kubrickian,” “Tarantinoesque” and 100+ Film Words Have Been Added to the Oxford English Dictionary (1)
- 05: Was Jackson Pollock Overrated? Behind Every Artist There’s an Art Critic, and Behind Pollock There Was Clement Greenberg (2)
- 04: Hear Brian Eno’s Ringtones Composed for Mobile Phones (0)
- 04: When Andy Warhol Made a Batman Superhero Movie (1964) (0)
- 04: Designer Creates a 3D-Printed Stamp That Replaces Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill (5)
- 03: How Joan Jett Started the Runaways at 15 and Faced Down Every Barrier for Women in Rock and Roll (3)
- 03: Blondie Drummer Clem Burke and Scientific Researchers Show That Drumming Can Help Kids with Autism Learn More Effectively in School (0)
- 03: Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists (2)
- 03: How Youtube’s Algorithm Turned an Obscure 1980s Japanese Song Into an Enormously Popular Hit: Discover Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love” (11)
- 02: The Deeply Meditative Electronic Music of Avant-Garde Composer Eliane Radigue (2)
- 02: A Giant Mural of Robin Williams Goes Up in Chicago (0)
- 02: The Outsiders: Lou Reed, Hunter S. Thompson, and Frank Zappa Reveal Themselves in Captivatingly Animated Interviews (1)
- 02: Punking Out, a Short 1978 Documentary Records the Beginning of the Punk Scene at CBGB’s (0)
- 01: How Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” Was Born From an Argument Between Roger Waters & David Gilmour (21)
- 01: The Joy of Experiencing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody for the Very First Time: Watch Three Reaction Videos (2)
- 01: What Makes The Night Watch Rembrandt’s Masterpiece (1)
- September 2018 (71)
- 28: Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint (9)
- 28: Hear Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Pioneering Compositions for Music Boxes (0)
- 28: Jurassic Park Without Dinosaurs: Watch Humans Stare in Amazement at a World Stripped of CGI Creations (0)
- 27: Brian Eno Reveals His Favorite Film Soundtracks (1)
- 27: Explore an Interactive, Online Version of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, a 200-Year-Old Guide to the Colors of the Natural World (1)
- 27: 1,100 Classic Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade: Play Them Free Online (1)
- 26: Flannery O’Connor Renders Her Verdict on Ayn Rand’s Fiction: It’s As “Low As You Can Get” (5)
- 26: The Talmud Is Finally Now Available Online (0)
- 26: Hear the Last Time the Jimi Hendrix Experience Ever Played Together: The Riotous Denver Pop Festival of 1969 (2)
- 25: The Brains of Jazz and Classical Musicians Work Differently, New Research Shows (3)
- 25: How Ancient Scrolls, Charred by the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Are Now Being Read by Particle Accelerators, 3D Modeling & Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 25: A Brief History of Guitar Distortion: From Early Experiments to Happy Accidents to Classic Effects Pedals (3)
- 24: A Book about Women in Philosophy by Women in Philosophy: Help Crowdfund It (8)
- 24: Long-Lost Letter Shows How Galileo Tried to Fool the Inquisition & Escape Censure for Putting Scientific Truth Ahead of Church Dogma (1613) (0)
- 24: In 1900, a Photographer Had to Create an Enormous 1,400-Pound Camera to Take a Picture of an Entire Train (2)
- 24: Watch Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests of Three Female Muses: Nico, Edie Sedgwick & Mary Woronov (0)
- 21: The Hieronymus Bosch Demon Bird Was Spotted Riding the New York City Subway the Other Day… (1)
- 21: When Led Zeppelin Reunited and Crashed and Burned at Live Aid (1985) (1)
- 21: William Shatner Is Releasing a Christmas Album with Iggy Pop & Henry Rollins : Get a First Listen to “Jingle Bells” (1)
- 20: Discover Rare 1980s CDs by Lou Reed, Devo & Talking Heads That Combined Music with Computer Graphics (1)
- 20: Why Should You Read Edgar Allan Poe? An Animated Video Explains (3)
- 20: Hear Nico’s Pre-Velvets Recording, “I’m Not Sayin,” Backed by the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones & Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page (1965) (0)
- 19: How Meditation Can Change Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Buddhist Practice (1)
- 19: Hear Dylan Thomas Recite His Classic Poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (0)
- 19: The History of the Guitar & Guitar Legends: From 1929 to 1979 (15)
- 19: Get a First Listen to David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti’s Long-Lost Album, Thought Gang (0)
- 18: Download Classic Japanese Wave and Ripple Designs: A Go-to Guide for Japanese Artists from 1903 (2)
- 18: R. Crumb Illustrates Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea: Existentialism Meets Underground Comics (0)
- 18: Paul McCartney Breaks Down His Most Famous Songs and Answers Most-Asked Fan Questions in Two New Videos (0)
- 18: This Man Flew to Japan to Sing ABBA’s “Mamma Mia” in a Big Cold River (2)
- 17: Umberto Eco Explains Why We Make Lists (1)
- 17: A Massive, Knitted Tapestry of the Galaxy: Software Engineer Hacks a Knitting Machine & Creates a Star Map Featuring 88 Constellations (1)
- 17: How the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound”–a Monster, 600-Speaker Sound System–Changed Rock Concerts & Live Music Forever (0)
- 14: Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Played by 28 Trombone Players (8)
- 14: Tom Waits Releases a Timely Cover of the Italian Anti-Fascist Anthem “Bella Ciao,” His First New Song in Two Years (5)
- 14: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovered Radio Pulsars in 1974, But the Credit Went to Her Advisor; In 2018, She Gets Her Due, Winning a $3 Million Physics Prize (0)
- 14: Why We Say “OK”: The History of the Most Widely Spoken Word in the World (3)
- 14: 94-Year-Old Stroke Survivor Plays Jazz Piano for the First Time in Years (2)
- 13: Behold Mystical Photographs Taken Inside a Cello, Double Bass & Other Instruments (12)
- 13: One Second from Each Episode of Twin Peaks: Experience David Lynch’s Groundbreaking TV Drama in Less than a Minute (1)
- 13: Watch the Sex Pistols Play a Gig on a Thames River Barge During the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and Get Shut Down by the Cops (1977) (0)
- 12: Wikipedia Leads Effort to Create a Digital Archive of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in the Brazilian Museum Fire (0)
- 12: David Gilmour Talks About the Mysteries of His Famous Guitar Tone (1)
- 12: Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscript of Frankenstein: This Is “Ground Zero of Science Fiction,” Says William Gibson (0)
- 11: When Aldous Huxley, Dying of Cancer, Left This World Tripping on LSD, Experiencing “the Most Serene, the Most Beautiful Death” (1963) (0)
- 11: How to Download Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House as a Free Audiobook from Audible (12)
- 11: Stephen Fry Voices a New Dystopian Short Film About Artificial Intelligence & Simulation Theory: Watch Escape (0)
- 11: Hunter S. Thompson Hated Getting Caricatured as “Uncle Duke” in Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury: ‘If I Ever Catch That Little Bastard, I’ll Tear His Lungs Out’ (0)
- 10: See the Expansive Ruins of Pompeii Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before: Through the Eyes of a Drone (1)
- 10: Sigmund Freud Speaks: Hear the Only Known Recording of His Voice, 1938 (3)
- 10: The New York Public Library Lets Patrons Check Out Ties, Briefcases & Handbags for Job Interviews (0)
- 10: See a Full Jimi Hendrix Experience Concert on Restored Footage Thought Lost for 35 Years (8)
- 09: Acclaimed Ruth Bader Ginsburg Documentary, RBG, Airing Tonight on CNN (1)
- 07: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (7)
- 07: When Steve Jobs Taught Andy Warhol to Make Art on the Very First Macintosh (1984) (0)
- 07: Enter an Archive of William Blake’s Fantastical “Illuminated Books”: The Images Are Sublime, and in High Resolution (2)
- 06: Watch Willem Dafoe Become Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s New Film, At Eternity’s Gate (1)
- 06: To Make Great Films, You Must Read, Read, Read and Write, Write, Write, Say Akira Kurosawa and Werner Herzog (1)
- 06: How Breaking Bad Crafted the Perfect TV Pilot: A Video Essay (0)
- 06: How Michael Jackson Wrote a Song: A Close Look at How the King of Pop Crafted “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” (0)
- 05: Why You Should Read One Hundred Years of Solitude: An Animated Video Makes the Case (3)
- 05: Discover “Journey of the Universe,” a Multimedia Project That Explores Humanity’s Place in the Epic History of the Cosmos (0)
- 05: Hear Langston Hughes Read His Poetry Over Original Compositions by Charles Mingus & Leonard Feather: A Classic Collaboration from 1958 (0)
- 05: A First Look at The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks, a Feature-Length Journey Into the Mind of the Famed Neurologist (0)
- 04: “The Long Tomorrow”: Discover Mœbius’ Hard-Boiled Detective Comic That Inspired Blade Runner (1975) (0)
- 04: Margaret Atwood Offers a New Online Class on Creative Writing (0)
- 04: Nirvana Refuses to Fake It on Top of the Pops, Gives a Big “Middle Finger” to the Tradition of Bands Miming on TV (1991) (2)
- 04: Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Love Letters to Diego Rivera (0)
- 03: Classic Songs by Bob Dylan Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers: “Like a Rolling Stone,” “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” & More (7)
- 03: R.E.M. Reveals the Secrets Behind Their Emotionally-Charged Songs: “Losing My Religion” and “Try Not to Breathe” (2)
- 03: MIT Students Solve the Spaghetti Breaking Mystery That Stumped Richard Feynman (3)
- August 2018 (83)
- 31: Leonardo da Vinci’s Earliest Notebooks Now Digitized and Made Free Online: Explore His Ingenious Drawings, Diagrams, Mirror Writing & More (0)
- 31: A Classic Video of Pablo Picasso Marking Art, Set to the Song, “Pablo Picasso,” by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (1)
- 31: Don’t Call 911 If You See a Coyote, Unless It’s Carrying ACME-Branded Products: The Office of Sheriff, Monroe County, New York (2)
- 31: Watch the New Trailer for Orson Welles’ Lost Film, The Other Side of the Wind: A Glimpse of Footage from the Finally Completed Film (0)
- 30: The Last Great Moment of Elvis Presley’s Musical Career: Watch His Extraordinary Performance of “Unchained Melody” (1977) (25)
- 30: John Turturro Introduces America to the World Wide Web in 1999: Watch A Beginner’s Guide To The Internet (1)
- 30: David Lynch Muses About the Magic of Cinema & Meditation in a New Abstract Short Film (0)
- 29: Hear the Original, Never-Heard Demo of John Lennon’s “Imagine” (0)
- 29: How Jim Jarmusch Gets Creative Ideas from William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies (0)
- 29: Japanese Musicians Turn Obsolete Machines Into Musical Instruments: Cathode Ray Tube TVs, Overhead Projectors, Reel-to-Reel Tape Machines & More (1)
- 28: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Online (1)
- 28: Conserve the Sound, an Online Museum Preserves the Sounds of Past Technologies–from Typewriters, Electric Shavers and Cassette Recorders, to Cameras & Classic Nintendo (0)
- 28: NASA Captures the World on Fire (0)
- 28: Legendary Studio Musician Carol Kaye Presents 150 Free Tips for Practicing & Playing the Bass (0)
- 27: M.I.T. Computer Program Alarmingly Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040 (4)
- 27: V.S. Naipaul Creates a List of 7 Rules for Beginning Writers (2)
- 27: The New York Public Library Puts Classic Stories on Instagram: Start with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Read Kafka’s The Metamorphosis Soon (1)
- 24: Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd (29)
- 24: Songs by David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads & More Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers (6)
- 24: V.S. Naipaul Writes an Enraged Letter to His Publisher After a Copy-Editor Revises His Book, A Turn in the South (0)
- 23: 10 Great German Expressionist Films: From Nosferatu to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1)
- 23: The Beach Party Film: A Short Appreciation of One of the Oddest Subgenres in Film History (0)
- 23: Pablo Picasso’s Masterful Childhood Paintings: Precocious Works Painted Between the Ages of 8 and 15 (2)
- 23: The Assassin’s Cabinet: A Hollowed Out Book, Containing Secret Cabinets Full of Poison Plants, Made in 1682 (4)
- 22: The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online (1)
- 22: The Hobo Code: An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s Train-Hoppers (1)
- 22: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Branded Car: A Playful Tribute to the Groundbreaking Electronic Composer (0)
- 22: This Is Your Kids’ Brains on Internet Algorithms: A Chilling Case Study Shows What’s Wrong with the Internet Today (2)
- 21: Tom Waits’ Many Appearances on David Letterman, From 1983 to 2015 (0)
- 21: Charles Bukowski Explains How to Beat Depression: Spend 3-4 Days in Bed and You’ll Get the Juices Flowing Again (NSFW) (3)
- 21: Free: Download 70,000+ High-Resolution Images of Chinese Art from Taipei’s National Palace Museum (0)
- 20: French Illustrator Revives the Byzantine Empire with Magnificently Detailed Drawings of Its Monuments & Buildings: Hagia Sophia, Great Palace & More (4)
- 20: How Aretha Franklin Turned Otis Redding’s “Respect” Into a Civil Rights and Feminist Anthem (0)
- 20: How an Art Conservator Completely Restores a Damaged Painting: A Short, Meditative Documentary (1)
- 20: The Books on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List: Naipaul, Ondaatje & More (0)
- 17: Hundreds of Classical Sculptures from the Uffizi Gallery Now Digitized & Put Online: Explore a Collection of 3D Interactive Scans (1)
- 17: Aretha Franklin’s Pitch-Perfect Performance in The Blues Brothers, the Film That Reinvigorated Her Career (1980) (2)
- 17: David Bowie’s “Heroes” Delightfully Performed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (1)
- 16: See the First Ever Video of Elvis Costello Performing, Summer 1974 (2)
- 16: Bauhaus Ballet: A Dance of Geometry (0)
- 16: How Aleister Crowley, the Infamous Occultist, Led the First Attempt to Reach the Summit of K2 (1902) (0)
- 16: How David Lynch Got Creative Inspiration? By Drinking a Milkshake at Bob’s Big Boy, Every Single Day, for Seven Straight Years (1)
- 15: What English Would Sound Like If It Was Pronounced Phonetically (2)
- 15: NASA Creates a Visualization That Sets Breathtaking Footage of the Moon to Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” (Moonlight) (1)
- 15: How Jean-Luc Godard Liberated Cinema: A Video Essay on How the Greatest Rule-Breaker in Film Made His Name (0)
- 15: The Rise and Fall of the Great Library of Alexandria: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 14: Did Lennon or McCartney Write the Beatles 1965 Song “In My Life”? A Math Professor, Using Statistics, Solves the Decades-Old Mystery (4)
- 14: How Leonard Cohen Wrote a Love Song (0)
- 14: Aretha Franklin’s Most Powerful Early Performances: “Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” “Say a Little Prayer” & More (1)
- 13: The Surreal Paintings of the Occult Magician, Writer & Mountaineer, Aleister Crowley (2)
- 13: Ken Burns Teaches Documentary Filmmaking with His New Online Masterclass (0)
- 13: Watch 13 Comedians Take “The Bob Ross Challenge” & Help Raise Money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (0)
- 13: A Free Course from MIT Teaches You How to Speak Italian & Cook Italian Food All at Once (1)
- 10: Hear Singers from the Metropolitan Opera Record Their Voices on Traditional Wax Cylinders (0)
