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- November 2022 (22)
- 11: Behold Illustrations of Every Shakespeare Play Created by Artificial Intelligence (1)
- 11: Celebrate Kurt Vonnegut’s 100 Birthday with a Collection of Songs Based on His Work (1)
- 10: The Rise and Fall of Concorde, the Midcentury Supersonic Jetliner That Still Inspires Awe Today (0)
- 10: Cats in Japanese Woodblock Prints: How Japan’s Favorite Animals Came to Star in Its Popular Art (0)
- 10: Your Burning Questions About Coffee Answered by James Hoffmann (0)
- 09: The Fiske Reading Machine: The 1920s Precursor to the Kindle (0)
- 09: An Asbestos-Bound, Fireproof Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) (0)
- 09: Discover Friedrich Nietzsche’s Typewriter, the Curious “Malling-Hansen Writing Ball” (Circa 1881) (1)
- 08: Jim Henson’s Commercials for Wilkins Coffee: 15 Twisted Minutes of Muppet Coffee Ads (1957-1961) (0)
- 08: Around the World in 1896: 40 Minutes of Real Footage Lets You Visit Paris, New York, Venice, Rome, Budapest & More (0)
- 07: A Stunning, Hand-Illustrated Book of Mushrooms Drawn by an Overlooked 19th Century Female Scientist (0)
- 07: The History of Jazz Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Phonograph: Features 1,000+ Musicians, Artists, Songwriters and Producers (0)
- 04: When Medieval Manuscripts Were Recycled & Used to Make the First Printed Books (0)
- 04: The Comiclopedia: An Online Archive of 14,000 Comic Artists, From Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, to Mœbius and Hergé (5)
- 03: The Mastermind of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, Presents His Personal Synthesizer Collection (1)
- 03: An AI Generated, Never-Ending Discussion Between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek (0)
- 02: Bruce Springsteen Performs Moving Acoustic Versions of “Thunder Road,” “The Rising” & “Land of Hope & Dreams” on the Howard Stern Show (0)
- 02: Michael Pollan, Sam Harris & Others Explain How Psychedelics Can Change Your Mind (1)
- 02: How Pink Floyd Built The Wall: The Album, Tour & Film (0)
- 02: Making Sense of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal with Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #136 (0)
- 01: Kierkegaard on Why We All Misunderstand the True Meaning of Love: An Animated Explanation (0)
- 01: Watch World War II Unfold Day by Day: An Animated Map (1)
- October 2022 (48)
- 31: Watch the First Horror Film, George Méliès’ The Haunted Castle (1896) (0)
- 31: How a Mondrian Painting Has Accidentally Hung Upside-Down for 75 Years (1)
- 31: FAMOUS ARTIST DIES PENNILESS AND ALL ALONE: The Met Museum’s Fascinating Archive of Artists’ Death Notices (0)
- 31: Watch Free Cult Films by Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi & More on the New Kino Cult Streaming Service (2)
- 28: An Introduction to the Painting of Artemisia Gentileschi, the First Woman Admitted to Florence’s Accademia di Arte del Disegno (1593-1653) (1)
- 28: Hear 149 Vintage Halloween Radio Shows from the Golden Age of Radio (0)
- 28: Watch Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil, a Documentary Streaming Free Online (0)
- 27: 200 Bassists Play the Famous Bass Line of Queen & Bowie’s “Under Pressure” (0)
- 27: See Metropolis‘ Scandalous Dance Scene Colorized, Enhanced, and Newly Soundtracked (1)
- 26: What Sex Was Like in Medieval Times?: Historians Look at How People Got It On in the Dark Ages (0)
- 26: Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, John Waters & Many Others (0)
- 25: Discover Nüshu, a 19th-Century Chinese Writing System That Only Women Knew How to Write (1)
- 25: There Are Eight Forms of Intelligence, Not Just One: Which Apply to You? (0)
- 25: The Breaking Bad-O-Verse — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #135 Considers “Better Call Saul” (0)
- 24: The Internet Archive Launches Democracy’s Library, a Free Online Library of 500,000 Documents Supporting Democracy (0)
- 24: Meet Little Amal, the 12-Foot Puppet of a 10-Year-Old Syrian Girl, Who Has Been Touring the World (0)
- 21: How Did They Build the Great Pyramid of Giza?: An Animated Introduction (6)
- 21: The French Designed a Fake Replica of Paris to Fool German Bombers During World War I (0)
- 20: Futurist Makes Weirdly Accurate Predictions in 1922 About What the World Will Look Like in 2022: Wireless Telephones, 8-Hour Flights to Europe & More (0)
- 20: Hear a Great Radio Documentary on William S. Burroughs Narrated by Iggy Pop (0)
- 19: What the Rosetta Stone Actually Says (0)
- 19: Why Quentin Tarantino Will Only Make 10 Movies (0)
- 19: Unpopular Music Fandom — Musicians and Philosophers Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #134 (0)
- 18: DALL-E, the New AI Art Generator, Is Now Open for Everyone to Use (5)
- 18: 10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection (1)
- 17: Meet the Physicist Who Has Created 1600+ Wikipedia Entries for Important Female & Minority Scientists (0)
- 17: What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol (20)
- 14: How Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” Went from 80s Pop Smash to Bastion of Internet Culture: A Short Documentary (0)
- 14: Winston Churchill Goes Backward Down a Water Slide & Loses His Trunks (1934) (2)
- 13: Behold the World’s Oldest Animation Made on a Vase in Iran 5,200 Years Ago (1)
- 13: Simone de Beauvoir Speaks on American TV (in English) About Feminism, Abortion & More (1976) (0)
- 12: Watch Vintage Videos Capturing Life in Japan from the 1960s Through Today (0)
- 11: What’s the Best Audio Book You’ve Ever “Read”? (7)
- 11: Download The Harvard Classics as Free eBooks: A “Portable University” Created in 1909 (1)
- 11: The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972-2022) (0)
- 10: How to Predict What the World Will Look Like in 2122: Insights from Futurist Peter Schwartz (2)
- 10: John Oliver’s Show on World-Class Art Museums & Their Looted Art: Watch It Free Online (1)
- 09: How Plants Move in a 24-Hour Period (0)
- 07: Behold a 21st-Century Medieval Castle Being Built with Only Tools & Materials from the Middle Ages (3)
- 07: 1950s Pulp Comic Adaptations of Ray Bradbury Stories Getting Republished (1)
- 06: Why Monet Painted The Same Haystacks 25 Times (0)
- 06: When a Modern Director Makes a Fake Old Movie: A Video Essay on David Fincher’s Mank (0)
- 05: Artist Makes Astonishing Armor for Cats & Mice (1)
- 05: Why Goya Made His Haunting “Black Paintings” at the End of His Life (1)
- 04: Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning to America in His Last Interview (1996) (1)
- 04: M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity: Watch the Free Art Documentary Online (with Voicing from Stephen Fry) (0)
- 03: Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings (0)
- 03: Lizzo Plays James Madison’s Priceless, 200-Year-Old Crystal Flute (0)
- September 2022 (51)
- 30: How Writing Has Spread Across the World, from 3000 BC to This Year: An Animated Map (2)
- 30: What It’s Like to Work in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Office Building (2)
- 29: Behold the Medieval Wound Man: The Poor Soul Who Illustrated the Injuries a Person Might Receive Through War, Accident or Disease (0)
- 29: Meet the Hyperpolyglots, the People Who Can Mysteriously Speak Up to 32 Different Languages (1)
- 29: Why Predator — A Discussion of the Film Franchise on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #133 (0)
- 28: When Marlon Brando Refused the Oscar for His Role in The Godfather to Support the Rights of Native Americans (1973) (0)
- 28: The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans: Africa, Scandinavia, China, India, Arabia & Other Far-Flung Lands (5)
- 27: Enter an Archive of 7,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online (5)
- 27: Coursera Offers $100 Off of Coursera Plus (Until September 29), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates (0)
- 27: The Biggest Mistakes in Mapmaking History (0)
- 26: Doctors in Brussels Can Now Prescribe Museum Visits as Treatments for Stress, Anxiety & Depression (1)
- 26: How the World Trade Center Was Rebuilt: A Visual Exploration of a 20-Year Project (1)
- 23: Why Mapmakers Once Thought California Was an Island (0)
- 23: The Art of Translating Hamilton into German: “So Kribbeln Schmetterlinge, Wenn Sie Starten” (0)
- 22: Revisit Louise Brooks’ Most Iconic Role in the Too-Sexy-for-Weimar Silent Film Pandora’s Box (1928) (1)
- 22: Goodbye to the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo’s Strangest and Most Utopian Apartment Building (0)
- 21: Never Too Small: Architects Give Tours of Tiny Homes in Paris, Melbourne, Milan, Hong Kong & Beyond (0)
- 21: A Tour of All the Pizza Styles You Can Eat in the United States (and the History Behind Your Favorite Slices) (3)
- 20: Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint: Watch a Documentary on the Swedish Abstract Painter Free Online (0)
- 20: Getting Dressed Over the Centuries: 35 Videos Show How Women & Men Put on Clothes During Ancient, Medieval & Modern Times (0)
- 20: Historian Timothy Snyder Presents 20 Lessons for Defending Democracy Against Tyranny in a New Video Series (0)
- 19: 5 Ways to Build an Alzheimer’s-Resistant Brain: Neuroscientist Lisa Genova Explains (0)
- 19: Sally Schmitt, the Creator of the French Laundry & Unsung Hero of California Cuisine, Gets Her Due in a Poignant, Short Documentary (2)
- 17: Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing In The Name” Performed By the North Korean Military Chorus : A Clever Fake (0)
- 16: Architect Breaks Down Five of the Most Iconic New York City Apartments (0)
- 16: The Evolution of the Electric Guitar: An Introduction to Every Major Variety of the Instrument That Made Rock-and-Roll (0)
- 15: The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century (1)
- 15: Watch Opera Legend Marian Anderson’s Historic Performance on the Steps of the Lincoln Memorial (1939) (0)
- 15: When Is a Joke “Too Soon”? — Comedians Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #132 (1)
- 14: How The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Invented Psychological Horror Film & Brought Expressionism to the Screen (1920) (0)
- 14: RIP Jean-Luc Godard: Watch the French New Wave Icon Explain His Contrarian Worldview Back in the 1960s (0)
- 13: The Hidden History of “Hand Talk,” the Native American Sign Language That Predated ASL by Centuries (3)
- 13: The Beauty & Ingenuity of the Pantheon, Ancient Rome’s Best-Preserved Monument: An Introduction (0)
- 12: When John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” Scandalized the Art World in 1884 (0)
- 12: The First Transit Map: a Close Look at the Subway-Style Tabula Peutingeriana of the 5th-Century Roman Empire (0)
- 10: Get the First Biography of Hilma af Klint at a 40% Discount (for a Limited Time) (0)
- 09: Hear Queen Elizabeth II Give Her Very First Speech to the British People, During World War II (1940) (1)
- 09: When Sliced Bread Got Banned During World War II (0)
- 08: See the First 8K Footage of the Titanic, the Highest-Quality Video of the Shipwreck Yet (1)
- 08: When Mikhail Gorbachev, the Last Soviet Leader, Starred in a Pizza Hut Commercial (1998) (0)
- 07: An AI-Generated Painting Won First Prize at a State Fair & Sparked a Debate About the Essence of Art (0)
- 07: Listen to Music Playlists to Help You Study Like Nietzsche, Socrates, Kant & Other Great Thinkers (2)
- 06: The Making of Modern Ukraine: A Free Online Course from Yale Professor Timothy Snyder (9)
- 06: Two Women in Their 90s Recall Their Teenage Years in Victorian 1890s London (4)
- 06: The Improbable Invention of Chinese Typewriters & Computer Keyboards: Three Videos Tell the Techno-Cultural Story (0)
- 05: All of the Different Kinds of Acoustic Guitars, and the Different Woods They’re Made Of: The Ultimate Acoustic Guitar Guide (2)
- 02: Winnie the Pooh Went Into the Public Domain, and Someone Already Turned the Story Into a Slasher Film: Watch the Trailer for Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey (4)
- 02: Kino Lorber Puts Online 50 Free Films: Watch Classics by Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Taika Waititi & Other Major Filmmakers (0)
- 02: Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert Streaming Live from Wembley Stadium: Watch It Online (0)
- 01: What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Creates Images to Match the Lyrics of Iconic Songs: David Bowie’s “Starman,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” & More (4)
- 01: Elton John Presents 14 of His Iconic Looks: From 1968 to Now (0)
- August 2022 (52)
- 31: Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy on Finding Meaning in Old Age (5)
- 31: The Atomic Café: The Cult Classic Documentary Made Entirely Out of Nuclear Weapons Propaganda from the Cold War (1982) (0)
- 30: Christopher Hitchens’ Final Interview: Hear the Newly-Released Uncut Conversation with Richard Dawkins (0)
- 30: Dolly Parton Reads Free Bedtime Stories to Kids: Watch Readings from Goodnight with Dolly (0)
- 29: How Cinema Inspired Edward Hopper’s Great Paintings, and How Edward Hopper Inspired Great Filmmakers (1)
- 29: Watch a Jaw-Dropping Visualization of John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” Solo (4)
- 29: Jordan Peele as Auteur of the Film Nope — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #131 (1)
- 26: Vienna’s Albertina Museum Puts 150,000 Digitized Artworks Into the Public Domain: Klimt, Munch, Dürer, and More (0)
- 26: Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago (5)
- 25: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: Watch the Six-Part Series with Bill Moyers (1988) (2)
- 25: The Only Written Eye-Witness Account of Pompeii’s Destruction: Hear Pliny the Younger’s Letters on the Mount Vesuvius Eruption (2)
- 24: Every Style of Beer Explained: An Expert Breaks Down 100 Types of Beer, from Malty Lagers, to London Brown Ales, to Bock Beer (2)
- 24: Why 80s British Pop Queen Kate Bush Owns 2022 (0)
- 23: How a Dutch “Dementia Village” Improves Quality of Life with Intentional Design (2)
- 23: Pink Lady and Jeff: Japan’s Biggest Pop Musicians Star in One of America’s Worst-Reviewed TV Shows (1980) (2)
- 22: The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Books Getting Censored by American Schools (10)
- 22: How Salman Rushdie Has Lived and Written Under the Threat of Death: a Free Documentary (0)
- 19: What Made Better Call Saul a Master Class in Visual Storytelling: A Video Essay (0)
- 19: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Has Given Away 186 Million Free Books to Kids, Boosting Literacy Worldwide (4)
- 18: “When We All Have Pocket Telephones”: A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts Our Cellphone-Dominated Lives (1)
- 18: Texas School Board Bans Illustrated Edition of The Diary of Anne Frank (5)
- 17: The Brilliantly Nightmarish Art & Troubled Life of Painter Francis Bacon (1)
- 17: Orson Welles Reads the Abolitionist John Brown’s Final Speech After Being Sentenced to Death (0)
- 17: Behold a Secret Gallery of Art Created Using Discarded Gum on London’s Millennium Bridge (0)
- 16: When Christopher Hitchens Vigilantly Defended Salman Rushdie After the Fatwah: “It Was a Matter of Everything I Hated Versus Everything I Loved” (0)
- 16: What Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unusual Windows Tell Us About His Architectural Genius (2)
- 15: The Oakland Public Library Puts Online a Collection of Items Forgotten in Library Books: Love Notes, Doodles & More (0)
- 15: How a Simple, Bauhaus-Designed Chair Ended Up Everywhere Over the Past 100 Years (0)
- 12: What Does a $275,000 Classical Guitar Sound Like? (1)
- 12: Olivia Newton-John (RIP) Reunites with Grease Co-Star John Travolta to Sing “You’re The One That I Want” (2002) (3)
- 11: All the Music Played on MTV’s 120 Minutes: A 2,500-Video Youtube Playlist (0)
- 11: Discover The Key of Hell, an Illustrated 18th-Century Guide to Black Magic (1775) (0)
- 10: How German Artist John Heartfield Pioneered the Use of Art as a Political Weapon, and Took on Hitler (0)
- 10: The Photo That Triggered China’s Disastrous Cultural Revolution (1966) (3)
- 10: Oscar-Winner CODA and Deaf Representation in Film — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #130 (0)
- 09: When Helen Keller Met Charlie Chaplin and Taught Him Sign Language (1919) (0)
- 09: Damien Hirst’s NFT Experiment Comes to an End: How Many Buyers Chose Digital Tokens Over Physical Artworks? (1)
- 08: Three Female Artists Who Helped Create Abstract Expressionism: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning & Helen Frankenthaler. (2)
- 08: 13 Glorious Minutes of The Ramones in Kansas City, Captured on a Super-8 Camera (1978) (2)
- 08: A Brief History of Dumplings: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 05: What Americans Ate for Dessert 200 Years Ago: Watch Re-Creations of Original Recipes (0)
- 05: Watch the Sinking of the Lusitania Animated in Real Time (1915) (0)
- 04: What a Disney Version of A Clockwork Orange Would Look Like (0)
- 04: Watch the Full Set of Joni Mitchell’s Amazing Comeback Performance at the Newport Folk Festival (1)
- 04: How Paul Simon Wrote “The Boxer” (0)
- 03: The Oldest Tattoos Ever Discovered on an Egyptian Mummy Date Back 5,000 Years (0)
- 03: The Evolution of Music: 40,000 Years of Music History Covered in 8 Minutes (1)
- 02: The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art School (1)
- 02: The Last Cigarette Commercial Ever Aired on American TV (1971) (1)
- 01: As Star Trek‘s Lieutenant Uhura, Nichelle Nichols (RIP) Starred in “TV’s First Interracial Kiss” in 1968 (0)
- 01: Watch a Complete Mini-Series Adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (0)
- 01: The Inventive Artwork of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett (2)
- July 2022 (49)
- 29: Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary Rewatch Cult-Classic Movies on Their New Video Archives Podcast (0)
- 29: Scenes from The Wizard of Oz Remastered in Brilliant 4K Detail: Behold the Work of a Creative YouTuber (0)
- 29: Cover Songs: Philosophy and Taxonomy on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #129 (0)
- 28: How Joni Mitchell Learned to Play Guitar Again After a 2015 Brain Aneurysm–and Made It Back to the Newport Folk Festival (1)
- 28: Visit Great Cities in the 1920s in Restored Color Film: New York City, London, Berlin, Paris, Venice & More (0)
- 27: Watch 70+ Soviet Films Free Online, Courtesy of Mosfilm, the Hollywood of the Soviet Union (5)
- 27: Behold! A Medieval Graphic Novel Carved on an 14th Century Ivory Box (0)
- 26: Watch Hundreds of Polish Films Free Online: Feature Films, Documentaries, Animations & More (0)
- 26: The Book of St Albans, One of the Finest Medieval Manuscripts, Gets Digitized and Put Online (2)
- 25: Joni Mitchell Sings “Both Sides Now” at the Newport Folk Festival: Watch Clips from Her First Full Concert Since 2002 (0)
- 25: When Erik Satie Took a Picture of Debussy & Stravinsky (June 1910) (3)
- 25: Behold a Book of Color Shades Depicted with Feathers (Circa 1915) (0)
- 24: Watch Restored Video of the Smashing Pumpkins’ First Televised Performance (1988) (0)
- 22: Is There Life After Death?: Michio Kaku, Bill Nye, Sam Harris & More Explore One of Life’s Biggest Questions (0)
- 22: Free Documentaries from Spain Let You Watch the Traditional Making of Wine, Cheese, Churros, Honey & More (0)
- 21: Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965 (2)
- 21: The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon (1840) (1)
- 20: The Birdsong Project Features 220 Musicians, Actors, Artists & Writers Paying Tribute to Birds: Watch Performances by Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Costello and Beck (0)
- 20: A Virtual Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Japanese Masterpiece, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (4)
- 19: Hear a 19-Year-Old Prince Crushing It on Every Instrument in an Early Jam Session (1977) (24)
- 19: Japanese Restaurants Show You How to Make Traditional Dishes in Meditative Videos: Soba, Tempura, Udon & More (0)
- 18: Brian Eno’s Ambient Album Music for Airports Performed by Musicians in an Airport (0)
- 18: Never-Seen Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait Discovered Behind an Earlier Painting (0)
- 15: 30,000 Photographs of Black History & Culture Are Available Online in a New Getty Images Archive (0)
- 15: Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935) (0)
- 14: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Restores the Original Colors to Ancient Statues (9)
- 14: The Homes of 2020 Imagined in 1989: Wireless Audio Systems, Smart Heating, Windows That Turn Into TVs & More (0)
- 14: “Downton Abbey” and the Allure of Historical Drama — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #127 (0)
- 13: John Waters’ Comical & Inspiring Commencement Speech: “You Too Can Fail Upwards” (2022) (0)
- 13: The First Photographs Taken by the Webb Telescope: See Faraway Galaxies & Nebulae in Unprecedented Detail (0)
- 12: The German Cast of Hamilton Sings the Title Track, “Alexander Hamilton” in German (0)
- 12: What Americans Ate for Breakfast & Dinner 200 Years Ago: Watch Re-Creations of Original Recipes (7)
- 12: Listen to Earth.fm, a Free Archive of Natural Soundscapes That Can Re-Connect You with Nature & Improve Your Wellbeing (2)
- 11: Watch the Titanic Sink in This Real-Time 3D Animation (0)
- 11: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Nick Cave’s Beautiful Letter About Grief (0)
- 10: Watch an 8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Free Online (2)
- 08: Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More (1)
- 08: An Introduction to the Voynich Manuscript, the World’s Most Mysterious Book (2)
- 07: The Earliest Known Footage of New Orleans Discovered: See a Mardi Gras Parade in 1898 (1)
- 07: Titanic Survivor Interviews: What It Was Like to Flee the Sinking Luxury Liner (0)
- 06: Why You Should Read The Handmaid’s Tale: A Timely Animated Introduction (2)
- 06: When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Doghouse, His Smallest Architectural Creation (1956) (0)
- 05: Watch the Hugely-Ambitious Soviet Film Adaptation of War and Peace Free Online (1966-67) (0)
- 05: Mama Cass and John Denver Sing a Lovely Duet of “Leaving On a Jet Plane” (1972) (1)
- 04: Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944) (11)
- 04: The Timeline of World War II (Month by Month) Told With Scenes Made from Dozens of WWII Movies (1)
- 01: The Young Punk Rockers The Linda Lindas Play a Tiny Desk Concert Gig (at the Public Library) (0)
- 01: Sir Ben Kingsley Reads a Letter Written by Gandhi to Hitler (in the Voice of Mahatma Gandhi) (0)
- 01: Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro Is Getting Adapted for the Stage by The Royal Shakespeare Company & Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (0)
- June 2022 (54)
- 30: Take Graphic Design Courses to Launch Your Career as a Graphic Designer, Video Game Designer, UI Designer & More (0)
- 30: How to Get into a Creative “Flow State”: A Short Masterclass (1)
- 30: Bars, Beer & Wine in Ancient Rome: An Introduction to Roman Nightlife and Spirits (0)
- 29: Free Online: Watch Stalker, Mirror, and Other Masterworks by Soviet Auteur Andrei Tarkovsky (0)
- 29: What Makes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid a Masterpiece?: A Video Introduction (0)
- 28: Why 99% Of Smithsonian’s Specimens Are Hidden In High-Security (0)
- 28: Free: Watch Battleship Potemkin and Other Films by Sergei Eisenstein, the Revolutionary Soviet Filmmaker (0)
- 27: Marie Curie’s Ph.D. Thesis on Radioactivity–Which Made Her the First Woman in France to Receive a Doctoral Degree in Physics (2)
- 27: Lou Reed Album With Demos of Velvet Underground Classics Getting Released: Hear an Early Version of “I’m Waiting for the Man” (1)
- 25: Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949) (3)
- 24: The Only Surviving Manuscript of John Milton’s Paradise Lost Gets Published in Book Form for the First Time (0)
- 24: Color Footage of the Liberation of Paris, Shot by Hollywood Director George Stevens (1944) (0)
- 24: Karl Marx & the Flaws of Capitalism: Lex Fridman Talks with Professor Richard Wolff (4)
- 23: The Oldest House in New York City: Meet the Wyckoff House (1652) (0)
- 23: Rapper Post Malone Performs a 15-Song Set of Nirvana Songs, Paying Tribute to Kurt Cobain (0)
- 23: Beautiful Taschen Art Books on Sale Through Sunday: 25%-75% Off (0)
- 22: Computer Scientist Andrew Ng Presents a New Series of Machine Learning Courses–an Updated Version of the Popular Course Taken by 5 Million Students
- 22: The Otherworldly Art of William Blake: An Introduction to the Visionary Poet and Painter (0)
- 22: What Is the House of the Rising Sun?: An Introduction to the Origins of the Classic Song
- 21: The Biology of Bonsai Trees: The Science Behind the Traditional Japanese Art Form
- 21: Hear a Neuroscientist-Curated 712-Track Playlist of Music that Causes Frisson, or Musical Chills
- 20: George Harrison Breaks Down Abbey Road Track-By-Track on the Day of Its Release (September 26, 1969) (5)
- 20: An Introduction to Stanislaw Lem, the Great Polish Sci-Fi Writer, by Jonathan Lethem (0)
- 17: The Revolutionary Paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Video Essay (0)
- 17: Discover DALL-E, the Artificial Intelligence Artist That Lets You Create Surreal Artwork (0)
- 17: Ziggy Stardust Turns 50: Celebrate David Bowie’s Signature Character with a Newly Released Version of “Starman” (0)
- 16: How Wealthy Women (Like the Mona Lisa) Got Dressed in Renaissance Florence (0)
- 16: A Special New, Two-Volume Collection of Philip K. Dick Stories Comes Illustrated by 24 Different Artists (0)
- 15: Danny Boyle’s New Sex Pistols Series Tells the Story of Punk Rock in the UK (0)
- 15: Ambient Kyoto: Brian Eno Stages His First Large-Scale Exhibition in Japan (1)
- 14: Revisit Vintage Issues of Astounding Stories, the 1930s Magazine that Gave Rise to Science Fiction as We Know It (1)
- 14: Watch Two Courses by Beloved Yale Historian John Merriman (RIP): “France Since 1871” and “European Civilization, 1648 to 1945” (0)
- 13: Julia Child Shows Fred Rogers How to Make a Quick & Delicious Pasta Dish (1974) (0)
- 13: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: An Animated Chapter-by-Chapter Breakdown of the Ancient Chinese Treatise (0)
- 12: Enter the Franz Kafka Caption Contest for a Chance to Win a New Book of the Author’s Drawings (Until June 13) (0)
- 10: Werner Herzog’s New Novel, The Twilight World, Tells the Story of the WWII Japanese Soldier Who Famously Refused to Surrender (0)
- 10: What Happened to the Missing Half of the Roman Colosseum? (7)
- 09: Watch the First Movie Ever Streamed on the Net: Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991) (0)
- 09: The History of the Byzantine Empire (or East Roman Empire): An Animated Timeline Covering 1,100 Years of History (1)
- 08: When David Bowie & Brian Eno Made a Twin Peaks-Inspired Album, Outside (1995) (4)
- 08: Remembering Dave Smith (RIP), the Father of MIDI & the Creator of the 80s’ Most Beloved Synthesizer, the Prophet-5 (0)
- 07: Kate Bush Enjoys a (Long-Overdue) Revival, Sparked by Season 4 of Stranger Things (0)
- 07: Watch Ella Fitzgerald Put Her Extraordinary Vocal Agility on Display, in a Live Rendition of “Summertime” (1968) (0)
- 06: The Vincent van Gogh “Starry Night” LEGO Set Is Now Available: It’s Created in Collaboration with MoMA (1)
- 06: Ray Liotta (RIP) Talks About His Most Memorable Performances: Something Wild, Goodfellas, Field of Dreams, and More (0)
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- 03: Play “Artle,” an Art History Version of Wordle: A New Game from the National Gallery of Art (1)
- 03: 1,000 Musicians Perform “My Hero” in a Moving Tribute to Foo Fighters’ Drummer Taylor Hawkins (1)
- 03: What Is Batman? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #124 Debates the Character, the Legacy, and the New Film (0)
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- 02: The “All of Bach” Project Is Making Performances of Every Bach Piece Available Online: Watch 346 High-Quality Recordings (2)
- 02: Machiavelli’s The Prince Explained in an Illustrated Film (0)
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- 31: The Greatest Hits of Alan Watts: Stream a Carefully-Curated Collection of Alan Watts Wisdom (1)
- 31: Italian Advice on How to Live the Good Life: Cigarettes, Tomatoes, and Other Picturesque Small Pleasures (1)
- 30: Haruki Murakami Jazz Mixes: Hear Playlists of Jazz Pieces Namechecked in Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 (2)
- 30: How Did Cartographers Create World Maps before Airplanes and Satellites? An Introduction (1)
- 27: “Oye Como Va” Played by Carlos Santana & Musicians Around the World (0)
- 27: Great Mixtapes of 1970s Japanese Jazz: 4 Hours of Funky, Groovy, Fusion-y Music (1)
- 27: Bach Played Beautifully on the Baroque Lute, by Preeminent Lutenist Evangelina Mascardi (3)
- 26: Margaret Atwood Releases an Unburnable Edition of The Handmaid’s Tale, to Support Freedom of Expression (4)
- 26: Terry Gilliam Visits a Video Store & Talks About His Favorite Movies and Actors (0)
- 25: A First Glimpse of Moonage Daydream, the New “Immersive Cinematic Experience” David Bowie Film (1)
- 25: How Much Would It Cost to Build the Colosseum Today? (0)
- 25: How Korean Things Are Made: Watch Mesmerizing Videos Showing the Making of Traditional Clothes, Teapots, Buddhist Instruments & More (0)
- 24: Behold the Augsburg Book of Miracles, a Brilliantly-Illuminated Manuscript of Supernatural Phenomena from Renaissance Germany (1)
- 24: Martin Scorsese Foundation Launches Virtual Screening Room, Letting You Watch Restored Classic Films for Free (2)
- 23: The Scream Explained: What’s Really Happening in Edvard Munch’s World-Famous Painting (0)
- 23: Watch Hannah Arendt’s Final Interview (1973) (0)
- 20: R.I.P. Vangelis: The Composer Who Created the Future Noir Soundtrack for Blade Runner Dies at 79 (1)
- 20: Jean-Paul Sartre & Albert Camus: Their Friendship and the Bitter Feud That Ended It (2)
- 19: William Blake: The Remarkable Printing Process of the English Poet, Artist & Visionary (1)
- 19: Meet the Variophone, the Early Soviet Synthesizer that Made Music with a Film Projector (1932) (0)
- 19: David Cronenberg Visits a Video Store & Talks About His Favorite Movies (0)
- 18: Hans Zimmer Was in the First-Ever Video Aired on MTV, The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” (1)
- 18: What’s It Like Drumming For Prince?: Drummer Hannah Welton Describes the Genius of His Musicianship (1)
- 18: The Animated Map of Quantum Computing: A Visual Introduction to the Future of Computing (2)
- 17: An Architect Breaks Down the Design Details of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (0)
- 17: The Rolling Stones Play a Gig in Communist Warsaw and a Riot Ensues (1967) (0)
- 16: The White House’s Forgotten 1970s Vinyl Record Collection: Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, Captain Beefheart, Donna Summer & More (18)
- 16: Helen Keller Was a “Firebrand” Socialist (or How History Whitewashed Her Political Life) (2)
- 16: How Hans Zimmer Created the Otherworldly Soundtrack for Dune (0)
- 13: How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained in 7 Minutes (7)
- 13: This Is Spinal Tap Will Get a Sequel 40 Years Later, Reuniting Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer (1)
- 13: Google Unveils a Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students for an Entry-Level Job in 6 Months (0)
- 12: Quentin Tarantino Names His 20 Favorite Movies, Covering Two Decades (5)
- 12: The Forgotten Women of Surrealism: A Magical, Short Animated Film (2)
- 11: Real Interviews with People Who Lived in the 1800s (0)
- 11: When Orson Welles Became a Speech & Joke Writer for Franklin Delano Roosevelt (0)
- 10: Philosopher Bertrand Russell Talks About the Time When His Grandfather Met Napoleon (0)
- 10: Two Decades of Fire Island DJ Sets Get Unearthed, Digitized & Put Online: Stream 232 Mixtapes Online (1979-1999) (1)
- 10: Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Spent Years Debating How to Depict the Aliens in 2001: A Space Odyssey; Carl Sagan Provided the Answer: Don’t Depict Them at All (1)
- 09: The Polish Artist Stanisław Witkiewicz Made Portraits While On Different Psychoactive Drugs, and Noted the Drugs on Each Painting (14)
- 09: Hayao Miyazaki, The Mind of a Master: A Thoughtful Video Essay Reveals the Driving Forces Behind the Animator’s Incredible Body of Work (0)
- 08: Finding Purpose & Meaning In Life: Living for What Matters Most–A Free Online Course from the University of Michigan (0)
- 08: U2’s Bono & the Edge Give Surprise Concert in Kyiv Metro/Bomb Shelter: “Stand by Me,” “Angel of Harlem,” and “With or Without You” (0)
- 06: Grandma Moses Started Painting Seriously at Age 77, and Soon Became a Famous American Artist (1)
- 06: Self-Encounter: The 10-Episode TV Show That Introduced Existentialism to Americans in 1961 (0)
- 06: MasterClass Is Offering Up to 35% Off an Annual Subscription for Mother’s Day (Through May 8) (0)
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- 05: The Ghosts and Monsters of Hokusai: See the Famed Woodblock Artist’s Fearsome & Amusing Visions of Strange Apparitions (0)
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- 04: How Postwar Italian Cinema Created La Dolce Vita and Then the Paparazzi (0)
- 04: Footage of Flappers from 1929 Restored & Colorized with AI (0)
- 03: How People Imagined in 1948 What Cars Would Look Like in the Future (0)
- 03: The Last Morning in Pompeii & The Night Pompeii Died: A New Video Series Explores the End of the Doomed Roman City (0)
- 03: David Byrne’s New Illustrated Book Playfully Presents A History of the World (in Dingbats) (0)
- 02: Experience Seinfeld’s Famous “Soup Nazi” Scenes With & Without Laugh Tracks (4)
- 02: Watch a New Animation of Richard Feynman’s Ode to the Wonder of Life, with Music by Yo-Yo Ma (0)
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- 30: Revisiting the Music of the Pioneering German Composer Klaus Schulze (RIP), the “Godfather of Techno,” Ambient, German Experimental Psych Rock & More (3)
- 30: Watch Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films Free Online: Stalker, The Mirror & Andrei Rublev (1)
- 29: Coca-Cola Was Originally Sold as an Intellectual Stimulant & Medicine: The Unlikely Story of the Iconic Soft Drink’s Invention (0)
- 29: Hear The Beatles’ Abbey Road with Only Paul McCartney’s Bass: You Won’t Believe How Good It Sounds (13)
- 29: Watch Sir Ian McKellen’s 1979 Master Class on Macbeth’s Final Monologue (0)
- 28: Dracula Daily: Get the Classic Novel Dracula Delivered to Your Email Inbox, in Small Chunks (1)
- 28: Jon Kabat-Zinn Presents an Introduction to Mindfulness (and Explains Why Our Lives Just Might Depend on It) (0)
- 28: An Online Archive of Beautiful, Early 20th Century Japanese Postcards (0)
- 27: Revisit Morphine, the 90s Power Trio Who Played the Two-String Bass, Saxophone & Drums (2)
- 27: A Whirlwind Architectural Tour of the New York Public Library–“Hidden Details” and All (0)
- 27: Why Do Oreos Never Come Apart Evenly?: MIT Researchers Build an “Oreometer” to Find the Answer (0)
- 27: Frank Lloyd Wright: America’s Greatest Architect? –A Free Streaming Documentary (0)
- 26: Stunningly Elaborate Ottoman Calligraphy Drawn on Dried Leaves (0)
- 26: Why Does This Lady Have a Fly on Her Head?: A Curious Look at a 15th-Century Portrait (1)
- 25: How Thomas Edison & Henry Ford Envisioned a Low-Priced Electric Vehicle in 1914, Almost Changing the Direction of Automobile History (0)
- 25: The History of Birth Control: From Alligator Dung to The Pill (0)
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- 22: Explore a Big Archive of Vintage Early Comics: 1700-1929 (1)
- 22: The Sistine Chapel: A $22,000 Art-Book Collection Features Remarkable High-Resolution Views of the Murals of Michelangelo, Botticelli & Other Renaissance Masters (0)
- 21: The History of Iron Maiden: A Documentary Streaming Free Online (0)
- 21: 100-Year-Old Music Recordings Can Now Be Heard for the First Time, Thanks to New Digital Technology (0)
- 21: The Woman Who Theorized Color: An Introduction to Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808) (0)
- 21: The Efficacy of Protest Songs — Four Songwriters Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #121 (1)
- 20: The Birth of the Blues Brothers: How Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi Started Introducing a New Generation to the Blues (0)
- 20: What Great Archaeological Sites Used To Actually Look Like: Machu Picchu, the Colossus of Rhodes, Hadrian’s Wall & More in All Their Glory (0)
- 19: In 1968, Stanley Kubrick Makes Predictions for 2001: Humanity Will Conquer Old Age, Watch 3D TV & Learn German in 20 Minutes (0)
- 19: Behold 3D Recreations of Pompeii’s Lavish Homes–As They Existed Before the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (2)
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- 19: Draw Along with Beloved Cartoonist & Educator Lynda Barry: Free Drawing Exercises Online (0)
- 18: The New York Public Library Provides Free Online Access to Banned Books: Catcher in the Rye, Stamped & More (1)
- 18: The Library of Esoterica: Taschen’s Visual History of Tarot, Astrology & Witchcraft (0)
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- 14: Make Your Own Medieval Memes with a New Tool from the Dutch National Library (0)
- 14: Watch Stevie Wonder’s Amazing Drum Solo, and See Why He May Be the “Greatest Drummer of Our Time” (15)
- 13: If Fritz Lang’s Iconic Film Metropolis Had a Kraftwerk Soundtrack (5)
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- 13: “Europe’s Big Lie About Ukraine,” According to Stephen Fry (2)
- 12: Watch a Local TV Station Switch From Black & White to Color for First Time (1967) (0)
- 12: Why Algorithms Are Called Algorithms, and How It All Goes Back to the Medieval Persian Mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (32)
- 11: How Ukraine’s Works of Art Are Being Saved in Wartime–Using the Lessons of World War II (0)
- 11: Mark Knopfler Shows How to Play His Fingerpicking Guitar Style (1)
- 08: Pink Floyd Releases Its First New Song in 28 Years to Help Support Ukraine (0)
- 08: The Rembrandt Book Bracelet: Behold a Functional Bracelet Featuring 1400 Rembrandt Drawings (0)
- 07: Why Dutch & Japanese Cities Are Insanely Well Designed (and American Cities Are Terribly Designed) (2)
- 07: What Did People Do Before the Invention of Eyeglasses? (1)
- 06: Jim Morrison Accurately Predicts the Future of Electronic Music in 1969 (1)
- 06: Flea Rocks “The Star Spangled Banner” on the Bass (1)
- 06: The Story of Googie Architecture, the Iconic Architectural Style of Los Angeles (1)
- 05: The Little Prince: Footage Gets Unearthed Of the Pop Star at Age 11 (0)
- 05: All Espresso Drinks Explained: Cappuccino, Latte, Macchiato & Beyond (2)
- 04: How to Wear a Toga the Official Ancient Roman Way (0)
- 04: The Depths of Wikipedia: Enjoy a Compendium of the Online Encyclopedia’s Most Bizarre Pages (0)
- 04: A Survival Guide to the Biblical Apocalypse (0)
- 01: Home Movies of Frida Kahlo (and a Side Order of Romantic Entanglements) (1)
- 01: Watch Brian Cox of “Succession” Read Hunter S. Thompson’s Profanity-Laden Letter (1)
- 01: Can We Still Consume the Work of Disgraced Artists — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #119 (0)
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- 31: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: An Animated Video Explaining Key Ideas in Ray Dalio’s New Bestselling Book (0)
- 31: A Gallery of Fantastical Alchemical Drawings (2)
- 31: How To Build a 13th-Century Castle, Using Only Authentic Medieval Tools & Techniques (0)
- 31: Exploring the Greatest of Italy’s 6,000 Ghost Towns: Take a Tour of Craco, Italy (0)
- 30: How Previous Decades Predicted the Future: The 21st Century as Imagined in the 1900s, 1950s, 1980s, and Other Eras (0)
- 30: Francis Ford Coppola Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films: The Godfather, Apocalypse Now & More (1)
- 29: When Stalin Starved Ukraine (6)
- 29: A Field Guide to Strange Medieval Monsters (0)
- 28: Watch the Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins (RIP) Give a Drumming Masterclass (1)
- 28: Explore MoMA’s Collection of Modern & Contemporary Art Every Time You Open a New Browser Tab (1)
- 28: A Vintage Short Film about the Samurai Sword, Narrated by George Takei (1969) (0)
- 28: Adapting Agatha Christie for the Screen — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #118 (0)
- 26: Patti Smith Talks with Malcolm Gladwell About Her Life as an Artist (0)
- 25: Japanese Researcher Sleeps in the Same Location as Her Cat for 24 Consecutive Nights! (7)
- 25: How Yayoi Kusama, Obsessed with Polka Dots, Became One of the Most Radical Artists of All Time (0)
- 25: Pristine, Restored Footage of George Harrison & Bob Dylan Rehearsing “If Not For You” at the Concert for Bangladesh (1971) (1)
- 24: Japanese Toy Designs from the Late 19th & Early 20th Century: Explore an Online Archive (0)
- 24: Watch David Hockney Paint with Light, Using the Quantel Paintbox Graphics System (1986) (0)
- 23: Marina Abramović Brings Back Her Iconic Performance Art Piece, The Artist Is Present, to Raise Money for Ukraine (0)
- 23: Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World (0)
- 22: Explore Rarely-Seen Art by J. R. R. Tolkien in a New Web Site Created by the Tolkien Estate (0)
- 22: What Was Actually Lost When the Library of Alexandria Burned? (1)
- 21: Aldous Huxley Predicts in 1950 What the World Will Look Like in the Year 2000 (0)
- 20: ‘Kyiv Calling:’ Ukrainian Punk Band Rerecords The Clash’s Anthem as a Call to Arms (4)
- 18: When James Brown Played Rikers Island Prison 50 Years Ago (1972) (0)
- 18: Meet Anita Berber, the Cabaret Star Who Scandalized Weimar-Era Berlin (1)
- 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger Tells the Russian People (With Love) About Putin’s War in Ukraine (0)
- 17: Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road: The Only Known Footage of the Beat Icon Reading His Work (1959) (0)
- 17: Franz Kafka Says the Insect in The Metamorphosis Should Never Be Drawn; and Vladimir Nabokov Draws It Anyway (1)
- 16: When Oliver Stone & Vladimir Putin Chillingly Watched Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove Together (12)
- 16: In 1704, Isaac Newton Predicted That the World Will End in 2060 (9)
- 15: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” (1)
- 15: The Iconic Design of the Doomsday Clock Was Created 75 Years Ago: It Now Says We’re 100 Seconds to Midnight (3)
- 15: Fan Faithfully Reconstructs Cream’s Final Concert: Watch a New Version of the Show with the Correct Song Order and Run-Time (1968) (2)
- 14: Real Footage of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance: Watch Clips from the First Documentary Feature Film Ever Made (1919) (0)
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- 12: Ukrainian Violinists Play in Solidarity with 94 Other Violinists from 29 Countries (1)
- 12: Hear Jack Kerouac Read from On The Road on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth (0)
- 11: Heart’s Nancy Wilson Teaches You How to Play the Notoriously Difficult Opening to “Crazy On You” (1)
- 11: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online: 1,000+ Librarians Digitally Preserve Artifacts of Ukrainian Civilization Before Russia Can Destroy Them (0)
- 10: See the Well-Preserved Wreckage of Ernest Shackleton’s Ship Endurance Found in Antarctica (1)
- 10: Brian Eno Creates a List of 20 Books That Could Rebuild Civilization (21)
- 09: The Failed Logistics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (0)
- 09: The First Work of Science Fiction: Read Lucian’s 2nd-Century Space Travelogue A True Story (0)
- 09: When Movies Came on Vinyl: The Early-80s Engineering Marvel and Marketing Disaster That Was RCA’s SelectaVision (0)
- 08: M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040 (132)
- 08: Behold the Strandbeest, the Mechanical Animals That Roam the Beaches of Holland (1)
- 07: Odessa Opera House, in 1942 and Today (0)
- 07: When Rod Serling Turned TV Pitchman: See His Post-Twilight Zone Ads for Ford, Mazda, Gulf Oil & Smokey Bear (1)
- 07: Watch a Very Nervous, 23-Year-Old David Byrne and Talking Heads Performing Live in NYC (1976) (2)
- 06: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Teach-Out: A Free Course from the University of Michigan
- 06: Ukrainians Playing Violin in Bunkers as Russians Bomb Them from the Sky
- 05: Pianist Plays “What a Wonderful World” for Ukrainian Refugees at Lviv Station
- 04: A Digital Archive of Hieronymus Bosch’s Complete Works: Zoom In & Explore His Surreal Art (8)
- 04: Free Coloring Books from The Public Domain Review: Download & Color Works by Hokusai, Albrecht Dürer, Harry Clarke, Aubrey Beardsley & More (0)
- 03: The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel: 120 Woodcuts Envision the Grotesque Inhabitants of Rabelais’ World (1565) (0)
- 03: Putin’s War on Ukraine Explained in 8 Minutes (3)
- 03: Hades, the First Video Game to Win a Hugo, and the Roguelike Genre — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #117 (1)
- 02: Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation Hosted by The Atlantic, Featuring Anne Applebaum, Tom Nichols & Jeffrey Goldberg (1)
- 02: How Volodymyr Zelenskyy Went from Playing a President on a Comedy TV Show to Very Real Life (0)
- 02: Carl Sagan Explains Evolution in an 8-Minute Animation (9)
- 01: The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Hard Lessons of the 20th Century
- 01: Dick Van Dyke Still Dancing at 96! (15)
- 01: How Aladdin Sane Became the Most Expensive Album Cover Ever — and David Bowie’s Defining Image (0)
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- 28: Free Coloring Books from 101 World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download and Color Hundreds of Free Images (0)
- 28: Hear the Uncensored Original Version of “Hurricane,” Bob Dylan’s Protest Song About Jailed Boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (1976) (14)
- 27: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine: A Useful Primer
- 26: West Point Expert Gives Ukrainians Advice on Conducting Effective Urban Warfare Against Russian Troops
- 25: Are You a Fascist?: Take Theodor Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality Test Created to Combat Fascism (1947)
- 25: Starship Titanic: The Video Game Created by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), with Help from John Cleese & Terry Jones (0)
- 24: The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Has Been Digitized and Put Online (1)
- 24: Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism (0)
- 24: The New Herbal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Botanical Illustrations Gets Republished in a Beautiful 900-Page Book by Taschen (0)
- 24: Paula Cole Discusses Songwriting: Stream the Nakedly Examined Music Interview Online (0)
- 23: Haruki Murakami’s Five Favorite Books (3)
- 23: The Psychology of Messiness & Creativity: Study Shows How a Messy Desk and Creative Work Go Hand in Hand (1)
- 22: The Dune Encyclopedia: The Controversial, Definitive Guide to the World of Frank Herbert’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece (1984) (0)
- 22: When Eartha Kitt Spoke Truth to Power at a 1968 White House Luncheon (1)
- 22: David Byrne Answers the Internet’s Burning Questions About David Byrne (0)
- 21: What Made Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus a Revolutionary Painting (2)
- 21: How the 1968 Psychedelic Film Head Destroyed the Monkees & Became a Cult Classic (4)
- 18: “When The Levee Breaks” Performed by John Paul Jones & Musicians Around the World (2)
- 18: How to Actually Cook Salvador Dali’s Surrealist Recipes: Crayfish, Prawns, and Spitted Eggs (0)
- 18: How Quentin Tarantino Remixes History: A Brief Study of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (0)
- 18: The Enduring Appeal of Schulz’s Peanuts — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #116 (0)
- 17: 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work: “The Scorpion Bit Him,” “Brewing Beer” & More (8)
- 17: Watch “Pass the Ball,” a Collaborative Animation Made by 40 Animators Across the Globe (0)
- 16: Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & Wite-Out (0)
- 16: P.J. O’Rourke (RIP) Explains Why You Can Never Win Over Your Political Adversaries by Mocking Them (1)
- 16: Organized Chaos!: Watch 33 Videos Showing How Saturday Night Live Gets Made Each Week (0)
- 15: Howard Zinn’s Recommended Reading List for Activists Who Want to Change the World (6)
- 15: Google App Uses Machine Learning to Discover Your Pet’s Look Alike in 10,000 Classic Works of Art (0)
- 14: Ivan Reitman’s First Film “Orientation” (1968) (0)
- 14: The First Illustrated Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses Gets Published, Featuring the Work of Spanish Artist Eduardo Arroyo (1)
- 14: How the Riot Grrrl Movement Created a Revolution in Rock & Punk (0)
- 13: The Great Courses Is Now Running a Big Spring Warehouse Clearance Sale (0)
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- 10: That Time When the Mediterranean Sea Dried Up & Disappeared: Animations Show How It Happened (0)
- 10: Zoo Hires Marvin Gaye Impersonator to Help Endangered Monkeys “Get It On” (2)
- 09: The Code of Charles Dickens’ Shorthand Has Been Cracked by Computer Programmers, Solving a 160-Year-Old Mystery (6)
- 09: Nikola Tesla’s Predictions for the 21st Century: The Rise of Smart Phones & Wireless, The Demise of Coffee & More (1926/35) (67)
- 08: The Fiendishly Complicated Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Play: Discover The Campaign for North Africa (4)
- 08: Pink Floyd’s Debut on American TV, Restored in Color (1967) (0)
- 08: Tate Kids Presents Introductions to Art Movements: Cubism, Impressionism, Surrealism & More (0)
- 07: Mystical Photographs Taken Inside a Cello, Double Bass & Other Instruments (1)
- 07: Space Sex is Serious Business: A Hilarious Short Animation Addresses Serious Questions About Human Reproduction in Space (0)
- 07: Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984) (9)
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- 04: Read the Original Serialized Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1918) (1)
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- 03: Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (2)
- 03: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Bialetti Moka Express: A Deep Dive Into Italy’s Most Popular Coffee Maker (3)
- 02: In 1922, a Novelist Predicts What the World Will Look Like in 2022: Wireless Telephones, 8-Hour Flights to Europe & More (71)
- 02: The Anti-Vaxxer Who Waged War Against Jonas Salk & His Polio Vaccine: When History Keeps Repeating (2)
- 01: Rare Arabic 78 RPM Records Enter the Public Domain (1)
- 01: 17th-Century Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate: How “Buddhist Emoji” Made the Sūtra Legible for Those Who Couldn’t Read (1)
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- 31: An Opera Singer & Cabaret Artist Record an Astonishing Version of David Bowie & Queen’s “Under Pressure” (2)
- 31: Tennessee School Board Bans Maus, the Pulitzer-Prize Winning Graphic Novel on the Holocaust; the Book Becomes #1 Bestseller on Amazon (5)
- 31: A Brief Animated History of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses & the Reformation–Which Changed Europe and Later the World (0)
- 29: Get 25%-75% Off Beautiful Taschen Art Books Through Sunday: Dalí, Bauhaus, Basquiat, O’Keeffe & More (0)
- 28: Watch a Human White Blood Cell Chase Bacteria Through a Field of Red Blood Cells (0)
- 28: The Marcel Duchamp Research Portal Opens, Making Available 18,000 Documents and 50,000 Images Related to the Revolutionary Artist (0)
- 28: Great Art Cities: Visit the Fascinating, Lesser-Known Museums of London & Paris (1)
- 27: Watch the Renaissance Painting, The Battle of San Romano, Get Brought Beautifully to Life in a Hand-Painted Animation (0)
- 26: The Incredible Story of the Hoover Dam (0)
- 26: Archaeologists Discover a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Glass Bowl in Perfect Condition (5)
- 26: Watch a Joyful Video Where 52 Renowned Choreographers Link Together to Create a Dance Chain Letter (1)
- 25: How Bob Dylan Created a Musical & Literary World All His Own: Four Video Essays (0)
- 25: An 8-Minute Animated Flight Over Ancient Rome (1)
- 25: Lou Reed Turns Rock Critic, Sizing Up Everyone from the “Amazingly Talented” Beatles to the “Two Bit, Pretentious” Frank Zappa (8)
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- 21: Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Reading Letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Sol LeWitt, and Others (0)
- 21: How a Fake Cartoon Band Made “Sugar Sugar” the Biggest Selling Hit Single of 1969 (4)
- 21: A New Album of Goth-Folk Songs Inspired by the Life of Marie Curie (0)
- 20: How Karl Marx Influenced Abraham Lincoln and His Position on Slavery & Labor (2)
- 20: 1,100 Delicate Drawings of Root Systems Reveals the Hidden World of Plants (0)
- 19: Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD) (3)
- 19: Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) (4)
- 19: Martin Heidegger Talks Philosophy with a Buddhist Monk on German TV (1963) (0)
- 18: Discovered: Lost Johnny Cash Concert Recorded by the Grateful Dead’s LSD Chemist Owsley Stanley (1968) (0)
- 18: When Andy Warhol Guest-Starred on The Love Boat (1985) (0)
- 18: Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Her Family?: Machine Learning, a Retired FBI Agent and a Team of Investigators May Have Finally Solved the Case (0)
- 18: The Philosophy of Games: C. Thi Nguyen on the Philosophy vs. Improv Podcast (0)
- 17: People in the Middle Ages Slept Not Once But Twice Each Night: How This Lost Practice Was Rediscovered (4)
- 17: Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots (0)
- 14: The Origins of the Word “Gaslighting”: Scenes from the 1944 Film Gaslight (11)
- 14: How Pulp Fiction Uses the Socratic Method, the Philosophical Method from Ancient Greece (1)
- 14: The “West Side Story” Story — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #114 (0)
- 13: Bob Dylan’s Famous Televised Press Conference After He Went Electric (1965) (6)
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- 12: How to Decode NASA’s Message to Aliens (0)
- 12: Toni Morrison Lists the 10 Steps That Lead Countries to Fascism (1995) (0)
- 12: Maya Angelou Becomes the First Black Woman Featured on a U.S. Quarter (1)
- 11: How to Ride a Pterosaur, According to Science (0)
- 11: Behold Medieval Snowball Fights: A Timeless Way of Having Fun (1)
- 11: An Introduction to the Painting of Caspar David Friedrich, Romanticism & the Sublime (0)
- 10: Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten Updated to Reflect Our Modern Understanding of the Universe (3)
- 10: Watch Laurie Anderson’s Hypnotic Harvard Lecture Series on Poetry, Meditation, Death, New York & More (2)
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- 09: Alberto Giacometti: A Documentary Look at the Life & Work of the Great Modernist Artist (0)
- 07: The Bialetti Moka Express: The History of Italy’s Iconic Coffee Maker, and How to Use It the Right Way (10)
- 07: How Did the Mona Lisa Become the World’s Most Famous Painting?: It’s Not What You Think (0)
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- 06: Hear Debussy Play Debussy’s Most Famous Piece, “Clair de lune” (1913) (8)
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- 06: Watch Nirvana Perform as an Opening Band, Two Years Before Their Breakout Album Nevermind (1989) (3)
- 05: Explore the New 717-Gigapixel Scan of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, the Most Detailed Photo Ever Taken of a Work of Art (0)
- 05: Animals Laugh Too: UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows (2)
- 04: 75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online: Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More (2)
- 04: 400,000+ Sound Recordings Made Before 1923 Have Entered the Public Domain (1)
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- 03: Harper Lee Gives Advice to Young Writers in One of Her Only Interviews Captured on Audio (1964) (2)
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- 31: What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2022: The Sun Also Rises, Winnie-the-Pooh, Buster Keaton Comedies & More (2)
- 31: How Fashionable Dutch Women (Like the Girl with a Pearl Earring) Got Dressed in 1665 (0)
- 30: Brian Eno Shares His Critical Take on Art & NFTs: “I Mainly See Hustlers Looking for Suckers” (11)
- 30: The Amazing Engineering of James Webb Telescope (1)
- 30: Asleep at the Wheel Frontman Ray Benson Discusses Half a Hundred Years of Songwriting: Stream the Nakedly Examined Music Interview Online (0)
- 29: 500 Years of Haircuts: One Youtuber Tries Out the Hair Styles That Were Fashionable Between 1500 and 2000 (4)
- 29: The Famous Downfall Scene Explained: What Really Happened in Hitler’s Bunker at the End? (0)
- 28: Enjoy Classic Songs from A Charlie Brown Christmas, Performed by Vince Guaraldi Trio Drummer Jerry Granelli (RIP) (1)
- 28: Coursera Offers $100 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 13), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates (0)
- 28: Why Europe Has So Few Skyscrapers (1)
- 28: The Omicron Variant Explained by Neil deGrasse Tyson & Regeneron President George Yancopoulos (0)
- 28: The Jagger Moving Company (0)
- 27: Doreen Ketchens’ Astonishing Rendition of “The House of the Rising Sun”: A World-Class Clarinetist Busks on the Streets of New Orleans (2)
- 27: A Deep Study of the Opening Scene of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (0)
- 27: Is There Life After Death?: John Cleese and a Panel of Scientists Discuss That Eternal Question (1)
- 24: When Maurice Sendak Created a Dark Nutcracker Ballet (0)
- 24: Watch Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas Special, Featuring a Famous Duet with Bowie, and Bowie Introducing His New Song, “Heroes” (1977) (1)
- 24: Watch Awesome Human Choreography That Reproduces the Murmurations of Starling Flocks (0)
- 23: What Does It Take to Be a Great Artist?: An Aging Painter Reflects on His Creative Process & Why He Will Never Be a Picasso (1)
- 23: Watch the Building of the Empire State Building in Color: The Creation of the Iconic 1930s Skyscraper From Start to Finish (0)
- 23: Why “White Christmas,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Let It Snow,” and Other Classic Christmas Songs Come from the 1940s (1)
- 22: J.R.R. Tolkien Sent Illustrated Letters from Father Christmas to His Kids Every Year (1920-1943) (3)
- 22: The 850 Books a Texas Lawmaker Wants to Ban Because They Could Make Students Feel Uncomfortable (6)
- 22: Class Critiques in Squid Game, Succession, etc. — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #112 (0)
- 21: How the Beatles Experimented with Indian Music & Pioneered a New Rock and Roll Sound (0)
- 21: An AI Computer Watched Hitchcock’s Vertigo 20 Times & Then Made Its Own Disturbing Movie (0)
- 20: How Eating Kentucky Fried Chicken Became a Christmas Tradition in Japan (2)
- 20: How Jean Renoir’s Great Anti-War Film Grand Illusion Became “Cinematographic Enemy Number One” to the Nazis (0)
- 20: An Oscar-Winning Animation of Charles Dickens’ Classic Tale, A Christmas Carol (1971) (0)
- 18: Hear Brian Eno Sing The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” as Part of The Best Live Album of the Glam/Prog Era (1976) (5)
- 18: 60 Film Noir Movies Online (1)
- 17: An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting (0)
- 16: George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” Gets an Official Music Video, Featuring Ringo Starr, Al Yankovic, Patton Oswalt & Many Others (2)
- 16: The True Meaning of Queen’s Rock Epic “Bohemian Rhapsody” (9)
- 16: Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Almost Burns His House Down (1990) (0)
- 16: The Dune Franchise Tries Again — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #110 (0)
- 15: New York’s Lost Skyscraper: The Rise and Fall of the Singer Tower (0)
- 15: Before Bauhaus: How Goth Became Goth (0)
- 15: How George Martin Defined the Sound of the Beatles: From String Quartets to Backwards Guitar Solos (1)
- 14: Watch the 1907’s Nightmare-Inducing Short Film The Dancing Pig, Now Fully Colorized (0)
- 14: 18 Male Leonard Cohen Fans Over the Age of 65 Star in an Oddly Moving A Cappella Version of “I’m Your Man” (1)
- 14: Rick Rubin: The Invisibility of Hip Hop’s Greatest Producer (0)
- 13: Watch 11-Year-Old Billy Preston Duet with Nat King Cole: A Star is Born (1957) (2)
- 13: Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals: What Makes Them Great Art (1)
- 13: Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: Discover One of the Most Prized Natural History Books of All Time (1734-1765) (0)
- 13: Breaking Down the Beatles’ Get Back Documentary: Stream Episode #111 of the Pretty Much Pop Podcast (0)
- 10: What Makes Salvador Dalí’s Iconic Surrealist Painting “The Persistence of Memory” a Great Work of Art (1)
- 10: Watch Frank Zappa Play Michael Nesmith (RIP) on The Monkees–and Vice Versa (1967) (4)
- 10: Stephen Sondheim’s 40 Favorite Films (3)
- 09: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Will Be Retold from a Woman’s Point of View (8)
- 09: Taschen Publishes the First 21 Stories of Spider Man in a High Resolution, Extra-Large Format Art Book (0)
- 09: Edvard Munch’s Famous Painting “The Scream” Animated to Pink Floyd’s Primal Music (1)
- 08: ‘The Character of Physical Law’: Richard Feynman’s Legendary Course Presented at Cornell, 1964 (0)
- 08: Download 215,000 Japanese Woodblock Prints by Masters Spanning the Tradition’s 350-Year History (1)
- 08: Punks, Goths, and Mods on TV (1983) (0)
- 07: How Well Can You Move in Medieval Armor?: Medievalist Daniel Jaquet Gives It a Try in Real Life (0)
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- 07: When the Colosseum in Rome Became the Home of Hundreds of Exotic Plant Species (0)
- 06: Pink Floyd’s Entire Studio Discography is Now on YouTube: Stream the Studio & Live Albums (5)
- 06: The Quirky Self-Portraits of 18th Century Painter Joseph Ducreux (0)
- 06: How Peter Jackson Used Artificial Intelligence to Restore the Video & Audio Featured in The Beatles: Get Back (5)
- 04: Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” to Celebrate Hannukah: Hey! Oy! Let’s Goy! (0)
- 03: Behold the Glass Armonica, the Unbelievably Fragile Instrument Invented by Benjamin Franklin (0)
- 03: Catherine the Great of Russia Sends a Letter Urging Her Fellow Russians to Get Inoculated Against Smallpox (1787) (1)
- 03: Archaeologists Discover 200,000-Year-Old Hand & Footprints That Could Be the World’s Earliest Cave Art (37)
- 02: Stephen Fry on the Power of Words in Nazi Germany: How Dehumanizing Language Laid the Foundation for Genocide (1)
- 02: Get Unlimited Access to 3,000+ Courses for $1: Sign Up for Coursera’s Black Friday Special (Available Until December 4) (0)
- 02: How to Be a Samurai: A 17th Century Code for Life & War (0)
- 01: Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover Van Halen’s “Jump,” Celebrating David Lee Roth, One of the Hardest Rocking Jews, on the Fourth Night of Hannukah (0)
- 01: Browse a Huge Collection of Prison Newspapers: 1800-2020 (0)
- 01: How Drummer Moe Tucker Defined the Sound of the Velvet Underground (1)
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- 30: Watch Paul McCartney Compose The Beatles Classic “Get Back” Out of Thin Air (1969) (0)
- 30: How a Mosaic from Caligula’s Party Boat Became a Coffee Table in a New York City Apartment 50 Years Ago (0)
- 30: Hear Haruki Murakami Play Beatles Covers on His Radio Show, Murakami Radio (0)
- 29: The 17th Century Japanese Samurai Who Sailed to Europe, Met the Pope & Became a Roman Citizen (4)
- 29: Watch John Cage’s 4’33” Played by Musicians Around the World (0)
- 29: Watch Hilarious Spoofs of Classic Film Genres: Film Noir, Spaghetti Westerns, Scandinavian Crime Dramas, Time Travel Films & More (0)
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- 26: The Drugs Used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans (0)
- 26: Dueling as a Film Trope: Pretty Much Pop #109 Considers The Last Duel and Its Genre (0)
- 25: The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (1)
- 24: Jazz Virtuoso Oscar Peterson Gives Dick Cavett a Dazzling Piano Lesson (1979) (2)
- 24: Read 800+ Thanksgiving Books Free at the Internet Archive (0)
- 24: The Secrets of Beethoven’s Fifth, the World’s Most Famous Symphony (1)
- 23: In 1997, Wired Magazine Predicts 10 Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century: “An Uncontrollable Plague,” Climate Crisis, Russia Becomes a Kleptocracy & More (0)
- 23: Legendary DJ John Peel Makes a List of His 20 Favorite Albums (0)
- 22: Get Unlimited Access to 3,000+ Courses for $1: Sign Up for Coursera’s Black Friday Special (Available Until December 4) (2)
- 22: Elegant 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well (2)
- 22: Elvis Costello’s Musician Father (and Doppelgänger) Performing in 1963 (1)
- 21: The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash (0)
- 19: 8 Hours of David Bowie’s Historic 1980 Floor Show: Complete & Uncut Footage (3)
- 19: Cornel West Teaches You How to Think Like a Philosopher (0)
- 19: How German Expressionism Gave Rise to the “Dutch” Angle, the Camera Shot That Defined Classic Films by Welles, Hitchcock, Tarantino & More (0)
- 18: Bach on a Möbius Strip: Marcus du Sautoy Visualizes How Bach Used Math to Compose His Music (0)
- 18: Carl Sagan Warns Congress about Climate Change (1985) (0)
- 18: How Led Zeppelin Stole Their Way to Fame and Fortune (10)
- 17: How the World’s First Anti-Vax Movement Started with the First Vaccine for Smallpox in 1796, and Spread Fears of People Getting Turned into Half-Cow Babies (3)
- 17: Meet the Oud, the “King of All Instruments” Whose Origins Stretch Back 3500 Years Ago to Ancient Persia (0)
- 17: How Stanley Kubrick Made 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Seven-Part Video Essay (0)
- 16: Albert Einstein in Four Color Films (0)
- 16: Fred Armisen Teaches a Short Seminar on the History of Punk (0)
- 16: When John Belushi Booked the Punk Band Fear on SNL, And They Got Banned from the Show: A Short Documentary (0)
- 15: Stephen Fry Takes Us Inside the Story of Johannes Gutenberg & the First Printing Press (0)
- 15: Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments (1)
- 15: The Mystery of Who Played Bass on The White Album’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (12)
- 14: Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free – The Making of Wildflowers Is Streaming Free on YouTube (0)
- 12: Meet the Mysterious Genius Who Patented the UFO (0)
- 12: Watch 30+ Exceptional Short Films for Free in The New Yorker’s Online Screening Room (0)
- 11: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy (1)
- 11: What Is Sun Tzu’s The Art of War About?: A Short Introduction (1)
- 11: Life Magazine Predicts in 1914 How People Would Dress in the 1950s (4)
- 10: How Kraftwerk Made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (0)
- 10: Violinist Breaks a String While Performing Tchaikovsky in Concert, and Gracefully Recovers (3)
- 10: What Makes Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ a Timeless, Great Painting? (0)
- 09: Rare Book Featuring the Concept Art for Jodorowsky’s Dune Goes Up for Auction (1975) (0)
- 09: A Fascinating 3D Animation Shows the Depths of the Ocean (0)
- 09: How Martin Luther King, Jr. Wrote His Momentous “I Have a Dream” Speech (1963) (0)
- 08: When Nikola Tesla Claimed to Have Invented a “Death Ray,” Capable of Destroying Enemies 250 Miles Away & Making War Obsolete (0)
- 08: John Cleese Presents His 5-Step Plan for Shorter, More Productive Meetings (1976) (0)
- 08: Watch the Jackson 5’s First Appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (1969) (3)
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- 07: Wunderkind Musician Nandi Bushell Pays Tribute to Charlie Watts, Playing All of the Tracks on “Gimme Shelter” (0)
- 05: Richard Pryor & George Carlin Appear Together on a Classic Episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (3)
- 05: What Makes the Mona Lisa a Great Painting: A Deep Dive (0)
- 05: An Introduction to the Chrysler Building, New York’s Art Deco Masterpiece, by John Malkovich (1994) (0)
- 04: Michelangelo Entered a Competition to Put a Missing Arm Back on Laocoön and His Sons — and Lost (0)
- 04: Why Leonardo da Vinci’s Greatest Painting is Not the Mona Lisa (0)
- 04: The Nine Greatest Films You’ve Never Seen (3)
- 03: The Awe-Inspiring But Tragic Story of Africa’s Festival In The Desert (2001-2012) (0)
- 03: Watch Wes Anderson’s Animated Music Video for The French Dispatch, Featuring a Track by Jarvis Cocker (0)
- 03: 9-Year-Old Henry Thomas Delivers a Remarkable Screen Test for E.T. (0)
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- 02: Behold 84 Great Novels Reinterpreted as Modernist Postage Stamps (2)
- 02: Hear Brian Eno’s Contribution to the Soundtrack of David Lynch’s Dune (1984) (1)
- 01: The 10 Paradoxical Traits of Creative People, According to Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (RIP) (6)
- 01: Watch the Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” Music Video Re-Enacted by Robots (0)
- 01: Hear Hans Zimmer’s Experimental Score for the New Dune Film (2)
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- 31: Metallica Teaches a New Masterclass on How to Build & Sustain a Band (0)
- 29: Watch the New Trailer for a Kurt Vonnegut Documentary 40 Years In the Making (0)
- 29: When The Who Saved New York City After 9/11: Watch Their Cathartic Madison Square Garden Set (October 20, 2001) (2)
- 28: The Human Brain: A Free Online Course from MIT (0)
- 28: Play a Kandinsky: A New Simulation Lets You Experience Kandinsky’s Synesthesia & the Sounds He May Have Heard When Painting “Yellow-Red-Blue” (1)
- 28: Scenes of New York City in 1945 Colorized & Revived with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 28: The Story of the Edsel, Ford’s Infamously Failed Car Brand of the 1950s (0)
- 27: Watch Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli Play Masterfully Together in Vivid Color (1938) (1)
- 27: New Research Confirms That the Vikings Landed in North America 471 Years Before Columbus & Exactly 1,000 Years Ago (2)
- 26: Become a Project Manager Without a College Degree with Google’s Project Management Certificate (0)
- 26: Yale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies 10 Tactics of Fascism: The “Cult of the Leader,” Law & Order, Victimhood and More (3)
- 26: Three Hours of Yo Yo Ma Playing Bach’s Six Cello Suites: Music That “Helps Us Navigate Through Troubled Times” (1)
- 25: Bill Gates Lets College Students Download a Free Digital Copy of His Book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (1)
- 25: Why–and When–Did the United States Turn Against Science?: Views from Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Margaret Atwood & More (10)
- 25: Elvis’ Three Appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show: Watch History in the Making and from the Waist Up (1956) (0)
- 25: How Randy Bachman Found His Stolen Favorite Guitar After 45 Years, with the Help of Facial-Recognition Software (2)
- 23: Dave Grohl Rocks Out, Playing Drums Along to the Original Recording of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (0)
- 22: How Radiohead Wrote the Perfect James Bond Theme Song (2)
- 22: “The Hippie Temptation”: An Angst-Ridden CBS TV Show Warns of the Risks of LSD (1976) (0)
- 21: How Neal Stephenson’s Sci-Fi Novel Snow Crash Invented the “Metaverse,” Which Facebook Now Plans to Build (1992) (1)
- 21: Demystifying Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand,” and How It Was Inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost (1)
- 21: The Does and Don’ts of Putting on a Prison Concert: Johnny Cash, BB King, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Tyler & The Cramps (1)
- 20: Mozart Sonatas Can Help Treat Epilepsy: A New Study from Dartmouth (0)
- 20: When Salvador Dali Viewed Joseph Cornell’s Surrealist Film, Became Enraged & Shouted: “He Stole It from My Subconscious!” (1936) (0)
- 20: The Beautifully Illustrated Atlas of Mushrooms: Edible, Suspect and Poisonous (1827) (0)
- 19: A 13th-Century Cookbook Featuring 475 Recipes from Moorish Spain Gets Published in a New Translated Edition (1)
- 19: A Beautifully Illustrated Edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, the Bestselling Book by Historian Timothy Snyder (4)
- 19: Criterion Collection Flash Sale: Get 50% Off In-Stock Blu Rays & DVDs (0)
- 19: Nick Cave’s Online Store: Pencils Adorned with Lyrics, Mugs, Polaroids & More (0)
- 18: The Downfall of Oscar Wilde: An Animated Video Tells How Wilde Quickly Went from Celebrity Playwright to Prisoner (0)
- 18: A 110-Year-Old Book Illustrated with Photos of Kittens & Cats Taught Kids How to Read (2)
- 18: John Lennon Finally Meets & Jams with His Hero, Chuck Berry (1972) (3)
- 15: A Sneak Peek of Peter Jackson’s New Beatles Documentary Get Back: Watch the New Trailer (1)
- 15: The Little-Known Bombing of Pompeii During World War II (0)
- 14: William Shatner in Tears After Becoming the Oldest Person in Space: ‘I’m So Filled with Emotion … I Hope I Never Recover from This” (1)
- 14: 136 Paintings by Gustav Klimt Now Online (Including 63 Paintings in an Immersive Augmented Reality Gallery) (1)
- 14: Archaeologists Discover 1300-Year-Old Pair of Skis, the Best-Preserved Ancient Skis in Existence (0)
- 14: Slot Machine Age: A 1964 British Newsreel Angsts Over Whether Automated Machines Will Displace People (1)
- 14: What Makes a “Cult” Band? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #107 (0)
- 13: Behold the Photographs of John Thomson, the First Western Photographer to Travel Widely Through China (1870s) (2)
- 13: Watch Free Cult Films by Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi & More on the New Kino Cult Streaming Service (0)
- 13: Dave Grohl Falls Offstage & Breaks His Leg, Then Continues the Show as The Foo Fighters Play Queen’s “Under Pressure” (2015) (13)