- 10: See Ancient Greek Music Accurately Reconstructed for the First Time (1)
- 10: What Made Robin Williams a Uniquely Expressive Actor: A Video Essay Explores a Subtle Dimension of His Comic Genius (0)
- 09: See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen (3)
- 09: Native Lands: An Interactive Map Reveals the Indigenous Lands on Which Modern Nations Were Built (3)
- 09: Leonard Bernstein Presents “The Greatest 5 Minutes in Music Education” (1)
- 09: The “Weird Objects” in the New York Public Library’s Collections: Virginia Woolf’s Cane, Charles Dickens’ Letter Opener, Walt Whitman’s Hair & More (0)
- 08: Frank Zappa’s 1980s Appearances on The David Letterman Show (0)
- 08: A Modern Drummer Plays a Rock Gong, a Percussion Instrument from Prehistoric Times (0)
- 08: A Visionary 115-Year-Old Color Theory Manual Returns to Print: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Color Problems (0)
- 08: Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949) (4)
- 07: Italian Street Musician Plays Amazing Covers of Pink Floyd Songs, Right in Front of the Pantheon in Rome (3)
- 07: Hunter S. Thompson Sends a Letter to the Indianapolis Colts, Urging Them to Pick Ryan Leaf Over That “Peyton Manning Kid” (1998) (0)
- 07: How Zildjian Cymbals Were Created by an Alchemist in the Ottoman Empire, Circa 1618 (6)
- 07: Filmmaker Wim Wenders Explains How Mobile Phones Have Killed Photography (25)
- 06: The Surprising Pattern Behind the Names of Colors Around the World (3)
- 06: Hear Freddie Mercury & Queen’s Isolated Vocals on Their Enduring Classic Song, “We Are The Champions” (2)
- 06: Meet Grace Hopper, the Pioneering Computer Scientist Who Helped Invent COBOL and Build the Historic Mark I Computer (1906-1992) (0)
- 03: How Steely Dan Went Through Seven Guitarists and Dozens of Hours of Tape to Get the Perfect Guitar Solo on “Peg” (4)
- 03: Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well (3)
- 03: Andrei Tarkovsky Reveals His Favorite Filmmakers: Bresson, Antonioni, Fellini, and Others (1)
- 02: Meet Ellen Rubin (aka The Popuplady) and Her Collection of 9,000 Pop-Up Books (0)
- 02: “The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Denied Recognition and Written Out of Science History (4)
- 02: Van Gogh’s Art Now Adorns Vans Shoes (4)
- 02: 1,900+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in August: Enroll Today (0)
- 02: Watch the First “Interactive” TV Show: Winky Dink and You Encouraged Kids to Draw on the Screen (1953) (2)
- 01: How Marcel Marceau Used His Mime Skills to Save Children’s Lives During the Holocaust (0)
- 01: How Carol Kaye Became the Most Prolific Session Musician in History (6)
- 01: How Charlie Kaufman Goes Deep into the Human Condition in Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Other Movies (0)
- 01: Prince Plays Guitar for Maria Bartiromo: It’s Awkward (2004) (0)
- July 2018 (78)
- 31: Discover Hilma af Klint: Pioneering Mystical Painter and Perhaps the First Abstract Artist (1)
- 31: The Believer Magazine Has Put Its Entire Archive Online for Free (0)
- 31: An Asbestos-Bound, Fireproof Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) (1)
- 31: Meet Sergei Parajanov, the Filmmaker Persecuted & Imprisoned by the Soviets, and Championed by Tarkovsky, Fellini, Godard, Buñuel, and Others (1)
- 30: How to Build a Custom Handcrafted Acoustic Guitar from Start to Finish: The Process Revealed in a Fascinating Documentary (2)
- 30: Every Cover of MAD Magazine, from 1952 to the Present: Behold 553 Covers from the Satirical Publication (7)
- 30: New York Public Library Card Now Gives You Free Access to 33 NYC Museums (1)
- 30: A New Series About A Young Crime-Fighting Sigmund Freud Is Coming to Netflix (0)
- 27: Pianist Plays Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Ravel & Debussy for Blind Elephants in Thailand (2)
- 27: Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (Circa 1490) (15)
- 27: The Genius of Tina Weymouth: Breaking Down the Style of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club’s Basslines (0)
- 26: 96-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Fronts a Death Metal Band (5)
- 26: The Encyclopedia Of Alternate Guitar Tunings (1)
- 26: Merry Clayton Tells the Story of Her Amazing Backing Vocal on The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” (0)
- 26: Who Was Joan Vollmer, the Wife William Burroughs Allegedly Shot While Playing William Tell? (1)
- 25: The Doors’ Ray Manzarek Walks You Through the Writing of the Band’s Iconic Song, “Riders on the Storm” (8)
- 25: Watch Jean Cocteau’s Short Film About the Elegant House He Painted/”Tattooed” on the French Riviera (1952) (0)
- 25: What Is ASMR? Watch the The New Yorker’s Introduction to the Whispering & Crinkling Sounds That Help Calm Anxiety and Induce Euphoria (1)
- 24: Hunter S. Thompson’s Many Strange, Unpredictable Appearances on The David Letterman Show (2)
- 24: Watch the Original TV Coverage of the Historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Recorded on July 20, 1969 (3)
- 24: The Discipline of D.E.: Gus Van Sant Adapts a Story by William S. Burroughs (1978) (0)
- 23: What Is Stoicism? A Short Introduction to the Ancient Philosophy That Can Help You Cope with Our Hard Modern Times (1)
- 23: Rare Photos of Frida Kahlo, Age 13-23 (0)
- 23: Watch Kraftwerk Perform a Real-Time Duet with a German Astronaut Living on the International Space Station (0)
- 23: What a Conductor Actually Does on Stage: Two Short Videos Explain the Little-Understood Art (1)
- 20: Stream Online the Complete “Lost” John Coltrane Album, Both Directions at Once (1)
- 20: The 10 Rules for Students and Teachers Popularized by John Cage: “Nothing Is a Mistake,” “Consider Everything an Experiment” & More (3)
- 20: How to Paint Like Kandinsky, Picasso, Warhol & More: A Video Series from the Tate (0)
- 19: Hear Miles Davis & John Coltrane Battle It Out on Their Final Tour Together, 1960 (0)
- 19: David Foster Wallace Explains How David Lynch’s Blue Velvet Taught Him the True Meaning of Avant Garde Art (2)
- 19: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s 1897 Love Letter De Profundis: See the Full Three-Hour Performance (0)
- 19: Penguin Classic’s Back Cover Blurb for Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 Novel It Can’t Happen Here (5)
- 18: Peter Jackson’s New Film on World War I Features Incredible Digitally-Restored Footage From the Front Lines: Get a Glimpse (0)
- 18: Noam Chomsky Defines The Real Responsibility of Intellectuals: “To Speak the Truth and to Expose Lies” (1967) (10)
- 18: Stanley Kubrick’s “Lost” Script Burning Secret Surfaces, Complete Enough to Make into a Film (0)
- 17: George Orwell Identifies the Main Enemy of the Free Press: It’s the “Intellectual Cowardice” of the Press Itself (1)
- 17: Kurt Vonnegut Offers 8 Tips on How to Write Good Short Stories (and Amusingly Graphs the Shapes Those Stories Can Take) (5)
- 17: Sarah Bernhardt Becomes the First Woman to Play Hamlet (1899) (2)
- 16: Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation (0)
- 16: Hear the First Recorded Blues Song by an African American Singer: Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” (1920) (1)
- 16: What It Would Look Like If Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino & Other Directors Filmed Cooking Videos (7)
- 15: The Monty Python Philosophy Football Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans (4)
- 13: Watch “The Hangman,” a Classic Animated Film That Explores What Happens When No One Dares to Stand Up to Evil (4)
- 13: French Bookstore Blends Real People’s Faces with Book Cover Art (0)
- 13: Archaeologists Think They’ve Discovered the Oldest Greek Copy of Homer’s Odyssey: 13 Verses on a Clay Tablet (0)
- 13: How the Radical Buildings of the Bauhaus Revolutionized Architecture: A Short Introduction (0)
- 12: “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language (5)
- 12: Margaret Atwood Teaching an Online Class on Creative Writing (1)
- 12: New Web Site Showcases 700,000 Artifacts Dug Up from the Canals of Amsterdam, Some Dating Back to 4300 BC (0)
- 11: Steven Van Zandt Creates a Free School of Rock: 100+ Free Lesson Plans That Educate Kids Through Music (1)
- 11: Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining (3)
- 11: Why Med Schools Are Requiring Students to Take Art Classes, and How It Makes Med Students Better Doctors (1)
- 11: Frank Lloyd Wright Creates a List of the 10 Traits Every Aspiring Artist Needs (1)
- 10: Jimmy Page Visits Oxford University & Tells Students How He Went from Guitar Apprentice to Creating Led Zeppelin (0)
- 10: Learn the History of Indian Philosophy in a 62 Episode Series from The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: The Buddha, Bhagavad-Gita, Non Violence & More (1)
- 10: Steely Dan Creates the Deadhead/Danfan Conversion Chart: A Witty Guide Explaining How You Can Go From Loving the Dead to Idolizing Steely Dan (2)
- 09: John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & 2 Citations (2)
- 09: Nearly 1,000 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Now Digitized and Put Online: View/Download the Collection (4)
- 09: Stanley Kubrick Explains the Mysterious Ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a Newly Unearthed Interview (3)
- 09: Teaching Tolerance to Activists: A Free Course Syllabus & Anthology (0)
- 06: Behold the Art-o-Mat: Vintage Cigarette Vending Machines Get Repurposed & Dispense Works of Art (2)
- 06: Nick Offerman Explains the Psychological Benefits of Woodworking–and How It Can Help You Achieve Zen in Other Parts of Your Life (0)
- 06: How Warner Brothers Resisted a Hollywood Ban on Anti-Nazi Films in the 1930s and Warned Americans of the Dangers of Fascism (2)
- 05: The Iconic Urinal & Work of Art, “Fountain,” Wasn’t Created by Marcel Duchamp But by the Pioneering Dada Artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (23)
- 05: All the Roman Roads of Italy, Visualized as a Modern Subway Map (0)
- 05: Find the Address of Your Home on Pangaea: Open Source Project Lets You Explore the Ancient Land Masses of Our Planet (2)
- 05: The Thin White Duke: A Close Study of David Bowie’s Darkest Character (2)
- 04: When Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip and Then Hallucinated That He Was Being Followed by Crabs (1)
- 04: A Big Digital Archive of Independent & Alternative Publications: Browse/Download Radical Periodicals Printed from 1951 to 2016 (1)
- 04: An Animated Introduction to Anna Freud: The Psychoanalyst (and Daughter of Sigmund) Who Theorized Denial, Projection & Other Defense Mechanisms for Our Egos (0)
- 03: The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: 2 Succinct Sentences (2)
- 03: Cheap Trick’s Bassist Tom Petersson Helps Kids With Autism Learn Language With Rock ‘n’ Roll: Discover “Rock Your Speech” (0)
- 03: The Rise and Fall of The Simpsons: An In-Depth Video Essay Explores What Made the Show Great, and When It All Came to an End (3)
- 03: Meet “Founding Mother” Mary Katharine Goddard, First Female Postmaster in the U.S. and Printer of the Declaration of Independence (0)
- 02: Read George Washington’s “110 Rules of Civility”: The Code of Decency That Guided America’s First President (2)
- 02: Color Film Was Designed to Take Pictures of White People, Not People of Color: The Unfortunate History of Racial Bias in Photography (1940-1990) (7)
- 02: Take a 360° Virtual Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpieces, Taliesin & Taliesin West (0)
- 02: 2,000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in July: Enroll Today (2)
- June 2018 (81)
- 29: The History of Rock Musically Told in 100 Guitar Riffs and 100 Bass Riffs (2)
- 29: Behold an Incredibly Detailed, Handmade Map Of Medieval Trade Routes (1)
- 29: Do Our Dreams Predict the Future? Vladimir Nabokov Spent Three Months Testing That Theory in 1964 (0)
- 28: The Famous Break Up of Sigmund Freud & Carl Jung Explained in a New Animated Video (5)
- 28: Glenn Gould Plays Bach on His U.S. TV Debut … After Leonard Bernstein Explains What Makes His Playing So Great (1960) (0)
- 28: How to Make the Oldest Recipe in the World: A Recipe for Nettle Pudding Dating Back 6,000 BC (1)
- 27: Joseph Heller’s Handwritten Outline for Catch-22, One of the Great Novels of the 20th Century (2)
- 27: Discover an Archive of Taped New York City-Area Punk & Indie Concerts from the 80s and 90s: The Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Replacements & Many More (1)
- 27: Dancing in Movies: A Montage of Dance Moments from Almost 300 Feature Films (1)
- 27: How Innovative Jazz Pianist Vince Guaraldi Became the Composer of Beloved Charlie Brown Music (1)
- 26: You Don’t “Find” Your Passion in Life, You Actively Develop It, Explains Psychologist Carol Dweck, Theorist of the “Growth Mindset” (1)
- 26: How the Uptight Today Show Introduced the Sex Pistols & British Punk to American TV Viewers (1978) (0)
- 26: 12-Year-Old Piano Prodigy Takes Four Notes Randomly Picked from a Hat and Instantly Uses Them to Improvise a Sonata (0)
- 26: James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (0)
- 25: Watch a 4000-Year Old Babylonian Recipe for Stew, Found on a Cuneiform Tablet, Get Cooked by Researchers from Yale & Harvard (6)
- 25: The Simpsons Take on Ayn Rand: See the Show’s Satire of The Fountainhead and Objectivist Philosophy (6)
- 25: Get a First Glimpse of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the “Cursed” Film 29 Years in the Making (1)
- 23: Watch Paul McCartney Sing Through the Streets of Liverpool on the Latest Episode “Carpool Karaoke” (0)
- 22: Bill Murray Explains How He Pulled Himself Out of a Deep, Lasting Funk: He Took Hunter S. Thompson’s Advice & Listened to the Music of John Prine (6)
- 22: A Brief, Visual Introduction to Surrealism: A Primer by Doctor Who Star Peter Capaldi (1)
- 22: A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched: Take a Digital Look at Her Photos, Letters, Speeches, Political Writings & More (1)
- 21: The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern (9)
- 21: What Makes Taxi Driver So Powerful? An In-Depth Study of Martin Scorsese’s Existential Film on the Human Condition (1)
- 21: Read a Huge Annotated Online Edition of Frankenstein: A Modern Way to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel (0)
- 21: New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000 Digitized Images (0)
- 21: Taschen Running a Big Warehouse Sale with Books Up To 75% Off (June 21-24) (0)
- 20: Hear Meryl Streep Read Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song,” a Poem Written After the Birth of Her Daughter (3)
- 20: Carl Sagan Returns to His Old Sixth-Grade Classroom to Turn a New Generation of Kids On To Science (0)
- 20: Barack Obama Shares a List of Enlightening Books Worth Reading (1)
- 20: Chris Cornell’s Daughter Pays Tribute to Her Father, Singing an Achingly Pretty Cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1)
- 19: A Meditative Look at a Japanese Artisan’s Quest to Save the Brilliant, Forgotten Colors of Japan’s Past (1)
- 19: How Does Language Shape the Way We Think? Cognitive Scientist Lera Boroditsky Explains (5)
- 19: 130 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (2)
- 19: The French Village Designed to Promote the Well-Being of Alzheimer’s Patients: A Visual Introduction to the Pioneering Experiment (0)
- 19: An Introduction to Ivan Ilyin, the Philosopher Behind the Authoritarianism of Putin’s Russia & Western Far Right Movements (3)
- 18: Visit the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled: 800 Artifacts from 33 Museums, All Free Online (0)
- 18: The Isolated Vocal Tracks of the Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime” Turn David Byrne into a Wild-Eyed Holy Preacher (1)
- 18: Eight-Year-Old Drum Prodigy Plays Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times;” Robert Plant Watches in Wonder (2)