- 12: Meet Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japan’s First Female Photojournalist and Now, at 107, Japan’s Oldest Living Photojournalist (0)
- 12: The Myth of Sisyphus Creatively Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974) (0)
- 12: Watch Jaco Pastorius: The Lost Tapes Documentary, the Fan-Made Film on the Most Innovative Bass Player of All Time (0)
- 11: Gustav Klimt’s Masterpieces Destroyed During World War II Get Recreated with Artificial Intelligence (3)
- 11: When J.R.R. Tolkien Worked for the Oxford English Dictionary and “Learned More … Than Any Other Equal Period of My Life” (1919-1920) (5)
- 11: Witness Maya Angelou & James Baldwin’s Close Friendship in a TV Interview from 1975 (0)
- 10: Ohio State Marching Band Plays Tribute to Rush: “2112,” “YYZ,” “Tom Sawyer” & “Limelight” (0)
- 08: Watch “The Impossible Map,” a Short Animated Film That Uses a Grapefruit to Show Why Maps of the Earth Are Misleading (1947) (2)
- 08: Quentin Tarantino Gives a Tour of Video Archives, the Store Where He Worked Before Becoming a Filmmaker (0)
- 08: A Walking Tour Around the Pyramids of Giza: 2 Hours in Hi Def (0)
- 07: An Animated History of the Ottoman Empire (1299 – 1922) (2)
- 07: A Brilliant Demonstration of Magnets & the Promise of Levitating Trains (1975) (0)
- 07: How to Make Comics: A Four-Part Series from the Museum of Modern Art (1)
- 06: A Guitarist Rocks Out on Guitars Made from Shovels, Cigar Boxes, Oil Cans & Whisky Barrels (0)
- 06: Gustav Klimt’s Iconic Painting The Kiss: An Introduction to Austrian Painter’s Golden, Erotic Masterpiece (1908) (1)
- 06: Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist: To “Create Dangerously” (1957) (0)
- 05: The Beach Boys’ Lost Concert: Watch the Band Perform Their Classics at Their Zenith (1964) (0)
- 05: Medieval Tennis: A Short History and Demonstration (0)
- 05: Footage of the Last Known Tasmanian Tiger Restored in Color (1933) (0)
- 05: Facebook Whistleblower Offers an Unprecedented Look at How the Company “Chooses Profits Over Safety” (0)
- 04: The Medieval Ban Against the “Devil’s Tritone”: Debunking a Great Myth in Music Theory (1)
- 04: Monet’s Water Lilies: How World War I Inspired Monet to Paint His Final Masterpieces & Create “the World’s First Art Installation” (2)
- 04: DEVO Co-Founder Jerry Casale Muses on Songwriting & Social Protest: Stream the Nakedly Examined Music Interview Online (1)
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- 01: Encore! Encore! An Hour of the World’s Most Beautiful Classical Guitar (3)
- 01: Japanese Guided Tours of the Louvre, Versailles, the Marais & Other Famous French Places (English Subtitles Included) (0)
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- 30: David Bowie’s Lost Album Toy Will Get an Official Release: Hear the First Track “You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving” (0)
- 30: See Every Nuclear Explosion in History: 2153 Blasts from 1945-2015 (0)
- 30: Jim Henson’s Farewell: Revisit the “Nice, Friendly” Memorial Service at St. John the Divine (1990) (0)
- 29: Nirvana Refuses to Mime Along to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on Top of the Pops (1991) (1)
- 29: America’s First Banned Book: Discover the 1637 Book That Mocked the Puritans (0)
- 29: Why Scientists Can’t Recreate the Sound of Stradivarius Violins: The Mystery of Their Inimitable Sound (9)
- 29: Stand-Up Comedy in the Internet Age — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #106 (0)
- 28: How New Yorkers Dodged Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws by Inventing the World’s Worst Sandwich (1)
- 28: Listen to Freddie Mercury & David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,’ 1981 (0)
- 28: Quentin Tarantino Reviews Movies: From Dunkirk and King of New York, to Soul Brothers of Kung Fu & More (0)
- 27: Building Without Nails: The Genius of Japanese Carpentry (1)
- 27: Beethoven’s Unfinished Tenth Symphony Gets Completed by Artificial Intelligence: Hear How It Sounds (2)
- 27: Andy Warhol’s Vibrant, Impractical, Illustrated Cookbook from 1959: A Feast for the Eyes (0)
- 26: Watch a Gripping 10-Minute Animation About the Hunt for Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann (1)
- 26: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Share One Free” Deal Giving You Access to 100+ Courses (Available Until September 29) (0)
- 24: A Gigantic Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal with a String Quartet on Top (0)
- 24: View 103 Discovered Drawings by Famed Japanese Woodcut Artist Katsushika Hokusai (0)
- 23: A Rare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Found & Translated (0)
- 23: Behold the Newly-Discovered Sketch by Vincent van Gogh Sketch, “Study for Worn Out” (1882) (1)
- 23: Hear the Brazilian Metal Band Singing in–and Trying to Save–Their Native Language of Tupi-Guarani (0)
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- 07: The First Air Raid Happened When Austria Dropped Bombs on Venice from Pilotless Hot-Air Balloons (1849) (0)
- 07: Watch Prince Appear on the Muppets Tonight Show & Reveal His Humble, Down-to-Earth Side (1997) (0)
- 07: RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo: The Actor Who Went from the French New Wave to Action Superstardom (0)
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- 06: Hear Charlie Watts Inimitable Isolated Drum Tracks on “Gimme Shelter,” “Beast of Burden,” and “Honky Tonk” (0)
- 06: 100 Days of Dante: Join the Largest Divine Comedy Reading Group in the World (Starts September 8) (2)
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- 03: ABBA Set to Release Their First Album in 40 Years: Hear Two New Tracks, and Get a Glimpse of Their Digital Live Show (1)
- 03: How Mushroom Time-Lapses Are Filmed: A Glimpse Into the Pioneering Time-Lapse Cinematography Behind the Netflix Documentary Fantastic Fungi (0)
- 02: The Brilliant 19th-Century Astronomical Drawings of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (0)
- 02: The Velvet Underground: Get a First Glimpse of Todd Haynes’ Upcoming Documentary on the Most Influential Avant-Garde Rockers (0)
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- 01: A 94-Year-Old English Teacher and Her Former Students Reunite in Their Old Classroom & Debate the Merits of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize (0)
- 01: Chinese Youth Announce That They’re “Lying Flat” and Resisting the Pressures of Modern Life (3)
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- 31: Build Wooden Models of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Great Building: The Guggenheim, Unity Temple, Johnson Wax Headquarters & More (0)
- 31: Watch Lost Studio Footage of Brian Wilson Conducting “Good Vibrations,” The Beach Boys’ Brilliant “Pocket Symphony” (0)
- 30: The Black Film Archive: A New Site Highlights 200+ Noteworthy Black Films Made Between 1915-1979 (0)
- 30: Two Haruki Murakami Stories Adapted into Short Films: Watch Attack on a Bakery (1982) and A Girl, She Is 100% (1983) (0)
- 30: An 18-Year-Old Spends a Year Alone Building a Log Cabin in the Swedish Wilderness: Watch from Start to Finish (7)
- 27: Vintage Public Health Posters That Helped People Take Smart Precautions During Past Crises (0)
- 27: MoMA’s Online Courses Let You Study Modern & Contemporary Art and Earn a Certificate (2)
- 27: 17th Century Scientist Gives First Description of Alien Life: Hear Passages from Christiaan Huygens’ Cosmotheoros (1698) (0)
- 26: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads “the Best Cover Letter Ever Written” (1)
- 26: Medieval Scribes Discouraged Theft of Manuscripts by Adding Curses Threatening Death & Damnation to Their Pages (0)
- 26: The Life & Music of the Godmother of Rock and Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (0)
- 25: Saying Goodbye to Charlie Watts (RIP), the Engine of the Rolling Stones for Half a Century (2)
- 25: How the COVID-19 Vaccines Could Be Created So Quickly: Two Animated Videos Explain the How mRNA Vaccines Were Developed, and How They Work (1)
- 25: A Harp Played with a Heavy Distortion Pedal (0)
- 24: Dying in the Name of Vaccine Freedom (8)
- 24: The Wicked Scene in Amadeus When Mozart Mocked the Talents of His Rival Antonio Salieri: How Much Does the Film Square with Reality? (6)
- 24: Watch Anthony Bourdain’s First Food-and-Travel Series A Cook’s Tour Free Online (2002-03) (1)
- 24: How Caffeine Fueled the Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution & the Modern World: An Introduction by Michael Pollan (1)
- 24: Philosophy vs. Improv: A New Podcast from The Partially Examined Life and Chicago Improv Studio (0)
- 23: 360 Degree Virtual Tours of the Hagia Sophia (2)
- 23: Become a Project Manager Without a College Degree with Google’s Project Management Certificate (7)
- 23: The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life (3)
- 23: An Interactive Map of 530 Female Composers from Across the Globe (2)
- 20: Alan Alda: 3 Ways to Express Your Thoughts So That Everyone Will Understand You (2)
- 20: Hear Philip K. Dick’s Famous Metz Speech: “If You Find this World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others” (1977) (0)
- 20: Mattel’s Barbie Turns Women of Medicine, Including COVID Vaccine Developer, Into Dolls (2)
- 19: Songs That Use “Word Painting”: The Art of Creating Music That Sounds Like the Lyrics (0)
- 19: How Doctor Who First Started as a Family Educational TV Program (1963) (3)
- 19: Make Body Language Your Superpower: A 15-Minute Primer on Body Language & Public Speaking from Stanford Business School (0)
- 18: Watch The Weight of the Nation Free Online: An Emmy-Nominated HBO Documentary Films Series on Obesity (0)
- 18: Brian Eno Day: Hear 10 Hours of Radio Programming Featuring Brian Eno Talking About His Life & Career (1988) (0)
- 18: The Beatles’ 8 Pioneering Innovations: A Video Essay Exploring How the Fab Four Changed Pop Music (2)
- 18: Banksy’s Great British Spraycation: The Artist Spray Paints England’s Favorite Summer-Holiday Destinations (0)
- 17: Hear 45 Minutes of Funky Old Soundtracks from 1960s-70s Japanese Films & TV Shows (0)
- 17: Introduction to Ancient Greek History: A Free Online Course by Yale Historian Donald Kagan (RIP) (0)
- 17: Inside MK-Ultra, the CIA’s Secret Program That Used LSD to Achieve Mind Control (1953-1973) (0)
- 17: Listen to Plato Invent the Myth of Atlantis (360 B.C) (12)
- 16: Pompeii Rebuilt: A Tour of the Ancient City Before It Was Entombed by Mount Vesuvius (0)
- 16: Take a Trip to the LSD Museum, the Largest Collection of “Blotter Art” in the World (3)
- 16: The Sound of Subways Around the World: A Global Collection of Subway Door Closing Announcements, Beeps & Chimes (1)
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- 11: Kurt Vonnegut’s Recipes in Deadeye Dick: Polka-Dot Brownies, Linzer Torte & Haitian Banana Soup (0)
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- 30: 757 Episodes of the Classic TV Game Show What’s My Line?: Watch Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis Armstrong, Salvador Dali & More (1)
- 30: Don Felder Plays “Hotel California” at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a Double-Neck Guitar (3)
- 30: Watch the Live TV Adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Most Controversial TV Drama of Its Time (1954) (0)
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- 22: When David Bowie Played Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s Film, Basquiat (1)
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- 20: When Rage Against the Machine Interviewed Noam Chomsky (1999) (1)
- 19: Neil Young Plays “Hey, Hey, My, My” with Devo: Watch a Classic Scene from the Improvised Movie Human Highway (1980) (2)
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- 19: An Introduction to Japanese Kabuki Theatre, Featuring 20th-Century Masters of the Form (1964) (1)
- 16: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: A Deluxe New Art Book Presents Hokusai’s Masterpiece, Including “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” (1)
- 16: A Dancer Pays a Gravity-Defying Tribute to Claude Debussy (1)
- 16: How American Bandstand Changed American Culture: Revisit Scenes from the Iconic Music Show (0)
- 15: Hear Isabella Rossellini Sing “Blue Velvet” in Its Entirety (0)
- 15: Discover Japan’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook Ryori Monogatari (1643) (0)
- 15: B.F. Skinner Demonstrates His “Teaching Machine,” the 1950s Automated Learning Device (1)
- 15: Do We Outgrow the Music of Our Youth? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #99 (2)
- 14: Carl Sagan Tells Johnny Carson What’s Wrong with Star Wars: “They’re All White” & There’s a “Large Amount of Human Chauvinism in It” (1978) (13)
- 14: Andy Warhol’s Art Explained: What Makes His Iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans & Marilyn Monroe Diptych Art? (0)
- 14: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Super Creepy Version of “Creep” (0)
- 13: What the Eagles’ “Hotel California” Really Means (4)
- 13: An Introduction to Nicolas Bourbaki, One of the Most Influential Mathematicians of All Time … Who Never Actually Lived (0)
- 13: Watch Blondie Perform a Classic Concert During The Breakout Year: “Dreamin,” “One Way Or Another,” “Heart of Glass” & More (1979) (0)
- 12: A Billion Years of Tectonic-Plate Movement in 40 Seconds: A Quick Glimpse of How Our World Took Shape (1)
- 12: Hear Louis Armstrong’s Last Reel-to-Reel Tape, Made Hours Before His Death (1971) (3)
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- 09: Hunter Thompson Explains What Gonzo Journalism Is, and How He Writes It (1975) (1)
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- 09: Eastern Philosophy Explained: From the Buddha to Confucius and Haiku to the Tea Ceremony (1)
- 08: Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Finest Adaptation of Dante’s Classic (0)
- 08: Watch Footage of the Allies Rolling Through a Defeated German Town in April, 1945: Restored & Colorized with AI (3)
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- 07: How Caravaggio Painted: A Re-Creation of the Great Master’s Process (0)
- 07: Hear Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Played on Original Baroque Instruments (0)
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- 06: Hiroshige, Master of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Creates a Guide to Making Shadow Puppets for Children (1842) (0)
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- 23: Hear Demos & Outtakes of Joni Mitchell’s Blue on the 50th Anniversary of the Classic Album (0)
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- 17: Brian Eno Launches His Own Radio Station with Hundreds of Unreleased Tracks: Hear Two Programs (6)
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- 16: Watch Franz Liszt’s “Un Sospiro” Played with the Mesmerizing “Three-Hand Technique” (2)
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- 14: Watch a Never-Aired TV Profile of James Baldwin (1979) (0)
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- 17: Watch Accurate Recreations of Medieval Italian Longsword Fighting Techniques, All Based on a Manuscript from 1404 (0)
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- 01: When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910) (1)
- February 2021 (76)
- 26: Radiohead Ballets: Watch Ballets Choreographed Creatively to the Music of Radiohead (4)
- 26: Watch The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys, a Free Film Documenting the Making of the 1980s Super Group (8)
- 26: Download 280 Pictographs That Put Japanese Culture Into a New Visual Language: They’re Free for the Public to Use (0)
- 25: Flim: a New AI-Powered Movie-Screenshot Search Engine (1)
- 25: Journey’s Road Crew Performs a Pretty Flawless Version of “Separate Ways” (6)
- 25: René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Posters (1924-1927) (0)
- 24: RIP Radical Poet and Revolutionary Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) (1)
- 24: The Complete Works of Hilma af Klint Get Published for the First Time in a Beautiful, Seven-Volume Collection (0)
- 24: Watch Badiou, the First Feature-Length Film on France’s Most Famous Living Philosopher (2)
- 24: Watch Orson Welles’ Intoxicating Wine Commercials That Became an 80s Cultural Phenomenon (2)
- 24: Increasing Disabled/Other-Abled Representation in Media — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #83 (0)
- 23: The Roman Roads of Gaul Visualized as a Modern Subway Map (0)
- 23: The 69 Pages of Writing Advice Denis Johnson Collected from Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Werner Herzog & Many Others (0)
- 23: Anthony Bourdain Talks About the Big Break That Changed His Life–at Age 44 (0)
- 23: The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leondardo da Vinci (1504) (0)
- 23: Bruce Springsteen & Barack Obama Release a New Podcast, “Renegades: Born in the USA” (2)
- 22: The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion (2)
- 22: Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly Gives 36 Lectures on Our Future World: Education, Movies, Robots, Autonomous Cars & More (0)
- 22: How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day–the Hard Way, One Page at a Time (0)
- 22: De-Stress with 30 Minutes of Relaxing Visuals from Director Hayao Miyazaki (1)
- 19: Witness the Birth of Kermit the Frog in Jim Henson’s Live TV Show, Sam and Friends (1955) (1)
- 19: Paul Simon Deconstructs “Mrs. Robinson” (1970) (1)
- 18: 4,000 Priceless Scrolls, Texts & Papers From the University of Tokyo Have Been Digitized & Put Online (0)
- 18: The Surface of Mars Shown in Stunning 4K Resolution (7)
- 18: Watch Chick Corea (RIP) Perform Intimate Acoustic Performances with Bobby McFerrin, Gary Burton, Hiromi Uehara & Others (0)
- 18: The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses (1)
- 18: Why Does The Karate Kid Persist as the New Cobra Kai? A Critical Consideration by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#82) (0)
- 17: Peter Gabriel Re-Records “Biko,” His Anti-Apartheid Protest Song, with Musicians Around the World (0)
- 17: The Birth of Hip Hop: How DJ Kool Herc Used Turntables to Change the Musical World (1973) (0)
- 17: Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme (1)
- 16: Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970) (9)
- 16: Alfred Hitchcock Meets Jorge Luis Borges Borges in Cold War America: Watch Double Take (2009) Free Online (0)
- 16: Archaeologists Find the Earliest Work of “Abstract Art,” Dating Back 73,000 Years (1)
- 16: Travel from Rotterdam to Amsterdam in 10 Minutes by Boat: A 4k Timelapse (0)
- 15: The Color That May Have Killed Napoleon: Scheele’s Green (0)
- 15: Akira Kurosawa Appears in a Rare Television & Tells Dick Cavett about His Love of Old Tokyo & His Samurai Lineage (1981) (1)
- 15: Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time in 18,000 Years (0)
- 14: Watch the Food for Love Benefit Concert: David Byrne, The Chicks & Many More Raise Money for New Mexico Food Banks (0)
- 12: Take a Road Trip Across America with Cartoonist Lynda Barry in the 90s Documentary, Grandma’s Way Out Party (2)
- 12: Watch “The Stroke,” a Hand-Animated Music Video Where the Visuals Came First & the Improvised Music Second (1)
- 12: Why Public Transit Sucks in the United States: Four Videos Tell the Story (5)
- 11: Watch Prince Perform “Purple Rain” in the Rain in His Transcendent Super Bowl Half-Time Show (2007) (3)
- 11: A Tour of U.S. Accents: Bostonian, Philadelphese, Gullah Creole & Other Intriguing Dialects (0)
- 11: Behold All 42 Maps from Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages, the Author’s 54-Volume Collection of “Geographical Fictions” (0)
- 11: Radio vs. Podcasting: A Discussion with Jason Bentley (KCRW, The Backstory) on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #81 (0)
- 10: Monkey Sees A Magic Trick (2)
- 10: How the Food We Eat Affects Our Brain: Learn About the “MIND Diet” (1)
- 10: Hear an Ancient Chinese Historian Describe The Roman Empire (and Other Voices of the Past) (3)
- 10: The “Academic Tarot”: 22 Major Arcana Cards Representing Life in the Academic Humanities Under COVID-19 (0)
- 10: The Animations That Changed Cinema: The Groundbreaking Legacies of Prince Achmed, Akira, The Iron Giant & More (1)
- 09: How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop” (4)
- 09: Alan Watts Reads “One of the Greatest Things Carl Jung Ever Wrote” (3)
- 09: A New Database Will Document Every Slave House in the U.S.: Discover the “Saving Slave Houses Project” (1)
- 09: How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons (9)
- 08: The Magic of the Beach Boys’ Harmonies: Hear Isolated Vocals from “Sloop John B.,” “God Only Knows,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” & Other Pet Sounds Classics (6)
- 08: A New Yorker Cartoonist Explains How to Draw Literary Cartoons (1)
- 08: The Breathtaking Courage of Harriet Tubman: An Animated History Lesson Speaks to Her Place on the $20 Bill (0)
- 08: Watch a Korean Master Craftsman Make a Kimchi Pot by Hand, All According to Ancient Tradition (0)
- 07: Little Kid Merrily Grooves to ZZ Top While Waiting for the Bus (1)
- 05: David Gilmour, David Crosby & Graham Nash Perform the Pink Floyd Classic, “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (2006) (2)
- 05: The History of American Newspapers Has Been Digitized: Explore 114 Years of Editor & Publisher, “the Bible of the Newspaper Industry” (0)
- 05: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki Celebrated in a Glorious Concert Arranged by Film Composer Joe Hisaishi (1)
- 04: All 80 Issues of the Influential Zine Punk Planet Are Now Online & Ready for Download at the Internet Archive (0)
- 04: How Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” Created the “Blueprint for All Electronic Dance Music Today” (1977) (6)
- 04: Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds: Timeless Advice in a Short Film (1)
- 03: The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson & Beatles Producer George Martin Break Down “God Only Knows,” the “Greatest Song Ever Written” (9)
- 03: How Vaccines Improved Our World In One Graphic (1)
- 03: The Bauhaus Chess Set Where the Form of the Pieces Artfully Show Their Function (1922) (7)
- 02: Do We Need Yet More Films About Time Loops? A Pretty Much Pop Discussion (#80) of Groundhog Day and its Descendents (1)
- 02: Tony Bennett Duets with Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse & Other Musicians, Passing on the Great American Songbook (0)
- 02: Watch 36 Short Animations That Tell the Origin Stories of Mexico’s Indigenous Peoples in Their Own Languages (0)
- 02: Japanese Violinist Covers Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”: Metal Meets Classical Again (0)
- 02: Listen to the Never-Heard Song Written for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (2)
- 01: Werner Herzog Discovers the Ecstasy of Skateboarding: “That’s Kind of My People” (0)
- 01: The Internet Archive Now Digitizing 1,000,000+ Objects from a Massive Cinema History Library (0)
- 01: When the Frequency for Tuning Instruments Became a Grand Conspiracy Theory (3)
- January 2021 (76)
- 29: Taschen Running a Sale on Art Books: Dali, Basquiat, Klimt, Kubrick, Warhol & More (1)
- 29: YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists (3)
- 29: The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796) (4)
- 29: The Great Gatsby Is Now in the Public Domain and There’s a New Graphic Novel (1)
- 28: PBS American Masters Archive Releases 1,000+ Hours of Uncut, Never-Before-Seen Interviews: Patti Smith, David Bowie, Neil Young & More (0)
- 28: The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee: The Journey from Coffee Bean, to Coffee Cup (0)
- 28: Watch the Pilot of Breaking Bad with a Chemistry Professor: How Sound Was the Science? (0)
- 28: The Formula for The Coen Brothers/Noah Hawley’s Fargo – Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #79 (0)
- 27: Watch John Cage Play His “Silent” 4’33” in Harvard Square, Presented by Nam June Paik (1973) (0)
- 27: Watch Amanda Gorman Read “The Hill We Climb,” “Making Mountains As We Run,” “Fury and Faith,” and More (3)
- 27: Algerian Cave Paintings Suggest Humans Did Magic Mushrooms 9,000 Years Ago (2)
- 26: How Richard Feynman’s Diagrams Revolutionized Physics (0)
- 26: Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Tells Protestors What to Do–and Not Do–If Arrested by Authoritarian Police (1)
- 26: Rick Steves’ Europe: Binge Watch 11 Seasons of America’s Favorite Traveler Free Online (0)
- 25: A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens (5)
- 25: Resilience Skills in a Time of Uncertainty: A Free Course from the University of Pennsylvania (0)
- 25: Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Pairs Weekly Art History Lectures with Cocktail Recipes (0)
- 25: Jimi Hendrix Revisits His Searing Performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner”: The Dick Cavett Show (September 9, 1969) (1)
- 22: A 10 Billion Pixel Scan of Vermeer’s Masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring: Explore It Online (1)
- 22: How Quentin Tarantino Shoots a Film at 3 Different Budget Levels: Reservoir Dogs ($1 Million), Pulp Fiction ($8 Million), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ($95 Million) (0)
- 22: When the Grateful Dead Performed on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy After Dark & Secretly Dosed Everyone With LSD (1969) (1)
- 21: “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More (3)
- 21: How to Make a Savile Row Suit: A Short Documentary from the Museum of Modern Art (0)
- 21: Innovative Pinscreen Animations of Kafka’s “Before the Law”, Gogol’s “The Nose” & Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” (1932-1972) (0)
- 21: The Renewed Popularity of Chess and The Queen’s Gambit: Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion #78 with Chess Expert J.J. Lang (0)
- 20: Prince’s First Television Interview (1985) (0)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (4)
- 07: Thelonious Monk’s List of 25 Tips for Musicians (4)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (26)
- 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 (91)
- 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 (9)
- 31: The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes (4)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (4)
- 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) (1)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (8)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (3)
- 17: 160,000+ Medieval Manuscripts Online: Where to Find Them (0)
- 17: Discover the Ambient Music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, the Pioneering Japanese Composer (4)
- 17: Salman Rushdie and Jeff Koons 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 (14)
- 15: How the Garage-Rock Anthem “Louie Louie” Became the Subject of a Lengthy FBI Investigation (1964) (2)
- 14: MIT’s Introduction to Deep Learning: A Free Online Course (2)
- 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)
- 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 (4)
- 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” (3)
- 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 (0)
- 04: Why Humans Are Obsessed with Cats (4)
- 04: Watch “Jackson Pollock 51,” a Historic Short Film That Captures Pollock Creating Abstract Expressionist Art on a Sheet of Glass (0)
- 04: One of the Greatest Dances Sequences Ever Captured on Film Gets Restored in Color by AI: Watch the Classic Scene from Stormy Weather (5)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (88)
- 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 (0)
- 13: The Five Minute Museum: A Stop Motion Animation Shows the History of Civilization at Breakneck Speed (2)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (11)
- 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 & 2015 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 (4)
- 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 (82)
- 31: Sean Connery (RIP) Reads C.P. Cavafy’s Epic Poem “Ithaca,” Set to the Music of Vangelis (9)
- 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) (11)
- 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) (4)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (7)
- 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) (13)
- 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 (14)
- 21: How the Doors Got Banned from The Ed Sullivan Show (1967) (0)
- 21: Watch Cornel West’s Free Online 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 (1)
- 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 (2)
- 14: Explore the Roman Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, the Oldest Known Cookbook in Existence (1)
- 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 (8)
- 12: How Science Fiction Formed Jimi Hendrix (9)
- 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) (1)
- 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” (3)
- 07: What Caused the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe?: A Brief Investigation into the Poet’s Demise 171 Years Ago Today (1)
- 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) (6)
- 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: 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) (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (15)
- 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” (3)
- 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 (8)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (1)
- 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) (0)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (3)
- 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” (65)
- 05: The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Hard Lessons of the 20th Century (12)
- 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 (12)
- 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) (2)
- 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 (2)
- 21: The Face of Bill Murray Adds Some Joy to Classic Paintings (0)
- 21: The British Museum is Full of Looted Artifacts (14)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (3)
- 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) (4)
- 14: When Salvador Dalí Met Alice Cooper & Turned Him into a Hologram: The Meeting of Two Kings of Camp (1973) (1)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (0)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (3)
- July 2020 (85)
- 31: Why “The Girl from Ipanema”‘ Is a Richer & Weirder Song Than You Ever Realized (27)
- 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 (7)
- 26: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Watch the Lectures Online (12)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (14)
- 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 (8)
- 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 (2)
- 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? (5)
- 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) (1)
- 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 (3)
- June 2020 (84)
- 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 (3)
- 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) (5)
- 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 (11)
- 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)
- 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 Online Courses on African-American History from Yale and Stanford: From Emancipation, to the Civil Rights Movement, and Beyond (73)
- 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) (3)
- 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 (6)
- 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?” (27)
- 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)
- 05: Watch Ava DuVernay’s 13th Free Online: An Award-Winning Documentary Revealing the Inequalities in the US Criminal Justice System (2)
- 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 (6)
- 04: How Jazz Helped Fuel the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (6)
- 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” (5)
- 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 (3)
- 01: What Makes a Cover Song Great?: Our Favorites & Yours (7)
- 01: Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy (1)
- 01: How the Visionary Artist Christo (RIP) Changed the Way We See the World (0)
- 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) (22)
- 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 (6)
- 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) (8)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (2)
- 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” (2)
- 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 (6)
- 05: Quarantined Family Re-Creates Journey’s “Separate Ways” Video Shot-by-Shot (4)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (20)
- 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 (5)
- 30: Bertrand Russell Remembers His Face-to-Face Encounter with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (4)
- 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) (2)
- 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 (1)
- 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) (1)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (10)
- 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 (2)
- 03: HBO Is Streaming 500 Hours of Shows for Free: The Sopranos, The Wire, and More (11)
- 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 (10)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (40)
- 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 (72)
- 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 (3)
- 12: The Meaning of Life According to Simone de Beauvoir (0)
- 12: The History of the Plague: Every Major Epidemic in an Animated Map (4)
- 12: How Schools Can Start Teaching Online in a Short Period of Time: Free Tutorials from the Stanford Online High School (4)
- 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 (8)
- 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) (4)
- 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) (6)
- 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 (2)
- 05: How African-American Explorer Matthew Henson Became the First Person to Reach the North Pole, Then Was Forgotten for Almost 30 Years (3)
- 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) (5)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (9)
- 17: The New York Public Library Creates a List of 125 Books That They Love (11)
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- 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 (6)
- 10: Chick Corea (RIP) Offers 16 Pieces of “Cheap But Good Advice for Playing Music in a Group” (1985) (1)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (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 (0)
- 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 (2)
- 04: 36,000 Flash Games Have Been Archived and Saved Before Flash Goes Extinct: Play Them Offline (2)
- 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)
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- 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 (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (2)
- 17: Cooking with Wool: Watch Mouthwatering Tiny Woolen Food Animations (0)
- 16: The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People, Presented in an Interactive Infographic (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (40)
- 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 (9)
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- 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 (3)
- 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 (9)
- 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) (4)
- 25: Revisiting Band Aid’s Cringe-Inducing 1984 Single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (25)
- 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) (4)
- 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) (3)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (4)
- 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” (2)
- 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 (16)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (13)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (1)
- 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)
- 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) (2)
- 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 (10)
- 14: Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Best Adaptation of Dante’s Classic (0)
- 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” (11)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (7)
- 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)
- 01: How to Find Silence in a Noisy World (2)
- 01: The Entire History of the British Isles Animated: 42,000 BCE to Today (2)
- 01: Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Novel Adaptation (0)
- October 2019 (80)
- 31: What Happens to the Clothes We Throw Away?: Watch Unravel, a Short Documentary on the Journey Our Waste Takes (1)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (13)
- 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 Foreword 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 (2)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (2)
- 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) (1)
- 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 (2)
- 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: 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 (1)
- 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 (74)
- 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 (20)
- 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 (4)
- 24: “Thou Shalt Not”: A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Movie Censorship Code (1)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (3)
- 20: Watch 16 Hours of Historic Live Aid Performances: Queen, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young & Much More (0)
- 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” (8)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (1)
- 06: Orson Welles Trashes Famous Directors: Alfred Hitchcock (“Egotism and Laziness”), Woody Allen (“His Arrogance Is Unlimited”) & More (15)
- 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” (4)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (3)
- 03: The Greatest Cut in Film History: Watch the “Match Cut” Immortalized by Lawrence of Arabia (2)
- 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 (2)
- August 2019 (84)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (16)
- 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 (15)
- 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 (2)
- 12: Take a Virtual Tour of Jane Austen’s Library (1)
- 12: Hear Glenn Gould Celebrate the Moog Synthesizer & Wendy Carlos’ Pioneering Album Switched-On Bach (1968) (4)
- 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 (58)
- 08: How Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Computer Code That Helped Save the Apollo Moon Landing Mission (0)
- 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)
- 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? (0)
- 01: The Authentic Pachelbel’s Canon: Watch a Performance Based on the Original Manuscript & Played with Original 17th-Century Instruments (11)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (0)
- 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 (1)
- 17: The Romanovs’ Last Spectacular Ball Brought to Life in Color Photographs (1903) (23)
- 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 (10)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (13)
- 12: Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860) (4)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (3)
- 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” (6)
- 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 (4)
- 05: The End of an Era: MAD Magazine Will Publish Its Last Issue With Original Content This Fall (12)
- 05: The Walkman Turns 40: See Every Generation of Sony’s 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 (3)
- 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 (13)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (2)
- 18: The Ruins of Chernobyl Captured in Three Haunting, Drone-Shot Videos (1)
- 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 (0)
- 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 (4)
- 11: Oliver Sacks Promotes the Healing Power of Gardens: They’re “More Powerful Than Any Medication” (2)
- 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) (5)
- 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)
- May 2019 (86)
- 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 (0)
- 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) (2)
- 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 (9)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (3)
- 20: Keith Moon Plays Drums Onstage with Led Zeppelin in What Would Be His Last Live Performance (1977) (5)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (44)
- 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 (0)
- 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 (13)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (5)
- 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)
- 02: The Last Duel Took Place in France in 1967, and It’s Caught on Film (11)
- 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)
- April 2019 (90)
- 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 (8)
- 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” (4)
- 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 (3)
- 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) (1)
- 25: The Ten Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers (54)
- 24: An Animated Introduction to H.P. Lovecraft and How He Invented a New Gothic Horror (2)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (13)
- 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 (14)
- 05: Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape in the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back (9)
- 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: 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) (1)
- 02: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Beauty of Brutalist Architecture: An Introduction in Six Videos (9)
- 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)
- March 2019 (77)
- 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 (12)
- 29: Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts: Why So Many Drawings in the Margins Depict Bunnies Going Bad (20)
- 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 (7)
- 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 Online Course from Stanford Explores the Imperiled Freedom of the Press (6)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (6)
- 21: Why We Dance: An Animated Video Explains the Science Behind Why We Bust a Move (2)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (3)
- 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) (7)
- 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! (30)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (10)
- 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: Take a Free Online Course on the Great Medieval Manuscript, the Book of Kells (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 (2)
- 11: The Amazing Franz Kafka Workout!: Discover the 15-Minute Exercise Routine That Swept the World in 1904 (2)
- 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 (1)
- 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: 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 (24)
- 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 (33)
- 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 (34)
- 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” (48)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (38)
- 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? (2)
- 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) (6)
- 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 (86)
- 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)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (0)
- 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 (4)
- 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) (2)
- 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: 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 (3)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (77)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (2)
- 18: Apple Lets You Download Six Free Audio Books Read by Celebrity Narrators: Start with Kate Beckinsale Reading Pride & Prejudice (8)
- 18: See Classic Japanese Woodblocks Brought Surreally to Life as Animated GIFs (0)
- 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 (5)
- 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 Kanagawa: See Four Versions That Hokusai Painted Over Nearly 40 Years (2)
- 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” (17)
- 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)
- 06: In 1964, Isaac Asimov Predicts What the World Will Look Like Today: Self-Driving Cars, Video Calls, Fake Meats & More (1)
- 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 (80)
- 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 (3)
- 28: “More Barn!” The Story of How Neil Young First Played Harvest for Graham Nash (1972) (5)
- 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 (4)
- 21: Classic Radiohead Songs Re-Imagined as a Sci-Fi Book, Pulp Fiction Magazine & Other Nostalgic Artifacts (1)
- 20: Download 586 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 (0)
- 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 (1)
- 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) (0)
- 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” (3)
- 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)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (20)
- 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) (1)
- 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) (4)
- 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 (11)
- 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 (2)
- 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” (10)
- 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 (22)
- 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 (70)
- 28: Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint (8)
- 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 (7)
- 25: The Brains of Jazz and Classical Musicians Work Differently, New Research Shows (6)
- 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) (2)
- 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 (16)
- 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 (4)
- 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) (1)
- 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: A Drone’s Eye View of the Ruins of Pompeii (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 (5)
- 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” (1)
- 03: MIT Students Solve the Spaghetti Breaking Mystery That Stumped Richard Feynman (3)
- August 2018 (82)
- 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 (7)
- 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 (31)
- 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 (5)
- 23: The Assassin’s Cabinet: A Hollowed Out Book, Containing Secret Cabinets Full of Poison Plants, Made in 1682 (5)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (0)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (4)
- 09: Native Lands: An Interactive Map Reveals the Indigenous Lands on Which Modern Nations Were Built (5)
- 09: Leonard Bernstein: 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) (5)
- 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 (27)
- 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” (5)
- 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 (6)
- 02: Van Gogh’s Art Now Adorns Vans Shoes (3)
- 02: Watch the First “Interactive” TV Show: Winky Dink and You Encouraged Kids to Draw on the Screen (1953) (8)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (77)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (9)
- 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” (1)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (25)
- 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) (5)
- 02: Take a 360° Virtual Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpieces, Taliesin & Taliesin West (2)
- June 2018 (80)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (4)
- 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) (7)
- 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 (6)
- 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 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: Ozzy Osbourne’s Guitarist Zakk Wylde Plays Black Sabbath on a Hello Kitty Guitar (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: 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 (1)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (58)
- 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) (4)
- 25: The Map of Philosophy: See All of the Disciplines, Areas & Subdivisions of Philosophy Mapped in a Comprehensive Video (4)
- 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 (12)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (2)
- 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” (5)
- 17: Why Stradivarius Violins Are Worth Millions (9)
- 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: A Free Online Course from 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) (3)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (6)
- 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 (83)
- 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 (5)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (104)
- 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 (15)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (2)
- 13: Watch Ancient Ruins Get Restored to their Glorious Original State with Animated GIFs: The Temple of Jupiter, Luxor Temple & More (1)
- 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 (2)
- 12: A Dazzling Aerial Photograph of Edinburgh (1920) (1)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (3)
- 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: 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 (90)
- 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) (8)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (7)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (16)
- 12: Watch Ta-Nehisi Coates Speak French Before & After Attending Middlebury’s Immersion Program (2)
- 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: 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 (6)
- 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 (3)
- 05: Mozart’s Diary Where He Composed His Final Masterpieces Is Now Digitized and Available Online (4)
- 05: Google Launches a Free Course on Artificial Intelligence: Sign Up for Its New “Machine Learning Crash Course” (28)
- 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 (85)
- 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 (39)
- 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 (1)
- 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: When Archie Bunker’s Advice on Gun Control Becomes Mainstream GOP Policy (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) (5)
- 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: A Free Course (2017) (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 (5)
- 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 (4)
- 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: The Science of Well-Being: Take a Free Online Version of Yale University’s Most Popular Course (7)
- 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 (24)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (34)
- 07: Theorist Judith Butler Explains How Behavior Creates Gender: A Short Introduction to “Gender Performativity” (5)
- 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” (5)
- 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)
- 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 (97)
- 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 (1)
- 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? (5)
- 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 (59)
- 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) (1)
- 20: 10,000 Classic Movie Posters Getting Digitized & Put Online by the Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin: Free to Browse & Download (2)
- 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) (4)
- 12: Google’s Free App Analyzes Your Selfie and Then Finds Your Doppelganger in Museum Portraits (65)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (9)
- 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 (0)
- 10: Notations: John Cage Publishes a Book of Graphic Musical Scores, Featuring Visualizations of Works by Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, The Beatles & More (1969) (0)
- 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 (6)
- 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: 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 (6)
- 04: The Story of How Beethoven Helped Make It So That CDs Could Play 74 Minutes of Music (1)
- 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 (0)
- 03: What Actually Is Bitcoin?: Princeton’s Free Online 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 (6)
- 02: The Health Benefits of Drumming: Less Stress, Lower Blood Pressure, Pain Relief, and Altered States of Consciousness (6)
- 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 (89)
- 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 (2)
- 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) (11)
- 27: The Improbable Time When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982) (1)
- 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 (7)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (3)
- 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 (1)
- 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: 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 (92)
- 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 (105)
- 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 (4)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (5)
- 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) (6)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (7)
- 14: What Makes a David Lynch Film Lynchian: A Video Essay (3)
- 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” (15)
- 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 (1)
- 10: Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Middle-Aged Men: An Investigative Video (1)
- 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)
- 01: The Art of the Japanese Teapot: Watch a Master Craftsman at Work, from the Beginning Until the Startling End (1)
- 01: Carl Jung Psychoanalyzes Hitler: “He’s the Unconscious of 78 Million Germans.” “Without the German People He’d Be Nothing” (1938) (20)
- 01: Death: A Free Online 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 (95)
- 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 (9)
- 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 (4)
- 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: 200,000+ Vintage Records Being Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library (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 (11)
- 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 (8)
- 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 (2)
- 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 (5)
- 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)
- September 2017 (93)
- 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 (1)
- 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 (4)
- 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 Several Books at Once (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: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Gets Digitized: Explore 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 (0)
- 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) (7)
- 15: Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints (3)
- 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 (7)
- 12: An Animated Introduction to Rene Descartes & His Philosophy of Radical Doubt (1)
- 12: 1,000-Year-Old Illustrated Guide to the Medicinal Use of Plants Now Digitized & Put Online (59)
- 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 (7)
- 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 (29)
- 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” (4)
- 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 (2)
- 06: When Albert Einstein Championed the Creation of a One World Government (1945) (2)
- 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 (3)
- 05: Learn the Untold History of the Chinese Community in the Mississippi Delta (0)
- 04: The 100 Funniest Films of All Time, According to 253 Film Critics from 52 Countries (5)
- 04: A New Animation Explains How Caffeine Keeps Us Awake (0)
- 04: The “Lost” Pink Floyd Soundtrack for Michelangelo Antonioni’s Only American Film, Zabriskie Point (1970) (0)
- 04: A Free Trial Offer for The Great Courses Plus: A Special Deal for Open Culture Readers (1)
- 03: John Ashbery Reads “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” (0)
- 01: Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896-1940) (2)
- 01: Al Franken Provides Comic Relief at the Grateful Dead’s 1980 Halloween Concert: A Tribute to Our Favorite Deadhead Senator (0)
- 01: The Tokyoiter: Artists Pay Tribute to the Japanese Capital with New Yorker-Style Magazine Covers (0)
- 01: A Short Documentary on Artist Jeff Koons, Narrated by Scarlett Johansson (0)
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- 31: Carl Jung: Tarot Cards Provide Doorways to the Unconscious, and Maybe a Way to Predict the Future (24)
- 31: Jared Leto Stars in a New Prequel to Blade Runner 2049: Watch It Free Online (1)
- 31: The Periodic Table of Elements Presented as Interactive Haikus (2)
- 31: Man Ray and the Cinéma Pur: Watch Four Groundbreaking Surrealist Films From the 1920s (0)
- 30: An Animated Introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein & His Philosophical Insights on the Problems of Human Communication (1)
- 30: Margaret Hamilton, Lead Software Engineer of the Apollo Project, Stands Next to Her Code That Took Us to the Moon (1969) (9)
- 30: How to Listen to Music: A Free Course from Yale University (7)
- 30: Alice in Wonderland Gets Re-Envisioned by a Neural Network in the Style of Paintings By Picasso, van Gogh, Kahlo, O’Keeffe & More (0)
- 29: “The Art of David Lynch”— How Rene Magritte, Edward Hopper & Francis Bacon Influenced David Lynch’s Cinematic Vision (0)
- 29: Bob Dylan Hates Me: An Animation (2)
- 29: Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online (5)
- 29: The Dune Coloring & Activity Books: When David Lynch’s 1984 Film Created Countless Hours of Peculiar Fun for Kids (5)
- 29: The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” (12)
- 28: The Roman Roads of Britain Visualized as a Subway Map (0)
- 28: Watch “Adam,” an Award-Winning Short Claymation That Wonderfully Re-Tells the Story of Creation (3)
- 28: A Colorful Map Visualizes the Lexical Distances Between Europe’s Languages: 54 Languages Spoken by 670 Million People (10)
- 28: Gonzo Illustrator Ralph Steadman Draws the American Presidents, from Nixon to Trump (4)
- 25: Read 1,000 Editions of The Village Voice: A Digital Archive of the Iconic New York City Paper (22)
- 25: Neil deGrasse Tyson is Creating a New Space Exploration Video Game with the Help of George R.R. Martin & Neil Gaiman (3)
- 25: Three Charles Bukowski Books Illustrated by Robert Crumb: Underground Comic Art Meets Outsider Literature (2)
- 25: Figures from Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” Come to Life as Fine Art Piñatas (1)
- 24: Neil deGrasse Tyson Demonstrates the Physics-Defying Rattleback (1)
- 24: The Web Site “Centuries of Sound” is Making a Mixtape for Every Year of Recorded Sound from 1860 to Present (1)
- 24: How a Liberal Arts Education Helped Derek Black, the Godson of David Duke, Break with the White Nationalist Movement (2)
- 24: Discover the Paintings, Drawings & Collages of Sylvia Plath: Now on Display at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (0)
- 23: Watch Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Acted Out Literally as a Short Crime Film (1)
- 23: Brooklyn Academy of Music Puts Online 70,000 Objects Documenting the History of the Performing Arts: Download Playbills, Posters & More (0)
- 23: Hear What Music Sounds Like When It’s Created by Synthesizers Made with Artificial Intelligence (1)
- 23: How to Win at Texas Hold ‘Em: A Free MIT Course (0)
- 23: What’s a Scientifically-Proven Way to Improve Your Ability to Learn? Get Out and Exercise (0)
- 22: Reality Is Nothing But a Hallucination: A Mind-Bending Crash Course on the Neuroscience of Consciousness (13)
- 22: Repairing Willie Nelson’s Trigger: A Good Look at How a Luthier Gets America’s Most Iconic Guitar on the Road Again (0)
- 22: On the Power of Teaching Philosophy in Prisons (0)
- 21: Long Before Photoshop, the Soviets Mastered the Art of Erasing People from Photographs — and History Too (10)
- 21: India on Film, 1899-1947: An Archive of 90 Historic Films Now Online (0)
- 21: Artists Put a Hidden Message in Their Letter Resigning from President’s Committee on the Arts & the Humanities (5)
- 21: The Comedic Legacies of Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis (RIP): A Study in Contrasts (4)
- 20: Final Show of Metallica’s North American Tour Now Streaming Free Online (0)
- 19: Artistic Maps of Pakistan & India Show the Embroidery Techniques of Their Different Regions (12)
- 18: Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Because of Pink Floyd, I’ve Spent Decades Undoing the Idea That There’s a Dark Side of the Moon” (19)
- 18: How TV Addles Kids’ Brains: A Short Film Directed by Godfrey Reggio (Maker of Koyaanisqatsi) & Scored by Philip Glass (0)
- 18: Hear the Beach Boys’ Angelic Vocal Harmonies in Four Isolated Tracks from Pet Sounds: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows,” “Sloop John B” & “Good Vibrations” (3)
- 18: Why Jim Carrey Needs to Paint: “Painting Frees Me, from the Past and Future, from Regret and Worry” (1)
- 17: Noam Chomsky Explains the Best Way for Ordinary People to Make Change in the World, Even When It Seems Daunting (5)
- 17: The Last Surviving Witness of the Lincoln Assassination Appears on the TV Game Show “I’ve Got a Secret” (1956) (1)
- 17: Legendary Animator Chuck Jones Creates an Oscar-Winning Animation About the Virtues of Universal Health Care (1949) (7)
- 17: The Color Palettes of Your Favorite Films: The Royal Tenenbaums, Reservoir Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner & More (0)
- 16: Prince Gets an Official Purple Pantone Color (1)
- 16: Ralph Steadman’s Surrealist Illustrations of George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1995) (0)
- 16: Hear 9 Hours of Hans Zimmer Soundtracks: Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight & Much More (0)
- 16: F.D.R. Proposes a Second Bill of Rights: A Decent Job, Education & Health Care Will Keep Us Free from Despotism (1944) (27)
- 15: New BBC Dramatization of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children Now Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 15: The Case for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts & Doing Valuable “Deep Work” Instead, According to Computer Scientist Cal Newport (6)
- 15: Artist Draws 9 Portraits While on LSD: Inside the 1950s Experiments to Turn LSD into a “Creativity Pill” (2)
- 15: Harvard Course on Positive Psychology: Watch 30 Lectures from the University’s Extremely Popular Course (2)
- 15: Download 400,000 Free Classical Musical Scores & 46,000 Free Classical Recordings from the International Music Score Library Project (5)
- 14: How Doors Open onto Philosophical Mysteries in Robert Bresson’s Films: A Short Video Essay by Kogonada (0)
- 14: Stream 35 Hours of Classic Blues, Folk, & Bluegrass Recordings from Smithsonian Folkways: 837 Tracks Featuring Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie & More (0)
- 14: An Animated Look at Vladimir Nabokov’s Passion for Butterfly Collecting: “Literature & Butterflies Are the Two Sweetest Passions Known to Man” (0)
- 14: An Online Guide to 350 International Art Styles & Movements: An Invaluable Resource for Students & Enthusiasts of Art History (0)
- 14: Apple’s Hypercard Software, the Innovative 1980s Precursor to Hypertext, Now Made Available by Archive.org (0)
- 13: Adam Savage Takes Us Inside Jack White’s Third Man Records, the First New Record-Pressing Plant in the US in 30 Years (1)
- 11: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers & Francis Stewart’s Censored Photographs of a WWII Japanese Internment Camp (1)
- 11: 36 Abstract Covers of Vintage Psychology, Philosophy & Science Books Come to Life in a Mesmerizing Animation (0)
- 11: Video Essayist Kogonada Makes His Own Acclaimed Feature Film: Watch His Tributes to Its Inspirations Like Ozu, Linklater & Malick (0)
- 11: Hear Debussy Play Debussy: A Vintage Recording from 1913 (5)
- 10: Ray Bradbury Reveals the True Meaning of Fahrenheit 451: It’s Not About Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by TV” (9)
- 10: A Century of Global Warming Visualized in a 35 Second Video (1)
- 10: Rebecca Solnit Picks 13 Songs That Will Remind Us of Our Power to Change the World, Even in Seemingly Dark Times (1)
- 10: The Secret Rhythm Behind Radiohead’s “Videotape” Now Finally Revealed (1)
- 09: Free: A Crash Course in Design Thinking from Stanford’s Design School (5)
- 09: The Roland TR-808, the Drum Machine That Changed Music Forever, Is Back! And It’s Now Affordable & Compact (0)
- 09: 25,000+ 78RPM Records Now Professionally Digitized & Streaming Online: A Treasure Trove of Early 20th Century Music (2)
- 09: The Nano Guitar: Discover the World’s Smallest, Playable Microscopic Guitar (0)
- 09: New Deep Learning Courses Released on Coursera, with Hope of Teaching Millions the Basics of Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 08: Marshall McLuhan Explains Why We’re Blind to How Technology Changes Us, Raising the Question: What Have the Internet & Social Media Done to Us? (3)
- 08: Stream 935 Songs That Appeared in “The John Peel Festive 50” from 1976 to 2004: The Best Songs of the Year, as Selected by the Beloved DJ’s Listeners (2)
- 08: Hear a Rare Recording of Flannery O’Connor Reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959) (0)
- 08: Bertrand Russell Reveals the 4 Human Desires That Make Our World: Acquisitiveness, Rivalry, Vanity & Love of Power (0)
- 07: New Yorkers Can Now Stream 30,000 Free Movies, Including the Entire Criterion Collection, with Their Library Cards (1)
- 07: When Mistakes/Studio Glitches Give Famous Songs Their Personality: Pink Floyd, Metallica, The Breeders, Steely Dan & More (7)
- 07: Senator Al Franken Does a Pitch Perfect Imitation of Mick Jagger (1982) (6)
- 07: What Happens When the Books in William S. Burroughs’ Personal Library Get Artistically Arranged — with His Own “Cut-Up” Method (0)
- 07: People Are Planting Flowers in Potholes Worldwide: See the Creative Protest Taking Place in Montreal, Ukraine & Beyond (3)
- 05: How Information Overload Robs Us of Our Creativity: What the Scientific Research Shows (4)
- 04: Free: You Can Now Read Classic Books by MIT Press on Archive.org (4)
- 04: 10 Longevity Tips from Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan’s 105-Year-Old Longevity Expert (3)
- 04: Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Account Goes Public, Revealing 600 New Photos & Many Strange Self-Portraits (5)
- 03: DC’s Legendary Punk Label Dischord Records Makes Its Entire Music Catalog Free to Stream Online (24)
- 03: How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums (2)
- 03: Watch “The Woodswimmer,” a Stop Motion Film Made Entirely with Wood, and “Brutally Tedious” Techniques (0)
- 03: 89 Essential Songs from The Summer of Love: A 50th Anniversary Playlist (26)
- 02: Siri Can Sing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1)
- 02: Discover the Jacobean Traveling Library: The 17th Century Precursor to the Kindle (3)
- 02: Hear Patti Smith Read the Poetry that Would Become Horses: A Reading of 14 Poems at Columbia University, 1975 (0)
- 02: Discover Langston Hughes’ Rent Party Ads & The Harlem Renaissance Tradition of Playing Gigs to Keep Roofs Over Heads (4)
- 02: 3D Scans of 7,500 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Download & 3D Print Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More (1)
- 01: What Makes John Bonham Such a Good Drummer? A New Video Essay Breaks Down His Inimitable Style (2)
- 01: Graphic Shows the House Plants That Naturally Clean the Air in Your Home, According to a NASA Study (3)
- 01: Métal hurlant: The Hugely Influential French Comic Magazine That Put Moebius on the Map & Changed Sci-Fi Forever (4)
- 01: 14 Self-Portraits by Pablo Picasso Show the Evolution of His Style: See Self-Portraits Moving from Ages 15 to 90 (3)
- July 2017 (84)
- 31: Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, John Waters & Others (1)
- 31: Hear Siouxsie and the Banshee’s Raw & Completely Improvised First Show, with Sid Vicious on Drums (1976) (1)
- 31: Accidental Wes Anderson: Every Place in the World with a Wes Anderson Aesthetic Gets Documented by Reddit (0)
- 31: Introducing the New PEN America Digital Archive: 1,500 Hours of Audio & Video Featuring 2,200 Eminent Writers (0)
- 29: When J.M. Coetzee Secretly Programmed Computers to Write Poetry in the 1960s (0)
- 28: The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD) (4)
- 28: Google Launches Free Course on Deep Learning: The Science of Teaching Computers How to Teach Themselves (6)
- 28: Miyazaki Meets Warhol in Campbell’s Soup Cans Reimagined by Designer Hyo Taek Kim (0)
- 27: Watch 50 Hours of Nature Soundscapes from the BBC: Scientifically Proven to Ease Stress and Promote Happiness & Awe (2)
- 27: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Illustrated by Salvador Dalí in 1969, Finally Gets Reissued (2)
- 27: People Who Swear Are More Honest Than Those Who Don’t, Finds a New University Study (3)
- 27: Watch the Earliest Known Footage of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (February, 1967) (2)
- 26: James Franco Hosts Philosophy Time, a New Videos Series Created to Help Philosophy Reach a Wider Audience (2)
- 26: 9-Year-Old Edward Hopper Draws a Picture on the Back of His 3rd Grade Report Card (7)
- 26: When Soviet Artists Turned Textiles (Scarves, Tablecloths & Curtains) into Beautiful Propaganda in the 1920s & 1930s (1)
- 26: How Did Akira Kurosawa Make Such Powerful & Enduring Films? A Wealth of Video Essays Break Down His Cinematic Genius (0)
- 25: Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages (27)
- 25: Hear the 150 Greatest Albums by Women: NPR Creates a New Canon of Albums That Puts Women at the Center of Music History (22)
- 25: The British Museum Creates 3D Models of the Rosetta Stone & 200+ Other Historic Artifacts: Download or View in Virtual Reality (1)
- 25: H.R. Giger’s Tarot Cards: The Swiss Artist, Famous for His Design Work on Alien, Takes a Journey into the Occult (0)
- 24: Watch Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry Sing a Swelligant Version of Cole Porter’s “Did You Evah,” All to Raise Money for AIDS Research (1990) (1)
- 24: The Strange Story of Wonder Woman’s Creator William Moulton Marston: Polyamorous Feminist, Psychologist & Inventor of the Lie Detector (0)
- 24: Marshall McLuhan Predicts That Electronic Media Will Displace the Book & Create Sweeping Changes in Our Everyday Lives (1960) (0)
- 24: 2,000+ Cassettes from the Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection Now Streaming Online (1)
- 21: Salvador Dalí’s Body Gets Exhumed, Revealing That, 28 Years After His Death, His Moustache Remains Perfectly Intact (1)
- 21: Where Do Ideas Come From? David Lynch, Robert Krulwich, Susan Orlean, Chuck Close & Others Reveal Their Creative Sources (0)
- 21: Russian History & Literature Come to Life in Wonderfully Colorized Portraits: See Photos of Tolstoy, Chekhov, the Romanovs & More (4)
- 21: The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book, a 1633 Chinese Calligraphy & Painting Manual, Now Digitized and Put Online (0)
- 21: Google’s DeepMind AI Teaches Itself to Walk, and the Results Are Kooky, No Wait, Chilling (1)
- 20: Director Michel Gondry Makes a Charming Film on His iPhone, Proving That We Could Be Making Movies, Not Taking Selfies (7)
- 20: How Aristotle Invented Computer Science (1)
- 20: Archaeologists Discover the World’s First “Art Studio” Created in an Ethiopian Cave 43,000 Years Ago (2)
- 20: Wes Anderson Names 12 of His Favorite Art Films (0)
- 19: Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926 (2)
- 19: How Insomnia Shaped Franz Kafka’s Creative Process and the Writing of The Metamorphosis: A New Study Published in The Lancet (4)
- 19: Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Actually Get Used in Making Everyday Things (6)
- 19: Infinite Escher: A High-Tech Tribute to M.C. Escher, Featuring Sean Lennon, Nam June Paik & Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990) (0)
- 18: An Archive of Iconic Photos from the Golden Age of Jazz: William Gottlieb’s Portraits of Dizzy, Thelonious, Billie, Satchmo & More (0)
- 18: Hunter S. Thompson Chillingly Predicts the Future, Telling Studs Terkel About the Coming Revenge of the Economically & Technologically “Obsolete” (1967) (1)
- 18: Historical Plaque Memorializes the Time Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs Came to Blows Over the Oxford Comma (Or Not) (2)
- 18: Eadweard Muybridge’s 1870s Photographs of Galloping Horses Get Encoded on the DNA of Living Bacteria Cells (0)
- 17: Download 200+ Belle Époque Art Posters: An Archive of Masterpieces from the “Golden Age of the Poster” (1880-1918) (3)
- 17: Watch A Single Life: An Oscar-Nominated Short About How Vinyl Records Can Take Us Magically Through Time (1)
- 17: Stream a 24 Hour Playlist of Charles Dickens Stories, Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More (1)
- 17: George Eliot’s Middlemarch Gets Reborn as a 21st Century Web Series: Watch It Online (0)
- 14: Mark Knopfler Gives a Short Masterclass on His Favorite Guitars & Guitar Sounds (5)