- 15: Experience the Mystical Music of Hildegard Von Bingen: The First Known Composer in History (1098 – 1179) (6)
- 15: Hear David Lynch Read from His New Memoir Room to Dream, and Browse His New Online T-Shirt Store (0)
- 15: Rapping, Deconstructed: How Some of the Greatest Rappers Make Their Rhymes (0)
- 14: Hear the First Track From John Coltrane’s Lost Album: The Newly-Discovered 1963 Collection Will Get Officially Released Later This Month (1)
- 14: Hear Eric Clapton’s Isolated Guitar Track From the Beatles’ ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (1968) (9)
- 14: Life Lessons from Anthony Bourdain: How He Developed His Iron Professionalism, Achieved Creative Freedom & Learned from Failure (3)
- 14: Weezer Covers Toto’s “Africa” & Makes a Young Fan’s Dream Come True: The Latest, Greatest Cover of the 1983 Song (1)
- 13: How to Film Thought: A Close Look at the Masterful Editing of Sherlock, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (0)
- 13: Enter a Digitized Collection of 38,000 Pamphlets & Periodicals From the French Revolution (0)
- 13: The Causes & Prevalence of Suicide Explained by Two Videos from Alain de Botton’s School of Life (3)
- 13: How Dr. Martens’ Boots Are Made (2)
- 12: Optical Scanning Technology Lets Researchers Recover Lost Indigenous Languages from Old Wax Cylinder Recordings (1)
- 12: Visualizing Dante’s Hell: See Maps & Drawings of Dante’s Inferno from the Renaissance Through Today (5)
- 12: James Hill Plays Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” on the Ukulele: Watch One Musician Become a Complete Band (0)
- 12: “Back in Black,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “Welcome to the Jungle,” and Other Classic Rock Songs Played on Traditional Japanese Instruments (0)
- 11: Watch Anthony Bourdain’s Free Show, Raw Craft Where He Visits Craftsmen Making Guitars, Tattoos, Motorcycles & More (RIP) (0)
- 11: The Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Earth Over 500 Million Years: Animated Video Takes You from Pangea, to 250 Million Years in the Future (1)
- 11: The Ancient Astronomy of Stonehenge Decoded (2)
- 11: Nirvana Plays an Angry Set & Refuses to Play ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ After the Crowd Hurls Sexist Insults at the Opening Act (Buenos Aires, 1992) (0)
- 08: David Bowie Memorialized in Traditional Japanese Woodblock Prints (1)
- 08: Steve Martin & Robin Williams Riff on Math, Physics, Einstein & Picasso in a Smart Comedy Routine (3)
- 08: A Deep Study of Terence Malick’s Filmography (0)
- 08: Watch Battle-Scarred Heavy Metal Musicians Play Rock ‘n’ Roll Classics on Hello Kitty Instruments (0)
- 07: “The Directors Series” Presents Free Immersive Studies of Stanley Kubrick, the Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson & Christopher Nolan (0)
- 07: David Bowie Sings ‘I Got You Babe’ with Marianne Faithfull in His Very Last Performance As Ziggy Stardust (1973) (0)
- 07: The 100 Best One-Hit Wonder Songs: A Streamable Playlist Curated by Consequence of Sound (6)
- 07: Discover the BlipBlox, a Kids’ Toy and Fully-Functional Synthesizer That Will Teach Toddlers to Play Electronic Music (1)
- 06: George Orwell Reveals the Role & Responsibility of the Writer “In an Age of State Control” (2)
- 06: A Vinyl Record Spins So Fast That It Shatters Into 50,000 Pieces (0)
- 06: Chilling and Surreal Propaganda Posters from the NSA Are Now Declassified and Put Online (3)
- 06: Ralph Steadman Creates an Unorthodox Illustrated Biography of Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis (1979) (0)
- 05: Winston Churchill’s List of Tips for Surviving a German Invasion: See the Never-Distributed Document (1940) (0)
- 05: 1,000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in June: Enroll Today (0)
- 05: Learn How to Play the Theremin: A Free Short Video Course (0)
- 05: How William S. Burroughs Embraced, Then Rejected Scientology, Forcing L. Ron Hubbard to Come to Its Defense (1959-1970) (2)
- 04: Modernist Birdhouses Inspired by Bauhaus, Frank Lloyd Wright and Joseph Eichler (2)
- 04: Download 50,000 Art Books & Catalogs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Digital Collections (0)
- 04: The Mother of All Maps of the “Father of Waters”: Behold the 11-Foot Traveler’s Map of the Mississippi River (1866) (0)
- 04: Watch the Winners of the 48 Hour Science Fiction Film Challenge: The 2018 Edition (2)
- 01: Watch the New Trailer for Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin, the First Feature Film on the Pioneering Sci-Fi Author (0)
- 01: Henrietta Lacks Gets Immortalized in a Portrait: It’s Now on Display at the National Portrait Gallery (0)
- 01: A Pakistani Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis Play an Enchanting Version of John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” (0)
- 01: Watch an Animated Visualization of the Bass Line for the Motown Classic, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (2)
- May 2018 (90)
- 31: The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time: A Playlist Curated by Pitchfork (1)
- 31: When Pinball Was Deemed Immoral & Outlawed in Major American Cities (2)
- 31: Hear Philip Roth Read from Five of His Major Novels: Sabbath’s Theater, The Ghost Writer and More (0)
- 31: 19-Year-Old Russian Guitarist Plays an Ingenious Cover of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” (1)
- 30: David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called “Rabbits”: It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects (4)
- 30: Explore 7,600 Works of Art by Edvard Munch: They’re Now Digitized and Free Online (6)
- 30: Watch the Rise and Fall of the British Empire in an Animated Time-Lapse Map ( 519 A.D. to 2014 A.D.) (3)
- 29: Hip Hop Fan Freaks Out When He Hears Rage Against the Machine’s Debut Album for the Very First Time (19)
- 29: How to Use Psychedelic Drugs to Improve Mental Health: Michael Pollan’s New Book, How to Change Your Mind, Makes the Case (0)
- 29: The Device Invented to Resuscitate Canaries in Coal Mines (Circa 1896) (0)
- 29: You Can Now Airbnb the Home of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Where the Author Wrote Tender Is the Night (0)
- 28: Patti Smith, The Godmother of Punk, Is Now Putting Her Pictures on Instagram (0)
- 28: Take a Virtual Tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London (41)
- 28: Buckminster Fuller Appears on the Los Angeles New Age Cable TV Shows, Psychic Phenomena and Quest Four (1979-82) (0)
- 25: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Explained in One of the Earliest Science Films Ever Made (1923) (3)
- 25: The Map of Philosophy: See All of the Disciplines, Areas & Subdivisions of Philosophy Mapped in a Comprehensive Video (1)
- 25: Discover the Lost Early Computer Art of Telidon, Canada’s TV Proto-Internet from the 1970s (0)
- 25: Explore Meticulous 3D Models of Endangered Historical Sites in Google’s “Open Heritage” Project (0)
- 24: When Robert Rauschenberg Asked Willem De Kooning for One of His Paintings … So That He Could Erase It (1)
- 24: All of the Rulers of Europe Over the Past 2,400 Years Presented in a Timelapse Map (400 B.C. to 2017 A.D.) (1)
- 24: An 82-Year-Old Japanese Audiophile Searches for the Best Sound by Installing His Own Electric Utility Pole in His Yard (7)
- 24: Short Fascinating Film Shows How Japanese Soy Sauce Has Been Made for the Past 750 years (1)
- 23: Philip Roth (RIP) Creates a List of the 15 Books That Influenced Him Most (7)
- 23: Watch The Hedy Lamarr Story, a New Documentary on the 1940s Film Star & Inventor of Wi-Fi Technology (Streaming Free for a Limited Time) (3)
- 23: The Art of Europe’s Forgotten Avant-Garde Artists Now Digitized and Put Online (0)
- 23: Robert Rauschenberg’s 34 Illustrations of Dante’s Inferno (1958-60) (0)
- 22: View and Download Nearly 60,000 Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (0)
- 22: Bill Gates Names 5 Books You Should Read This Summer (0)
- 22: Discover David Lynch’s Bizarre & Minimalist Comic Strip, The Angriest Dog in the World (1983-1992) (1)
- 22: The Ups & Downs of Ancient Rome’s Economy–All 1,900 Years of It–Get Documented by Pollution Traces Found in Greenland’s Ice (0)
- 21: It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Apocalypse Gets Visualized in an Inventive Map from 1486 (1)
- 21: How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short, Charming Introduction (7)
- 21: The Art of Sci-Fi Book Covers: From the Fantastical 1920s to the Psychedelic 1960s & Beyond (0)
- 21: Tom Wolfe’s Groundbreaking Work, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Gets Released as a Limited Collector’s Edition, with Each Copy Signed by the Author (0)
- 18: How Women Got Dressed in the 14th & 18th Centuries: Watch the Very Painstaking Process Get Cinematically Recreated (0)
- 18: Why Sitting Is The New Smoking: An Animated Explanation (0)
- 18: Muhammad Ali & Sly Stone Get Into a Heated Debate on Racism & Reparations on The Mike Douglas Show (1974) (1)
- 18: Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child” Shredded on the Ukulele (3)
- 18: Doc Martens Boots Now Come Adorned with Traditional Japanese Art (1)
- 17: How David Bowie Turned His “Adequate” Voice into a Powerful Instrument: Hear Isolated Vocal Tracks from “Life on Mars,” “Starman,” “Modern Love” “Under Pressure” & More (3)
- 17: The New Studs Terkel Radio Archive Will Let You Hear 5,000+ Recordings Featuring the Great American Broadcaster & Interviewer (0)
- 17: How the Sounds You Hear in Movies Are Really Made: Discover the Magic of “Foley Artists” (2)
- 17: Why Stradivarius Violins Are Worth Millions (7)
- 16: 19th Century Atlas Creatively Visualizes the Expansion of Geographical Knowledge Over 4000 Years of World History: From the Biblical flood to the Industrial Revolution (0)
- 16: Hear a 12-Hour Playlist of Experimental Symphonic Noise Rock by Avant-Garde Guitarist and Composer Glenn Branca (RIP) (0)
- 16: Hear Tom Wolfe (RIP) Tell Studs Terkel All About Custom-Car Culture, the Subject of His Seminal Piece of New Journalism (1965) (0)
- 16: Watch the Brand New Trailer for Bohemian Rhapsody, the Long-Awaited Biopic on Freddie Mercury & Queen (0)
- 15: Get the History of the World in 46 Lectures, Courtesy of Columbia University (0)
- 15: Hear the Recently Discovered, Earliest Known Recording of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1894) (0)
- 15: Extremely Rare Technicolor Film Footage from the 1920s Discovered: Features Louise Brooks Dancing in Her First Feature Film (0)
- 15: Groundbreaking Map from 1858 Colorfully Visualizes 6,000 Years of World History (0)
- 14: National Geographic Has Digitized Its Collection of 6,000+ Vintage Maps: See a Curated Selection of Maps Published Between 1888 and Today (0)
- 14: The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online (3)
- 14: Mister Rogers Accepts a Lifetime Achievement Award, and Helps You Thank Everyone Who Has Made a Difference in Your Life (0)
- 14: Newly Unearthed Footage Shows Albert Einstein Driving a Flying Car (1931) (2)
- 11: Interactive Map Shows the Seizure of Over 1.5 Billion Acres of Native American Land Between 1776 and 1887 (3)
- 11: Erich Fromm’s Six Rules of Listening: Learn the Keys to Understanding Other People from the Famed Psychologist (0)
- 11: Eleven Rules for Writing from Eight Contemporary Playwrights (1)
- 10: The Muggletonians, an Obscure Religious Sect, Made Beautiful Maps That Put the Earth at the Center of the Solar System (1846) (4)
- 10: The Power of Eddie Vedder’s Voice: Hear Isolated Vocal Tracks from Three Classic Pearl Jam Songs (5)
- 10: The First 100 Years of the Bicycle: A 1915 Documentary Shows How the Bike Went from Its Clunky Birth in 1818, to Its Enduring Design in 1890 (0)
- 10: How the Mysteries of the Vatican Secret Archives Are Being Revealed by Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 09: Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Now Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library (0)
- 09: 3,000-Year-Old Olive Tree on the Island of Crete Still Produces Olives Today (4)
- 09: You Could Soon Be Able to Text with 2,000 Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1)
- 09: A New Scientific Study Supports Putting Two Spaces After a Period … and a Punctuation War Ensues (8)
- 08: Watch 9 Iconic Artists at Work: Vintage Videos of Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, Monet, Escher & More (1)
- 08: On Its 25th Anniversary, Hear Liz Phair’s Groundbreaking Exile in Guyville Juxtaposed Song-By-Song With the Album That Inspired It, the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street (1)
- 08: The Cutting-Edge Science That Can Turn Everyday Objects, Like a Bag of Chips, Into a Listening Device (0)
- 08: Zora Neal Hurston Wrote a Book About Cudjo Lewis, the Last Survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and It’s Finally Getting Published 87 Years Later (0)
- 07: An Interactive Map Shows Just How Many Roads Actually Lead to Rome (6)
- 07: Europe After the Rain: Watch the Vintage Documentary on the Two Great Art Movements, Dada & Surrealism (1978) (0)
- 07: Yale’s Free Course on The Moral Foundations of Political Philosophy: Do Governments Deserve Our Allegiance, and When Should They Be Denied It? (0)
- 07: Visit an Online Collection of 61,761 Musical Instruments from Across the World (3)
- 04: Visit a Gallery of 300 Striking Posters from the May 1968 Uprising in Paris (6)
- 04: How Master Japanese Animator Satoshi Kon Pushed the Boundaries of Making Anime: A Video Essay (1)
- 04: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory of the Cosmos Now Published & Available Online (0)
- 04: Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical Debuted on Broadway 50 Years Ago: Watch Footage of the Cast Performing in 1968 (0)
- 03: Peter Sellers Gives a Quick Demonstration of British Accents (0)
- 03: Pulp Covers for Classic Detective Novels by Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie & Raymond Chandler (0)
- 03: Watch AC/DC Rock a Gymnasium Full of High School Kids in 1976 (0)
- 03: Enter an Archive of Over 95,000 Aerial Photographs Taken Over Britain from 1919 to 2006 (0)
- 02: J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work (10)
- 02: The Concept of Musical Harmony Explained in Five Levels of Difficulty, Starting with a Child & Ending with Herbie Hancock (0)
- 02: Studio Ghibli Releases Tantalizing Concept Art for Its New Theme Park, Opening in Japan in 2022 (1)
- 02: Computer Scientists Figure Out What’s the Longest Distance You Could Sail at Sea Without Hitting Land (0)
- 01: Dramatic Footage of San Francisco Right Before & After the Massively Devastating Earthquake of 1906 (1)
- 01: Charlie Chaplin Films a Scene Inside a Lion’s Cage in 200 Takes (0)
- 01: The Gig When Miles Davis Jammed with Carlos Santana & Robben Ford (Giants Stadium, 1986) (0)
- 01: What Is Blockchain? Three Videos Explain the New Technology That Promises to Change Our World (2)
- April 2018 (84)
- 30: Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer (1934) (0)
- 30: See The Iliad Performed as a One-Woman Show in a Montreal Bar by McGill University Classics Professor Lynn Kozak (0)
- 30: Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today (4)
- 30: Hear the Famously Controversial Concert Where Leonard Bernstein Introduces Glenn Gould & His Idiosyncratic Performance of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto (1962) (2)
- 27: Hear the Very First Pieces of Ambient Music, Erik Satie’s Furniture Music (Circa 1917) (1)
- 27: A Big Choir Sings Patti Smith’s “Because the Night” (2)
- 27: Tsarist Russia Comes to Life in Vivid Color Photographs Taken Circa 1905-1915 (0)