- 14: Attempting to Set the World Record for Most Frida Kahlo Lookalikes in One Place: It Happened in Dallas (0)
- 14: Watch Randy Newman’s Tour of Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard, and You’ll Love L.A. Too (1)
- 14: Watch the World’s Oldest Violin in Action: Marco Rizzi Performs Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 on a 1566 Amati Violin (1)
- 13: Renaissance Knives Had Music Engraved on the Blades; Now Hear the Songs Performed by Modern Singers (10)
- 13: Syd Barrett’s “Effervescing Elephant” Comes to Life in a New Retro-Style Animation (1)
- 13: Free: 355 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine (1)
- 13: Take an Online Course on Design & Architecture with Frank Gehry (0)
- 12: John Steinbeck Has a Crisis in Confidence While Writing The Grapes of Wrath: “I am Not a Writer. I’ve Been Fooling Myself and Other People” (0)
- 12: Send a Text Message to SFMOMA, and They’ll Send Works of Art to Your Mobile Phone (1)
- 12: 100 Years of Cinema: New Documentary Series Explores the History of Cinema by Analyzing One Film Per Year, Starting in 1915 (0)
- 12: Discover Dr. Seuss’s Audacious Advertisements from the 1930s & 40s: All on Display in a Digital Archive (0)
- 11: How Did the Romans Make Concrete That Lasts Longer Than Modern Concrete? The Mystery Finally Solved (5)
- 11: Hand-Colored Photographs from 19th Century Japan: 110 Images Capture the Waning Days of Traditional Japanese Society (0)
- 11: How Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Boyhood) Tells Stories with Time: Six Video Essays (0)
- 11: Watch the Making of a Hand-Crafted Violin, from Start to Finish, in a Beautifully-Shot Documentary (1)
- 10: Miles Davis Dishes Dirt on His Fellow Jazz Musicians: “The Trombone Player Should be Shot”; That Ornette is “F-ing Up the Trumpet” (4)
- 10: 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix (0)
- 10: Are Stanley Kubrick Films Like Immersive Video Games? The Case of Eyes Wide Shut (0)
- 07: Watch 12-Year-Old Joe Bonamassa Shred the Blues as He Opens for B.B. King in 1989 (5)
- 07: Meet Clara Rockmore, the Pioneering Electronic Musician Who First Rocked the Theremin in the Early 1920s (1)
- 07: An 8-Hour Marathon Reading of 500 Emily Dickinson Poems (0)
- 07: 65,000 Fans Break Into a Singalong of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” at a Green Day Concert in London’s Hyde Park (5)
- 06: New Archive Is Digitizing the Entirety of Phenomenology: Browse Works by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and More (1)
- 06: Behold Lewis Carroll’s Original Handwritten & Illustrated Manuscript for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1864) (1)
- 06: Does Quentin Tarantino’s First Film, Reservoir Dogs, Hold Up 25 Years Later?: A Video Essay (0)
- 06: The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (0)
- 05: Women of Jazz: Stream a Playlist of 91 Recordings by Great Female Jazz Musicians (4)
- 05: A Digital Archive of Soviet Children’s Books Goes Online: Browse the Artistic, Ideological Collection (1917-1953) (4)
- 05: An Animated Introduction to Economist John Maynard Keynes (0)
- 05: When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975) (0)
- 04: Frederick Douglass’s Fiery 1852 Speech, “The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro,” Read by James Earl Jones (10)
- 04: John Wayne Recites and Explains the Pledge of Allegiance (1972) (4)
- 04: Hear Chris Cornell’s Masterful Vocals in the Isolated Track for Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (1)
- 04: Christopher Lee Reads Four Classic Horror Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1979) (0)
- 03: Dog Crashes a Performance of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, in the Ancient City of Ephesus: The “Cutest Moment in Classical Music” (0)
- 03: The Music from Jack Kerouac’s Classic Beat Novel On the Road: Stream Tracks by Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon & Other Jazz Legends (1)
- 03: An Animated Introduction to the Life & Work of Marie Curie, the First Female Nobel Laureate (0)
- 03: 209 Beatles Songs in 209 Days: Memphis Musician Covers The Beatles’ Songbook (0)
- June 2017 (99)
- 30: How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer (2)
- 30: Browse a Collection of Over 83,500 Vintage Sewing Patterns (24)
- 30: Arnold Schoenberg Creates a Hand-Drawn, Paper-Cut “Wheel Chart” to Visualize His 12-Tone Technique (0)
- 30: Garry Kasparov Now Teaching an Online Course on Chess (0)
- 29: All the Rivers & Streams in the U.S. Shown in Rainbow Colors: A Data Visualization to Behold (3)
- 29: Watch Johnny Cash’s Poignant Final Interview & His Last Performance: “Death, Where Is Thy Sting?” (2003) (1)
- 29: The Female Pioneers of the Bauhaus Art Movement: Discover Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Anni Albers & Other Forgotten Innovators (2)
- 29: The Animated Score for Penderecki’s “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima,” the Horrifying Composition Featured in Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Cuarón’s Children of Men & Other Films (1)
- 28: Edvard Munch’s Famous Painting “The Scream” Animated to the Sound of Pink Floyd’s Primal Music (1)
- 28: George Orwell Reviews We, the Russian Dystopian Novel That Noam Chomsky Considers “More Perceptive” Than Brave New World & 1984 (2)
- 28: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes 140,000+ Artistic Images from Its Collections Available on Archive.org (0)
- 28: An Animated Introduction to Stoicism, the Ancient Greek Philosophy That Lets You Lead a Happy, Fulfilling Life (1)
- 27: David Sedaris Breaks Down His Writing Process: Keep a Diary, Carry a Notebook, Read Out Loud, Abandon Hope (0)
- 27: Albert Einstein Writes the 1949 Essay “Why Socialism?” and Attempts to Find a Solution to the “Grave Evils of Capitalism” (1)
- 27: A Lecture About the History of the Scots Language … in Scots: How Much Can You Comprehend? (0)
- 27: The Sound of Avant Garde Jazz: Stream 35 Hours of Experimental Jazz by Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane & More (1)
- 26: Charles Darwin & Charles Dickens’ Four-Hour Work Day: The Case for Why Less Work Can Mean More Productivity (1)
- 26: Franz Kafka Agonized, Too, Over Writer’s Block: “Tried to Write, Virtually Useless;” “Complete Standstill. Unending Torments” (1915) (0)
- 26: Google Uses Artificial Intelligence to Map Thousands of Bird Sounds Into an Interactive Visualization (1)
- 26: Going to Concerts and Experiencing Live Music Can Make Us Healthier & Happier, a New Psychology Study Confirms (1)
- 25: A Light Show on The Empire State Building Gets Synced to the Dead’s Live Performance of “Touch of Grey” (6/24/2017) (0)
- 23: Herbie Hancock to Teach His First Online Course on Jazz (0)
- 23: The First Avant Garde Animation: Watch Walter Ruttmann’s Lichtspiel Opus 1 (1921) (4)
- 23: Why Cartoon Characters Wear Gloves: A Curious Trip Through the History of Animation (1)
- 23: Langston Hughes Creates a List of His 100 Favorite Jazz Recordings: Hear 80+ of Them in a Big Playlist (5)
- 23: Willie Nelson & Ray Charles Sing a Moving Duet “Seven Spanish Angels”: A Beautiful Bridge That Crosses Musical & Racial Divides (1)
- 22: Sigourney Weaver Stars in a New Experimental Sci-Fi Film: Watch “Rakka” Free Online (3)
- 22: 24,000 Vintage Cartoons from the Library of Congress Illustrate the History of This Modern Art Form (1780-1977) (0)
- 22: Bill Gates Recommends Five Books for Summer 2017 (1)
- 22: Blade Runner 2049’s New Making-Of Featurette Gives You a Sneak Peek Inside the Long-Awaited Sequel (0)
- 21: Free eBooks with Modern Typography & Nice Formatting, All “Carefully Produced for the True Book Lover” (1)
- 21: 2,000-Year-Old Manuscript of the Ten Commandments Gets Digitized: See/Download “Nash Papyrus” in High Resolution (3)
- 21: Carl Sagan Sent Music & Photos Into Space So That Aliens Could Understand Human Civilization (Even After We’re Gone) (2)
- 21: London in Vivid Color 125 Years Ago: See Trafalgar Square, the British Museum, Tower Bridge & Other Famous Landmarks in Photocrom Prints (0)
- 20: The Illustrated Guide to a PhD: 12 Simple Pictures That Will Put the Daunting Degree into Perspective (14)
- 20: A Crash Course on Soviet Montage, the Russian Approach to Filmmaking That Revolutionized Cinema (0)
- 20: The 10 Most Depressing Radiohead Songs According to Data Science: Hear the Songs That Ranked Highest in a Researcher’s “Gloom Index” (11)
- 20: When Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman Joined the Grateful Dead Onstage for Some Epic Improvisational Jams: Hear a 1993 Recording (1)
- 19: Behold The Paintings of David Bowie: Neo-Expressionist Self Portraits, Illustrations of Iggy Pop, and Much More (1)
- 19: Watch a Star Get Devoured by a Supermassive Black Hole (7)
- 19: Andy Warhol Hosts Frank Zappa on His Cable TV Show, and Later Recalls, “I Hated Him More Than Ever” After the Show (20)
- 19: Joni Mitchell Sings an Achingly Pretty Version of “Both Sides Now” on the Mama Cass TV Show (1969) (3)
- 16: The CIA Assesses the Power of French Post-Modern Philosophers: Read a Newly Declassified CIA Report from 1985 (0)
- 16: The First Bloomsday: See Dublin’s Literati Celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses in Drunken Fashion (1954) (0)
- 16: How to Build Leonardo da Vinci’s Ingenious Self-Supporting Bridge: Renaissance Innovations You Can Still Enjoy Today (2)
- 16: Evelyn Glennie (a Musician Who Happens to Be Deaf) Shows How We Can Listen to Music with Our Entire Bodies (1)
- 16: Sci-Fi Radio: Hear Radio Dramas of Sci-Fi Stories by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. LeGuin & More (1989) (4)
- 15: Talking Heads Perform The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” Live in 1977 (and How the Bands Got Their Start Together) (0)
- 15: Download 36 Dadaist Magazines from the The Digital Dada Archive (Plus Other Avant-Garde Books, Leaflets & Ephemera) (8)
- 15: Hear the 20 Favorite Punk Albums of Black Flag Frontman Henry Rollins (3)
- 15: How Arabic Translators Helped Preserve Greek Philosophy … and the Classical Tradition (10)
- 15: See New York City in the 1930s and Now: A Side-by-Side Comparison of the Same Streets & Landmarks (1)
- 14: How Russian Artists Imagined in 1914 What Moscow Would Look Like in 2259 (0)
- 14: Take Free Philosophy Courses from The Institute of Art and Ideas: From “The Meaning of Life” to “Heidegger Meets Van Gogh” (0)
- 14: Meet Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone and Popular TV Pitchman (0)
- 14: Japanese Kabuki Actors Captured in 18th-Century Woodblock Prints by the Mysterious & Masterful Artist Sharaku (0)
- 14: The Art of the Marbler: An Enchanting Film on the Centuries-Old Craft of Making Handmade Marbled Paper (1)
- 13: Free Libraries Shaped Like Doctor Who’s Time-Traveling TARDIS Pop Up in Detroit, Saskatoon, Macon & Other Cities (1)
- 13: Google Creates a Digital Archive of World Fashion: Features 30,000 Images, Covering 3,000 Years of Fashion History (2)
- 13: American Archive of Public Broadcasting Lets You Stream 7,000 Hours of Historic Public TV & Radio Programs (0)
- 13: A Short, Animated Introduction to Emil Cioran, the “Philosopher of Despair” (1)
- 12: Akira Kurosawa Names His 21 Favorite Art Films in the Criterion Collection (0)
- 12: Introduction to Python, Data Science & Computational Thinking: Free Online Courses from MIT (3)
- 12: Rare Footage Shows US and British Soldiers Getting Dosed with LSD in Government-Sponsored Tests (1958 + 1964) (2)
- 12: Batman Goes Surfing: Remembering Adam West (RIP) with Perhaps the Campiest Batman Episode Ever (0)
- 10: Radiohead’s “Creep” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument Dating Back to the 6th Century (1)
- 09: What Is German Expressionism? A Crash Course on the Cinematic Tradition That Gave Us Metropolis, Nosferatu & More (0)
- 09: 150 Songs from 100+ Rappers Get Artfully Woven into One Great Mashup: Watch the “40 Years of Hip Hop” (1)
- 09: Dire Straits’ “Walk of Life” Is the Perfect Song to End Any Movie: The Graduate, Psycho, Easy Rider & 50+ Other Films (0)
- 09: 7-Foot Tall Clown with a Golden Voice Sings Chris Cornell’s “When I’m Down:” A Tribute Filled with Raw Emotion (1)
- 09: 10-Story High Mural of Muddy Waters Goes Up in Chicago (0)
- 08: Ancient Rome’s System of Roads Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps (8)
- 08: Watch a Surreal 1953 Animation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart,” Voted the 24th Best Cartoon of All Time (0)
- 08: The History of Classical Music in 1200 Tracks: From Gregorian Chant to Górecki (100 Hours of Audio) (4)
- 08: Download 2,500 Beautiful Woodblock Prints and Drawings by Japanese Masters (1600-1915) (1)
- 07: Pakistani Musicians Play an Enchanting Version of Dave Brubeck’s Jazz Classic, “Take Five” (3)
- 07: Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Take Our Jobs: From Writing Essays, Books & Songs, to Performing Surgery and Driving Trucks (1)
- 07: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl Manuscripts Now Digitized & Put Online, Revealing the Beat Poet’s Creative Process (0)
- 07: Everything You Need to Know About Modern Russian Art in 25 Minutes: A Visual Introduction to Futurism, Socialist Realism & More (0)
- 06: Lou Reed Curates an Eclectic Playlist of His Favorite Songs During His Final Days: Stream 27 Tracks Lou Was Listening To (0)
- 06: Hear Bob Dylan’s Newly-Released Nobel Lecture: A Meditation on Music, Literature & Lyrics (3)
- 06: Ennio Morricone’s Iconic Song, “The Ecstasy of Gold,” Spellbindingly Arranged for Theremin & Voice (0)
- 06: Hear the Musical Compositions of A Clockwork Orange Author Anthony Burgess, and Download His Musical Scores for Free (0)
- 05: Dr. Jane Goodall Will Teach an Online Course About Conserving Our Environment (1)
- 05: Hunter S. Thompson Typed Out The Great Gatsby & A Farewell to Arms Word for Word: A Method for Learning How to Write Like the Masters (1)
- 05: Omni, the Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine, Now Digitized in High-Resolution and Available Online (2)
- 05: A New Theme Park Based on Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro Set to Open in 2020 (0)
- 05: Bob Dylan Potato Chips, Anyone?: What They’re Snacking on in China (5)
- 03: Long Strange Trip, the New 4-Hour Documentary on the Grateful Dead, Is Now Streaming Free on Amazon Prime (1)
- 02: The History of Punk Rock in 300 Tracks: A 13-Hour Playlist Takes You From 1965 to Present (77)
- 02: 20,000 Endangered Archaeological Sites Now Catalogued in a New Online Database (2)
- 02: Cab Calloway Stars in “Minnie the Moocher,” a Trippy Betty Boop Cartoon That’s Ranked as the 20th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (1932) (1)
- 02: Artists May Have Different Brains (More Grey Matter) Than the Rest of Us, According to a Recent Scientific Study (0)
- 02: 240 Hours of Relaxing, Sleep-Inducing Sounds from Sci-Fi Video Games: From Blade Runner to Star Wars (0)
- 02: Manchester Benefit Concert Is Streaming Live Now (2)
- 01: Animated GIFs Show How Subway Maps of Berlin, New York, Tokyo & London Compare to the Real Geography of Those Great Cities (0)
- 01: See What Happens When a Camera’s Shutter Speed Gets Perfectly Synced with a Helicopter’s Rotor (0)
- 01: Paul McCartney Admits to Dropping Acid in a Scrappy Interview with a Prying Reporter (June, 1967) (2)
- 01: Blitzscaling: A Free Stanford Course on Scaling a Startup, Led by LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman (0)
- May 2017 (99)
- 31: The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!” (5)
- 31: Watch Simon & Garfunkel Sing “The Sound of Silence” 45 Years After Its Release, and Just Get Hauntingly Better with Time (3)
- 31: Stevie Ray Vaughan Plays the Acoustic Guitar in Rare Footage, Letting Us See His Guitar Virtuosity in Its Purest Form (3)
- 30: LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Creates a New Podcast Offering Wisdom on Nurturing & Scaling New Businesses (0)
- 30: When Bowie & Jagger’s “Dancing in the Street” Music Video Becomes a Silent Film (1)
- 30: Relax with 8 Hours of Classical Space Music: From Richard Strauss & Haydn, to Brian Eno, Philip Glass & Beyond (3)
- 30: Why Catchy Songs Get Stuck in Our Brains: New Study Explains the Science of Earworms (4)
- 30: Watch Matthew McConaughey’s Audition Tape for Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, the Indie Comedy That Made Him a Star (0)
- 29: Watch The Cure’s First TV Appearance in 1979 … Before The Band Acquired Its Signature Goth Look (0)
- 29: Hayao Miyazaki Picks His 50 Favorite Children’s Books (12)
- 29: Artificial Intelligence: A Free Online Course from MIT (26)
- 29: The Sounds of Blade Runner: How Music & Sound Effects Became Part of the DNA of Ridley Scott’s Futuristic World (0)
- 28: Watch Clouds Roil Through the Grand Canyon: A Beautiful Timelapse Film Captures a Rare Full Cloud Inversion (2)
- 26: How Finland Created One of the Best Educational Systems in the World (by Doing the Opposite of U.S.) (8)
- 26: Timelapse Animation Lets You See the Rise of Cities Across the Globe, from 3700 BC to 2000 AD (0)
- 26: The Story of Habitat, the Very First Large-Scale Online Role-Playing Game (1986) (2)
- 26: Watch a Mesmerizing Hourglass Filled with 1,250,000 “Nanoballs” (Created by the Designer of the Apple Watch) (0)
- 26: An Animated History of Tea (7)
- 25: Large Choir Sings “Black Hole Sun”: A Moving Tribute to Chris Cornell (0)
- 25: Kurt Vonnegut Ponders Why “Poor Americans Are Taught to Hate Themselves” in a Timely Passage from Slaughterhouse-Five (7)
- 25: Beat Club, the 1960s TV Show That Brought Rock Music to 70 Million Kids in Germany, Hungary, Thailand, Tanzania & Beyond (0)
- 25: Slavoj Žižek Names His 5 Favorite Films (0)
- 24: Animations Show the Melting Arctic Sea Ice, and What the Earth Would Look Like When All of the Ice Melts (1)
- 24: Stanford Researchers Discover a Smarter Way to Prepare for Exams: Introducing MetaCognition, the Art of Thinking About Your Thinking (0)
- 24: Hear 4+ Hours of Jazz Noir: A Soundtrack for Strolling Under Street Lights on Foggy Nights (0)
- 24: “A Brief History of Goths”: From the Goths, to Gothic Literature, to Goth Music (1)
- 23: The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download (1)
- 23: A Big List of Free Art Lessons on YouTube (1)
- 23: Visit a New Digital Archive of 2.2 Million Images from the First Hundred Years of Photography (1)
- 23: How Famous Paintings Inspired Cinematic Shots in the Films of Tarantino, Gilliam, Hitchcock & More: A Big Supercut (0)
- 22: Lou Reed Creates a List of the 10 Best Records of All Time (0)
- 22: Meet Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai Warrior (2)
- 22: Take a Trip Through the History of Modern Art with the Oscar-Winning Animation Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (0)
- 22: Sgt. Pepper’s Album Cover Gets Reworked to Remember Icons Lost in 2016 (0)
- 19: Twin Peaks Essentials to Get You Ready for the Debut of Season 3: A 55-Minute Refresher, Maps, Commercials & Behind-the-Scenes Footage & More (0)
- 19: 36 eBooks on Computer Programming from O’Reilly Media: Free to Download and Read (0)
- 19: Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell Sings Haunting Acoustic Covers of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” & Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2)
- 19: An Animated Alan Watts Waxes Philosophical About Time in The Fine Art of Goofing Off, the 1970s “Sesame Street for Grown-Ups” (1)
- 18: Guillermo del Toro Creates a List of His 20 Favorite Art House/Criterion Films (0)
- 18: The Map of Chemistry: New Animation Summarizes the Entire Field of Chemistry in 12 Minutes (3)
- 18: Learn Python with a Free Online Course from MIT (5)
- 18: Everything Thing You Ever Wanted to Know About the Synthesizer: A Vintage Three-Hour Crash Course (1)
- 17: Hear 2,000 Recordings of the Most Essential Jazz Songs: A Huge Playlist for Your Jazz Education (1)
- 17: Noel Coward’s “Alice (Is At It Again)” Gets Reimagined as a Very Modern Fairy Tale: A Short Film Starring Sarah Snook (0)
- 17: Stephen Wolfram’s Bestseller, A New Kind of Science, Now Free to Read/Download Online (2)
- 17: An Animated Introduction to Samuel Beckett, Absurdist Playwright, Novelist & Poet (0)
- 17: Huge Hands Rise Out of Venice’s Waters to Support the City Threatened by Climate Change: A Poignant New Sculpture (0)
- 16: Helen Keller Writes a Letter to Nazi Students Before They Burn Her Book: “History Has Taught You Nothing If You Think You Can Kill Ideas” (1933) (3)
- 16: Edward Gorey Illustrates H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds in His Inimitable Gothic Style (1960) (1)
- 16: The MC5 Performs at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, Right Before All Hell Breaks Loose (1)
- 16: Meet the Iconic Figures on the Cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (0)
- 15: “Calling Bullshit”: Watch Lectures for the College Course Designed to Combat the BS in our Information Age (2)
- 15: Hear the 10 Best Albums of the 1960s as Selected by Hunter S. Thompson (9)
- 15: Franz Kafka’s Unfinished Novel, The Castle, Gets Turned Into an Album by Czech Musicians: Watch a Music Video for the Song, “The Grave” (0)
- 15: Discover “The Ghost Club,” the Historic Paranormal Society Whose Members Included Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle & W.B. Yeats (1)
- 14: All 886 episodes of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood Streaming Online (for a Limited Time) (5)
- 12: Japanese Computer Artist Makes “Digital Mondrians” in 1964: When Giant Mainframe Computers Were First Used to Create Art (0)
- 12: Sigmund Freud, Father of Psychoanalysis, Introduced in a Monty Python-Style Animation (0)
- 12: How Baking, Cooking & Other Daily Activities Help Promote Happiness and Alleviate Depression and Anxiety (1)
- 12: A Free Course on Machine Learning & Data Science from Caltech (4)
- 11: The History of the World in 20 Odd Minutes (0)
- 11: The Frida Kahlo Action Figure (2)
- 11: Alfred Hitchcock Recalls Working with Salvador Dali on Spellbound: “No, You Can’t Pour Live Ants All Over Ingrid Bergman!” (0)
- 11: How Filmmakers Tell Their Stories: Three Insightful Video Essays Demystify the Craft of Editing, Composition & Color (0)
- 11: Timelapse Film Shows How the British Library Digitized the World’s Largest Atlas, the 6-Foot Tall “Klencke Atlas” from 1660 (2)
- 11: Hear Aerobic Exercise: When Soviet Musicians Recorded Electronic Music for a Subversive Home Fitness Record (1984) (2)
- 10: How Good Are Your Headphones? This 150-Song Playlist, Featuring Steely Dan, Pink Floyd & More, Will Test Them Out (2)
- 10: The Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger (2)
- 10: A Complete Digitization of Eros Magazine: The Controversial 1960s Magazine on the Sexual Revolution (4)
- 10: Watch the 1917 Ballet “Parade”: Created by Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau, It Provoked a Riot and Inspired the Word “Surrealism” (5)
- 09: How Hunter S. Thompson Gave Birth to Gonzo Journalism: Short Film Revisits Thompson’s Seminal 1970 Piece on the Kentucky Derby (5)
- 09: The History of Electronic Music Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Theremin: 200 Inventors, Composers & Musicians (3)
- 09: Dan Rather Introduces Rastafarianism to the U.S. in a 60 Minutes Segment Featuring Bob Marley (1979) (1)
- 09: Stevie Nicks “Shows Us How to Kick Ass in High-Heeled Boots” in a 1983 Women’s Self Defense Manual (2)
- 08: The Official Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Long-Awaited Blade Runner Sequel Is Finally Out (0)
- 08: Every Poem in Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” Set to Music, Illustrated and Performed Live (1)
- 08: The MoMA Teaches You How to Paint Like Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning & Other Abstract Painters (3)
- 08: 30 Hours of Doctor Who Audio Dramas Now Free to Stream Online (12)
- 08: The Pioneering Physics TV Show, The Mechanical Universe, Is Now on YouTube: 52 Complete Episodes from Caltech (0)
- 05: A History of Alternative Music Brilliantly Mapped Out on a Transistor Radio Circuit Diagram: 300 Punk, Alt & Indie Artists (6)
- 05: Watch Coda, a Prize-Winning, Thought-Provoking Animation About a Lost Soul’s Encounter with Death (1)
- 05: “If Life Were Only Like This”: Woody Allen Gets Marshall McLuhan to Put a Pontificating Professor in His Place (2)
- 05: “Play Without Bitching About the Key,” and Other Humorous, Blunt Annotations Added to Musical Scores (2)
- 04: Watch Queen’s Stunning Live Aid Performance: 20 Minutes Guaranteed to Give You Goose Bumps (July 13, 1985) (5)
- 04: The Museum of Failure: A New Swedish Museum Showcases Harley-Davidson Perfume, Colgate Beef Lasagne, Google Glass & Other Failed Products (1)
- 04: Watch “A Family Tree,” Jonathan Demme’s 1980s Sitcom Episode with David Byrne & Rosanna Arquette (0)
- 04: Hear a Reading of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Set to Music: Features 100+ Musicians and Readers from Across the World (0)
- 03: Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign (5)
- 03: Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains Why If We Have True Meaning in Our Lives, We Can Make It Through the Darkest of Times (0)
- 03: A Three-Minute Introduction to Buckminster Fuller, One of the 20th Century’s Most Productive Design Visionaries (0)
- 03: Watch a Reading of Steve Bannon’s Screenplay Which Attempted to Turn Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Into a Rap Musical (1)
- 02: A Hypnotic Look at How Japanese Samurai Swords Are Made (2)
- 02: How the Soviets Imagined in 1960 What the World Would Look in 2017: A Gallery of Retro-Futuristic Drawings (0)
- 02: John F. Kennedy Explains Why Artists & Poets Are Indispensable to American Democracy (October 26th, 1963) (1)
- 02: A Free Course from Yale on the U.S. Civil War (7)
- 01: Why Should We Read Tolstoy’s War and Peace (and Finish It)? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case (8)
- 01: An Aging Louis Armstrong Sings “What a Wonderful World” in 1967, During the Vietnam War & The Civil Rights Struggle (2)
- 01: Montblanc Unveils a New Line of Miles Davis Pens … and (Kind of) Blue Ink (1)
- 01: The Career of Paul Thomas Anderson: A 5-Part Video Essay on the Auteur of Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, and More (0)
- April 2017 (95)
- 30: An Animation of The Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” … for Your Sunday Morning (0)
- 28: Animated Stories Written by Tom Waits, Nick Cave & Other Artists, Read by Danny Devito, Zach Galifianakis & More (0)
- 28: Inspiration from Charles Bukowski: You Might Be Old, Your Life May Be “Crappy,” But You Can Still Make Good Art (2)
- 28: Rick Wakeman’s Prog-Rock Opera Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 (1)
- 28: Metamorfosis: Franz Kafka’s Best-Known Short Story Gets Adapted Into a Tim Burtonesque Spanish Short Film (1)
- 28: The First 100 Days of Fascist Germany: A New Online Project from Emory University (6)
- 27: Artist is Creating a Parthenon Made of 100,000 Banned Books: A Monument to Democracy & Intellectual Freedom (5)
- 27: Read Cormac McCarthy’s First Work of Non-Fiction, “The Kekulé Problem,” a Provocative Essay on the Origins of Language (0)
- 27: George Saunders Tries to Order One Mousetrap Over The Phone (0)
- 27: The News Is Broken, and Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Plans to Fix It With His New Site, Wikitribune (2)
- 27: How Jonathan Demme Put Humanity Into His Films: From The Silence of the Lambs to Stop Making Sense (1)
- 26: Jonathan Demme Narrates I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!,” a Short Film About the Counterculture Cartoon Reid Fleming (0)
- 26: If You Could Spend Eternity with Your Ashes Pressed Into a Vinyl Record, What Album Would It Be? (55)
- 26: Neil deGrasse Tyson Says This Short Film on Science in America Contains Perhaps the Most Important Words He’s Ever Spoken (1)
- 26: Download 200+ Free Modern Art Books from the Guggenheim Museum (1)
- 26: Robert Pirsig Reveals the Personal Journey That Led Him to Write His Counterculture Classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) (2)
- 25: Watch Teeny Tiny Japanese Meals Get Made in a Miniature Kitchen: The Joy of Cooking Mini Tempura, Sashimi, Curry, Okonomiyaki & More (1)
- 25: David Mamet Teaches Dramatic Writing in a New Online Course (1)
- 25: New Film Project Features Citizens of Alabama Reading Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” a Poetic Embodiment of Democratic Ideals (0)
- 25: Buckminster Fuller Creates an Animated Visualization of Human Population Growth from 1000 B.C.E. to 1965 (1)
- 24: Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career (0)
- 24: What Makes a Coen Brothers Movie a Coen Brothers Movie? Find Out in a 4-Hour Video Essay of Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men & More (1)
- 24: Discover the Creative, New Philosophy Podcast Hi-Phi Nation: The First Story-Driven Show About Philosophy (2)
- 24: How to Make the World’s Smallest Cup of Coffee, from Just One Coffee Bean (0)
- 24: The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art (0)
- 21: Hear Four Hours of Music in Jim Jarmusch’s Films: Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins & More (2)
- 21: Alec Baldwin Has a Podcast: Hear His Intimate Interviews with Patti Smith, Thom Yorke, Jerry Seinfeld, Ira Glass, Amy Schumer & More (0)
- 21: Philosophical, Sci-Fi Claymation Film Answers the Timeless Question: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (0)
- 21: NASA Releases a Massive Online Archive: 140,000 Photos, Videos & Audio Files Free to Search and Download (1)
- 21: An Interactive Visualization of Hegel’s Science of Logic (Available on Github) (0)
- 20: 5 Animations Introduce the Media Theory of Noam Chomsky, Roland Barthes, Marshall McLuhan, Edward Said & Stuart Hall (2)
- 20: Salvador Dalí Figurines Let You Bring the Artist’s Surreal Paintings Into Your Home (2)
- 20: Peter Singer’s Course on Effective Altruism Puts Philosophy Into Worldly Action (0)
- 20: Hear Two Legends, Lead Belly & Woody Guthrie, Performing on the Same Radio Show (1940) (0)
- 19: The Day When Chivalry Officially Came to an End in 1363 AD: A Short Comedy Film (1)
- 19: Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language (9)
- 19: Watch The Bicycle Trip: An Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip Which Took Place on April 19, 1943 (4)
- 19: Watch the First Chinese Animated Feature Film, Princess Iron Fan, Made Under the Strains of WWII (1941) (0)
- 19: New, Interactive Web Site Puts Online Thousands of International Folk Songs Recorded by the Great Folklorist Alan Lomax (0)
- 18: Hear the Only Instrumental Ever Banned from the Radio: Link Wray’s Seductive, Raunchy Song, “Rumble” (1958) (14)
- 18: The Coffee Revolt of 1674: When Women Campaigned to Prohibit “That Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor Called COFFEE” (1)
- 18: Read Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Children’s Book Whom Should I Be?: A Classic from the “Golden Age” in Soviet Children’s Literature (2)
- 18: Oscar-Winning Actress Viola Davis Reads the Children’s Story, Rent Party Jazz, for Jazz Appreciation Month (0)
- 18: 200 Haunting Videos of U.S. Nuclear Tests Now Declassified and Put Online (0)
- 17: Discover “Unpaywall,” a New (and Legal) Browser Extension That Lets You Read Millions of Science Articles Normally Locked Up Behind Paywalls (6)
- 17: Behold the Masterpiece by Japan’s Last Great Woodblock Artist: View Online Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885) (2)
- 17: Take a 16-Week Crash Course on the History of Movies: From the First Moving Pictures to the Rise of Multiplexes & Netflix (2)
- 17: Patti Smith, Umberto Eco & Richard Ford Give Advice to Young Artists in a Rollicking Short Animation (0)
- 16: David Bowie/Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold The World” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument from the 6th Century (8)
- 15: Watch Frank Sinatra Record “It Was a Very Good Year” in the Studio in 1965, and You’ll Know Why They Called Him “The Voice” (13)
- 14: Live Stream the Concerts at Coachella This Weekend: Radiohead, Lady Gaga, Lorde, New Order & Much More (2)
- 14: Discover the “Lost” Final Scene of The Shining, Which Kubrick Personally Had Recalled and Destroyed (1)
- 14: Sad 7-Foot Tall Clown Sings “Pinball Wizard” in the Style of Johnny Cash, and Other Hits by Roy Orbison, Cheap Trick & More (0)
- 13: “Primitive Potter” Travels into the Backcountry for 10 Days with Only a Knife & Buckskin and Makes Anasazi Pottery (3)
- 13: Ancient Maps that Changed the World: See World Maps from Ancient Greece, Babylon, Rome, and the Islamic World (1)
- 13: How Quentin Tarantino Creates Suspense in His Favorite Scene, the Tension-Filled Opening Moments of Inglourious Basterds (1)
- 13: A Free 700-Page Chess Manual Explains 1,000 Chess Tactics in Plain English (2)
- 13: Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda Creates a 19-Song Playlist to Help You Get Over Writer’s Block (0)
- 12: John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music (158)
- 12: A 3,350-Song Playlist of Music from Haruki Murakami’s Personal Record Collection (7)
- 12: Artificial Neural Network Reveals What It Would Look Like to Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting on LSD (2)
- 12: Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?: A 2-Hour Debate with Neil Degrasse Tyson, David Chalmers, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark & More (1)
- 12: Watch Animated Introductions to 13 Classic Authors: Kafka, Austen, Dostoevsky, Dickens & Many More (1)
- 11: Richard Dawkins on Why We Should Believe in Science: “It Works … Bitches” (1)
- 11: 138 Short Animated Introductions to the World’s Greatest Ideas: Plato, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir & More (2)
- 11: Photos of 19th-Century Black Women Activists Digitized and Put Online by The Library of Congress (0)
- 10: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Very First Film, La Cravate, Based on a Novella by Thomas Mann (1957) (0)
- 10: How Ingenious Sign Language Interpreters Are Bringing Music to Life for the Deaf: Visualizing the Sound of Rhythm, Harmony & Melody (3)
- 10: BritBox Now Streaming Now Streaming 550 Episodes Doctor Who and Many Other British TV Shows (0)
- 10: Meet the “Grammar Vigilante,” Hell-Bent on Fixing Grammatical Mistakes on England’s Storefront Signs (0)
- 08: New Jim Jarmusch Documentary on Iggy Pop & The Stooges Now Streaming Free on Amazon Prime (3)
- 08: An Epic Retelling of the Great Chinese Novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms: 110 Free Episodes and Counting (1)
- 07: Pink Floyd Adapts George Orwell’s Animal Farm into Their 1977 Concept Album, Animals (a Critique of Late Capitalism, Not Stalin) (6)
- 07: An Introduction to Game Theory & Strategic Thinking: A Free Course from Yale University (3)
- 07: Watch Marcel Marceau Mime The Mask Maker, a Story Created for Him by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1959) (0)
- 07: What It Cost to Shop at the Grocery Store in 1836, and What Goods You Could Buy (2)
- 06: How Henry David Thoreau Revolutionized the Pencil (0)
- 06: 10-Week Online Seminar Will Teach You to Be a Great Los Pollos Hermanos Employee: A Teaser for the New Season of Better Call Saul (0)
- 06: Watch Derek Jarman’s Daring 12-Minute Promo Film for Marianne Faithfull’s 1979 Comeback Album Broken English (NSFW) (0)
- 06: Edgar Allan Poe Published a “CliffsNotes” Version of a Science Textbook & It Became His Only Bestseller (1839) (0)
- 06: Steve Martin Teaches His First Online Course on Comedy (4)
- 05: Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great (14)
- 05: Take a 360 Degree Tour of Miniature Models of Famous Landmarks: From the Taj Mahal to The Great Wall of China (0)
- 05: Graphic Designer Redesigns a Movie Poster Every Day, for One Year: Scarface, Mulholland Dr., The Graduate, Vertigo, The Life Aquatic and 360 More (0)
- 05: Harvard Students Launch a Free Course on How to Resist: Now You Can Watch the Lectures (9)
- 04: An Animated Introduction to Roland Barthes’s Mythologies and How He Used Semiotics to Decode Popular Culture (0)
- 04: Behold the Ingenious “Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion” (and Then Find Out How It Works) (0)
- 04: Creating Saturday Night Live: Behind-the Scenes Videos Reveal How the Iconic Comedy Show Gets Made (0)
- 04: Stream 72 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner: Relax, Go to Sleep in a Dystopian Future (2)
- 04: Neural Networks for Machine Learning: A Free Online Course (1)
- 03: Richard Feynman’s “Notebook Technique” Will Help You Learn Any Subject–at School, at Work, or in Life (5)
- 03: Søren Kierkegaard: A Free Online Course on the “Father of Existentialism” (0)
- 03: Iggy Pop Sings Edith Piaf’s “La Vie En Rose” in an Artfully Animated Video (1)
- 03: Wynton Marsalis Gives 12 Tips on How to Practice: For Musicians, Athletes, or Anyone Who Wants to Learn Something New (8)
- 03: S-Town: The Podcast That Will Help You Binge-Listen Your Way Through This Week (0)
- March 2017 (102)
- 31: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles: A Radio Drama Starring Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell (Free Audio Book) (4)
- 31: Animated Introductions to Edward Said’s Groundbreaking Book Orientalism (5)
- 31: The M.C. Escher Mirror Puzzle: Test Your Imagination & Concentration with an Artistic Brain Teaser (2)
- 31: The Philosophy of The Matrix: From Plato and Descartes, to Eastern Philosophy (3)
- 31: Kurt Vonnegut on Bob Dylan: He “Is the Worst Poet Alive” (7)
- 30: Watch the Trippy Screen Projections Used by Pink Floyd During their Dark Side of the Moon Tours (3)
- 30: Hear the Prog-Rock Adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: The 1978 Rock Opera That Sold 15 Million Copies Worldwide (1)
- 30: The Origins of Anime: Watch Free Online 64 Animations That Launched the Japanese Anime Tradition (0)
- 30: A Human Chess Match Gets Played in Leningrad, 1924 (1)
- 29: The Philosophy, Storytelling & Visual Creativity of Ghost in the Shell, the Acclaimed Anime Film, Explained in Video Essays (0)
- 29: Discover Ray Bradbury & Kurt Vonnegut’s 1990s TV Shows: The Ray Bradbury Theater and Welcome to the Monkey House (0)
- 29: School of Visual Arts Presents 99 Hours of Free Photography Lectures (4)
- 29: Stephen Hawking Auditions Celebrities to Provide His New Voice: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Liam Neeson, Anna Kendrick & Michael Caine (0)
- 29: Great Filmmakers Offer Advice to Young Directors: Tarantino, Herzog, Coppola, Scorsese, Anderson, Fellini & More (1)
- 28: Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf (1)
- 28: Download 437 Issues of Soviet Photo Magazine, the Soviet Union’s Historic Photography Journal (1926-1991) (5)
- 28: Jim Henson’s Commercials for Wilkins Coffee: 15 Twisted Minutes of Muppet Coffee Ads (1957-1961) (1)
- 28: Watch 450 NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: Intimate Performances from The Pixies, Adele, Wilco, Yo-Yo Ma & Many More (2)
- 27: Hear Jimi Hendrix’s Virtuoso Guitar Performances in Isolated Tracks: “Fire,” “Purple Haze,” “Third Stone from the Sun” & More (6)
- 27: 200-Year-Old Robots That Play Music, Shoot Arrows & Even Write Poems: Watch Automatons in Action (1)
- 27: Free eBook Lets You Read Stories from 75 Up-and-Coming Sci-Fi Authors (Available for a Limited Time) (0)
- 27: I’m Just a Pill: A Schoolhouse Rock Classic Gets Reimagined to Defend Reproductive Rights in 2017 (2)
- 27: Rock Scene: Browse a Complete Online Archive of the Irreverent Magazine That Chronicled the 1970s Rock & Punk Scene (3)
- 26: The Jimi Hendrix of the Bass: Watch a Busker Shred the Bass on the Streets of Newcastle (6)
- 24: The Famous Schrodinger’s Cat Thought Experiment Gets Brought to Life in an Off-Kilter Animation (3)
- 24: A Short Video Introduction to Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), the First Female Film Director & Studio Mogul (0)
- 24: Carl Sagan Explains How the Ancient Greeks, Using Reason and Math, Figured Out the Earth Isn’t Flat, Over 2,000 Years Ago (11)
- 24: Stream Loads of “City Pop,” the Electronic-Disco-Funk Music That Provided the Soundtrack for Japan During the Roaring 1980s (1)
- 23: Nick Cave Narrates an Animated Film about the Cat Piano, the Twisted 18th Century Musical Instrument Designed to Treat Mental Illness (6)
- 23: Watch Janis Joplin’s Breakthrough Performance at the Monterey Pop Festival: “One of the Great Concert Performances of all Time” (1967) (0)
- 23: Hitler Was ‘Blitzed’ On Cocaine & Opiates During World War II: Hear a Wide-Ranging Interview with Best-Selling Author Norman Ohler (2)
- 23: How Orson Welles’ F for Fake Teaches Us How to Make the Perfect Video Essay (0)
- 23: Introduction to Philosophy: A Free Online Course (1)
- 22: Albert Camus Explains Why Happiness Is Like Committing a Crime—”You Should Never Admit to it” (1959) (2)
- 22: Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” Provides a Soundtrack for the Final Scene of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (8)
- 22: Download Russian Futurist Book Art (1910-1915): The Aesthetic Revolution Before the Political Revolution (2)
- 22: Every Page of Depero Futurista, the 1927 Futurist Masterpiece of Graphic Design & Bookmaking, Is Now Online (0)
- 21: How to Tell a Good Story, as Explained by George Saunders, Ira Glass, Ken Burns, Scott Simon, Catherine Burns & Others (4)
- 21: NASA’s New Online Archive Puts a Wealth of Free Science Articles Online (1)
- 21: Hear Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Shifted from Minor to Major Key, and Radiohead’s “Creep” Moved from Major to Minor (0)
- 21: Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt “Vigorous” and “Alert” (4)
- 20: Download Animals and Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights (Free) (3)
- 20: Chuck Berry Jams Out “Johnny B. Goode” with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, John Lennon & Bruce Springsteen (3)
- 20: Watch 70 Movies in HD from Famed Russian Studio Mosfilm: Classic Films, Beloved Comedies, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa & More (4)
- 20: Hayao Miyazaki Tells Video Game Makers What He Thinks of Their Characters Made with Artificial Intelligence: “I’m Utterly Disgusted. This Is an Insult to Life Itself” (12)
- 20: An Animated Introduction to McCarthyism: What Is It? And How Did It Happen? (1)
- 18: Chuck Berry (RIP) Reviews Punk Songs by The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Talking Heads & More (1980) (3)
- 17: Hear Prince’s Personal Playlist of Party Music: 22 Tracks That Will Bring Any Party to Life (3)
- 17: Marshall McLuhan in Two Minutes: A Brief Animated Introduction to the 1960s Media Theorist Who Predicted Our Present (4)
- 17: Tears for Fears Sings “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” with Musician Who Created Divine Dulcimer Version of Their Song (1)
- 17: Every Front Page of The New York Times in Under a Minute: Watch the Evolution of “The Gray Lady” from 1852 to Present (0)
- 17: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Theme Song Gets the Seinfeld Treatment (0)
- 16: Listen to Grace Slick’s Hair-Raising Vocals in the Isolated Track for “White Rabbit” (1967) (50)
- 16: New Interactive Map Visualizes the Chilling History of Lynching in the U.S. (1835-1964) (8)
- 16: How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Illuminates the Central Problem of Modernity (4)
- 16: What Did the Voice of Neanderthals, Our Distant Cousins, Sound Like?: Scientists Demonstrate Their “High Pitch” Theory (0)
- 15: An Animated Introduction to Arthur Schopenhauer and How We Can Achieve Happiness Through Art & Philosophy (0)
- 15: Steve Reich is Calling: A Minimalist Ringtone for the iPhone (0)
- 15: Rock Band: Hear The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” Played with Electromechanical Instruments That Make Music with Rocks (1)
- 15: How Filmmakers Like Kubrick, Jodorowsky, Tarantino, Coppola & Miyazaki Use Color to Tell Their Stories (0)
- 15: Matt Damon Reads Howard Zinn’s “The Problem is Civil Obedience,” a Call for Americans to Take Action (4)
- 14: How Did Beethoven Compose His 9th Symphony After He Went Completely Deaf? (5)
- 14: Sesame Street’s Count Von Count counts Pi to 10,000 Places: A 5 Hour Recording for Pi Day (0)
- 14: NASA Puts Its Software Online & Makes It Free to Download (0)
- 14: See Japanese Musicians Play “Amazing Grace” with 273 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls–Then Learn How They Perform Their Magic (0)
- 14: Download 1,500+ Episodes of the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, Where Famous Guests Name the Songs They Can’t Live Without (1942 to the Present) (1)
- 13: An Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent and How the Media Creates the Illusion of Democracy (3)
- 13: How 1940s Film Star Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent the Technology Behind Wi-Fi & Bluetooth During WWII (4)
- 13: The Fiction of the Science: A Meditation on How Artists & Storytellers Can Advance Technology (1)
- 13: Tony Conrad’s 200-Hour Avant-Garde Piano Composition, “Music & the Mind of the World”: Now Free Online for the First Time (0)
- 10: Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?: An Introduction to the Mind-Boggling “Simulation Argument” (14)
- 10: Memoranda: Haruki Murakami’s World Recreated as a Classic Adventure Video Game (1)
- 10: Alfred Hitchcock Reveals The Secret Sauce for Creating Suspense (2)
- 10: Watch FLAMENCO AT 5:15, a Life-Affirming, Oscar-Winning Documentary About a Flamenco Dance Class (3)
- 09: The Music in Quentin Tarantino’s Films: Hear a 5-Hour, 100-Song Playlist (0)
- 09: Akira Kurosawa’s Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death Finally in Production, Coming in 2020 (0)
- 09: Free Audio: Hear Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Margaret Atwood & Authors (0)
- 09: Watch a 5-Part Animated Primer on Afrofuturism, the Black Sci-Fi Phenomenon Inspired by Sun Ra (2)
- 08: Leonard Bernstein Introduces 7-Year-Old Yo-Yo Ma: Watch the Youngster Perform for John F. Kennedy (1962) (14)
- 08: Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music (8)
- 08: Alfred Hitchcock Meditates on Suspense & Dark Humor in a New Animated Video (3)
- 08: Women Have Always Worked: A New Online Course Premieres Today (0)
- 08: When East Meets West: Hear What Happened When Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass Composed Music Together (0)
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- 03: Stream 8,000 Vintage Afropop Recordings Digitized & Made Available by The British Library (1)
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- 28: Yale Presents a Free Online Course on Literary Theory, Covering Structuralism, Deconstruction & More (9)
- 28: Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math (8)
- 28: For Sale: The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein’s Creative Mind (0)
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- 27: Petite Planète: Discover Chris Marker’s Influential 1950s Travel Photobook Series (0)
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- 27: W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem “When You Are Old” Gets Adapted Into a Beautiful Short Film (1)
- 26: Watch the Dutch Paint “the Largest Mondrian Painting in the World” (0)
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- 24: Watch Earth, a Landmark of Soviet Cinema (1930) (0)
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- 23: Bertrand Russell Writes an Artful Letter, Stating His Refusal to Debate British Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley (1962) (8)
- 23: How Did Nietzsche Become the Most Misunderstood & Bastardized Philosopher?: A Video from Slate Explains (8)
- 23: Watch Leonard Bernstein Conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Using Only His Eyebrows (0)
- 22: “Stop It and Just DO”: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Advice on Overcoming Creative Blocks, Written by Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse (1965) (0)
- 22: Beer Archaeology: Yes, It’s a Thing (0)
- 22: Rare Recordings of Burroughs, Bukowski, Ginsberg & More Now Available in a Digital Archive Created by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) (2)
- 22: Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: An Animated Introduction to the Most Insightful Study of American Democracy (0)
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- 21: Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda Creates a Playlist of Protest Music for Our Troubled Times (3)
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- 20: Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation that Revolutionized Map Design (1943) (2)
- 20: Rarely Seen, Very Early Godard Film Surfaces on YouTube (0)
- 20: Listen to Presidential, The Washington Post’s Podcast Exploring Each & Every U.S. President (0)
- 20: A Hypnotic Look at How Tennis Balls Are Made (3)
- 17: Japanese Designers May Have Created the Most Accurate Map of Our World: See the AuthaGraph (27)
- 17: Japanese Priest Tries to Revive Buddhism by Bringing Techno Music into the Temple: Attend a Psychedelic 23-Minute Service (5)
- 17: Rufus Harley, the First Jazz Musician to Make the Bagpipes His Main Instrument, Performs on I’ve Got a Secret (1966) (0)
- 17: Pasta for War: The Award-Winning Animation That Satirizes 1930s Propaganda Films & Features Marching Rigatoni (1)
- 16: The First Known Footage of Marcel Proust Discovered: Watch It Online (6)
- 16: Take a Break from Your Frantic Day & Let Alan Watts Introduce You to the Calming Ways of Zen (0)
- 16: New Animated Film About Vincent Van Gogh Will Be Made Out of 65,000 Van Gogh-Style Paintings: Watch the Trailer and Making-Of Video (2)
- 16: Hayao Miyazaki Meets Akira Kurosawa: Watch the Titans of Japanese Film in Conversation (1993) (0)
- 15: Watch Wagner’s Ring Cycle: A Complete 15-Hour Performance Is Now Free Online Thanks to the BBC (6)
- 15: Duet for French Horn and Chair (1)
- 15: A Handy, Detailed Map Shows the Hometowns of Characters in the Iliad (4)
- 15: How Machiavelli Really Thought We Should Use Power: Two Animated Videos Provide an Introduction (0)
- 15: Meet Jane Little: The Musician Who Played with the Same Orchestra for 71 Straight Years, a World Record (0)
- 14: A 10-Hour Playlist of Music Inspired by Robert Moog’s Iconic Synthesizer: Hear Electronic Works by Kraftwerk, Devo, Stevie Wonder, Rick Wakeman & More (5)
- 14: 5,000-Year-Old Chinese Beer Recipe Gets Recreated by Stanford Students (0)
- 14: Martin Scorsese on How “Diversity Guarantees Our Cultural Survival,” in Film and Everything Else (2)
- 14: 224 Books About Music in David Byrne’s Personal Library (1)
- 13: 375+ Episodes of William F. Buckley’s Firing Line Now Online: Features Talks with Chomsky, Borges, Kerouac, Ginsberg & More (3)
- 13: This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience (4)
- 13: The Velvet Underground’s John Cale Plays Erik Satie’s Vexations on I’ve Got a Secret (1963) (2)
- 13: Listen to a Marathon Reading of Elie Wiesel’s Night (1)
- 10: Hear the First Jazz Record, Which Launched the Jazz Age: “Livery Stable Blues” (1917) (5)
- 10: Why We Love Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”: An Animated Music Lesson (0)
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- 10: A Short Anti-LSD Horror Film Made by the Lockheed Corporation (1969) (6)
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- 09: Browse Every Art Exhibition Held at MoMA Since 1929 with the New “MoMA Exhibition Spelunker” (1)
- 09: A Sonic Introduction to Avant-Garde Music: Stream 145 Minutes of 20th Century Art Music, Including Modernism, Futurism, Dadaism & Beyond (1)
- 09: Hunter S. Thompson Gets in a Gunfight with His Neighbor & Dispenses Political Wisdom: “In a Democracy, You Have to Be a Player” (4)
- 08: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes 375,000 Images of Fine Art Available Under a Creative Commons License: Download, Use & Remix (1)
- 08: Did Plato’s Republic Predict the Rise of Donald Trump?: A Chilling Animated Video Narrated by Andrew Sullivan (9)
- 08: Introduction to Political Philosophy: A Free Yale Course (3)
- 08: An Introduction to the Life & Thought of Hannah Arendt: Presented by the BBC Radio’s In Our Time (0)
- 07: David Foster Wallace on What’s Wrong with Postmodernism: A Video Essay (5)
- 07: Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: The Met, New York Public Library, Smithsonian & More (22)
- 07: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Improvises and Plays, Completely Unrehearsed, Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell,” Live Onstage (2013) (2)
- 07: How to Respond to the Challenges of Our Time?: Jazz Legends Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter Give 10 Pieces of Advice to Young Artists, and Everyone Else (6)
- 06: The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together (10)
- 06: Discover the 1126 Books in John Cage’s Personal Library: Foucault, Joyce, Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Buckminster Fuller & More (1)
- 06: Hear a 4 Hour Playlist of Great Protest Songs: Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Billy Bragg & More (11)
- 06: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Albert Camus’ Touching Thank You Letter to His Elementary School Teacher (11)
- 05: 1950s Batman Cartoon Tells Kids: “Don’t Believe Those Crackpot Lies About People Who Worship Differently” (4)
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- 03: Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Diversity & Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939) (4)
- 03: How Animated Cartoons Are Made: A Vintage Primer Filmed Way Back in 1919 (1)
- 02: Stream Marc Maron’s Excellent, Long Interview with The Band’s Robbie Robertson (0)
- 02: Hear an Hour of the Jazzy Background Music from the Original 1967 Spider-Man Cartoon (3)
- 02: 20,000 Letters, Manuscripts & Artifacts From Sigmund Freud Get Digitized and Made Available Online (0)
- 02: The Filmmaking of Martin Scorsese Demystified in 6 Video Essays (1)
- 02: In 1999, David Bowie Predicts the Good and Bad of the Internet: “We’re on the Cusp of Something Exhilarating and Terrifying” (8)
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- 01: T.S. Eliot’s Classic Poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Gets Adapted into a Hip Modern Film (0)
- 01: John Cage Had a Surprising Mushroom Obsession (Which Began with His Poverty in the Depression) (0)
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- 31: Watch “Geometry of Circles,” the Abstract Sesame Street Animation Scored by Philip Glass (1979) (1)
- 31: Joan Jett Sings “Love is All Around,” the Theme Song from The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1)
- 31: Willie Nelson and His Famous Guitar: The Tale of Trigger: Watch the Short Film Narrated by Woody Harrelson (0)
- 31: Albert Camus, Editor of the French Resistance Newspaper Combat, Writes Movingly About Life, Politics & War (1944-47) (2)
- 30: 1,000 Musicians Play Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Live, at the Same Time (1)
- 30: Henry David Thoreau on When Civil Disobedience Against Bad Governments Is Justified: An Animated Introduction (6)
- 30: Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate (6)
- 30: The Harlem Jazz Singer Who Inspired Betty Boop: Meet the Original Boop-Oop-a-Doop, “Baby Esther” (2)
- 30: Pakistani Immigrant Goes to a Led Zeppelin Concert, Gets Inspired to Become a Musician & Then Sells 30 Million Albums (0)
- 27: Ian McKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by William Shakespeare, Written in Defense of Immigrants (18)
- 27: “Calling Bullshit”: See the Syllabus for a College Course Designed to Identify & Combat Bullshit (4)
- 27: Female Samurai Warriors Immortalized in 19th Century Japanese Photos (13)
- 27: Meet Theda Bara, the First “Vamp” of Cinema, Who Revealed the Erotic Power of the Movies (0)
- 27: The Theater Dictionary: A Free Video Guide to Theatre Lingo (0)
- 26: Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995) (39)
- 26: A Free Online Course on Dante’s Divine Comedy from Yale University (8)
- 26: Why Time Seems to Speed Up as We Get Older: What the Research Says (1)
- 26: Read Prince’s First Interview, Printed in His High School Newspaper (1976) (0)
- 25: George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works, the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984 (16)
- 25: 81-Year-Old Man Walks into a Guitar Shop & Starts Playing a Sublime Solo: Ignore the Talents of the Elderly at Your Own Peril (7)
- 25: Hear Jeremy Irons Read the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (Available for a Limited Time) (0)
- 24: George Orwell’s 1984 Is Now the #1 Bestselling Book on Amazon (15)
- 24: Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism (56)
- 24: Watch Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future: Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 24: Disco Demolition Night: Scenes from the Night Disco Died (or Did It?) at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, 1979 (0)
- 24: Hear Kurt Vonnegut Visit the Afterlife & Interview Dead Historical Figures: Isaac Newton, Adolf Hitler, Eugene Debs & More (Audio, 1998) (0)
- 23: An Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of History: The Road to Progress Runs First Through Dark Times (1)
- 23: Musician Lugs a Cello Up a Mountain, Then Plays Bach at 10,000 Feet, at the “Top of the World” (2)
- 23: Before Siri & Alexa: Hear the First Attempt to Use a Synthesizer to Recreate the Human Voice (1939) (0)
- 23: An Animated History of Planned Parenthood, Brought to You by Lena Dunham, JJ Abrams & More (6)
- 20: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism, According to Yale Historian Timothy Snyder (11)
- 20: Deconstructing How Louis CK Writes a Joke (0)
- 20: 12 Million Declassified CIA Documents Now Free Online: Secret Tunnels, UFOs, Psychic Experiments & More (1)
- 20: Watch Mr. Rogers Persuade Congress to Stop Cutting PBS Budget in 1969 (2)
- 19: Download & Print Free Shepard Fairey Protest Posters (25)
- 19: Learn What Old Norse Sounded Like, with UC Berkeley’s “Cowboy Professor, Dr. Jackson Crawford (2)
- 19: Watch an Epic, 4-Hour Video Essay on the Making & Mythology of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (0)
- 19: Photographer Creates Stunning Realistic Portraits That Recreate Surreal Scenes from Hieronymus Bosch Paintings (2)
- 18: The Women’s Suffrage March of 1913: The Parade That Overshadowed Another Presidential Inauguration a Century Ago (10)
- 18: An Animated Introduction to Theodor Adorno & His Critique of Modern Capitalism (0)
- 18: Watch Priceless 17-Century Stradivarius and Amati Violins Get Taken for a Test Drive by Professional Violinists (0)
- 18: Watch The Danish Poet, the Oscar-Winning Animated Film Narrated by Ingmar Bergman’s Muse Liv Ullmann (2)
- 17: David Lynch Explains How Meditation Boosts Our Creativity (Plus Free Resources to Help You Start Meditating) (1)
- 17: Bauhaus Artist László Moholy-Nagy Designs an Avant-Garde Map to Help People Get Over the Fear of Flying (1936) (0)
- 17: The Scores That Electronic Music Pioneer Wendy Carlos Composed for Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and The Shining (1)
- 17: The Grateful Dead Pays Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” in a 1982 Concert: Hear “Raven Space” (0)
- 16: Learn Digital Photography with Harvard University’s Free Online Course (30)
- 16: Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi–Walt Disney’s 1943 Film Shows How Fascists Are Made (3)
- 16: Alan Turing Gets Channeled in a New Opera: Hear Audio from The Life And Death(S) Of Alan Turing (0)
- 16: Jim Henson Creates an Experimental Animation Explaining How We Get Ideas (1966) (0)
- 13: How the World’s Oldest Computer Worked: Reconstructing the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism (4)
- 13: Watch 100 Randomly Ticking Metronomes Miraculously Achieve Synchronicity (7)
- 13: Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More (9)
- 12: Mesmerizing GIFs Illustrate the Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery — All Done Without Screws, Nails, or Glue (2)
- 12: An Introduction to Confucius’ Life & Thought Through Two Animated Videos (0)
- 12: The Triumphant Night When a Teacher Saved His Students from a Motorcycle Gang: A True, Hand-Animated Story (3)
- 12: Captivating GIFs Reveal the Magical Special Effects in Classic Silent Films (2)
- 11: Albert Einstein Explains How Slavery Has Crippled Everyone’s Ability to Think Clearly About Racism (4)
- 11: How the French New Wave Changed Cinema: A Video Introduction to the Films of Godard, Truffaut & Their Fellow Rule-Breakers (2)
- 11: The American Novel Since 1945: A Free Yale Course on Novels by Nabokov, Kerouac, Morrison, Pynchon & More (2)
- 11: Hear Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” Covered in Unexpected Styles: Gregorian Choir, Cello Ensemble, Finnish Bluegrass, Jazz Vocal & More (3)
- 10: David Bowie Offers Advice for Aspiring Artists: “Go a Little Out of Your Depth,” “Never Fulfill Other People’s Expectations” (0)
- 10: Hear a 9,000 Year Old Flute—the World’s Oldest Playable Instrument—Get Played Again (3)
- 10: How The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Changed Album Cover Design Forever (2)
- 10: The Corkscrew: The 700-Pound Mechanical Sculpture That Opens a Wine Bottle & Pours the Wine (0)
- 09: George Michael Gives a Stunning Performance of “Somebody to Love” with Queen, As David Bowie Nods Along in the Wings (2)
- 09: An Animated Introduction to the Feminist Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (1)
- 09: A Joan Miró-Inspired Animation of Federico García Lorca’s Poem, “Romance Sonámbulo” (1)
- 08: Stream David Bowie’s New EP No Plan and Hear His Final Four Recordings (0)
- 06: Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Prediction That Automation Will Necessitate a Universal Basic Income (12)
- 06: Inside the Creepy, “Abandoned” Wizard of Oz Theme Park: Scenes of Beautiful Decay (0)
- 06: Trainwreck: The Teach to One Math Experiment in Mountain View, CA Is a Cautionary Tale About the Perils of Digital Math Education (6)
- 06: Famed Art Critic Robert Hughes Hosts the Premiere of 20/20, Where Tabloid TV News Began (1978) (1)
- 05: Download 243 Free eBooks on Design, Data, Software, Web Development & Business from O’Reilly Media (2)
- 05: A Gallery of Visually Arresting Posters from the May 1968 Paris Uprising (2)
- 05: Watch Orson Welles’ First Ever Film, Directed at Age 19 (1)
- 05: Franz Kafka’s Existential Parable “Before the Law” Gets Brought to Life in a Striking, Modern Animation (1)
- 04: Philographics Presents a Visual Dictionary of Philosophy: 95 Philosophical Concepts as Graphic Designs (6)
- 04: A Unified Theory of Mental Illness: How Everything from Addiction to Depression Can Be Explained by the Concept of “Capture” (8)
- 04: Meditation is Replacing Detention in Baltimore’s Public Schools, and the Students Are Thriving (7)
- 04: Learn Islamic & Indian Philosophy with 107 Episodes of the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Podcast (1)
- 03: 200,000 Photos from the George Eastman Museum, the World’s Oldest Photography Collection, Now Available Online (6)
- 03: John Berger (RIP) and Susan Sontag Take Us Inside the Art of Storytelling (1983) (2)
- 03: The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue” (2)
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- 02: 205 Big Thinkers Answer the Question, “What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known?” (1)
- 02: Kill the Wabbit!: How the 1957 Bugs Bunny Cartoon, “What’s Opera, Doc?,” Inspired Today’s Opera Singers to First Get Into Opera (1)
- 02: Stream Brian Eno’s “Magnificently Peaceful” New Album Reflection: A Thoughtful Way to Start 2017 (0)
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- 30: The Science of Willpower: 15 Tips for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Last from Dr. Kelly McGonigal (2)
- 30: Google Lets You Take a 360-Degree Panoramic Tour of Street Art in Cities Across the World (0)
- 30: Jim Jarmusch Lists His Favorite Poets: Dante, William Carlos Williams, Arthur Rimbaud, John Ashbery & More (2)
- 30: Watch Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer’s Haunting, Animated Take on Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy” (0)
- 29: 25 Animations of Great Literary Works: From Plato, Dostoevsky & Dickinson, to Kafka, Hemingway & Bradbury (1)
- 29: Download 20 Free eBooks on Design from O’Reilly Media (5)
- 29: Roman Architecture: A Free Online Course from Yale University (5)
- 29: An Animated Introduction to Voltaire: Enlightenment Philosopher of Pluralism & Tolerance (0)
- 29: Tuileries: The Coen Brothers’ Short Film About Steve Buscemi’s Very Bad Day in the Paris Metro (5)
- 28: Watch Japanese Woodworking Masters Create Elegant & Elaborate Geometric Patterns with Wood (1)
- 28: The Tarot Card Deck Designed by Salvador Dalí (5)
- 28: Watch David Bowie & Marianne Faithfull Rehearse and Sing Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe” (1973) (0)
- 28: Carrie Fisher’s Long Career as a Writer, Screenwriter, and Hollywood Fixer: “I’m a Writer” First and Foremost (0)
- 27: Watch a Young Carrie Fisher (RIP) Audition for Star Wars (1975) (0)
- 27: When Ayn Rand Collected Social Security & Medicare, After Years of Opposing Benefit Programs (104)
- 27: Watch the First Surf Movie Ever Made: A 1906 Thomas Edison Film Shot in Hawaii (0)
- 27: Watch Nina Simone Sing the Black Pride Anthem, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” on Sesame Street (1972) (0)
- 27: Stephen King Explains the Key to His Creativity: Not Losing the Dream-State Thinking All Children Are Born With (4)
- 26: Edward Hopper’s Iconic Painting Nighthawks Explained in a 7-Minute Video Introduction (10)
- 26: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner: A Free Yale Course (9)
- 26: How Leo Tolstoy Became a Vegetarian and Jumpstarted the Vegetarian & Humanitarian Movements in the 19th Century (2)
- 26: How to Make a Replica of 1900-Year-Old Glass Fish: A Brilliant Video from the British Museum (0)
- 25: Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader with Free eBooks, Audio Books, Online Courses & More (2)
- 24: The Employment: A Prize-Winning Animation About Why We’re So Disenchanted with Work Today (2)
- 23: How the Films of Hayao Miyazaki Work Their Animated Magic, Explained in 4 Video Essays (1)
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- 23: Hear Jorge Luis Borges Read 30 of His Poems (in the Original Spanish) (2)
- 22: A Crash Course in Existentialism: A Short Introduction to Jean-Paul Sartre & Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World (4)
- 22: Radio Garden Lets You Instantly Tune into Radio Stations Across the Entire Globe (2)
- 22: Watch a 2-Year-Old Solve Philosophy’s Famous Ethical “Trolley Problem” (It Doesn’t End Well) (3)
- 22: The Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Board Game, Inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s Rollicking Novel (0)
- 21: Yes, the Holocaust Happened, Even If a Top Google Search Result Says It Didn’t (10)
- 21: David Bowie Sends a Christmas Greeting in the Voice of Elvis Presley (1)
- 21: Hear the First Live Performance of the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar:” Recorded at the Fateful Altamont Free Concert in 1969 (0)
- 21: Hear “Twas The Night Before Christmas” Read by Stephen Fry & John Cleese (0)
- 20: Introduction to Ancient Greek History: A Free Online Course from Yale (7)
- 20: George Orwell’s Life & Literature Presented in a 3-Hour Radio Documentary: Features Interviews with Those Who Knew Orwell Best (0)
- 20: M.C. Escher Cover Art for Great Books by Italo Calvino, George Orwell & Jorge Luis Borges (0)
- 20: 75 Years of CIA Maps Now Declassified & Made Available Online (1)
- 19: Learn Python: A Free Online Course from Google (15)
- 19: Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writing with Style (1882) (3)
- 19: Acclaimed Japanese Jazz Pianist Yōsuke Yamashita Plays a Burning Piano on the Beach (4)
- 19: Giant Dinosaurs Travel Down the Hudson River: See What Awestruck New Yorkers Witnessed in 1963 (0)
- 18: Introduction to Psychology: A Free Course from Yale University (17)
- 16: Neil Gaiman Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”: One Master of Dramatic Storytelling Reads Another (2)
- 16: Slavoj Žižek Answers the Question “Should We Teach Children to Believe in Santa Claus?” (0)
- 16: Watch Hayao Miyazaki’s Beloved Characters Enter the Real World (1)
- 16: Bill Gates Lists His Favorite Books of 2016 (0)
- 15: Hear a Great 4-Hour Radio Documentary on the Life & Music of Jimi Hendrix: Features Rare Recordings & Interviews (3)
- 15: “Every Country in the World”–Two Videos Tell You Curious Facts About 190+ Countries (0)
- 15: From Caligari to Hitler: A Look at How Cinema Laid the Foundation for Tyranny in Weimar Germany (1)
- 15: The Late Alan Thicke Hosts a Twin Peaks Behind-the-Scenes Special (1990) (0)
- 14: The Surreal Filmmaking of David Lynch Explained in 9 Video Essays (1)
- 14: Frank Zappa Gets Surprised & Serenaded by the U.S. Navy Band at the San Francisco Airport (1980) (2)
- 14: When William S. Burroughs Appeared on Saturday Night Live: His First TV Appearance (1981) (2)
- 14: A Lccokrkow Garneo: All 245,000 Frames of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange Randomized. (0)
- 13: Ansel Adams, Photographer: 1958 Documentary Captures the Creative Process of the Iconic American Photographer (0)
- 13: Hear Controversial Versions of “The Star Spangled Banner” by Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, José Feliciano & John Philip Sousa (3)
- 13: Woody: A Prize-Winning Short Animation About a Wooden Man’s Dream of Becoming a Concert Pianist (0)
- 13: Medieval Doodler Draws a “Rockstar Lady” in a Manuscript of Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy (Circa 1500) (1)
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- 12: Discover Lincos, the Language a Dutch Mathematician Invented Just to Talk to Extraterrestrials (1960) (0)
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- 10: Patti Smith Sings Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rains Gonna Fall” at Nobel Prize Ceremony & Gets a Case of the Nerves (20)
- 09: 200,000 Years of Staggering Human Population Growth Shown in an Animated Map (2)
- 09: Organization Guru Marie Kondo’s Tips for Dealing with Your Massive Piles of Unread Books (or What They Call in Japan “Tsundoku”) (2)
- 09: Truman Capote Narrates “A Christmas Memory,” a 1966 TV Adaptation of His Autobiographical Story (0)
- 09: Noam Chomsky & Harry Belafonte Speak on Stage for the First Time Together: Talk Trump, Klan & Having a Rebellious Heart (1)
- 08: A Complete Reading of George Orwell’s 1984: Aired on Pacifica Radio, 1975 (3)
- 08: Horror Legend Boris Karloff Reads Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) (1)
- 08: The Birth Control Handbook: The Underground Student Publication That Let Women Take Control of Their Bodies (1968) (4)
- 08: Infinity Minus Infinity Equals Pi: This Video Proves It (2)
- 07: The Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol Stage Proto-Punk Performance Art: Discover the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966) (2)
- 07: 500+William S. Burroughs Book Covers from Across the Globe: 1950s Through the 2010s (0)
- 07: George Orwell Tries to Identify Who Is Really a “Fascist” and Define the Meaning of This “Much-Abused Word” (1944) (7)
- 06: Bruce Springsteen Narrates Audiobook Version of His New Memoir (and How to Download It for Free) (0)
- 06: The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together (23)
- 06: The Science of Why We Laugh (0)
- 06: An Introduction to Jean-Luc Godard’s Innovative Filmmaking Through Five Video Essays (1)
- 06: Was There a First Human Language?: Theories from the Enlightenment Through Noam Chomsky (1)
- 05: The Genius of Paul McCartney’s Bass Playing in 7 Isolated Tracks (13)
- 05: Tim Robbins’ Improv Classes Transform Prisoners’ Lives & Lower Recidivism Rates (0)
- 05: Why Making Accurate World Maps Is Mathematically Impossible (3)
- 05: What’s the Fastest Way to Alphabetize Your Bookshelf? (1)
- 02: 29 Lists of Recommended Books Created by Well-Known Authors, Artists & Thinkers: Jorge Luis Borges, Patti Smith, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, David Bowie & More (0)
- 02: Man Ray Designs a Supremely Elegant, Geometric Chess Set in 1920–and It Now Gets Re-Issued (2)
- 02: Blade Runner Gets Re-Created, Shot for Shot, Using Only Microsoft Paint (4)
- 02: A Whiskey-Fueled Lin-Manuel Miranda Reimagines Hamilton as a Girl on Drunk History (0)
- 01: How Stanley Kubrick Made His Masterpieces: An Introduction to His Obsessive Approach to Filmmaking (0)
- 01: When Ursula K. Le Guin & Philip K. Dick Went to High School Together (5)
- 01: Hear 20 Hours of Romantic & Victorian Poetry Read by Ralph Fiennes, Dylan Thomas, James Mason & Many More (1)
- 01: Man Ray Creates a “Surrealist Chessboard,” Featuring Portraits of Surrealist Icons: Dalí, Breton, Picasso, Magritte, Miró & Others (1934) (1)
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- 30: The Psychology That Leads People to Vote for Extremists & Autocrats: The Theory of Cognitive Closure (9)
- 30: All of Wes Anderson’s Cinematic Commercials: Watch His Spots for Prada, American Express, H&M & More (0)
- 30: Richard Feynman’s Poignant Letter to His Departed Wife Arline: Watch Actor Oscar Isaac Read It Live Onstage (2)
- 30: The Photography of Poet Arthur Rimbaud (1883) (0)
- 29: Why Socrates Hated Democracies: An Animated Case for Why Self-Government Requires Wisdom & Education (10)
- 29: Performance Artist Marina Abramović Describes Her “Really Good Plan” to Lose Her Virginity (2)
- 29: Hear a 20 Hour Playlist Featuring Recordings by Electronic Music Pioneer Pauline Oliveros (RIP) (0)
- 29: Watch Come Together, Wes Anderson’s New Short Film/Commercial Starring Adrien Brody (0)
- 28: An Animated Introduction to George Orwell (0)
- 28: Watch Georges Méliès’ The Dreyfus Affair, the Controversial Film Censored by the French Government for 50 Years (1899) (0)
- 28: British Advertisers Predict in 1935 What the World Will Look Like in 2500: Wireless TV, Atomic Cars & More (0)
- 27: Great 19 Century Poems Read in French: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine & More (0)
- 25: Watch Animations of Two Italo Calvino Stories: “The False Grandmother” and “The Distance from the Moon” (0)
- 25: The Only Surviving Behind-the-Scenes Footage of I Love Lucy, and It’s in Color! (1951) (1)
- 25: 1910 Fairground Organ Plays Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and It Works Like a Charm (2)
- 24: The Physics of Playing a Guitar Visualized: Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” Viewed from Inside the Guitar (6)
- 24: J.M. Coetzee on the Pleasures of Writing: Total Engagement, Hard Thought & Productiveness (1)
- 24: Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Played on Korean Instrument Dating Back to 6th Century (0)
- 24: Alice’s Restaurant: An Illustrated Version of Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (0)
- 24: Hear a 9-Hour Tribute to John Peel: A Collection of His Best “Peel Sessions” (0)
- 23: How Can You Tell a Good Drummer from a Bad Drummer?: Ringo Starr as Case Study (9)
- 23: How to Know if Your Country Is Heading Toward Despotism: An Educational Film from 1946 (3)
- 23: Browse & Download 1,198 Free High Resolution Maps of U.S. National Parks (2)
- 23: Hear the Brilliant Guitar Work of Charlie Christian, Inventor of the Electric Guitar Solo (1939) (1)
- 22: Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism (82)
- 22: Watch the Evolution of Ringo Starr, Dave Grohl, Tré Cool & 19 Other Drummers in Short 5-Minute Videos (1)
- 22: Three Pink Floyd Songs Played on the Traditional Korean Gayageum: “Comfortably Numb,” “Another Brick in the Wall” & “Great Gig in the Sky” (2)
- 22: Download Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man as a Free Audiobook (Available for a Limited Time) (5)
- 21: How to Recognize a Dystopia: Watch an Animated Introduction to Dystopian Fiction (1)
- 21: Hieronymus Bosch’s Medieval Painting, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” Comes to Life in a Gigantic, Modern Animation (2)
- 21: New Animation Brings to Life a Lost 1974 Interview with Leonard Cohen, and Cohen Reading His Poem “Two Slept Together” (0)
- 21: The 10 Favorite Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (0)
- 20: We’re Gonna Build a Fourth Wall, and Make the Brechtians Pay for It (1)
- 20: Five Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy: A Free AudioBook (2)
- 18: Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Lovely Sung in Yiddish: A Tribute (1)
- 18: The Cast of Hamilton Sends a Strong Message to Mike Pence (After the Crowd Jeers Him) (17)
- 18: The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life (8)
- 18: Hear Kurt Vonnegut’s Novel, Cat’s Cradle, Get Turned into Avant-Garde Music (Featuring Kurt Himself) (0)
- 18: Franz Kafka Story Gets Adapted into an Award-Winning Australian Short Film: Watch Two Men (2)
- 18: Watch Soundbreaking, PBS’ 8-Part Documentary Exploring the History of Recorded Music (Free for a Limited Time) (4)
- 17: Zen Master Alan Watts Explains What Made Carl Jung Such an Influential Thinker (8)
- 17: Philosopher Richard Rorty Chillingly Predicts the Results of the 2016 Election … Back in 1998 (28)
- 17: Metallica Playing “Enter Sandman” on Classroom Toy Instruments (0)
- 17: Iconic Footage of Jimi Hendrix Playing “Hey Joe” Rendered in the Style of Moebius, with the Help of Neural Network Technology (2)
- 16: The New York Times’ First Profile of Hitler: His Anti-Semitism Is Not as “Genuine or Violent” as It Sounds (1922) (27)
- 16: Stewart Brand’s List of 76 Books for Rebuilding Civilization (4)
- 16: How Superman Defeated the KKK (in Real Life): Hear the World-Changing 1946 Radio Drama (0)
- 16: Thomas Edison’s Hugely Ambitious “To-Do” List from 1888 (5)
- 15: Frank Zappa’s Amazing Final Concerts: Prague and Budapest, 1991 (1)
- 15: Henry David Thoreau on When Civil Disobedience and Resistance Are Justified (1849) (2)
- 15: An Animated, Monty Python-Style Introduction to the Søren Kierkegaard, the First Existentialist (2)
- 15: Free: Watch 92 Episodes of the Surrealist Cartoon, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Featuring Björk, Thom Yorke & More (0)
- 14: Hear Leonard Cohen’s Final Interview: Recorded by David Remnick of The New Yorker (6)
- 14: 1950 Superman Poster Urged Kids to Defend All Americans, Regardless of Their Race, Religion or National Origin (6)
- 14: Carl Sagan’s Ambitious College Reading List: Plato, Shakespeare, Gide, and Plenty of Philosophy, Math & Physics (1954) (0)
- 13: Watch Dave Chappelle’s Saturday Night Live Monologue: “We’ve Elected an Internet Troll as Our President” (2)
- 13: David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” Performed Live by The Biggest Rock Band on Earth (1,000 Musicians in Total) (0)
- 11: Watch Moebius and Miyazaki, Two of the Most Imaginative Artists, in Conversation (2004) (0)
- 11: Say Goodbye to Leonard Cohen Through Some of His Best-Loved Songs: “Hallelujah,” “Suzanne” and 235 Other Tracks (2)
- 11: Watch the Celebrated Ballerina Anna Pavlova Perform “The Dying Swan” (1925) (0)
- 10: An Animated Version of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Made of 12,597 Watercolor Paintings (1)
- 10: When Franz Kafka Invented the Answering Machine (1913) (0)
- 10: Charlie Chaplin’s Speech in The Great Dictator: A Call for Decency, a Statement Against Fascism (7)
- 10: Young Frank Zappa Plays the Bicycle on The Steven Allen Show (1963) (0)
- 09: Hear “Weightless,” the Most Relaxing Song Ever Made, According to Researchers (You’ll Need It Today) (12)
- 09: Is The Big Lebowski a Great Noir Film? A New Way to Look at the Coen Brothers’ Iconic Movie (4)
- 09: The Only Known Footage of Louis Armstrong in a Recording Studio: Watch the Recently-Discovered Film (1959) (5)
- 08: Edgar Allan Poe’s the Raven: Watch an Award-Winning Short Film That Modernizes Poe’s Classic Tale (5)
- 08: Bruce Springsteen Plays 3 Classic Songs & Makes the Case for Hillary at Rally Last Night (3)
- 08: David Bowie Sings “Fame” & “Golden Years” on Soul Train (1975) (1)
- 08: What Did Nietzsche Really Mean When He Wrote “God is Dead”? (13)
- 08: Stephen King’s The Shining Is Now an Opera: Hear a Recording of the Entire Production (for a Limited Time) (0)
- 07: Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life in Art, a Short Documentary on the Painter Narrated by Gene Hackman (2)
- 07: The Power of Conformity: 1962 Episode of Candid Camera Reveals the Strange Psychology of Riding Elevators (0)
- 07: Patti Smith Reads from Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, the Love Letter He Wrote From Prison (1897) (0)
- 04: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Incensed Letter to the High School That Burned Slaughterhouse-Five (9)
- 04: What Character Traits Do Geniuses Share in Common?: From Isaac Newton to Richard Feynman (2)
- 04: When Vladimir Nabokov Taught Ruth Bader Ginsburg, His Most Famous Student, To Care Deeply About Writing (1)
- 04: Sal Khan & the Muppets’ Grover Explain the Electoral College (2)
- 03: The Graceful Movements of Kung Fu & Modern Dance Revealed in Stunning Motion Visualizations (0)
- 03: 20 Mesmerizing Videos of Japanese Artisans Creating Traditional Handicrafts (4)
- 03: 215 Hours of Free Foreign Language Lessons on Spotify: French, Chinese, German, Russian & More (3)
- 03: Decoding the Screenplays of The Shining, Moonrise Kingdom & The Dark Knight: Watch Lessons from the Screenplay (1)
- 02: Organized Religion Got You Down? Discover The Church Of Saint John Coltrane (4)
- 02: When Akira Kurosawa Watched Solaris with Andrei Tarkovsky: I Was “Very Happy to Find Myself Living on Earth” (0)
- 02: Cook Up Aleister Crowley’s Rice Recipe: Perfect for Eating with Curry (0)
- 01: Videos Recreate Isaac Newton’s Neat Alchemy Experiments: Watch Silver Get Turned Into Gold (1)
- 01: Father Writes a Great Letter About Censorship When Son Brings Home Permission Slip to Read Ray Bradbury’s Censored Book, Fahrenheit 451 (7)
- 01: Watch a 20-Year-Old Mikhail Baryshnikov Win Gold in One of His Earliest Performances (1969) (0)
- October 2016 (88)
- 31: Hear 20 Minutes of Mark Frost’s New Secret History of Twin Peaks, the Book Fans Have Waited 25 Years to Read (0)
- 31: Hear Vincent Price, Horror Film Legend, Read 8+ Hours of Scary Stories (1)
- 31: What Makes a Good Horror Movie? The Answer Revealed with a Journey Through Classic Horror Films Clips (1)
- 31: Isaac Newton’s Recipe for the Mythical ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ Is Being Digitized & Put Online (Along with His Other Alchemy Manuscripts) (0)
- 28: The 14-Hour Epic Film, Dune, That Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pink Floyd, Salvador Dalí, Moebius, Orson Welles & Mick Jagger Never Made (4)
- 28: Huge Archive of American Films–From Casablanca to Gigli–Are Protected & Preserved in a Nuclear Bunker (1)
- 28: Hear Marilyn Monroe’s Acting Teacher, Lee Strasberg, Deliver a Moving Eulogy at Her Funeral (1962) (0)
- 28: Hear Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage (1967) (2)
- 27: What Does Jorge Luis Borges’ “Library of Babel” Look Like? An Accurate Illustration Created with 3D Modeling Software (1)
- 27: The 20 CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and Placed on Prototype iPods (2001) (0)
- 27: Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Kids (1962) (0)
- 27: Green Day Fan Joins Band On Stage, Takes Over on Guitar, and Acts Like He’s Been There Many Times Before (0)
- 27: What Happens When Blade Runner & A Scanner Darkly Get Remade with an Artificial Neural Network (1)
- 26: How Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai Perfected the Cinematic Action Scene: A New Video Essay (2)
- 26: Spike Jonze’s Stop Motion Film Hauntingly Animates Paris’ Famed Shakespeare and Company Bookstore (0)
- 26: Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, the Triadic Ballet, First Staged by Oskar Schlemmer in 1922 (2)
- 26: Wabi-Sabi: A Short Film on the Beauty of Traditional Japan (0)
- 25: Odd Vintage Postcards Document the Propaganda Against Women’s Rights 100 Years Ago (4)
- 25: “Alexander Hamilton” Performed with American Sign Language (0)
- 25: The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook Collects Recipes From T.C. Boyle, Marina Abramović, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates & More (0)
- 25: Stephen Fry Narrates 4 Philosophy Animations On the Question: How to Create a Just Society? (0)
- 24: Kurt Vonnegut’s Term Paper Assignment from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Teaches You to Read Fiction Like a Writer (2)
- 24: When Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe Met, and Dickens’ Pet Raven Inspired Poe’s Poem “The Raven” (6)
- 24: Watch 52,000 Books Getting Reshelved at The New York Public Library in a Short, Timelapse Film (1)
- 24: Hear J.G. Ballard Stories Adapted as Surreal Soundscapes That Put You Inside the Heads of His Characters (3)
- 23: Sean Penn Narrates Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: Download It for Free (0)
- 21: Leonard Cohen Has Passed at Age 82: His New and Now Final Album Is Streaming Free Online (7)
- 21: Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek (17)
- 21: An Immersive Audio Tour of the East Village’s Famed Poetry Scene, Narrated by Jim Jarmusch (0)
- 21: Meet the Memphis Group, the Bob Dylan-Inspired Designers of David Bowie’s Favorite Furniture (0)
- 21: “We Suck” — When Yale Pranked Harvard at the 2004 Big Football Game (0)
- 20: Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967) (9)
- 20: How Movie Studios Rejected Scripts During the Silent-Film Era: A Cold, 17-Point Checklist Circa 1915 (2)
- 20: MoMA’s Artists’ Cookbook (1978) Reveals the Meals of Salvador Dalí, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois & More (0)
- 20: The 4’33” App Lets You Create Your Own Version of John Cage’s Classic Work (1)
- 19: The U.S. National Archives Launches an Animated GIF Archive: See Whitman, Twain, Hemingway & Others in Motion (0)
- 19: H.G. Wells Reads Finnegans Wake & Tells James Joyce: It’s “A Dead End,” “You Have Turned Your Back on Common Men” (1928) (0)
- 19: John Cleese & Jonathan Miller Turn Profs Talking About Wittgenstein Into a Classic Comedy Routine (1977) (0)
- 19: The Entire History of Japan in 9 Quirky Minutes (4)
- 18: Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 18 (4)
- 18: Hear Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies & Ballets in a Complete, 32-Hour, Chronological Playlist (0)
- 18: Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920) (10)
- 17: Watch a 27-Year-Old Glenn Gould Play Bach & Put His Musical Genius on Display (1959) (0)
- 17: Watch Helen Keller & Teacher Annie Sullivan Demonstrate How Helen Learned to Speak (1930) (0)
- 17: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs Great Covers of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” & More (3)
- 17: Watch Online Every Presidential Debate Since 1960–and Revisit America’s Saner Political Days (0)
- 14: The History of Europe: 5,000 Years Animated in a Timelapse Map (2)
- 14: Hear Raymond Chandler & Ian Fleming–Two Masters of Suspense–Talk with One Another in Rare 1958 Audio (2)
- 14: Famous Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More (4)
- 14: The Best Commercial Ever? James Brown Sells Miso Soup (1992) (0)
- 13: Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature for Creating “New Poetic Expressions within the Great American Song Tradition” (4)
- 13: Goethe’s Colorful & Abstract Illustrations for His 1810 Treatise, Theory of Colors: Scans of the First Edition (1)
- 13: How to Break Open a Big Wheel of Parmesan Cheese: A Delightful, 15-Minute Primer (1)
- 13: How to Fill the Blank Page: Advice from Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell & 5 Other Authors (0)
- 13: Twin Peaks Tarot Cards Now Available as 78-Card Deck (2)
- 12: Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980) (25)
- 12: The Night When Charlie Parker Played for Igor Stravinsky (1951) (7)
- 12: 21 Artists Give “Advice to the Young:” Vital Lessons from Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Umberto Eco, Patti Smith & More (1)
- 12: Free Audio Book: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Read by British Actor Hayward Morse (2)
- 11: Alejandro Jodorowsky Explains How Tarot Cards Can Give You Creative Inspiration (6)
- 11: How to Raise Creative Children Who Can Change the World: 3 Lessons from Wharton Professor Adam Grant (0)
- 11: The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Revisit 1980s Documentaries on David Lynch, John Waters, Alejandro Jodorowsky & Other Filmmakers (0)
- 11: Hear Steve Reich’s Minimalist Compositions in a 28-Hour Playlist: A Journey Through His Influential Recordings (1)
- 10: Aleister Crowley & William Butler Yeats Get into an Occult Battle, Pitting White Magic Against Black Magic (1900) (9)
- 10: Hear Bill Murray’s Favorite Poems Read Aloud by Murray Himself & Their Authors (0)
- 10: Henri Matisse Illustrates James Joyce’s Ulysses (1935) (1)
- 10: Periodic Table Battleship!: A Fun Way To Learn the Elements (2)
- 09: Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: The 2016 Edition (2)
- 07: Hear Christopher Walken’s Wonderful Reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1)
- 07: Watch the Proto-Punk Band The Monks Sow Chaos on German TV, 1966: A Great Concert Moment on YouTube (4)
- 07: Every U.S. Vice President with an Octopus on His Head: Kickstart The Veeptopus Book (1)
- 07: Monty Python’s “Argument Clinic” Sketch Reenacted by Two Vintage Voice Synthesizers (One Is Stephen Hawking’s Voice) (0)
- 06: New Handbook for Educators Explains How to Produce & Distribute Free Video for the World (0)
- 06: Some of Buster Keaton’s Great, Death-Defying Stunts Captured in Animated Gifs (1)
- 06: Anthony Burgess Names the 99 Best Novels in English Between 1939 & 1983: Orwell, Nabokov, Huxley & More (2)
- 06: Great Courses Plus Now Offers a 30-Day Free Trial: 7,000 Video Lectures Covering Philosophy, Photography & More (3)
- 06: The New York Public Library Lets Patrons Download 300,000 eBooks (0)
- 06: What Life Was Like for Teenagers in Ancient Rome: Get a Glimpse from a TED-ED Animation (0)
- 05: Hear Sylvia Plath’s Barely-Known Radio Play, Three Women (2)
- 05: Salvador Dalí’s 1973 Cookbook Gets Reissued: Surrealist Art Meets Haute Cuisine (0)
- 05: A Master List of 800 Free Classic eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices (4)
- 05: Experience Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in Virtual Reality: Download the Free App Created by Queen & Google (0)
- 04: Marshall McLuhan, W.H. Auden & Buckminster Fuller Debate the Virtues of Modern Technology & Media (1971) (1)
- 04: The Rise & Fall of the Romans: Every Year Shown in a Timelapse Map Animation (753 BC -1479 AD) (4)
- 04: Pete Seeger Teaches You How to Play Guitar for Free in The Folksinger’s Guitar Guide (1955) (4)
- 04: Watch Soviet Avant-Garde Composers Create Synthesized Music with Hand-Drawn Animations (1934) (0)
- 03: Helen Keller Had Impeccable Handwriting: See a Collection of Her Childhood Letters (1)
- 03: H.G. Wells Pans Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in a 1927 Movie Review: It’s “the Silliest Film” (1)
- September 2016 (89)
- 30: Hear a Playlist of the 336 Songs Mentioned in Bruce Springsteen’s New Memoir, Born to Run (0)
- 30: A Complete List of the 533 Movies & TV Shows Watched on the International Space Station (0)
- 30: Chris Rock Creates a List of His 13 Favorite Standup Comedy Specials (2)
- 30: How the Coen Brothers Storyboarded Blood Simple Down to a Tee (1984) (0)
- 30: When an Octopus Caused the Great Staten Island Ferry Disaster (November 22, 1963) (0)
- 29: Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Sing Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” with David Gilmour Live on Stage (3)
- 29: Artificial Intelligence Program Tries to Write a Beatles Song: Listen to “Daddy’s Car” (16)
- 29: Sci-Fi Icon Robert Heinlein Lists 5 Essential Rules for Making a Living as a Writer (2)
- 29: A Master List of 1,250 Free Courses From Top Universities: 40,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures (6)
- 29: Watch John Malkovich Portray David Lynch and Lynch’s Famous Characters from Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More (0)
- 28: Hear the First Recording of Computer Generated Music: Researchers Restore Music Programmed on Alan Turing’s Computer (1951) (1)
- 28: H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu in Anime: A First Glimpse (4)
- 28: When L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz Series Was Banned for “Depicting Women in Strong Leadership Roles” (1928) (3)
- 28: J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: His 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature (0)
- 27: The Sights & Sounds of 18th Century Paris Get Recreated with 3D Audio and Animation (0)
- 27: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” Played on a 1929 Theremin (2)
- 27: 8+ Hours of Classic Charles Dickens Stories Dramatized, Starring Orson Welles, Boris Karloff, Richard Burton & More (0)
- 27: Charlie Chaplin Finds Comedy Even in the Brutality of WWI: A Scene from Shoulder Arms (1918) (1)
- 26: Explore 5,300 Rare Manuscripts Digitized by the Vatican: From The Iliad & Aeneid, to Japanese & Aztec Illustrations (0)
- 26: 1944 Instructional Video Teaches You the Lindy Hop, the Dance That Originated in 1920’s Harlem Ballrooms (0)
- 26: Akira Kurosawa’s Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers: Write, Write, Write and Read (1)
- 26: The Art of Making Old-Fashioned, Hand-Printed Books (2)
- 23: David Byrne & Neil deGrasse Tyson Explain the Importance of an Arts Education (and How It Strengthens Science & Civilization) (7)
- 23: Bruce Springsteen Lists 20 of His Favorite Books: The Books That Have Inspired the Songwriter & Now Memoirist (1)
- 23: The Very First Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1897) (2)
- 23: How to Draw the Human Face & Head: A Free 3-Hour Tutorial (1)
- 22: The New York Public Library Unveils a Cutting-Edge Train That Delivers Books (1)
- 22: An Animated David Lynch Explains Where He Gets His Ideas (1)
- 22: Build Your Own Miniature Sets from Hayao Miyazaki’s Beloved Films: My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service & More (1)
- 22: “Evil Mickey Mouse” Invades Japan in a 1934 Japanese Anime Propaganda Film (4)
- 21: Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968) (6)
- 21: Ukulele Orchestra Performs Ennio Morricone’s Iconic Western Theme Song, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” And It’s Pretty Brilliant. (5)
- 21: W.E.B. Du Bois Creates Revolutionary, Artistic Data Visualizations Showing the Economic Plight of African-Americans (1900) (2)
- 21: Frank Lloyd Wright Designs an Urban Utopia: See His Hand-Drawn Sketches of Broadacre City (1932) (0)
- 20: Hear 75 Free, Classic Audio Books on Spotify: Austen, Joyce, Bukowski, Kafka, Vonnegut, Poe, Shakespeare, Kerouac & More (6)
- 20: Hear George Orwell’s 1984 Adapted as a Radio Play at the Height of McCarthyism & The Red Scare (1953) (1)
- 20: Jorge Luis Borges Creates a List of 16 Ironic Rules for Writing Fiction (0)
- 20: Watch Jimmy Page Rock the Theremin, the Early Soviet Electronic Instrument, in Some Hypnotic Live Performances (0)
- 19: Every Exhibition Held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Presented in a New Web Site: 1929 to Present (0)
- 19: A Map of Chicago’s Gangland: A Cheeky, Cartographic Look at Al Capone’s World (1931) (2)
- 19: John Austen’s Haunting Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Masterpiece of the Aesthetic Movement (1922) (1)
- 19: How Literature Can Improve Mental Health: Take a Free Course Featuring Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, Melvyn Bragg & More (1)
- 16: Watch 222 Great Films in the Public Domain: Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Buster Keaton & More (2)
- 16: Watch Bacteria Become Resistant to Antibiotics in a Matter of Days: A Quick, Stop-Motion Film (1)
- 16: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich: A 1909 Cookbook Full of Creative Recipes (0)
- 16: Hear Waiting for Godot, the Acclaimed 1956 Production Starring The Wizard of Oz’s Bert Lahr (1)
- 15: Mark Twain Makes a List of 60 American Comfort Foods He Missed While Traveling Abroad (1880) (4)
- 15: The Essence of Linear Algebra Explained with Animations (2)
- 15: Watch Akira Kurosawa & Francis Ford Coppola in Japanese Whiskey Ads from 1979: The Inspiration for Lost in Translation (0)
- 15: “The Wonderground Map of London Town,” the Iconic 1914 Map That Saved the World’s First Subway System (1)
- 14: Carl Sagan & the Dalai Lama Meet in 1991 and Discuss When Science Can Answer Big Questions Better Than Religion (0)
- 14: An Animated Aldous Huxley Identifies the Dystopian Threats to Our Freedom (1958) (0)
- 14: Hear 5 Hours of Ennio Morricone’s Scores for Classic Western Films: From Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns to Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (0)
- 14: Why Marvel and Other Hollywood Films Have Such Bland Music: Every Frame a Painting Explains the Perils of the “Temp Score” (1)
- 13: Frank Zappa Explains the Decline of the Music Business (1987) (1)
- 13: Vincent van Gogh Visits a Modern Museum & Gets to See His Artistic Legacy: A Touching Scene from Doctor Who (9)
- 13: Deconstructing Saving Private Ryan‘s Epic Opening Battle Scene: How Spielberg Captures Chaos with Clarity (3)
- 13: French Filmmaker Michel Gondry Creates a Steamy New Music Video for The White Stripes (0)
- 12: The History of Spiritual Jazz: Hear a Transcendent 12-Hour Mix Featuring John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock & More (20)
- 12: Inventor of a Wearable Parachute Takes a Flying Leap Off of the Eiffel Tower in 1912, and It Doesn’t End Well (4)
- 12: Hear 21 Hours of Lectures & Talks by Howard Zinn, Author of the Bestselling A People’s History of the United States (1)
- 12: “Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett: Watch Charlie Rose Meet Charlie Rose in a Comical Piece of Absurdist Theater (0)
- 09: Take a Free Course on Digital Photography from Stanford Prof Marc Levoy (11)
- 09: How to Get Started with Yoga: Free Yoga Lessons on YouTube (2)
- 09: William Blake’s Masterpiece Illustrations of the Book of Job (1793-1827) (0)
- 09: New Archive Presents The Chicagoan, Chicago’s Jazz-Age Answer to The New Yorker (1926 to 1935) (2)
- 09: Eadweard Muybridge’s Motion Photography Experiments from the 1870s Presented in 93 Animated Gifs (1)
- 08: Learn How to Read Sheet Music: A Quick, Fun, Tongue-in-Cheek Introduction (2)
- 08: Things to Come, the 1936 Sci-Fi Film Written by H.G. Wells, Accurately Predicts the World’s Very Dark Future (3)
- 08: On Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary, Watch New Episodes of Star Trek Continues, the Acclaimed Fan-Made Sequel to the Original TV Show (0)
- 08: Paul McCartney Shows You How to Make Mashed Potatoes (1998) (1)
- 07: What Makes Vertigo the Best Film of All Time? Four Video Essays (and Martin Scorsese) Explain (1)
- 07: Patti Smith’s New Haunting Tribute to Nico: Hear Three Tracks (4)
- 07: The History of Stop-Motion Films: 39 Films, Spanning 116 Years, Revisited in a 3-Minute Video (1)
- 07: Watch Russian Futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky Star in His Only Surviving Film, The Lady and the Hooligan (1918) (1)
- 06: Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (3)
- 06: Good Morning, Mr. Orwell: Nam June Paik’s Avant-Garde New Year’s Celebration with Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Peter Gabriel & More (0)
- 05: An Animated Introduction to French Philosopher Jacques Derrida (0)
- 05: 5 Hours of Free Alfred Hitchcock Interviews: Discover His Theories of Film Editing, Creating Suspense & More (2)
- 05: Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Errol Morris Creates a Commercial for Depend Adult Diapers (1)
- 05: The History of Literature Podcast Takes You on a Literary Journey: From Ancient Epics to Contemporary Classics (1)
- 02: The History of Russia in 70,000 Photos: New Photo Archive Presents Russian History from 1860 to 1999 (4)
- 02: Malcolm Gladwell on Why Genius Takes Time: A Look at the Making of Elvis Costello’s “Deportee” & Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” (3)
- 02: The Poetry of Mining Beautiful White Italian Marble Captured in a Short Film (3)
- 01: Watch the Burning Man Live Stream (37)
- 01: How Ancient Greek Statues Really Looked: Research Reveals Their Bold, Bright Colors and Patterns (1)
- 01: An Animated John Lennon Describes His First Acid Trip (0)
- 01: 3,000 Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Complete Works from Victorian England, Neatly Presented in a New Digital Archive (2)
- 01: Watch Nirvana Perform “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Just Days After the Release of Nevermind (1991) (3)
- August 2016 (93)
- 31: Watch M.C. Escher Make His Final Artistic Creation (1971) (0)
- 31: Seth Godin’s Startup School: A Free Mini-Course for New Entrepreneurs (0)
- 31: Chris Rock Reads James Baldwin’s Still Timely Letter on Race in America: “We Can Make What America Must Become” (1)
- 31: Hear 508 Hours of Songs Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder (1924-2016), the Engineer Who Created the Sound of Modern Jazz (2)
- 30: Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online (49)
- 30: Tilda Swinton Gets a Portrait Drawn by Art Critic John Berger (0)
- 30: Gene Wilder Recalls the Beginnings of His Creative Life in Two Hilarious, Poignant Stories (0)
- 30: Ultra Orthodox Rabbis Sing Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” on the Streets of Jerusalem (3)
- 29: Why You Shouldn’t Drive Slowly in the Left Traffic Lane (1)
- 29: Download 100,000 Photos of 20 Great U.S. National Parks, Courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service (2)
- 29: The Spellbinding Art of Human Anatomy: From the Renaissance to Our Modern Times (0)
- 29: 1850s Japan Comes to Life in 3D, Color Photos: See the Stereoscopic Photography of T. Enami (2)
- 29: Hear the Beatles Play Their Final Concert 50 Years Ago Today (August 29, 1966) (2)
- 28: Nakedly Examined Music Podcast Explores Songwriting with Cracker, King Crimson, Cutting Crew, Jill Sobule & More (0)
- 26: Angelo Badalamenti Reveals How He and David Lynch Composed the Twin Peaks‘ “Love Theme” (2)
- 26: Rome Comes to Life in Photochrom Color Photos Taken in 1890: The Colosseum, Trevi Fountain & More (1)
- 26: A Big Super Cut of Saturday Night Live Cast Members Breaking Character and Cracking Up (1)
- 25: Hear the One Night Sun Ra & John Cage Played Together in Concert (1986) (0)
- 25: Hear the Music of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Played by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (0)
- 25: Pizza Box Becomes a Playable DJ Turntable Through the Magic of Conductive Ink (0)
- 25: Take a Virtual Reality Tour of the World’s Stolen Art (0)
- 24: The Best 100 Movies of the 21st Century (So Far) Named by 177 Film Critics (2)
- 24: Star Trek Postage Stamps Coming Soon: Celebrating 50 Years of Exploring the Final Frontier (1)
- 24: Penn Jillette Makes the Philosophical & Pragmatic Case for Libertarianism (2)
- 24: The Enchanting Opera Performances of Klaus Nomi (2)
- 23: Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Gets an Epic, Instrumental Soundtrack from the Indie Band Joan of Arc (1)
- 23: The Accidental Origin of the Hit Song ‘American Woman’: Randy Bachman Tells the Story (0)
- 23: A 12-Hour Eastern Spirituality Playlist: Features Lectures & Readings by Joseph Campbell, Christopher Isherwood, the Dalai Lama & Others (1)
- 23: The History of Photography in Five Animated Minutes: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone (1)
- 22: The Hidden Secrets in “Daydreaming,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Radiohead Music Video (2)
- 22: Prof. Brian Cox Has a Maddening Conversation with a Climate Science-Denying Politician (5)
- 22: Behold the Very First Color Photograph (1861): Taken by Scottish Physicist (and Poet!) James Clerk Maxwell (5)
- 22: Oliver Sacks’ Final Interview: A First Look (2)
- 21: Free: Hear Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Read by Hans Conried (1958) (0)
- 19: Read the Original 32-Page Program for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (2)
- 19: Hear Arthur C. Clarke Read 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Vintage 1976 Vinyl Recording (0)
- 19: What Ancient Latin Sounded Like, And How We Know It (5)
- 18: The Neuroscience & Psychology of Procrastination, and How to Overcome It (5)
- 18: What Do Movies Say When They Say Nothing at All: A Video Essay (0)
- 18: When Steve Buscemi Was a Firefighter — and Took It Up Again After 9/11 (0)
- 18: 8 Writers on How to Face Writer’s Block and the Blank Page: Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, Joyce Carol Oates & More (0)
- 17: The CIA Puts Hundreds of Declassified Documents About UFO Sightings Online, Plus 10 Tips for Investigating Flying Saucers (3)
- 17: When Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Brought Klaus Nomi, Blondie & Basquiat to Public Access TV (1978-82) (1)
- 17: Three-Hour Mixtape Offers a Sonic Introduction to Underground Goth Music (6)
- 17: Hear Marc Maron’s Long Talk with Werner Herzog (0)
- 16: 33 Songs That Document the History of Feminist Punk (1975-2015): A Playlist Curated by Pitchfork (4)
- 16: Oliver Sacks Explains the Biology of Hallucinations: “We See with the Eyes, But with the Brain as Well” (0)
- 16: The 5 Books on President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List (0)
- 16: Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects (2)
- 15: When James Joyce & Marcel Proust Met in 1922, and Totally Bored Each Other (7)
- 15: The History of Civilization Mapped in 13 Minutes: 5000 BC to 2014 AD (4)
- 15: Watch Sunspring, the Sci-Fi Film Written with Artificial Intelligence, Starring Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley) (1)
- 15: Mashup Weaves Together 57 Famous Classical Pieces by 33 Composers: From Bach to Wagner (0)
- 12: Watch What Happens When 100 Metronomes Perform György Ligeti’s Controversial Poème Symphonique (6)
- 12: A Free POTUS Summer Playlist: Pres. Obama Curates 39 Songs for a Summer Day (5)
- 12: Watch collective:unconscious, the Acclaimed Indie Film Where 5 Filmmakers Adapt Each Other’s Dreams for the Screen (2)
- 12: A Six-Hour Playlist of Shel Silverstein’s Poems & Songs: Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic & More (0)
- 11: Cate Blanchett Stars in a New Massive Attack Video, Which Doubles as a Short Art-House Film (1)
- 11: Learn Ancient Greek in 64 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard (16)
- 11: Bob Geldof Talks About the Greatest Day of His Life, Stepping on the Stage of Live Aid, in a Short Doc by Errol Morris (0)
- 11: Robin Williams Uses His Stand-Up Comedy Genius to Deliver a 1983 Commencement Speech (0)
- 10: Stephen Fry on Coping with Depression: It’s Raining, But the Sun Will Come Out Again (3)
- 10: Free: National Geographic Lets You Download Thousands of Maps from the United States Geological Survey (3)
- 10: Hear the Voice of Albert Einstein: Vintage Album Features Him Talking About E=MC2, World Peace & More (2)
- 10: James Joyce: An Animated Introduction to His Life and Literary Works (2)
- 09: In the Only Surviving Recording of Her Voice, Virginia Woolf Explains Why Writing Isn’t a “Craft” (1937) (7)
- 09: Werner Herzog Tells a Book Club Why The Peregrine Is One of His Favorite Books, a 20th-Century Masterpiece (0)
- 09: Playing a Video Game Could Cut the Risk of Dementia by 48%, Suggests a New Study (1)
- 09: Malcolm Gladwell Asks Hard Questions about Money & Meritocracy in American Higher Education: Stream 3 Episodes of His New Podcast (3)
- 08: The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments of the 20th Century” (1965) (2)
- 08: Hear VALIS, an Opera Based on Philip K. Dick’s Metaphysical Novel (1)
- 08: The Philosophy of Bruce Lee Gets Explored in a New Podcast (0)
- 08: Maya Angelou Reads Her Poem, “The Human Family,” in New iPhone Ad Released for the Olympics’ Opening Ceremony (10)
- 05: Stream a Massive Collection of Indie, Noise Industrial Mixtapes from the 80s and 90s (1)
- 05: Playing Golf on LSD With Hunter S. Thompson: Esquire Editor Remembers the Oddest Game of Golf (0)
- 05: Werner Herzog Narrates Pokémon Go: Imagines It as a Murderous Metaphor for the Battle to Survive (0)
- 04: Carl Jung Explains Why His Famous Friendship with Sigmund Freud Fell Apart in Rare 1959 Audio (3)
- 04: Book Readers Live Longer Lives, According to New Study from Yale University (4)
- 04: Artist Ai Weiwei Gives the Finger to Symbols of Authority Around the World (0)
- 04: Japanese Craftsman Spends His Life Trying to Recreate a Thousand-Year-Old Sword (1)
- 03: Hear 17,000+ Traditional Folk & Blues Songs Curated by the Great Musicologist Alan Lomax (1)
- 03: The Last Bookstore: A Short Documentary on Perseverance & the Love of Books (0)
- 03: The Digital Transgender Archive Features Books, Magazines & Photos Telling the History of Transgender Culture (0)
- 03: Michio Kaku on Why Immigrants Are America’s Secret Weapon: They Compensate for Our Mediocre STEM Education & Keep Prosperity Going (23)
- 02: Stream Iggy Pop’s Two-Hour Radio Tribute to David Bowie (0)
- 02: Philosopher Sam Harris Leads You Through a 26-Minute Guided Meditation (6)
- 02: Simone de Beauvoir Defends Existentialism & Her Feminist Masterpiece, The Second Sex, in Rare 1959 TV Interview (1)
- 02: Watch Hannah Arendt’s Diagnosis of the Banality of Evil as an 8-Bit Video Game (0)
- 02: Get a Free Pocket Edition of the U.S. Constitution (Now #2 on the Amazon Bestseller List) (13)
- 01: Hear Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Sung as a One-Woman Opera (3)
- 01: Watch “Traffic Stop,” an Emmy-Nominated, Animated Film About a Traffic Stop Gone Horribly Wrong (2)
- 01: Edward Wright Creates a List of His 1,000 Favorite Movies: Watch 10 of Them Free Online (1)
- 01: Watch Carl Sagan’s “A Glorious Dawn” Become the First Vinyl Record Played in Space, Courtesy of Jack White (0)
- July 2016 (87)
- 29: John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4’33” Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band (17)
- 29: Hear the 14-Hour “Essential Edgar Allan Poe” Playlist: “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” & Much More (0)
- 29: Stephen King on the Magic Moment When a Young Writer Reads a Published Book and Says: “This Sucks. I Can Do Better.” (0)
- 28: Ray Bradbury Explains Why Literature is the Safety Valve of Civilization (in Which Case We Need More Literature!) (1)
- 28: The Bizarre Time When Frank Zappa’s Entirely Instrumental Album Received an “Explicit Lyrics” Sticker (3)
- 28: A Drone’s Eye View of the Ancient Pyramids of Egypt, Sudan & Mexico (1)
- 28: Watch the Beautiful Chemical Reactions Captured in Stunning Microphotography (0)
- 27: Brian Eno Explains the Loss of Humanity in Modern Music (53)
- 27: Stream 18 Hours of Free Guided Meditations (7)
- 27: Test Your Literary Mettle: Take a 50 Question Quiz from The Strand Bookstore (12)
- 27: Joseph Priestley Visualizes History & Great Historical Figures with Two of the Most Influential Infographics Ever (1769) (1)
- 26: The Last Known Photos of Jim Morrison, Taken Days Before His Death in Paris (June 1971) (4)
- 26: What Are the Most Stolen Books? Bookstore Lists Feature Works by Murakami, Bukowski, Burroughs, Vonnegut, Kerouac & Palahniuk (4)
- 26: Was a 32,000-Year-Old Cave Painting the Earliest Form of Cinema? (4)
- 26: Replica of an Algerian City, Made of Couscous: Now on Display at The Guggenheim (0)
- 25: How Did Hitler Rise to Power? : New TED-ED Animation Provides a Case Study in How Fascists Get Democratically Elected (11)
- 25: Marina Abramović and Ulay’s Adventurous 1970s Performance Art Pieces (0)
- 25: Allen Ginsberg Teaches You How to Meditate with a Rock Song Featuring Bob Dylan on Bass (0)
- 24: Hear Maggie Gyllenhaal Read the Opening Lines of Anna Karenina: The Beginning of a 36-Hour, New Audio Book (0)
- 22: Hear Albert Camus Read the Famous Opening Passage of The Stranger (1947) (4)
- 22: Stanley Kubrick’s Daughter Vivian Debunks the Age-Old Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory (8)
- 22: In Touching Video, People with Alzheimer’s Tell Us Which Memories They Never Want to Forget (0)
- 22: If Coffee Commercials Told the Unvarnished Truth (1)
- 21: Marie Curie Attended a Secret, Underground “Flying University” When Women Were Banned from Polish Universities (6)
- 21: Wonderfully Offbeat Assignments That Artist John Baldessari Gave to His Art Students (1970) (0)
- 21: The Beatles “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Gets a Dreamy New Music Video from Cirque du Soleil (0)
- 21: Octavia Butler’s 1998 Dystopian Novel Features a Fascistic Presidential Candidate Who Promises to “Make America Great Again” (5)
- 20: Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants Arriving on America’s Welcoming Shores Circa 1907 (0)
- 20: The Largest Ever Tribute to Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” Choreographed by a Flashmob in Berlin (1)
- 20: Why Economics is for Everyone!, Explained in a New RSA Animated Video (1)
- 20: Four Interactive Maps Immortalize the Road Trips That Inspired Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (2)
- 19: Enroll in a Free Online Course about ‘The Hobbits’ (aka Homo floresiensis) (0)
- 19: William S. Burroughs Drops a Posthumous Album, Setting Readings of Naked Lunch to Music (NSFW) (0)
- 19: Download Alfred Stieglitz’s Proto-Dada Art Journal, 291, The First Art Magazine That Was Itself a Work of Art (1916) (0)
- 19: Hear 280 Blues, Country, Reggae & Rock Songs Keith Richards Namechecks in His Memoir, Life (1)
- 19: Browse & Stream Jeff Buckley’s Entire Record Collection on a New Interactive Web Site (1)
- 18: In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut Writes a Letter to People Living in 2088, Giving 7 Pieces of Advice (9)
- 18: French Artist Creates Digital Street Art in the Sky (0)
- 18: How to Jumpstart Your Creative Process with William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique (1)
- 18: How to Start a Start-Up: A Free Online Course from Y Combinator Taught at Stanford (3)
- 17: Fashionable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well (19)
- 17: How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?: A Short Free Course (19)
- 15: 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the Aeneid Digitized & Put Online by The Vatican (1)
- 15: Marie Osmond Performs the Dadaist Poem “Karawane” on the TV Show, Ripley’s Believe It or Not (1985) (4)
- 15: See How The Gutenberg Press Worked: Demonstration Shows the Oldest Functioning Gutenberg Press in Action (2)
- 14: Charles Bukowski’s Controversial Poem “Girl on the Escalator” Gets Literally Retold in a New Short Film (8)
- 14: The Entire Discipline of Philosophy Visualized with Mapping Software: See All of the Complex Networks (4)
- 14: Enter Brian Wilson’s Creative Process While Making The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds 50 Years Ago: A Fly-on-the Wall View (2)
- 14: Aaron Sorkin, Creator of The West Wing & The Social Network, Teaches Screenwriting in an Online Class (1)
- 13: Walt Whitman Gives Advice to Aspiring Young Writers: “Don’t Write Poetry” & Other Practical Tips (1888) (2)
- 13: Download 50+ Issues of Legendary West Coast Punk Music Zines from the 1970-80s: Damage, Slash & No Mag (3)
- 13: New Web Comic Revisits the Artists & Writers at the Bloody ’68 Convention: Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs & More (0)
- 13: Orson Welles Presents Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, the Most Popular High School Play of All Time (1939) (0)
- 12: Download All 8 Issues of Dada, the Arts Journal That Publicized the Avant-Garde Movement a Century Ago (1917-21) (7)
- 12: Stream 15 Hours of the John Peel Sessions: 255 Tracks by Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees & Other Artists (7)
- 12: A Young Nora Ephron Gets Animated About Breasts, Feminism, Journalism & New Possibilities (1975) (0)
- 12: The Soviets Who Bootlegged Western Music on X-Rays: Their Story Told in New Video & Audio Documentaries (0)
- 11: Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago: Celebrate the Avant-Garde Movement Launched by Hugo Ball on July 14, 1916 (3)
- 11: The Source Code for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Mission Is Now Free on Github (1)
- 11: Hunter S. Thompson Gets Confronted by The Hell’s Angels: Where’s Our Two Kegs of Beer? (1967) (1)
- 11: The Creativity of Female Graffiti & Street Artists Will Be Celebrated in Street Heroines, a New Documentary (2)
- 11: David Lynch Despises Product Placement & Watching Movies on iPhones (NSFW) (0)
- 09: The Secret Link Between Jazz and Physics: How Einstein & Coltrane Shared Improvisation and Intuition in Common (15)
- 09: What Is an “Existential Crisis”?: An Animated Video Explains What the Expression Really Means (4)
- 09: An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast (11)
- 08: Jane Austen’s Music Collection, Now Digitized and Available Online (1)
- 08: Can You Solve These Animated Brain Teasers from TED-Ed? (0)
- 08: The 10 Most Popular MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in July (1)
- 07: Animated: Frank Zappa on Why the Culturally-Bereft United States Is So Susceptible to Fads (1971) (5)
- 07: An Archive of 3,000 Vintage Cookbooks Lets You Travel Back Through Culinary Time (7)
- 07: Watch “The Corridor,” a Tribute to the Music Video Stanley Kubrick Planned to Make Near the End of His Life (0)
- 06: 32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking (10)
- 06: What’s the Essence of Music & Sound?: Meditations from Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad Presented in a Short, Creative Film (0)
- 06: The Prince Online Museum Archives 16 of Prince’s Official Web Sites, Spanning 20 Years (0)
- 06: Four Video Essays Explain the Mastery of Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (RIP) (0)
- 05: How Jazz-Loving Teenagers–the Swingjugend–Fought the Hitler Youth and Resisted Conformity in Nazi Germany (3)
- 05: Amazon to Launch Amazon Inspire, a Platform Offering Free Educational Resources for K-12 Teachers (0)
- 05: The Haunting Background Vocals on The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter:” Merry Clayton Recalls How They Came to Be (2)
- 05: Hear Electronic Ladyland, a Mixtape Featuring 55 Tracks from 35 Pioneering Women in Electronic Music (4)
- 04: Rufus Wainwright and 1,500 Singers Sing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” (36)
- 04: The Steamy Love Letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (1925-1929) (0)
- 04: Elie Wiesel (RIP) Talks About What Happens When We Die (0)
- 04: Change Your Life! Learn the Japanese Art of Decluttering, Organizing & Tidying Things Up (0)
- 01: Watch “Don’t Be a Sucker!,” the 1947 US Government Anti-Hatred Film That’s Relevant All Over Again (11)
- 01: The Fight to Liberate the “Happy Birthday” Song, Told in a Short Documentary (1)
- 01: An Eye-Popping Collection of 400+ Japanese Matchbox Covers: From 1920 through the 1940s (0)
- 01: Terry Gilliam Explains His Never-Ending Fascination with Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” (0)
- June 2016 (90)
- 30: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson’s Three Rules for Living Well: A Short and Succinct Life Philosophy (5)
- 30: Betty Davis’ Legendary and Long-Lost Recording Sessions, Produced by Miles Davis, Finally Released (1968-1969) (0)
- 30: Physics & Caffeine: Stop Motion Film Uses a Cup of Coffee to Explain Key Concepts in Physics (1)
- 30: The Philosophy of Bill Murray: The Intellectual Foundations of His Comedic Persona (4)
- 29: 23 Hours of H.P. Lovecraft Stories: Hear Readings & Dramatizations of “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” & Other Weird Tales (3)
- 29: Laurie Anderson’s Top 10 Books to Take to a Desert Island (6)
- 29: Hear 230 Episodes of Escape: Classic Radio Dramas of Stories by Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells & More (1947-1954) (1)
- 29: President Warren G. Harding’s Steamy Love Letters (0)
- 28: Hear Young Bob Dylan, Before Releasing His First Album, Tell Amazing Tales About Growing Up in a Carnival (0)
- 28: Hear Anaïs Nin Read From Her Celebrated Diary: A 60-Minute Vintage Recording (1966) (1)
- 28: The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910) (2)
- 28: Colorful Animation Visualizes 200 Years of Immigration to the U.S. (1820-Present) (0)
- 27: Slavoj Žižek Explains the Artistry of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films: Solaris, Stalker & More (0)
- 27: Photographer Bill Cunningham (RIP) on Living La Vie Boheme Above Carnegie Hall (3)
- 27: Free: Hear 24 Hours of Noam Chomsky’s Lectures & Talks on the Powers That Subvert Our Democracies (4)
- 27: And Now for Some Culinary Weirdness: Christopher Walken Shows You How to Cook Chicken & Pears (0)
- 24: What Does “Kafkaesque” Really Mean? A Short Animated Video Explains (9)
- 24: A Wonderful Archive of Historic Transit Maps: Expressive Art Meets Precise Graphic Design (0)
- 23: Brexit 101: The UK’s Stunning Vote Explained in 4 Minutes (12)
- 23: 1930s Fashion Designers Predict How People Would Dress in the Year 2000 (1)
- 23: Download Issues of “Weird Tales” (1923-1954): The Pioneering Pulp Horror Magazine Features Original Stories by Lovecraft, Bradbury & Many More (9)
- 23: Johnny Rotten Becomes a DJ and Plays Songs from His Record Collection, 1977 (1)
- 23: Hear a 64-Hour Playlist of Sherlock Holmes Stories, With Performances by Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson & Many More (1)
- 22: Hear the Only Castrato Ever Recorded Sing “Ave Maria” and Other Classics (1904) (5)
- 22: Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” and “Self Portrait” Painted on Dark Water, Using a Traditional Turkish Art Form (1)
- 22: Hear the Great Mixtapes Richard Linklater Created to Psych Up the Actors in Dazed and Confused and Everybody Wants Some!! (0)
- 22: Surrealist Filmmaker Jan Švankmajer Is About to Make His Final Feature Film, and You Can Help Produce It (0)
- 21: Meet Four Women Who Pioneered Electronic Music: Daphne Oram, Laurie Spiegel, Éliane Radigue & Pauline Oliveros (4)
- 21: When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest and Came in 20th Place (15)
- 21: Andrei Tarkovsky Answers the Essential Questions: What is Art & the Meaning of Life? (1)
- 21: An Animated Introduction to Charles Dickens’ Life & Literary Works (0)
- 20: James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Gets Turned into an Interactive Web Film, the Medium It Was Destined For (5)
- 20: R Crumb, the Father of Underground Comix, Takes Down Donald Trump in a NSFW 1989 Cartoon (3)
- 20: Watch UC Berkeley’s Free “Edible Education 101” Lecture Course, Featuring Michael Pollan, Alice Waters and Other Sustainable Food Superstars (5)
- 20: 1,000 Vintage Postcards Show Famous Actors Performing Shakespeare’s Plays from 1880 to 1914 (1)
- 17: Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919-1921) (3)
- 17: A Handy Guide on How to Download Old Coursera Courses Before They Disappear (4)
- 17: Hear Ernest Shackleton Speak About His Antarctic Expedition in a Rare 1909 Recording (2)
- 17: The Best Drone Cinema in the World (0)
- 16: An Animated Intro to the Ideas of Jacques Lacan, “the Greatest French Psychoanalyst of the 20th Century” (0)
- 16: The Life of Prince in a 24-Page Comic Book: A New Release (1)
- 16: Carl Sagan Presents a Mini-Course on Earth, Mars & What’s Beyond Our Solar System: For Kids and Adults (1977) (0)
- 16: Download a Complete, Cover-to-Cover Parody of The New Yorker: 80 Pages of Fine Satire (0)
- 15: 100,000 Free Art History Texts Now Available Online Thanks to the Getty Research Portal (2)
- 15: Explore Harvard’s Iconic Spaces with 360° Interactive Videos (0)
- 15: The History of Electronic Music, 1800-2015: Free Web Project Catalogues the Theremin, Fairlight & Other Instruments That Revolutionized Music (0)
- 15: Stephen Fry Hates Dancing: Watch Fry’s Rant Against Dancing Get Turned into a Wonderful Interpretative Dance (2)
- 14: The Atlantic Slave Trade Visualized in Two Minutes: 10 Million Lives, 20,000 Voyages, Over 315 Years (11)
- 14: Lena Dunham Shows Why It’s So Damn Hard to Meditate: A Four-Minute Comedy (0)
- 14: Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Rendered in the Style of Picasso; Blade Runner in the Style of Van Gogh (1)
- 14: Filmmaker Ken Burns Urges Stanford Graduates to Defeat Trump & the Retrograde Forces Threatening the U.S. (7)
- 13: Harvard Dean Lists the 5 Essential Questions to Ask In Life … Which Will Bring You Happiness & Success (1)
- 13: Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz on How Trump May Change (If Not Destroy) the GOP (1)
- 13: “Forbidden Images,” a Compilation of Scandalous Scenes from the Early Days of Cinema (NSFW in 1926) (2)
- 13: Bertrand Russell Lists His 20 Favorite Words in 1958 (and What Are Some of Yours?) (20)
- 12: Bertrand Russell: “The Problem with the World Is That Fools & Fanatics Are So Certain of Themselves” (3)
- 11: The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946 (0)
- 10: Helen Mirren Holds Her Own (and Then Some) in a Cringe-Inducingly Sexist TV Interview, 1975 (2)
- 10: Hear a BBC Radio Drama of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 10: The Bizarre, Surviving Scene from the 1933 Soviet Animation Based on a Pushkin Tale and a Shostakovich Score (2)
- 10: Malcolm Gladwell Has Launched a New Podcast, Revisionist History: Hear the First Episode (9)
- 09: Aldous Huxley Predicts in 1950 What the World Will Look Like in the Year 2000 (4)
- 09: Martin Scorsese Sends a Sweet Video to the Young Creator a Kubrick/Scorsese Mashup (0)
- 09: The First Biopic of Edgar Allan Poe: 1909 Film by D.W. Griffith Shows the Horror Master Writing “The Raven” (1)
- 09: 1978 News Report on the Rocky Horror Craze Captures a Teenage Michael Stipe in Drag (0)
- 08: Moby Lets You Download 4 Hours of Ambient Music to Help You Sleep, Meditate, Do Yoga & Not Panic (8)
- 08: Free: Learn Foreign Languages in Your Car (4)
- 08: Get a Fly-on-the-Wall View of John Lennon Recording & Arranging His Classic Song, “Imagine” (1971) (0)
- 08: The Books on Young Alan Turing’s Reading List: From Lewis Carroll to Modern Chromatics (0)
- 07: Hear a 1930 Recording of Boléro, Conducted by Ravel Himself (5)
- 07: 1,000-Year-Old Manuscript of Beowulf Digitized and Now Online (2)
- 07: How to Achieve Professional Happiness Through “Creative Incompetence”: A Corollary to the Famous “Peter Principle” (2)
- 07: Stream 23 Free Documentaries from PBS’ Award-Winning American Experience Series (0)
- 06: 1,300 Photos of Famous Modern American Homes Now Online, Courtesy of USC (2)
- 06: A Complete Digitization of the 1960s Magazine Avant Garde: From John Lennon’s Erotic Lithographs to Marilyn Monroe’s Last Photos (1)
- 06: How to Look at Art: A Short Visual Guide by Cartoonist Lynda Barry (3)
- 06: Download All 239 Issues of Landmark UK Feminist Magazine Spare Rib Free Online (4)
- 03: “Muhammad Ali, This Is Your Life!”: Celebrate Ali’s Life & Times with This Touching 1978 TV Tribute (4)
- 03: Color Footage of America’s First Shopping Mall Opening in 1956: The Birth of a Beloved and Reviled Institution (1)
- 03: The Instrument Benjamin Franklin Invented, the Glass Armonica, Plays Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” (0)
- 03: Hear Amanda Palmer’s Cover of “Purple Rain,” a Gorgeous Stringfelt Send-Off to Prince (0)
- 02: Download 336 Issues of the Avant-Garde Magazine The Storm (1910-1932), Featuring the Work of Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy & More (3)
- 02: The Psychedelic Animated Video for Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” from 1979 (6)
- 02: Philosophy Prof Illustrates Nietzsche’s Zarathustra in the Style of Dr. Seuss (6)
- 02: Virginia Woolf Watches The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & Writes “The Cinema,” a Seminal Attempt to Understand the Power of Movies (1926) (1)
- 01: The Battle to Finish a PhD: World War I Soldier Completes His Dissertation in the Trenches (1916) (2)
- 01: The Opening of King Tut’s Tomb, Shown in Stunning Colorized Photos (1923-5) (3)
- 01: Brian Eno Answers Deep Questions from Music Journalist Dick Flash: The Best Eno Interview You’ll See (0)
- 01: Go Inside the First 30 Minutes of Kubrick’s The Shining with This 360º Virtual Reality Video (1)
- 01: Live Stream the World Science Festival, Starting (Now) with This Tribute to Oliver Sacks (0)
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- 31: Free: Download 5.3 Million Images from Books Published Over Last 500 Years (1)
- 31: The British Library Digitizes 300 Literary Treasures from 20th Century Authors: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce & More (0)
- 31: Get a Sneak Peek of Archangel, the New Comic Book by Cyberpunk Author William Gibson (2)
- 31: 10 Most Popular MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in June: Enroll Free Today (1)
- 30: How to Spot Bullshit: A Primer by Princeton Philosopher Harry Frankfurt (12)
- 30: Noam Chomsky on Whether the Rise of Trump Resembles the Rise of Fascism in 1930s Germany (26)
- 30: 4 Simple Ways You Can Personally Reduce Your Risk of Getting Cancer (0)
- 30: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Life & Literature Introduced in a Monty Python-Style Animation (0)
- 27: R. Crumb Illustrates Genesis: A Faithful, Idiosyncratic Illustration of All 50 Chapters (9)
- 27: Ayn Rand Issues 13 Commandments to Filmmakers for Making Good Capitalist Movies (1947) (0)
- 27: The Art Market Demystified in Four Short Documentaries (0)
- 27: Watch the Three Original Wizard of Oz Feature Films, Produced by L. Frank Baum Himself (3)
- 26: The Essential Elements of Film Noir Explained in One Grand Infographic (2)
- 26: The Influence of Miles Davis Revealed with Data Visualization: For His 90th Birthday Today (0)
- 26: The British Library’s “Sounds” Archive Presents 80,000 Free Audio Recordings: World & Classical Music, Interviews, Nature Sounds & More (7)
- 26: Wake Up & Smell the Coffee: The New All-in-One Coffee-Maker/Alarm Clock is Finally Here! (1)
- 25: Wynton Marsalis Takes Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet Out of the Museum & Plays It Again (2)
- 25: Daily Meditation Boosts & Revitalizes the Brain and Reduces Stress, Harvard Study Finds (2)
- 25: Stephen King’s The Shining Is Now an Opera, and The Tickets Are All Sold Out (1)
- 25: Behold the Kinetic, 39-Ton Statue of Franz Kafka’s Head, Erected in Prague (3)
- 24: Watch 82-Year-Old Igor Stravinsky Conduct The Firebird, the Ballet Masterpiece That First Made Him Famous (1965) (0)
- 24: How to Build Stuff: A Free Short Course on Making Prototypes by Entrepreneur Dan Gelbart (0)
- 24: Hunter S. Thompson Writes a Blistering, Over-the-Top Letter to Anthony Burgess (1973) (9)
- 24: 478 Dorothea Lange Photographs Poignantly Document the Internment of the Japanese During WWII (3)
- 23: 10 Digital Editions of Surrealist Journals from Argentina, Chile & Spain (1928-67) (2)
- 23: Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965) (1)
- 23: Mad Magazine’s Al Jaffee & Other Cartoonists Create Animations to End Distracted Driving (0)
- 23: Learning How to Learn: The Most Popular MOOC of All Time (0)
- 21: The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” Played by Musicians Around the World (0)
- 20: George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose (12)
- 20: 8 Glorious Hours of Dylan Thomas Reading Poetry–His Own & Others’ (1)
- 20: Can You Pass This Test Originally Given to 8th Graders Living in Kentucky in 1912? (4)
- 19: Werner Herzog Teaches His First Online Course on Filmmaking (1)
- 19: 5 Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer (1)
- 19: 245 Films by Female Directors You Can Stream Right Now on Netflix (0)
- 19: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ List of 13 Recommended Books (2)
- 18: Watch Paul McCartney Perform Live, with 10-Year-Old Leila on Bass, in Buenos Aires Yesterday (0)
- 18: Behold the Sea Organ: The Massive Experimental Musical Instrument That Makes Music with the Sea (2)
- 18: Crowdsourced Database Will Locate the Burial Sites of Forgotten US Slaves (2)
- 18: The Night John Belushi Cartwheeled Onstage During a Grateful Dead Show & Sang “U.S. Blues” with the Band (1980) (1)
- 18: Please Touch the Art: Watch a Blind Man Experience His Own Portrait for the First Time (0)
- 17: 1,000+ Haunting & Beautiful Photos of Native American Peoples, Shot by the Ethnographer Edward S. Curtis (Circa 1905) (5)
- 17: Martin Scorsese Names His Top 10 Films in the Criterion Collection (4)
- 17: Hear the Music of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Played by the Experimental Band, Xiu Xiu: A Free Stream of Their New Album (0)
- 17: Hear Robert Frost Read His Most Famous Poems: “The Road Not Taken,” “Mending Wall,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” & More (1)
- 16: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 82 Commandments For Living (6)
- 16: The Alchemy of Film Editing, Explored in a New Video Essay That Breaks Down Hannah and Her Sisters, The Empire Strikes Back & Other Films (1)
- 16: Thomas Edison’s Silent Film of the “Fartiste” Who Delighted Crowds at Le Moulin Rouge (1900) (2)
- 16: Sheryl Sandberg Talks About What Death Has Taught Her About Life: UC Berkeley Commencement Address, 2016 (0)
- 13: Visit 2+ Million Free Works of Art from 20 World-Class Museums Free Online (7)
- 13: Ursula K. Le Guin Names the Books She Likes and Wants You to Read (1)
- 13: Watch the First Sherlock Holmes Movie (1900), the Arrival of the Most Popular Character in Cinema (1)
- 13: Free: Stream Bob Dylan’s Brand New Album Fallen Angels for a Limited Time (3)
- 13: Hear the Greatest Hits of Isao Tomita (RIP), the Father of Japanese Electronic Music (0)
- 12: This Is What It Sounds Like When 1999 People Sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry” (0)
- 12: Watch the Pioneering Films of Oscar Micheaux, America’s First Great African-American Filmmaker (0)
- 12: John Lydon & Public Image Ltd. Sow Chaos on American Bandstand: The Show’s Best and Worst Moment (1980) (2)
- 11: Jon Stewart Resurfaces and Breaks Down the 2016 Election: The “Man Baby” v. the “Inauthentic” (1)
- 11: Download 144 Beautiful Books of Russian Futurism: Mayakovsky, Malevich, Khlebnikov & More (1910-30) (13)
- 11: The Wizard of Oz Broken Apart and Put Back Together in Alphabetical Order (2)
- 11: 170 Renowned Academics Talk About Why They Disbelieve, or Believe, in God (5)
- 11: What Are the Most Beautifully & Creatively Shot Films of All Time? Cinematographers Pick Their Favorites (9)
- 10: Monty Python’s Philosopher’s Football Match: The Epic Showdown Between the Greeks & Germans (1972) (0)
- 10: A Clever Supercut of Writers Struggling with Writer’s Block in 53 Films: From Barton Fink to The Royal Tenenbaums (1)
- 10: Hear 90+ Episodes of Suspense, the Iconic Golden Age Radio Show Launched by Alfred Hitchcock (0)
- 10: 4 Hours of Charles Bukowski’s Riotous Readings and Rants (0)
- 09: Al Jaffee, the Longest Working Cartoonist in History, Shows How He Invented the Iconic “Folds-Ins” for Mad Magazine (1)
- 09: The Thomas Pynchon Crossword Puzzle (0)
- 09: Learn Calligraphy from Lloyd Reynolds, the Teacher of Steve Jobs’ Own Famously Inspiring Calligraphy Teacher (11)
- 09: Hear Dante’s Inferno Read Aloud by Influential Poet & Translator John Ciardi (1954) (0)
- 09: Edward Snowden & Jean-Michel Jarre Record a Techno Protest Song, “Exit” (0)
- 08: The New Radiohead Album is Out; Watch a Paul Thomas Anderson-Directed Music Video for One of the New Singles (2)
- 06: Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink “Unlimited” Alcohol in Prohibition America (1932) (5)
- 06: Download Sigmund Freud’s Great Works as Free eBooks & Free Audio Books: A Digital Celebration on His 160th Birthday (4)
- 06: Watch “Beer,” a Mind-Warping Animation of Charles Bukowski’s 1971 Poem Honoring His Favorite Drink (1)
- 05: The Night John Belushi Booked the Punk Band Fear on Saturday Night Live, And They Got Banned from the Show (18)
- 05: 7 Tips for Reading More Books in a Year (24)
- 05: Artificial Intelligence Creativity Machine Learns to Play Beethoven in the Style of The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” (0)
- 05: How Japanese Things Are Made in 309 Videos: Bamboo Tea Whisks, Hina Dolls, Steel Balls & More (1)
- 04: Watch Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue: The PBS American Masters Documentary That’s Streaming Free for a Limited Time (2)
- 04: Behold the “3Dvarius,” the World’s First 3-D Printed Violin (1)
- 04: What Happens When a Japanese Woodblock Artist Depicts Life in London in 1866, Despite Never Having Set Foot There (1)
- 04: Hear a Radio Drama of George Orwell’s 1984, Starring Patrick Troughton, of Doctor Who Fame (1965) (0)
- 04: Hermeneutics of Toilets by Slavoj Žižek: An Animation About Finding Ideology in Unlikely Places (5)
- 03: Download 6600 Free Films from The Prelinger Archives and Use Them However You Like (18)
- 03: Walter Benjamin Jots in His Notebook Every Book He’s Read Since He Was 18 (4)
- 03: T.S. Eliot Reads From “The Waste Land,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” & “The Hollow Men”: His Apocalyptic Post WWI Poems (0)
- 03: Hear “Starlight,” Michael Jackson’s Early Demo of “Thriller”: A Version Before the Lyrics Were Radically Changed (0)
- 02: Sir Ian McKellen Releases New Apps to Make Shakespeare’s Plays More Enjoyable & Accessible (19)
- 02: The Poetic Harmony of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Filmmaking: A Video Essay (0)
- 02: The Making of Japanese Handmade Paper: A Short Film Documents an 800-Year-Old Tradition (8)
- 02: Walt Whitman’s Unearthed Health Manual, “Manly Health & Training,” Urges Readers to Stand (Don’t Sit!) and Eat Plenty of Meat (1858) (0)
- 02: President Obama’s 2016 Stand-Up Comedy Routine (0)
- April 2016 (86)
- 29: Discover Harvard’s Collection of 2,500 Pigments: Preserving the World’s Rare, Wonderful Colors (2)
- 29: Watch Animated Introductions to 35 Philosophers by The School of Life: From Plato to Kant and Foucault (0)
- 29: How Steely Dan Wrote “Deacon Blues,” the Song Audiophiles Use to Test High-End Stereos (10)
- 28: Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person (22)
- 28: Peter Frampton Plays a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, Featuring Acoustic Versions of His Classic Songs (0)
- 28: Young Patti Smith Rails Against the Censorship of Her Music: An Animated, NSFW Interview from 1976 (0)
- 28: The “Brain Dictionary”: Beautiful 3D Map Shows How Different Brain Areas Respond to Hearing Different Words (1)
- 28: Watch a Shot-by-Shot Remake of Kubrick’s The Shining, a 48-Minute Music Video Accompanying the New Album by Aesop Rock (0)
- 27: The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear (5)
- 27: What Makes the Stradivarius Special? It Was Designed to Sound Like a Female Soprano Voice, With Notes Sounding Like Vowels, Says Researcher (1)
- 27: Hear Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince,” Performed by Orson Welles & Bing Crosby on Christmas Eve 1944 (0)
- 27: Prince Plays Unplugged and Wraps the Crowd Around His Little Finger (2004) (2)
- 26: An Ancient Philosophical Song Reconstructed and Played for the First Time in 1,000 Years (3)
- 26: Founding Fathers, A Documentary Narrated By Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Presents the True History of Hip Hop (2)
- 26: Scientific Study Reveals What Made Freddie Mercury’s Voice One of a Kind; Hear It in All of Its A Cappella Splendor (3)
- 26: Mesmerizing Animation, Made of Photos from Early-1900s America, Lets You Travel in a Steampunk Time Machine (0)
- 25: Hear Prince and Miles Davis’ Rarely-Heard Musical Collaborations (2)
- 25: Franz Kafka: An Animated Introduction to His Literary Genius (0)
- 25: In Search of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Secluded Hut in Norway: A Short Travel Film (2)
- 25: How Ink is Made: The Process Revealed in a Mouth-Watering Video (1)
- 22: Frida! (1)
- 22: Watch Tom Waits For No One, the Pioneering Animated Music Video from 1979 (3)
- 22: Sell & Spin: The History of Advertising, Narrated by Dick Cavett (1999) (0)
- 22: Delight in Prince’s Extraordinarily Poignant Cover of Radiohead’s “Creep (1)
- 21: Prince Plays a Mind-Blowing Guitar Solo On “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (7)
- 21: Call Me Burroughs: Hear William S. Burroughs Read from Naked Lunch & The Soft Machine in His First Spoken Word Album (1965) (2)
- 21: Becoming Bilingual Can Give Your Brain a Boost: What Recent Research Has to Say (1)
- 21: What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise (0)
- 20: Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection (8)
- 20: Hear the Vintage Sherlock Holmes Radio Drama, Starring John Gielgud, Orson Welles & Ralph Richardson (1)
- 20: Hear Rufus Wainwright Sing Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A New Album Featuring Florence Welch, Carrie Fisher, William Shatner & More (2)
- 20: A Short Animated History of Zero (0): How It Started in India, Then Made Its Journey to the West (1)
- 19: Behold the First Electric Guitar: The 1931 “Frying Pan” (3)
- 19: A Huge Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music (1920-2007) Featuring John Cage, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart & More (7)
- 19: Watch the Titanic Sink in Real Time in a New 2-Hour, 40 Minute Animation (2)
- 19: Brian Eno Creates a List of His 13 Favorite Records: From Gospel to Afrobeat, Shoegaze to Bulgarian Folk (2)
- 18: Hear 100 Amazing Cover Versions of Beatles Songs (36)
- 18: The 100 Most Memorable Shots in Cinema Over the Past 100 Years (4)
- 18: Shakespeare and His World: Free Shakespeare Course Starts Today, During the 400th Anniversary of the Bard’s Death (0)
- 18: Download 834 Radical Zines From a Revolutionary Online Archive: Globalization, Punk Music, the Industrial Prison Complex & More (3)
- 17: Spike Lee Directs, “Wake Up,” a Five-Minute Campaign Film for Bernie Sanders (1)
- 15: John Cage Performs His Avant-Garde Piano Piece 4’33” … in 1’22” (Harvard Square, 1973) (3)
- 15: The Birth of London’s 1950s Bohemian Coffee Bars Documented in a Vintage 1959 Newsreel (3)
- 15: Hear What It Sounds Like When Philosopher Daniel Dennett’s Brain Activity Gets Turned into Music (3)
- 15: Act of Love: A Strange, Wonderful Visual Dictionary of Animal Courtship (0)
- 14: Tom Waits Makes a List of His Top 20 Favorite Albums of All Time (50)
- 14: Radiooooo: A Musical Time Machine That Lets You Hear What Played on the Radio in Different Times & Places (3)
- 14: Iggy Pop & Josh Homme Walk You Through How They Wrote Their New Song, “American Valhalla” (0)
- 14: Vincent Price Reads the Poetry of Shelley; Ralph Richardson Reads the Poetry of Coleridge (0)
- 13: Watch 50+ Documentaries on Famous Architects & Buildings: Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Hadid & Many More (3)
- 13: New LSD Research Provides the First Images of the Brain on Acid, and Hints at Its Potential to Promote Creativity (4)
- 13: How the Sound Effects on 1930s Radio Shows Were Made: An Inside Look (0)
- 13: The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue (Over 4 Million Lines in 2,000 Scripts) Reveals Gender Bias Built Into Cinema (1)
- 12: The Cleanest Recordings of 1920s Louis Armstrong Songs You’ll Ever Hear (8)
- 12: Willie Nelson–Young, Clean-Shaven & Wearing a Suit–Sings Early Hits at the Grand Ole Opry (1962) (1)
- 12: Metallica’s Bassist Robert Trujillo Plays Metallica Songs Flamenco-Style, Joined by Rodrigo y Gabriela (1)
- 12: Free MIT Course Teaches You to Watch Movies Like a Critic: Watch Lectures from The Film Experience (7)
- 11: The Online Knitting Reference Library: Download 300 Knitting Books Published From 1849 to 2012 (16)
- 11: Lolita Book Covers: 200+ Designs From 40 Countries Since 1955, Including Nabokov’s Favorite Design (5)
- 11: Hear 22-Year-Old Orson Welles Star in The Shadow, the Iconic 1930s Super Crimefighter Radio Show (2)
- 11: Carl Sagan Presents His “Baloney Detection Kit”: 8 Tools for Skeptical Thinking (0)
- 08: Question: Where Can You Watch 65 Charlie Chaplin Films Free Online? (0)
- 08: Watch the First Episode of Vinyl: Mick Jagger & Martin Scorsese’s Series on the 1970s Music Scene (0)
- 08: 30 Days of Shakespeare: One Reading of the Bard Per Day, by The New York Public Library, on the 400th Anniversary of His Death (0)
- 08: 40,000 Film Posters in a Wonderfully Eclectic Archive: Italian Tarkovsky Posters, Japanese Orson Welles, Czech Woody Allen & Much More (0)
- 08: Monty Python’s John Cleese Worries That Political Correctness Will Lead Us into a Humorless World, Reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984 (6)
- 07: Spike Lee Interviews Bernie Sanders: Two Guys from Brooklyn Talk About Education, Inequality & More (6)
- 07: Pink Floyd Performs on US Television for the First Time: American Bandstand, 1967 (1)
- 07: Leonardo da Vinci Draws Designs of Future War Machines: Tanks, Machine Guns & More (4)
- 07: David Bowie Urges Kids to READ in a 1987 Poster Sponsored by the American Library Association (0)
- 06: Tom Waits Names 14 of His Favorite Art Films (1)
- 06: A Complete Archive of Vincent van Gogh’s Letters: Beautifully Illustrated and Fully Annotated (2)
- 06: NASA Releases 3 Million Thermal Images of Our Planet Earth (0)
- 06: Scientists Create a New Rembrandt Painting, Using a 3D Printer & Data Analysis of Rembrandt’s Body of Work (1)
- 05: What Are the Keys to Happiness? Lessons from a 75-Year-Long Harvard Study (4)
- 05: Hear the Radical Musical Compositions of Marcel Duchamp (1912-1915) (2)
- 05: Watch Heavy Metal Parking Lot, the Cult Classic Film That Ranks as One of the “Great Rock Documentaries” of All Time (1)
- 05: Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting: Now Free on YouTube (1)
- 04: David Bowie Dreamed of Turning George Orwell’s 1984 Into a Musical: Hear the Songs That Survived the Abandoned Project (1)
- 04: Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen (11)
- 04: 330 Years of Female Printmakers (1570–1900) : Download Free Prints, Visit the Exhibit (0)
- 04: Hear Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest Performed by Sir John Gielgud & Other Legends (1953) (0)
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- 01: Patti Smith on Virginia Woolf’s Cane, Charles Dickens’ Pen & Other Cherished Literary Talismans (1)
- 01: The Math Behind Beethoven’s Music (6)
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- 31: 50 Must-See Documentaries, Selected by 10 Influential Documentary Filmmakers (0)
- 31: Christopher Lee Reads Five Horror Classics: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera & More (3)
- 31: The First Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (1903) (0)
- 31: An Animated Carl Sagan Talks with Studs Terkel About Finding Extraterrestrial Life (1985) (0)
- 30: The Met Digitally Restores the Colors of an Ancient Egyptian Temple, Using Projection Mapping Technology (1)
- 30: 11 Shakespeare Tragedies Mapped Out with Network Visualizations (1)
- 30: 5 Books You Can Read Again …. and Again and Again: Here’s Our Picks, Now Yours (21)
- 30: Watch City Out of Time, A Short Tribute to Venice, Narrated by William Shatner in 1959 (0)
- 29: A Massive 800-Track Playlist of 90s Indie & Alternative Music, in Chronological Order (12)
- 29: Glass: The Oscar-Winning “Perfect Short Documentary” on Dutch Glassmaking (1958) (0)
- 29: Carol Kaye, 81-Year-Old Pioneer of Rock, Gives Kiss’ Gene Simmons a Bass Lesson (0)
- 29: Recalling Albert Camus’ Fashion Advice, Noam Chomsky Pans Glenn Greenwald’s Shiny, Purple Tie (4)
- 28: Download the Sublime Anatomy Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci: Available Online, or in a Great iPad App (3)
- 28: Florence Nightingale Saved Lives by Creating Revolutionary Visualizations of Statistics (1855) (3)
- 28: Harvard’s Michael Sandel Launches “The Global Philosopher,” a New Digital Show Exploring Pressing Philosophical Problems (2)
- 28: Watch the Earliest Surviving Filmed Version of The Wizard of Oz (1910) (2)
- 27: Software Used by Hayao Miyazaki’s Animation Studio Is Now Officially Ready to Download (1)