- 27: 100 Years of Drag Queen Fashion in 4 Minutes: An Aesthetic Journey Moving from the 1920s Through Today (0)
- 26: The Diderot Effect: Enlightenment Philosopher Denis Diderot Explains the Psychology of Consumerism & Our Wasteful Spending (0)
- 26: Doc Martens Boots Adorned with Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” (1)
- 26: An Archive of 8,000 Benjamin Franklin Papers Now Digitized & Put Online (0)
- 26: Braille Neue: A New Version of Braille That Can Be Simultaneously Read by the Sighted and the Blind (4)
- 25: A Cinematic Journey Through Paris, As Seen Through the Lens of Legendary Filmmaker Éric Rohmer: Watch Rohmer in Paris (0)
- 25: Igor Stravinsky Remembers the “Riotous” Premiere of His Rite of Spring in 1913: “They Were Very Shocked. They Were Naive and Stupid People.” (0)
- 25: Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Relives His Four Most Memorable Games (1)
- 25: The Science of Beer: A New Free Online Course Promises to Enhance Your Appreciation of the Timeless Beverage (0)
- 24: Dire Straits’ “Sultans Of Swing” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument Dating Back to the 6th Century (1)
- 24: 200+ Films by Indigenous Directors Now Free to View Online: A New Archive Launched by the National Film Board of Canada (1)
- 24: Apply to Become an Archivist Overseeing Prince’s Artifacts & Archival Materials: Applications Are Being Accepted Now (9)
- 24: Watch Life on the Streets of Tokyo in Footage Recorded in 1913: Caught Between the Traditional and the Modern (0)
- 23: Enter an Online Interactive Documentary on M.C. Escher’s Art & Life, Narrated By Peter Greenaway (1)
- 23: Watch the Trailer for a Stunning New 70-Millimeter Print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Released by Christopher Nolan on the Film’s 50th Anniversary (0)
- 23: Special David Bowie MetroCards Get Released in New York City (0)
- 23: The Salvador Dalí Action Figure (0)
- 20: Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911 (100)
- 20: Download an Archive of 16,000 Sound Effects from the BBC: A Fascinating History of the 20th Century in Sound (1)
- 20: Kind of Blue: How Miles Davis Changed Jazz (0)
- 20: Watch Choirs Around the World Simulate the Rainstorm in Toto’s “Africa” Using Only Their Hands (0)
- 19: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Is Now Completely Online (3)
- 19: Cornell Creates a Database of Fugitive Slave Ads, Telling the Story of Those Who Resisted Slavery in 18th & 19th Century America (0)
- 19: Martin Scorsese Teaches His First Online Course on Filmmaking: Features 30 Video Lessons (0)
- 18: How the Iconic Eames Lounge Chair Is Made, From Start to Finish (1)
- 18: Dress Like an Intellectual Icon with Japanese Coats Inspired by the Wardrobes of Camus, Sartre, Duchamp, Le Corbusier & Others (0)
- 18: John Lennon Extols the Virtues of Transcendental Meditation in a Spirited Letter Written to a Beatles Fan (1968) (0)
- 18: Listen to an Archive of Recordings by Delia Derbyshire, the Electronic Music Pioneer & Composer of the Dr. Who Theme Song (0)
- 17: An Avalanche of Novels, Films and Other Works of Art Will Soon Enter the Public Domain: Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, William Carlos Williams, Buster Keaton & More (2)
- 17: Watch Roxy Music Play Live with Brian Eno in Early Groundbreaking Performances (1972) (1)
- 17: What Made Studio Ghibli Animator Isao Takahata (RIP) a Master: Two Video Essays (0)
- 17: Stream Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize In Music (0)
- 16: Behold the Codex Gigas (aka “Devil’s Bible”), the Largest Medieval Manuscript in the World (11)
- 16: Eminent Philosophers Name the 43 Most Important Philosophy Books Written Between 1950-2000: Wittgenstein, Foucault, Rawls & More (39)
- 16: Frank Zappa Debates Whether the Government Should Censor Music in a Heated Episode of Crossfire: Why Are People Afraid of Words? (1986) (3)
- 16: Malcolm Gladwell Explains Where His Ideas Come From (1)
- 13: Radiooooo: Discover the Musical Time Machine That Lets You Hear What Played on the Radio in Different Times & Places (3)
- 13: Coachella Is Streaming Free Online: Watch St. Vincent, Beyoncé, David Byrne & Many Other Live Acts (3)
- 13: The Famous Schrodinger’s Cat Thought Experiment Comes Back to Life in an Off-Kilter Animation (1)
- 13: How Sampling Transformed Music and Created New Tapestries of Sound: An Interactive Demonstration by Producer/DJ Mark Ronson (1)
- 13: Watch Ancient Ruins Get Restored to their Glorious Original State with Animated GIFs: The Temple of Jupiter, Luxor Temple & More (0)
- 12: 10 Great German Expressionist Films: From Nosferatu to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (0)
- 12: What Makes This Song Great?: Producer Rick Beato Breaks Down the Greatness of Classic Rock Songs in His New Video Series (1)
- 12: A Map Showing How the Ancient Romans Envisioned the World in 40 AD (1)
- 12: A Dazzling Aerial Photograph of Edinburgh (1920) (0)
- 11: Artists Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky in Mexico: Vintage Footage from 1938 (0)
- 11: Stream David Bowie’s Complete Discography in a 19-Hour Playlist: From His Very First Recordings to His Last (6)
- 11: Help a Library Transcribe Magical Manuscripts & Recover the Charms, Potions & Witchcraft That Flourished in Early Modern Europe and America (0)
- 11: The Political Thought of Confucius, Plato, John Locke & Adam Smith Introduced in Animations Narrated by Aidan Turner (0)
- 10: Stream 47 Hours of Classic Sci-Fi Novels & Stories: Asimov, Wells, Orwell, Verne, Lovecraft & More (2)
- 10: Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations (4)
- 10: A Young Steve Jobs Teaches a Class at MIT (1992) (1)
- 10: Stephen King Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Novels (3)
- 09: Doc Martens Now Come Adorned with William Blake’s Art, Thanks to a Partnership with Tate Britain (3)
- 09: Behold 3,000 Digitized Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina: The Mother of All Medieval Libraries Is Getting Reconstructed Online (0)
- 09: UC Berkeley Is Offering Data Science, Its Fastest-Growing Course Ever, for Free Online (2)
- 09: The Genius of Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map–and How It Revolutionized Subway Map Design Everywhere (0)
- 06: A Vending Machine Now Distributes Free Short Stories at Francis Ford Coppola’s Café Zoetrope (1)
- 06: Colorful Wood Block Prints from the Chinese Revolution of 1911: A Gallery of Artistic Propaganda Posters (0)
- 06: Gustave Flaubert Tells His Mother Why Serious Writers Shouldn’t Bother with Day Jobs (1850) (0)
- 05: Enter “The Magazine Rack,” the Internet Archive’s Collection of 34,000 Digitized Magazines (2)
- 05: When David Bowie Became Nikola Tesla: Watch His Electric Performance in The Prestige (2006) (0)
- 05: How to Use the Rotary Dial Phone: A Primer from 1927 (0)
- 05: Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity (1)
- 04: Hear Albert Einstein Read “The Common Language of Science” (1941) (1)
- 04: Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958) (1)
- 04: One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.) (0)
- 04: Stream a 144-Hour Discography of Classic Jazz Recordings from Blue Note Records: Miles Davis, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman & More (2)
- 03: The Illustrated Medicinal Plant Map of the United States of America (1932): Download It in High Resolution (4)
- 03: Hidden Ancient Greek Medical Text Read for the First Time in a Thousand Years — with a Particle Accelerator (0)
- 03: 450+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in April: Enroll Today (0)
- 03: Meet Nadia Boulanger, “The Most Influential Teacher Since Socrates,” Who Mentored Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Quincy Jones & Other Legends (10)
- 02: Brian Eno’s Advice for Those Who Want to Do Their Best Creative Work: Don’t Get a Job (9)
- 02: Hear Marvin Gaye Sing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” A Capella: The Haunting Isolated Vocal Track (4)
- 02: Patti Smith’s 40 Favorite Books (5)
- 02: How Bill Gates Reads Books (3)
- 02: The 1,700+ Words Invented by Shakespeare* (3)
- March 2018 (91)
- 31: Applause Fills the Air as Stephen Hawking Gets Laid to Rest in Cambridge, England (6)
- 30: Hear Beowulf and Gawain and the Green Knight Read in Their Original Old and Middle English by an MIT Medievalist (2)
- 30: A Shazam for Nature: A New Free App Helps You Identify Plants, Animals & Other Denizens of the Natural World (2)
- 30: Japanese Designer Creates Incredibly Detailed & Realistic Maps of a City That Doesn’t Exist (0)
- 29: This Is Your Brain on Exercise: Why Physical Exercise (Not Mental Games) Might Be the Best Way to Keep Your Mind Sharp (1)
- 29: The Fall’s Mark E. Smith’s (RIP) Creates a List of His Favorite Books, Films & Music, Circa 1981 (7)
- 29: Martin Scorsese Creates a List of 38 Essential Films About American Democracy (7)
- 29: When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934) (7)
- 28: 150 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (0)
- 28: Behold the MusicMap: The Ultimate Interactive Genealogy of Music Created Between 1870 and 2016 (0)
- 28: Hear 48 Hours of Lectures by Joseph Campbell on Comparative Mythology and the Hero’s Journey (6)
- 28: A Periodic Table Visualizing the Year & Country in Which Each Element Was Discovered (1)
- 28: Read and Hear Tristan Tzara’s “Dada Manifesto,” the Avant-Garde Document Published 100 Years Ago (March 23, 1918) (0)
- 27: The Museum of Failure: A Living Shrine to New Coke, the Ford Edsel, Google Glass & Other Epic Corporate Fails (0)
- 27: Enter the Pulp Magazine Archive, Featuring Over 11,000 Digitized Issues of Classic Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Detective Fiction (8)
- 27: A 17-Hour Chronological Playlist of Pink Floyd Albums: The Evolution of the Band Revealed in 209 Tracks (1967-2014) (4)
- 27: The Models for “American Gothic” Pose in Front of the Iconic Painting (1942) (1)
- 26: Tom Waits Curates a 76-Song Playlist of His Own Music: An Introduction to Tom Waits by Tom Waits (4)
- 26: Come on Down to David Byrne’s Giant Suit Emporium: We’re Burning Down the House with Savings! (0)
- 26: Philosophy for Beginners: A Free Introductory Course from Oxford University (10)
- 26: The History of the U.S. Civil War Visualized Month by Month and State by State, in an Infographic from 1897 (0)
- 26: What Happened When Stephen Hawking Threw a Cocktail Party for Time Travelers (2009) (1)
- 23: Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC – 2000 AD) (7)
- 23: Spike Lee Teaching an Online Course on Independent Filmmaking: The Course Is Now Officially Live (0)
- 23: The MC5’s Wayne Kramer Demonstrates the Correct & Official Way to Play “Kick Out the Jams” on the Guitar (0)
- 23: Pre-Flight Safety Demonstration Gets Performed as a Modern Dance: A Creative Video from a Taiwanese Airline (0)
- 22: When Ira Aldridge Became the First Black Actor to Perform Shakespeare in England (1824) (1)
- 22: A Free Oxford Course on Deep Learning: Cutting Edge Lessons in Artificial Intelligence (2)
- 22: Watch a Marathon Streaming of All 856 Episodes of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, and the Moving Trailer for the New Documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (0)
- 22: All of the Songs Played on “WKRP in Cincinnati” in One Spotify Playlist: Stream 202 Classic Tracks (1)
- 22: Infographics Show How the Different Fields of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Fit Together (8)
- 21: Bertrand Russell’s Advice to People Living 1,000 Years in the Future: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish” (3)
- 21: A Free Online Course Helps Us Identify Hoaxes, Rumors & Misinformation in the News (0)
- 21: An Artist Visits Stonehenge in 1573 and Paints a Charming Watercolor Painting of the Ancient Ruins (2)
- 21: The Story of How David Jones Became David Bowie Gets Told in a New Graphic Novel (0)
- 20: Bill Murray Reads the Poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Lorine Niedecker, Lucille Clifton & More (0)
- 20: Watch the Original Black Panther Animated Series Online: All Six Episodes Now Available Thanks to Marvel (1)
- 20: Coursera Now Offering Complete Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs–With Tuition Reduced by 70% (0)
- 20: Play a Collection of Classic Handheld Video Games at the Internet Archive: Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Tron and MC Hammer (0)
- 19: Watch Stephen Hawking’s Interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Recorded 10 Days Before His Death: A Last Conversation about Black Holes, Time Travel & More (1)
- 19: A Huge Scale Model Showing Ancient Rome at Its Architectural Peak (Built Between 1933 and 1937) (4)
- 19: Jane Goodall Now Teaching a Free Online Course on Developing Compassionate Leaders: Enroll and Start Today (0)
- 19: Feel Strangely Nostalgic as You Hear Classic Songs Reworked to Sound as If They’re Playing in an Empty Shopping Mall: David Bowie, Toto, Ah-ha & More (0)
- 16: How the Ornate Tapestries from the Age of Louis XIV Were Made (and Are Still Made Today) (0)
- 16: David Byrne Creates a Playlist of Creative Music From Africa & the Caribbean—or What One Nameless President Has Called “Shithole Countries” (0)
- 15: Stephen Hawking Picks the Music (and One Novel) He’d Spend Eternity With: Stream the Playlist Online (1)
- 15: Watch “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on The 405,” the New Oscar-Winning Portrait of an Artist (0)
- 15: H.P. Lovecraft Writes “Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance,” a Devastating Parody of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (1923) (0)
- 15: Enter Digital Archives of the 1960s Fluxus Movement and Explore the Avant-Garde Art of John Cage, Yoko Ono, John Cale, Nam June Paik & More (0)
- 14: Stephen Hawking (RIP) Explains His Revolutionary Theory of Black Holes with the Help of Chalkboard Animations (1)
- 14: The Lighter Side of Stephen Hawking: The Physicist Cracks Jokes and a Smile with John Oliver (0)
- 14: Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Thanks to the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive (1)
- 14: Take a Long, Strange Trip and Stream a 346-Hour Chronological Playlist of Live Grateful Dead Performances (1966-1995) (5)
- 14: An Archive of 20,000 Movie Posters from Czechoslovakia (1930-1989) (0)
- 13: 70,000+ Religious Texts Digitized by Princeton Theological Seminary, Letting You Immerse Yourself in the Curious Works of Great World Religions (5)
- 13: IDEO.org’s Free Design Course on Prototyping Starts Today (0)
- 13: Buckminster Fuller’s Collaboration with The North Face Culminates with a New Geodesic Dome Tent, the Geodome 4 (0)
- 13: Marjorie Eliot Has Held Free Jazz Concerts in Her Harlem Apartment Every Sunday for the Past 25 Years (1)
- 12: The Periodic Table of David Bowie: A Visualization of the Seminal Artist’s Influence and Influences (1)
- 12: A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures (15)
- 12: Watch Ta-Nehisi Coates Speak French Before & After Attending Middlebury’s Immersion Program (1)
- 12: Hear 55 Hours of Shakespeare’s Plays: The Tragedies, Comedies & Histories Performed by Vanessa Redgrave, Sir John Gielgud, Ralph Fiennes & Many More (2)
- 09: The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972-2018) (5)
- 09: A Turing Machine Handmade Out of Wood (0)
- 09: Moog This!: Hear a Playlist Featuring 36 Hours of Music Made with the Legendary Analog Synthesizer (0)
- 09: Professional Scrabble Players Replay Their Greatest Moves: Their Most Improbable, Patient & Strategic Moves of All Time (2)
- 09: Google Launches Three New Artificial Intelligence Experiments That Could Be Godsends for Artists, Museums & Designers (0)
- 08: An Impressive Audio Archive of John Cage Lectures & Interviews: Hear Recordings from 1963-1991 (0)
- 08: Time Lapse Video Captures Light Illuminating the Stained Glass Windows of Washington National Cathedral (0)
- 08: One Man Shows You How to Play Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” with Just One Synthesizer (0)
- 07: How Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts Were Made: A Step-by-Step Look at this Beautiful, Centuries-Old Craft (3)
- 07: When German Performance Artist Ulay Stole Hitler’s Favorite Painting & Hung it in the Living Room of a Turkish Immigrant Family (1976) (0)
- 07: 1000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in March: Enroll Today (0)
- 07: The Original Noise Artist: Hear the Strange Experimental Sounds & Instruments of Italian Futurist, Luigi Russolo (1913) (1)
- 06: Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detection Kit”: A Toolkit That Can Help You Scientifically Separate Sense from Nonsense (6)
- 06: Oxford’s Free Introduction to Philosophy: Stream 41 Lectures (5)
- 06: The Case for Writing in Coffee Shops: Why Malcolm Gladwell Does It, and You Should Too (1)
- 06: A Digital Archive of Heavy Metal, the Influential “Adult Fantasy Magazine” That Featured the Art of Moebius, H.R. Giger & More (2)
- 05: Mozart’s Diary Where He Composed His Final Masterpieces Is Now Digitized and Available Online (3)
- 05: Google Launches a Free Course on Artificial Intelligence: Sign Up for Its New “Machine Learning Crash Course” (26)
- 05: An Animated History of Goth (2)
- 05: Elton John Proves He Can Turn any Text into a Song: Watch Him Improvise with Lines from Henrik Ibsen’s Play, Peer Gynt (1)
- 02: David Lynch Teaches Typing: A New Interactive Comedy Game (1)
- 02: David Sedaris Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Jazz Tracks: Stream Them Online (0)
- 02: How Much Money Do You Need to Be Happy? A New Study Gives Us Some Exact Figures (4)
- 02: Judd Apatow Teaches the Craft of Comedy: A New Online Course from MasterClass (0)
- 01: New York City Buskers Sound Just Like the Beatles (0)
- 01: Get Free Drawing Lessons from Katsushika Hokusai, Who Famously Painted The Great Wave of Kanagawa: Read His How-To Book, Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings (0)
- 01: Watch Jack Nicholson Get Maniacally Into Character for The Shining’s Iconic Axe Scene (0)
- 01: Pablo Neruda’s Poem, “The Me Bird,” Becomes a Short, Beautifully Animated Film (0)
- 01: Harvard Launches a Free Online Course to Promote Religious Tolerance & Understanding (1)
- February 2018 (86)
- 28: Hear Music Played on the Viola Organista, a Piano That Sounds Like a Violin, Which Leonardo da Vinci Invented, But Never Heard (1)
- 28: Tattoos Can Now Start Monitoring Your Medical Conditions: Harvard and MIT Researchers Innovate at the Intersection of Art & Medicine (0)
- 28: Maya Angelou’s Secret to Living Your Best Life (0)
- 28: Malcolm Gladwell Teaching His First Online Course: A Master Class on How to Turn Big Ideas into Powerful Stories (1)
- 27: Enter the Cover Art Archive: A Massive Collection of 800,000 Album Covers from the 1950s through 2018 (5)
- 27: A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) (10)
- 27: Hear Rick Wakeman’s Musical Adaptation of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, “One of Prog Rock’s Crowning Achievements” (0)
- 27: HBO Drops a Teaser Trailer for Fahrenheit 451, Its New Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Classic Dystopian Novel (0)
- 27: Large Archive of Hannah Arendt’s Papers Digitized by the Library of Congress: Read Her Lectures, Drafts of Articles, Notes & Correspondence (4)
- 26: What Ancient Chinese Philosophy Can Teach Us About Living the Good Life Today: Lessons from Harvard’s Popular Professor, Michael Puett (0)
- 26: Hunter S. Thompson’s Decadent Daily Breakfast: The “Psychic Anchor” of His Frenetic Creative Life (5)
- 26: A Demonstration of Perfect Samurai Swordsmanship (0)
- 26: 175+ College Admissions Offices Promise Not to Penalize High School Students Who Get Suspended for Protesting Peacefully Against Gun Violence (3)
- 25: Free: The Best Books for Learning Modern Statistics (0)
- 23: Leo Tolstoy Makes a List of the 50+ Books That Influenced Him Most (1891) (8)
- 23: Archie Bunker’s Editorial on Gun Control (1972) (5)
- 23: The Truth Behind Jane Austen’s Fight Club: Female Prize Fights Were a Thing During the 18th Century (0)
- 23: Underrated Albums That You Want the World to Know About: What’s on Your List? (24)
- 22: The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Now Free Online (1)
- 22: Google Digitizes and Puts Online a Vast Archive of Latino Artworks and Artifacts (1)
- 22: What the Map of the United States Would Look Like If All 50 States Had Equal Populations (2)
- 22: Watch Joan Baez Endearingly Imitate Bob Dylan (1972) (4)
- 21: Massive Archive of 78RPM Records Now Digitized & Put Online: Stream 78,000 Early 20th Century Records from Around the World (4)
- 21: What Made John Entwistle One of the Great Rock Bassists? Hear Isolated Tracks from “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “Baba O’Riley” & “Pinball Wizard” (1)
- 21: Watch 3000 Years of Art, a 1968 Experimental Film That Takes You on a Visual Journey Through 3,000 Years of Fine Art (1)
- 21: Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: The 2017 Edition (2)
- 20: Hear a 19-Hour Playlist of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Favorite Music: Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and… Yvette Guilbert (0)
- 20: Ditching the Lecture Hall for the Recording Studio: One Historian Is Using the Power of Podcasting to Inspire a Whole New Audience (5)
- 20: Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out (4)
- 20: An Animated Introduction to the Existentialist Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre… and How It Can Open Our Eyes to Life’s Possibilities (0)
- 20: Enroll in Harvard’s Free Online Architecture Course: An Introduction to the History & Theory of Architecture (3)
- 19: Is Charles Bukowski a Self-Help Guru? Hear Five of His Brutally Honest, Yet Oddly Inspiring, Poems and Decide for Yourself (5)
- 19: Finding Meaning in Music: A Short Documentary on How a Young Tech Pioneer, Confronting His Mortality, Prepared for His Final Violin Performance (0)
- 19: The Brian Eno Discography: Stream 29 Hours of Recordings by the Master of Ambient Music (0)
- 19: Tim Minchin Presents “9 Rules to Live By” in a Funny and Wise Commencement Speech (2013) (1)
- 16: Stream the “Complete” John Coltrane Playlist: A 94-Hour Journey Through 700+ Transformative Tracks (7)
- 16: Amanda Palmer Sings a Heartfelt Musical Tribute to YA Author Judy Blume on Her 80th Birthday (0)
- 16: Joan Didion Creates a Handwritten List of the 19 Books That Changed Her Life (2)
- 16: The Strange, Sci-Fi Sounds of Skating on Thin Black Ice (3)
- 15: What Are the Keys to Happiness?: Take “The Science of Well-Being,” a Free Online Version of Yale’s Most Popular Course (6)
- 15: What’s the Origin of Time Travel Fiction?: New Video Essay Explains How Time Travel Writing Got Its Start with Charles Darwin & His Literary Peers (1)
- 15: “Man as Industrial Palace,” the 1926 Lithograph Depicting the Human Body as a Modern Factory, Comes to Life in a New Animation (0)
- 15: A One-Man Pink Floyd Band Creates Note-Perfect Covers of “Echoes,” “Comfortably Numb,” “Mother” & Other Classics: Watch 19-Year-Old Wunderkind Ewan Cunningham in Action (0)
- 14: How to Get Over the Anxiety of Public Speaking?: Watch the Stanford Video, “Think Fast, Talk Smart,” Viewed Already 15 Million Times (2)
- 14: How Do Computers Work?: New Video Series Explains the Inner Workings of the Device You Use Every Day (0)
- 14: Read A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a Hilarious & Informative Collection of Early Modern English Slang (1785) (0)
- 14: When the Sex Pistols Played at the Chelmsford Top Security Prison: Hear Vintage Tracks from the 1976 Gig (0)
- 13: Noam Chomsky Explains What’s Wrong with Postmodern Philosophy & French Intellectuals, and How They End Up Supporting Oppressive Power Structures (25)
- 13: Criterion Collection Films 50% Off for a Limited Time: Get Great Films at Half Price (0)
- 13: Designer Creates Origami Cardboard Tents to Shelter the Homeless from the Winter Cold (0)
- 13: Reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on Its 200th Anniversary: An Animated Primer to the Great Monster Story & Technology Cautionary Tale (0)
- 13: Watch Edith+Eddie, an Intense, Oscar-Nominated Short Film About America’s Oldest Interracial Newlyweds (2)
- 12: How to Write Like an Architect: Short Primers on Writing with the Neat, Clean Lines of a Designer (0)
- 12: Watch Scenes from the “Pink Floyd Ballet:” When the Experimental Rock Band Collaborated with Ballet Choreographer Roland Petit (1972) (1)
- 12: Artist Re-Envisions National Parks in the Style of Tolkien’s Middle Earth Maps (0)
- 12: Watch David Bowie Perform “Imagine”: A Touching Tribute to His Friend John Lennon (1983) (0)
- 09: The 25 Principles for Adult Behavior: John Perry Barlow (R.I.P.) Creates a List of Wise Rules to Live By (12)
- 09: An Animated Introduction to Epicurus and His Answer to the Ancient Question: What Makes Us Happy? (0)
- 09: One Minute Art History: Centuries of Artistic Styles Get Packed Into a Short Experimental Animation (1)
- 09: Download 240+ Free eBooks on Design, Data, Software, Web Development & Business from O’Reilly Media (2)
- 08: Take Harvard’s Introductory Course on Buddhism, One of Five World Religions Classes Offered Free Online (1)
- 08: A Field Guide to Fake News and Other Information Disorders: A Free Manual to Download, Share & Re-Use (0)
- 08: “The Couch to 80k” Writing Boot Camp: Take a Free 8-Week Podcast Course to Start Writing Fiction, or Even Finish a Novel (0)
- 08: Understanding Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, Their Tribute to Departed Bandmate Syd Barrett (0)
- 07: 1,600 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown (26)
- 07: Theorist Judith Butler Explains How Behavior Creates Gender: A Short Introduction to “Gender Performativity” (3)
- 07: How the Brilliant Colors of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made with Alchemy (0)
- 07: Bill Gates Names His New Favorite Book of All Time: A Quick Introduction to Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now (1)
- 06: Download 150 Free Coloring Books from Great Libraries, Museums & Cultural Institutions: The British Library, Smithsonian, Carnegie Hall & More (2)
- 06: Jean-Paul Sartre’s Concepts of Freedom & “Existential Choice” Explained in an Animated Video Narrated by Stephen Fry (4)
- 06: NASA Puts 400+ Historic Experimental Flight Videos on YouTube (0)
- 06: Hear Freddie Mercury’s Vocals Soar in the Isolated Vocal Track for “Somebody to Love” (3)
- 05: A Map Shows What Happens When Our World Gets Four Degrees Warmer: The Colorado River Dries Up, Antarctica Urbanizes, Polynesia Vanishes (7)
- 05: Slow Burn: An Eight-Episode Podcast Miniseries on the Unfolding of the Watergate Scandal (1)
- 05: Werner’s Nomenclature of Colour, the 19th-Century “Color Dictionary” Used by Charles Darwin (1814) (0)
- 05: Read the Poignant Letter Sent to Anne Frank by George Whitman, Owner of Paris’ Famed Shakespeare & Co Bookshop (1960): “If I Sent This Letter to the Post Office It Would No Longer Reach You” (3)
- 04: What Do You Want to Do with Your Life?: Reflect with This Short Hand-Drawn Animation by Steve Cutts (0)
- 02: George Orwell Creates a List of the Four Essential Reasons Writers Write (1)
- 02: Behold the Beautiful Pages from a Medieval Monk’s Sketchbook: A Window Into How Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made (1494) (2)
- 02: “The Artist Project” Reveals What 127 Influential Artists See When They Look at Art: An Acclaimed Video Series from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (0)
- 02: “Every Concussion in the NFL This Year” Documented in a Chilling Five Minute Video (1)
- 02: 1000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in February: Enroll Today (0)
- 01: Hear a 65-Hour, Chronological Playlist of Miles Davis’ Revolutionary Jazz Albums (6)
- 01: Discover the Japanese Museum Dedicated to Collecting Rocks That Look Like Human Faces (1)
- 01: Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Played With 167 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls in Japan (2)
- 01: Photographer Puts Her Archive of Photos Documenting the 1970s New York Punk Scene on Instagram: Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch, Tom Verlaine, and Even Jean Michel Basquiat (0)
- January 2018 (98)
- 31: Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified Version of Bach’s “Little Fugue in G” (3)
- 31: What Makes Flea Such an Amazing Bass Player? A Video Essay Breaks Down His Style (0)
- 31: Watch the Making of the Dymaxion Globe: A 3-D Rendering of Buckminster Fuller’s Revolutionary Map (0)
- 31: Wim Wenders Explains How Polaroid Photos Ignite His Creative Process and Help Him Capture a Deeper Kind of Truth (0)
- 30: Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983 (2)
- 30: Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked the Code of the Voynich Manuscript: Has Modern Technology Finally Solved a Medieval Mystery? (5)
- 30: Literary Theorist Stanley Fish Offers a Free Course on Rhetoric, or the Power of Arguments (0)
- 30: Boston Public Library Launches a Crowdsourced Project to Transcribe 40,000 Documents from Its Anti-Slavery Collection: You Can Now Help (3)
- 29: Free: Download 10,000+ Master Drawings from The Morgan Library & Museum’s Online Collection (4)
- 29: Virginia Woolf’s Personal Photo Album Digitized & Put Online by Harvard: See Candid Snapshots of Woolf, Her Family, and Friends from the Bloomsbury Group (3)
- 29: Carl Sagan’s Syllabus & Final Exam for His Course on Critical Thinking (Cornell, 1986) (0)
- 29: H.P. Lovecraft’s Poem “Nemesis” Gets Unexpectedly Sung to the Tune of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” (0)
- 28: Sign Up for Open Culture’s Free Daily Email (1)
- 26: How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military (5)
- 26: MIT’s New Master’s Program Admits Students Without College and High School Degrees … and Helps Solve the World’s Most Pressing Problems (2)
- 26: How the Fences & Railings Adorning London’s Buildings Doubled (by Design) as Civilian Stretchers in World War II (1)
- 26: Harry Potter Finally Gets Translated Into Scots: Hear & Read Passages from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane (2)
- 26: When Japan’s Top Animators Made a Thrilling Cyberpunk Commercial for Irish Beer: Watch Last Orders (1997) (0)
- 26: Hear Ursula K. Le Guin’s Space Rock Opera Rigel 9: A Rare Recording from 1985 (0)
- 25: Robert Reich Makes His UC Berkeley Course on Wealth and Inequality in America Available on Facebook (2)
- 25: Read the Shortest Academic Article Ever Written: “The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of ‘Writer’s Block'” (1)
- 25: Watch Animated Scores to Music by Radiohead, Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Photek & Other Electronic/Post-Punk/Avant-Garde Musicians (0)
- 24: Celebrate the Life & Writing of Ursula K. Le Guin (R.I.P.) with Classic Radio Dramatizations of Her Stories (1)
- 24: Carl Sagan’s “The Pale Blue Dot” Animated (0)
- 24: Watch “Bells of Atlantis,” an Experimental Film with Early Electronic Music Featuring Anaïs Nin (1952) (1)
- 24: Artificial Intelligence Writes a Piece in the Style of Bach: Can You Tell the Difference Between JS Bach and AI Bach? (4)
- 23: George Orwell Reviews Salvador Dali’s Autobiography: “Dali is a Good Draughtsman and a Disgusting Human Being” (1944) (5)
- 23: A Map Shows Where Today’s Countries Would Be Located on Pangea (2)