- 25: Google Makes Its $149 Photo Editing Software Now Completely Free to Download (48)
- 25: Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977) (5)
- 25: Download Beautiful Free Vintage Easter Cards from the New York Public Library (3)
- 25: Hayao Miyazaki’s Sketches Showing How to Draw Characters Running: From 1980 Edition of Animation Magazine (2)
- 24: Quentin Tarantino Picks the 12 Best Films of All Time; Watch Two of His Favorites Free Online (9)
- 24: A Young Jim Henson Teaches You How to Make Puppets with Socks, Tennis Balls & Other Household Goods (1969) (0)
- 24: A Hulking 1959 Chevy Bel Air Gets Obliterated by a Mid-Size 2009 Chevy Malibu in a Crash Test (2)
- 24: Virginia Woolf Offers Gentle Advice on “How One Should Read a Book” (5)
- 23: How to Send an E-mail: A 1984 British Television Broadcast Explains This “Simple” Process (2)
- 23: Peter Sellers Recites The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” in the Style of Shakespeare’s Richard III (2)
- 23: Harry Clarke’s Hallucinatory Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories (1923) (0)
- 23: Free M.I.T. Course Teaches You How to Become Bill Nye & Make Great Science Videos for YouTube (8)
- 22: Actors from The Wire Star in a Short Film Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six-Bits” (2001) (0)
- 22: Software Used by Hayao Miyazaki’s Animation Studio Becomes Open Source & Free to Download (4)
- 22: Watch Édith Piaf Sing Her Most Famous Songs: “La Vie en Rose,” “Non, Je Regrette Rien” & More (0)
- 22: You Can Find the Proof of Evolution in Our Own Spare Body Parts: From Third Molars to Vestigial Tails (2)
- 21: Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an “Insignificant, Inartistic Writer”; 40 Years Later, George Orwell Weighs in on the Debate (16)
- 21: How to Sound Smart in a TED Talk: A Funny Primer by Saturday Night Live‘s Will Stephen (0)
- 21: The First Masterpieces of Abstract Film: Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21 (1921) & Viking Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale (1924) (2)
- 21: Hear a Complete 24-Hour Reading of Moby-Dick, Recorded at the Southbank Centre in London (2015) (0)
- 19: Peter Sellers Reads The Beatles’ “She Loves You” in 4 Different Accents: Dr. Strangelove, Cockney, Irish & Upper Crust (1)
- 18: Why Do People Talk Funny in Old Movies?, or The Origin of the Mid-Atlantic Accent (1)
- 18: Take Vladimir Nabokov’s Quiz to See If You’re a Good Reader–The Same One He Gave to His Students (7)
- 18: An Inside Look at How the Fantastic “Wintergatan Marble Machine” Makes Music with 2000 Marbles & 3000 Handmade Parts (0)
- 17: Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry & More (15)
- 17: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Puts Online 90,000 Works of Modern Art (3)
- 17: Artists Put Online 3D, High Resolution Scans of 3,000-Year-Old Nefertiti Bust (and Controversy Ensues) (0)
- 17: A Curated Collection of Vintage Japanese Magazine Covers (1913-46) (1)
- 16: The “Shadow” of a Hiroshima Victim, Etched into Stone Steps, Is All That Remains After 1945 Atomic Blast (14)
- 16: Scientists Discover That James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Has an Amazingly Mathematical “Multifractal” Structure (10)
- 16: Discovering Electronic Music: 1983 Documentary Offers a Fun & Educational Introduction to Electronic Music (0)
- 16: Julia Child Marathon: 201 Episodes of “The French Chef” Streaming Free (for a Limited Time) (0)
- 16: Watch 30 Films from the 1970s by Computer Animation Pioneer Lillian F. Schwartz (1)
- 15: Hear John Malkovich Read Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Set to Music Mixed by Ric Ocasek, Yoko Ono & Sean Lennon, OMD & More (2)
- 15: Watch David Bowie Star in His First Film Role, a Short Horror Flick Called The Image (1967) (1)
- 15: Download the Foo Fighters’ EP Saint Cecilia Free: MP3, FLAC, WAV, iTunes & Other Formats (0)
- 15: Hear the Musical Evolution of Frank Zappa in 401 Songs (4)
- 14: See the First “Drum Machine,” the Rhythmicon from 1931, and the Modern Drum Machines That Followed Decades Later (3)
- 14: Some Joy for Your Ears: New Orleans Brass Band Plays Life-Affirming Cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing” (1)
- 14: Free: Download 500+ Rare Music Manuscripts by Mozart, Bach, Chopin & Other Composers from the Morgan Library (2)
- 14: Who’s Out There?: Orson Welles Narrates a Documentary Asking Whether There’s Extraterrestrial Life in the Universe (1975) (0)
- 13: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” a Quote Falsely Attributed to Edmund Burke
- 11: The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937-2001) (18)
- 11: Download the Complete Archive of Oz, “the Most Controversial Magazine of the 60s,” Featuring R. Crumb, Germaine Greer & More (1)
- 11: Download 1800 Fin de Siècle French Posters & Prints: Iconic Works by Toulouse-Lautrec & Many More (1)
- 11: Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa?: Kickstart the Making of the Definitive Frank Zappa Documentary (1)
- 10: Dick Clark Introduces Jefferson Airplane & the Sounds of Psychedelic San Francisco to America: Yes Parents, You Should Be Afraid (1967) (1)
- 10: Hear the Unique, Original Compositions of George Martin, Beloved Beatles Producer (RIP) (1)
- 10: The History of Rock Told in a Whirlwind 15-Minute Video (10)
- 09: New Order’s “Blue Monday” Played with Obsolete 1930s Instruments (66)
- 09: 10 Must-Read Dystopian Novels: Our Readers’ Picks (17)
- 09: 11 Essential Feminist Books: A Reading List by The New York Public Library (2)
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- 08: Stephen Fry Launches Pindex, a “Pinterest for Education” (16)
- 08: A Collection of Sun Ra’s Business Cards from the 1950s: They’re Out of This World (0)
- 08: Free: Read All of George Orwell’s War Diaries Online (1938-1942) (1)
- 07: A Clockwork Orange Author Anthony Burgess Lists His Five Favorite Dystopian Novels: Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Island & More (22)
- 07: Learn How to Code for Free: A DIY Guide for Learning HTML, Python, Javascript & More (6)
- 07: Charlie Chaplin Gets Strapped into a Dystopian “Rube Goldberg Machine,” a Frightful Commentary on Modern Capitalism (1)
- 07: Mark Bittman’s Most Loved Recipes from The New York Times: Learn to Cook Healthy, Earth-Friendly Meals (1)
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- 04: Martin Scorsese Plays Vincent Van Gogh in a Short, Surreal Film by Akira Kurosawa (7)
- 04: American History: An Off-Kilter 1992 Student Film from South Park Creator Trey Parker (0)
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- 03: 3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Presenting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921-1931) (24)
- 03: Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” Played with Medieval Instruments, and Kickstart More Medieval Covers (1)
- 03: The Anti-Slavery Alphabet: 1846 Book Teaches Kids the ABCs of Slavery’s Evils (3)
- 03: World Science U Lets You Take Free Physics Courses from Leading Minds in the Field (0)
- 02: Jean-Paul Sartre on How American Jazz Lets You Experience Existentialist Freedom & Transcendence (8)
- 02: Nina Simone’s Live Performances of Her Poignant Civil Rights Protest Songs (0)
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- 01: Walter Benjamin’s 13 Oracular Writing Tips (0)
- 01: Watch Star Trek: New Voyages: The Original Fan-Made Sequel to the 1960s TV Series (0)
- 01: David Bowie’s Music Video “Jump They Say” Pays Tribute to Marker’s La Jetée, Godard’s Alphaville, Welles’ The Trial & Kubrick’s 2001 (1)
- 01: Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes (0)
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- 29: Download All 36 of Jan Vermeer’s Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in Brilliant High Resolution) (7)
- 29: New Rosa Parks Archive is Now Online: Features 7,500 Manuscripts & 2,500 Photographs, Courtesy of the Library of Congress (0)
- 29: How the Coen Brothers Put Their Remarkable Stamp on the “Shot Reverse Shot,” the Fundamental Cinematic Technique (3)
- 29: Brian Greene Breaks Down Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Waves for Stephen Colbert (1)
- 27: Watch the Trailer for a “Fully Painted” Van Gogh Film: Features 12 Oil Paintings Per Second by 100+ Painters (1)
- 26: Gershwin Plays Gershwin: Hear the Original Recording of Rhapsody in Blue, with the Composer Himself at the Piano (1924) (9)
- 26: City of Scars: The Impressive Batman Fan Film Made for $27,000 in 21 Days (0)
- 26: How Chris Marker’s Radical SciFi Film, La Jetée, Changed the Life of Cyberpunk Prophet, William Gibson (2)
- 26: Hear Harold Bloom Read From Three Sublime American Authors: Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson & Hart Crane (3)
- 26: Hear the Declassified, Eerie “Space Music” Heard During the Apollo 10 Mission (1969) (4)
- 25: 13 Van Gogh’s Paintings Painstakingly Brought to Life with 3D Animation & Visual Mapping (3)
- 25: Take a Multimedia Tour of the Buttock Song in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights (3)
- 25: Wes Anderson Movie Sets Recreated in Cute, Miniature Dioramas (3)
- 24: See The Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Played on the Oldest Martin Guitar in Existence (1834) (3)
- 24: Orson Welles Narrates the Russian Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World (1967) (0)
- 24: Californium: New Video Game Lets You Experience the Surreal World of Philip K. Dick (0)
- 24: John Grisham Is Letting You Download His New Novel as a Free eBook (10)
- 23: Download 2,000 Magnificent Turn-of-the-Century Art Posters, Courtesy of the New York Public Library (3)
- 23: The Science Behind the Making of Ok-Go’s New Zero Gravity Music Video (0)
- 23: How the Moog Synthesizer Changed the Sound of Music (1)
- 23: Dear Immanuel — Kant Gives Love Advice to a Heartbroken Young Woman (1791) (1)
- 22: Coffee Entrepreneur Renato Bialetti Gets Buried in the Espresso Maker He Made Famous (0)
- 22: Hear 30 of the Greatest Standup Comedy Albums: A Playlist Chosen by Open Culture Readers (8)
- 22: Take a Free Course on Filmmaking Featuring Brian Tufano (Trainspotting), Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) & Other Award-Winning Filmmakers (1)
- 22: Umberto Eco Explains the Poetic Power of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts (0)
- 22: Stephen Hawking’s Uplifting Message: You Can Get Yourself Out of Any Hole, No Matter What Their Size (1)
- 19: Umberto Eco Dies at 84; Leaves Behind Advice to Aspiring Writers (6)
- 19: Download 14 Free Posters from NASA That Depict the Future of Space Travel in a Captivatingly Retro Style (5)
- 19: Paul Giamatti Plays Honoré de Balzac, Hopped Up on 50 Coffees Per Day (1)
- 19: Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin Is Now Streaming Free for a Limited Time (2)
- 19: Existentialist Psychiatrist, Auschwitz Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains How to Find Meaning in Life, No Matter What Challenges You Face (4)
- 19: 27 Movies References in The Simpsons Put Side-by-Side with the Movie Scenes They Paid Tribute To (2)
- 19: Crash Course Philosophy: Hank Green’s Fast-Paced Introduction to Philosophy Gets Underway on YouTube (0)
- 18: New Digital Archive, “Richard Pryor’s Peoria,” Takes You Inside the Dark, Lively World That Shaped the Pioneering Comedian (0)
- 18: In Japanese Schools, Lunch Is As Much About Learning As It’s About Eating (1)
- 18: A Tour of Stanley Kubrick’s Prized Lens Collection (3)
- 18: Watch Classic Performances from Maria Callas’ Wondrous and Tragically-Short Opera Career (0)
- 17: Chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley Plays Unsuspecting Trash Talker in Washington Square Park (3)
- 17: Legendary Classical Guitarist Andrés Segovia Plays Timeless Pieces by J.S. Bach (1)
- 17: An Animated Introduction to Leo Tolstoy, and How His Great Novels Can Increase Your Emotional Intelligence (1)
- 17: You Can Now Get a Master’s Degree in Samuel Beckett: Here’s How to Apply, and Maybe Get a Scholarship (0)
- 17: Kickstart Pakistan’s First Hand-Animated Feature Film, The Glassworker, Inspired by Hayao Miyazaki (1)
- 16: The Remarkable Physics of Ants: Watch Them Turn into Fluids and Solids at Will (1)
- 16: Mister Rogers Turns Kids On to Jazz with Help of a Young Wynton Marsalis and Other Jazz Legends (1986) (0)
- 16: David Foster Wallace Reads Franz Kafka’s Short Story “A Little Fable” (and Explains Why Comedy Is Key to Kafka) (3)
- 15: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Launches Free Course on Looking at Photographs as Art (3)
- 15: Download Hundreds of 19th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints by Masters of the Tradition (3)
- 15: The 120 Minutes Archive Compiles Clips & Playlists from 956 Episodes of MTV’s Alternative Music Show (1986-2013) (1)
- 15: Download Two Harry Potter Audio Books for Free (and Get the Rest of the Series for Cheap) (4)
- 12: What Gravitational Waves Sound Like: New Audio of Black Holes Colliding Confirms Predictions Einstein Made 100 Years Ago (4)
- 12: Music in the Brain: Scientists Finally Reveal the Parts of Our Brain That Are Dedicated to Music (3)
- 12: LIFE Magazine’s Guide to Kissing, Circa 1942 (2)
- 12: Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Charming Stop Motion Animation of an E.E. Cummings’ Love Poem (2)
- 12: This is Your Brain in Love: The Stanford Love Competition Shows What Love Looks Like on an MRI (2)
- 11: The Cramps Play a Mental Health Hospital in Napa, California in 1978: The Punkest of Punk Concerts (9)
- 11: Hear Gabriel García Márquez’s Extraordinary Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, “The Solitude Of Latin America,” in English & Spanish (1982) (1)
- 11: Neil Gaiman Presents “How Stories Last,” an Insightful Lecture on How Stories Change, Evolve & Endure Through the Centuries (0)
- 11: Take a Free Online Course on Making Animations from Pixar & Khan Academy (49)
- 10: Download Hundreds of Van Gogh Paintings, Sketches & Letters in High Resolution (4)
- 10: 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: Stream a Huge Playlist of Songs Based on the Bestselling Book (5)
- 10: The Princeton Bitcoin Textbook Is Now Free Online (1)
- 10: Russian Superheroes: Artist Draws Traditional Russian Folk Heroes in a Modern Fantasy Style (0)
- 09: New App Lets You Explore Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” in Virtual Reality (1)
- 09: The Animated Bayeux Tapestry: A Novel Way of Recounting The Battle of Hastings (1066) (1)
- 09: Iggy Pop Reads Walt Whitman in Collaborations With Electronic Artists Alva Noto and Tarwater (1)
- 09: Claymation Film Recreates Historic Chess Match Immortalized in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (2)
- 09: Priceless 145-Year-Old Martin Guitar Accidentally Gets Smashed to Smithereens in Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (5)
- 08: Take a Virtual Tour of Hieronymus Bosch’s Bewildering Masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights (6)
- 08: Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679 (2)
- 08: Watch Star Trek Continues: The Critically-Acclaimed, Fan-Made Sequel to the Original TV Series (39)
- 08: Hear Strung Out in Heaven, a Gorgeous Tribute to David Bowie by Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff’s, Made with Help from Neil Gaiman (1)
- 05: Walk Inside a Surrealist Salvador Dalí Painting with This 360º Virtual Reality Video (3)
- 05: Stephen Hawking’s Lectures on Black Holes Now Fully Animated with Chalkboard Illustrations (4)
- 05: “20 Rules For Writing Detective Stories” By S.S. Van Dine, One of T.S. Eliot’s Favorite Genre Authors (1928) (8)
- 05: The Very First Coloring Book, The Little Folks’ Painting Book (Circa 1879) (2)
- 04: Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: The New York Public Library, Bodleian, Smithsonian & More (23)
- 04: The Wisdom & Advice of Maurice Ashley, the First African-American Chess Grandmaster (0)
- 04: AC/DC Plays a Short Gig at CBGB in 1977: Hear Metal Being Played on Punk’s Hallowed Grounds (6)
- 04: Hear the Experimental Music of the Dada Movement: Avant-Garde Sounds from a Century Ago (12)
- 03: Animated Interview: Sally Ride Tells Gloria Steinem About the Challenge of Being the First American Women in Space (1983) (0)
- 03: How Stanley Kubrick Became Stanley Kubrick: A Short Documentary Narrated by the Filmmaker (2)
- 03: Hunter S. Thompson Talks with Keith Richards in a Very Memorable and Mumble-Filled Interview (1993) (2)
- 03: Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40) (11)
- 02: Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD) (63)
- 02: Dave Grohl Shows How He Plays the Guitar As If It Were a Drum Kit (3)
- 02: Jacques Derrida on Seinfeld: “Deconstruction Doesn’t Produce Any Sitcom” (7)
- 02: Hear James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Read Unabridged & Set to Music By 17 Different Artists (3)
- 01: Alan Rickman Recites “If Death Is Not the End,” a Moving Poem by Robyn Hitchcock (0)
- 01: Download Marc Andreessen’s Influential Blog (“Pmarca”) as a Free eBook (0)
- 01: Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC (7)
- 01: Hear The Alan Parson Project’s Prog-Rock Interpretation of Isaac Asimov’s, I Robot (1977) (1)
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- 29: Take a Free Online Course on Making Comic Books, Compliments of the California College of the Arts (10)
- 29: Samuel Beckett Play Brought to Life in an Eerie Short Film Starring Alan Rickman & Kristin Scott Thomas (0)
- 29: 85 Compelling Films Starring and/or Directed By Women of Color: A List Created by Director Ava DuVernay & Friends on Twitter (2)
- 28: The Art from David Bowie’s Final Album, Blackstar, is Now Free for Fans to Download and Reuse (0)
- 28: An Animated Introduction to Goethe, Germany’s “Renaissance Man” (0)
- 28: Stephen Hawking & Actor Paul Rudd Play an Epic Game of Quantum Chess, Narrated by Keanu Reeves (0)
- 28: Rare Video Captures 29-Year-Old Luciano Pavarotti in One of His Earliest Recorded Performances (1964) (3)
- 28: Stephen Hawking’s New Lecture, “Do Black Holes Have No Hair?,” Animated with Chalkboard Illustrations (2)
- 27: Discover Europeana Collections, a Portal of 48 Million Free Artworks, Books, Videos, Artifacts & Sounds from Across Europe (3)
- 27: The Society of Mind: A Free Online Course from Marvin Minsky, Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence (2)
- 27: John Lennon Jams With Eric Clapton, Keith Richards & Mitch Mitchell at the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus (1968) (4)
- 27: Archive of 35,000 TV Political Ads Launched, Creating a Badly Needed Way to Hold Politicians Accountable (0)
- 26: The Power of Power Naps: Salvador Dali Teaches You How Micro-Naps Can Give You Creative Inspiration (1)
- 26: William S. Burroughs Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” (1)
- 26: Hear a Supercut of the Last Second of Every AC/DC Song (4)
- 26: Psychedelic Animation Takes You Inside the Mind of Stephen Hawking (0)
- 25: Producer Tony Visconti Breaks Down the Making of David Bowie’s Classic “Heroes,” Track by Track (3)
- 25: Jules Verne Accurately Predicts What the 20th Century Will Look Like in His Lost Novel, Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863) (1)
- 25: Kate Bush’s First Ever Television Appearance, Performing “Kite” & “Wuthering Heights” on German TV (1978) (0)
- 25: Professional Pickpocket Apollo Robbins Explains the Art of Misdirection (0)
- 24: The Original Stuffed Animals That Inspired Winnie the Pooh (10)
- 23: The Open Syllabus Project Gathers 1,000,000 Syllabi from Universities & Reveals the 100 Most Frequently-Taught Books (12)
- 22: Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting, Seasons 1-3, Free Online (2)
- 22: Tiny Tim Performs a Bizarre Cover of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” on The Tonight Show (1979) (0)
- 22: Hear the Experimental Piano Jazz Album by Comedian H. Jon Benjamin — Who Can’t Play Piano (0)
- 22: David Bowie Sings Impressions of Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits & More In Studio Outtakes (1985) (0)
- 21: Ursula Le Guin Gives Insightful Writing Advice in Her Free Online Workshop (2)
- 21: Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” Performed by German First Graders in Adorable Cardboard Robot Outfits (5)
- 21: The 20 Most Influential Academic Books of All Time: No Spoilers (8)
- 21: David Bowie Lists His 25 Favorite LPs in His Record Collection: Stream Most of Them Free Online (6)
- 20: Jazz ‘Hot’: The Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt (3)
- 20: How to Make a Book From Scratch (0)
- 20: Kraftwerk’s First Concert: The Beginning of the Endlessly Influential Band (1970) (1)
- 20: Nietzsche Lays Out His Philosophy of Education and a Still-Timely Critique of the Modern University (1872) (11)
- 20: John Cleese on The Importance of Making and Embracing Mistakes (1)
- 19: How Old School Records Were Made, From Start to Finish: A 1937 Video Featuring Duke Ellington (5)
- 19: Pioneering Electronic Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen Presents “Four Criteria of Electronic Music” & Other Lectures in English (1972) (1)
- 19: Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday With Three Animations of “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1)
- 19: Artist Turns Famous Paintings, from Raphael to Monet to Lichtenstein, Into Innovative Soundscapes (1)
- 18: Why Violins Have F-Holes: The Science & History of a Remarkable Renaissance Design (17)
- 18: Dave: The Best Tribute to David Bowie That You’re Going to See (14)
- 18: The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, the Pre-Civil Rights Guide to Traveling Safely in the U.S. (1936-66) (2)
- 18: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Hear 90 Hours of Background Music & Ads from the Retail Giant’s 1980s and 90s Heyday (1)
- 15: The Late, Great Alan Rickman Reads Shakespeare, Proust & Thomas Hardy (2)
- 15: Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992) (6)
- 15: Artist Julie Green Paints the Last Suppers of 600+ Death Row Inmates on Ceramic Plates (0)
- 14: David Bowie Sells Ice Cream, Sake, Coke & Water: Watch His TV Commercials from the 1960s Through 2013 (3)
- 14: How to Take Advantage of Boredom, the Secret Ingredient of Creativity (1)
- 14: Are You One of the 2% Who Can Solve “Einstein’s Riddle”? (4)
- 14: Download 650 Soviet Book Covers, Many Sporting Wonderful Avant-Garde Designs (1917-1942) (0)
- 13: 815 Free Art Books from World Class Museums: The Met, the Guggenheim, the Getty & LACMA (1)
- 13: Free on Hulu: Stream Fellini’s 8 1/2, La Strada & Other Classic & Contemporary Films (4)
- 13: Plato’s Cave Allegory Animated Monty Python-Style (0)
- 13: 29 Sketchbooks by Renowned Artist Richard Diebenkorn, Containing 1,045 Drawings, Now Freely Viewable Online (1)
- 12: An Introduction to the World of Haruki Murakami Through Documentaries, Stories, Animation, Music Playlists & More (3)
- 12: David Bowie Performs an Ethereal Version of “Heroes,” with a Bottle Cap Strapped to His Shoe, Keeping the Beat (6)
- 12: All of Bach is Putting Bach’s Complete Works Online: 253 Done, 827 to Come (0)
- 11: David Bowie Gives Graduation Speech At Berklee College of Music: “Music Has Been My Doorway of Perception” (1999) (0)
- 11: David Bowie as Tilda Swinton, and Vice Versa (1)
- 11: William S. Burroughs Reads & Sings His Experimental Prose in a Big, Free 7-Hour Playlist (0)
- 11: Björk Takes Us Inside Her Creative Process and Explains How She Writes a Song (0)
- 11: 103 Essential Films By Female Filmmakers: Clueless, Lost In Translation, Ishtar and More (0)
- 10: David Bowie Sings “Changes” in His Last Live Performance, 2006 (4)
- 09: Splendid Hand-Scroll Illustrations of The Tale of the Genjii, The First Novel Ever Written (Circa 1120) (3)
- 09: The Memorial Service & Celebration of “Lemmy” Kilmister, Motörhead Frontman, is Now Streaming Live (3)
- 09: The Feminist Theory of Simone de Beauvoir Explained with 8-Bit Video Games (and More) (7)
- 08: Watch Cannibal: The Musical–The First Movie & Musical by Trey Parker, Creator of South Park and The Book of Mormon (2)
- 08: The First Photo-Illustrated Book, Anna Atkins’ Austerely Beautiful Photographs of British Algae (1843) (2)
- 08: Making Chocolate the Traditional Way, From Bean to Bar: A Short French Film (1)
- 07: The New York Public Library Lets You Download 180,000 Images in High Resolution: Historic Photographs, Maps, Letters & More (7)
- 07: Bruce Lee’s Only Surviving TV Interview, 1971: Lost and Now Found (1)
- 07: The Simpsons Present Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and Teachers Now Use It to Teach Kids the Joys of Literature (6)
- 07: The Fascinating Story of How Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (10)
- 06: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite Introduces America to Underground Films and the Velvet Underground (1965) (2)
- 06: Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897 (1)
- 06: Brazil Gives Out Books That Double as Subway Tickets, Promoting Literacy & Mass Transit at Once (9)
- 06: An Artful, Animated Tribute to The Wire, Created by a Fan of the Critically-Acclaimed TV Series (0)
- 05: Michio Kaku & Noam Chomsky School Moon Landing and 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists (35)
- 05: An Animated Carol Dweck on Why Parents Who Tell Their Kids How Smart They Are Aren’t Doing Them Any Favors (0)
- 05: Jimi Hendrix Opens for The Monkees on a 1967 Tour; Then After 8 Shows, Flips Off the Crowd and Quits (4)
- 05: An Animated Neil deGrasse Tyson Gives an Eloquent Defense of Science in 272 Words, the Same Length as The Gettysburg Address (3)
- 04: Aretha Franklin Takes Over for an Ailing Luciano Pavarotti & Sings Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” at the Grammys (1998) (8)
- 04: Hear Alec Guinness (The Legend Behind Obi-Wan Kenobi) Read T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets & The Waste Land (1)
- 04: See The Empire Strikes Back as a Silent Film — Precisely How George Lucas Imagined the Star Wars Films (2)
- 04: Bill Gates, Book Critic, Names His Top 5 Books of 2015 (0)
- 03: The Science of Willpower: 15 Tips for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Last from Dr. Kelly McGonigal (0)
- 01: 74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep (36)
- 01: Mark Twain Knocks New Year’s Resolutions: They’re a “Harmless Annual Institution, Of No Particular Use to Anybody” (1)
- 01: Patti Smith Creates a Detailed Packing List for Going on Tour: Haruki Murakami Books, Loquat Tea & More (1)
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- 31: The Story of WHER, America’s Pioneering, First All-Woman Radio Station (1955) (4)
- 31: Great “Filmumentaries” Take You Inside the Making of Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark & Jaws (0)
- 31: The First Adult Coloring Book: See the Subversive Executive Coloring Book From 1961 (9)
- 30: Sartre Writes a Tribute to Camus After His Friend-Turned-Rival Dies in a Tragic Car Crash: “There Is an Unbearable Absurdity in His Death” (2)
- 30: Discover The Music Vault: A Massive YouTube Archive of 22,000 Live Concert Videos (3)
- 30: Hear Jeremy Irons Read T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Naming of Cats’ (For a Limited Time) (9)
- 30: How to Get Started: John Cage’s Approach to Starting the Difficult Creative Process (2)
- 29: Hear Tom Lehrer Sing the Names of 102 Chemical Elements to the Tune of Gilbert & Sullivan (0)
- 29: Music from Star Wars, Kubrick, Scorsese & Tim Burton Films Played by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra: Stream Full Albums (0)
- 29: David Bowie Sings “Changes” in 2006: The Last Time He Performed Live, and Maybe His Last Live Performance Ever (0)
- 29: How a Good Night’s Sleep — and a Bad Night’s Sleep — Can Enhance Your Creativity (2)
- 29: The Overlook Hotel from The Shining Recreated with Gingerbread & Rice Krispies (0)
- 28: The British Museum Is Now Open To Everyone: Take a Virtual Tour and See 4,737 Artifacts, Including the Rosetta Stone (11)
- 28: What is the Good Life? Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, & Kant’s Ideas in 4 Animated Videos (14)
- 28: John Astin, From The Addams Family, Recites “The Raven” as Edgar Allan Poe (7)
- 25: Soviet Inventor Léon Theremin Shows Off the Theremin, the Early Electronic Instrument That Could Be Played Without Being Touched (1954) (1)
- 25: Alan Watts Introduces America to Meditation & Eastern Philosophy: Watch the 1960 TV Show, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life (3)
- 25: Watch David Lynch’s Playstation 2 Commercial, Then Go Behind the Scenes and Watch Him Make It (3)
- 25: Blue Christmas: A Criterion Video Essay (1)
- 25: Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader with Free eBooks, Audio Books, Online Courses & More (4)
- 24: Watch HD Versions of The Beatles’ Pioneering Music Videos: “Hey Jude,” “Penny Lane,” “Revolution” & More (1)
- 24: Brian Eno on Why Do We Make Art & What’s It Good For?: Download His 2015 John Peel Lecture (1)
- 24: 13 Beatles Albums & 4 Compilations Now Free to Stream Online: Stream Away (0)
- 24: How To Make the Perfect Cappuccino According to the World Barista Champion (Almost NSFW) (0)
- 24: Stan Lee Reads “The Night Before Christmas,” Telling the Tale of Santa Claus, the Greatest of Super Heroes (1)
- 23: Bach’s Prélude N°1 Played on Boomwhacker Percussion Tubes (2)
- 23: John Cleese’s Advice to Young Artists: “Steal Anything You Think Is Really Good” (2)
- 23: B.B. King Plays Live at Sing Sing Prison in One of His Greatest Performances (1972) (1)
- 22: Stream 22 Hours of Funky, Rocking & Swinging Christmas Albums: From James Brown and Johnny Cash to Christopher Lee & The Ventures (0)
- 22: Jane Austen Writes a Letter to Her Sister While Hung Over: “I Believe I Drank Too Much Wine Last Night” (0)
- 22: CBGB is Reborn … As a Restaurant in Newark Airport (0)
- 22: Shot-By-Shot Breakdowns of Spielberg’s Filmmaking in Jaws, Scorsese’s in Cape Fear, and De Palma’s in The Untouchables (0)
- 21: In 1911, Thomas Edison Predicts What the World Will Look Like in 2011: Smart Phones, No Poverty, Libraries That Fit in One Book (1)
- 21: Art Exhibit on Bill Murray Opens in the UK (0)
- 21: The Auteurs of Christmas: Christmas Morning as Seen Through the Eyes of Kubrick, Tarantino, Scorsese & More (0)
- 21: Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting Free Online: Season 2 Is Now on YouTube (0)
- 18: Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Nearly Burns His House Down (1990) (33)
- 18: Watch 34 of Quentin Tarantino’s Visual References to Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, 8 1/2 & Other Great Films (1)
- 18: Muhammad Ali Sings in Broadway’s First Black Power Musical (1970) (0)
- 18: 16 Great Star Wars Fan Films, Documentaries & Video Essays to Get You Ready for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (0)
- 17: The BBC Creates Step-by-Step Instructions for Knitting the Iconic Dr. Who Scarf: A Document from the Early 1980s (32)
- 17: How Marcel Marceau Started Miming to Save Children from the Holocaust (2)
- 17: Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of Book Illustration (0)
- 17: Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline (1971) (2)
- 16: Creativity, Not Money, is the Key to Happiness: Discover Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihaly’s Theory of “Flow” (4)
- 16: What Does Sound Look Like?: The Audible Rendered Visible Through Clever Technology (0)
- 16: William S. Burroughs Narrates a Claymation of His Grim Holiday Story “The Junky’s Christmas” (3)
- 16: What Makes Yasujirō Ozu a Great Filmmaker? New Video Essay Explains His Long-Admired Cinematic Style (2)
- 15: Hear 6 Classic Philip K. Dick Stories Adapted as Vintage Radio Plays (2)
- 15: Religious Songs That Secular People Can Love: Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash & Your Favorites (7)
- 15: Frank Zappa’s Experimental Advertisements For Luden’s Cough Drops, Remington Razors & Portland General Electric (0)
- 15: A Fascinating Case Study by Oliver Sacks Inspires a Short Animated Film, The Lost Mariner (0)
- 14: 28 Tips for Writing Stories from Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald (2)
- 14: Just 45 Straight Minutes of Nick Offerman Quietly Drinking Single Malt Scotch by the Fire (1)
- 14: Werner Herzog Creates Required Reading & Movie Viewing Lists for Enrolling in His Film School (0)
- 14: Downton Abbey Actors Perform Scene from the Show with American Accents (0)
- 14: Hear Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Read by His Great-Granddaughter, Monica (3)
- 11: George Saunders Demystifies the Art of Storytelling in a Short Animated Documentary (3)
- 11: Hear Sun Ra, the Avant-Garde Jazz Legend, Play on a 1966 Batman and Robin Album for Kids (1)
- 11: How to Make Sushi: Free Video Lessons from a Master Sushi Chef (0)
- 11: Casablanca’s Hilarious Alternative Final Scene Featuring Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon: Pragmatism Carries the Day! (1)
- 10: The Daily Habits of Famous Writers: Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, Stephen King & More (4)
- 10: The Life & Discoveries of Mary Leakey Celebrated in an Endearing Cutout Animation (0)
- 10: Kanye Lectures at Oxford University on Genius, Class & a Whole Lot More (5)
- 10: The First Episode of Serial: Season 2 Is Now Online: Go Inside the World of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (0)
- 10: Time Travel Back to Tokyo After World War II, and See the City in Remarkably High-Quality 1940s Video (2)
- 09: Jorge Luis Borges Picks 33 of His Favorite Books to Start His Famous Library of Babel (0)
- 09: A Superconductor Levitating on a Möbius Strip (0)
- 09: Watch Groundbreaking Comic Artist Mœbius Draw His Characters in Real Time (1)
- 09: Martin Luther King, Jr. Writes a List of 16 Suggestions for African-Americans Riding Newly-Integrated Buses (1956) (3)
- 08: Google Gives You a 360° View of the Performing Arts, From the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Paris Opera Ballet (0)
- 08: Original Portrait of the Mona Lisa Found Beneath the Paint Layers of da Vinci’s Masterpiece (1)
- 08: George Orwell’s 1984 Staged as an Opera: Watch Scenes from the 2005 Production in London (0)
- 08: Hear Flannery O’Connor’s Short Story, “Revelation,” Read by Legendary Historian & Radio Host, Studs Terkel (0)
- 07: Watch the Eagles of Death Metal Perform Live Again Tonight in Paris (0)
- 07: Anatomy of a Scene: 100+ Filmmakers Like Wes Anderson, Tim Burton & Ridley Scott Break Down a Scene from Each of Their Films (1)
- 07: Striking Poster Collection from the Great Depression Shows That the US Government Once Supported the Arts in America (7)
- 07: Take a Virtual Tour of Machu Picchu, One of the New 7 Wonders of the World (2)
- 07: Marcel Marceau Mimes the Progression of Human Life, From Birth to Death, in 4 Minutes (0)
- 04: 70 Complete Episodes of Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting Now Free to Watch Online (16)
- 04: Musicians Play Bach on the Octobass, the Gargantuan String Instrument Invented in 1850 (0)
- 04: Vintage Footage Shows a Young, Unknown Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe Living at the Famed Chelsea Hotel (1970) (2)
- 04: Watch Björk, Age 11, Read a Christmas Nativity Story on a 1976 Icelandic TV Special (4)
- 03: Hear All Three of Jack Kerouac’s Spoken-World Albums: A Sublime Union of Beat Literature and 1950s Jazz (2)
- 03: The Life & Times of Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome: A Documentary (1)
- 03: How Isaac Asimov Went from Star Trek Critic to Star Trek Fan & Advisor (6)
- 03: Steve Martin Writes a Hymn for Hymn-Deprived Atheists (0)
- 02: Watch a New Nina Simone Animation Based on an Interview Never Aired in the U.S. Before (0)
- 02: 15-Year-Old French Guitar Prodigy Flawlessly Rips Through Solos by Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour, Yngwie Malmsteen & Steve Vai (8)
- 02: Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: The 2015 Edition (0)
- 02: Immanuel Kant’s Life & Philosophy Introduced in a Short Monty Python-Style Animation (3)
- 02: 45,000 Works of Art from Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center Now Freely Viewable Online (0)
- 01: The Dresser: The Contraption That Makes Getting Dressed an Adventure (0)
- 01: Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) (36)
- 01: Prince (RIP) Performs Early Hits in a 1982 Concert: “Controversy,” “I Wanna Be Your Lover” & More (0)
- 01: Leonard Cohen Reads The Great World War I Poem, “In Flanders Fields” (0)
- 01: Slavoj Zizek Explains What’s Wrong with Online Dating & What Unconventional Technology Can Actually Improve Your Love Life (2)
- November 2015 (88)
- 30: Lynda Barry’s Illustrated Syllabus & Homework Assignments from Her New UW-Madison Course, “Making Comics” (5)
- 30: Classic Blues Songs By John Lee Hooker, B.B. King & Muddy Waters Played on the Gayageum, a Traditional Korean Instrument (3)
- 30: Stream a Free 65-Hour Playlist of John Cage Music and Discover the Full Scope of His Avant-Garde Compositions (2)
- 30: People of Nowhere: Short, Powerful Film Captures the Human Dimension of the Syrian Refugee Crisis (0)
- 27: 300 Kate Bush Impersonators Pay Tribute to Kate Bush’s Iconic “Wuthering Heights” Video (22)
- 27: Learn to Code with Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Minecraft (2)
- 27: Albert Einstein On God: “Nothing More Than the Expression and Product of Human Weakness” (4)
- 27: Portland, the City in Cinema: See the City of Roses as it Appears in 20 Different Films (0)
- 26: A Rollicking French Animation on the Perils of Drinking a Little Too Much Coffee (1)
- 26: Terry Gilliam on the Difference Between Kubrick & Spielberg: Kubrick Makes You Think, Spielberg Wraps Everything Up with Neat Little Bows (8)
- 26: French Vending Machines Fill Your Mind with Nourishing Short Stories, Not Your Body with Junk Food (2)
- 26: The Great Stan Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (0)
- 25: Monty Python’s John Cleese Creates Ads for the American Philosophical Association (7)
- 25: Jimi Hendrix Plays the Delta Blues on a 12-String Acoustic Guitar in 1968, and Jams with His Blues Idols, Buddy Guy & B.B. King (2)
- 25: Free Speech Bites: Nigel Warburton, Host of Philosophy Bites, Creates a Spin Off Podcast Dedicated to Freedom of Expression (0)
- 25: William S. Burroughs Reads His Sarcastic “Thanksgiving Prayer” in a 1988 Film By Gus Van Sant (6)
- 25: Buster Keaton: The Wonderful Gags of the Founding Father of Visual Comedy (1)
- 24: Mark Twain’s Patented Inventions for Bra Straps and Other Everyday Items (2)
- 24: New Wave Music–DEVO, Talking Heads, Blondie, Elvis Costello–Gets Introduced to America by ABC’s TV Show, 20/20 (1979) (1)
- 24: Picasso Makes Wonderful Abstract Art (0)
- 24: One Man-Band Plays Amazing Covers, Note-for-Note, of Yes, CSNY, Zeppelin & More (0)
- 23: Artist Turns a Crop Field Into a Van Gogh Painting, Seen Only From Airplanes (2)
- 23: Mœbius & Jodorowsky’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece, The Incal, Brought to Life in a Tantalizing Animation (21)
- 23: Great Depression Cooking: Get Budget-Minded Meals from the Online Cooking Show Created by 93-Year-Old Clara Cannucciari (2)
- 20: Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken 100 Years Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque (10)
- 20: Rita Hayworth, 1940s Hollywood Icon, Dances Disco to the Tune of The Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive: A Mashup (5)
- 20: Nietzsche’s Concept of Superman Explained with Monty Python-Style Animation (8)
- 20: David Lynch Directs a Mini-Season of Twin Peaks in the Form of Japanese Coffee Commercials (1)
- 19: The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974) (4)
- 19: Hear Ray Bradbury’s Classic Sci-Fi Story Fahrenheit 451 as a Radio Drama (0)
- 19: Meet Congo the Chimp, London’s Sensational 1950s Abstract Painter (15)
- 19: A Comic Book Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Poignant Poem, Annabel Lee (5)
- 19: Get to Know Socrates, Camus, Kierkegaard & Other Great Philosophers with the BBC’s Intelligent Radio Show, In Our Time (4)
- 18: The Lord of the Rings Mythology Explained in 10 Minutes, in Two Illustrated Videos (2)
- 18: The First Feminist Film, Germaine Dulac’s The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922) (2)
- 18: An Interactive Timeline Covering 14 Billion Years of History: From The Big Bang to 2015 (1)
- 17: The First Surrealist Film The Seashell and the Clergyman, Brought to You By Germaine Dulac & Antonin Artaud (1928) (0)
- 17: Charles Dickens (Channeling Jorge Luis Borges) Created a Fake Library, with 37 Witty Invented Book Titles (4)
- 17: The Making of The Beatles’ Abbey Road: Alternate Album Cover Photos, Recording Session Outtakes & Interviews (3)
- 17: Haruki Murakami Novels Sold in Polish Vending Machines (4)
- 16: Three Historic Performances at Paris’ Le Bataclan: The Velvet Underground (1972), Genesis with Peter Gabriel (1973) & Jeff Buckley (1995) (2)
- 16: Hear 2.5-Hours of Great Jazz Songs Featured in Woody Allen Films: Sidney Bechet in Midnight in Paris, Louis Armstrong in Stardust Memories & More (0)
- 16: Masterpieces of Western Art with All Gluten Products Removed: See Works by Dalí, Cézanne, Van Gogh & Others (0)
- 16: Free Entertainment for Cats and Dogs: Videos of Birds, Squirrels & Other Thrills (1)
- 14: Voltaire: “Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities” (48)
- 13: NASCAR Meets the Paranormal in Terry Gilliam’s Short Film, The Legend of Hallowdega (0)
- 13: A 103-Year-Old Harlem Renaissance Dancer Sees Herself on Film for the First Time & Becomes an Internet Star (0)
- 13: Punk & Heavy Metal Music Makes Listeners Happy and Calm, Not Aggressive, According to New Australian Study (2)
- 13: Now Streaming Free: The Best of The Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” Concerts in Chicago (0)
- 12: The Power of Pessimism: Science Reveals the Hidden Virtues in Negative Thinking (1)
- 12: Peter Sellers Calls Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “Violent,” “The Biggest Load of Crap I’ve Seen” (1972) (5)
- 12: Free Online: Watch the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Arguably the Most Respected Filmmaker of All Time (1)
- 12: 100 Novels All Kids Should Read Before Leaving High School (7)
- 12: Sea-Serpents, Vampires, Pirates & More: The Public Domain Review’s Second Book of Essays (0)
- 11: Freed Slave Writes Letter to Former Master: You Owe Us $11,680 for 52 Years of Unpaid Labor (1865) (13)
- 11: The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda: Help Bring Them to the English Speaking World for the First Time (0)
- 11: Edvard Munch’s The Scream Animated to the Psychedelic Sounds of Pink Floyd: The Winter Version (1)
- 11: Michio Kaku & Brian Green Explain String Theory in a Nutshell: Elegant Explanations of an Elegant Theory (0)
- 10: Dostoevsky Draws Doodles of Raskolnikov and Other Characters in the Manuscript of Crime and Punishment (4)
- 10: The Interior of the Hindenburg Revealed in 1930s Color Photos: Inside the Ill-Fated Airship (7)
- 10: Hear the Writing of French Theorists Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard & Roland Barthes Sung by Poet Kenneth Goldsmith (1)
- 10: An Animated Kurt Vonnegut Visits NYU, Riffs, Rambles, and Blows the Kids’ Minds (1970) (0)
- 10: The Emily Bronte Sand Sculpture (0)
- 09: Two Guitar Effects That Revolutionized Rock: The Invention of the Wah-Wah & Fuzz Pedals (2)
- 09: Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive (3)
- 09: W.B. Yeats’ Poem “When You Are Old” Adapted into a Japanese Manga Comic (1)
- 09: Download the Software That Provides Stephen Hawking’s Voice (1)
- 06: Gravity Visualized by High School Teacher in an Amazingly Elegant & Simple Way (4)
- 06: Hear Arthur Miller Read From Death of a Salesman, His Great American Play (1955) (0)
- 06: Harlan Ellison’s Wonderful Rant on Why Writers Should Always Get Paid (2)
- 06: Horror Legend Christopher Lee Reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2)
- 05: Stephen Hawking Wonders Whether Capitalism or Artificial Intelligence Will Doom the Human Race (7)
- 05: Citizen Maths: A Free Online Course That Teaches Adults the Math They Missed in High School (1)
- 05: Poignant and Unsettling Post-Mortem Family Portraits from the 19th Century (2)
- 05: Man Ray’s Portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Marcel Duchamp & Many Other 1920s Icons (2)
- 04: 300+ Etchings by Rembrandt Now Free Online, Thanks to the Morgan Library & Museum (1)
- 04: Read the Entire Comic Book Adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1)
- 04: iTunes Terms & Conditions Adapted into a Graphic Novel: Read It Free Online (0)
- 04: New Video Game Inspired by 20 Haruki Murakami Stories Is Coming Your Way: Help Kickstart It (1)
- 04: The Night John Lennon & Yoko Ono Jammed with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore East (1971) (12)
- 03: Hand-Colored 1860s Photographs Reveal the Last Days of Samurai Japan (3)
- 03: James Joyce Picked Drunken Fights, Then Hid Behind Ernest Hemingway (12)
- 03: This Is Your Brain on Exercise: Why Physical Exercise (Not Mental Games) Might Be the Best Way to Keep Your Mind Sharp (5)
- 03: Listen to Ira Glass’ 10 Favorite Episodes of This American Life (0)
- 02: How Jean-Paul Sartre’s Philosophy Can Empower You to Live the Life You Truly Want (1)
- 02: Hear All of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia Novels as Free Audio Books (2)
- 02: A Spellbinding Supercut of the First & Final Frames of 70 Iconic Films, Played Side by Side (1)
- 02: A Young David Lynch Talks About Eraserhead in One of His First Recorded Interviews (1979) (2)
- October 2015 (93)
- 30: 30,000 Works of Art by Edvard Munch & Other Artists Put Online by Norway’s National Museum of Art (2)
- 30: Musician Plays Signature Drum Parts of 71 Beatles Songs in 5 Minutes: A Whirlwind Tribute to Ringo Starr (6)
- 30: Watch the Cult Classic Horror Film Carnival of Souls (1962) (1)
- 30: The Artist as Artist’s Model: Au Naturel Portraits of Frida Kahlo Taken by Art Patron Julien Levy (1938) (0)
- 30: Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” Read by the Great Bela Lugosi (1946) (1)
- 29: Stephen King Creates a List of 82 Books for Aspiring Writers (to Supplement an Earlier List of 96 Recommend Books) (0)
- 29: Watch “The Poetry of Perception”: Harvard Animates Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson & William Carlos Williams (1)
- 29: Fly Through 17th-Century London’s Gritty Streets with Prize-Winning Animations (0)
- 29: The Big Ideas Behind Andy Warhol’s Art, and How They Can Help Us Build a Better World (0)
- 28: An Animated Bill Murray on the Advantages & Disadvantages of Fame (0)
- 28: Stream the Complete Works of Bach & Beethoven: 250 Free Hours of Music (4)
- 28: New Film Extraordinary Tales Animates Edgar Poe Stories, with Narrations by Guillermo Del Toro, Christopher Lee & More (4)
- 28: Free Documentary View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining Looks at How Kubrick Made “the World’s Scariest Movie” (0)
- 27: 55 Covers of Vintage Philosophy, Psychology & Science Books Come to Life in a Short Animation (0)
- 27: Hear Sylvia Plath Read 50+ of Her Dark, Compelling Poems (6)
- 27: See Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment Performed in the World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber, and on the Moon (4)
- 27: The First Horror Film, George Méliès’ The Haunted Castle (1896) (1)
- 26: Watch Behind-the-Scenes Footage From Freddie Mercury’s Final Video Performance (21)
- 26: Mr. Rogers Goes to Congress and Saves PBS: Heartwarming Video from 1969 (4)
- 26: Hear Marcel Duchamp Read “The Creative Act,” A Short Lecture on What Makes Great Art, Great (0)
- 26: Map of Middle-Earth Annotated by Tolkien Found in a Copy of Lord of the Rings (0)
- 23: The Neuroscience of Bass: New Study Explains Why Bass Instruments Are Fundamental to Music (13)
- 23: Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting Is Now Free Online: Watch Season 1 (15)
- 23: David Lynch Draws a Map of Twin Peaks (to Help Pitch the Show to ABC) (0)
- 23: Stream 61 Hours of Orson Welles’ Classic 1930s Radio Plays: War of the Worlds, Heart of Darkness & More (1)
- 22: Hear the World’s Oldest Surviving Written Song (200 BC), Originally Composed by Euripides, the Ancient Greek Playwright (3)
- 22: A Fittingly Strange Animation of What’s Going On Inside Charles Manson’s Mind (0)
- 22: Watch Vincent Price Turn Into Edgar Allan Poe & Read Four Classic Poe Stories (1970) (1)
- 22: Charles Darwin’s Kids Draw on Surviving Manuscript Pages of On the Origin of Species (0)
- 21: Franz Kafka Says the Insect in The Metamorphosis Should Never Be Drawn; Vladimir Nabokov Draws It Anyway (15)
- 21: The History of Modern Art Visualized in a Massive 130-Foot Timeline (1)
- 21: The Maligned Impressionist Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Illustrates Emile Zola’s Gritty Novel L’Assommoir (1878) (1)
- 21: Free Today: Watch Online the Pioneering Films of the Late Chantal Akerman (2)
- 20: 105 Animated Philosophy Videos from Wireless Philosophy: A Project Sponsored by Yale, MIT, Duke & More (0)
- 20: The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation (5)
- 20: Apply to the New David Lynch Masters in Film Program, Where You’ll Meditate & Create (0)
- 20: Hear a Playlist of 300 Songs That Influenced Elvis Costello, Drawn From His New Memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink (3)
- 20: How Cultured Are You? Test Your Knowledge With Cultural Quizzes from 1958 (0)
- 19: What Is Déjà Vu? Michio Kaku Wonders If It’s Triggered by Parallel Universes (71)
- 19: Quentin Tarantino’s Original Wish List for the Cast of Pulp Fiction (1)
- 19: Watch All 18,225 Lines of The Iliad Read by 66 Actors in a Marathon Event For an Audience of 50,000 (2)
- 18: The Worlds of Hitchcock & Kubrick Collide in a Surreal Mashup, The Red Drum Getaway (1)
- 16: Terry Gilliam’s Lost Animations from Monty Python and the Holy Grail Are Now Online (3)
- 16: William Faulkner Draws Maps of Yoknapatawpha County, the Fictional Home of His Great Novels (2)
- 16: Postage Stamps from Bhutan That Double as Playable Vinyl Records (2)
- 16: Watch Dismaland — The Official Unofficial Film, A Cinematic Journey Through Banksy’s Apocalyptic Theme Park (1)
- 15: A Young Hunter S. Thompson Appears on the Classic TV Game Show, To Tell the Truth (1967) (1)
- 15: Maurice Sendak Illustrates Tolstoy in 1963 (with a Little Help from His Editor) (0)
- 15: How to Sing Two Notes At Once (aka Polyphonic Overtone Singing): Lessons from Singer Anna-Maria Hefele (3)
- 14: In 1704, Isaac Newton Predicts the World Will End in 2060 (56)
- 14: When Frank Zappa & Miles Davis Played a Drug Dealer and a Pimp on Miami Vice (1)
- 14: An Animated Introduction to Jane Austen (1)
- 14: Music That Helps You Sleep: Minimalist Composer Max Richter, Pop Phenom Ed Sheeran & Your Favorites (11)
- 13: Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live & Learn More (12)
- 13: The History of the Blues in 50 Riffs: From Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928) to Joe Bonamassa (2009) (8)
- 13: Browse Paintings, Photos, Papers & More in the Archive of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe, America’s Original Art Power Couple (1)
- 13: Amazing Miniature Sculptures of New York City Landmarks: CBGB, Katz’s Deli, Vesuvio Bakery & More (0)
- 12: Free Course: An Introduction to the Art of the Italian Renaissance (9)
- 12: 1200 Years of Women Composers: A Free 78-Hour Music Playlist That Takes You From Medieval Times to Now (14)
- 12: Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in its Original Ancient Language, Akkadian (12)
- 12: Browse a Gallery of Kurt Vonnegut Tattoos, and See Why He’s the Big Gorilla of Literary Tattoos (0)
- 12: Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy & More (7)
- 11: Hear Ursula K. Le Guin’s Story, “The End” Dramatized: A Rare Audio Treat (0)
- 09: Arthur Conan Doyle Names His 19 Favorite Sherlock Holmes Stories (0)
- 09: NBC University Theater Adapted Great Novels to Radio & Gives Listeners College Credit : Hear 110 Episodes from a 1940s eLearning Experiment (2)
- 09: Animated Map Lets You Watch the Unfolding of Every Day of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) (0)
- 08: The Periodic Table of Elements Scaled to Show The Elements’ Actual Abundance on Earth (17)
- 08: 226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online (4)
- 08: Inmates in New York Prison Defeat Harvard’s Debate Team: A Look Inside the Bard Prison Initiative (1)
- 08: 100 Overlooked Films Directed by Women: See Selections from Sight & Sound Magazine’s New List (1)
- 07: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death: 19 Theories on What Caused the Poet’s Demise (114)
- 07: Innovative Film Visualizes the Destruction of World War II: Now Available in 7 Languages (1)
- 07: The Great Leonard Nimoy Reads H.G. Wells’ Seminal Sci-Fi Novel The War of the Worlds (2)
- 07: 1902 French Trading Cards Imagine “Women of the Future” (6)
- 06: Watch Noam Chomsky & Lawrence Krauss Talk About Education, Political Activism, Technology & More Before a Sold-Out Crowd (0)
- 06: Bob Dylan Appears in Rare TV Ad: Watch IBM’s Super Computer Offer a Literary Analysis of His Songs (5)
- 06: Discover the Cinematic & Comedic Genius of Charlie Chaplin with 60+ Free Movies Online (1)
- 06: Stream 100+ Free Movies from Paramount Pictures on YouTube: Hamlet, Ironweed & More (13)
- 06: Watch Gandhi Talk in His First Filmed Interview (1947) (2)
- 05: 20 New Lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh Discovered in Iraq, Adding New Details to the Story (36)
- 05: 8,400 Stunning High-Res Photos From the Apollo Moon Missions Are Now Online (0)
- 05: Bernie Sanders: I Will Be an Arts President (0)
- 05: What “Orwellian” Really Means: An Animated Lesson About the Use & Abuse of the Term (12)
- 04: How a Virus Invades Your Body: An Eye-Popping, Animated Look (1)
- 02: Akira Kurosawa Painted the Storyboards For Scenes in His Epic Films: Compare Canvas to Celluloid (2)
- 02: The Guggenheim Puts Online 1700 Great Works of Modern Art from 625 Artists (13)
- 02: A Short, Powerful Animation on Addiction: Watch Andreas Hykade’s Nuggets (5)
- 02: The Falling Water: A Rube Goldberg Machine That Makes a Fine Cocktail (0)
- 02: The Complete Star Wars “Filmumentary”: A 6-Hour, Fan-Made Star Wars Documentary, with Behind-the-Scenes Footage & Commentary (0)
- 02: Adam Savage’s Animated Lesson on the Simple Ideas That Lead to Great Scientific Discoveries (0)
- 01: As Benevolent Dictator, Vladimir Nabokov Would Abolish Muzak & Bidets: What Would Make Your List? (0)
- 01: Hear 150 Tracks Highlighting Brian Eno’s Career as a Musician, Composer & Producer & Stream His 2015 John Peel Lecture (0)
- 01: The Night Ed Sullivan Scared a Nation with the Apocalyptic Animated Short, A Short Vision (1956) (6)
- September 2015 (95)
- 30: It’s Banned Books Week: Listen to Allen Ginsberg Read His Famously Banned Poem, “Howl,” in San Francisco, 1956 (6)
- 30: Aubrey Beardsley’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories (1894) (1)
- 30: Hear Ray Bradbury’s Beloved Sci-Fi Stories as Classic Radio Dramas (3)
- 30: Why You Can Never Tune a Piano (13)
- 29: Nikola Tesla’s Predictions for the 21st Century: The Rise of Smart Phones & Wireless, The Demise of Coffee, The Rule of Eugenics (1926/35) (3)
- 29: An Animated Tom Waits Talks About Laughing at Funerals & the Moles Under Stonehenge (1988) (0)
- 29: “A Glorious Hour”: Helen Keller Describes The Ecstasy of Feeling Beethoven’s Ninth Played on the Radio (1924) (0)
- 29: Human: The Movie Features Interviews with 2,020 People from 60 Countries on What It Means to Be Human (5)
- 28: Fantastic Mr. Fox Meets The Shining in an Animated, Cautionary Tale About Consumerism (1)
- 28: Gabriel García Márquez Describes the Cultural Merits of Soap Operas, and Even Wrote a Script for One (1)
- 28: “Bleu, Blanc, Rouge”: a Striking Supercut of the Vivid Colors in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960s Films (0)
- 28: John Lennon’s “Imagine” & Paul McCartney’s “Yesterday” Adapted into Smart, Moving Webcomics (0)
- 28: The World’s Oldest Surviving Pair of Glasses (Circa 1475) (2)
- 27: The Syrian Conflict & The European Refugee Crisis Explained in an Animated Primer (14)
- 25: The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Podcast, Now at 370 Episodes, Expands into Eastern Philosophy (1)
- 25: Sylvia Plath, Girl Detective Offers a Hilariously Cheery Take on the Poet’s College Years (0)
- 25: Pope Francis Set to Release a Rock/Pop Album: Listen to the First Single (4)
- 25: Revel in The William Faulkner Audio Archive on the Author’s 118th Birthday (0)
- 24: How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned Life in the Year 2000: Drawing the Future (7)
- 24: Queenie: A Handmade Paper Animation About a Lovesick Professor and His Strange Academic Project (0)
- 24: Stream 82 Hours of Frank Zappa Music: Free Playlists of Songs He Composed & Performed (5)
- 24: When Brian Eno & Other Artists Peed in Marcel Duchamp’s Famous Urinal (3)
- 23: Young Orson Welles Directs “Voodoo Macbeth,” the First Shakespeare Production With An All-Black Cast: Footage from 1936 (1)
- 23: The New Yorker’s “Comma Queen” Mercifully Explains the Difference Between Who/Whom, Lay/Lie, Less/Fewer & Beyond (2)
- 23: James Baldwin’s One & Only, Delightfully-Illustrated Children’s Book, Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976) (0)
- 23: F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads Shakespeare’s Othello and Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” (1940) (3)
- 22: Steve Martin & Robin Williams Riff on Math, Physics, Einstein & Picasso in a Heady Comedy Routine (2002) (4)
- 22: Hear Radio Dramas of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Asimov Stories (3)
- 22: David Bowie Sings in a Wonderful M.C. Escher-Inspired Set in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (1)
- 22: Mick Jagger Acts in The Nightingale, a Televised Play from 1983 (0)
- 21: An Animated Introduction to Virginia Woolf (3)
- 21: Taylor Swift Songs Sung in the Style of The Velvet Underground by Father John Misty (1)
- 21: An Animated Margaret Atwood Explains How Stories Change with Technology (3)
- 21: The 2,000+ Films Watched by Presidents Nixon, Carter & Reagan in the White House (2)
- 21: A Great Compilation of “The Lick” Found in Music Everywhere: From Coltrane & Stravinsky, to Christina Aguilera (0)
- 20: 18-Year-Old James Joyce Writes a Fan Letter to His Hero Henrik Ibsen (1901) (2)
- 20: Columbia U. Launches a Free Multimedia Glossary for Studying Cinema & Filmmaking (1)
- 18: The Solar System Drawn Amazingly to Scale Across 7 Miles of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert (4)
- 18: A Film Festival of Kick Ass Kung Fu/Martial Arts Films in the Public Domain (3)
- 17: William S. Burroughs Reads Edgar Allan Poe Tales in the Vintage 1995 Video Game, “The Dark Eye” (1)
- 17: Mark Twain Skewers Great Works of Art: The Mona Lisa (“a Smoked Haddock!”), The Last Supper (“a Mournful Wreck”) & More (7)
- 17: Radical French Philosophy Meets Kung-Fu Cinema in Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) (1)
- 17: Thomas Dolby Potty Trains His Cat, and There’s Video Proof (0)
- 16: 48 Animated Videos Explain the History of Ideas: From Aristotle to Sartre (1)
- 16: How Sybil Turned Multiple Personality Disorder into a Psychological Phenomenon in America (1)
- 16: Hear Pablo Neruda Read His Poetry In English For the First Time, Days Before His Nobel Prize Acceptance (1971) (1)
- 16: Everything is a Remix: A Video Series Exploring the Sources of Creativity (1)
- 15: Watch 1915 Video of Monet, Renoir, Rodin & Degas: The New Motion Picture Camera Captures the Innovative Artists (4)
- 15: Support “Where Is the City of the Future?”: A Journey Across the Pacific Rim Using a Brand New Model of Journalism (0)
- 15: Beatles Tribute Band “The Fab Faux” Performs Live an Amazingly Exact Replica of the Original Abbey Road Medley (7)
- 15: A Guided Tour of Guillermo del Toro’s Creativity-Inducing Man Cave, “Bleak House” (2)
- 15: Hunter S. Thompson’s Advice for Aspiring Photographers: Skip the Fancy Equipment & Just Shoot (3)
- 14: Discovered: First Use of the “F Word” May Date Back to 1310 (0)
- 14: Harry Clarke’s 1926 Illustrations of Goethe’s Faust: Art That Inspired the Psychedelic 60s (1)
- 14: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Read by Sir John Gielgud (3)
- 14: Vancouver Never Plays Itself (0)
- 14: Hear Blade Runner, Terminator, Videodrome & Other 70s, 80s & 90s Movies as Novelized AudioBooks (4)
- 11: Behold the Largest Atlas in the World: The Six-Foot Tall Klencke Atlas from 1660 (3)
- 11: Sun Ra Plays a Music Therapy Gig at a Mental Hospital; Inspires Patient to Talk for the First Time in Years (6)
- 11: Artist Animates Famous Book Covers in an Elegant, Understated Way (1)
- 11: A Wealth of Free Documentaries on All Things Japanese: From Bento Boxes to Tea Gardens, Ramen & Bullet Trains (1)
- 11: 100,000+ Wonderful Pieces of Theater Ephemera Digitized by The New York Public Library (2)
- 10: The Drawings & Paintings of Richard Feynman: Art Expresses a Dramatic “Feeling of Awe” (0)
- 10: How Did David Fincher Become the Kubrick of Our Time? A New, 3.5 Hour Series of Video Essays Explains (4)
- 10: M.C. Escher’s Perpetual Motion Waterfall Brought to Life: Real or Sleight of Hand? (2)
- 10: The Inspiring Story of Ronald E. McNair, the Astronaut Who Endured Racism & Became One of the First African Americans in Space (2)
- 09: Rock-Loving Kid Records a Spat with His Parents During the 1980s & Animates It 30 Years Later (3)
- 09: Thomas Edison’s Recordings of Leo Tolstoy: Hear the Voice of Russia’s Greatest Novelist (0)
- 09: Classics Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Narrated by James Mason in a 1953 Oscar-Nominated Animation & 1958 Decca Album (2)
- 09: Donald Deconstructs Citizen Kane (1)
- 09: U.S. Detonates Nuclear Weapons in Space; People Watch Spectacle Sipping Drinks on Rooftops (1962) (0)
- 08: The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection (2)
- 08: Stream Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine Messages: All Six Seasons (5)
- 08: Maurice Sendak Sent Beautifully Illustrated Letters to Fans — So Beautiful a Kid Ate One (0)
- 08: A Last Glimpse Inside the Okura, Tokyo’s Modernist Masterpiece Hotel (1)
- 07: Play The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Video Game Free Online, Designed by Douglas Adams in 1984 (2)
- 07: Stephen Colbert Reads Flannery O’Connor’s Darkly Comedic Story, “The Enduring Chill” (1)
- 07: Tolstoy and Gandhi Exchange Letters: Two Thinkers’ Quest for Gentleness, Humility & Love (1909) (4)
- 07: Jack Kerouac’s Poetry & Prose Read/Performed by 20 Icons: Hunter S. Thompson, Patti Smith, William S. Burroughs, Johnny Depp & More (0)
- 04: New Research Shows How Music Lessons During Childhood Benefit the Brain for a Lifetime (1)
- 04: Kurt Vonnegut Creates a Report Card for His Novels, Ranking Them From A+ to D (15)
- 04: The First Animated Feature Film: The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger (1926) (4)
- 04: William Faulkner Rocked Fourth Grade (1907-1908) (2)
- 03: Albert Einstein & Sigmund Freud Exchange Letters and Debate How to Make the World Free from War (1932) (6)
- 03: The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Now Free Online (4)
- 03: Woody Allen Tells a Classic Joke About Hemingway, Fitzgerald & Gertrude Stein in 1965: A Precursor to Midnight in Paris (2)
- 03: Hayao Miyazaki’s Masterpieces Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke Imagined as 8-Bit Video Games (1)
- 02: Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa (2)
- 02: Back to Bed: A New Video Game Inspired by the Surreal Artwork of Escher, Dali & Magritte (1)
- 02: 30 Minutes of Harry Potter Sung in an Avant-Garde Fashion by UbuWeb’s Kenneth Goldsmith (2)
- 02: Bernie Sanders Sings “This Land is Your Land” on the Endearingly Bad Spoken Word Album, We Shall Overcome (4)
- 01: Haruki Murakami Publishes His Answers to 3,700 Questions from Fans in a New Japanese eBook (1)
- 01: The Films of Quentin Tarantino: Watch Video Essays on Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill & More (0)
- 01: The Groundbreaking Silhouette Animations of Lotte Reiniger: Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and More (1)
- 01: Oscar Wilde’s Play Salome Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley in a Striking Modern Aesthetic (1894) (1)
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- 31: How Drums & Bass Make the Song: Isolated Tracks from Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Pixies, The Beatles to Royal Blood (6)
- 31: Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Clever Promo for Ridley Scott’s New Sci-Fi Film, The Martian (0)
- 31: Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn & Twain Himself Meet Satan in the Zany 1985 Claymation The Adventures of Mark Twain (2)
- 31: 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures Free Online: The Power of Myth & Storytelling (18)
- 30: Oliver Sacks’ Last Tweet Shows Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Movingly Flashmobbed in Spain (16)
- 28: Watch a Luthier Birth a Cello in This Hypnotic Documentary (3)
- 28: Carl Jung’s Hand-Drawn, Rarely-Seen Manuscript The Red Book (5)
- 28: Take a 360° Virtual Tour of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Personal Home & Studio (1)
- 28: How to Age Gracefully: No Matter What Your Age, You Can Get Life Advice from Your Elders (0)
- 27: Very Early Concert Footage of the B-52s, When New Wave Music Was Actually New (1978) (4)
- 27: The Evolution of Batman in Cinema: From 1939 to Present (1)
- 27: The 1982 DC Comics Style Guide Is Online: A Blueprint for Superman, Batman & Your Other Favorite Superheroes (0)
- 27: Watch The Half Hour Hegel: A Long, Guided Tour Through Hegel’s Phenomenology, Passage by Passage (1)
- 26: Marilyn Monroe Recounts Her Harrowing Experience in a Psychiatric Ward in a 1961 Letter (4)
- 26: Hear Kurt Vonnegut Read Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle & Other Novels (4)
- 26: Watch the Behind-the-Scenes Blade Runner Promo Film … Created to Prevent a Box Office Flop (1982) (7)
- 26: Kickstart a Documentary on Emily Dickinson, Narrated by Cynthia Nixon (0)
- 25: Who Was Afraid of Ray Bradbury & Science Fiction? The FBI, It Turns Out (1959) (3)
- 25: Stream 36 Recordings of Legendary Grateful Dead Concerts Free Online (aka Dick’s Picks) (1)
- 25: Hear Demos of Keith Richards Singing Lead Vocals on Rolling Stones Classics: “Gimme Shelter,” “Wild Horses” & More (1)
- 25: Jared Diamond Identifies the Real, Unexpected Risks in Our Everyday Life (in a Psychedelic Animated Video) (1)
- 24: Philosophy Explained With Donuts (17)
- 24: Marshall McLuhan’s 1969 Deck of Cards, Designed For Out-of-the-Box Thinking (0)
- 24: A Wonderfully Illustrated 1925 Japanese Edition of Aesop’s Fables by Legendary Children’s Book Illustrator Takeo Takei (0)
- 24: Walt Whitman’s Poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” Brought to Life in Three Animations (0)
- 23: The New York Times Makes 17,000 Tasty Recipes Available Online: Japanese, Italian, Thai & Much More (2)
- 21: A-ha’s “Take On Me” Performed by North Korean Kids with Accordions (0)
- 21: Meet America & Britain’s First Female Tattoo Artists: Maud Wagner (1877-1961) & Jessie Knight (1904–1994) (5)
- 21: Discover The Backwards Brain Bicycle: What Riding a Bike Says About the Neuroplasticity of the Brain (2)
- 20: Karaoke-Style, Stephen Colbert Sings and Struts to The Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” (0)
- 20: Judy!: 1993 Judith Butler Fanzine Gives Us An Irreverent Punk-Rock Take on the Post-Structuralist Gender Theorist (0)
- 20: James Baldwin Debates Malcolm X (1963) and William F. Buckley (1965): Vintage Video & Audio (0)
- 20: Hear Dramatizations of H.P. Lovecraft’s Stories On His Birthday: “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dunwich Horror,” & More (1)
- 20: David Byrne’s Personal Lending Library Is Now Open: 250 Books Ready to Be Checked Out (1)
- 19: How Can I Know Anything at All? BBC Animations Feature the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Hume, Popper & More (1)
- 19: The Night Frank Zappa Jammed With Pink Floyd … and Captain Beefheart Too (Belgium, 1969) (1)
- 19: 18 Stories & Novels by Neil Gaiman Online: Free Texts & Readings by Neil Himself (2)
- 19: Michael Stipe Recommends 10 Books for Anyone Marooned on a Desert Island (2)
- 18: The Fascinating Whistled Languages of the Canary Islands, Turkey & Mexico (and What They Say About the Human Brain) (4)
- 18: H.P. Lovecraft’s Monster Drawings: Cthulhu & Other Creatures from the “Boundless and Hideous Unknown” (3)
- 18: Watch Interplanetary Revolution (1924): The Most Bizarre Soviet Animated Propaganda Film You’ll Ever See (3)
- 18: 1980s Photo Captures Neil deGrasse Tyson Looking Hip in Grad School (Plus More on His “Failed Experiment” at UT-Austin) (1)
- 17: Stream 58 Hours of Free Classical Music Selected to Help You Study, Work, or Simply Relax (1)
- 17: Watch Vincent, Tim Burton’s Animated Tribute to Vincent Price & Edgar Allan Poe (1982) (2)
- 17: How to Bake Ancient Roman Bread Dating Back to 79 AD: A Video Primer (17)
- 17: See Berlin Before and After World War II in Startling Color Video (1)
- 14: “Auteur in Space”: A Video Essay on How Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris Transcends Science Fiction (1)
- 14: Pres. Obama Releases a Free Playlist of 40 Songs for a Summer Day (Plus 6 Books on His Summer Reading List) (3)
- 14: The First Scientific Map of the Moon (1679) (0)
- 14: One of World’s Oldest Books Printed in Multi-Color Now Opened & Digitized for the First Time (3)
- 14: A Look Inside Hannah Arendt’s Personal Library: Download Marginalia from 90 Books (Heidegger, Kant, Marx & More) (0)
- 13: Get a Free Subscription to the Beta Version of The Great Courses Plus (Space Limited) (13)
- 13: Brian Eno Lists 20 Books for Rebuilding Civilization & 59 Books For Building Your Intellectual World (23)
- 13: The End of an Era: A Short Film About The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at The New York Times (1978) (7)
- 13: Hear What Hamlet, Richard III & King Lear Sounded Like in Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation (5)
- 12: Theodor Adorno’s Critical Theory Text Minima Moralia Sung as Hardcore Punk Songs (3)
- 12: Learn to Speak 48 Languages for Free: Everything from Arabic to Indonesian to Yiddish on One Page (3)
- 12: A Vintage Infographic of the Human Brain: The Wonders Within Your Head (1938) (0)
- 11: The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain (79)
- 11: The Theory of Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein & Sigmund Freud Sung by Kenneth Goldsmith (1)
- 11: 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone (14)
- 11: Pipes with Cannabis Traces Found in Shakespeare’s Garden, Suggesting the Bard Enjoyed a “Noted Weed” (3)
- 10: Read Arthur C. Clarke’s Super Short, 31-Word Sci-Fi Story, “siseneG” (1)
- 10: Sarcasm Can Boost Creativity According to Research From Harvard & Columbia Business Schools (2)
- 10: Hear the Very First Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 in a Radio Play Starring David Niven (1949) (1)
- 10: Hear Mahler’s 9th Played in 6 Minutes on the Squeezebox by “The Greatest Accordionist in the World” (1)
- 08: Audrey Hepburn’s Moving Screen Test for Roman Holiday (1953) (2)
- 07: New Study: Immersing Yourself in Art, Music & Nature Might Reduce Inflammation & Increase Life Expectancy (5)
- 07: Werner Herzog Narrates the Touching, Existential Journey of a Plastic Bag (1)
- 07: Watch Nina Paley’s “Embroidermation,” a New, Stunningly Labor-Intensive Form of Animation (3)
- 07: Amanda Palmer Animates & Narrates Husband Neil Gaiman’s Unconscious Musings (0)
- 06: Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy: Hear a Radio Dramatization (1973) (6)
- 06: Read Pablo Picasso’s Poetry: Modernist Meditations on Making Art, World War, Dogs & More (0)
- 06: The 10 Commandments of Rock ‘n’ Roll, According to Robert Hunter (0)
- 06: R. Crumb’s Vibrant, Over-the-Top Album Covers (1968-2004) (0)
- 05: Iggy Pop Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s Classic Horror Story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (2)
- 05: Sylvia Plath’s 10 Back to School Commandments (1953) (2)
- 05: Adorn Your Garden with Howard the Zinn Monk (1)
- 05: The Women of the Avant-Garde: An Introduction Featuring Audio by Gertrude Stein, Kathy Acker, Patti Smith & More (1)
- 04: What is Love? BBC Philosophy Animations Feature Sartre, Freud, Aristophanes, Dawkins & More (0)
- 04: Why Sitting Is The New Smoking: An Animated Explanation (10)
- 04: Salvador Dalí Goes to Hollywood & Creates Wild Dream Sequences for Hitchcock & Vincente Minnelli (0)
- 04: Ralph Steadman’s Evolving Album Cover Designs: From Miles Davis & The Who, to Frank Zappa & Slash (1956-2010) (0)
- 03: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Releases New Animated Video Inspired by Gustave Doré & Milton’s Paradise Lost (2)
- 03: Watch the Never-Aired Pilot for Clerks, the Sitcom Based on Kevin Smith’s 1994 Film (0)
- 03: Ernest Hemingway & His Sister Dressed as Twin Girls Shown in Newly Digitized Scrapbooks From Hemingway’s Youth (3)
- 03: Coffee Portraits of John Lennon, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe & Other Icons (1)
- 02: Endangered Species (Including Cecil the Lion) Projected Onto the Empire State Building (4)
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- 31: Kurt Vonnegut Maps Out the Universal Shapes of Our Favorite Stories (1)
- 31: What Beatboxing and Opera Singing Look Like Inside an MRI Machine (1)
- 31: Patti Smith Plays at CBGB In One of Her First Recorded Concerts, Joined by Seminal Punk Band Television (1975) (2)
- 31: Brooklyn–Based Makers of Artisanal Water Let You Sip From America’s Great Cultural Waters (0)
- 30: 1,000 Musicians Perform Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly” in Unison in Italy (6)
- 30: Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Coconut Cake Recipe Hints at How Baking Figured Into Her Creative Process (4)
- 30: 12 Classic Literary Road Trips in One Handy Interactive Map (0)
- 30: Orson Welles Reads From Moby-Dick: The Great American Director Takes on the Great American Novel (1)