- 23: The Largest Early Map of the World Gets Assembled for the First Time: See the Huge, Detailed & Fantastical World Map from 1587 (0)
- 23: Massive New Database Will Finally Allow Us to Identify Enslaved Peoples and Their Descendants in the Americas (58)
- 22: A YouTube Channel Completely Devoted to Medieval Sacred Music: Hear Gregorian Chant, Byzantine Chant & More (1)
- 22: The London Time Machine: Interactive Map Lets You Compare Modern London, to the London Shortly After the Great Fire of 1666 (0)
- 22: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Handwritten Syllabus & Final Exam for the Philosophy Course He Taught at Morehouse College (1962) (1)
- 22: Take Seven Free Courses From the Museum of Modern Art (aka MoMA) (0)
- 20: 10,000 Classic Movie Posters Getting Digitized & Put Online by the Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin: Free to Browse & Download (1)
- 19: How a Virtual Reality Model of Auschwitz Helped Convict an SS Concentration Camp Guard: A Short Documentary on a High Tech Prosecution (1)
- 19: Celebrate the Women’s March with 24 Goddess GIFs Created by Animator Nina Paley: They’re Free to Download and Remix (1)
- 19: Ian McKellen Chokes Up While Reading a Poignant Coming-Out Letter (0)
- 18: Watch David Byrne Lead a Massive Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes” (0)
- 18: Filmmaker Michel Gondry Brings Classic Album Covers to Life in a Visually-Packed Commercial: Purple Rain, Beggars Banquet, Nevermind & More (0)
- 18: Coursera and Google Launch an Online Certificate Program to Help Students Become IT Professionals & Get Attractive Jobs (0)
- 18: Western Music Moves in Three and Even Four (!) Dimensional Spaces: How the Pioneering Research of Princeton Theorist Dmitri Tymoczko Helps Us Visualize Music in Radical, New Ways (1)
- 17: Watch the Bayeux Tapestry Come to Life in a Short Animated Film (2)
- 17: The Psychological & Neurological Disorders Experienced by Characters in Alice in Wonderland: A Neuroscience Reading of Lewis Carroll’s Classic Tale (3)
- 17: What is the Secret to Living a Long, Happy & Creatively Fulfilling Life?: Discover the Japanese Concept of Ikigai (1)
- 17: What Shakespeare’s English Sounded Like, and How We Know It (2)
- 16: David Byrne Launches the “Reasons to Be Cheerful” Web Site: A Compendium of News Meant to Remind Us That the World Isn’t Actually Falling Apart (2)
- 16: An Animated Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophical Recipe for Getting Over the Sources of Regret, Disappointment and Suffering in Our Lives (1)
- 16: Hear Dolores O’Riordan’s Beautifully-Pained Vocals in the Unplugged Version of The Cranberries’ 1994 Hit “Zombie” (0)
- 16: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Free Course from Princeton (1)
- 15: Omoshiroi Blocks: Japanese Memo Pads Reveal Intricate Buildings As The Pages Get Used (1)
- 15: A Teaser Trailer for Fahrenheit 451: A New Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Ever-Relevant Novel (1)
- 15: Smartify, a Shazam for Art, Lets You Use Your Phone to Scan, Identify & Learn About Major Works of Art (1)
- 15: Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, the New Series Starring Bryan Cranston, Anna Paquin & Steve Buscemi, Now Streaming Free on Amazon Prime (0)
- 15: 170+ Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies This Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (0)
- 13: Binge-Watch Carl Sagan’s Original Cosmos Series Free Online (Available for a Limited Time) (3)
- 12: Google’s Free App Analyzes Your Selfie and Then Finds Your Doppelganger in Museum Portraits (66)
- 12: Stream Big Playlists of Music from Haruki Murakami’s Personal Vinyl Collection and His Strange Literary Worlds (0)
- 12: 19-Year-Old Student Uses Early Spy Camera to Take Candid Street Photos (Circa 1895) (1)
- 11: The Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde (0)
- 11: A Brief History of Making Deals with the Devil: Niccolò Paganini, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Page & More (1)
- 11: How Reading Increases Your Emotional Intelligence & Brain Function: The Findings of Recent Scientific Studies (3)
- 11: The History of the World in One Video: Every Year from 200,000 BCE to Today (10)
- 10: The “True” Story Of How Brian Eno Invented Ambient Music (1)
- 10: Take a Virtual Tour of The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the World-Famous Collection of Renaissance Art (0)
- 10: Watch an Episode of TV-CBGB, the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Sitcom Ever Aired on Cable TV (1981) (0)
- 10: Speaking in Whistles: The Whistled Language of Oaxaca, Mexico (1)
- 10: Notations: John Cage Publishes a Book of Graphic Musical Scores, Featuring Visualizations of Works by Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, The Beatles & More (1969) (1)
- 10: David Bowie: The Last Five Years Is Now Airing/Streaming on HBO (0)
- 09: Watch Gyorgy Ligeti’s Electronic Masterpiece Artikulation Get Brought to Life by Rainer Wehinger’s Brilliant Visual Score (0)
- 09: Spheres Dance to the Music of Bach, Performed by Glenn Gould: An Animation from 1969 (0)
- 09: A Short Animated Introduction to Karl Marx (12)
- 09: A Map of George Orwell’s 1984 (3)
- 08: Hear the 50 Best Post-Punk Albums of All Time: A Nostalgia-Inducing Playlist Curated by Paste Magazine (8)
- 08: A Map Shows What Every Country in the World Calls Itself in its Own Language: Explore the “Endonyms of the World” Map (7)
- 08: A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Most Amazing Stunts (1)
- 08: Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Reworked in Major Key, Becomes a Cheerful Pop Song (2)
- 05: How to Download Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Now as a Free Audiobook?: Check Out Audible’s 30-Day Free Trial (15)
- 05: Hear a Dramatization of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys: Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 05: The Movements of a Symphony Conductor Get Artistically Visualized in an Avant-Garde Motion Capture Animation (0)
- 05: Watch Prince Play Jazz Piano & Coach His Band Through George Gershwin’s “Summertime” in a Candid, Behind-the-Scenes Moment (1990) (2)
- 05: Hear Glenn Gould Channel Marshall McLuhan and Create an Experimental Radio Documentary Analyzing the Pop Music of Petula Clark (1967) (0)
- 04: Hear the Hagia Sophia’s Awe-Inspiring Acoustics Get Recreated with Computer Simulations, and Let Yourself Get Transported Back to the Middle Ages (5)
- 04: The Story of How Beethoven Helped Make It So That CDs Could Play 74 Minutes of Music (0)
- 04: A Big 44-Hour Chronological Playlist of Rolling Stones Albums: Stream 613 Tracks (0)
- 04: Introducing the Librarian Action Figure: The Caped Crusader Who Fights Against Anti-Intellectualism, Ignorance & Censorship Everywhere (4)
- 03: Free, Open Source Modular Synth Software Lets You Create 70s & 80s Electronic Music—Without Having to Pay Thousands for a Real-World Synthesizer (3)
- 03: How Isaac Newton Lost $3 Million Dollars in the “South Sea Bubble” of 1720: Even Geniuses Can’t Prevail Against the Machinations of the Markets (1)
- 03: What Actually Is Bitcoin? Princeton’s Free Course “Bitcoin and Currency Technologies” Provides Much-Needed Answers (2)
- 03: Watch Every Episode of Bob Ross’ The Joy Of Painting Free Online: 403 Episodes Spanning 31 Seasons (5)
- 02: The Health Benefits of Drumming: Less Stress, Lower Blood Pressure, Pain Relief, and Altered States of Consciousness (4)
- 02: The 10 Most Popular Courses on Coursera in 2017 (and 2,000 Courses You Can Take for Free in January, 2018) (0)
- 02: 5,000+ Photographs by Minor White, One of the 20th Century’s Most Important Photographers, Now Digitized and Available Online (0)
- 02: 1,600 Rare Color Photographs Depict Life in the U.S During the Great Depression & World War II (0)
- 01: Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running (0)
- 01: The David Bowie Book Club Gets Launched by His Son: Read One of Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books Every Month (4)
- 01: Ian McKellen Recites Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20, Backed by Garage Rock Band, the Fleshtones, on Andy Warhol’s MTV Variety Show (1987) (0)
- 01: How to “Hijack” Amazon Prime for Good: Short Video Shows How Prime & Other Instant Delivery Services Can Easily Help the Homeless (5)
- December 2017 (90)
- 30: Listen to Glenn Gould’s Shockingly Experimental Radio Documentary, The Idea of North (1967) (0)
- 30: What Happens When a Cat Watches Hitchcock’s Psycho (2)
- 29: What Is Procrastination & How Can We Solve It? An Introduction by One of the World’s Leading Procrastination Experts (3)
- 29: Where Are They Now? An Animated Mockumentary Reveals What Happened to Your Favorite 1980s Cartoon Characters After Their Heyday (0)
- 29: Watch Russian Dancers Appear to Float Magically Across the Stage: A Mesmerizing Introduction to The Berezka Ensemble (6)
- 28: The Favorite Literary Work of Every Country Visualized on a World Map (7)
- 28: Hear Lou Reed’s The Raven, a Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe Featuring David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, Willem Dafoe & More (0)
- 28: Invisible Cities Illustrated: Artist Illustrates Each and Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel (1)
- 28: The American Revolution: A Free Course from Yale University (2)
- 27: Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand (1960) (12)
- 27: The Improbable Time When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982) (0)
- 27: Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes: Discover the Postmodern MTV Variety Show That Made Warhol a Star in the Television Age (1985-87) (0)
- 27: What Is a Life-Changing Realization You Wish You’d Had Sooner in Life? (4)
- 26: Mark Twain on Why “Travel is Fatal to Prejudice, Bigotry and Narrow-Mindedness, and Many of Our People Need It Sorely on These Accounts” (1869) (6)
- 26: Why Should We Read Charles Dickens? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case (1)
- 26: Photographer Nan Goldin Now on Instagram (0)
- 26: How Fleetwood Mac Makes A Song: A Video Essay Exploring the “Sonic Paintings” on the Classic Album, Rumours (0)
- 25: Advanced Algorithms: A Free Course from Harvard University (5)
- 25: Stream a Playlist of 79 Punk Rock Christmas Songs: The Ramones, The Damned, Bad Religion & More (1)
- 25: An Innocent Christmas Typo Causes Sir Patrick Stewart to Star as Satan In This Animated Holiday Short (2)
- 25: Watch Santa Claus, the Earliest Movie About Santa in Existence (1898) (0)
- 25: Did Santa Claus & His Reindeers Begin with a Mushroom Trip?: Discover the Psychedelic, Shamanistic Side of Christmas (1)
- 22: David Bowie & Bing Crosby Sing “The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth” (1977) (1)
- 22: Hear Kurt Cobain’s 50 Favorite Albums: A 38 Hour Playlist Featuring Lead Belly, David Bowie, Public Enemy, The Breeders & More (0)
- 22: Hear the Christmas Carols Made by Alan Turing’s Computer: Cutting-Edge Versions of “Jingle Bells” and “Good King Wenceslas” (1951) (0)
- 22: Eudora Welty’s Handwritten Eggnog Recipe, and Charles Dickens’ Recipe for Holiday Punch (0)
- 22: Need a Last Minute Gift? Give Online Courses Created by Cultural Icons Like Annie Leibovitz, Herbie Hancock, Werner Herzog and Many More (0)
- 21: Algorithms for Big Data: A Free Course from Harvard (0)
- 21: How the Russian Theatre Director Constantin Stanislavski Revolutionized the Craft of Acting: A New Video Essay (0)
- 21: The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1885) (2)
- 21: “Inemuri,” the Japanese Art of Taking Power Naps at Work, on the Subway, and Other Public Places (1)
- 21: Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Children–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK (1977) (0)
- 20: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online, Thanks to Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown (28)
- 20: The 1883 Krakatoa Explosion Made the Loudest Sound in History–So Loud It Traveled Around the World Four Times (0)
- 20: What the Entire Internet Looked Like in 1973: An Old Map Gets Found in a Pile of Research Papers (2)
- 20: The Vincent Van Gogh Action Figure, Complete with Detachable Ear (2)
- 19: How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease (3)
- 19: Dr. Demento’s New Punk Album Features William Shatner Singing The Cramps, Weird Al Yankovic Singing The Ramones & Much More (0)
- 19: A 17-Hour Chronological Playlist of Beatles Songs: 338 Tracks Let You Hear the Musical Evolution of the Iconic Band (3)
- 19: How to Draw in the Style of Japanese Manga: A Series of Free & Wildly Popular Video Tutorials from Artist Mark Crilley (0)
- 18: Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911) (1)
- 18: Thelonious Monk’s 25 Tips for Musicians (1960) (1)
- 18: The Doodles in Leonardo da Vinci’s Manuscripts Contain His Groundbreaking Theories on the Laws of Friction, Scientists Discover (1)
- 18: The Not Yorker: A Collection of Rejected & Late Cover Submissions to The New Yorker (0)
- 15: Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography in Her First Online Course (6)
- 15: 350 Animated Videos That Will Teach You Philosophy, from Ancient to Post-Modern (3)
- 15: Why Coffee Naps Will Perk You Up More Than Either Coffee, or Naps, Alone (0)
- 15: Will You Really Achieve Happiness If You Finally Win the Rat Race? Don’t Answer the Question Until You’ve Watched Steve Cutts’ New Animation (1)
- 14: The Tree of Modern Art: Elegant Drawing Visualizes the Development of Modern Art from Delacroix to Dalí (1940) (3)
- 14: See Ridley Scott’s 1973 Bread Commercial—Voted England’s Favorite Advertisement of All Time (3)
- 14: Underground Cartoonist Robert Crumb Creates an Illustrated Introduction to Franz Kafka’s Life and Work (2)
- 14: 500,000 Years of Humans Degrading Nature Captured in a Biting Three Minute Animation by Steve Cutts (0)
- 13: What Happens When a Musician Plays Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” on a $25 Kids’ Guitar at Walmart (9)
- 13: Hear Paul McCartney’s Experimental Christmas Mixtape: A Rare & Forgotten Recording from 1965 (0)
- 13: New Gabriel García Márquez Digital Archive Features More Than 27,000 Digitized Letters, Manuscript Pages, Photos & More (0)
- 13: New Iranian Video Game, Engare, Explores the Elegant Geometry of Islamic Art (1)
- 13: 10 Reasons Why Hannibal’s Military Genius Still Captures Our Imagination Today (1)
- 12: Academic Journal Devotes an Entire Issue to Prince’s Life & Music: Read and Download It for Free (14)
- 12: Brian Eno Presents a Crash Course on How the Recording Studio Radically Changed Music: Hear His Influential Lecture “The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool” (1979) (0)
- 12: Stream 74 Sun Ra Albums Free Online: Decades of “Space Jazz” and Other Forms of Intergalactic, Afrofuturistic Musical Creativity (0)
- 12: The Future of Blues Is in Good Hands: Watch 12-Year-Old Toby Lee Trade Riffs with Chicago Blues Guitarist Ronnie Baker Brooks (0)
- 11: Depression & Melancholy: Animated Videos Explain the Crucial Difference Between Everyday Sadness and Clinical Depression (0)
- 11: Watch “The “Art of Flying,” a Short Film Capturing the Wondrous Murmurations of the Common Starling (2)
- 11: The Proof That Mel Blanc–the Voice Behind Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck & Porky Pig–Was a Genius (1)
- 11: The Map of Biology: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Biology Fit Together (0)
- 10: Giant Clown Sings a Creepy Cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” (2)
- 08: The “True Size” Maps Shows You the Real Size of Every Country (and Will Change Your Mental Picture of the World) (4)
- 08: Why So Many People Adore The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made? A Video Explainer (0)