- 30: Vladimir Nabokov’s Hand-Drawn Sketches of Mind-Bending Chess Problems (2)
- 29: An Animated Intro to G.W.F. Hegel, and Everything Else You Wanted to Know About the Daunting German Philosopher (1)
- 29: Hayao Miyazaki’s Universe Recreated in a Wonderful CGI Tribute (1)
- 29: Free: Hours of Jack Kerouac Reading Beat Poems & Verse (0)
- 29: The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: What If The Bard Wrote The Big Lebowski? (4)
- 28: The 5 Best Noir Films in the Public Domain: From Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street to Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker (1)
- 28: Radiohead’s “Creep” Performed in a Vintage Jazz-Age Style (5)
- 28: An Animated Hunter S. Thompson Talks with Studs Terkel About the Hell’s Angels & The Outlaw Life (0)
- 28: Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins & Grace Jones To Star in Gutterdämmerung, “The Loudest Silent Movie on Earth!” (0)
- 27: 7 Female Bass Players Who Helped Shape Modern Music: Kim Gordon, Tina Weymouth, Kim Deal & More (85)
- 27: Hear All of Mozart in a Free 127-Hour Playlist (3)
- 27: Harper Lee Gets a Request for a Photo; Offers Important Life Advice Instead (2006) (0)
- 27: Miles Davis Covers Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature” (1983) (2)
- 25: 1,000,000 Minutes of Newsreel Footage by AP & British Movietone Released on YouTube (1)
- 25: A Master List of 1,150 Free Courses From Top Universities: 35,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures (3)
- 25: Björk Presents Groundbreaking Experimental Musicians in Modern Minimalists, a 1997 Documentary (0)
- 24: Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents a Brief History of Everything in an 8.5 Minute Animation (4)
- 24: How ABC Television Introduced Rap Music to America in 1981: It’s Painfully Awkward (6)
- 23: Read Online Haruki Murakami’s New Essay on How a Baseball Game Launched His Writing Career (0)
- 23: The Delightful TV Ads Directed by Hayao Miyazaki & Other Studio Ghibli Animators (1992-2015) (0)
- 23: Allen Ginsberg’s Top 10 Favorite Films (0)
- 23: Jean-Paul Sartre Reviews Orson Welles’ Masterwork (1945): “Citizen Kane Is Not Cinema” (1)
- 22: David Bowie Becomes a DJ on BBC Radio in 1979; Introduces Listeners to The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Blondie & More (2)
- 22: Listen to 188 Dramatized Science Fiction Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard & More (6)
- 22: School Teachers Turn Old Lockers Into Literary Works of Art (0)
- 21: The Story of Bluesman Robert Johnson’s Famous Deal With the Devil Retold in Three Animations (25)
- 21: Creative Commons Launches Its First-Ever Kickstarter Campaign to Write a Book About Open Business Models (0)
- 21: How to Take Photographs Like Ansel Adams: The Master Explains The Art of “Visualization” (0)
- 21: MIT’s Introduction to Poker Theory: A Free Online Course (2)
- 21: Watch Lost World (1925), the Granddaddy of Giant Monster Movies Like The Lost World: Jurassic Park (0)
- 20: Stephen Colbert & Neil deGrasse Break Down Our Awesome 3 Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto (1)
- 20: A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare’s Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More (3)
- 20: Lewis Carroll’s Classic Story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Told in Sand Animation (2)
- 20: The Evolution of Chuck Jones, the Artist Behind Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck & Other Looney Tunes Legends: A Video Essay (0)
- 19: Free: Download Wilco’s Brand New Album, Star Wars, Free for a Limited Time (1)
- 17: Experimental Post-Punk Band Xiu Xiu Plays the Music from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (2)
- 17: The Same Song Sung in 15 Places: A Wonderful Case Study of How Landscape & Architecture Shape the Sounds of Music (1)
- 17: How Franklin Became Peanuts‘ First Black Character, Thanks to a Caring Schoolteacher (1968) (5)
- 17: Thieves Steal F.W. Murnau’s Skull, But His Greatest Films Still Remain Free Online (1)
- 16: Free: Download Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Short Course, The Inexplicable Universe, in Audio or Video Format (2)
- 16: How Django Reinhardt, After Losing Two Fingers, Developed An Innovative Style & Inspired Black Sabbath Guitarist Toni Iommi to Do the Same (1)
- 16: Download The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss as a Free Audio Book (0)
- 16: Watch the Very First Feature Documentary: Nanook of the North by Robert J. Flaherty (1922) (3)
- 16: Watch Stewart Brand’s 6-Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno (2)
- 15: Andrei Tarkovsky Calls Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey a “Phony” Film “With Only Pretensions to Truth” (41)
- 15: Allen Ginsberg’s Handwritten Poem For Bernie Sanders, “Burlington Snow” (1986) (4)
- 15: The (F)Art of War: Bawdy Japanese Art Scroll Depicts Wrenching Changes in 19th Century Japan (0)
- 15: Hear Dylan Thomas Read Three Poems by W.H. Auden, Including “September 1, 1939” (0)
- 14: This Is Your Brain on Jane Austen: The Neuroscience of Reading Great Literature (5)
- 14: 93 Films Stanley Kubrick Really Liked (5)
- 14: 1980s Metalhead Kids Are All Right: New Study Suggests They Became Well-Adjusted Adults (19)
- 14: Insanely Cute Cat Commercials from Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki’s Legendary Animation Shop (2)
- 13: Alexander Pushkin’s Poem “The Mermaid” Brought to Life in a Masterfully Hand-Painted Animation (1)
- 13: 10 Rules for Writers by Etgar Keret, the Israeli Master of the Short and Strange (1)
- 13: Vintage 1930s Japanese Posters Artistically Market the Wonders of Travel (1)
- 13: The Grateful Dead Play at the Egyptian Pyramids, in the Shadow of the Sphinx (1978) (4)
- 10: Read the First Chapter of Harper Lee’s New Book, Then Hear It Read by Reese Witherspoon (2)
- 10: With Medieval Instruments, Band Performs Classic Songs by The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica & Deep Purple (3)
- 10: The 321 Books in David Foster Wallace’s Personal Library: From Blood Meridian to Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder (1)
- 10: CERN’s Cosmic Piano and Jazz Pianist Jam Together at The Montreux Jazz Festival (0)
- 10: Neil Gaiman & Famous Friends Read Aloud the Entirety of Coraline (and The Graveyard Book Too) (1)
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- 09: A Dreamily Animated Introduction to Haruki Murakami, Japan’s Jazz and Baseball-Loving Postmodern Novelist (1)
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- 08: Pico Iyer on “the Art of Stillness”: How to Enrich Your Busy, Distracted Life by Unplugging and Staying Put (0)
- 08: Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Jerry Lewis’ Ill-Conceived Holocaust Movie The Day The Clown Cried (1)
- 07: Watch Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and 2001: A Space Odyssey Get Run Through Google’s Trippy Deep Dream Software (5)
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- 07: What’s the Difference Between Stanley Kubrick’s & Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (A Side-by-Side Comparison) (7)
- 07: Blade Runner’s Miniature Props Revealed in 142 Behind-the-Scenes Photos (0)
- 07: The Grateful Dead’s Final Farewell Concerts Now Streaming Online (3)
- 06: An Animated Introduction to Michel Foucault, “Philosopher of Power” (11)
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- 05: The Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” Played by Musicians Around the World (67)
- 04: Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944) (30)
- 04: The Declaration of Independence Read by Thespians: Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Renee Zellweger & More (3)
- 03: A Day in the Life of Zen Monk Leonard Cohen: A 1996 Documentary (2)
- 03: William Gibson’s Seminal Cyberpunk Novel, Neuromancer, Dramatized for Radio (2002) (0)
- 03: Roberto Bolaño’s 12 Tips on “the Art of Writing Short Stories” (4)
- 02: 2,200 Radical Political Posters Digitized: A New Archive (16)
- 02: An 18-Hour Playlist of Readings by the Beats: Kerouac, Ginsberg & Even Bukowski Too (3)
- 02: A Look Inside Martin Scorsese’s Vintage Movie Poster Collection (0)
- 02: Wes Anderson & Yasujiro Ozu: New Video Essay Reveals the Unexpected Parallels Between Two Great Filmmakers (0)
- 01: Venice in Beautiful Color Images 125 Years Ago: The Rialto Bridge, St. Mark’s Basilica, Doge’s Palace & More (0)
- 01: Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music (0)
- 01: Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Finest Adaptation of Dante’s Classic (2)
- 01: The Velvet Underground as Peanuts Characters: Snoopy Morphs Into Lou Reed, Charlie Brown Into Andy Warhol (1)
- June 2015 (95)
- 30: New Archive Offers Free Access to 22,000 Literary Documents From Great British & American Writers (0)
- 30: Watch a Needle Ride Through LP Record Grooves Under an Electron Microscope (3)
- 30: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris Shot by Shot: A 22-Minute Breakdown of the Director’s Filmmaking (1)
- 30: George Orwell Blasts American Fashion Magazines (1946) (4)
- 29: Dr. Seuss’ World War II Propaganda Films: Your Job in Germany (1945) and Our Job in Japan (1946) (0)
- 29: Free: Listen to John Rawls’ Course on “Modern Political Philosophy” (Recorded at Harvard, 1984) (1)
- 29: Watch Glass Walls, Paul McCartney’s Case for Going Vegetarian (3)
- 29: Artist Turns 24-Volume Encyclopedia Britannica Set into a Beautifully Carved Landscape (0)
- 26: Fritz Lang Invents the Video Phone in Metropolis (1927) (4)
- 26: Watch President Obama Sing “Amazing Grace” at the Funeral of Clementa Pinckney (0)
- 26: Hear Johnny Cash Deliver Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (0)
- 26: Commuters Can Download Free eBooks of Russian Classics While Riding the Moscow Metro (5)
- 26: How Leonard Cohen’s Stint As a Buddhist Monk Can Help You Live an Enlightened Life (1)
- 25: Hear John Malkovich Read From Breakfast of Champions, Then Hear Kurt Vonnegut Do the Same (0)
- 25: Watch the First Russian Science Fiction Film, Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) (1)
- 25: F. Scott Fitzgerald Conjugates “to Cocktail,” the Ultimate Jazz-Age Verb (1928) (7)
- 25: Climb Virtually Up “El Capitan,” Yosemite’s Iconic Rock Wall, With Google Street View (0)
- 24: 1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About Their Lost Ancestors (67)
- 24: Animated Introductions to Three Sociologists: Durkheim, Weber & Adorno (6)
- 24: Take a Visual Walking Tour of Franz Kafka’s Prague with Will Self (Then Read His Digital Essay, “Kafka’s Wound”) (0)
- 24: Watch an Animation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s New Story, “Love Is Blind and Deaf” (1)
- 24: Cambridge University to Create a Lego Professorship (0)
- 23: How German Expressionism Influenced Tim Burton: A Video Essay (2)
- 23: Young T.S. Eliot Writes “The Triumph of Bullsh*t” and Gives the English Language a New Expletive (1910) (8)
- 23: The Simpsons Pay Wonderful Tribute to the Anime of Hayao Miyazaki (0)
- 23: Doctoral Dissertation as a Graphic Novel: Read a Free Excerpt of Nick Sousanis’ Unflattening (0)
- 22: Tom Waits Reads Two Charles Bukowski Poems, “The Laughing Heart” and “Nirvana” (1)
- 22: Neil Young’s New Album, The Monsanto Years, Now Streaming Free Online (For a Limited Time) (3)
- 22: Discovered: The Only Known Picture of Vincent Van Gogh as an Adult Artist? (Maybe, Maybe Not) (4)
- 22: Did Stanley Kubrick Invent the iPad in 2001: A Space Odyssey? (7)
- 22: The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1)
- 19: The Psychology of Messiness & Creativity: Research Shows How a Messy Desk and Creative Work Go Hand in Hand (9)
- 19: Watch Hayao Miyazaki Animate the Final Shot of His Final Feature Film, The Wind Rises (1)
- 19: See Flannery O’Connor’s Story “The Displaced Person” Adapted to a Film Starring a Young Samuel L. Jackson (1977) (1)
- 19: Meta Star Wars: All Six Films in One (0)
- 18: The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985) (6)
- 18: Umberto Eco’s Advice to Aspiring Writers (1)
- 18: Free: Read 9 Travel Books Online by Monty Python’s Michael Palin (1)
- 18: Metropolis II: Discover the Amazing, Fritz Lang-Inspired Kinetic Sculpture by Chris Burden (0)
- 17: A Proportional Visualization of the World’s Most Popular Languages (19)
- 17: Ralph Steadman’s Warped Illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on the Story’s 150th Anniversary (1)
- 17: Watch the New Trailer for the Stanford Prison Experiment Film, Soon in Theaters Near You (2)
- 17: Alan Watts Explains Why Death is an Art, Adventure and Creative Act (0)
- 16: Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938-2014) (13)
- 16: Christopher Lee Reads “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 Classic (0)
- 16: Blade Runner Recut with the Sci-Fi Masterpiece’s Unused Original Footage (1)
- 16: Samurai 7, an Anime Adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (0)
- 15: Watch Lynda Barry’s Graduation Speech; Give a Shout Out to the Teachers Who Changed Your Life (15)
- 15: Isaac Asimov’s Favorite Story “The Last Question” Read by Leonard Nimoy (5)
- 15: Read 18 Lost Stories From Hunter S. Thompson’s Forgotten Stint As a Foreign Correspondent (0)
- 15: An Introduction to the Literary Philosophy of Marcel Proust, Presented in a Monty Python-Style Animation (8)
- 13: Hear the Never Released Version of The Stones’ “Brown Sugar,” With Eric Clapton on Slide Guitar (3)
- 12: Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and From “The Fall of the House of Usher” (6)
- 12: Hear Ornette Coleman Collaborate with Lou Reed, Which Lou Called “One of My Greatest Moments” (1)
- 12: The Sketchbook Project Presents Online 24,000 Sketchbooks, Created by Artists from 135 Countries (1)
- 11: Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art (11)
- 11: The Sex Pistols’ 1976 Manchester “Gig That Changed the World,” and the Day the Punk Era Began (4)
- 11: Hear Friedrich Nietzsche’s Classical Piano Compositions: They’re Aphoristic Like His Philosophy (2)
- 11: The Entirety of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless Artfully Compressed Into a 3 Minute Film (0)
- 10: Jim Jarmusch’s 10 Favorite Films: Ozu’s Tokyo Story, Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Other Black & White Classics (4)
- 10: David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Queen & Elvis Presley Star in Delightfully Absurd Musicless Music Videos (2)
- 10: What Kind of Bird Is That?: A Free App From Cornell Will Give You the Answer (5)
- 10: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Reimagined as Wes Anderson and David Lynch Movies (1)
- 09: The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic (166)
- 09: John Waters’ RISD Graduation Speech: Real Wealth Is Life Without A*Holes (7)
- 09: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Brought to Life in Sand Animations by the Hungarian Artist Ferenc Cakó (1)
- 09: The John Lennon Sketchbook, a Short Animation Made of Lennon’s Drawings (0)
- 09: An Animated Ayn Rand Dispenses Terrible Love Advice to Mike Wallace (1959) (3)
- 08: The Mystical Poetry of Rumi Read By Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks (5)
- 08: The Case for Andy Warhol in Three Minutes (0)
- 08: Watch Lucian Freud’s Very Last Day of Painting (2011) (0)
- 08: A Creepy Cut Out Animation of Samuel Beckett’s 1953 Novel, The Unnamable (0)
- 07: Brazilian Man Sings The Beatles’ “Yesterday” as Doctors Perform Brain Surgery on Him (0)
- 05: Hear the Enchanting Jorge Luis Borges Read “The Art of Poetry” (2)
- 05: Eugène Delacroix Illustrates Goethe’s Faust, “One of the Very Greatest of All Illustrated Books” (0)
- 05: Hayao Miyazaki’s Beloved Characters Reimagined in the Style of 19th-Century Woodblock Prints (0)
- 05: Hip Hop Hits Sung Wonderfully in Sign Language: Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow” & More (1)
- 04: 10 Million Years of Evolution Visualized in an Elegant, 5-Foot Long Infographic from 1931 (4)
- 04: The Art of The Black Panthers: A Short Documentary on the Revolutionary Artist Emory Douglas (0)
- 04: New Jorge Luis Borges-Inspired Project Will Test Whether Robots Can Appreciate Poetry (0)
- 04: My First Time: Paris Review Video Series Features Writers Talking About Getting Started as Writers (0)
- 03: The Staggering Human Cost of World War II Visualized in a Creative, New Animated Documentary (21)
- 03: Watch 1920s “City Symphonies” Starring the Great Cities of the World: From New York to Berlin to São Paulo (1)
- 03: The Animated Franz Kafka Rock Opera (2)
- 03: 13-Year-Old Jimmy Page Plays Guitar on TV in 1957, an Early Moment in His Spectacular Career (1)
- 03: Gustav Machatý’s Erotikon (1929) & Ekstase (1933): Cinema’s Earliest Explorations of Women’s Sensuality (1)
- 02: David Bowie Launches His Acting Career in the Avant-Garde Play Pierrot in Turquoise (1967) (0)
- 02: Watch War and Peace: The Splendid, Epic Film Adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Grand Novel (1969) (6)
- 02: Hear Toni Morrison’s Poetic Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993) (1)
- 02: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Download an Open Version of J.S. Bach’s Masterpiece (2)
- 01: David Bowie Paper Dolls Recreate Some of the Style Icon’s Most Famous Looks (4)
- 01: Read John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis with 26 Pages & 2 Citations: The Beauty of Inventing a Field (1)
- 01: Download the Complete Organ Works of J.S. Bach for Free (7)
- 01: High School Teacher Reads Allen Ginsberg’s Explicit Poem “Please Master” and Loses His Job (7)
- 01: MIT Creates Amazing Self-Folding Origami Robots & Leaping Cheetah Robots (1)
- May 2015 (92)
- 29: Watch Alfred Hitchcock Make Cameo Appearances in 37 of His Films (3)
- 29: JS Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier Artistically Animated with Pulsing Neon Lights (0)
- 29: Virginia Woolf’s Haunting Suicide Note Read by Actress Louise Brealey (8)
- 29: Frida Kahlo’s Colorful Clothes Revealed for the First Time & Photographed by Ishiuchi Miyako (4)
- 28: The Absurd Philosophy of Albert Camus Presented in a Short Animated Film by Alain De Botton (4)
- 28: Watch Chris Burden Get Shot for the Sake of Art (1971) (3)
- 28: Patti Smith’s Polaroids of Artifacts from Virginia Woolf, Arthur Rimbaud, Roberto Bolaño & More (1)
- 28: The First Trailer for the Upcoming David Foster Wallace Film Is Now Online (0)
- 27: Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters (1)
- 27: Joni Mitchell Talks About Life as a Reluctant Star in a New Animated Interview (0)
- 27: Hear Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley Lecture “The Power of Words” (0)
- 27: Parvati Saves the World: Watch a Remix of Bollywood Films That Combats Rape in India (1)
- 26: Flannery O’Connor to Grace New U.S. Postage Stamp (0)
- 26: Rare Video: Georges Bataille Talks About Literature & Evil in His Only TV Interview (1958) (0)
- 26: Hayao Miyazaki’s Magical Animated Music Video for the Japanese Pop Song, “On Your Mark” (2)
- 26: Albert Einstein Tells His Son The Key to Learning & Happiness is Losing Yourself in Creativity (or “Finding Flow”) (2)
- 26: Italian Astronaut Reads The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on the International Space Station (0)
- 25: Robert De Niro Tells Graduating NYU Arts Grads, “You Made It… And You’re F*cked” (1)
- 25: Watch a New, “Original” Episode of Seinfeld Performed Live on Stage (0)
- 25: Mœbius Illustrates Paulo Coelho’s Inspirational Novel The Alchemist (1998) (4)
- 25: Discover Japan’s Earthquake Proof Underground Bike Storage System: The Future is Now (4)
- 23: Six Books (and One Blog) Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer (8)
- 22: Norman Rockwell Illustrates Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (1936-1940) (3)
- 22: The Art of Collotype: See a Near Extinct Printing Technique, as Lovingly Practiced by a Japanese Master Craftsman (2)
- 22: Astronaut Reads The Divine Comedy on the International Space Station on Dante’s 750th Birthday (1)
- 22: 3D Printed Zoetrope Animates Rubens’ Famous Painting, “The Massacre of the Innocents” (1)
- 21: The Music of Avant-Garde Composer John Cage Now Available in a Free Online Archive (0)
- 21: Watch the Hardcore Original Ending to Kevin Smith’s 1994 Cult Hit Clerks (0)
- 21: Take a Free Course on Film Noir; Then Watch Oodles of Free Noir Films Online (0)
- 20: French Student Sets Internet on Fire with Animation Inspired by Moebius, Syd Mead & Hayao Miyazaki (17)
- 20: Mesmerizing Timelapse Film Captures the Wonder of Bees Being Born (2)
- 20: Bertrand Russell: The Everyday Benefit of Philosophy Is That It Helps You Live with Uncertainty (6)
- 20: Watch Sherlock Hound: Hayao Miyazaki’s Animated, Steampunk Take on Sherlock Holmes (4)
- 20: Peter Sellers Covers the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night,” “She Loves You” & “Help!” (1)
- 19: B.B. King Changes Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, 1985 and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (3)
- 19: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Title Sequence, Recreated in an Adorable Paper Animation (0)
- 19: William S. Burroughs — Alternative Rock Star — Sings with Kurt Cobain, Tom Waits, REM & More (3)
- 19: The Art of Making Intelligent Comedy Movies: 8 Take-Aways from the Films of Edgar Wright (1)
- 19: Yoko Ono Lets Audience Cut Up Her Clothes in Conceptual Art Performance (Carnegie Hall, 1965) (2)
- 18: Learn to Write Through a Video Game Inspired by the Romantic Poets: Shelley, Byron, Keats (1)
- 18: 6 Political Theorists Introduced in Animated “School of Life” Videos: Marx, Smith, Rawls & More (1)
- 18: The 10 Favorite Films of Avant-Garde Surrealist Filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Including His Own Collaboration with Salvador Dalí) (4)
- 18: Comics Inspired by Waiting For Godot, Featuring Tintin, Roz Chast, and Beavis & Butthead (1)
- 15: Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning to America in His Final Interview (1996) (13)
- 15: The Thrill is Gone: See B.B. King Play in Two Electric Live Performances (1)
- 15: Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane Mallarmé (1875) (2)
- 15: Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Read Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1)
- 14: The Letter Between Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke That Sparked the Greatest SciFi Film Ever Made (1964) (3)
- 14: 6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871 (11)
- 14: Salvador Dalí Takes His Anteater for a Stroll in Paris, 1969 (0)
- 14: Chris Burden (R.I.P.) Turns Late-Night TV Commercials Into Conceptual Art (0)
- 13: Mark Twain & Helen Keller’s Special Friendship: He Treated Me Not as a Freak, But as a Person Dealing with Great Difficulties (9)
- 13: 10 Writing Tips from Legendary Writing Teacher William Zinsser (6)
- 13: The Death Masks of Great Authors: Dante, Goethe, Tolstoy, Joyce & More (6)
- 13: Hear Samuel Beckett’s Avant-Garde Radio Plays: All That Fall, Embers, and More (2)
- 12: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein & Sartre Explained with Monty Python-Style Animations by The School of Life (2)
- 12: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Re-Imagined as an Epic, Mainstream Hollywood Film (3)
- 12: An Animated John Coltrane Explains His True Reason for Being: “I Want to Be a Force for Real Good” (2)
- 11: Van Gogh’s 1888 Painting, “The Night Cafe,” Animated with Oculus Virtual Reality Software (1)
- 11: Watch Miles Davis Improvise Music for Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle’s New Wave Thriller (1958) (4)
- 11: Dementia Patients Find Some Eternal Youth in the Sounds of AC/DC (0)
- 11: New Web Site, “The Opera Platform,” Lets You Watch La Traviata and Other First-Class Operas Free Online (2)
- 11: Watch Twin Beaks, Sesame Street’s Parody of David Lynch’s Iconic TV Show (1990) (0)
- 10: A Vintage Wine Course (UC Davis, 1973) (3)
- 10: Charles Mingus’ Sigmund Freud-Inspired Song Dedicated to Mothers Everywhere (1961) (0)
- 09: Prince’s New Protest Song “Baltimore” Now Streaming Online (7)
- 09: Music for a String Quartet Made from Global Warming Data: Hear “Planetary Bands, Warming World” (1)
- 08: Learn to Play Guitar for Free: Intro Courses Take You From The Very Basics to Playing Songs In No Time (1)
- 08: Hear Thomas Edison’s Creepy Talking Dolls: An Invention That Scared Kids & Flopped on the Market (0)
- 08: Watch the Pilot of Orson Welles’ Never-Aired Talk Show, Starring the Muppets (1979) (0)
- 07: What’s It Like to Fight in 15th Century Armor?: A Surprising Demonstration (0)
- 07: Hear James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Read Aloud & Set to Music: 31 Hours of Free Unabridged Audio (1)
- 07: David Byrne’s Unusual Forms of Visual Art: Bike Racks, Corporate Signs & Powerpoint Presentations (0)
- 07: Michael Moore’s 13 Rules for Making Documentaries — Really Powerful & Entertaining Documentaries (2)
- 06: The 10 Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers (36)
- 06: A Short History of the Venice Biennale, the World’s Most Important Art Exhibition (1)
- 06: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Short, Strange & Brutal Stint as an Elementary School Teacher (3)
- 06: Maurice Sendak’s Bawdy Illustrations For Herman Melville’s Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1)
- 05: The Animated Dostoevsky: Two Finely Crafted Short Films Bring the Russian Novelist’s Work to Life (4)
- 05: Dramatic Color Footage Shows a Bombed-Out Berlin a Month After Germany’s WWII Defeat (1945) (2)
- 05: R. Crumb Describes How He Dropped LSD in the 60s & Instantly Discovered His Artistic Style (2)
- 05: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter Alan Turing Wrote in “Distress” Before His Conviction For “Gross Indecency” (1)
- 04: Making Turkish Sand Coffee: Culinary Alchemy on the Streets of Jordan (5)
- 04: An Animated Louis CK on How the Colonists Came to America and Screwed It All Up (NSFW) (0)
- 04: How to Live a Good Life? Watch Philosophy Animations Narrated by Stephen Fry on Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Max Weber & More (5)
- 04: 96 Drawings of David Bowie by the “World’s Best Comic Artists”: Michel Gondry, Kate Beaton & More (0)
- 04: A Beautiful Drone’s Eye View of Antarctica (0)
- 01: Read Noam Chomsky & Sam Harris’ “Unpleasant” Email Exchange (57)
- 01: Hear the “Seikilos Epitaph,” the Oldest Complete Song in the World: An Inspiring Tune from 100 BC (5)
- 01: Do Not Track: Interactive Film Series Reveals the Personal Information You’re Giving Away on the Web (0)
- 01: Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970) (12)
- 01: Coffee is for People, Not Robots: The New Ad for David Lynch’s Line of Organic Coffee (0)
- April 2015 (99)
- 30: Klingon for English Speakers: Sign Up for a Free Course Coming Soon (4)
- 30: George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens’ Ironclad Rules for Making a Good Cup of Tea (8)
- 30: Take a Virtual Tour of Robben Island Where Nelson Mandela and Other Apartheid Opponents Were Jailed (0)
- 30: John Green’s Crash Course in U.S. History: From Colonialism to Obama in 47 Videos (2)
- 30: Hear What is Jazz?: Leonard Bernstein’s Introduction to the Great American Art Form (1956) (3)
- 29: Four Franz Kafka Animations: Enjoy Creative Animated Shorts from Poland, Japan, Russia & Canada (1)
- 29: 110 Drawings and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien: Of Middle-Earth and Beyond (8)
- 29: The Poetry of the Cherry Blossoms Comes to Life in a One Minute Time Lapse Video (0)
- 29: John Cleese Explores the Health Benefits of Laughter (0)
- 28: An Animated Ray Bradbury Explains Why It Takes Being a “Dedicated Madman” to Be a Writer (0)
- 28: Hear Dziga Vertov’s Revolutionary Experiments in Sound: From His Radio Broadcasts to His First Sound Film (1)
- 28: Fritz Lang Tells the Riveting Story of the Day He Met Joseph Goebbels and Then High-Tailed It Out of Germany (3)
- 28: David Lynch Creates a Very Surreal Plug for Transcendental Meditation (7)
- 28: Kickstart the Theatrical Release of the First Comprehensive Black Panther Party Documentary (1)
- 27: Visit The Online Library of Babel: New Web Site Turns Borges’ “Library of Babel” Into a Virtual Reality (5)
- 27: Watch a Japanese Craftsman Lovingly Bring a Tattered Old Book Back to Near Mint Condition (0)
- 27: Animated Philosophers Presents a Rocking Introduction to Socrates, the Father of Greek Philosophy (1)
- 27: Hear 46 Versions of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in 3 Minutes: A Classic Mashup (0)
- 25: A Harrowing Test Drive of Buckminster Fuller’s 1933 Dymaxion Car: Art That Is Scary to Ride (7)
- 24: Martin Scorsese Introduces Filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, “The Woody Allen of Korea” (2)
- 24: The Science of Singing: New, High-Speed MRI Machine Images Man Singing ‘If I Only Had a Brain’ (2)
- 24: Baudelaire, Balzac, Dumas, Delacroix & Hugo Get a Little Baked at Their Hash Club (1844-1849) (6)
- 24: Shakespearean Actor Brian Cox Teaches Hamlet’s Soliloquy to a 2-Year-Old Child (3)
- 23: Hōshi: A Short Film on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations (7)
- 23: The Oldest Known Footage of London (1890-1920) Shows the City’s Great Landmarks (5)
- 23: David Ogilvy’s 1982 Memo “How to Write” Offers 10 Pieces of Timeless Advice (1)
- 23: The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826) (6)
- 22: What is the Self? Watch Philosophy Animations Narrated by Stephen Fry on Sartre, Descartes & More (2)
- 22: Slavoj Žižek Calls Political Correctness a Form of “Modern Totalitarianism” (10)
- 22: Quentin Tarantino Supercuts Explore the Director’s Stylized Use of Sound, Close Ups & Cars in His Films (0)
- 22: High-Tech Japanese Camera Proves That the Shape of a Wine Glass Affects the Flavor of Wines (0)
- 21: Watch a Timelapse Video Showing the Creation of New York City’s Skyline: 1500 to Present (1)
- 21: 200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II (8)
- 21: The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure (6)
- 21: Johnny Cash Machines: Johnny Cash Stars in 1980s Commercials for ATM Machines (1)
- 21: Hear Orson Welles Read Edgar Allan Poe on a Cult Classic Album by The Alan Parsons Project (1)
- 20: Library of Congress Launches New Online Poetry Archive, Featuring 75 Years of Classic Poetry Readings (2)
- 20: Milton Glaser Draws Shakespeare & Explains Why Drawing is the Key to Understanding Life (0)
- 20: Discover Haruki Murakami’s Advertorial Short Stories: Rare Short-Short Fiction from the 1980s (2)
- 20: Henry Miller Makes a List of “The 100 Books That Influenced Me Most” (4)
- 18: Yoda’s Long Lost Twin Found in a 14th Century Illuminated Manuscript (2)
- 18: The Making of Star Wars As Told by C-3PO & R2-D2: The First-Ever Documentary on the Film (1977) (0)
- 17: Martin Scorsese Makes a List of 85 Films Every Aspiring Filmmaker Needs to See (16)
- 17: Interactive Music Video Lets You Explore the Apartments on the Cover of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti (0)
- 17: Watch Björk’s 6 Favorite TED Talks, From the Mushroom Death Suit to the Virtual Choir (0)
- 17: David Chase Reveals the Philosophical Meaning of The Soprano’s Final Scene (4)
- 16: Enter the Church of the SubGenius, the Parody Religion Backed by R. Crumb, David Byrne & Other Alt-Icons (3)
- 16: Hear Ursula K. Le Guin’s Pioneering Sci-Fi Novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, as a BBC Radio Play (2)
- 16: F. Scott Fitzgerald Has a Strange Dinner with James Joyce & Draws a Cute Sketch of It (1928) (3)
- 16: Take a Virtual Tour of Abbey Road Studios, Courtesy of the New Google Site “Inside Abbey Road” (0)
- 15: Günter Grass Takes On Facebook: “Someone Who Has 500 Friends, Has No Friends.” (3)
- 15: David Fincher’s Five Finest Music Videos: From Madonna to Aerosmith (1)
- 15: Disney’s 12 Timeless Principles of Animation Demonstrated in 12 Animated Primers (0)
- 15: The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words (6)
- 14: Watch The Hitch: An Indie-Documentary on The Life & Times of Christopher Hitchens (4)
- 14: Mike Leigh’s Five-Minute Films: A Revealing Look at the Director’s Early Cinematic Work (1975) (1)
- 14: Brian May Shows You How to Play Licks & Solos from 18 Queen Songs, and Reveals the Joy of the Guitar Riff (2)
- 14: The Modernist Gas Stations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe (1)
- 14: The Contributions of Women Philosophers Recovered by the New Project Vox Website (0)
- 13: The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences (24)
- 13: Stephen Hawking Sings Monty Python’s “Galaxy Song”: Hear the Newly-Released Single (2)
- 13: T.S. Eliot, Edith Wharton & Gertrude Stein Tell F. Scott Fitzgerald That Gatsby is Great, While Critics Called It a Dud (1925) (2)
- 13: Teacher Calls Jacques Derrida’s College Admission Essay on Shakespeare “Quite Incomprehensible” (1951) (10)
- 12: The Rolling Stones Release a Soulful, Never-Heard Acoustic Version of “Wild Horses” (5)
- 10: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story (31)
- 10: Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line (5)
- 10: Watch the Only Known Footage of Anne Frank (0)
- 10: Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count (2)
- 09: Edvard Munch’s Famous Painting The Scream Animated to the Sound of Pink Floyd’s Primal Music (9)
- 09: Edgar Allan Poe Animated: Watch Four Animations of Classic Poe Stories (2)
- 09: Charles Darwin Creates a Handwritten List of Arguments for and Against Marriage (1838) (1)
- 09: Paper Animation Tells Curious Story of How a Meteorologist Theorized Pangaea & Continental Drift (1910) (0)
- 08: Notebook on Cities and Culture’s Yearlong Podcast Exploration of Seattle Is Kickstarting Now (0)
- 08: Artists Illustrate Dante’s Divine Comedy Through the Ages: Doré, Blake, Botticelli, Mœbius & More (2)
- 08: Langston Hughes Reveals the Rhythms in Art & Life in a Wonderful Illustrated Book for Kids (1954) (2)
- 08: The Filmmaking Craft of David Fincher Demystified in Two Video Essays (0)
- 08: Frank Capra’s Science Film The Unchained Goddess Warns of Climate Change in 1958 (1)
- 07: Watch Four Iconic Live Performances by Billie Holiday (1)
- 07: Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 361,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces by Rembrandt Included! (11)
- 07: The Mad Men Reading List: 25 Revealing Books Read by the Characters on the Show (1)
- 07: What It’s Like to Be Color Blind and See Art in Color for the First Time (0)
- 06: Every Literary Reference Made by Sterling Archer in One Supercut (0)
- 06: Patti Smith’s List of Favorite Books: From Rimbaud to Susan Sontag (5)
- 06: Discover the Life & Work of Stanley Kubrick in a Sweeping Three-Hour Video Essay (1)
- 06: Read An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: A Fun Primer on How to Strengthen, Not Weaken, Your Arguments (0)
- 06: What Ignited Richard Feynman’s Love of Science Revealed in an Animated Video (1)
- 05: George R. R. Martin Puts Online a New Chapter from His Highly Anticipated Book, The Winds of Winter (0)
- 03: Do You See Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein in This Photo? An Amazing Eye Test Based on MIT Research (10)
- 03: Listen to Bill Murray Lead a Guided Meditation on How It Feels to Be Bill Murray (4)
- 03: Watch Stars Read Classic Children’s Books: Betty White, James Earl Jones, Rita Moreno & Many More (0)
- 03: Jack Kerouac Was a Secret, Obsessive Fan of Fantasy Baseball (6)
- 02: All of Bach Is Putting Videos of 1,080 Bach Performances Online: Watch the First 53 Recordings and the St. Matthew Passion (3)
- 02: Christopher Hitchens Creates a Revised List of The 10 Commandments for the 21st Century (11)
- 02: Students Tells the Passover Story with a Rube Goldberg Machine (1)
- 02: Listen to Nick Cave’s Lecture on the Art of Writing Sublime Love Songs (1999) (1)
- 01: Hunter S. Thompson’s Ballsy & Hilarious Job Application Letter (1958) (4)
- 01: Download the Major Works of Jane Austen as Free eBooks & Audio Books (1)
- 01: Marshall McLuhan’s Strange Reading Habit: “I Read Only the Right-Hand Page of Serious Books” (1)
- 01: Guernica: Alain Resnais’ Haunting Film on Picasso’s Painting & the Crimes of the Spanish Civil War (0)
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- 31: Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children’s Book (1955) (4)
- 31: Isaac Newton Creates a List of His 57 Sins (Circa 1662) (14)
- 31: President Obama Chats with David Simon About Drugs, The Wire & Omar (1)
- 31: The Visionary Thought of Marshall McLuhan, Introduced and Demystified by Tom Wolfe (0)
- 30: How Can I Know Right From Wrong? Watch Philosophy Animations on Ethics Narrated by Harry Shearer (7)
- 30: Leo Tolstoy’s 17 “Rules of Life:” Wake at 5am, Help the Poor, & Only Two Brothel Visits Per Month (3)
- 30: Download Images From Rad American Women A-Z: A New Picture Book on the History of Feminism (0)
- 30: George Mason Students Create Revolutionary Fire Extinguisher That Uses Sound Waves to Blow Out Fires (0)
- 29: A Short Animated History of Daylight Saving Time, Narrated by Stephen Fry (0)
- 28: Download 576 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (86)
- 27: An Online Gallery of Over 900,000 Wonderful Photos of Historic New York City (2)
- 27: Download 100,000 Free Art Images in High-Resolution from The Getty (6)
- 27: Hysterical Literature: Art & Sexuality Collide in Readings of Whitman, Emerson & Other Greats (NSFW) (0)
- 26: William Faulkner Resigns From His Post Office Job With a Spectacular Letter (1924) (4)
- 26: Talking Heads’ First TV Appearance Was on American Bandstand, and It Was a Little Awkward (1979) (7)
- 26: Quentin Tarantino Lists His 20 Favorite Spaghetti Westerns (2)
- 26: Animated: The Inspirational Story of Jane Goodall, and Why She Believes in Bigfoot (1)
- 25: Puppets of Dostoevsky, Dickens & Poe Star in 1950s Frank Capra Educational Film (4)
- 25: Play the Twin Peaks Video Game: Retro Fun for David Lynch Fans (1)
- 25: Watch a New Star Wars Animation, Drawn in a Classic 80s Japanese Anime Style (2)
- 24: How Akira Kurosawa Used Movement to Tell His Stories: A Video Essay (0)
- 24: The Psychology of Blame: Another Animated Lesson That Can Make You a Better Person (2)
- 24: The History & Legacy of Magna Carta Explained in Animated Videos by Monty Python’s Terry Jones (2)
- 24: The (Urban) Legend of Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Story: “For sale, Baby shoes, Never worn.” (25)
- 23: Umberto Eco’s How To Write a Thesis: A Witty, Irreverent & Highly Practical Guide Now Out in English (5)
- 23: Hear a “DNA-Based Prediction of Nietzsche’s Voice:” First Attempt at Simulating Voice of a Dead Person (1)
- 23: What Happens When a Cheap Ikea Print Gets Presented as Fine Art in a Museum (3)
- 23: The Touching Story Behind Paraguay’s Landfill Orchestra: Now Told in Film, and Soon a Book (0)
- 22: Google Puts Online 10,000 Works of Street Art from Across the Globe (7)
- 22: Cookie Monster, Life Coach, Shows Why Cookies Are the Key to Happiness (0)
- 21: Watch the “Youngest String Quartet Ever” Perform Vivaldi, Michael Jackson & Katy Perry (0)
- 20: Watch Rock Pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe Wow Audiences With Her Gospel Guitar (8)
- 20: Rome Reborn: Take a Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 C.E. (10)
- 19: A Mesmerizing Supercut of the First and Final Frames of 55 Movies, Played Side by Side (2)
- 19: Robert Reich Debunks Three Economic Myths by Drawing Cartoons (10)
- 19: Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Drawings Show How He First Visualized the Ego, Superego, Id & More (2)
- 19: Irish Navy Builds Ships Named After Samuel Beckett & James Joyce (0)
- 19: Play Mark Twain’s “Memory-Builder,” His Game for Remembering Historical Facts & Dates (1)
- 19: Take a “Breath” and Watch Samuel Beckett’s One-Minute Play (1)
- 18: The Books Samuel Beckett Read and Really Liked (1941-1956) (7)
- 18: The Story of Lorem Ipsum: How Scrambled Text by Cicero Became the Standard For Typesetters Everywhere (58)
- 18: Watch Meryl Streep Have Fun with Accents: Bronx, Polish, Irish, Australian, Yiddish & More (2)
- 18: Watch an Animated Buckminster Fuller Tell Studs Terkel All About “the Geodesic Life” (0)
- 17: Huxley to Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949) (75)
- 17: Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche: 43 Original Tracks (8)
- 17: An Animated Marc Maron Recalls Interviewing a Shirtless Iggy Pop in LA Garage (0)
- 17: Elementary School Students Perform in a Play Inspired by David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (2)
- 17: Philip K. Dick Makes Off-the-Wall Predictions for the Future: Mars Colonies, Alien Viruses & More (1981) (2)
- 16: 1933 Article on Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art” (11)
- 16: Take the 146-Question Knowledge Test Thomas Edison Gave to Prospective Employees (1921) (3)
- 16: Say What You Really Mean with Downloadable Cindy Sherman Emoticons (2)
- 16: Download Free NASA Software and Help Protect the Earth from Asteroids! (1)
- 15: The Keys to Happiness: The Emerging Science and the Upcoming MOOC by Raj Raghunathan (2)
- 14: Bob Dylan Goes Film Noir in His New Music Video (0)
- 13: 74 Essential Books for Your Personal Library: A List Curated by Female Creatives (50)
- 13: Late Rembrandts Come to Life: Watch Animations of Paintings Now on Display at the Rijksmuseum (0)
- 13: Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” Suggest He Was a Serious Anti-Semite, Not Just a Naive Nazi (11)
- 12: Sci-Fi Legend Ray Bradbury Creates a Visionary Plan to Redesign Los Angeles (4)
- 12: Kapow! Stan Lee Is Co-Teaching a Free Comic Book MOOC, and You Can Enroll for Free (2)
- 12: Watch Charles Burns’ Illustrations Come to Life in the Animated French Horror Film, Fear of the Dark (0)
- 12: How to Draw Don Draper: A Short Video Primer from Mad Men Insider Josh Weltman (0)
- 12: Hear John Lennon’s Final Interview, Taped on the Last Day of His Life (December 8, 1980) (2)
- 11: Hear the Never Released Jimi Hendrix Track, “Station Break,” Which Shows Us the Guitar Legend as an R&B Sideman (0)
- 11: Noam Chomsky Talks About How Kids Acquire Language & Ideas in an Animated Video by Michel Gondry (11)
- 11: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche Explained with 8-Bit Video Games (3)
- 11: Alan Alda Uses Improv to Teach Scientists How to Communicate Their Ideas (0)
- 11: A Guide to Logical Fallacies: The “Ad Hominem,” “Strawman” & Other Fallacies Explained in 2-Minute Videos (2)
- 10: Download The Newly-Discovered Sherlock Holmes Story as a Free Audio Book (0)
- 10: Jorge Luis Borges Selects 74 Books for Your Personal Library (29)
- 10: The Visual Art of William S. Burroughs: Book Covers, Portraits, Collage, Shotgun Art & More (1)
- 10: The 1981 TIME Magazine Profile That Introduced Michel Foucault to America (0)
- 10: Weapons of Mass Instruction: Watch a 1979 Ford Falcon Get Converted in a Tank Armored with 900 Free Books (1)
- 09: Wittgenstein’s Masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Gets Turned into Beautiful, Meditative Music (9)
- 09: Albert Einstein Sports a Native American Headdress and a Peace Pipe at the Grand Canyon, 1931 (5)
- 09: Chuck Jones’ 9 Rules For Drawing Road Runner Cartoons, or How to Create a Minimalist Masterpiece (1)
- 09: The Prado Museum Creates the First Art Exhibition for the Visually Impaired, Using 3D Printing (3)
- 08: Life and Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion (2)
- 07: The First Customer Service Complaint in Recorded History (1750 B.C.) (4)
- 06: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (51)
- 06: Philosophers Drinking Coffee: The Excessive Habits of Kant, Voltaire & Kierkegaard (3)
- 06: Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh & Other Arists Tell Their Musical Stories in the Animated Video Series, “California Inspires Me” (1)
- 06: Richard Dawkins’ Famous “What If You’re Wrong” Speech Animated in the Style of South Park (2)
- 05: The Paintings of Akira Kurosawa (2)
- 05: Artist Takes Old Books and Gives Them New Life as Intricate Sculptures (3)
- 05: Read Chez Foucault, the 1978 Fanzine That Introduced Students to the Radical French Philosopher (0)
- 05: Errol Morris Celebrates The Madness of Sports with Six New Mini-Docs: Watch Them Free Online (0)
- 04: A Final Wish: Terminally Ill Patients Visit Rembrandt’s Paintings in the Rijksmuseum One Last Time (1)
- 04: Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists (1996) (31)
- 04: The Mirrors of Ingmar Bergman, Narrated with the Poetry of Sylvia Plath (0)
- 04: Has Technology Changed Us?: BBC Animations Answer the Question with the Help of Marshall McLuhan (1)
- 04: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to Young People: “Learn to Be Alone,” Enjoy Solitude (2)
- 04: 190 MOOCs Getting Started in March: Enroll in One Today (0)
- 03: Discover the Oldest Beer Recipe in History From Ancient Sumeria, 1800 B.C. (17)
- 03: Watch a 1953 Animation of James Thurber’s “Unicorn in the Garden,” Voted One of the Best Animations Ever (0)
- 03: Victor Hugo’s Drawings Made with Coal, Dust & Coffee (1848-1851) (2)
- 03: Wes Anderson’s Cinematic Influences: Video Series Reveals His Roots in Truffaut, Welles, Scorsese & More (2)
- 02: Free eBook: Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave (1)
- 02: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa: A Wonderful Sand Animation of the Classic Kafka Story (1977) (0)
- 02: Hear Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth Rocker, Read From Her New Memoir, Girl in a Band (0)
- 02: Miles Davis’ Entire Discography Presented in a Stylish Interactive Visualization (0)
- 02: The Hedge Maze from The Shining Gets Recreated by Mythbuster’s Adam Savage (0)
- 01: The Linguistics Behind Kevin Spacey’s Southern Accent in House of Cards: A Quick Primer (2)
- February 2015 (94)
- 28: Leonard Nimoy Recites Famous Soliloquy from Hamlet in Yiddish: “To Be or Not To Be” (0)
- 27: Brian Eno Lists the Benefits of Singing: A Long Life, Increased Intelligence, and a Sound Civilization (1)
- 27: Leonard Nimoy Reads Ray Bradbury Stories From The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man (1975-76) (2)
- 27: Guidelines for Handling William Faulkner’s Drinking During Foreign Trips From the US State Department (1955) (1)
- 27: Cartoonist Lynda Barry Shows You How to Draw Batman in Her UW-Madison Course, “Making Comics” (0)
- 26: Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Strikingly Illustrated by Expressionist Painter Alice Neel (1938) (2)
- 26: Cult Films by Kubrick, Tarantino & Wes Anderson Re-imagined as 8-Bit Video Games (0)
- 26: George Orwell Creates a Who’s Who List of “Crypto” Communists for British Intelligence Forces (1949) (3)
- 26: A Racy Philosophy Lesson on Kant’s Aesthetics by Alain de Botton’s “School of Life” (0)
- 25: The Story of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Released 50 Years Ago This Month (1)
- 25: The Musical Career of David Bowie in One Minute … and One Continuous Take (0)
- 25: Wes Anderson Likes the Color Red (and Yellow) (1)
- 25: Glorious Early 20th-Century Japanese Ads for Beer, Smokes & Sake (1902-1954) (1)
- 25: Kids Orchestra Plays Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” and Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” (4)
- 24: Hunter S. Thompson, Existentialist Life Coach, Gives Tips for Finding Meaning in Life (7)
- 24: Michel Gondry’s Finest Music Videos for Björk, Radiohead & More: The Last of the Music Video Gods (5)
- 24: A Playlist of 172 Songs from Wes Anderson Soundtracks: From Bottle Rocket to The Grand Budapest Hotel (3)
- 24: Download Pink Floyd’s 1975 Comic Book Program for The Dark Side of the Moon Tour (4)
- 23: Two Short Films on Coffee and Cigarettes from Jim Jarmusch & Paul Thomas Anderson (2)
- 23: Hear The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” With a Re-Discovered George Harrison Solo (19)
- 23: Watch Veterans of The US Civil War Demonstrate the Dreaded Rebel Yell (1930) (1)
- 23: The New Yorker Presents: Watch the 30 Minute Pilot of the New Docu-Series from The New Yorker (0)
- 22: Read the Lost Sherlock Holmes Story That Was Just Discovered in an Attic in Scotland (5)
- 21: 77 Exercises: A Workout Video For Fans of the Talking Heads (0)
- 20: What Makes Us Human?: Chomsky, Locke & Marx Introduced by New Animated Videos from the BBC (0)
- 20: Charles Mingus’ Instructions For Toilet Training Your Cat, Read by The Wire’s Reg E. Cathey (3)
- 20: Orson Welles Names His 10 Favorite Films: From Chaplin’s City Lights to Ford’s Stagecoach (3)
- 20: A Gallery of Mad Magazine’s Rollicking Fake Advertisements from the 1960s (6)
- 19: Oliver Sacks Contemplates Mortality (and His Terminal Cancer Diagnosis) in a Thoughtful, Poignant Letter (0)
- 19: What’s the Big Deal About Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel? Matt Zoller Seitz’s Video Essay Explains (1)
- 19: 7 Rock Album Covers Designed by Iconic Artists: Warhol, Rauschenberg, Dalí, Richter, Mapplethorpe & More (3)
- 19: How Clocks Changed Humanity Forever, Making Us Masters and Slaves of Time (5)
- 19: Dubai in Flow Motion: A Short Film That Takes Hyperlapses to the Next Level (0)
- 18: What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?: Lists by Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly & Other Forward-Thinking Minds (33)
- 18: Let Me Librarian That for You: What People Asked Librarians Before Google Came Along (3)
- 18: An Animated Lou Reed Explains The Velvet Underground’s Artistic Goals, and Why The Beatles Were “Garbage” (0)
- 18: 187 Big Thinkers Answer the Question: What Do You Think About Machines That Think? (3)
- 18: 40 Years of Saul Bass’ Groundbreaking Title Sequences in One Compilation (1)
- 17: The Mastermind of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, Shows Off His Synthesizer Collection (8)
- 17: 600+ Covers of Philip K. Dick Novels from Around the World: Greece, Japan, Poland & Beyond (2)
- 17: Read 3 Stories from Haruki Murakami’s Short Story Collection Published in Japan Last Year (0)
- 16: Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett (7)
- 16: 7 Short Stories by Junot Díaz Free Online, In Text and Audio (0)
- 16: Advertisements from Japan’s Golden Age of Art Deco (0)
- 16: Monopoly: How the Original Game Was Made to Condemn Monopolies & the Abuses of Capitalism (1)
- 15: Free Online Course: Robert Thurman’s Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Recorded at Columbia U) (5)
- 14: David Carr Gives 10 Pieces of Work & Life Advice to UC Berkeley Graduates (2)
- 13: Predict Which 21st Century Novels Will Enter the Literary Canon? And Which Overrated Ones Won’t? (17)
- 13: The Marvelous Health Benefits of Chocolate: A Curious Medical Essay from 1631 (0)
- 13: In Animated Cartoon, Alison Bechdel Sees Her Life Go From Pulitizer Prize Winning Comic to Broadway Musical (0)
- 13: Illustrations for a Chinese Lord of the Rings in a Stunning “Glass Painting Style” (2)
- 12: Gun Nut William S. Burroughs & Gonzo Illustrator Ralph Steadman Make Polaroid Portraits Together (1)
- 12: William Faulkner Outlines on His Office Wall the Plot of His Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel, A Fable (1954) (2)
- 12: See Penguins Wearing Tiny “Penguin Books” Sweaters, Knitted by the Oldest Man in Australia (2)
- 12: Harper Lee on the Joy of Reading Real Books: “Some Things Should Happen On Soft Pages, Not Cold Metal” (0)
- 11: Watch Agnès Varda’s Les Fiancés Du Pont Macdonald: A Silent Comic Short Starring Jean-Luc Godard & Anna Karina (0)
- 11: How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America (3)
- 11: Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish” (4)
- 11: Haruki Murakami Reads in English from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in a Rare Public Reading (1998) (3)
- 10: Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years (24)
- 10: Designer Reimagines Iconic Movie Posters With Minimalist Designs: Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix & More (0)
- 10: Watch the Coen Brothers’ TV Commercials: Swiss Cigarettes, Gap Jeans, Taxes & Clean Coal (0)
- 10: An Ambitious List of 1400 Films Made by Female Filmmakers (1)
- 10: New Video Shows What May Be Michelangelo’s Lost & Now Found Bronze Sculptures (0)
- 09: Listen to 90 Famous Authors & Celebrities Read Great Stories & Poems (3)
- 09: Joni Mitchell’s Application for a Tenure Track Philosophy Position (0)
- 09: What Films Should Get Into The Criterion Collection? Video Series “Three Reasons” Makes the Case (1)
- 09: All You Need is Love: The Keys to Happiness Revealed by a 75-Year Harvard Study (0)
- 09: Rare Interview: Tim Curry Discusses The Rocky Horror Picture Show, During the Week of Its Release (1975) (7)
- 08: Watch 570 Million Years of Evolution on Earth in 60 Seconds (3)
- 06: B.B. King Explains in an Animated Video Whether You Need to Endure Hardship to Play the Blues (0)
- 06: William S. Burroughs’ Home Movies, Featuring Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Steve Buscemi & Cats (1)
- 06: Watch Between Time and Timbuktu, an Obscure TV Gem Based on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut (1)
- 06: Watch a Young Bob Marley and The Wailers Perform Live in England (1973): For His 70th Birthday Today (0)
- 05: The Shining and Other Complex Stanley Kubrick Films Recut as Simple Hollywood Movies (3)
- 05: Invisible Cities Illustrated: Three Artists Paint Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel (0)
- 05: Watch Artist Shepard Fairey Pretend to Work in an Art Supply Store (1)
- 05: 19th Century Maps Visualize Measles in America Before the Miracle of Vaccines (0)
- 05: Romantic Poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey Write About Their Experiments with Laughing Gas (1799) (1)
- 04: Listen to 60+ Free, High-Quality AudioBooks of Classic Literature on Spotify: Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy & More (1)
- 04: 200+ MOOCs Getting Started in February: Enroll in One Today (0)
- 04: How David Bowie, Kurt Cobain & Thom Yorke Write Songs With William Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique (11)
- 04: Hear a Great Radio Documentary on William S. Burroughs Narrated by Iggy Pop (8)
- 03: Junot Díaz’s Syllabi for His MIT Writing Classes, and the Novels on His Reading List (16)
- 03: The Origins of Pleasure: Paul Bloom Explains Why We Like Expensive Wines & Original Paintings (0)
- 03: Start Your Day with Werner Herzog Inspirational Posters (1)
- 03: Hear Albums from Brian Eno’s 1970s Label, Obscure Records (2)
- 02: Take a Super Slow Motion Look at What Happens Inside a DSLR Camera (0)
- 02: In Lost Letter, Allen Ginsberg Tells The Paris Review He Tried LSD Again & Experienced “No Snake Universe Hallucinations” (1966) (1)
- 02: The Clash Play Their Final Show (San Bernardino, 1983) (0)
- 02: Cinematic Experiment: What Happens When The Bicycle Thief’s Director and Gone With the Wind’s Producer Edit the Same Film (0)
- 02: What Questions Would Stephen Fry Ask God at the Pearly Gates? (10)
- 02: Marlene Dietrich Plays the Musical Saw (aka the Singing Saw) to Entertain the Troops During WWII (2)
- 01: Auschwitz Captured in Haunting Drone Footage (and a New Short Film by Steven Spielberg & Meryl Streep) (8)
- January 2015 (92)
- 30: The Geometric Beauty of Akira Kurosawa and Wes Anderson’s Films (2)
- 30: Hear Isolated Guitar Tracks From Some of Rock’s Greatest: Slash, Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton & More (8)
- 30: The Paintings of Filmmaker/Visual Artist David Lynch (0)
- 29: Stanford Launches Free Course on Developing Apps with iOS 8 (4)
- 29: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts in 2001 What the World Will Look By December 31, 2100 (0)
- 29: Stream Classic Poetry Readings from Harvard’s Rich Audio Archive: From W.H. Auden to Dylan Thomas (0)
- 29: An Illustration of Every Page of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (2)
- 29: The Little Albert Experiment: The Perverse 1920 Study That Made a Baby Afraid of Santa Claus & Bunnies (4)
- 28: Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes the Air Out of Deflategate (2)
- 28: Richard Dawkins Reads “Love Letters” from “Fans” (NSFW) (0)
- 28: Hear Gandhi’s Famous Speech on the Existence of God (1931) (2)
- 27: Confusion Through Sand: A Short, Hand-Drawn Animation on the Terror & Confusion of War (0)
- 27: The Cahiers du Cinéma Names the 10 Best Films of the Year, from 1951 to 2014 (2)
- 27: Bill Hicks’ 12 Principles of Comedy (9)
- 27: Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Gets Turned Into “The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made” by Jack Kirby (0)
- 26: NASA Puts Online a Big Collection of Space Sounds, and They’re Free to Download and Use (1)
- 26: Hear the Only Recording of Raymond Carver Reading “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” (4)
- 26: 115 Books on Lena Dunham & Miranda July’s Bookshelves at Home (Plus a Bonus Short Play) (0)
- 26: Dostoevsky Draws a Picture of Shakespeare: A New Discovery in an Old Manuscript (1)
- 23: Flannery O’Connor to Lit Professor: “My Tone Is Not Meant to Be Obnoxious. I’m in a State of Shock” (5)
- 23: Read The Very First Comic Book: The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck (1837) (5)
- 23: How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X-Files Star Gillian Anderson (1)
- 23: A Dazzling Gallery of Clockwork Orange Tattoos (1)
- 22: Whitney Museum Puts Online 21,000 Works of American Art, By 3,000 Artists (2)
- 22: Slavoj Žižek Names His Favorite Films from The Criterion Collection (1)
- 22: Dominic West, Stephen Fry & Benedict Cumberbatch Read From a Guantánamo Prisoner’s Diary (0)
- 22: How “America’s First Drug Czar” Waged War Against Billie Holiday and Other Jazz Legends (6)
- 21: The Public Domain Project Makes 10,000 Film Clips, 64,000 Images & 100s of Audio Files Free to Use (6)
- 21: Jean Cocteau Delivers a Speech to the Year 2000 in 1962: “I Hope You Have Not Become Robots” (2)
- 21: Visit “Mariobatalivoice,” the Cooking Blog by Steve Albini, Musician & Record Producer (0)
- 21: Leo Tolstoy’s Masochistic Diary: I Am Guilty of “Sloth,” “Cowardice” & “Sissiness” (1851) (1)
- 20: Haruki Murakami’s Advice Column (“Mr. Murakami’s Place”) Is Now Online: Read English Translations (14)
- 20: Batman & Other Super Friends Sit for 17th Century Flemish Style Portraits (0)
- 20: Ayn Rand Writes a Harsh Letter To Her 17-Year-Old Niece: “I Will Write You Off As a Rotten Person” (1949) (8)
- 20: 31 Rolls of Film Taken by a World War II Soldier Get Discovered & Developed Before Your Eyes (2)
- 20: Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts Writes a Children’s Book Celebrating Charlie Parker (1964) (1)
- 19: Download The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe on His Birthday (1)
- 19: Nirvana’s Last Concert: Audio/ Video Recorded on March 1, 1994 (3)
- 19: Cab Calloway’s “Hepster Dictionary,” a 1939 Glossary of the Lingo (the “Jive”) of the Harlem Renaissance (5)
- 19: William Blake Illustrates Dante’s Divine Comedy (1827) (1)
- 18: Gnome Chomsky: The Essential Ornament for the Thinking Person’s Garden (3)
- 16: Vintage Video of Joni Mitchell Performing in 1965 — Before She Was Even Named Joni Mitchell (32)
- 16: Werner Herzog Offers 24 Pieces of Filmmaking & Life Advice (2)
- 16: Edward Said Recalls His Depressing Meeting With Sartre, de Beauvoir & Foucault (1979) (3)
- 16: John Landis Deconstructs Trailers of Great 20th Century Films: Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, 2001 & More (2)
- 15: Hear Hemingway Read Hemingway, and Faulkner Read Faulkner (90 Minutes of Classic Audio) (8)
- 15: Federico Fellini’s List of His 10 Favorite Films … Including One of His Own (2)
- 15: Neil Gaiman Reads “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” (0)
- 15: Watch Steven Soderbergh’s Re-Edited Version of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Free Online (10)
- 14: 365: One Animated Film, Shot One Second a Day, Over One Year (2)
- 14: George Lucas Shoots a Cinema Verité-Style Documentary on Francis Ford Coppola (1969) (0)
- 14: Allen Ginsberg Sings the Poetry of William Blake (1970) (3)
- 14: Vladimir Nabokov Names the Greatest (and Most Overrated) Novels of the 20th Century (12)
- 14: Buddhism 101: A Short Introductory Lecture by Jorge Luis Borges (1)
- 13: The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People, Presented in an Interactive Infographic (3)
- 13: 50 Years of Changing David Bowie Hair Styles in One Animated GIF (0)
- 13: Inside the Making of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, Rock’s Great Concept Album (3)
- 13: How Paul Thomas Anderson Dropped Out of NYU Film School in 2 Days; Studied Literature with David Foster Wallace (0)
- 12: 7 Tips from Edgar Allan Poe on How to Write Vivid Stories and Poems (12)
- 12: David Sedaris Spends 3-8 Hours Per Day Picking Up Trash in the UK; Testifies on the Litter Problem (0)
- 12: Patti Smith and David Lynch Talk About the Source of Their Ideas & Creative Inspiration (2)
- 12: Neil deGrasse Tyson Ponders the Big Question “Does the Universe Have a Purpose” in a Simple Animation (8)
- 12: The Long-Lost Illustrated Production Stills from the Set of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (0)
- 10: A Look Inside Charlie Hebdo, Their Creative Process & the Making of a Fateful Cartoon (1)
- 09: Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (33)
- 09: The Big Ideas of Stephen Hawking Explained with Simple Animation (1)
- 09: Wonderfully Kitschy Propaganda Posters Champion the Chinese Space Program (1962-2003) (0)
- 09: You’ve Never Heard Carl Sagan Say “Billions” Like This Before (0)
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- 15: Watch Carl Sagan & Richard Dawkins Present the Royal Institution’s Famous Christmas Lectures (1)
- 15: O Frabjous Day! Neil Gaiman Recites Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” from Memory (0)
- 14: Watch Bob Dylan Play a Private Concert for One Lucky Fan (5)
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- 09: Animated Introductions to Quantum Mechanics: From Schrödinger’s Cat to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (1)
- 09: Watch Saul Bass’s Trippy, Kitschy Short Film The Quest (1983), Based on a Ray Bradbury Short Story (3)
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- 27: Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow Finally Gets Released as an Audio Book (3)
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- 17: Charles Dickens Gave His Cat “Bob” a Second Life as a Letter Opener (1)
- 17: Watch the New Trailer for the Upcoming Joan Didion Documentary, We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live (2)
- 16: Watch Harvard Students Fail the Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote in 1964 (32)
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- 14: The Art of Leo Tolstoy: See His Drawings in the War & Peace Manuscript & Other Literary Texts (1)
- 14: Watch Entr’Acte: René Clair’s Dadaist Masterpiece, Scored by Erik Satie and with Cameos by Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray (1924) (1)
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- 15: Prof. Iggy Pop Delivers the BBC’s 2014 John Peel Lecture on “Free Music in a Capitalist Society” (2)
- 15: Typed Portraits of Literary Legends: Kerouac, Saramago, Bukowski & More (0)
- 15: Animated Sheet Music of 3 Charlie Parker Jazz Classics: “Confirmation,” “Au Privave” & “Bloomdido” (1)
- 14: Hear Michel Foucault’s Final UC Berkeley Lectures, “Discourse and Truth” (1983) (0)
- 14: The Cry of Jazz: 1958’s Highly Controversial Film on Jazz & Race in America (With Music by Sun Ra) (1)
- 14: Take Big History: A Free Short Course on 13.8 Billion Years of History, Funded by Bill Gates (3)
- 14: Photos of Hiroshima by Hiroshima Mon Amour Star Emmanuelle Riva (1958) (1)
- 13: The Distortion of Sound: A Short Film on How We’ve Created “a McDonald’s Generation of Music Consumers” (12)
- 13: What Happens When You Take a Nobel Prize Through Airport Security (1)
- 13: Watch the Rare Reunions of Pink Floyd: Concerts from 2005, 2010 & 2011 (2)
- 13: Quentin Tarantino Directs a 1995 Episode of ER: Brings Cinematic Virtuosity to TV (1)
- 13: Bill Murray, the Struggling New SNL Cast Member, Apologizes for Not Being Funny (1977) (3)
- 12: 2nd Graders Eat at Fancy French Restaurant, Daniel; Acclaimed Director Captures Their Reactions (1)
- 11: Coleman Hawkins’ Landmark Recording of “Body and Soul” Turns 75 This Week (1)
- 11: The Empire Strikes Back Uncut: A New Fan-Made, Shot-for-Shot Remake of the 1980 Sci-Fi Classic (0)
- 10: 7 Free Stephen King Stories: Presented in Text, Audio, Web Comic & a Graphic Novel Video (15)
- 10: The Adventures of Famed Illustrator Gustave Doré Presented in a Fantasic(al) Cutout Animation (0)
- 10: Woman Takes LSD in 1956: “I’ve Never Seen Such Infinite Beauty in All My Life,” “I Wish I Could Talk in Technicolor” (0)
- 09: 50% Off Criterion Films Until 2pm ET Today (October 10) (0)
- 09: The Paintings of Miles Davis (12)
- 09: The Making (and Remaking) of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, Arguably the Greatest Rock Album of All Time (2)
- 09: “Heidegger in the Kitchen”: Alain de Botton’s Video Essay Explains the Philosopher’s Concept of Being (0)
- 09: 1000 Frames of Hitchcock: See Each of Alfred Hitchcock’s 52 Films Reduced to 1,000 Artistic Frames (1)
- 09: Hear ‘Louder Than Words,’ Pink Floyd’s New Song on What’s Likely Their Last Album (2)
- 08: Free Stanford Course: 18 Experts Assess What’s Ailing America in 2014 (1)
- 08: John Lennon’s Solo Albums Now Streaming for Free on Spotify (2)
- 08: Ben Franklin’s List of 200 Synonyms for “Drunk”: “Moon-Ey’d,” “Hammerish,” “Stew’d” & More (1737) (0)
- 08: Bruce Springsteen Plays East Berlin in 1988: I’m Not Here For Any Government. I’ve Come to Play Rock (4)
- 08: Wes Anderson’s Animated Books (0)
- 07: Stephen Fry Explains Humanism in 4 Animated Videos: Happiness, Truth and the Meaning of Life & Death (7)
- 07: Bill Murray Sings the Poetry of Bob Dylan: Shelter From the Storm (0)
- 07: Watch Classic Seinfeld Scenes Dubbed in …. Yiddish (0)
- 07: Declassified CIA Document Reveals That Ben Franklin (and His Big Ego) Put U.S. National Security at Risk (1)
- 06: Musician Shows How to Sing Two Notes at Once in Mesmerizing Video (6)
- 06: 9 New Episodes of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks to Air in 2016 (0)
- 06: Hear the Nazi’s Bizzaro Propaganda Jazz Band, “Charlie and His Orchestra” (1940-1943) (0)
- 06: In Her Final Speech, Ayn Rand Denounces Ronald Reagan, the Moral Majority & Anti-Choicers (1981) (4)
- 06: The 430 Books in Marilyn Monroe’s Library: How Many Have You Read? (28)
- 06: Free Download of The History Manifesto: Historians New Call for Big-Picture Thinking (0)
- 05: Download the “Great American Comic Sci Fi Novel,” Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (0)
- 05: Electric Guitars Made from the Detritus of Detroit (0)
- 05: Alain de Botton’s School of Life Presents Animated Introductions to Heidegger, The Stoics & Epicurus (0)
- 03: The Chemistry Behind the Smell of Old Books: Explained with a Free Infographic (1)
- 03: Oxford Scientist Explains the Physics of Playing Electric Guitar Solos (3)
- 03: How to Sing Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking (0)
- 02: Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Other American Blues Legends Perform in the UK (1963-66) (1)
- 02: Open Culture Picks Our 10 Avant-Garde Favorites on Ubuweb: Joyce, Borges, Sontag, Wittgenstein & More (1)
- 02: A Free Cartoon Biography of Ayn Rand: Her Life & Thought (12)
- 02: 1000 Digits of Pi, Recited by Jane Barbe, Famous Voice of Telephone Company Recordings (3)
- 02: Peter Thiel’s Stanford Course on Startups: Read the Lecture Notes Free Online (1)
- 01: Django Reinhardt Demonstrates His Guitar Genius in Rare Footage From the 1930s, 40s & 50s (9)
- 01: Swedish Scientists Sneak Bob Dylan Lyrics Into Their Academic Publications For Last 17 Years (0)
- 01: A Secret Bookstore in a New York City Apartment: The Last of a Dying Breed (4)
- 01: The Eyes of Hitchcock: A Mesmerizing Video Essay on the Expressive Power of Eyes in Hitchcock’s Films (2)
- September 2014 (101)
- 30: 1797 Temperance Thermometer Measures the Moral & Physical Impact of Your Drinking Habits (0)
- 30: Hear the Album Björk Recorded as an 11-Year-Old: Features Cover Art Provided By Her Mom (1977) (10)
- 30: Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poetry: 23 Poems from the Last 6 Years of Her Life (1)
- 29: Christopher Walken Reads Where The Wild Things Are (8)
- 29: The Only Footage of Mark Twain: The Original & Digitally Restored Films Shot by Thomas Edison (4)
- 29: Martin Scorsese’s New Documentary on The New York Review of Books Airs Tonight on HBO (0)
- 29: Glenn Gould Gives Us a Tour of Toronto, His Beloved Hometown (1979) (1)
- 29: A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom (1)
- 28: Rare Footage of the “Human Be-In,” the Landmark Counter-Culture Event Held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 (15)
- 26: Philosopher Jacques Derrida Interviews Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman: Talk Improvisation, Language & Racism (1997) (2)
- 26: Sigmund Freud Writes to Concerned Mother: “Homosexuality is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of” (1935) (0)
- 26: A Soviet Animation of Stephen King’s Short Story “Battleground” (1986) (1)
- 25: How Edward Hopper “Storyboarded” His Iconic Painting Nighthawks (3)
- 25: A Sneak Preview of Haruki Murakami’s Forthcoming Illustrated Novel, The Strange Library (0)
- 25: Art Garfunkel Lists 1195 Books He Read Over 45 Years, Plus His 157 Favorites (Many Free) (2)
- 25: Watch George Harrison’s Final Interview and Performance (1997) (3)
- 24: Henri Matisse Illustrates Baudelaire’s Censored Poetry Collection, Les Fleurs du Mal (3)
- 24: Cartoonists Draw Their Famous Cartoon Characters While Blindfolded (1947) (1)
- 24: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Censorship Letter: We Want to Retain “Fart in Your General Direction” (3)
- 24: Steven Soderbergh Creates Silent, Black & White Recut of Raiders of the Lost Ark to Explain the Art of “Staging” (1)
- 23: Longform’s New, Free App Lets You Read Great Journalism from Your Favorite Publishers (1)
- 23: Read 14 Great Banned & Censored Novels Free Online: For Banned Books Week 2014 (5)
- 23: Readers Predict in 1936 Which Novelists Would Still Be Widely Read in the Year 2000 (9)
- 23: Watch Miles Davis, Grace Jones, Adam Ant & Devo in 1980s Ads for Honda Scooters (0)
- 23: Winston Churchill’s Paintings: Great Statesman, Surprisingly Good Artist (2)
- 22: Hear Allen Ginsberg Teach “Literary History of the Beats”: Audio Lectures from His 1977 & 1981 Naropa Courses (1)
- 22: The First Color Photos From World War I: The German Front (0)
- 22: Let’s Learn Japanese: Two Classic Video Series to Get You Started in the Language (0)
- 22: Butterfly Lands on Flutist’s Face During Flute Competition: The Show Must Go On (2)
- 22: Novelist Michael Chabon Sang in a Punk Band During the ’80s: Newly Released Audio Gives Proof (1)
- 19: Listen to the Long-Lost Freddie Mercury & Michael Jackson Duet (15)
- 19: The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online (18)
- 19: Pakistani Orchestra Plays Enchanting Rendition of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” (6)
- 19: Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger, the Avant-Garde Animator Hated by Hitler, Dissed by Disney (3)
- 18: Leonard Cohen’s New Album, Popular Problems, Is Now Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 18: Photos of Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir Hanging with Che Guevara in Cuba (1960) (8)
- 18: Watch Frank Zappa Play Michael Nesmith on The Monkees (1967) (2)
- 18: Allen Ginsberg Talks About Coming Out to His Family & Fellow Poets on 1978 Radio Show (NSFW) (0)
- 18: A Crash Course on Psychology: A 30-Part Video Series from Hank Green (3)
- 17: The Last Saturday: A New Graphic Novel by Chris Ware Now Being Serialized at The Guardian (Free) (0)
- 17: Hear Bob Dylan’s Unedited & Bewildering Interview With Nat Hentoff for Playboy Magazine (1965) (3)
- 17: Drunk Shakespeare: The Trendy Way to Stage the Bard’s Plays in the US & the UK (1)
- 17: The Avant-Garde Project: An Archive of Music by 200 Cutting-Edge Composers, Including Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Cage & More (0)
- 17: Literary Critic Northrop Frye Teaches “The Bible and English Literature”: All 25 Lectures Free Online (3)
- 16: Why We Love Repetition in Music: Explained in a New TED-Ed Animation (6)
- 16: “The Civil War and Reconstruction,” a New MOOC by Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian Eric Foner (1)
- 16: The Historic LSD Debate at MIT: Timothy Leary v. Professor Jerome Lettvin (1967) (6)
- 16: Partisan Review Now Free Online: Read All 70 Years of the Preeminent Literary Journal (1934-2003) (10)
- 16: David Bowie & Brian Eno’s Collaboration on “Warszawa” Reimagined in a Comic Animation (3)
- 15: 20 Free Essays & Stories by David Sedaris: A Sampling of His Inimitable Humor (5)
- 15: Hear Demo Recordings of David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust,” “Space Oddity” & “Changes” (1)
- 15: Young Joni Mitchell Performs a Hit-Filled Concert in London (1970) (9)
- 15: How to Jump the Paris Metro: A Witty, Rebellious Primer from New Wave Director Luc Moullet (1984) (0)
- 14: 81-Year-Old Professor Charlie Warner Goes to Burning Man: A Short Documentary (NSFW) (0)
- 14: Eight Free Films by Dziga Vertov, Creator of Soviet Avant-Garde Documentaries (4)
- 13: Sound Effects Genius Michael Winslow Sings Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”: Vocal & Guitar Parts (0)
- 13: 100 Great Bass Riffs Played in One Epic Take: Covers 60 Years of Rock, Jazz and R&B (10)
- 12: Hear David Foster Wallace Read His Own Essays & Short Fiction on the 6th Anniversary of His Death, (2)
- 12: Portraits of Vice Presidents with Octopuses on Their Heads — the Ones You’ve Always Wanted To See (0)
- 12: John Lennon’s Ice Bucket Challenge (3)
- 11: Bill Murray Gives a Delightful Reading of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (1996) (2)
- 11: Iraqi Artist Turns Saddam Hussein’s Propaganda Music into Pop, Jazz & Lounge-Style Love Songs (0)
- 11: Hear Antonin Artaud’s Censored, Never-Aired Radio Play: To Have Done With The Judgment of God (1947) (3)