- 08: Meet Mandy Harvey, the Deaf Singer Songwriter Who Performs Barefoot & Feels the Music Through Vibrations in the Ground (0)
- 08: Meet the Characters Immortalized in Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”: The Stars and Gay Rights Icons from Andy Warhol’s Factory Scene (1)
- 07: How Josephine Baker Went From Homeless Street Performer to International Superstar, French Resistance Fighter & Civil Rights Hero (0)
- 07: “Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better”: How Samuel Beckett Created the Unlikely Mantra That Inspires Entrepreneurs Today (0)
- 07: The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements: Visualizing the Chemical Elements That Could Vanish Before You Know It (5)
- 07: What Did Ancient Greek Music Sound Like?: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s ‘100% Accurate’ (2)
- 06: Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”) (3)
- 06: The Van Gogh of Microsoft Excel: How a Japanese Retiree Makes Intricate Landscape Paintings with Spreadsheet Software (0)
- 06: How Scientology Works: A Primer Based on a Reading of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Film, The Master (0)
- 06: The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665-1810) (1)
- 05: The Case for Why Kraftwerk May Be the Most Influential Band Since the Beatles (8)
- 05: A Salute to Every Frame a Painting: Watch All 28 Episodes of the Finely-Crafted (and Now Concluded) Video Essay Series on Cinema (0)
- 05: How Technicolor Revolutionized Cinema with Surreal, Electric Colors & Changed How We See Our World (0)
- 05: New App, Litlong, Lets You Take a Literary Tour of Edinburgh: Features 50,000 Book Excerpts (0)
- 04: Neil Young Offers His Entire Catalog of Music Free Online (Until June), at the Highest Digital Audio Quality Possible (10)
- 04: George Orwell’s Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea: A Short Animation (0)
- 04: Hear a Complete Reading of the Newly-Discovered Kurt Vonnegut Story, “The Drone King” (1)
- 04: Hear The Rite of Spring Conducted by Igor Stravinsky Himself: A Vintage Recording from 1929 (0)
- 01: Andy Warhol’s Seven Hand-Illustrated Books: Charming, Little-Known, and Now Available to the World (1952-1959) (0)
- 01: 1500+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in December: Enroll Today (0)
- 01: The “Humans of New York” Photo Project Becomes a 13-Part Video Documentary Series: Watch It Free Online (0)
- 01: What Are the Most Effective Strategies for Learning a Foreign Language?: Six TED Talks Provide the Answers (2)
- November 2017 (93)
- 30: The Codex Quetzalecatzin, an Extremely Rare Colored Mesoamerican Manuscript, Now Digitized and Put Online (0)
- 30: An Espresso Maker Made in Le Corbusier’s Brutalist Architectural Style: Raw Concrete on the Outside, High-End Parts on the Inside (1)
- 30: What Books Did Wunderkind Philosopher J.S. Mill Read Between Ages 3 and 7?: Plato’s Apology (in Ancient Greek), Cervantes’ Don Quixote & Much More (0)
- 30: Carl Van Vechten’s 9,000 Portraits of Great 20th Century Cultural Icons: Billie Holiday, Orson Welles, Dizzy Gillespie & Beyond (0)
- 29: A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest (106)
- 29: Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889) (4)
- 29: Mister Rogers, Sesame Street & Jim Henson Introduce Kids to the Synthesizer with the Help of Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby & Bruce Haack (0)
- 29: Visit Monte Testaccio, the Ancient Roman Hill Made of 50 Million Crushed Olive Oil Jugs (0)
- 28: George Orwell Predicted Cameras Would Watch Us in Our Homes; He Never Imagined We’d Gladly Buy and Install Them Ourselves (5)
- 28: Lou Reed Sings “Sweet Jane” Live, Julian Schnabel Films It (2006) (1)
- 28: Listen to Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” in One Streamable Playlist (3)
- 28: The Robots of Your Dystopian Future Are Already Here: Two Chilling Videos Drive It All Home (1)
- 27: Watch Footage of the Velvet Underground Composing “Sunday Morning,” the First Track on Their Seminal Debut Album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966) (0)
- 27: How Art Spiegelman Designs Comic Books: A Breakdown of His Masterpiece, Maus (1)
- 27: How American Women “Kickstarted” a Campaign to Give Marie Curie a Gram of Radium, Raising $120,000 in 1921 (1)
- 27: Google Street View Lets You Walk in Jane Goodall’s Footsteps and Visit the Chimpanzees of Tanzania (1)
- 25: This Is Your Brain on Exercise: Why Physical Exercise (Not Mental Games) Might Be the Best Way to Keep Your Mind Sharp (2)
- 24: Stream All of Tom Waits’ Music in a 24 Hour Playlist: The Complete Discography (0)
- 24: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Presents a Free Online Class on Fashion: Enroll in Fashion as Design Today (1)
- 24: Hear The Cinnamon Bear, the Classic Holiday Radio Series That Has Aired Between Thanksgiving and Christmas for 80 Years (4)
- 24: What Happens When a Jazz Musician Accidentally Texts His Wife with Voice Recognition…While Playing the Trombone (0)
- 23: Watch At the Museum, MoMA’s 8-Part Documentary on What it Takes to Run a World-Class Museum (0)
- 23: The First Known Photograph of People Sharing a Beer (1843) (4)
- 23: Watch the Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant,” Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (1)
- 23: Watch Classical Music Get Perfectly Visualized as an Emotional Roller Coaster Ride (0)
- 22: Net Neutrality Explained and Defended in a Doodle-Filled Video by Vi Hart: The Time to Save the Open Web is Now (5)
- 22: The 1991 Tokyo Museum Exhibition That Was Only Accessible by Telephone, Fax & Modem: Features Works by Laurie Anderson, John Cage, William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard & Merce Cunningham (0)
- 22: A Digital Archive of 1,800+ Children’s Books from UCLA (0)
- 22: 1934 Map Resizes the World to Show Which Country Drinks the Most Tea (4)
- 22: Expensive Wine Is for Dupes: Scientific Study Finds No Strong Correlation Between Quality & Price (4)
- 21: See the First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre (1838) (4)
- 21: Watch “Alike,” a Poignant Short Animated Film About the Enduring Conflict Between Creativity and Conformity (0)
- 21: 60-Second Introductions to 12 Groundbreaking Artists: Matisse, Dalí, Duchamp, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko & More (0)
- 21: Colorful Maps from 1914 and 2016 Show How Planes & Trains Have Made the World Smaller and Travel Times Quicker (0)
- 20: What Made Freddie Mercury the Greatest Vocalist in Rock History? The Secrets Revealed in a Short Video Essay (20)
- 20: An Artist with Synesthesia Turns Jazz & Rock Classics Into Colorful Abstract Paintings (0)
- 20: New “Women of NASA” Lego Immortalizes the STEM Contributions of Sally Ride, Margaret Hamilton, Mae Jemison & Nancy Grace Roman (0)
- 20: Helen Mirren Now Teaching Her First Online Course on Acting (0)
- 20: Nine Tips from Bill Murray & Cellist Jan Vogler on How to Study Intensely and Optimize Your Learning (0)
- 17: Rare 1915 Film Shows Claude Monet at Work in His Famous Garden at Giverny (1)
- 17: How Seinfeld, the Sitcom Famously “About Nothing,” Is Like Gustave Flaubert’s Novels About Nothing (1)
- 17: Hear a Complete Chronological Discography of Patti Smith’s Fiercely Poetic Rock and Roll: 13 Hours and 142 Tracks (1)
- 17: A Touching Animated Documentary About the Rise, Fall & Second Coming of the 60s Psych-Folk Musician Richard Atkins (1)
- 16: Watch Classical Music Come to Life in Artfully Animated Scores: Stravinsky, Debussy, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & More (2)
- 16: Herbie Hancock Is Now Teaching His First Online Course on Jazz (1)
- 16: An Interactive Map of Every Record Shop in the World (11)
- 16: Beautiful & Outlandish Color Illustrations Let Europeans See Exotic Fish for the First Time (1754) (0)
- 15: Two Million Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library (6)
- 15: Meet the 35-Year-Old British Man Who Lives Entirely in the Year 1946 (2)
- 15: Mona Lisa Selfie: A Montage of Social Media Photos Taken at the Louvre and Put on Instagram (0)
- 15: How a Korean Potter Found a “Beautiful Life” Through His Art: A Short, Life-Affirming Documentary (1)
- 15: Research Finds That Intellectual Humility Can Make Us Better Thinkers & People; Good Thing There’s a Free Course on Intellectual Humility (0)
- 14: Meet the World’s Worst Orchestra, the Portsmouth Sinfonia, Featuring Brian Eno (1)
- 14: Atheist Stanford Biologist Robert Sapolsky Explains How Religious Beliefs Reduce Stress (6)
- 14: What Makes a David Lynch Film Lynchian: A Video Essay (2)
- 14: China’s New Luminous White Library: A Striking Visual Introduction (3)
- 13: Christopher Hitchens Dismisses the Cult of Ayn Rand: There’s No “Need to Have Essays Advocating Selfishness Among Human Beings; It Requires No Reinforcement” (7)
- 13: What Do Aliens Look Like? Oxford Astrobiologists Draw a Picture, Based on Darwinian Theories of Evolution (1)
- 13: Hear the Highest Note Sung in the 137-Year History of the Metropolitan Opera (3)
- 13: Why Did Leonardo da Vinci Write Backwards? A Look Into the Ultimate Renaissance Man’s “Mirror Writing” (6)
- 11: Filmmaker Creates a Luxury-Style Car Commercial to Sell a 21-Year-Old Used Honda Accord (1)
- 10: What the Future Sounded Like: Documentary Tells the Forgotten 1960s History of Britain’s Avant-Garde Electronic Musicians (0)
- 10: Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Middle-Aged Men: An Investigative Video (0)
- 10: Bob Woodward Is Now Teaching an Online Course on Investigative Journalism–a Course for Our Time (2)
- 09: Interactive Map Lets You Take a Literary Journey Through the Historic Monuments of Rome (1)
- 09: Bryan Cranston Gives Advice to the Young: Find Yourself by Traveling and Getting Lost (0)
- 09: Yale Presents a Free Online Course on Miguel de Cervantes’ Masterpiece Don Quixote (3)
- 09: The Internet Archive “Liberates” Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online (0)
- 09: 23-Year-Old Eric Clapton Demonstrates the Elements of His Guitar Sound (1968) (0)
- 08: Journey to the Center of a Triangle: Watch the 1977 Digital Animation That Demystifies Geometry (0)
- 08: Watch 94 Free Lectures From the Great Courses: Dystopian Fiction, Astrophysics, Guitar Playing & Much More (0)
- 08: Watch a 17th-Century Portrait Magically Get Restored to Its Brilliant Original Colors (0)
- 08: A Digital Archive of the Earliest Illustrated Editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1487-1568) (0)
- 07: Emily Wilson Is the First Woman to Translate Homer’s Odyssey into English: The New Translation Is Out Today (5)
- 07: 2,000+ Impressionist, Post-impressionist & Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online, Thanks to the Barnes Foundation (0)
- 07: Jimmy Page Unplugged: Led Zeppelin’s Guitarist Reveals His Acoustic Talents in Four Videos (1970-2008) (1)
- 07: “Library Extension” Helps You Find Books At Your Local Library While You Shop for Books Online (1)
- 06: Salvador Dali’s 1978 Wine Guide, The Wines of Gala, Gets Reissued: Sensual Viticulture Meets Surreal Art (1)
- 06: The Elegant Mathematics of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Famous Drawing: An Animated Introduction (1)
- 06: What to Say When You Don’t Understand Contemporary Art? A New Short Film, “Masterpiece,” Has Helpful Suggestions (2)
- 06: Meet Daryl Davis, the Black Blues Musician Who Befriended 200 Klan Members & Made Them See the Errors of Their Ways (0)
- 03: John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme (1964) (0)
- 03: The Thoth Tarot Deck Designed by Famed Occultist Aleister Crowley (0)
- 03: MIT Is Digitizing a Huge Archive of Noam Chomsky’s Lectures, Papers and Other Documents & Will Put Them Online (4)
- 03: The Edvard Munch Scream Action Figure (2)
- 02: The Philosophy of Rick and Morty: What Everyone’s New Favorite Cartoon Has in Common with Albert Camus (1)
- 02: See Mozart Played on Mozart’s Own Fortepiano, the Instrument That Most Authentically Captures the Sound of His Music (2)
- 02: Pop Art Posters Celebrate Pioneering Women Scientists: Download Free Posters of Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace & More (0)
- 02: 900+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in November: Enroll Today (0)
- 01: The Art of the Japanese Teapot: Watch a Master Craftsman at Work, from the Beginning Until the Startling End (0)
- 01: Carl Jung Psychoanalyzes Hitler: “He’s the Unconscious of 78 Million Germans.” “Without the German People He’d Be Nothing” (1938) (13)
- 01: Death: A Free Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable (6)
- 01: 25 Million Images From 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized & Put Online In One Huge Scholarly Archive (2)
- October 2017 (96)
- 31: The Philosophy of “Optimistic Nihilism,” Or How to Find Purpose in a Meaningless Universe (5)
- 31: A Free Trial Offer for The Great Courses Plus: A Special Deal for Open Culture Readers (8)
- 31: Hear 15 Hours of Frank Zappa’s Legendary 1977 Halloween Performances at New York’s Palladium (1)
- 31: Hear 14 Hours of Weird H.P. Lovecraft Stories on Halloween: “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dunwich Horror” & More (0)
- 31: A New 2-In-1 Illustrated Edition of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & A Scanner Darkly (0)
- 30: The Inksect: Award Winning Animation Envisions a Dystopian Future Without Books, Paying Homage to Kafka & Poe (1)
- 30: Watch a Step-by-Step Breakdown of La La Land‘s Incredibly Complex, Off Ramp Opening Number (1)
- 30: What Makes The Death of Socrates a Great Work of Art?: A Thought-Provoking Reading of David’s Philosophical & Political Painting (1)
- 30: Google’s Free Photo Editing Software, the Nik Collection, Has Been Acquired by DxO & Will Live Another Day (7)
- 29: New Documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Now Streaming on Netflix (0)
- 27: How the CIA Funded & Supported Literary Magazines Worldwide While Waging Cultural War Against Communism (4)
- 27: Three Huge Volumes of Stoic Writings by Seneca Now Free Online, Thanks to Tim Ferriss (3)
- 27: The Colors of Mister Rogers’ Hand-Knit Sweaters from 1979 to 2001: A Visual Graph Created with Data Science (0)
- 26: 2,800 JFK Assassination Documents Just Released by the National Archives (3)
- 26: Where Did the English Language Come From?: An Animated Introduction (3)
- 26: 6,000 Letters by Marcel Proust to Be Digitized & Put Online (0)
- 26: The Social Lives of Trees: Science Reveals How Trees Mysteriously Talk to Each Other, Work Together & Form Nurturing Families (2)
- 26: Every Academy Award Winner for Best Cinematography in One Supercut: From 1927’s Sunrise to 2016’s La La Land (4)
- 25: Albert Einstein’s Elegant Theory of Happiness: It Just Sold for $1.6 Million at Auction, But You Can Use It for Free (0)
- 25: Illustrations Of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit from the Soviet Union (1976) (2)
- 25: The Art of Explaining Hard Ideas: Scientists Try to Explain Gene Editing & Brain Mapping to Young Kids & Students (0)
- 25: Why Should You Read James Joyce’s Ulysses?: A New TED-ED Animation Makes the Case (1)
- 25: Samuel L. Jackson Teaches Acting in a New Online Course, Drawing on His Iconic Pulp Fiction Performance & Others (0)
- 24: Stephen Hawking’s Ph.D. Thesis, “Properties of Expanding Universes,” Now Free to Read/Download Online (8)
- 24: Coursera Partners with Leading Universities to Offer Master’s Degrees at a More Affordable Price (0)
- 24: Stream Joni Mitchell’s Complete Discography: A 17-Hour Playlist Moving from Song to a Seagull (1968) to Shine (2007) (3)
- 24: The Raven: a Pop-up Book Brings Edgar Allan Poe’s Classic Supernatural Poem to 3D Paper Life (1)
- 23: The Women of the Blues: Hear a Playlist of Great Blues Singers, from Bessie Smith & Etta James, to Billie Holiday & Janis Joplin (6)
- 23: Calm Down & Study with Relaxing Piano, Jazz & Harp Covers of Music from Hayao Miyazaki Films (0)
- 23: Bob Dylan Plays Tom Petty’s “Learning to Fly” Live in Concert (and How Petty Witnessed Dylan’s Musical Epiphany in 1987) (0)
- 23: How Saxophones Are Made: Two Short Films (Including One by Sesame Street) Take You Inside Saxophone Factories (0)
- 20: Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Cover for On the Road (1952) (0)
- 20: New Digital Archive Puts Online 4,000 Historic Images of Rome: The Eternal City from the 16th to 20th Centuries (0)
- 20: An Online Trove of Historic Sewing Patterns & Costumes (5)
- 20: “The Philosopher’s Web,” an Interactive Data Visualization Shows the Web of Influences Connecting Ancient & Modern Philosophers (0)
- 20: The Films of Christopher Nolan Explored in a Sweeping 4-Hour Video Essay: Memento, The Dark Knight, Interstellar & More (0)
- 19: Maria Anna Mozart Was a Musical Prodigy Like Her Brother Wolfgang, So Why Did She Get Erased from History? (15)
- 19: 2,000+ Architecture & Art Books You Can Read Free at the Internet Archive (2)
- 19: Alan Turing Algorithmically Approximated by Ellipses: A Computer Art Project (0)
- 19: Ingmar Bergman’s 1950s Soap Commercials Wash Away the Existential Despair (1)
- 18: Hallelujah!: You Can Stream Every Leonard Cohen Album in a 22-Hour Chronological Playlist (1967-2016) (3)
- 18: The Art of Hand-Drawn Japanese Anime: A Deep Study of How Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira Uses Light (0)
- 18: The Power of Introverts: Author Susan Cain Explains Why We Need to Appreciate the Talents & Abilities of the Quiet Ones (3)
- 18: Watch The Idea, the First Animated Film to Grapple with Big, Philosophical Ideas (1932) (0)
- 17: Criterion Collection Films 50% Off for the Next 13 Hours: Get Great Films at Half Price (0)
- 17: A-ha Performs a Beautiful Acoustic Version of Their 1980s Hit, “Take on Me”: Recorded Live in Norway (0)
- 17: An Animated Introduction to Michel de Montaigne (0)
- 17: Stephen King’s 22 Favorite Movies: Full of Horror & Suspense (7)
- 17: The Boston Public Library Will Digitize & Put Online 200,000+ Vintage Records (0)
- 16: Why Should We Read Virginia Woolf? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case (1)
- 16: Hear Florence Welch’s Radio Documentary About the Making of David Bowie’s Heroes (Free for a Limited Time) (0)
- 16: Ralph Steadman’s Hellish Illustrations for Ray Bradbury’s Classic Dystopian Novel, Fahrenheit 451 (1)
- 16: Cult Director John Waters Hosts a Summer Camp for Naughty Adult Campers: Enrollment for the 2018 Edition Opens Today (0)
- 13: An Oral History of the Bauhaus: Hear Rare Interviews (in English) with Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & More (0)
- 13: 20,000 Americans Hold a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939: Chilling Video Re-Captures a Lost Chapter in US History (13)
- 13: Hear 1,500+ Genres of Music, All Mapped Out on an Insanely Thorough Interactive Graph (0)
- 13: Eerie 19th Century Photographs of Ghosts: See Images from the Long, Strange Tradition of “Spirit Photography” (0)
- 13: Drone Footage Captures the US Postal Service Eerily Delivering Mail to Neighborhoods Razed by the California Fires (0)
- 12: To Read This Experimental Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, You’ll Need to Add Heat to the Pages (8)
- 12: If You Drive Down a Stretch of Route 66, the Road Will Play “America the Beautiful” (2)
- 12: Napoleon’s Kindle: See the Miniaturized Traveling Library He Took on Military Campaigns (7)
- 12: John Coltrane Draws a Mysterious Diagram Illustrating the Mathematical & Mystical Qualities of Music (6)
- 11: New Documentary on a Weird & Wonderful Dutch Library Now Free to Stream on Amazon Prime (1)
- 11: The Existential Philosophy of Cowboy Bebop, the Cult Japanese Anime Series, Explored in a Thoughtful Video Essay (1)
- 11: Download New Storyboarding Software That’s Free & Open Source (4)
- 11: Watch David Gilmour Play the Songs of Syd Barrett, with the Help of David Bowie & Richard Wright (0)
- 11: The History of Hip Hop Music Visualized on a Turntable Circuit Diagram: Features 700 Artists, from DJ Kool Herc to Kanye West (1)
- 10: 90,000 Fans Sing “I Won’t Back Down” at University of Florida Football Game: A Goosebump-Inducing Tribute to Tom Petty (0)
- 10: The Philosophical Appreciation of Rocks in China & Japan: A Short Introduction to an Ancient Tradition (1)
- 10: Watch the New Trailer for Electric Dreams, the Philip K. Dick TV Series, Starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi & More (0)
- 10: Leo Tolstoy’s Family Recipe for Mac ‘N’ Cheese (1)
- 10: An Animated Introduction to “the World’s Most Mysterious Book,” the 15th-Century Voynich Manuscript (1)
- 09: Kintsugi: The Centuries-Old Japanese Craft of Repairing Pottery with Gold & Finding Beauty in Broken Things (2)
- 09: Your Brain on Art: The Emerging Science of Neuroaesthetics Probes What Art Does to Our Brains (0)
- 09: “Goodnight Moon,” as Read to Neil deGrasse Tyson by LeVar Burton (0)
- 09: Alan Watts Explains the Meaning of the Tao, with the Help of the Greatest Nancy Panel Ever Drawn (2)
- 08: How Stress Can Change Your Brain: An Animated Introduction (1)
- 07: Jason Aldean Performs “I Won’t Back Down” on SNL–A Moving Tribute the Victims of the Las Vegas Shooting & Tom Petty (6)
- 07: Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Read John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” and Other Great Works by Shakespeare, Dante & Coleridge (2)
- 06: Tom Petty Takes You Inside His Songwriting Craft (1)
- 06: The Hummingbird Whisperer: Meet the UCLA Scientist Who Has Befriended 200 Hummingbirds (0)
- 05: People Walked a Little Differently During Medieval Times: A Quick Primer (8)
- 05: Enter the The Cornell Hip Hop Archive: A Vast Digital Collection of Hip Hop Photos, Posters & More (0)
- 05: How Marilyn Monroe Helped Break Ella Fitzgerald Into the Big Time (1955) (0)
- 05: The Smithsonian Presents a Gallery of 6,000+ Rare Rock ‘n Roll Photos on a Crowdsourced Web Site, and Now a New Book (0)
- 04: Depeche Mode Releases a Goosebump-Inducing Cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” (5)
- 04: Three Blade Runner Prequels: Watch Them Online (10)
- 04: The Philosophy & Music of Devo, the Avant-Garde Art Project Dedicated to Revealing the Truth About De-Evolution (1)
- 03: How Buddhism & Neuroscience Can Help You Change How Your Mind Works: A New Course by Bestselling Author Robert Wright (0)
- 03: The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online (2)
- 03: The Famously Controversial “Monty Hall Problem” Explained: A Classic Brain Teaser (0)
- 02: Watch Tom Petty (RIP) and the Heartbreakers Perform Their Last Song Together, “American Girl”: Recorded on 9/25/17 (0)
- 02: Before the Bookmobile: When Librarians Rode on Horseback to Deliver Books to Rural Americans During the Great Depression (2)
- 02: An Intimate Look at Alberto Giacometti in His Studio, Making His Iconic Sculptures (1965) (0)
- 02: 1,000+ Historic Japanese Illustrated Books Digitized & Put Online by the Smithsonian: From the Edo & Meji Eras (1600-1912) (0)
- 02: 1,000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in October: Enroll Today (1)
- September 2017 (94)
- 29: Leonardo da Vinci’s Bizarre Caricatures & Monster Drawings (2)
- 29: Dr. Weil’s 60-Second Technique for Falling Asleep (5)
- 29: How to Cook Like Frida Kahlo & Georgia O’Keefe (1)
- 29: Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Vivid Illustrations of Jules Verne’s Around the Moon: The First Serious Works of Space Art (1870) (0)
- 28: A Massive 55-Hour Chronological Playlist of Bob Dylan Songs: Stream 763 Tracks (4)
- 28: How Did the Egyptians Make Mummies? An Animated Introduction to the Ancient Art of Mummification (0)
- 28: Ralph Steadman’s Wildly Illustrated Biography of Leonardo da Vinci (1983) (0)
- 28: Hugh Hefner (RIP) Defends “the Playboy Philosophy” to William F. Buckley, 1966 (1)
- 27: Judy Blume Now Teaching an Online Course on Writing (0)
- 27: When John Cage & Marcel Duchamp Played Chess on a Chessboard That Turned Chess Moves Into Electronic Music (1968) (0)
- 27: Watch Brian Eno’s Experimental Film “The Ship,” Made with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 27: Watch the New Anime Prequel to Blade Runner 2049, by Famed Japanese Animator Shinichiro Watanabe (0)
- 27: Marilyn Monroe & Elvis Presley Star in an Action-Packed Pop Art Japanese Monster Movie (0)
- 26: Photo Archive Lets You Download 4,300 High-Res Photographs of the Historic Normandy Invasion (2)
- 26: The Strange Story of Dr. James Barry, the Pioneering 19th Century British Doctor Who Was a Woman in Disguise (7)
- 26: A Virtual Tour of Japan’s Inflatable Concert Hall (1)
- 26: Wes Anderson’s Cinematic Debt to Stanley Kubrick Revealed in a Side-By-Side Comparison (1)
- 25: An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published (5)
- 25: Stream Online The Vietnam War, the New Documentary by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick (4)
- 25: Hamilton Mania Inspires the Library of Congress to Put 12,000 Alexander Hamilton Documents Online (0)
- 25: Behold the “Book Wheel”: The Renaissance Invention Created to Make Books Portable & Help Scholars Study (1588) (0)
- 22: Martin Scorsese to Teach His First Online Course on Filmmaking (0)
- 22: Watch the New Trailer for Wes Anderson’s Stop Motion Film, Isle of Dogs, Inspired by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- 22: How Can We Know What is True? And What Is BS? Tips from Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman & Michael Shermer (3)
- 22: A Reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” in 100 Celebrity Voices (1)
- 22: Lin-Manuel Miranda Reads Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (0)
- 21: The Smithsonian Design Museum Digitizes 200,000 Objects, Giving You Access to 3,000 Years of Design Innovation & History (1)
- 21: Explore Online the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript: The 15th-Century Text That Linguists & Code-Breakers Can’t Understand (10)
- 21: Circus Artist Roxana Küwen Will Captivate You with Her Foot Juggling Routine (0)
- 21: Musician Taryn Southern Is Composing Her New Album with Artificial Intelligence: Hear the First Track (1)
- 20: Ridley Scott Walks You Through His Favorite Scene from Blade Runner (0)
- 20: AC/DC’s “Back in Black” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument Dating Back to the 6th Century (1)
- 20: How a Recording Studio Mishap Created the Famous Drum Sound That Defined 80s Music & Beyond (3)
- 20: Hear the Pieces Mozart Composed When He Was Only Five Years Old (1)
- 19: Laurie Anderson Introduces Her Virtual Reality Installation That Lets You Fly Magically Through Stories (3)
- 19: Watch Björk’s Hypnotic Music Video for Her New Song, “The Gate” (0)
- 19: How a Simple Email Survey Pulled Scripts Out of Hollywood Purgatory & Turned Them Into Award-Winning Films (0)
- 19: New Study Reveals How the Neanderthals Made Super Glue 200,000 Years Ago: The World’s Oldest Synthetic Material (1)
- 19: The Sex Pistols Make a Scandalous Appearance on the Bill Grundy Show & Introduce Punk Rock to the Startled Masses (1976) (2)
- 18: David Lynch Gives Unconventional Advice to Graduates in an Unusual Commencement Address (1)
- 18: Wassily Kandinsky Syncs His Abstract Art to Mussorgsky’s Music in a Historic Bauhaus Theatre Production (1928) (1)
- 18: A Master List of 1,300 Free Courses From Top Universities: 45,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures (8)
- 18: Watch Author Chuck Palahniuk Read Fight Club 4 Kids (0)
- 17: Dr. Jane Goodall Is Now Teaching an Online Course on Conservation, Animal Intelligence & Activism (0)
- 15: Marie Curie Invented Mobile X-Ray Units to Help Save Wounded Soldiers in World War I (0)
- 15: When Michel Foucault Tripped on Acid in Death Valley and Called It “The Greatest Experience of My Life” (1975) (6)
- 15: Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints (2)
- 15: Harry Dean Stanton (RIP) Reads Poems by Charles Bukowski (0)
- 15: Download Theft! A History of Music, a New Free Graphic Novel Exploring 2,000 Years of Musical Borrowing (1)
- 14: Who Painted the First Abstract Painting?: Wassily Kandinsky? Hilma af Klint? Or Another Contender? (9)
- 14: Free Courses on Design from the Famous California Design Firm IDEO Start This Week (0)
- 14: The Velvet Underground Meets Lawrence Welk (1)
- 14: Watch a Musician Improvise on a 500-Year-Old Music Instrument, The Carillon (0)
- 14: Behold the Beautiful Designs of Brazil’s 1920s Art Deco Magazine, Para Todos (5)
- 13: Hear What Happens When Avant-Garde Composer Pierre Boulez Conducts Three Frank Zappa Songs (2)
- 13: When Roald Dahl Hosted His Own Creepy TV Show Way Out, a Companion to Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone (1961) (0)
- 13: What Is Fair Use?: A Short Introduction from the Maker of Everything is a Remix (0)
- 13: A First Glimpse of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, Compared with the Real Freddie Mercury Performing at Live Aid in 1985 (0)
- 12: How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Short, Handy Visual Primer (10)
- 12: An Animated Introduction to Rene Descartes & His Philosophy of Radical Doubt (2)
- 12: 1,000-Year-Old Illustrated Guide to the Medicinal Use of Plants Now Digitized & Put Online (44)
- 12: When Pink Floyd Tried to Make an Album with Household Objects: Hear Two Surviving Tracks Made with Wine Glasses & Rubber Bands (0)
- 12: A New Mural Pays Tribute to John Coltrane in Philadelphia (0)
- 11: The Complex Geometry of Islamic Art & Design: A Short Introduction (3)
- 11: Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom (6)
- 11: 20 Free Business MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) That Will Advance Your Career (1)
- 11: Hear Classic Readings of Poe’s “The Raven” by Vincent Price, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee & More (0)
- 10: 54 Cats Riding Out Hurricane Irma in Ernest Hemingway’s Key West Home (32)
- 08: Follow Cartoonist Lynda Barry’s 2017 “Making Comics” Class Online, Presented at UW-Wisconsin (2)
- 08: Watch Werner Herzog’s Very First Film, Herakles, Made When He Was Only 19-Years-Old (1962) (0)
- 08: The Map of Computer Science: New Animation Presents a Survey of Computer Science, from Alan Turing to “Augmented Reality” (3)
- 07: The Top 100 American Films of All Time, According to 62 International Film Critics (10)
- 07: The Addams Family Dance to The Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” (3)
- 07: Watch Steve Martin Make His First TV Appearance: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1968) (0)
- 07: Watch John Lennon’s Last Live Performance (1975): “Imagine,” “Stand By Me” & More (4)
- 07: NASA Lets You Download Free Posters Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Voyager Missions (0)
- 06: Trigonometry Discovered on a 3700-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Tablet (2)
- 06: The Planetarium Table Clock: Magnificent 1775 Timepiece Tracks the Passing of Time & the Travel of the Planets (1)
- 06: When Albert Einstein Championed the Creation of a One World Government (1945) (1)
- 06: What Is Freedom? Watch Four Philosophy Animations on Freedom & Free Will Narrated by Harry Shearer (0)
- 05: Gustav Klimt’s Haunting Paintings Get Re-Created in Photographs, Featuring Live Models, Ornate Props & Real Gold (2)
- 05: The 38 States of America: Geography Professor Creates a Bold Modern Map of America (1973) (2)
- 05: The Earliest Known Appearance of the F-Word, in a Bizarre Court Record Entry from 1310 (2)