- 11: Watch Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Great Helicopter String Quartet, Starring 4 Musicians, 4 Cameras & 4 Copters (0)
- 10: Derek Jarman’s Jubilee: “It’s the Best Film about Punk” (1978) (1)
- 10: Dripped: An Animated Tribute to Jackson Pollock’s Signature Painting Technique (0)
- 10: How Do They Get Caffeine Out of Coffee Beans? (2)
- 10: Georges Bataille: An Introduction to The Radical Philosopher’s Life & Thought Through Film and eTexts (0)
- 10: The Beatles Saturday Morning Cartoon Show (1965-1969) (8)
- 09: U2’s Album Songs of Innocence Released for Free on iTunes Today (1)
- 09: The First Color Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, and Other Amazing Color Photos of Czarist Russia (1908) (6)
- 09: Watch Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, the First Animated Movie (1906) (0)
- 09: William Gibson Reads Neuromancer, His Cyberpunk-Defining Novel (2)
- 09: 178,000 Images Documenting the History of the Car Now Available on a New Stanford Web Site (0)
- 08: The History of Rock n Roll in 10 Songs: A List Created by Legendary Rock Critic Greil Marcus (12)
- 08: How Languages Evolve: Explained in a Winning TED-Ed Animation (2)
- 08: Kafka’s Parable “Before the Law” Narrated by Orson Welles & Illustrated with Pinscreen Art (1)
- 08: Buddy Holly & Waylon Jennings in a Photo Booth (New York, 1959) (4)
- 07: Nikolai Gogol’s Classic Story, “The Nose,” Animated With the Astonishing Pinscreen Technique (1963) (0)
- 07: Thomas Pynchon Edits His Lines on The Simpsons: “Homer is my role model and I can’t speak ill of him.” (1)
- 06: Help Kickstart Baba Brinkman’s Animated Rap Guide to Religion (0)
- 06: 150 MOOCS Getting Started in September: Enroll in One Today (0)
- 05: David Bowie and Klaus Nomi’s Hypnotic Performance on SNL (1979) (18)
- 05: The Art of Swimming, 1587: A Manual with Woodcut Illustrations (1)
- 04: Joan Rivers (1933-2014) Describes on Louie Her Undying Commitment to Comedy (0)
- 04: Yale Launches an Archive of 170,000 Photographs Documenting the Great Depression (17)
- 04: Before The Simpsons: Homer Groening Directs a 1969 Short Film, The Story, Starring His Kids Maggie, Lisa & Matt (1)
- 04: Foodie Alert: New York Public Library Presents an Archive of 17,000 Restaurant Menus (1851-2008) (0)
- 04: Derek Jarman Creates Pioneering Music Videos for The Smiths, Marianne Faithfull & the Pet Shop Boys (0)
- 03: Haruki Murakami Lists the Three Essential Qualities For All Serious Novelists (And Runners) (3)
- 03: Drums West: Jim Henson’s Animated Tribute to Jazz Drummer Chico Hamilton (1961) (1)
- 03: Quentin Tarantino Explains The Art of the Music in His Films (0)
- 03: Three Animated Shorts by the Groundbreaking Russian Animator Fyodor Khitruk (0)
- 02: New Albums by Robert Plant, Ryan Adams & Justin Townes Earle Streaming Online for a Limited Time (0)
- 02: Extensive Archive of Avant-Garde & Modernist Magazines (1890-1939) Now Available Online (7)
- 02: Three Outlandish Tracks from Van Morrison’s 1968 “Revenge Album”: “Ring Worm,” “Want a Danish?” & “The Big Royalty Check” (1)
- 02: Roald Dahl, Who Lost His Daughter to Measles, Writes a Heartbreaking Letter about Vaccinations: “It Really Is Almost a Crime to Allow Your Child to Go Unimmunised” (1)
- 02: Conspiracy Theory Rock: The Schoolhouse Rock Parody Saturday Night Live May Have Censored (2)
- 01: Wonderfully Weird & Ingenious Medieval Books (3)
- 01: Read a Never Published, “Subversive” Chapter from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2)
- 01: Miranda July’s Quirky Film Presents Somebody, the New App That Connects Strangers in the Real World (0)
- August 2014 (95)
- 30: Download for Free 2.6 Million Images from Books Published Over Last 500 Years on Flickr (9)
- 29: Fans Reconstruct Authentic Version of Star Wars, As It Was Shown in Theaters in 1977 (14)
- 29: A 96-Song Playlist of Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Miles Davis, Glenn Gould, the Beach Boys & More (8)
- 29: Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Traffic & Other Bands Play Huge London Festival “Christmas on Earth Continued” (1967) (19)
- 28: The Right and Wrong Way to Eat Sushi: A Primer (10)
- 28: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Gets Adapted Into an Avant-Garde Comic Opera (2)
- 28: John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” Played With Bagpipes: The Artistry of Rufus Harley (0)
- 28: Watch the Films of the Lumière Brothers & the Birth of Cinema (1895) (2)
- 27: The Five Best North Korean Movies: Watch Them Free Online (1)
- 27: David Lynch Takes the ALS Ice Coffee Bucket Challenge (0)
- 27: Andy Warhol’s 85 Polaroid Portraits: Mick Jagger, Yoko Ono, O.J. Simpson & Many Others (1970-1987) (1)
- 27: How to Listen to the Radio: The BBC’s 1930 Manual for Using a New Technology (0)
- 27: Brian May’s Homemade Guitar, Made From Old Tables, Bike and Motorcycle Parts & More (5)
- 26: Paris Through Pentax: Short Film Lets You See a Great City Through a Different Lens (0)
- 26: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Now Completely Online (13)
- 26: Philosopher Alain Badiou Performs a Scene From His Play, Ahmed The Philosopher (2011) (2)
- 26: Download Footage from Orson Welles’ Long Lost Early Film, Too Much Johnson (1938) (1)
- 26: William S. Burroughs Sends Anti-Fan Letter to In Cold Blood Author Truman Capote: “You Have Sold Out Your Talent” (7)
- 25: Fellini’s Three Bank of Rome Commercials, the Last Thing He Did Behind a Camera (1992) (0)
- 25: Flannery O’Connor Explains the Limited Value of MFA Programs: “Competence By Itself Is Deadly” (1)
- 25: Orson Welles Turns Heart of Darkness Into a Radio Drama, and Almost His First Great Film (0)
- 24: Jorge Luis Borges Poses with Bread Basket on His Head During a Light Moment (0)
- 23: Miles Davis’ Chili Recipe Revealed (0)
- 22: Watch a Hand-Painted Animation of Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2)
- 22: Everyday Economics: A New Course by Marginal Revolution University Where Students Create the Syllabus (0)
- 22: Shakespeare’s Restless World: A Portrait of the Bard’s Era in 20 Podcasts (0)
- 22: Charles Schulz Draws Charlie Brown in 45 Seconds and Exorcises His Demons (2)
- 21: A Photographic Tour of Haruki Murakami’s Tokyo, Where Dream, Memory, and Reality Meet (2)
- 21: Moebius’ Storyboards & Concept Art for Jodorowsky’s Dune (6)
- 21: Did Joe Strummer, Frontman of The Clash, Run the Paris and London Marathons? (6)
- 21: Dennis Hopper’s Photography, Now On Display in London, Documents a World “On Fire With Change” (0)
- 20: George Orwell Reviews a Book by That “Bag of Wind,” Jean-Paul Sartre (1948) (0)
- 20: Folger Shakespeare Library Puts 80,000 Images of Literary Art Online, and They’re All Free to Use (1)
- 20: Dr. Seuss Draws Anti-Japanese Cartoons During WWII, Then Atones with Horton Hears a Who! (42)
- 20: Willie Nelson Shows You a Delightful Card Trick (0)
- 19: Dave Grohl Raises the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to an Art Form (0)
- 19: The ABCs of Dada Explains the Anarchic, Irrational “Anti-Art” Movement of Dadaism (1)
- 19: George Orwell Reviews Mein Kampf: “He Envisages a Horrible Brainless Empire” (1940) (17)
- 19: Jimi Hendrix Plays the Beatles: “Sgt. Pepper’s,” “Day Tripper,” and “Tomorrow Never Knows” (4)
- 19: Don Pardo (1918-2014), Voice of Saturday Night Live, Suggests Using Short Words (0)
- 18: Salvador Dalí Creates a Chilling Anti-Venereal Disease Poster During World War II (2)
- 18: Michael Sandel on the Partially Examined Life Podcast Talks About the Limits of a Free Market Society (0)
- 18: The Glossary Universal Studios Gave Out to the First Audiences of David Lynch’s Dune (1984) (6)
- 18: Quentin Tarantino’s Top 20 Grindhouse/Exploitation Flicks: Night of the Living Dead, Halloween & More (0)
- 18: Charles & Ray Eames’ Iconic Lounge Chair Debuts on American TV (1956) (0)
- 17: In the Voice of Robin Williams, Impressionist Jim Meskimen Reads an Elegy for the Departed Comedian (1)
- 16: Wattstax Documents the “Black Woodstock” Concert Held 7 Years After the Watts Riots (1973) (0)
- 15: Philosophy Referee Hand Signals (8)
- 15: Cyberpunk: 1990 Documentary Featuring William Gibson & Timothy Leary Introduces the Cyberpunk Culture (0)
- 15: Charles Bukowski Uncensored (0)
- 15: Ernest Hemingway: T.S. Eliot “Can Kiss My Ass As a Man” (3)
- 15: Watch Quentin Tarantino Fave The Street Fighter, The First Movie To Get an X-Rating for Violence (NSFW) (3)
- 14: Robin Williams & Bobby McFerrin Sing Fun Cover of The Beatles’ “Come Together” (0)
- 14: Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Abandoned Manuscript, The Watsons (4)
- 14: Tap Into Timeless Wisdom: Download 36 Free Courses in Ancient History, Literature & Philosophy (4)
- 14: Watch the First Episode of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, Of Which Stanley Kubrick Became a Big Fan (2)
- 14: The 1985 Soviet TV Adaptation of The Hobbit: Cheap and Yet Strangely Charming (3)
- 13: Read 12 Stories By Haruki Murakami Free Online (4)
- 13: Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky Demystifies Depression, Which, Like Diabetes, Is Rooted in Biology (26)
- 13: Jim Jarmusch’s Anti-MTV Music Videos for Talking Heads, Neil Young, Tom Waits & Big Audio Dynamite (2)
- 13: Jorge Luis Borges, Film Critic, Reviews King Kong (1933) (0)
- 12: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) and Humphrey Bogart Pal Around During a 1956 Screen Test (0)
- 12: Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2002) (6)
- 12: Jorge Luis Borges Reviews Citizen Kane — and Gets a Response from Orson Welles (2)
- 12: Italo Calvino Offers 14 Reasons We Should Read the Classics (1)
- 11: Andrei Tarkovsky Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Films (1972) (10)
- 11: Patti Smith Reviews Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (0)
- 11: Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School: Apply & Learn the Art of Guerilla Filmmaking & Lock-Picking (0)
- 11: Klaus Nomi’s Ad for Jägermeister (Circa 1980) (1)
- 09: 50 Free Noir Films: An Easy Way to Sample a Great Cinematic Tradition (2)
- 08: Finnish Musicians Play Bluegrass Versions of AC/DC, Iron Maiden & Ronnie James Dio (1)
- 08: Hear Inventive Stories from Ursula LeGuin & J.G. Ballard Turned Into CBC Radio Dramas (1)
- 08: A Serious Stephen Colbert Gives Advice on Love & Life to Teenage Girls (1)
- 08: The Religions of Bob Dylan: From Delivering Evangelical Sermons to Singing Hava Nagila With Harry Dean Stanton (10)
- 07: The Story of Oedipus Retold with Vegetables in Starring Roles (0)
- 07: John Lennon Writes Eric Clapton an 8-Page Letter Asking Him to Join the Plastic Ono Band for a World Tour on a Cruise Ship (6)
- 07: Pierre Bourdieu’s Photographs of Wartime Algeria (0)
- 07: Is It Always Right to Be Right?: Orson Welles Narrates a 1970 Oscar-Winning Animation That Still Resonates Today (2)
- 06: Hear Michel Foucault’s Lecture “The Culture of the Self,” Presented in English at UC Berkeley (1983) (1)
- 06: Dick Van Dyke, Paul Lynde & the Original Cast of Bye Bye Birdie Appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (1961) (0)
- 06: Saul Bass’ Rejected Poster Concepts for The Shining (and His Pretty Excellent Signature) (2)
- 06: Director Robert Rodriguez Teaches The Basics of Filmmaking in Under 10 Minutes (2)
- 05: George Harrison Explains Why Everyone Should Play the Ukulele (67)
- 05: Two Legends: Weird Al Yankovic “Interviews” James Brown (1986) (0)
- 05: A 17-Year-Old David Bowie Defends “Long-Haired Men” in His First TV Interview (1964) (0)
- 05: Farmer Serenades Cows by Playing Lorde’s “Royals” on the Trombone (0)
- 04: 5-Minute Animation Maps 2,600 Years of Western Cultural History (3)
- 04: The 10 Greatest Documentaries of All Time According to 340 Filmmakers and Critics (11)
- 04: Leonard Cohen Guest Stars on Miami Vice (1986) (3)
- 04: Ray Bradbury: “I Am Not Afraid of Robots. I Am Afraid of People” (1974) (1)
- 02: A Drone’s Eye View of Los Angeles, New York, London, Bangkok & Mexico City (0)
- 01: James Brown Blows Away the Rolling Stones in 18 Electric Minutes (1964) (12)
- 01: The Art of Structured Procrastination (4)
- 01: Playing an Instrument Is a Great Workout For Your Brain: New Animation Explains Why (11)
- 01: Brian Eno’s Take on the Gaza Conflict Appears on David Byrne’s Web Site (9)
- July 2014 (101)
- 31: Haruki Murakami’s Passion for Jazz: Discover the Novelist’s Jazz Playlist, Jazz Essay & Jazz Bar (1)
- 31: Allen Ginsberg & The Clash Perform the Punk Poem “Capitol Air,” Live Onstage in Times Square (1981) (1)
- 31: Take a Road Trip with Cyberspace Visionary William Gibson, Watch No Maps for These Territories (2000) (1)
- 31: Learn the Elements of Cinema: Spielberg’s Long Takes, Scorsese’s Silence & Michael Bay’s Shots (0)
- 30: An Ivory Coast Cocoa Farmer Gets His Very First Taste of Chocolate (2)
- 30: Watch Mad Magazine’s Edgy, Never-Aired TV Special (1974) (2)
- 30: The Modern-Day Philosophers Podcast: Where Comedians Like Carl Reiner & Artie Lange Discuss Schopenhauer & Maimonides (0)
- 30: 11-Year-Old Martin Scorsese Draws Storyboards for His Imagined Roman Epic Film, The Eternal City (0)
- 30: Hear Roland Barthes Present His 40-Hour Course, La Préparation du roman, in French (1978-80) (1)
- 29: James Earl Jones Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” (0)
- 29: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Restored with a Soundtrack Featuring Freddie Mercury, Adam Ant & Pat Benatar (1)
- 29: Experience James Joyce’s Ulysses in Virtual Reality, Using the Oculus Rift Headset (0)
- 29: Watch World War I Unfold in a 6 Minute Time-Lapse Film: Every Day From 1914 to 1918 (4)
- 28: Bertolt Brecht Sings “Mack the Knife” in a 1929 Recording (8)
- 28: Learn How Crayons Are Made, Courtesy of 1980s Videos by Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers (0)
- 28: Greek Myth Comix Presents Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey Using Stick-Man Drawings (1)
- 28: Ubu Roi: Alfred Jarry’s Scandalous Play Strikingly Adapted for Television (1965) (0)
- 27: The Touching Moment When Nicholas Winton (RIP) Met the Children He Saved During the Holocaust (5)
- 26: Colorized Photos Bring Walt Whitman, Charlie Chaplin, Helen Keller & Mark Twain Back to Life (6)
- 26: Above LA: A Top-Down Timelapse View of the Great Megacity (0)
- 25: Why R.E.M.’s 1991 Out of Time May Be the “Most Politically Important Album” Ever (5)
- 25: Watch The Reality of the Virtual: 74 Minutes of Pure Slavoj Žižek (2004) (1)
- 25: Map Showing Where Today’s Countries Would Be Located on Pangea (17)
- 24: “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language (33)
- 24: One Woman, 17 British Accents (5)
- 24: Theodor Adorno’s Philosophy of Punctuation (2)
- 24: The Baffler Makes Its Back Issues All Free to Read Online (0)
- 23: Read 15,000 Marvel Comics Online for 99 Cents (for a Limited Time) (0)
- 23: A Quick Animated Tour of Iconic Modernist Houses (0)
- 23: Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964) (65)
- 23: Stanley Kubrick Faked the Apollo 11 Moon Landing in 1969, Or So the Conspiracy Theory Goes (30)
- 23: Dante’s Divine Comedy Illustrated in a Remarkable Illuminated Medieval Manuscript (c. 1450) (0)
- 22: Listen to The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead in 1970 (24)
- 22: The First Animations of Mike Judge, Creator of Beavis and Butt-head & Office Space (1991) (2)
- 22: T.S. Eliot Reads Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats & Other Classic Poems (75 Minutes, 1955) (2)
- 22: The New Yorker Web Site is Entirely Free This Summer (Until It Goes Behind a Paywall This Fall) (2)
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- 21: Wearable Books: In Medieval Times, They Took Old Manuscripts & Turned Them into Clothes (4)
- 21: T.S. Eliot Illustrates His Letters and Draws a Cover for Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (2)
- 20: Why Tattoos Are Permanent? New TED Ed Video Explains with Animation (0)
- 20: In Dark PSA, Director Richard Linklater Suggests Radical Steps for Dealing with Texters in Cinemas (2)
- 19: George Harrison Wrote His Last Letter to Austin Powers Creator Mike Myers, Asking for a Mini Me Doll (2001) (0)
- 19: Did the Wayback Machine Catch Russian-Backed Rebels Claiming Responsibility for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17? (3)
- 18: Akira Kurosawa & Gabriel García Márquez Talk About Filmmaking (and Nuclear Bombs) in Six Hour Interview (2)
- 18: Blues Guitar Legend Johnny Winter Shines Live on Danish TV (1970) (1)
- 18: What Goes Into Ramen Noodles, and What Happens When Ramen Noodles Go Into You (1)
- 17: The Sex Pistols Play in Dallas’ Longhorn Ballroom; Next Show Is Merle Haggard (1978) (3)
- 17: Charles Bukowski Rails Against 9-to-5 Jobs in a Brutally Honest Letter (1986) (16)
- 17: Great Opening Lines of Fiction on Old School IBM Punch Cards (1)
- 17: Hunter S. Thompson’s Conspiratorial 9/11 Interview: “The Public Version of the News is Never Really What Happened” (1)
- 16: The Ramones, a New Punk Band, Play One of Their Very First Shows at CBGB (1974) (4)
- 16: 5 Wonderfully Long Literary Sentences by Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Other Masters of the Run-On (29)
- 16: James Franco’s Short Student Film Features Michael Shannon Playing a Necrophile (NSFW) (3)
- 16: Watch The Hire: 8 Short Films Shot for BMW by John Woo, Ang Lee & Other Popular Filmmakers (2002) (2)
- 15: “Weird Al” Yankovic Releases “Word Crimes,” a Grammar Nerd Parody of “Blurred Lines” (9)
- 15: Watch the 7 Hour Trailer for the 720 Hour Film, Ambiancé, the Longest Movie in History (3)
- 15: Ayn Rand Trashes C.S. Lewis in Her Marginalia: He’s an “Abysmal Bastard” (5)
- 15: 5 Free Short Stories by Nadine Gordimer (3)
- 14: Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock (1969) (7)
- 14: Tour the World’s Street Art with Google Street Art (1)
- 14: Lost Kubrick: A Short Documentary on Stanley Kubrick’s Unfinished Films (1)
- 14: What Did Jane Austen Really Look Like? New Wax Sculpture, Created by Forensic Specialists, Shows Us (0)
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- 13: Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe (0)
- 13: Animated: Winston Churchill’s Top 10 Sayings About Failure, Courage, Setbacks, Haters & Success (1)
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- 10: Terry Gilliam Reveals the Secrets of Monty Python Animations: A 1974 How-To Guide (3)
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- 08: Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago (94)
- 08: Read Online J.K. Rowling’s New Harry Potter Story: The First Glimpse of Harry as an Adult (9)
- 08: Marcel Duchamp, Chess Enthusiast, Created an Art Deco Chess Set That’s Now Available via 3D Printer (0)
- 08: William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952) (5)
- 07: Robert De Niro’s Taxi Cab License Used to Prepare for Taxi Driver (1976) (0)
- 07: A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from the Early Days of Japanese Cinema (1926) (13)
- 07: Johnny Cash Reads the Entire New Testament (0)
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- 03: The Lodger: Alfred Hitchcock’s First Truly ‘Hitchcockian’ Movie (1927) (1)
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- 02: Watch 1970s Animations of Songs by Joni Mitchell, Jim Croce & The Kinks, Aired on The Sonny & Cher Show (4)
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- 30: Free Download: They Might Be Giants Play Their Entire First Album Live (1)
- 30: Stephen Fry Reads the Legendary British Shipping Forecast (1)
- 30: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Turned Into an Illustrated Scroll: One Drawing for Every Page of the Novel (1)
- 30: Ernest Hemingway’s Summer Camping Recipes (1)
- 30: Sonny Rollins Describes How 50 Years of Practicing Yoga Made Him a Better Musician (3)
- 29: The Internet’s Own Boy: New Documentary About Aaron Swartz Now Free Online (15)
- 28: Steve Buscemi’s Top 10 Film Picks (from The Criterion Collection) (0)
- 27: Jean-Paul Sartre Rejects the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964: “It Was Monstrous!” (1)
- 27: The Speech Accent Archive: The English Accents of People Who Speak 341 Different Languages (1)
- 27: Watch 1990s Video of Sacha Baron Cohen Playing Christo, the Proto Borat (NSFW) (0)
- 27: Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us (0)
- 26: Digital Dubliners: Free, 21st Century Ways to Read Joyce’s Great Story Collection on its 100th Anniversary (2)
- 26: Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones & The Beatles Played on a 3-String Electric Mountain Dulcimer (8)
- 26: Free Archive of Audio Interviews with Rock, Jazz & Folk Legends Now on iTunes (0)
- 26: Hardware Wars: The Mother of All Star Wars Fan Films (and the Most Profitable Short Film Ever Made) (1)
- 26: Zeppelin Took My Blues Away: An Illustrated History of Zeppelin’s “Copyright Indiscretions” (3)
- 25: Animated Films Made During the Cold War Explain Why America is Exceptionally Exceptional (3)
- 25: Young Leonard Cohen Reads His Poetry in 1966 (Before His Days as a Musician Began) (3)
- 25: Leo Tolstoy’s Family Recipe for Macaroni and Cheese (10)
- 24: Jorge Luis Borges: “Soccer is Popular Because Stupidity is Popular” (11)
- 24: Soviets Bootlegged Western Pop Music on Discarded X-Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples (1)
- 24: Listen to Audio Arts: The 1970s Tape Cassette Arts Magazine Featuring Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp & Many Others (1)
- 24: Vladimir Nabokov’s Script for Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita: See Pages from His Original Draft (0)
- 24: Routledge Gives Free Access to 6,000 eBooks in June (Including Philosophy & Cultural Studies Texts) (2)
- 23: Advice to Young Aspiring Artists from Patti Smith, David Byrne & Marina Abramović (1)
- 23: Hear the Earliest Known Talking Heads Recordings (1975) (7)
- 23: A Free Playlist of Music From The Works Of James Joyce (Plus Songs Inspired by the Modernist Author) (2)
- 23: Discover the Lost Films of Orson Welles (0)
- 22: Eddie Vedder Sings Disney’s “Let It Go” at Pearl Jam Concert in Italy (0)
- 22: Jim Carrey Commencement Speech: It’s Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don’t (1)
- 21: Mavis Staples and The Band Sing “The Weight” In Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz (1978) (3)
- 20: Hear Isolated Tracks From Five Great Rock Bassists: McCartney, Sting, Deacon, Jones & Lee (10)
- 20: Download 78 Free Online History Courses: From Ancient Greece to The Modern World (6)
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- 20: When Samuel Beckett Drove Young André the Giant to School: A True Story (3)
- 20: How to Draw Bugs Bunny: A Primer by Legendary Animator Chuck Jones (0)
- 19: Stephen Hawking Shows His Funny Side in John Oliver’s Series “Great Minds: People Who Think Good” (0)
- 19: X Minus One: Hear Classic Sci-Fi Radio Stories from Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury & Dick (3)
- 19: Marcel Proust Fills Out a Questionnaire in 1890: The Manuscript of the ‘Proust Questionnaire’ (6)
- 19: 15-Year-Old George R.R. Martin Writes a Fan Letter to Stan Lee & Jack Kirby (1963) (0)
- 18: Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand (1960) (101)
- 18: Tim Burton’s Hansel and Gretel Shot on 16mm Film with Amateur Japanese Actors (1983) (0)
- 18: Carl Jung Writes a Review of Joyce’s Ulysses and Mails It To The Author (1932) (1)
- 18: Lars von Trier’s Animated Movie Made When He Was 11 Years Old (0)
- 17: The Oldest Known Illustration of Circumcision (2400 B.C.E.) (18)
- 17: Hear Roger Waters’ Early, Work-in-Progress Recordings of Pink Floyd’s The Wall (0)
- 17: The Famous Letter Where Freud Breaks His Relationship with Jung (1913) (0)
- 16: Ultra Violet — Artist and Friend of Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol — Dies at 78 (1)
- 16: The Making of Queen and David Bowie’s 1981 Hit “Under Pressure”: Demos, Studio Sessions & More (9)
- 16: Restored Footage from the First World Cup: Uruguay, 1930 (2)
- 16: Everything You Need to Enjoy Reading James Joyce’s Ulysses on Bloomsday (5)
- 16: Samuel Beckett Draws Doodles of Charlie Chaplin, James Joyce & Hats (0)
- 15: Anthony Burgess’ Lost Introduction to Joyce’s Dubliners Now Online (0)
- 14: Michael Palin’s Tour of the Best Loved Monty Python Sketch Locations (2)
- 13: Isolated Drum Tracks From Six of Rock’s Greatest: Bonham, Moon, Peart, Copeland, Grohl & Starr (64)
- 13: Stanley Kubrick Talks Cinema, Chess, ESP, Vietnam & His Cat in Interviews with Michel Ciment (1975-1987) (0)
- 13: Archive of 5,000 Images Document the History of San Francisco and the Vehicles That Put It in Motion (0)
- 13: Famous Writers’ Report Cards: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, E.E. Cummings & Anne Sexton (1)
- 12: Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Destino: See the Collaborative Film, Original Storyboards & Ink Drawings (2)
- 12: John Lennon Illustrates Two of His Books with Playful Drawings (1964-1965) (0)
- 12: Sound Effects Genius Michael Winslow Performs the Sounds of 32 Typewriters (1898-1983) (1)
- 12: J.S. Bach’s Comic Opera, “The Coffee Cantata,” Sings the Praises of the Great Stimulating Drink (1735) (5)
- 11: Study 40+ Languages with Free Lessons from the U.S. Foreign Service Institute (3)
- 11: 1756 TED Talks Listed in a Neat Spreadsheet (7)
- 11: Glenn Gould: Off and On the Record: Two Short Films About the Life & Music of the Eccentric Musician (1)
- 11: Rare Video: Fidel Castro Plays Baseball (1959) (0)
- 10: The Hobbit: The First Animation & Film Adaptation of Tolkien’s Classic (1966) (2)
- 10: Rik Mayall Voices the Animation “Don’t Fear Death” Just Months Before His Untimely Passing (0)
- 10: Pablo Neruda’s Historic First Reading in the US (1966) (2)
- 10: Terry Gilliam, Guy Ritchie & Alejandro González Iñárritu Direct Soccer Ads for Nike (0)
- 10: Free Audio: Go the F–k to Sleep Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson (1)
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- 03: Free: Download 30,000 Images from The Museum of New Zealand (All in High Resolution) (0)
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- 03: Eudora Welty Writes a Quirky Letter Applying for a Job at The New Yorker (1933) (1)
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- 31: Free NASA eBook Theorizes How We Will Communicate with Aliens (2)
- 30: Patti Smith Presents Top Webby Award to Banksy; He Accepts with Self-Mocking Video (0)
- 30: Thank You, Mask Man: Lenny Bruce’s Lone Ranger Comedy Routine Becomes a NSFW Animated Film (1968) (5)
- 30: 19th Century Caricatures of Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H.M. Stanley & Other Famous Victorians (1873) (0)
- 30: Protect and Survive: 1970s British Instructional Films on How to Live Through a Nuclear Attack (0)
- 29: Fear and Desire: Stanley Kubrick’s First and Least-Seen Feature Film (1953) (0)
- 29: Designer Massimo Vignelli Revisits and Defends His Iconic 1972 New York City Subway Map (2)
- 29: Watch William S. Burroughs’ Ah Pook is Here as an Animated Film, with Music By John Cale (4)
- 29: A Master List of 1,000 Free Courses From Top Universities: 30,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures (3)
- 29: Maya Angelou Reads “Still I Rise” and “On the Pulse of the Morning” (1)
- 28: Stephen Hawking Reveals the Conditions That Could Lead to England’s Victory at The World Cup (0)
- 28: Matthew Weiner on The Art of Writing Mad Men: The Paris Review Interview (0)
- 28: Read 9 Free Books By Noam Chomsky Online (20)
- 28: Ernest Hemingway’s “Love Letter” to His “Dearest Kraut,” Marlene Dietrich (1955) (0)
- 28: How Star Wars Borrowed From Akira Kurosawa’s Great Samurai Films (3)
- 28: In Basho’s Footsteps: Hiking the Narrow Road to the Deep North Three Centuries Later (0)
- 27: The Acid Test Reels: Ken Kesey & The Grateful Dead’s Soundtrack for the 1960s Famous LSD Parties (2)
- 27: Visit The Museum of Online Museums (MoOM): A Mega Collection of 220 Online Exhibitions (1)
- 27: Ray Bradbury on Zen and the Art of Writing (1973) (3)
- 27: Lewis Carroll’s Photographs of Alice Liddell, the Inspiration for Alice in Wonderland (9)
- 27: Morgan Freeman & Fake Neil deGrasse Tyson Teach Physics While High on Helium and Grass (0)
- 26: Learn to Make Buttons with Filmmaker Miranda July (1)
- 26: Ralph Waldo Emerson Writes a Job Recommendation for Walt Whitman (1863) (1)
- 26: Music That Helps You Write: A Free Spotify Playlist of Your Selections (7)
- 26: Chicken Infinite: A 532 Page Avant-Garde Chicken Recipe (0)
- 25: Read 4,500 Unpublished Pages of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1)
- 24: Audio: The Beatles Play Their Final Concert at Candlestick Park, 1966 (1)
- 23: NPR Launches Database of Best Commencement Speeches Ever (1)
- 23: Edgy Bible Study: Jim Jarmusch & Neil Young Read The Old Testament (0)
- 23: Shel Silverstein Narrates an Animated Version of The Giving Tree (1973) (0)
- 22: The First Children’s Picture Book, 1658’s Orbis Sensualium Pictus (8)
- 22: Neil deGrasse Tyson Puts Bill Gates’ Wealth into Funny Perspective (6)
- 22: William S. Burrough’s Avant-Garde Movie ‘The Cut Ups’ (1966) (4)
- 22: Six Animations of Stories and Poems by Shel Silverstein (7)
- 21: Support Metafilter (0)
- 21: Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison & Steven Pinker Cultivate Thought on Chipotle’s Cups and Bags (0)
- 21: Revisit the Golden Age of Max’s Kansas City With Film & Audio From The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, Devo & Talking Heads (3)
- 21: Thomas Dolby Explains How a Synthesizer Works on a Jim Henson Kids Show (1989) (2)
- 21: Jack Kerouac’s Poems Read by Patti Smith, John Cale & Other Icons (with Music by Joe Strummer) (1)
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- 20: Philip K. Dick’s Favorite Classical Music: A Free, 11-Hour Playlist (7)
- 20: The First-Ever Look at the Original Disneyland Prospectus (0)
- 20: Geometria: Watch Guillermo del Toro’s Very Early, Ghoulish Short Film (1987) (0)
- 19: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use (52)
- 19: Andy Warhol Interviews Alfred Hitchcock (1974) (0)
- 19: World War I Unfolds in a Three Minute Time-Lapse Film: Every Day From 1914 to 1918 (3)
- 18: 62 Psychedelic Classics: A Free Playlist Created by Sean Lennon (5)
- 18: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot Airs on American TV (1961): Starring Burgess Meredith & Zero Mostel (5)
- 17: Rare Video Shows FDR Walking: Filmed at the 1937 All-Star Game (1)
- 16: Neil Gaiman Reads The Graveyard Book, His Award-Winning Kids Fantasy Novel, Chapter by Chapter (2)
- 16: Slavoj Žižek Tells Jokes (NSFW) (1)
- 16: The British Library Puts Online 1,200 Literary Treasures From Great Romantic & Victorian Writers (3)
- 15: Philip K. Dick Takes You Inside His Life-Changing Mystical Experience (4)
- 15: How Vi Hart Makes Her Viral Videos: A Look Inside Her Creative Process (2)
- 15: Salvador Dalí’s Haunting 1975 Illustrations for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (3)
- 15: 13 Lectures from Allen Ginsberg’s “History of Poetry” Course (1975) (3)
- 14: Bob Dylan Releases a New Cover of Frank Sinatra’s “Full Moon and Empty Arms” (0)
- 14: Teenage Lou Reed Sings Doo-Wop Music (1958-1962) (0)
- 14: The Rehearsal Sessions For Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged Appearance (1993) (0)
- 14: Tim Burton’s Early Student Films: King and Octopus & Stalk of the Celery Monster (2)
- 14: Johnny Cash Impersonates Elvis Presley: A Slapstick Version of “Heartbreak Hotel” (1959) (1)
- 13: Jimmy Page Gives Commencement Address at Berklee; Students Perform Led Zep Classics for Him (1)
- 13: London Mashed Up: Footage of the City from 1924 Layered Onto Footage from 2013 (0)
- 13: Jean-Luc Godard Gives a Dramatic Reading of Hannah Arendt’s “On the Nature of Totalitarianism” (2)
- 13: Howard Johnson’s Presents a Children’s Menu Featuring Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (0)
- 13: Catch Stevie Wonder, Ages 12-16, in His Earliest TV Performances (2)
- 12: Short Film Takes You Inside the Recovery of Andy Warhol’s Lost Computer Art (0)
- 12: David Lynch Explains Where His Ideas Come From (0)
- 12: Such Sweet Thunder: Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn’s Musical Tribute to Shakespeare (1957) (0)
- 12: Watch a Restored Version of Un Chien Andalou: Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Film (1929) (2)
- 12: The Evolution of London: 2,000 Years of Change Animated in 7 Minutes (0)
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- 08: Space Jazz, a Sonic Sci-Fi Opera by L. Ron Hubbard, Featuring Chick Corea (1983) (0)
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- 07: Hear the Voice of Arthur Conan Doyle After His Death (4)
- 07: Watch Gumbasia the Jazzy Stop Motion Film That Gave Birth to Gumby (1955) (0)
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- 07: Do Rappers Have a Bigger Vocabulary Than Shakespeare?: A Data Scientist Maps Out the Answer (4)
- 07: Support “Green Reads,” a Program That Finances Libraries by Distributing Used Books in Eco-Friendly Vending Machines (0)
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- 06: 15 Free eBooks on New Media Studies & the Digital Humanities (1)
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- 06: Sigmund Freud Appears in Rare, Surviving Video & Audio Recorded During the 1930s (4)
- 05: Global Breakfast Radio Lets You Listen to Radio Broadcasts From Wherever the Sun is Rising (0)
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- 30: Peter Sellers Presents The Complete Guide To Accents of The British Isles (3)
- 30: Play “Space War!,” One of the Earliest Video Games, on Your Computer (1962) (1)
- 30: Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” Performed by John Cale (and Produced by Brian Eno) (2)
- 30: Watch Hand-Drawn Animations of 7 Stories & Essays by C.S. Lewis (1)
- 29: Carl Sagan Writes a Letter to 17-Year-Old Neil deGrasse Tyson (1975) (11)
- 29: Watch “Bottle,” an Award-Winning Stop Motion Animated Tale of Transoceanic Correspondence (1)
- 29: Listen to “Brian Eno Day,” a 12-Hour Radio Show Spent With Eno & His Music (Recorded in 1988) (2)
- 29: Hear Led Zeppelin’s First Recorded Concert Ever (1968) (10)
- 29: Animated Life Lesson from Auschwitz: Make Sure All of Your Words Could Be Your Very Last (0)
- 28: J.R.R. Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher Asking for Proof of His “Aryan Descent” (1938) (17)
- 28: Meet Carol Kaye, the Unsung Bassist Behind Your Favorite 60s Hits (9)
- 28: Hear John Lennon Sing Home Demo Versions of “She Said, She Said,” “Strawberry Fields Forever,” and “Don’t Let Me Down” (1)
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- 27: Piketty’s Capital in a Nutshell (8)
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- 26: Watch Glenn Gould Perform His Last Great Studio Recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1981) (10)
- 26: I F***ing Love Science: The New, Uncensored Song by Hank Green (0)
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- 24: 30 Errol Morris Movies That Can Be Streamed Online (0)
- 24: Take a Virtual Tour of the Dictionary Shakespeare May Have Owned and Annotated (0)
- 23: How British Codebreakers Built the First Electronic Computer (1)
- 23: Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Great Recordings of Hendrix Playing Acoustic Guitar (18)
- 23: H.G. Wells Interviews Joseph Stalin in 1934; Declares “I Am More to The Left Than You, Mr. Stalin” (15)
- 23: The Getty Adds Another 77,000 Images to its Open Content Archive (2)
- 23: Sylvia Plath Annotates Her Copy of The Great Gatsby (0)
- 22: Free Stream of Indie Cindy, the Pixies’ First Album in 23 Years (0)
- 22: Slavoj Žižek: What Fulfils You Creatively Isn’t What Makes You Happy (17)
- 22: Close Personal Friend: Watch a 1996 Portrait of Gen-X Definer Douglas Coupland (0)
- 22: The Lonely Photo of Michel Foucault with a Full Head of Hair (2)
- 22: Soviet Animations of Ray Bradbury Stories: ‘Here There Be Tygers’ & ‘There Will Come Soft Rain’ (4)
- 22: 1955 Psychology Experiment Sees What Happens When You Ask an Artist to Paint Under the Influence of LSD (4)
- 21: Bob Dylan Plays First Live Performance of “Hurricane,” His Song Defending Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (RIP) in 1975 (1)
- 21: Orson Welles Tells Some Damn Good Stories in the Orson Welles’ Sketch Book (1955) (0)
- 21: The Drawings of Jean-Paul Sartre (0)
- 21: The Origins of Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk: Vintage Footage of Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Fred Astaire & More (6)
- 21: Sir Patrick Stewart & Sir Ian McKellen Play The Newlywed Game (0)
- 20: Painter Paul Gauguin Plays the Harmonium with No Pants or Shoes (Circa 1895) (0)
- 19: Kurt Vonnegut Urges Young People to Make Art and “Make Your Soul Grow” (3)
- 18: Read 10 Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez Free Online (Plus More Essays & Interviews) (13)
- 18: Free: British Pathé Puts Over 85,000 Historical Films on YouTube (11)
- 18: “The Periodic Table of Storytelling” Reveals the Elements of Telling a Good Story (4)
- 18: The Ultimate Warrior, Professional Wrestler & Philosopher, Created a Glossary of World Philosophies (2)
- 17: A Brief Tour of British & Irish Accents: 14 Ways to Speak English in 84 Seconds (13)
- 17: John Coltrane Plays Only Live Performance of A Love Supreme (1965) (9)
- 16: The Secret of Life and Love, According to Ray Bradbury (1968) (4)
- 16: 10 Rules for Students & Teachers Created by Sister Corita Kent, and Popularized by John Cage (12)
- 16: Two Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Talk to Each Other & Get Into a Deep Philosophical Conversation (7)
- 16: Read Hundreds of Free Sci-Fi Stories from Asimov, Lovecraft, Bradbury, Dick, Clarke & More (7)
- 16: The Science of Caffeine: The World’s Most Popular Drug (1)
- 15: Take Free Online Courses at Hogwarts: Charms, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts & More (65)
- 15: Watch Film, Samuel Beckett’s Only Movie, Starring Buster Keaton (5)
- 15: Hear Patti Smith Read 12 Poems From Seventh Heaven, Her First Collection (1972) (0)
- 15: Science & Cooking: Harvard’s Free Course on Making Cakes, Paella & Other Delicious Food (2)
- 15: Oxford University Press Gives You Free Access to Books, Dictionaries & More During National Library Week (23)
- 14: Read Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as It Was Originally Published in Rolling Stone (1971) (2)
- 14: Vintage Audio: William Faulkner Reads From As I Lay Dying (2)
- 14: David Brooks: Should You Live for Your Résumé … Or Your Eulogy? (1)
- 14: Rare Audio: Albert Einstein Explains “Why I Am an American” on Day He Passes Citizenship Test (1940) (0)
- 14: The Rise of the Patent Troll: An Animated Primer by Kirby Ferguson (0)
- 12: Download 35,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More (24)
- 12: Watch Episode 1 of Years of Living Dangerously, The New Showtime Series on Climate Change (0)
- 11: Your Body During Adolescence: A Nakedly Unashamed Sex Ed Film from 1955 (0)
- 11: Philosophize This!: The Popular, Entertaining Philosophy Podcast from an Unconventional Teacher (8)
- 10: The Coffee Pot That Fueled Honoré de Balzac’s Coffee Addiction (2)
- 10: Ernest Hemingway’s Very First Published Stories, Free as an eBook (9)
- 10: Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening Illustrated a “Student’s Guide” for Apple Computers (1989) (1)
- 10: Gustave Doré’s Splendid Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884) (7)
- 10: Johnny Depp Reads Hunter S. Thompson’s Famous “Wave Speech” from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (2)
- 09: Animated Video: Johnny Cash Explains Why Music Became a Religious Calling (0)
- 09: Jim Carrey Sings a Pretty Damn Good Cover of The Beatles “I Am the Walrus” (6)
- 09: Richard Dawkins’ Documentary The God Delusion Tackles Faith & Religious Violence (2006) (1)
- 09: How the CIA Turned Doctor Zhivago into a Propaganda Weapon Against the Soviet Union (0)
- 09: Free: Watch the First Episode of Silicon Valley, Mike Judge’s New HBO Series (1)
- 08: Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here” (16)
- 08: Listen to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Play Through an Earthquake (0)
- 08: Listen to John Cage’s 5 Hour Art Piece: Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (1)
- 08: Human, All Too Human: 3-Part Documentary Profiles Nietzsche, Heidegger & Sartre (6)
- 08: How to Survive the Coming Zombie Apocalypse: An Online Course by Michigan State (1)
- 07: Watch Episode #5 of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: Unlocking the Mysteries of Light (US Viewers) (0)
- 07: Notebook on Cities and Culture’s In-Depth Podcast Tour of South Korea Kickstarts Today (1)
- 07: Free Online Shakespeare Courses: Primers on the Bard from Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley & More (3)
- 07: Listen to 21-Year-Old David Letterman’s College Radio Show (1969) (4)
- 07: Batman Stars in an Unusual Cartoon Adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment (0)
- 07: Soviet Artists Envision a Communist Utopia in Outer Space (0)
- 06: Old Books Bound in Human Skin Found in Harvard Libraries (and Elsewhere in Boston) (3)
- 06: The Books You Think Every Intelligent Person Should Read: Crime and Punishment, Moby-Dick & Beyond (Many Free Online) (6)
- 05: Is the Lecture Hall Obsolete?: Thought Leaders Debate the Question (2)
- 05: Watch The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain on the 20th Anniversary of the Musician’s Suicide (0)
- 05: 35 Years of Prince’s Hairstyles in 15 Glorious Seconds! (0)
- 04: Watch High Maintenance: A Critically-Acclaimed Web Series About Life & Cannabis (2)
- 03: 10 Wonderful Illustrations from the Original Manuscript of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (0)
- 03: Watch the Funky, Oscar-Winning Animated Film Featuring the Music of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (1966) (1)
- 03: Stanley Kubrick Narrates a Promo Reel for Dr. Strangelove: Features Unused Takes (0)
- 03: How a Young Sigmund Freud Researched & Got Addicted to Cocaine, the New “Miracle Drug,” in 1894 (7)
- 03: 80 Massive Open Online Courses Getting Started in April: Enroll in a MOOC Today (1)
- 02: What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read?: Tell Us Your Picks; We’ll Tell You Ours (88)
- 02: Watch Orson Welles’ Trailer for Citizen Kane: As Innovative as the Film Itself (1)
- 02: Read an Excerpt of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1926 Translation of Beowulf Before It’s Finally Published Next Month (5)
- 02: Hipsters Ordering Coffee (1)
- 01: Now You Can Learn to Speak Klingon with Rosetta Stone (3)
- 01: Beautiful Equations: Documentary Explores the Beauty of Einstein & Newton’s Great Equations (4)
- 01: Batgirl Fights for Equal Pay in a 1960s Television Ad Supporting The Equal Pay Act (2)
- 01: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Durable Wisdom on Curiosity, Empathy, Education & Responding to Criticism (0)
- 01: Lists of the Best Sentences — Opening, Closing, and Otherwise — in English-Language Novels (8)
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- 31: Watch Episode #4 of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: The Big Bang, Black Holes & More (US Viewers) (1)
- 31: New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online & Makes Them Free to Download and Use (12)
- 31: Download De La Soul’s New Mixtape “Smell the Da.I.S.Y.” for Free (2)
- 31: An Introduction to Dylanology, or How to Understand Bob Dylan by Digging Through His Garbage (1)
- 31: Jorge Luis Borges, After Going Blind, Draws a Self-Portrait (1)
- 30: Bill Murray Croons a Soulful Cover of “The House of the Rising Sun” (0)
- 30: George R.R. Martin Releases a Free Chapter From The Winds of Winter: Read It Online (0)
- 29: Great Shakespeare Plays Retold with Stick Figures in Three Simple Drawings (4)
- 28: Dizzy Gillespie Worries About Nuclear & Environmental Disaster in Vintage Animated Films (1)
- 28: Hear Allen Ginsberg’s Short Free Course on Shakespeare’s Play, The Tempest (1980) (0)
- 28: Watch a “Lost Interview” With Michel Foucault: Missing for 30 Years But Now Recovered (4)
- 27: Big Bang Big Boom: Graffiti Stop-Motion Animation Creatively Depicts the Evolution of Life (3)
- 27: Richard Feynman on Religion, Science, the Search for Truth & Our Willingness to Live with Doubt (8)
- 27: Julia Child Shows How to Edit Videotape with a Meat Cleaver, and Cook Meat with a Blow Torch (0)
- 27: Harvard’s Free Computer Science Course Teaches You to Code in 12 Weeks (3)
- 26: What Does a $45 Million Viola Sound Like? Violist David Aaron Carpenter Gives You a Preview (12)
- 26: Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre Shooting a Gun in Their First Photo Together (1929) (5)
- 26: Enjoy 15+ Hours of the Weird and Wonderful World of Post Soviet Russian Animation (0)
- 26: Watch Six TED-Style Lectures from Top Harvard Profs Presented at Harvard Thinks Big 5 (0)
- 26: Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd Get Their First Scholarly Journals and Academic Conferences (2)
- 26: The World Concert Hall: Listen To The Best Live Classical Music Concerts for Free (0)
- 25: Thomas Edison & His Trusty Kinetoscope Create the First Movie Filmed In The US (c. 1889) (1)
- 25: In 1968, Stanley Kubrick Makes Predictions for 2001: Humanity Will Conquer Old Age, Watch 3D TV & Learn German in 20 Minutes (4)
- 25: David Bowie Talks and Sings on The Dick Cavett Show (1974) (2)
- 25: Billy Joel & Vanderbilt Student Perform Impromptu Duet of “New York State of Mind” (0)
- 25: Michel Foucault and Alain Badiou Discuss “Philosophy and Psychology” on French TV (1965) (0)
- 25: Watch Episode #3 of Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson: “When Knowledge Conquered Fear” (US Viewers) (0)
- 24: Revered Poet Alexander Pushkin Draws Sketches of Nikolai Gogol and Other Russian Artists (1)
- 24: The Chorus Project Features Teenagers Performing Hits by the Kinks, David Byrne, the Jackson 5 & More (1)
- 24: Titanic: The Nazis Create a Mega-Budget Propaganda Film About the Ill-Fated Ship … and Then Banned It (1943) (3)
- 24: Herbie Hancock Presents the Prestigious Norton Lectures at Harvard University: Watch Online (2)
- 24: How the Ancient Greeks Shaped Modern Mathematics: A Short, Animated Introduction (0)
- 23: A Glimpse Into How Wes Anderson Creatively Remixes/Recycles Scenes in His Different Films (0)
- 22: Pink Floyd Plays With Their Brand New Singer & Guitarist David Gilmour on French TV (1968) (6)
- 22: Hear Orson Welles’ Radio Performances of 10 Shakespeare Plays (1936-1944) (4)
- 22: Watch the Talking Heads Play Live in Dortmund, Germany During Their Heyday (1980) (3)
- 21: Electric Photo of Nikola Tesla, 1899 (2)
- 21: Read All of Shakespeare’s Plays Free Online, Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library (3)
- 21: A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind: A Free Online Course from Oxford (3)
- 20: Publisher Places a Politically Correct Warning Label on Kant’s Critiques (18)
- 20: How Truffaut Became Truffaut: From Petty Thief to Great Auteur (0)
- 20: 1923 Photo of Claude Monet Colorized: See the Painter in the Same Color as His Paintings (0)
- 20: Striking French, Russian & Polish Posters for the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky (0)
- 20: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World Documents the Life of the Bizarre Occultist, Poet & Mountaineer (64)
- 19: Watch Seth Meyers’ Late Night Players Act Out the New Yorker’s Famous Cartoons (0)
- 19: abNormal: A Short Documentary on the Science of Being Different (0)
- 19: Free Audio: Alice In Wonderland Read by Cory Doctorow (0)
- 19: A Reading of Charles Bukowski’s First Published Story, “Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip” (1944) (0)
- 19: Carl Sagan Explains Evolution in an Eight-Minute Animation (12)
- 19: The Perfect Symmetry of Wes Anderson’s Movies (2)
- 18: Watch The Touching Moment When Physicist Andrei Linde Learns That His Theories on the Big Bang Were Finally Validated (2)
- 18: A History of Pussy Riot: Watch the Band’s Early Performances/Protests Against the Putin Regime (2)
- 18: Hunter S. Thompson’s Edgy 1990s Commercial for Apple’s Macintosh Computer: A Meditation on Power (2)
- 18: Watch Episode #2 of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: Explains the Reality of Evolution (US Viewers) (26)
- 18: The History of the Movie Camera in Four Minutes: From the Lumiere Brothers to Google Glass (3)
- 17: William S. Burroughs Teaches a Free Course on Creative Reading and Writing (1979) (8)
- 17: Sid Vicious Sings Paul Anka’s “My Way” in His Own Spectacular Way (1)
- 17: Aldous Huxley, Psychedelics Enthusiast, Lectures About “the Visionary Experience” at MIT (1962) (7)
- 17: See The Guidonian Hand, the Medieval System for Reading Music, Get Brought Back to Life (0)
- 16: Stephen King’s Top 20 Rules for Writers (49)
- 16: Seinfeld & Nothingness: A Supercut of the Show’s Emptiest Moments (2)
- 15: Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931) (0)
- 15: Watch David Brenner (RIP) Make the First of His 158 Appearances on The Tonight Show in 1971 (2)
- 14: Animated Video Features Werner Herzog Discussing His Childhood Adventures & 20th-Century Rage (0)
- 14: Free Stanley Kubrick App Features Great Photos, Script Notes, Interviews & More (0)
- 14: David Bowie and Cher Sing Duet of “Young Americans” and Other Songs on 1975 Variety Show (0)
- 13: Stanley Kubrick’s Daughter Shares Photos of Herself Growing Up on Her Father’s Film Sets (7)
- 13: New Video Essay Celebrates HBO’s Deadwood, One of the Greatest Dramas in American TV History (0)
- 13: Orson Welles Reads From America’s Greatest Poem, Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” (1953) (1)
- 13: World Science U Starts to Offer Innovative, Free Courses in the Sciences (1)
- 12: The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks (49)
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- 12: Watch Kevin Smith’s Clever First Film, Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary (1992) (1)
- 12: Hunter S. Thompson Writes an Ode to Jack Kerouac in 1998 (After Calling Him an “Ass, a Mystic Boob” in 1958) (2)
- 12: Watch Stephen Sondheim (RIP) Teach a Kid How to Sing “Send In the Clowns” (4)
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- 11: Watch Episode #1 of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos Reboot on Hulu (US Viewers) (6)
- 10: John Waters Talks About His Books and Role Models in a Whimsical Animated Video (0)
- 10: Stephen King Creates a List of 96 Books for Aspiring Writers to Read (7)
- 10: The Only Drawing from Maurice Sendak’s Short-Lived Attempt to Illustrate The Hobbit (4)
- 10: Download Over 22,000 Golden & Silver Age Comic Books from the Comic Book Plus Archive (9)
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- 07: William S. Burroughs Reads From Naked Lunch, His Controversial 1959 Novel (0)
- 07: Explosive Cats Imagined in a Strange, 16th Century Military Manual (4)
- 07: Andy Warhol’s 1965 Film, Vinyl, Adapted from Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (0)
- 06: The Last Time Lennon & McCartney Played Together Captured in A Toot And a Snore in ’74 (2)
- 06: Getty Images Makes 35 Million Photos Free to Use Online (5)
- 06: Listen to Tree Rings Getting Played on a Turntable and Turned into Music (1)
- 06: Buckminster Fuller Gives a Lecture About Semantics at San Quentin State Prison (1959) (0)
- 05: New Google-Powered Site Tracks Global Deforestation in ‘Near-Real-Time’ (0)
- 05: Get Ancient Advice on Losing Weight, Sobering Up, Removing a Tattoo & More at Ask The Past (3)
- 05: Wes Anderson’s Favorite Films (3)
- 05: Watch Steven Soderbergh’s Creative Mashup of Hitchcock and Gus Van Sant’s Psycho Films (0)
- 04: Download a Free Copy of Danah Boyd’s Book, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (2)
- 04: Oxford’s Free Course A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners Will Teach You Right from Wrong (5)
- 04: The Strange and Wonderful Movie Posters from Ghana: The Matrix, Alien & More (0)
- 04: Louis Armstrong Plays Historic Cold War Concerts in East Berlin & Budapest (1965) (1)
- 04: Springsteen Plays Lorde’s “Royals” & AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” in Down Under Concerts (0)
- 03: Twelve Years a Slave: Free eBook and Audio Book of the Memoir Behind the Film (1853) (6)
- 03: Download 15,000+ Free Golden Age Comics from the Digital Comic Museum (18)
- 03: 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (1)
- 03: Sketches by Guillermo del Toro Take You Inside the Director’s Wildly Creative Imagination (3)
- 03: The First Episode of The Johnny Cash Show, Featuring Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell (1969) (2)
- 03: Read The Coming of Jap Herron, the Novel Mark Twain “Wrote” Through a Ouija Board After His Death (1917) (0)
- 02: Watch Oscar-Winning Films Free Online (2)
- 02: David Niven Presents an Oscar and Gets Interrupted by a Streaker (1974) (1)
- 01: Billy Corgan Performs an 8+ Hour Ambient Interpretation of Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha (3)
- 01: R.E.M Plays “Radio Free Europe” on Their National Television Debut on The David Letterman Show (1983) (2)
- 01: Opening Sentences From Great Novels, Diagrammed: Lolita, 1984 & More (1)
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- 28: Leck Mich Im Arsch (“Kiss My Ass”): Listen to Mozart’s Scatological Canon in B Flat (1782) (7)
- 28: Hattie McDaniel, Star of Gone with the Wind, Gives a Moving Academy Award Acceptance Speech (1940) (3)
- 28: Free App Lets You Play Chess With 23-Year-Old Norwegian World Champion Magnus Carlsen (2)
- 27: Oxford’s Free Course Critical Reasoning For Beginners Will Teach You to Think Like a Philosopher (33)
- 27: Gaze at Global Movie Posters for Hitchcock’s Vertigo: U.S., Japan, Italy, Poland & Beyond (0)
- 27: Enter the Hannah Arendt Archives & Discover Rare Audio Lectures, Manuscripts, Marginalia, Letters, Postcards & More (1)
- 27: Rare Audio: William Faulkner Names His Best Novel, And the First Faulkner Novel You Should Read (3)
- 26: The Lyrics of Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” Charted on a Dynamic Google Map (5)
- 26: George Washington’s 110 Rules for Civility and Decent Behavior (2)
- 26: Paul McCartney Offers a Short Tutorial on How to Play the Bass Guitar (12)
- 26: The Curious Story of How Bootlegged Hollywood Movies Helped Defeat Communism in Romania (10)
- 26: How To Think Like a Psychologist: A Free Online Course from Stanford (2)
- 25: Raymond Chandler’s Ten Commandments for Writing a Detective Novel (10)
- 25: Beat the Devil: Watch John Huston’s Campy Noir Film with Humphrey Bogart (1953) (5)
- 25: Hear Italo Calvino Read Selections From Invisible Cities, Mr. Palomar & Other Enchanting Fictions (1)
- 25: Get 50% Off Criterion Films on Blu-ray & DVD for the Next 24 Hours (1)
- 25: A Playlist of Music Scientifically-Proven to Increase Cows’ Milk Production: REM, Lou Reed & More (6)
- 25: The Chemistry of Sriracha & What Sets Your Mouth Aflame (0)
- 24: Alice Herz-Sommer, the Oldest Holocaust Survivor (Thanks to the Power of Music), Dies at 110 (0)
- 24: Edgar Allan Poe Offers Interior Design Advice and Blasts American Aristocrats in “The Philosophy of Furniture” (1840) (1)
- 24: Watch a Witty, Gritty, Hardboiled Retelling of the Famous Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton Duel (2)
- 24: Watch Boy and Bicycle: Ridley Scott’s Very First Film (1965) (0)
- 24: Enjoy a Bluegrass Performance of Elton John’s 1972 Hit, “Rocket Man” (3)
- 23: Crime Jazz: How Miles Davis, Count Basie & Duke Ellington Created Soundtracks for Noir Films & TV (13)
- 22: Harvard Presents Two Free Online Courses on the Old Testament (20)
- 22: “Be All You Can Be. Read”: Peter Max’s 1969 Psychedelic Poster for National Library Week (2)
- 21: The Doors Play Live in Denmark & LA in 1968: See Jim Morrison Near His Charismatic Peak (2)
- 21: The Art Assignment: Learn About Art & the Creative Process in a New Web Series by John & Sarah Green (0)
- 21: Johnny Depp Reads an Infamous Scene from Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels (2)
- 21: The Roving Typist: A Short Film About a New York Writer Who Types Short Stories for Strangers (1)
- 21: Why is Ukraine in Crisis?: A Quick Primer For Those Too Embarrassed to Ask (4)
- 20: Johnny Rotten Goes Before TV’s Judge Judy in 1997 … and Wins! (0)
- 20: Watch Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (2)
- 20: Roger Ebert Lists the 10 Essential Characteristics of Noir Films (0)
- 20: The Postcards That Picasso Illustrated and Sent to Jean Cocteau, Apollinaire & Gertrude Stein (3)
- 20: Quantum Entanglement Animated (0)
- 19: Who Directed the Psycho Shower Scene?: Hitchcock’s Film & Saul Bass’ Storyboards Side by Side (3)
- 19: Name Your Price for 200+ Albums from Deep Elm Records: Prices Start at Free (0)
- 19: Scenes from Star Wars, The Godfather, Scarface and Other Classic Movies Adapted Into Ottoman-Style Paintings (1)
- 19: 25 Noir Films That Will Stand the Test of Time: A List by “Noirchaelogist” Eddie Muller (42)
- 19: The Art of Restoring Classic Films: Criterion Shows You How It Refreshed Two Hitchcock Movies (0)
- 18: Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” Retooled as 1920s New Orleans Jazz (71)
- 18: Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago (13)
- 18: Watch 13 Experimental Short Films by Tezuka Osamu, the Walt Disney of Japan (2)
- 18: 15-Year-Old Jane Austen Writes a Satirical History Of England: Read the Handwritten Manuscript Online (1791) (3)
- 18: David Foster Wallace’s Surprising List of His 10 Favorite Books, from C.S. Lewis to Tom Clancy (4)
- 17: Free: F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise, the 1927 Masterpiece Voted the 5th Best Movie of All Time (2)
- 17: 15 Minute History: Quick History Lessons from a New, Chart-Topping Podcast (2)
- 17: Animated Video: Dock Ellis Throws a No-Hitter Against the Padres While Tripping on LSD (1970) (1)
- 17: Listen to a Recording of a Song Written on a Man’s Butt in a 15-Century Hieronymus Bosch Painting (3)
- 17: Jorge Luis Borges Chats with William F. Buckley on Firing Line (1977) (1)
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- 13: An Online Gallery of 30,000 Items from The British Library, Including Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks And Mozart’s Diary (1)
- 13: Watch Langston Hughes Read Poetry from His First Collection, The Weary Blues (1958) (0)
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- 10: Private Snafu: The World War II Propaganda Cartoons Created by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra & Mel Blanc (2)
- 10: An Artistic Portrait of Stephen Fry Made From His Own Bacteria (1)
- 10: Allen Ginsberg’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit: The Poet’s Final Days Captured in a 1997 Film (0)
- 10: Jack Kerouac’s On The Road Turned Into Google Driving Directions & Published as a Free eBook (6)
- 10: Watch All of The Beatles’ Historic Appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, 50 Years Ago (0)
- 09: Comedian Reggie Watts Teaches Students Bad Science in 70s Sitcom-Style Show, Teach (1)
- 09: Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot Become Unexpected Pen Pals, Exchanging Portraits & Compliments (1961) (1)
- 08: The Reader: A Touching South African TV Commercial Celebrates Literacy and Scotch (5)
- 08: Jimi Hendrix’s Final Interview Animated (1970) (2)
- 07: Watch Dziga Vertov’s Unsettling Soviet Toys: The First Soviet Animated Movie Ever (1924) (4)
- 07: Haunting Unedited Footage of the Bombing of Nagasaki (1945) (7)
- 07: 15,000 Colorful Images of Persian Manuscripts Now Online, Courtesy of the British Library (6)
- 07: Two Animations of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: One Narrated by Orson Welles, Another Made with Clay (2)
- 07: Learn To Pick Locks, With The MIT Guide To Lock Picking (1991) (2)
- 06: Free: Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera, the 8th Best Film Ever Made (7)
- 06: 14,000 Free Images from the French Revolution Now Available Online (11)
- 06: Saul Bass’ Vivid Storyboards for Kubrick’s Spartacus (1960) (0)
- 06: Impressions of Upper Mongolia : Salvador Dalí’s Last Film About a Search for a Giant Hallucinogenic Mushroom (0)
- 05: William S. Burroughs on Saturday Night Live, 1981 (0)
- 05: Watch the Highly-Anticipated Evolution/Creationism Debate: Bill Nye the Science Guy v. Creationist Ken Ham (6)
- 05: The Notecards on Which Vladimir Nabokov Wrote Lolita: A Look Inside the Author’s Creative Process (1)
- 05: The Greatest Jazz Films Ever Features Classic Performances by Miles, Dizzy, Bird, Billie & More (2)
- 05: James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, Live and Together (1970) (12)
- 04: The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907-1917) (4)
- 04: How Vinyl Records Are Made: A Primer from 1956 (3)
- 04: Ira Glass’ Advice on Achieving Creative Excellence Presented in Two Artful, Typographic Videos (1)
- 04: Teddy Roosevelt’s 10 Rules For Reading: Seek Enjoyment, Spurn Fads, Read What You Like (0)
- 03: Neil Gaiman Reads Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham (2)
- 03: Philip K. Dick Theorizes The Matrix in 1977, Declares That We Live in “A Computer-Programmed Reality” (16)
- 03: New Carl Sagan Archive Features His Digitized Home Movies, Student Journalism, Draft of His Pale Blue Dot & More (0)
- 03: 1967 Cookbook Features Recipes by the Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Barbra Streisand & More (1)
- 03: Read Two Poems David Foster Wallace Wrote During His Elementary School Days (1)
- 02: A Quick Animation of Frida Kahlo’s Famous Self Portrait (0)
- 02: Ridley Scott on the Making of Apple’s Iconic “1984” Commercial, Aired on Super Bowl Sunday in 1984 (0)
- 01: Marilyn Monroe Reads Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1952) (1)
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- 31: David Foster Wallace Creates Lists of His Favorite Words: “Maugre,” “Tarantism,” “Ruck,” “Primapara” & More (6)
- 31: Sir Ian McKellen Puts on a Dazzling One-Man Shakespeare Show (0)
- 31: The President of Northwestern University Predicts Online Learning … in 1934! (0)
- 31: New York’s Famous Chelsea Hotel and Its Creative Residents Revisited in a 1981 Documentary (0)
- 30: Student Asks Noam Chomsky for Dating Advice (5)
- 30: Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining (18)
- 30: Read Ezra Pound’s List of 23 “Don’ts” For Writing Poetry (1913) (10)
- 30: Watch and Search Newly Digitized Conversations with 148 People Who Witnessed the Great Depression (0)
- 29: Learn Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Classical Greek & Other Ancient Languages in 10 Lessons (21)
- 29: The Tom Waits Map: A Mapping of Every Place Waits Has Sung About, From L.A. to Africa’s Jungles (12)
- 29: Quentin Tarantino & Steve Buscemi Rehearse Scenes for Reservoir Dogs in 1991 (NSFW) (0)
- 29: Watch Documentaries on the Making of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here (2)
- 29: A Brief History of Sampling: From the Beatles to the Beastie Boys (1)
- 28: David Foster Wallace Talks About Literature (and More) in an Internet Chatroom: Read the 1996 Transcript (0)
- 28: Pete Seeger Tells the Story Behind “We Shall Overcome” (2)
- 28: Harold Bloom Creates a Massive List of Works in The “Western Canon”: Read Many of the Books Free Online (44)
- 28: David Lynch’s Perfume Ads Based on the Works of Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald & D.H. Lawrence (1)
- 28: Pete Seeger Dies at 94: Remember the American Folk Legend with a Priceless Film from 1947 (6)
- 28: Watch Bill Gates Lose a Chess Match in 79 Seconds to the New World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen (0)
- 27: Watch the Complete, Crowdsourced Concert Film of Neil Young’s Great Carnegie Hall Show (1/7/14) (2)
- 27: Lewis Carroll’s 8 Still-Relevant Rules For Letter-Writing (1)
- 27: “Exceptional, Spooky and Beautiful” Moments With Birds: Dennis Hlynsky’s Creepy Nature Videos (6)
- 27: Alfred Hitchcock and Vladimir Nabokov Trade Letters and Ideas for a Film Collaboration (1964) (0)
- 27: Nietzsche Dispenses Dating Advice in a Short Screwball Film, My Friend Friedrich (0)
- 26: Where to Find Free Art Images & Books from Great Museums, and Free Books from University Presses (8)
- 26: A New Free eBook Every Month from the University of Chicago Press (5)
- 26: Build a DIY Rubberband Guitar and Celebrate New York’s Styrofoam Ban (1)
- 25: John Lennon Plays Basketball with Miles Davis and Hangs Out with Allen Ginsberg & Friends (3)
- 25: The Big Lebowski Reimagined as a Classic 8-Bit Video Game (0)
- 24: George Orwell Got a B- at Harvard, When Michael Crichton Submitted an Orwell Essay as His Own (28)
- 24: See Carl Sagan’s Childhood Sketches of The Future of Space Travel (2)
- 24: David Lynch’s Unlikely Commercial for a Home Pregnancy Test (1997) (1)
- 24: Read Allen Ginsberg’s Poignant Final Poem “Things I’ll Not Do (Nostalgias)” (2)
- 23: Jeremy Irons Reads T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets (Free for a Limited Time) (1)
- 23: A List of Nelson Mandela’s Possessions Upon Leaving Prison: Surfboard, Exercise Bike & White Cardboard Hat (6)
- 23: George Orwell’s Harrowing Race to Finish 1984 Before His Death (0)
- 23: James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929) (1)
- 23: How Cooking Can Change Your Life: A Short Animated Film Featuring the Wisdom of Michael Pollan (1)
- 22: Albert Einstein Holding an Albert Einstein Puppet (Circa 1931) (1)
- 22: Sonic Youth Guitarist Thurston Moore Teaches a Poetry Workshop at Naropa University: See His Class Notes (2011) (2)
- 22: Download Over 300+ Free Art Books From the Getty Museum (36)
- 22: Alice B. Toklas Reads Her Famous Recipe for Hashish Fudge (1963) (2)
- 22: Leonardo da Vinci’s Handwritten Resume (1482) (11)
- 21: Download 100,000+ Images From The History of Medicine, All Free Courtesy of The Wellcome Library (4)
- 21: Google’s Music Timeline: A Visualization of 60 Years of Changing Musical Tastes (2)
- 21: Kurt Cobain Lists His 50 Favorite Albums: Features LPs by David Bowie, Public Enemy & More (3)
- 21: Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Map of the Hitchhiking Trip Narrated in On the Road (5)
- 21: The Problem with Facebook: “It’s Keeping Things From You” (19)
- 21: Watch The Bicycle Trip: An Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip in 1943 (2)
- 20: Read Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story: The Influential 1957 Civil Rights Comic Book (1)
- 20: Revisit the 1940 Map of American Diversity, Owned & Bitingly Annotated by Poet Langston Hughes (0)
- 20: How to Build a Fictional World: Animated Video Explains What Makes Lord of the Rings & Other Fantasy Books Come Alive (0)
- 20: David Bowie’s Final Gig as Ziggy Stardust Documented in 1973 Concert Film (2)
- 20: Federico Fellini, Born 94 Years Ago Today, Writes a Gushing Letter to Legendary Cartoonist, Moebius (0)
- 19: New Jerry Garcia Web Site Features 5,000 Hours of Free Music, Plus Some Fantastic Archival Material (8)
- 19: An Undertaking: Woodworker Honors His Grandma with a Custom-Made Coffin (1)
- 19: 176 Big Thinkers Answer the Question: What Scientific Idea is Ready to Be Dead and Buried? (0)
- 18: Neil Young Performs Classic Songs in 1971 Concert: “Old Man,” “Heart of Gold” & More (1)
- 18: Hunter S. Thompson’s Personal Hangover Cure (and the Real Science of Hangovers) (4)
- 17: Quentin Tarantino Lists His Favorite Records: Bob Dylan, Freda Payne, Phil Ochs and More (2)
- 17: Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts (10)
- 17: Fyodor Dostoevsky Draws Elaborate Doodles In His Manuscripts (5)
- 17: Student Rickrolls Teacher By Sneaking Rick Astley Lyrics into Quantum Physics Paper (6)
- 16: Paintings by Caravaggio, Vermeer, & Other Great Masters Come to Life in a New Animated Video (15)
- 16: View the Passport Photos of F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & Other Cultural Icons (3)
- 16: Quentin Tarantino Impersonates His Idol, Elvis Presley (2)
- 16: Read Beethoven’s Lengthy Love Letter to His Mysterious “Immortal Beloved” (1812) (0)
- 16: Does God Exist?: William Lane Craig Debates Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins (9)
- 15: In 1968, Artist Imagines What John, Paul, George & Ringo Will Look Like When They’re 64 (5)
- 15: “The Tolkien Professor” Presents Three Free Courses on The Lord of the Rings (5)
- 15: Kurt Cobain’s Handwritten Suicide Note (1994), With Parts Movingly Read by Courtney Love (5)
- 15: Read David Foster Wallace’s Notes From a Tax Accounting Class, Taken to Help Him Write The Pale King (1)
- 14: How Coffee Affects Your Brain: A Very Quick Primer (1)
- 14: Vintage Photos of a Young Virginia Woolf Playing Cricket (Ages 5 & 12) (7)
- 14: Read 12 Masterful Essays by Joan Didion for Free Online, Spanning Her Career From 1965 to 2013 (3)
- 14: How Hunter S. Thompson — and Psilocybin — Influenced the Art of Ralph Steadman, Creating the “Gonzo” Style (1)
- 14: Discover Cy Endfield’s “Microwriter,” The World’s First Portable Word Processor (Circa 1980) (3)
- 13: Jerry Seinfeld and Louis CK in Small Cars and Big Yachts, Getting Coffee (1)
- 13: The Original Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Manuscript, Handwritten & Illustrated By Lewis Carroll (1864) (1)
- 13: Patti Smith Documentary Dream of Life Beautifully Captures the Author’s Life and Long Career (2008) (1)
- 13: Watch Morgan Spurlock’s Documentary on the 15-Year-Old Who Invented a New Way to Detect Early Stage Pancreatic Cancer (2)
- 13: Memory of the Camps (1985): The Holocaust Documentary that Traumatized Alfred Hitchcock, and Remained Unseen for 40 Years (4)
- 12: Read 700 Free eBooks Made Available by the University of California Press (19)
- 12: Watch a Super Cut of Wes Anderson’s Signature Slo-Mo Shots (0)
- 12: The Curious Story of London’s First Coffeehouses (1650-1675) (1)
- 11: Highlights from the First Ever Stanford Code Poetry Slam (1)
- 10: Behold Pablo Picasso’s Illustrations of Balzac’s Short Story “The Hidden Masterpiece” (1931) (2)
- 10: Against All Odds: A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Hosted by Harvard Geneticist Pardis Sabeti (Free Online Course) (6)
- 10: Stanford Prof Makes Ukuleles from Wood Floor of New Concert Hall (0)
- 09: George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984 (39)
- 09: Kerouac, the Movie: The Brief Literary Life of Jack Kerouac, As Told By Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs & Friends (0)
- 09: Watch Beer Ferment in Time-Lapse Motion, and Then Learn How to Make Beer with an Animated Video (0)
- 09: An Introduction to the Political Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin Through His Free Writings & Audio Lectures (1)
- 09: “Lol My Thesis” Showcases Painfully Hilarious Attempts to Sum up Years of Academic Work in One Sentence (1)
- 08: Four Female Punk Bands That Changed Women’s Role in Rock (40)
- 08: 100 Years of Rock in Less Than a Minute: From Gospel to Grunge (3)
- 08: Barry White’s Philosophy of Music and Making Love, Animated (0)
- 08: Read Dictator Kim Jong-il’s Writings on Cinema, Art & Opera: Courtesy of North Korea’s Free E-Library (5)
- 07: Alain de Botton Shows How Art Can Answer Life’s Big Questions in Art as Therapy (0)
- 07: Benjamin Bratton Explains “What’s Wrong with TED Talks?” and Why They’re a “Recipe for Civilizational Disaster” (16)
- 07: The University of Richmond Animates the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (1)
- 07: Heavy Metal: BBC Film Explores the Music, Personalities & Great Clothing That Hit the Stage in the 1980s (1)
- 07: Listen to Eight Interviews of Orson Welles by Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (RIP) (0)
- 06: Designers Charles & Ray Eames Create a Promotional Film for the Groundbreaking Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera (1972) (1)
- 06: Sir Patrick Stewart Demonstrates How Cows Moo in Different English Accents (1)
- 06: The Ten-Year Lunch: Watch the Award-Winning Documentary About the Great Writers Who Sat at the Algonquin Round Table (1)
- 06: The Beatles Perform a Fun Spoof of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1964) (0)
- 05: Lego Video Shows How David Bowie Almost Became “Cobbler Bob,” Not “Aladdin Sane” (0)
- 05: The Science of Willpower: 15 Tips for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Last from Dr. Kelly McGonigal (1)
- 05: Watch Laurence Olivier, Liv Ullmann and Christopher Plummer’s Classic Polaroid Ads (0)
- 05: 180 MOOCs to Start the New Year (Is This the Crest of the Wave?) (4)
- 04: Vintage Films Revisits Literary Scene of 1920s New York, with Clips of Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken & Other Icons (0)
- 03: Phil Spector’s Gentle Production Notes to George Harrison During the Recording of All Things Must Pass (1)
- 03: Cartoonist R. Crumb Assesses 21 Cultural Figures, from Dylan & Hitchcock, to Kafka & The Beatles (4)
- 03: Five Hardcore Deaths Suffered By Roman Emperors (1)
- 03: Short Film “Syd Barrett’s First Trip” Reveals the Pink Floyd Founder’s Psychedelic Experimentation (1967) (0)
- 02: Two Peter Gabriel Albums ‘Scratch My Back … And I’ll Scratch Yours,’ Streaming Free for a Limited Time (1)
- 02: Chaos Cinema: A Breakdown of How 21st-Century Action Films Became Incoherent (12)
- 02: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Sing Country Versions of Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” & “When the Levee Breaks” (5)
- 02: Milton Friedman & John Kenneth Galbraith’s Present Their Opposing Economic Philosophies on Two TV Series (1977-1980) (3)
- 02: The Story of Einstein’s Brain: A Japanese Professor Tracks Down the Organ in a Bizarre Documentary (3)
- 02: What Books, Movies, Songs & Paintings Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014? (3)
- 01: Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like Today (71)
- 01: Watch Dinner for One, the Short Film That Has Become a Baffling New Year’s Tradition in Europe (19)
- 01: Woody Guthrie’s Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions From 1943 (3)
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- 31: The 15 Most Popular Posts from Open Culture in 2013 (0)
- 31: Free Fun: Play Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Frogger & Other Golden Age Video Games In Your Web Browser (0)
- 31: Google Puts Over 57,000 Works of Art on the Web (5)
- 31: A Brief History of Hollywood Censorship and the Ratings System (2)
- 30: Albert Einstein Imposes on His First Wife a Cruel List of Marital Demands (70)
- 30: Norman Rockwell’s Typewritten Recipe for His Favorite Oatmeal Cookies (0)
- 30: Read an 18th-Century Eyewitness Account of 8-Year-Old Mozart’s Extraordinary Musical Skills (1)
- 29: Every Appearance James Brown Ever Made On Soul Train. So Nice, So Nice! (6)
- 29: The International Children’s Digital Library Offers Free eBooks for Kids in Over 40 Languages (6)
- 27: Read 9 Free Articles by Hunter S. Thompson That Span His Gonzo Journalist Career (1965-2005) (3)
- 27: Sherlock Holmes Is Now in the Public Domain, Declares US Judge (3)
- 27: William Blake’s Hallucinatory Illustrations of John Milton’s Paradise Lost (3)
- 27: Every Time “Making Love” Was Uttered in a Woody Allen Film: A Four Minute Montage (0)
- 26: Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar Bergman: “A Human Is Not Really Capable of Creating Really Good Works Until He Reaches 80” (2)
- 26: How the Iconic 1968 “Earthrise” Photo Was Made: An Engrossing Visualization by NASA (0)
- 26: Werner Herzog Presents Two Visions of America in How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck (1981) and God’s Angry Man (1976) (1)
- 26: Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1)
- 25: The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford Coppola (1993) (1)
- 25: On Christmas, Browse A Historical Archive of More Than 50,000 Toys (1)
- 25: On the Air: Watch the 1950s Sitcom by David Lynch and His Twin Peaks Co-Creator Mark Frost (2)
- 24: Charles Mingus’ “Top Secret” Eggnog Recipe Contains “Enough Alcohol to Put Down an Elephant” (0)
- 24: Hear Kevin Smith’s Three Tips For Aspiring Filmmakers (NSFW) (1)
- 24: Andy Warhol’s Christmas Art (0)
- 24: Try George Orwell’s Recipe for Christmas Pudding, from His Essay “British Cookery” (1945) (3)
- 23: Charles Dickens’ Hand-Edited Copy of His Classic Holiday Tale, A Christmas Carol (0)
- 23: Horror Legend Christopher Lee Presents a Heavy Metal Version of The Little Drummer Boy (1)
- 23: Listen to the Beatles’ Christmas Records: Seven Vintage Recordings for Their Fans (1963 – 1969) (5)
- 23: Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List (21)
- 23: The Rolling Stones “Shattered” Covered by Eddie Vedder & Julie Andrews (Ok, It’s Really Jeanne Tripplehorn) (1)
- 22: How to Get Great Deals on Great Books Through Audible.com (1)
- 22: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins Go Through Customs and Sign Immigration Form After the First Moon Landing (1969) (1)
- 22: Toni Morrisson: Forget Writing About What You Know; Write About What You Don’t Know (0)
- 21: Download 100 Free Philosophy Courses and Start Living the Examined Life (10)
- 21: Read 100 Entries From America’s Most Unique Dictionary, Now Available Online For The First Time (3)
- 20: David Lynch Presents the Interview Project: 121 Mini-Documentaries About Life in America (0)
- 20: Short Film Shows What Happens When a Letter from World War II Finally Gets Delivered 69 Years Later (1)
- 20: Hear Michel Foucault Deliver His Lecture on “Truth and Subjectivity” at UC Berkeley, In English (1980) (5)
- 20: The New Yorker Launches a New Poetry Podcast: Listen to the First Episode (1)
- 19: Teacher Helps His Student Overcome Stuttering and Read Poetry, Using the Sound of Music (3)
- 19: Watch Three Films by the Immensely Prolific & Widely-Admired “B-Movie” Filmmaker, Roger Corman (0)
- 19: The Power of Empathy: A Quick Animated Lesson That Can Make You a Better Person (10)
- 19: Listen to the 1963 Song the Beatles Gave to the Stones; Then Hear Them Sing Backup on a 1967 Stones Tune, “We Love You” (0)
- 19: Quentin Tarantino Tells You About The Actors & Directors Who Provided the Inspiration for “Reservoir Dogs” (0)
- 19: French Café Adds Extra Charge for Rude Customers (2)
- 18: New Art Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses Features All 265,000 Words Written by Hand on Big Wooden Poles (0)
- 18: See Peter O’Toole Talk Hamlet with Orson Welles (1963) and Play Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (1986) (0)
- 18: Hand-Colored Photographs of 19th Century Japan (0)
- 18: Morgan Freeman Masterfully Recites Nelson Mandela’s Favorite Poem, “Invictus” (11)
- 18: Orson Welles Narrates Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner in an Experimental Film Featuring the Art of Gustave Doré (0)
- 17: Watch Kids’ Priceless Reactions to Hearing the Timeless Music of The Beatles (3)
- 17: 1976 Film Blank Generation Documents CBGB Scene with Patti Smith, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie & More (2)
- 17: From the Drain: A Creepy Comedy David Cronenberg Made in Film School (1967) (0)
- 17: Yakov Smirnoff Remembers “The Soviet Department of Jokes” & Other Staples of Communist Comedy (0)
- 17: Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson Explains How Apple’s iPhone Was A Remixed Creation (0)
- 16: How to Follow Open Culture Posts: Daily Email & RSS Are Gold, Twitter Is an Option, Forget About Facebook (7)
- 16: Illustrated Etiquette Guide Explains How to Ride the Paris Metro in a Civilized Way (4)
- 16: Studs Terkel Interviews Bob Dylan, Shel Silverstein, Maya Angelou & More in New Audio Trove (1)
- 16: An Interactive Map of Odysseus’ 10-Year Journey in Homer’s Odyssey (14)
- 16: Mike Tyson Lists the Philosophy & History Books He’s Reading These Days (8)
- 15: Kurt Vonnegut: Where Do I Get My Ideas From? My Disgust with Civilization (6)
- 14: The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix (46)
- 13: John Waters Makes Handmade Christmas Cards, Says the “Whole Purpose of Life is Christmas” (5)
- 13: The Art of Making Timelapse Films (0)
- 13: In 1900, Ladies’ Home Journal Publishes 28 Predictions for the Year 2000 (6)
- 13: Watch Michel Gondry Animate Philosopher, Linguist & Activist Noam Chomsky (0)
- 12: Stephen Fry Profiles Six Russian Writers in the New Documentary Russia’s Open Book (9)
- 12: Orson Welles Records Two Songs with the 1980s Heavy-Metal Band Manowar (4)
- 12: Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in Spectacular, High-Res Detail (15)
- 12: Alice Munro Talks About the Writing Life in Her Nobel Prize Interview (0)
- 11: Behold Friedrich Nietzsche’s Curious Typewriter, the “Malling-Hansen Writing Ball” (4)
- 11: Errol Morris Meditates on the Meaning and History of Abraham Lincoln’s Last Photograph (0)
- 11: Where Do Great Ideas Come From? Neil Gaiman Explains (2)
- 11: Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space: “The Worst Movie Ever Made,” “The Ultimate Cult Flick,” or Both? (3)
- 11: Great New Archive Lets You Hear the Sounds of New York City During the Roaring 20s (2)
- 10: Ingmar Bergman Names the 11 Films He Liked Above All Others (1994) (6)
- 10: The (Beautiful) Physics of Adding Cream to Your Coffee (14)
- 10: Cancer Patients’ Extreme Makeovers Let Them To Forget Their Illness ‘If Only For A Second’ (0)
- 10: Hear King Edward VIII Explain Why He Abdicated The Crown For Love, 77 Years Ago Today (0)
- 10: Gustave Doré’s Exquisite Engravings of Cervantes’ Don Quixote (0)
- 09: Google’s Moving Ad About 1947 Partition of India & Pakistan Tops 10 Million Views (4)
- 09: The Clash Mauls a Teddy Bear and Plays Two Songs on The Tom Snyder Show (1981) (0)
- 09: View Bill Gates’ Mobile Library: The Books & Courses That Help Him Change The World (5)
- 09: Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen (9)
- 09: Did Leonardo da Vinci Paint a First Mona Lisa Before The Mona Lisa? (2)
- 08: The Pulp Fiction Archive: The Cheap, Thrilling Stories That Entertained a Generation of Readers (1896-1946) (0)
- 08: “Get Data”: UCSD Neuroscience Grad Students Create Parody Video to Tune of Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ (1)
- 07: See John Steinbeck Deliver His Apocalyptic Nobel Prize Speech (1962) (1)
- 06: Turn Your Bike into an Electric Hybrid with MIT’s “Copenhagen Wheel” (5)
- 06: Join Clive James on His Classic Television Trips to Paris, LA, Tokyo, Rio, Cairo & Beyond (0)
- 06: David Rees Presents a Primer on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening (0)
- 06: The World’s First “Roast-Grind-Brew” Coffee Machine Could Bring About a Coffee Revolution (7)
- 05: Nelson Mandela’s First-Ever TV Interview (1961) (0)
- 05: John Cleese Stars in a Morbidly Funny Anti-Smoking Campaign (1992-1994) (0)
- 05: Bob Dylan Reads From T.S. Eliot’s Great Modernist Poem The Waste Land (14)
- 05: Filmmaker Luis Buñuel Shows How to Make the Perfect Dry Martini (2)
- 05: Virginia Woolf Loved Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde Sometimes Despised Dickens & Other Gossip from The Reading Experience Database (1)
- 04: Download a Prototype of Ever, Jane, a Video Game That Takes You Inside the Virtual World of Jane Austen (2)
- 04: An Oscar-Winning Animation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” Painted on 29,000 Frames of Glass (5)
- 04: Susan Sontag’s 50 Favorite Films (and Her Own Cinematic Creations) (3)
- 04: See the Original Magazine Publication of Heart of Darkness and Other Great Works by Joseph Conrad (0)
- 04: Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks Asteroid Physics & “Non Newtonian Solids” with Inspiring 9-Year-Old Student (0)
- 03: The History of Economics & Economic Theory Explained with Comics, Starting with Adam Smith (11)
- 03: The Library: A World History Presents a Stunning Visual Survey of The World’s Great Libraries (2)
- 03: Watch Jean Genet’s Only Film, the Censored A Song of Love (1950) (6)
- 03: How Ray Bradbury Wrote the Script for John Huston’s Moby Dick (1956) (8)
- 03: Learn to Draw Butts with Just Five Simple Lines (1)
- 02: MIT Teaches You How to Speak Italian & Cook Italian Food All at Once (Free Online Course) (10)
- 02: Maria Callas Performs at Covent Garden in 1962, Toward the End of Her Brief But Spectacular Career (1)
- 02: The Charles Bukowski Tapes: 52 Short Interviews with the Underground Poet (0)
- 02: A Young Jean-Luc Godard Picks the 10 Best American Films Ever Made (1963) (2)
- 02: In Touching Video, Artist Marina Abramović & Former Lover Ulay Reunite After 22 Years Apart (35)
- 01: Slavoj Žižek on the Feel-Good Ideology of Starbucks (5)
- 01: Sergei Eisenstein’s Seminal Battleship Potemkin Gets a Soundtrack by Pet Shop Boys (1)
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- 30: Watch the Rolling Stones Write “Sympathy for the Devil”: Scenes from Jean-Luc Godard’s ’68 Film One Plus One (26)
- 29: Watch The Idea, the First Animated Film to Deal with Big, Philosophical Ideas (1932) (2)
- 29: A Short, Animated Defense of Toronto’s Great Public Libraries (1)
- 29: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 13 Tips for What to Do with Your Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey (0)
- 28: T.S. Eliot, as Faber & Faber Editor, Rejects George Orwell’s “Trotskyite” Novel Animal Farm (1944) (4)
- 28: What Cultural Icons of the 19th & 20th Centuries Would Have Liked About Life in the 21st Century (0)
- 28: William Shatner Raps About How to Not Kill Yourself Deep Frying a Turkey (10)
- 27: A Guide to Happiness: Alain de Botton’s Documentary Shows How Nietzsche, Socrates & 4 Other Philosophers Can Change Your Life (3)
- 27: Discover the “Brazen Bull,” the Ancient Greek Torture Machine That Doubled as a Musical Instrument (27)
- 27: Marilyn Monroe’s Handwritten Turkey-and-Stuffing Recipe (10)
- 27: “Soda/Pop/Coke,” A Creative Visual Remix of Harvard’s Famous 2003 Survey of American Dialects (0)
- 26: Newly-Released Thelonious Monk Live Recording, ‘Paris 1969,’ Now Streaming Free for a Limited Time (2)
- 26: 92nd Street Y Launches a New Online Archive with 1,000 Recordings of Literary Readings, Musical Performances & More (0)
- 26: Slavoj Žižek Examines the Perverse Ideology of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (21)
- 26: The “Pursuit of Ignorance” Drives All Science: Watch Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein’s Engaging New TED Talk (1)
- 26: Watch Charlie Chaplin Demand 342 Takes of One Scene from City Lights; And Then Watch 65 Free Chaplin Films Online (0)
- 26: Lyndon Johnson Orders New Pants on the Phone and Requests More Room for His … Johnson (1964) (3)
- 25: Watch Soviet Animations of Winnie the Pooh, Created by the Innovative Animator Fyodor Khitruk (5)
- 25: Legendary Japanese Author Yukio Mishima Muses About the Samurai Code (Which Inspired His Hapless 1970 Coup Attempt) (1)
- 25: The Story of the Bass: New Video Gives Us 500 Years of Music History in 8 Minutes (18)
- 25: Filmmaker Michel Gondry Presents an Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky (0)
- 24: U2 Releases a Nelson Mandela-Inspired Song, “Ordinary Love” (3)
- 24: Noam Chomsky on Commemorating the JFK Assassination: It “Would Impress Kim Il-Sung” (2)
- 24: Rocks Stars Who Died Before They Got Old: What They Would Look Like Today (0)
- 23: See The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839 (12)
- 22: The Existentialism Files: How the FBI Targeted Camus, and Then Sartre After the JFK Assassination (2)
- 22: Dutchman Masters the Art of Singing Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Backwards (2)
- 22: November 22, 1963: Watch Errol Morris’ Short Documentary About the Kennedy Assassination (2)
- 21: Actress Grace Kelly Reflects on the Life & Legacy of JFK in an Artfully Animated Video (0)
- 21: Read Rejection Letters Sent to Three Famous Artists: Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut & Andy Warhol (0)
- 21: A Young Björk Deconstructs (Physically & Theoretically) a Television in a Delightful Retro Video (3)
- 21: Two Viral Videos Push Against Stereotypical Messages Girls Get From the Media (Mildly NSFW) (5)
- 21: Watch an Animated Version of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Made of 12,597 Watercolor Paintings (1)
- 21: The 10 Hidden Cuts in Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock’s Famous “One-Shot” Feature Film (4)
- 20: Watch Leonardo da Vinci’s Musical Invention, the Viola Organista, Being Played for the Very First Time (17)
- 20: Thelonious Monk Bombs in Paris in 1954, Then Makes a Triumphant Return in 1969 (0)
- 20: Mark Twain’s Viciously Funny Marginalia Took Aim at Some Literary Greats (0)
- 20: C.S. Lewis’ Prescient 1937 Review of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien: It “May Well Prove a Classic” (1)
- 20: Bob Dylan Finally Makes a Video for His 1965 Hit, “Like a Rolling Stone” (6)
- 19: Long Live Glitch! The Art & Code from the Game Now Released into the Public Domain (0)
- 19: Bob Dylan’s Controversial 2004 Victoria’s Secret Ad: His First & Last Appearance in a Commercial (11)
- 19: Stephen Fry Explains Cloud Computing in a Short Animated Video (7)
- 19: Stephen Colbert & Louis CK Recite The Gettysburg Address, With Some Help from Jerry Seinfeld (1)
- 19: Slavoj Žižek & Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Exchange An Extraordinary Series of Letters (2)
- 18: The Big Aha, the Latest Novel by Cyberpunk Writer Rudy Rucker, is Now Out and Free Online (1)
- 18: How Benoit Mandelbrot Discovered Fractals: A Short Film by Errol Morris (6)
- 18: Hear Ezra Pound Read From His “Cantos,” Some of the Great Poetic Works of the 20th Century (5)
- 18: Watch Houdini Escape From a Strait Jacket, Then See How He Did It (Circa 1917) (4)
- 18: Christopher Hitchens, Who Mixed Drinking & Writing, Names the “Best Scotch in the History of the World” (4)
- 18: Everything That’s Wrong With Back To The Future in 8 Minutes (1)
- 17: David Bowie Appears in the “Director’s Cut” of a New Louis Vuitton Ad, Nods to Labyrinth (2)
- 16: Take a Virtual Tour of Venice (Its Streets, Plazas & Canals) with Google Street View (1)
- 15: Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple: A Free Mini Course from Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Hans Bethe (3)
- 15: Listen to a New Album Featuring Tom Waits Songs in Hebrew (2013) (0)
- 15: Hear All of Finnegans Wake Read Aloud: A 35 Hour Reading (6)
- 15: Watch Wes Anderson’s Charming New Short Film, Castello Cavalcanti, Starring Jason Schwartzman (5)
- 14: Free eBooks: Read All of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past (8)
- 14: The Art & Science of Bike Design: A 5-Part Introduction from the Open University (0)
- 14: The 100 Best Novels: A Literary Critic Creates a List in 1898 (13)
- 14: 16-Year-Old Marcel Proust Tells His Grandfather About His Misguided Adventures at the Local Brothel (4)
- 13: The Black Rider: A Theatrical Production by Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs & Robert Wilson (1990) (7)
- 13: Everything You Wanted to Know About the L.A. Aqueduct That Made Roman Polanski’s Chinatown Famous: A New UCLA Archive (0)
- 13: Designers of the Invisible Bike Helmet Describe Their Revolutionary Product in Short Documentary (0)
- 13: Timothy Leary Plans a Neuromancer Video Game, with Art by Keith Haring, Music by Devo & Cameos by David Byrne (0)
- 13: Watch Animated Sheet Music for Miles Davis’ “So What,” Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation” & Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” (4)
- 12: Joseph Brodsky’s List of 83 Books You Should Read to Have an Intelligent Conversation (28)
- 12: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Reviews the Beatles’ 1966 Album Revolver; Calls It “A Load of Rubbish” (21)
- 12: George Orwell’s Five Greatest Essays (as Selected by Pulitzer-Prize Winning Columnist Michael Hiltzik) (8)
- 12: Charles Bukowski Takes You on a Very Strange Tour of Hollywood (4)
- 11: The Mother of All Domino Rallies (0)
- 11: Yoko Ono, Age 80, Still Has Moves, Dances with The Beastie Boys, Ira Glass, Roberta Flack & Friends (6)
- 11: “Wear Sunscreen”: The Story Behind the Commencement Speech That Kurt Vonnegut Never Gave (11)
- 11: George Saunders’ Lectures on the Russian Greats Brought to Life in Student Sketches (0)
- 11: The Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961) (13)
- 10: Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPhone and iPad: A Free Online Course by Stanford (1)
- 10: The Smithsonian Picks “101 Objects That Made America” (2)
- 09: Watch Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’, the New PBS Documentary (Free for a Limited Time) (8)
- 09: James Joyce’s Dublin Captured in Vintage Photos from 1897 to 1904 (22)
- 09: Jerry Garcia Talks About the Birth of the Grateful Dead & Playing Kesey’s Acid Tests in New Animated Video (0)
- 08: T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Gets Adapted As a Comic Book (1)
- 08: Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test: What Do You See? (1921) (202)
- 08: Gay Talese Outlines His Famous 1966 Profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” on a Shirt Board (0)
- 08: Patti Smith Plays Songs by The Ramones, Rolling Stones, Lou Reed & More on CBGB’s Closing Night (2006) (0)
- 07: Hear Albert Camus Deliver His Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1957) (5)
- 07: Watch Joni Mitchell’s Classic Performances of “Both Sides Now” & “The Circle Game” (1968) (7)
- 07: Hear Vintage Episodes of Buck Rogers, the Sci-Fi Radio Show That First Aired in 1932 (3)
- 07: The Nazi’s Philistine Grudge Against Abstract Art and The “Degenerate Art Exhibition” of 1937 (2)
- 07: Watch a 44-Minute Supercut of Every Woody Allen Stammer, From Every Woody Allen Film (2)
- 06: Take a Virtual Tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (1)
- 06: Alberto Martini’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1901-1944) (0)
- 06: 1966 Film Explores the Making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (and Our High-Tech Future) (5)
- 06: Cook Real Recipes from Ancient Rome: Ostrich Ragoût, Roast Wild Boar, Nut Tarts & More (3)
- 06: See the Homes and Studies of Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche & Other Philosophers (0)
- 05: Watch After the Ball, the 1897 “Adult” Film by Pioneering Director Georges Méliès (Almost NSFW) (8)
- 05: Steven Soderbergh Posts a List of Everything He Watched and Read in 2009 (7)
- 05: In His Latest Film, Slavoj Žižek Claims “The Only Way to Be an Atheist is Through Christianity” (14)
- 05: Prickly Ernest Hemingway Returns Letter to Critic: “Wipe Your Royal Irish Ass On It. You Are Stupid” (1931) (0)
- 04: Watch The New America, a Stop Motion Animation Starring 800+ Laser Engraved Wood Blocks (0)
- 04: 80s Pop Singer Jimmy Somerville Surprises German Street Musician as the Busker Sings Somerville’s Hit (1)
- 04: James Brown Saves Boston After Martin Luther King’s Assassination, Calls for Peace Across America (1968) (0)
- 04: Hear Homer’s Iliad Read in the Original Ancient Greek (35)
- 04: Dissident Poet Joseph Brodsky Gives Six Life Tips to College Grads (1988) (5)
- 04: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Commander Chris Hadfield: The Viral Book Trailer (0)
- 03: Experience Invisible Cities, an Innovative, Italo Calvino-Inspired Opera Staged in LA’s Union Station (0)
- 03: Lou Reed Rewrites Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” See Readings by Reed and Willem Dafoe (1)
- 02: Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscripts of Frankenstein Now Online for the First Time (1)
- 01: Prize-Winning Animation Lets You Fly Through 17th Century London (149)
- 01: Watch Goethe’s Haunting Poem, “Der Erlkönig,” Presented in an Artful Sand Animation (0)
- 01: Vintage Film Shows How the Oxford English Dictionary Was Made in 1925 (4)
- 01: Watch Rare Film of Richard Pryor Singing the Blues: No Joke, All Heart (4)
- October 2013 (120)
- 31: 10 Figures of Speech Illustrated by Monty Python: Paradiastole, Epanorthosis, Syncatabasis & More (5)
- 31: Watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Influential German Expressionist Film (1920) (1)
- 31: A Terrifying Reading of the Sweet Children’s Story Goodnight Moon (6)
- 31: American Filmmakers in Japanese Ads: Quentin Tarantino Sells Cell Phones, Orson Welles Hawks Whisky (3)
- 31: Mark Twain Writes a “Gushing,” “Self-Deprecating” Wedding Announcement to His Family (1869) (0)
- 30: What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Hear a Reconstruction That is ‘100% Accurate’ (89)
- 30: Hear Orson Welles’ Iconic War of the Worlds Broadcast (1938) (4)
- 30: Run Vintage Video Games (From Pac-Man to E.T.) and Software in Your Web Browser, Thanks to Archive.org (1)
- 30: Charlie Parker Plays with Jazz Greats Coleman Hawkins, Buddy Rich, Lester Young & Ella Fitzgerald (1950) (6)
- 30: Watch Very First Film Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays: King John, The Tempest, Richard III & More (1899-1936) (3)
- 29: The Case for Studying Physics in a Charming Animated Video (6)
- 29: In One of his Final Interviews, Frank Zappa Pronounces Himself “Totally Unrepentant” (3)
- 29: Watch an Exuberant, Young Woody Allen Do Live Stand Up on British TV (1965) (0)
- 29: “Titanic Sinking; No Lives Lost” and Other Terribly Inaccurate News Reports from April 15, 1912 (6)
- 29: Watch Slipping Storm Troopers in Previously Unseen Blooper Reel & Outtakes from Star Wars (0)
- 28: “Neglected Books” You Should Read: Here’s Our List; Now We Want Yours (21)
- 28: “What a Wonderful World,” Louis Armstrong’s Classic, Performed with Traditional Chinese Instruments (2)
- 28: Doodlebug, Christopher Nolan’s First Short: What Came Before The Dark Night, Memento & Inception (1997) (2)
- 28: Free: Listen to 298 Episodes of the Vintage Crime Radio Series, Dragnet (5)
- 28: Watch Red Shirley, Lou Reed’s Short Documentary on His Fascinating 100-Year-Old Cousin (2010) (2)
- 27: Lou Reed — Velvet Underground Frontman, Influential Solo Musician — Dead at 71 (4)
- 27: Enjoy a Philosophy Brain Teaser; Play the Free Mind Boggler App from the University of Liverpool (3)
- 26: An Awkward/NSFW Interview with Nirvana Producer Steve Albini (Plus B-52 Frontman Fred Schneider) (0)
- 25: Watch 8 New Video Essays on Wes Anderson’s Films: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums & More (0)
- 25: Learn to Sing the Harmonies of Famous Beatles Songs with Master Harmonist Galeazzo Frudua (5)
- 25: Download Vintage Film Posters in High-Res: From The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the Crab Monsters (1)
- 25: Mashup Artist “Kutiman” Travels to Tokyo and Creates an Incredible Musical Postcard (1)
- 25: David Sedaris Sings the Oscar Mayer Theme Song in the Voice of Billie Holiday (1)
- 24: Every Word of Joyce’s Ulysses Printed on a Single Poster (2)
- 24: Noam Chomsky Schools 9/11 Truther; Explains the Science of Making Credible Claims (96)
- 24: Men In Commercials Being Jerks About Coffee: A Mashup of 1950s & 1960s TV Ads (14)
- 24: Famous Writers Name “Good Books That Almost Nobody Has Read” in The New Republic (1934) (2)
- 24: David Lynch Teaches You to Cook His Quinoa Recipe in a Weird, Surrealist Video (8)
- 23: The Online Emily Dickinson Archive Makes Thousands of the Poet’s Manuscripts Freely Available (2)
- 23: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Discusses His Love for Reading Proust, and Why “Literature is Crucial to Any Democracy” (3)
- 23: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg & Margaret Mead Explain the Meaning of “Beat” in Rare 1950s Audio Clips (1)
- 23: Pablo Picasso’s Tender Illustrations For Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (1934) (0)
- 22: Banksy Creates a Tiny Replica of The Great Sphinx Of Giza In Queens (0)
- 22: Gustave Doré’s Dramatic Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy (6)
- 22: Animated Video: Kurt Cobain on Teenage Angst, Sexuality & Finding Salvation in Punk Music (1)
- 22: Stephen King Writes A Letter to His 16-Year-Old Self: “Stay Away from Recreational Drugs” (14)
- 22: William S. Burroughs “Sings” R.E.M. and The Doors, Backed by the Original Bands (1)
- 22: An Animation of Orson Welles’ Famous Frozen Peas Rant (4)
- 21: 30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God: From Isaac Asimov to Margaret Atwood (38)
- 21: The Challenge of Archiving Sound + Vision in the 21st Century (0)
- 21: The Haircut: A Student Film Starring the Great John Cassavetes (1982) (2)
- 21: 4000 Years of History Displayed in a 5-Foot-Long “Histomap” (Early Infographic) From 1931 (4)
- 21: Charles Darwin’s Son Draws Cute Pictures on the Manuscript of On the Origin of Species (0)
- 20: Be His Guest: David Sedaris at Home in Rural West Sussex, England (1)
- 20: Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington: Solo Piano, Berlin 1969 (2)
- 19: Free Audio: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad Star, Reads First Chapter of The Things They Carried (1)
- 18: Mark Twain Plays With Electricity in Nikola Tesla’s Lab (Photo, 1894) (4)
- 18: Great Story: How Neil Young Introduced His Classic 1972 Album Harvest to Graham Nash (22)
- 18: The Very First Reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses: “A Work of High Genius” (1922) (0)
- 18: Ingmar Bergman Evaluates His Fellow Filmmakers — The “Affected” Godard, “Infantile” Hitchcock & Sublime Tarkovsky (11)
- 17: Henry David Thoreau’s Hand-Drawn Map of Cape Cod (1866) (0)
- 17: Ian Rubbish (aka Fred Armisen) Interviews the Clash in Spinal Tap-Inspired Mockumentary (3)
- 17: Patti Smith Sings “You Light Up My Life” with Composer Joe Brooks on 1979 Show Kids Are People Too (7)
- 17: Apocalypse Now’s “Ride of the Valkyries” Attack: The Anatomy of a Classic Scene (2)
- 17: How Philip K. Dick Disdained American Anti-Intellectualism and Found His Inspiration in Flaubert, Stendhal & Balzac (4)
- 17: The Best Writing Advice Pico Iyer Ever Received (0)
- 16: Elementary School Kids Sing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” & Other Rock Hits: A Cult Classic Recorded in 1976 (4)
- 16: Watch the Very First Trailers for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi (1976-83) (2)
- 16: 75 Years of Superman in 2 Minutes (0)
- 16: Vice Meets Up with Superstar Communist Cultural Theorist Slavoj Žižek (6)
- 16: MOOC Providers Take Flight in Britain and Germany: Introducing Future Learn and Iversity (3)
- 15: Artist Draws Nine Portraits on LSD During 1950s Research Experiment (21)
- 15: Time Out London Presents The 100 Best Horror Films: Start by Watching Four Horror Classics Free Online (0)
- 15: How Ridley Scott Turned Footage From the Beginning of The Shining Into the End of Blade Runner (4)
- 15: Stunning Time-lapse of Lasers at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii (0)
- 15: Interact with The New York Times Four-Part Documentary, “A Short History of the Highrise” (1)
- 14: Deconstructing Led Zeppelin’s Classic Song ‘Ramble On’ Track by Track: Guitars, Bass, Drums & Vocals (14)
- 14: Take a Free Course on the Financial Markets with Robert Shiller, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (20)
- 14: Who Created the Famous Shower Scene in Psycho? Alfred Hitchcock or the Legendary Designer Saul Bass? (1)
- 14: Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose (5)
- 14: Žižek Blames the US Government Shutdown on Ayn Rand’s Acolytes Who Caused the 2008 Collapse (41)
- 13: The Fundamentals of Jazz & Rock Drumming Explained in Five Creative Minutes (1)
- 13: The Hunger Strikes at Guantánamo Bay Prison Revealed in Poignant Animated Video (5)
- 11: David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987) (6)
- 11: Watch Antoni Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece, the Sagrada Família, Get Finally Completed in 60 Seconds (6)
- 11: Joseph Stalin, a Lifelong Editor, Wielded a Big, Blue, Dangerous Pencil (1)
- 11: Rocky’s Famous Trip up the Art Museum Steps Spoofed by the Pranksters of Improv Everywhere (2)
- 10: Read 19 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro Free Online (36)
- 10: Free Online: 10 of the Greatest Silent Films of All Time (5)
- 10: Lorne Michaels Introduces Saturday Night Live and Its Brilliant First Cast for the Very First Time (1975) (3)
- 10: Famous Philosophers Imagined as Action Figures: Plunderous Plato, Dangerous Descartes & More (1)
- 10: Watch Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” Performed on a Guzheng, an Ancient Chinese Instrument (10)
- 09: Comedian Ricky Gervais Tells a Serious Story About How He Learned to Write Creatively (8)
- 09: Albert Camus Writes a Friendly Letter to Jean-Paul Sartre Before Their Personal and Philosophical Rift (0)
- 09: Crash Course on Literature: Watch John Green’s Fun Introductions to Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye & Other Classics (2)
- 08: A Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise (3)
- 08: Andy Warhol Creates Album Covers for Jazz Legends Thelonious Monk, Count Basie & Kenny Burrell (3)
- 08: Animated Interview: The Great Ray Charles on Being Himself and Singing True (4)
- 08: Pride and Prejudice Translated into Academiotics (and More Fun with Scholarly Jargon) (6)
- 08: Stephen Fry Hosts “The Science of Opera,” a Discussion of How Music Moves Us Physically to Tears (5)
- 08: Watch Lovebirds Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman Sing “Makin’ Whoopee!” Live (3)
- 07: Violinist Nigel Kennedy Joins Young Palestinian Musicians for an Exotic Version of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons (2)
- 07: Quentin Tarantino’s 10 Favorite Films of 2013 (2)
- 07: Animated Video Explores the Invented Languages of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones & Star Trek (3)
- 07: Ernest Hemingway’s Delusional Adventures in Boxing: “My Writing is Nothing, My Boxing is Everything.” (3)
- 07: How To Be Creative: PBS’ Off Book Series Explores the Secret Sauce of Great Ideas (1)
- 06: How Animated Cartoons Are Made: Watch a Short, Charming Primer from 1919 (2)
- 04: Study Finds That Reading Tolstoy & Other Great Novelists Can Increase Your Emotional Intelligence (7)
- 04: R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country Features 114 Illustrations of the Artist’s Favorite Musicians (1)
- 04: Watch World War II Rage Across Europe in a 7 Minute Time-Lapse Film: Every Day From 1939 to 1945 (35)
- 04: Debussy’s Clair de lune: The Classical Music Visualization with 21 Million Views (0)
- 03: The Daily Habits of Highly Productive Philosophers: Nietzsche, Marx & Immanuel Kant (21)
- 03: Jean Genet, France’s Outlaw Poet, Revealed in a Rare 1981 Interview (1)
- 03: The Penultimate Truth About Philip K. Dick: Documentary Explores the Mysterious Universe of PKD (1)
- 03: Who Wrote at Standing Desks? Kierkegaard, Dickens and Ernest Hemingway Too (18)
- 02: What Happens When Everyday People Get a Chance to Conduct a World-Class Orchestra (13)
- 02: The Curious Score for John Cage’s “Silent” Zen Composition 4’33” (5)
- 02: Richard Dawkins and Jon Stewart Debate Whether Science or Religion Will Destroy Civilization (10)
- 02: Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls: Witty Counsel to Young Ladies of 1865 (0)
- 01: David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (14)
- 01: 94-Year-Old Pete Seeger Sings “This Land is Your Land” at Farm Aid (1)
- 01: “David Bowie Is” — The First Major Exhibit Dedicated to Bowie Spans 50 Years & Features 300 Great Objects (0)
- 01: Alan Lomax’s Music Archive Houses Over 17,400 Folk Recordings From 1946 to the 1990s (5)
- 01: Stanley Kubrick to Ingmar Bergman: “You Are the Greatest Filmmaker at Work Today” (1960) (1)
- 01: Statistics Explained Through Modern Dance: A New Way of Teaching a Tough Subject (4)
- September 2013 (100)
- 30: The James Merrill Digital Archive Lets You Explore the Creative Life of a Great American Poet (1)
- 30: Virginia Woolf on James Joyce’s Ulysses, “Never Did Any Book So Bore Me.” Shen Then Quit at Page 200 (18)
- 30: Honoré de Balzac Writes About “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee,” and His Epic Coffee Addiction (5)
- 30: Slavoj Žižek’s Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Decodes The Dark Knight and They Live (3)
- 29: The Complete Wizard of Oz Series, Available as Free eBooks and Free Audio Books (5)
- 29: Free Audio: 46 Minute Reading from Dave Eggers’ New Novel, The Circle (0)
- 27: The Stunt That Got Elvis Costello Banned From Saturday Night Live (1977) (72)
- 27: Watch Janis Joplin’s Final Interview Get Reborn as an Animated Cartoon (0)
- 27: Hergé Draws Tintin in Vintage Footage (and What Explains the Character’s Enduring Appeal) (0)
- 27: Read Steve Albini’s Uncompromising Proposal to Produce Nirvana’s In Utero (1993) (3)
- 26: Steve Jobs on the Rise of the Personal Computer: A Rare 1990 Interview (3)
- 26: North Carolina County Celebrates Banned Book Week By Banning Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man … Then Reversing It (2)
- 26: Richard Feynman Gets Jazzed Explaining How Rubber Bands Work (0)
- 26: Bo Diddley’s Essential Tips for Surviving Life & the Music Business (2)
- 26: Watch Dating Dos and Don’ts: An Old-School Instructional Guide to Teenage Romance (1949) (0)
- 25: The 10 Greatest Books Ever, According to 125 Top Authors (Download Them for Free) (220)
- 25: Portraits of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Walter Benjamin & Other Literary Legends by Gisèle Freund (2)
- 25: The Evolution of the Rock Guitar Solo: 28 Solos, Spanning 50 Years, Played in 6 Fun Minutes (24)
- 25: Watch the Sex Pistols’ Very Last Concert (San Francisco, 1978) (4)
- 24: The Science of Breaking Bad: Professor Donna Nelson Explains How the Show Gets it Right (0)
- 24: Discover Thomas Jefferson’s Cut-and-Paste Version of the Bible, and Read the Curious Edition Online (11)
- 24: Watch The Surreal 1960s Films and Commercials of Jim Henson (1)
- 24: F. Scott Fitzgerald Tells His 11-Year-Old Daughter What to Worry About (and Not Worry About) in Life, 1933 (6)
- 24: The Recipes of Iconic Authors: Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Roald Dahl, the Marquis de Sade & More (2)
- 23: John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme (18)
- 23: Frida Kahlo Writes a Personal Letter to Georgia O’Keeffe After O’Keeffe’s Nervous Breakdown (1933) (1)
- 23: James Joyce’s “Dirty Letters” to His Wife (1909) (13)
- 23: Trace Darwin’s Footsteps with Google’s New Virtual Tour of the Galapagos Islands (2)
- 21: 10th Graders Draw Pictures Imagining Philosophers at Work (0)
- 20: William S. Burroughs Explains What Artists & Creative Thinkers Do for Humanity: From Galileo to Cézanne and James Joyce (2)
- 20: What Was Your First Live Concert? We’ll Show You Ours, Share Yours. (98)
- 20: The 55 Strangest, Greatest Films Never Made (Chosen by John Green) (5)
- 20: Dewars Channels the Ghost of Charles Bukowski to Sell Scotch (4)
- 19: Watch Audio Ammunition: A Documentary Series on The Clash and Their Five Classic Albums (3)
- 19: Death of An Adjunct: A Sobering, True Story (5)
- 19: Sci-Fi Writer Robert Heinlein Imagines the Year 2000 in 1949, and Gets it Mostly Wrong (6)
- 19: Vladimir Nabokov’s Delightful Butterfly Drawings (3)
- 19: Bohemian Gravity: String Theory Explored With an A Cappella Version of Bohemian Rhapsody (3)
- 18: Train Your Brain This Fall with Free Online Courses, eBooks, Audio Books, Language Lessons & More (4)
- 18: David Lynch Lists His Favorite Films & Directors, Including Fellini, Wilder, Tati & Hitchcock (4)
- 18: Edward Said Speaks Candidly about Politics, His Illness, and His Legacy in His Final Interview (2003) (3)
- 17: Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger Recipe (9)
- 17: The Irrepressible Bette Davis Recalls Her Good and Bad Days Kissing in the Movies (1)
- 17: Allen Ginsberg Gets Heckled by Beat Poet Gregory Corso at a 1973 Poetry Reading (1)
- 17: The Art of Handwriting as Practiced by Famous Artists: Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning & More (4)
- 17: Man Shot in Fight Over Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy in Russia (6)
- 16: Enter E.O. Wilson’s Encyclopedia of Life: Free Access to All The World’s Knowledge About Life (2)
- 16: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Handwritten Manuscripts for The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise & More (1)
- 16: Rules for Teachers in 1872 & 1915: No Drinking, Smoking, or Trips to Barber Shops and Ice Cream Parlors (28)
- 16: What Shakespeare’s Handwriting Looked Like (3)
- 14: The Famous Feynman Lectures on Physics: The New Online Edition (in HTML5) (8)
- 13: Visualizing Slavery: The Map Abraham Lincoln Spent Hours Studying During the Civil War (6)
- 13: Dark Side of the Rainbow: Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz in One of the Earliest Mash-Ups (11)
- 13: John Cleese’s Philosophy of Creativity: Creating Oases for Childlike Play (9)
- 13: “Ask a Slave” by Azie Dungey Sets the Historical Record Straight in a New Web Series (1)
- 12: Read 30 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace on the 5th Anniversary of His Death (1)
- 12: René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Advertising Posters, 1924-1927 (1)
- 12: A Bluegrass Version of Metallica’s Heavy Metal Hit, “Enter Sandman” (8)
- 12: The Curious History of Punctuation: Author Reveals the Beginnings of the #, ¶, ☞, and More (2)
- 12: Captain Beefheart Issues His “Ten Commandments of Guitar Playing” (4)
- 11: Jack Kerouac Reads American Haikus, Backed by Jazz Saxophonists Al Cohn & Zoot Sims (1958) (0)
- 11: Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation (32)
- 11: Google & edX to Create MOOC.Org: An Open Source Platform For Creating Your Own MOOC (1)
- 11: Radical Thinkers: 5 Videos Profile Max Horkheimer, Alain Badiou & Other Radical Theorists (0)
- 11: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy Online: New Archive Will Present 90 Volumes for Free (in Russian) (4)
- 10: Download Free Music from 150+ Classical Composers, Courtesy of Musopen.org (22)
- 10: Bob Dylan and George Harrison Play Tennis, 1969 (7)
- 10: “The Autobiography of Jane Eyre” Adapts Brontë’s Heroine for Vlogs, Tumblr, Twitter & Instagram (1)
- 10: Miles Davis Plays Music from Kind of Blue Live in 1959, Introducing a Completely New Style of Jazz (1)
- 10: A Journey into the Mind of P: A Cinematic Look at Thomas Pynchon (0)
- 09: Set Chopin Free: A Kickstarter to Campaign to Put 245 Chopin Pieces Into the Public Domain (10)
- 09: Nico, Lou Reed & John Cale Sing the Classic Velvet Underground Song ‘Femme Fatale’ (Paris, 1972) (0)
- 09: A Planetary Perspective: Trillions of Pictures of the Earth Available Through Google Earth Engine (0)
- 09: Jorge Luis Borges’ Favorite Short Stories (Read 7 Free Online) (1)
- 09: The Pleasure Garden, Alfred Hitchcock’s Very First Feature Film (1925) (2)
- 08: Student Poses as Professor, Kicks Off Chemistry Class at University of Rochester With a Prank (1)
- 07: 96-Year-Old Writes Song for Dearly Departed Wife, Becomes Oldest Artist on Billboard’s Top 100 (10)
- 07: The 10 Greatest Films of All Time According to 846 Film Critics (127)
- 06: 18 (Free) Books Ernest Hemingway Wished He Could Read Again for the First Time (24)
- 06: Psychedelic Scenes of Pink Floyd’s Early Days with Syd Barrett, 1967 (2)
- 06: On the 10th Anniversary of His Death, Watch Warren Zevon’s First & Last Appearances on Letterman (3)
- 05: Goethe’s Theory of Colors: The 1810 Treatise That Inspired Kandinsky & Early Abstract Painting (6)
- 05: Watch The Amazing 1912 Animation of Stop-Motion Pioneer Ladislas Starevich, Starring Dead Bugs (6)
- 05: Salvador “Dalí is the Biggest ‘Prick’ of the 20th Century,” Says the Quotable Henry Miller (2)
- 04: Hear the Isolated Vocal Tracks for The Beatles’ Climactic 16-Minute Medley on Abbey Road (47)
- 04: Jacques Lacan’s Confrontation with a Young Rebel: Classic Moment, 1972 (5)
- 04: Rare Recording of Controversialist, Journalist and American Literary & Social Critic, H.L. Mencken (0)
- 04: Hear 38 Versions of “September Song,” from James Brown, Lou Reed, Sarah Vaughan and Others (2)
- 04: Avant-Garde Poet Henri Michaux Creates Educational Film Visualizing Effects of Mescaline & Hash (1964) (3)
- 03: What We Still Don’t Know: Martin Rees Tackles Deepest Scientific Questions in Great Documentary (3)
- 03: Synchronized, Timelapse Video Shows Train Traveling from London to Brighton in 1953, 1983 & 2013 (8)
- 03: FBI’s “Vault” Web Site Reveals Declassified Files on Hemingway, Einstein, Marilyn & Other Icons (0)
- 03: The Music of Queen Re-Imagined by “Extraordinary” Classical Pianist, Natalia Posnova (1)
- 03: Author Rob Sheffield Picks Karaoke Songs for Famous Authors: Imagine Wallace Stevens Singing the Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” (1)
- 02: Surviving Members of The Clash Recount the Making of “London Calling” & Discuss New Box Set (3)
- 02: Lenny Kravitz Overhears High School Kids Playing His Music and Surprises Them by Joining In (0)
- 02: Read 113 Pages of Charles Bukowski’s FBI File From 1968 (0)
- 02: Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (5)
- 02: Disco Saves Lives: Give CPR to the The Beat of Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (0)
- 01: An Introduction to World Literature by a Cast Of Literary & Academic Stars (Free Course) (0)
- August 2013 (115)
- 31: Isaac Asimov’s 1964 Predictions About What the World Will Look 50 Years Later (77)
- 31: The Art of Fugue: Gould Plays Bach (1)
- 30: Seamus Heaney Reads His Exquisite Translation of Beowulf and His Memorable 1995 Nobel Lecture (5)
- 30: Learn to Make Borscht with Neko Case and Get a Taste of Her New Album (1)
- 30: Watch Big Time, the Concert Film Capturing Tom Waits on His Best Tour Ever (1988) (1)
- 30: A Short Visual History of America, According to the Irreverent Comic Satirist R. Crumb (2)
- 29: Philosopher Portraits: Famous Philosophers Painted in the Style of Influential Artists (0)
- 29: Iconic Photographs Re-Created in Play Doh: Man Ray to Nan Goldin (0)
- 29: Raymond Chandler Denounces Strangers on a Train in Sharply-Worded Letter to Alfred Hitchcock (8)
- 29: The Art of William Faulkner: Drawings from 1916-1925 (1)
- 29: Arthur C. Clarke Narrates Film on Mandelbrot’s Fractals; David Gilmour Provides the Soundtrack (5)
- 28: Albert Einstein Called Racism “A Disease of White People” in His Little-Known Fight for Civil Rights (44)
- 28: Watch The March, the Masterful, Digitally Restored Documentary on The Great March on Washington (3)
- 28: “Glory to the Conquerors of the Universe!”: Propaganda Posters from the Soviet Space Race (1958-1963) (2)
- 28: John Lennon’s Raw, Soul-Baring Vocals From the Beatles’ ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ (1969) (7)
- 28: T.S. Eliot’s Radical Poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Read by Anthony Hopkins and Eliot Himself (5)
- 28: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turned Into a Radio Play (0)
- 27: New Archive Makes Available 800,000 Pages Documenting the History of Film, Television & Radio (0)
- 27: Elton John Sings His Classic Hit ‘Your Song’ Through the Years (0)
- 27: What Books Do Writers Teach?: Zadie Smith and Gary Shteyngart’s Syllabi from Columbia University (0)
- 27: Watch Family Planning, Walt Disney’s 1967 Sex Ed Production, Starring Donald Duck (11)
- 27: The Tale of the Fox: Watch Ladislas Starevich’s Animation of Goethe’s Great German Folktale (1937) (1)
- 26: Watch an Animation of Shaun Tan’s All-Ages Picture Book The Lost Thing (2)
- 26: John Searle Makes A Forceful Case for Studying Consciousness, Where Everything Else Begins (0)
- 26: Virginia Woolf’s Handwritten Suicide Note: A Painful and Poignant Farewell (1941) (59)
- 26: Did Hollywood Movies Studios “Collaborate” with Hitler During WW II? Historian Makes the Case (2)
- 26: 10 Essential Tips for Making Great Coffee at Home (6)
- 25: Fritz Lang’s M (1931) (4)
- 24: A Radio Play Based on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Coming Monday. Watch the Trailer. (2)
- 23: Robert Crumb Illustrates Philip K. Dick’s Infamous, Hallucinatory Meeting with God (1974) (11)
- 23: The Hand Puppets That Bauhaus Artist Paul Klee Made for His Young Son (2)
- 23: “Notes from a Dirty Old Man”: Charles Bukowski’s Lost Cartoons from the 60s and 70s (0)
- 23: The “Most Amazing [Borrowed] College Welcome Speech Ever” (3)
- 22: Vladimir Nabokov Creates a Hand-Drawn Map of James Joyce’s Ulysses (6)
- 22: Free: Stream New Albums by Bob Dylan, Neko Case & Sly And The Family Stone (1)
- 22: Read “Slight Rebellion Off Madison,” J.D. Salinger’s First Story in The New Yorker & Early Holden Caulfield Story (1946) (0)
- 22: Dexter Gordon Plays ‘Body and Soul’ in the Noted Film Round Midnight (0)
- 22: Ernest Hemingway Writes of His Fascist Friend Ezra Pound: “He Deserves Punishment and Disgrace” (1943) (3)
- 22: An Animated History of Physics Introduces the Discoveries of Galileo, Newton, Maxwell & Einstein (4)
- 21: Quentin Tarantino’s Handwritten List of the 11 “Greatest Movies” (4)
- 21: John Baldessari’s “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art”: A 1971 Conceptual Art Piece/DIY Art Course (1)
- 21: Dick Cavett’s Wide-Ranging TV Interview with Ingmar Bergman and Lead Actress Bibi Andersson (1971) (1)
- 21: The Real Georgia O’Keeffe: The Artist Reveals Herself in Vintage Documentary Clips (1)
- 21: The Beatles’ Final, “Painful” Photo Shoot: A Gallery of Bittersweet Images (3)
- 20: Quentin Tarantino Lists the 12 Greatest Films of All Time: From Taxi Driver to The Bad News Bears (31)
- 20: LinkedIn Rolls Out Pages for Universities (0)
- 20: Watch John Cleese as Sherlock Holmes in The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (3)
- 20: Crime Writer Elmore Leonard Provides 13 Writing Tips for Aspiring Writers (0)
- 20: Hear Vladimir Nabokov Read From the Penultimate Chapter of Lolita (2)
- 20: Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Re-Created by Astronomer with 100 Hubble Space Telescope Images (3)
- 19: The Very Concise Suicide Note by Kodak Founder George Eastman: “My Work is Done. Why Wait?” (1932) (8)
- 19: Inside the Rhapsody: A Short Documentary on the Making of Queen’s Classic Song, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (2002) (1)
- 19: Revisit Futuria Fantasia: The Science Fiction Fanzine That Ray Bradbury Published as a Teenager (1)
- 19: “The Lost Paris Tapes” Preserves Jim Morrison’s Final Poetry Recordings from 1971 (8)
- 19: Librarians Pay Tribute to Classic Beastie Boys Video; Name Henry Rollins Keynote Speaker at Conference (0)
- 16: Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, and Anne Enright Give Ten Candid Pieces of Writing Advice Each (1)
- 16: CBGB’s: The Roots of Punk Lets You Watch Vintage Footage from the Heyday of NYC’s Great Music Scene (0)
- 16: Discover Alexander Calder’s Circus, One of the Beloved Works at the Whitney Museum of American Art (0)
- 16: New Animation Explains Sherry Turkle’s Theories on Why Social Media Makes Us Lonely (0)
- 15: Slick Data Visualization Reveals Scientific Collaborations Taking Place Around the Globe (1)
- 15: Documentary Viva Joe Strummer: The Story of the Clash Surveys the Career of Rock’s Beloved Frontman (2)
- 15: What Can Philosophy Do For You? Higher Test Scores, Better Jobs, Bigger Pay (Among Other Things) (1)
- 15: Eric Clapton’s Favorite Guitar Solo: Duane Allman on Wilson Pickett’s 1968 Cover of the Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ (13)
- 15: A Poet in Cinema: Andrei Tarkovsky Reveals the Director’s Deep Thoughts on Filmmaking and Life (1)
- 14: The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come) (3)
- 14: Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock: Historic Concert Captured on Film (1)
- 14: 8-Year-Old George Orwell Sends a Cute Picture and Error-Filled Letter To His Mother, 1911 (0)
- 14: Michel Foucault – Beyond Good and Evil: 1993 Documentary Explores the Theorist’s Controversial Life and Philosophy (2)
- 13: Alfred Hitchcock’s 50 Ways to Kill a Character (and Our Favorite Hitch Resources on the Web) (1)
- 13: Who’s Who on a Movie Crew: An Animated Primer (3)
- 13: Cormac McCarthy’s Three Punctuation Rules, and How They All Go Back to James Joyce (62)
- 13: Listen to Charles Bukowski Poems Being Read by Bukowski Himself & the Great Tom Waits (1)
- 13: Flashmob Performs The Beatles’ ‘Here Comes the Sun’ in Madrid Unemployment Office (6)
- 12: Watch Werner Herzog’s From One Second to the Next, an Eye-Opening Film Reveals the Dangers of Texting While Driving (5)
- 12: Hunter S. Thompson’s Harrowing, Chemical-Filled Daily Routine (15)
- 12: Dueling Divas: Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick Sing Two Classic Versions of ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ (19)
- 12: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Vincent Price & Christopher Lee (8)
- 12: The Breaking Bad Theme Played with Meth Lab Equipment (1)
- 10: What Prisoners Ate at Alcatraz in 1946: A Vintage Prison Menu (16)
- 10: Read Marx’s Capital with David Harvey, and Then Help Translate His Free Course Into 36 Languages (1)
- 09: Watch the Original Audition Tapes for Breaking Bad Before the Final Season Debuts (2)
- 09: See Patti Smith Give Two Dramatic Readings of Allen Ginsberg’s “Footnote to Howl” (2)
- 09: See a Peruvian Prison Seized with Dance Fever as They Try to Break a Guinness World Record (0)
- 09: David Bowie’s Fashionable Mug Shot From His 1976 Marijuana Bust (2)
- 08: 14-Year-Old Girl’s Blistering Heavy Metal Performance of Vivaldi (44)
- 08: Hear the Never-Before-Released Bob Dylan Song “Pretty Saro” (1970) (4)
- 08: Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife: “You, Dead, Are So Much Better Than Anyone Else Alive” (1946) (21)
- 08: Master of Light: A Close Look at the Paintings of Johannes Vermeer Narrated by Meryl Streep (4)
- 07: Steven Pinker: “Dear Humanists, Science is Not Your Enemy” (3)
- 07: A Trip to the Moon (and Five Other Free Films) by Georges Méliès, the Father of Special Effects (5)
- 07: Francis Ford Coppola’s Handwritten Casting Notes for The Godfather (1)
- 07: 1922 Photo: Claude Monet Stands on the Japanese Footbridge He Painted Through the Years (0)
- 07: The Historic Meeting Between Dickens and Dostoevsky Revealed as a Great Literary Hoax (2)
- 07: Cookpad, the Largest Recipe Site in Japan, Launches New Site in English (4)
- 06: 10 Tips From Billy Wilder on How to Write a Good Screenplay (11)
- 06: The 10-Minute, Never-Released, Experimental Demo of The Beatles’ “Revolution” (1968) (26)
- 06: Jurassic Park Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the Dangers of Global Capitalism (0)
- 06: Andy Warhol Shoots “Screen Tests” of Nico, Bob Dylan & Salvador Dalí (3)
- 06: The “Celebrity Lecture Series” From Michigan State Features Talks by Great Writers of Our Time (2)
- 05: Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Books Online (20)
- 05: Thom Yorke’s Isolated Vocal Track on Radiohead’s 1992 Classic, ‘Creep’ (3)
- 05: Photos of Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, J.D. Salinger, and Virginia Woolf As Youngsters (2)
- 05: Neil deGrasseTyson Receives Irate Mail from Kids After Pluto Gets Booted from List of Planets (0)
- 04: How Climate Change Is Threatening Your Daily Cup of Coffee (7)
- 03: Free: Download 151 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Stories from Tor.com (18)
- 02: Watch the First Commercial Ever Shown on American TV, 1941 (8)
- 02: Woody Allen Lists the Greatest Films of All Time: Includes Classics by Bergman, Truffaut & Fellini (27)
- 02: Watch Lollapalooza 2013. It’s Streaming Live on YouTube This Weekend, and It’s Free (0)
- 02: Watch as Van Gogh’s Famous Self-Portrait Morphs Into a Photograph (3)
- 02: George Saunders Extols the Virtues of Kindness in 2013 Speech to Syracuse University Grads (1)
- 01: F. Scott Fitzgerald Creates a List of 22 Essential Books, 1936 (11)
- 01: 132 Years of Global Warming Visualized in 26 Dramatically Animated Seconds (4)
- 01: The Origins Project Brings Together Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Bill Nye, Ira Flatow, and More on One Stage (3)
- 01: The Masterful Polaroid Pictures Taken by Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (3)
- 01: 100 Great Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online) (13)
- July 2013 (120)
- 31: A Subway Ride Through New York City: Watch Vintage Footage from 1905 (3)
- 31: Martin Scorsese Reveals His 12 Favorite Movies (21)
- 31: New Archive Reveals How Scientists Finally Solved the Vexing “Longitude Problem” During the 1700s (2)
- 31: Classic Monty Python: Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw Engage in a Hilarious Battle of Wits (2)
- 31: Bryan Cranston Reads Shelley’s Sonnet “Ozymandias” in Ominous Teaser for Breaking Bad’s Last Season (6)
- 31: Stephen Colbert Tries to Make Sense of MOOCs with the Head of edX (0)
- 30: Stanley Kubrick’s List of Top 10 Films: The First and Only List He Ever Created (31)
- 30: Noam Chomsky Went Gangnam Style … Ever So Briefly? (4)
- 30: The Lost/Animated Interview with Fidel Castro: If the Revolution Fails, Cuba Will be “Hell Itself” (1959) (0)
- 30: Guitar Stories: Mark Knopfler on the Six Guitars That Shaped His Career (17)
- 30: J.R.R. Tolkien Reads From The Two Towers, the Second Book of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (7)
- 29: Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Played With 167 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls in Japan (3)
- 29: See What Happens When You Run Finnegans Wake Through a Spell Checker (7)
- 29: Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of 87 Essential Films Every Aspiring Director Should See (48)
- 29: Nobel Laureates Draw Playful Pictures of Their Discoveries (0)
- 29: When William S. Burroughs Joined Scientology (and His 1971 Book Denouncing It) (1)
- 29: Now I Know My LSD ABCs: A Trippy Animation of the Alphabet (2)
- 28: Watch D.W. Griffith’s Silent Masterpiece Intolerance Free Online — It’s the “Ulysses of the Cinema!” (2)
- 28: Remembering J.J. Cale, Virtuoso Guitarist and Author of ‘Cocaine’ and ‘After Midnight,’ with a 1979 Concert (7)
- 27: Neil deGrasse Tyson Unveils a Dazzling Preview of the New Cosmos (1)
- 27: Slavoj Žižek Publishes a Very Clearly Written Essay-Length Response to Chomsky’s “Brutal” Criticisms (35)
- 26: Björk and Sir David Attenborough Team Up in a New Documentary About Music and Technology (4)
- 26: Mick Jagger Defends the Rights of the Individual After His Legendary 1967 Drug Bust (1)
- 26: The General, “Perhaps the Greatest Film Ever Made,” and 20 Other Buster Keaton Classics Free Online (5)
- 26: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Author Jane Austen Will Appear on the £10 Note (0)
- 25: The History of Philosophy, from 600 B.C.E. to 1935, Visualized in Two Massive, 44-Foot High Diagrams (24)
- 25: Junot Díaz Annotates a Selection of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for “Poetry Genius” (0)
- 25: The First Bloomsday: Watch Dublin’s Literati Celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses in Drunken Fashion, 1954 (3)
- 25: The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook: Philosopher Ponders Making Omelets in Long Lost Diary Entries (1)
- 24: Seven New Courses Coming from the School of Open: Sign Up Today (5)
- 24: Walter Benjamin’s Philosophical Thought Presented by Two Experimental Films (6)
- 24: Are the Rich Jerks? See the Science (18)
- 24: 20 Books People Pretend to Read (and Now Your Confessions?) (56)
- 24: Read Fanny Hill, the 18th-Century Erotic Novel That Went to the Supreme Court in the 20th Century (0)
- 24: The Actual Schindler’s List Is For Sale on Ebay, Starting Bid $3,000,000 (0)
- 23: Henry Rollins: Education is the Cure to “Disaster Capitalism” (2)
- 23: Rare 1910 Audio: Sarah Bernhardt, ‘The Most Famous Actress the World Has Ever Known,’ in Racine’s Phèdre (6)
- 23: The Atheism Tapes Presents Lengthy Interviews with Arthur Miller, Daniel Dennett & Richard Dawkins About Religion and Unbelief (9)
- 23: Video: Bob Marley Plays a Soccer Match in Brazil, 1980 (1)
- 23: The Way Too Philosophical Pop Song (1)
- 22: Watch Pitch Tar Finally Drip in One of World’s Oldest, Slowest-Moving Experiments (1)
- 22: The Feud Continues: Noam Chomsky Responds to Žižek, Describes Remarks as ‘Sheer Fantasy’ (26)
- 22: Bill Murray Reads Great Poetry by Billy Collins, Cole Porter, and Sarah Manguso (5)
- 22: Richard Wright Stars as Bigger Thomas in a 1951 Screen Test for Native Son (0)
- 21: 8-Year-Old Anne Frank Plays in a Sandbox on a Summer Day, 1937 (0)
- 21: Free Comic Books Turns Kids Onto Physics: Start With the Adventures of Nikola Tesla (9)
- 20: John Updike’s Advice to Young Writers: ‘Reserve an Hour a Day’ (0)
- 19: Alan Turing, Brilliant Mathematician and Code Breaker, Will Be Finally Pardoned by British Government (6)
- 19: Musical Comedian Reggie Watts Reinvents Van Halen’s Classic, “Panama” (0)
- 19: Star Wars Gets Dubbed into Navajo: a Fun Way to Preserve and Teach a Fading Language (1)
- 19: Watch 25 Alfred Hitchcock Trailers, Exciting Films in Their Own Right (0)
- 19: Building The Eiffel Tower: Three Google Exhibitions Revisit the Birth of the Great Parisian Monument (0)
- 18: Louis Armstrong Plays Trumpet at the Egyptian Pyramids; Dizzy Gillespie Charms a Snake in Pakistan (1)
- 18: The Poetry of Leonard Cohen Illustrated by Two Short Films (0)
- 18: Watch Out For the Flying Folding Chairs, It’s The Noam Chomsky Show! (0)
- 18: Gertrude Stein Sends a “Review” of The Great Gatsby to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) (4)
- 18: Charles Mingus Explains in His Grammy-Winning Essay “What is a Jazz Composer?” (1)
- 17: How the Tesla Model S is Made: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour (0)
- 17: Slavoj Žižek Responds to Noam Chomsky: ‘I Don’t Know a Guy Who Was So Often Empirically Wrong’ (101)
- 17: David Foster Wallace’s Love of Language Revealed by the Books in His Personal Library (0)
- 17: The Making of a Steinway Grand Piano, From Start to Finish (1)
- 17: Pussy Riot Releases First Video in a Year, Taking on Russian Oil Profits and Other High-Profile Targets (1)
- 16: Read Ulysses Seen, A Graphic Novel Adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1)
- 16: Nirvana Plays in a Radio Shack, the Day After Recording its First Demo Tape (1988) (2)
- 16: Better Living Through Buckminster Fuller’s Utopian Designs: Revisit the Dymaxion Car, House, and Map (4)
- 16: Hannah Arendt Discusses Philosophy, Politics & Eichmann in Rare 1964 TV Interview (5)
- 16: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?: A 1958 Look at How Modern Gadgets & Conveniences Lead to Existential Hell (2)
- 15: The Real Value of a Guitar (5)
- 15: Watch a Whimsical Animation of Italo Calvino’s Short Story “The Distance of the Moon” (0)
- 15: The Writing Life of Joyce Carol Oates (1)
- 15: World-Renowned Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Has a Laugh on Old Jews Telling Jokes (1)
- 15: Rare Print of Censored 1972 Rolling Stones Concert Film Cocksucker Blues Goes on Sale for £25,000 (0)
- 13: Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated “Polysyllabic Truisms” (30)
- 13: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s . . . John Lydon in a Butter Commercial? (2)
- 12: Can Science Fiction Save the Liberal Arts? (Asks The New Republic) (4)
- 12: Mr. Rogers Takes Breakdancing Lessons from a 12-Year-Old (1985) (0)
- 11: Selling Cool: Lou Reed’s Classic Honda Scooter Commercial, 1984 (0)
- 11: Virginia Woolf and Friends Dress Up as “Abyssinian Princes” and Fool the British Royal Navy (1910) (0)
- 11: Two Scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Recreated in Lego (1)
- 11: Annotated Photographs of Beat Writers Featured in The Allen Ginsberg Festival, Starting Today (0)
- 10: Johnny Rotten’s Cordial Letter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Next to the Sex Pistols, You’re ‘a Piss Stain’ (17)
- 10: Download a Free Course from “The Great Courses” Through Audible.com’s Free Trial Program (2)
- 10: The Grateful Dead’s “Ultimate Bootleg” Now Online & Added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry (3)
- 10: Three Great Films Starring Charlie Chaplin, the True Icon of Silent Comedy (0)
- 10: How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954 (3)
- 10: New Robert Rauschenberg Digital Collection Lets You Download Free High-Res Images of the Artist’s Work (4)
- 09: Alfred Hitchcock Explains the Plot Device He Called the ‘MacGuffin’ (2)
- 09: 55 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) for the Dog Days of Summer (0)
- 09: Four American Composers: Peter Greenaway on John Cage, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, and Robert Ashley (1983) (0)
- 09: Listening to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, (Maybe) the Longest Audio Book Ever Made (3)
- 08: Marvin Gaye’s Classic Vocals on ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine’: The A Cappella Version (5)
- 08: Vi Hart Uses Her Video Magic to Demystify Stravinsky and Schoenberg’s 12-Tone Compositions (6)
- 08: The Most “Intellectual Jokes”: Our Favorite Open Culture Reader Submissions (28)
- 08: George Orwell Explains How to Make a Proper Cup of Tea (10)
- 07: What’s the Most Intellectual Joke You Know?: The Best from Reddit (and You?) (65)
- 06: Charles Bukowski Sets His Amusing Conditions for Giving a Poetry Reading (1971) (5)
- 06: Rapping About Science: Watch High School Senior Jabari Johnson Talk Physics with Poetic Lyrics (2)
- 05: A Short Film on the Famous Crosswalk From the Beatles’ Abbey Road Album Cover (3)
- 05: Mark Twain Drafts the Ultimate Letter of Complaint (1905) (6)
- 04: Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Version of “Little Wing” Played on Traditional Korean Instrument, the Gayageum (0)
- 04: The Genius of Albrecht Dürer Revealed in Four Self-Portraits (17)
- 04: The Relativity Series Features 24 Free Plays About Great Scientists and Scientific Endeavors (0)
- 04: Cutting-Edge Technology Reconstructs the Battle of Gettysburg 150 Years Later (0)
- 04: Teacher Wears Same Groovy Outfit In Yearbook Photo 40 Years Straight (4)
- 04: Great Moments in Computer History: Douglas Engelbart Presents “The Mother of All Demos” (1968) (0)
- 03: Watch Franz Kafka, the Wonderful Animated Film by Piotr Dumala (5)
- 03: Hearsay of the Soul: A 5-Channel Video Installation by Celebrated German Filmmaker Werner Herzog (0)
- 03: A Song of Our Warming Planet: Cellist Turns 130 Years of Climate Change Data into Music (7)
- 03: Learn 48 Languages for Free Online: A Big Update to Our Master List (20)
- 03: David Bowie Narrates Sergei Prokofiev’s Children’s Symphony Peter and the Wolf (4)
- 02: How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military (23)
- 02: The Earliest Footage of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash (1955) (3)
- 02: Deconstructing The Master Track of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (1)
- 02: Jump Start Your Creative Process with Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” Deck of Cards (1975) (2)
- 01: Blondie Plays CBGB in the Mid-70s in Two Vintage Clips (2)
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- 01: John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism in French Philosophy (30)
- 01: Watch “The Secret Tournament” & “The Rematch,” Terry Gilliam’s Star-Studded Soccer Ads for Nike (0)
- 01: Stephen Fry Reads Oscar Wilde’s Children’s Story “The Happy Prince” (4)
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- 30: In “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” Artist John Koenig Names Feelings that Leave Us Speechless (2)
- 30: Revealed: The Visual Effects Behind The Great Gatsby (0)
- 29: A Short, Animated Look at What’s Inside Your Average Cup of Coffee (2)
- 29: The Do’s and Don’ts of Improv Comedy with Liam Neeson, Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, and Del Close (2)
- 28: Noam Chomsky Slams Žižek and Lacan: Empty ‘Posturing’ (106)
- 28: Two Drawings by Jorge Luis Borges Illustrate the Author’s Obsessions (0)
- 28: Jean-Luc Godard’s Debut, Opération béton (1955) — a Construction Documentary (0)
- 27: Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from Publisher (1912) (14)
- 27: The Beatles Perform in a Spoof of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1964 (1)
- 27: Wes Anderson’s First Short Film: The Black-and-White, Jazz-Scored Bottle Rocket (1992) (1)
- 27: Helen Keller & Annie Sullivan Appear Together in Moving 1930 Newsreel (0)
- 27: Watch a Surprisingly Moving Performance of John Cage’s 1948 “Suite for Toy Piano” (3)
- 26: The Art of Punk Presents a New Documentary on The Dead Kennedys and Their Gritty Aesthetics (0)
- 26: Free Business Courses: Discover Our New Collection (and Offer Your Own Suggestions) (4)
- 26: The Atlas of True Names Restores Modern Cities to Their Middle Earth-ish Roots (2)
- 26: Louis Armstrong’s 1964 Interview with a Pair of Intrepid Kid Reporters (1)
- 26: The World’s Best Commercials from 2012-2013 Named at Cannes (0)
- 26: What Do Most Philosophers Believe? A Wide-Ranging Survey Project Gives Us Some Idea (6)
- 25: Explore the Massive Stanley Kubrick Exhibit, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Until June 30 (1)
- 25: Free Interactive e-Books from NASA Reveal History, Discoveries of the Hubble & Webb Telescopes (1)
- 25: Amazing Aerial Photographs of Great American Cities Circa 1906 (0)
- 25: Watch Monty Python’s “Summarize Proust Competition” on the 100th Anniversary of Swann’s Way (0)
- 25: The Musical Mind of Albert Einstein: Great Physicist, Amateur Violinist and Devotee of Mozart (4)
- 24: Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot Perform Outlaw-Inspired Love Song, ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (1968) (0)
- 24: Two Childhood Drawings from Poet E.E. Cummings Show the Young Artist’s Playful Seriousness (0)
- 24: Japanese Movie Posters of 10 David Lynch Films (0)
- 24: Mickey Mouse In Vietnam: The Underground Anti-War Animation from 1968, Co-Created by Milton Glaser (0)
- 23: “Notebook on Cities and Culture,” a Worldwide In-Depth Interview Podcast, Kickstarting Now (0)
- 23: James Gandolfini Shows Kinder, Softer, Gentler Side on Sesame Street (2002) (0)
- 22: A Lover’s Spat Set to the Lyrics of 17 Beatles Songs (4)
- 21: Iggy Pop Conducts a Tour of New York’s Lower East Side, Circa 1993 (5)
- 21: How to Make a Mummy — Demonstrated by The Getty Museum (0)
- 21: Watch His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks’ Classic Screwball Comedy Starring Cary Grant, Free Online (4)
- 20: A Beer Bottle Gets Turned Into a 19th Century Edison Cylinder and Plays Fine Music (0)
- 20: James Gandolfini Reads from Maurice Sendak’s Children’s Story “In The Night Kitchen” (0)
- 20: An Animated “Speedrun” Through Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (0)
- 20: Philosophy’s Power Couple, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Featured in 1967 TV Interview (0)
- 19: The Late James Gandolfini, Star of The Sopranos, Appears on Inside the Actors Studio (2004) (1)
- 19: Watch Dreams That Money Can Buy, a Surrealist Film by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger & Hans Richter (7)
- 19: “Performance Philosopher” Jason Silva Introduces Mind-Altering New Video Series, “Shots of Awe” (7)
- 19: Mick Jagger Tells the Story Behind ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Merry Clayton’s Haunting Background Vocals (92)
- 19: An Animated History of the Tulip (0)
- 19: See Stevie Wonder Play “Superstition” and Banter with Grover on Sesame Street in 1973 (1)
- 18: Watch the Earliest Known Footage of Louis Armstrong Performing Live in Concert (Copenhagen, 1933) (6)
- 18: The Art of Punk, MOCA’s Series of Punk Documentaries, Begins with Black Flag: Watch It Online (2)
- 18: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Releases a “Heavy Metal” Song & Video Recalling His Harsh Imprisonment (1)
- 18: Introducing Wireless Philosophy: An Open Access Philosophy Project Created by Yale and MIT (1)
- 18: A Look Inside Mel Blanc’s Throat as He Performs the Voices of Bugs Bunny and Other Cartoon Legends (1)
- 17: Kickstart Sound Poetry, Ken Berman’s Jazz Album Inspired by Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan (0)
- 17: Want to Know What Makes the Troops Laugh? Comedian Louis CK in Afghanistan (Quite NSFW) (1)
- 17: The Ramones in Their Heyday, Filmed “Live at CBGB” (1977) (3)
- 17: Hear Charlton Heston Read Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (0)
- 17: Google Wants to Provide Internet Access to Remote Parts of the World with Solar-Powered Balloons (1)
- 16: Watch the World Record for the Largest Domino Chain Made of 2,131 Books (5)
- 16: James Joyce Reads a Passage From Ulysses, 1924 (0)
- 16: Japanese Animation Director Hayao Miyazaki Shows Us How to Make Instant Ramen (11)
- 15: Rick Wakeman Tells the Story of the Mellotron, the Oddball Proto-Synthesizer Pioneered by the Beatles (16)
- 14: Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic?: A Retrospective of His Influential Radio Appearances (0)
- 14: Mick Jagger, 15 Years Old, Shows Off His Rock Climbing Shoes on British TV (1959) (3)
- 14: The Faces of Great Physicists on International Currency (4)
- 14: The Extraordinary Life and Art of Henri Cartier-Bresson Revealed in 1998 Documentary (1)
- 14: Real Women Talk About Their Careers in Science (0)
- 13: Paul McCartney Talks Beatles & Wings with Stephen Colbert, Performs 6 Songs Live (0)
- 13: The Greatness of Charles Darwin Explained with Rap Music (0)
- 13: Download 60 Free History Courses from Great Universities (2)
- 13: The Original 1940s Superman Cartoon: Watch 17 Classic Episodes Free Online (0)
- 12: 250,000 Artworks from 250 Museums, Now Viewable for Free at the Redesigned Google Art Project (7)
- 12: What Happens on the Internet in 60 Seconds (0)
- 12: The First Recording of Allen Ginsberg Reading “Howl” (1956) (5)
- 12: Hear A Young Bob Dylan Sing 11 Songs and Tell Tall Tales on a 1962 Radio Show (2)
- 12: Listen to Freddie Mercury’s Wondrous Piano and Vocal Tracks for “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975) (7)
- 11: The National Gallery Makes 25,000 Images of Artwork Freely Available Online (6)
- 11: World Records: New Photo Exhibit Pays Tribute to the Era of Vinyl Records & Turntables (2)
- 11: Do You Drink Soda, Pop or Soft Drinks?: 122 Heatmaps Visualize How People Talk in America (0)
- 11: Listen to T.S. Eliot Recite His Late Masterpiece, the Four Quartets (6)
- 11: Zen Master Alan Watts Discovers the Secrets of Aldous Huxley and His Art of Dying (1)
- 10: Maurice Sendak Animated; James Gandolfini Reads from Sendak’s Story “In The Night Kitchen” (0)
- 10: Making Radiolab: A Soup-to-Nuts Recipe for a Great Radio Show/Podcast (0)
- 10: David Byrne’s Graduation Speech Offers Troubling and Encouraging Advice for Students in the Arts (2)
- 10: Patti Smith Reads Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Little Viennese Waltz” in New York City (2)
- 10: Louis CK Ridicules Avant-Garde Art on 1990s MTV Show (1)
- 08: Philadelphia Orchestra Quartet Gets Stuck on a Plane in China, Plays Dvořák for Grateful Passengers (5)
- 07: Samuel L. Jackson Does a Dramatic Breaking Bad Monologue for Alzheimer’s Charity (3)
- 07: Allen Ginsberg’s Personal Recipe for Cold Summer Borscht (0)
- 07: Hear Theodor Adorno’s Avant-Garde Musical Compositions (6)
- 07: Berlin Street Scenes Beautifully Caught on Film (1900-1914) (5)
- 06: Rare 1940 Audio: Thomas Mann Explains the Nazis’ Ulterior Motive for Spreading Anti-Semitism (4)
- 06: Building Statues for Nikola Tesla and Bob Dylan: Two Kickstarter Campaigns (0)
- 06: Buzz Aldrin and Thomas Dolby Geek Out and Sing “She Blinded Me With Science” (2)
- 06: Neil Young Busts a Music Store for Selling a Bootleg CSNY Album (1971) (6)
- 06: The Outspoken Ayn Rand Interviewed by Mike Wallace (1959) (5)
- 05: Bauhaus, Modernism & Other Design Movements Explained by New Animated Video Series (9)
- 05: Philip Roth Reads “In Memory of a Friend, Teacher & Mentor” (A Free Download Benefiting a Public Library) (0)
- 05: Does Math Objectively Exist, or Is It a Human Creation? A New PBS Video Explores a Timeless Question (14)
- 05: The Philosophy of Nietzsche: An Introduction by Alain de Botton (3)
- 04: Listen to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,’ 1981 (92)
- 04: Watch Idem Paris, David Lynch’s Short Film on the Art of Making Lithographs (0)
- 04: Watch Animations of Oscar Wilde’s Children’s Stories “The Happy Prince” and “The Selfish Giant” (1)
- 03: Free: The Great Gatsby & Other Major Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald (0)
- 03: Listen as Albert Einstein Calls for Peace and Social Justice in 1945 (9)
- 03: Atheist Ira Glass Believes Christians Get the Short End of the Media Stick (10)
- 03: Alfred Hitchcock Talks with Dick Cavett About Sabotage, Foreign Correspondent & Laxatives (1972) (0)
- 03: Patrick Stewart Talks Candidly About Domestic Violence in a Poignant Q&A Session at Comicpalooza (2)
- 01: Oprah Winfrey’s Harvard Commencement Speech: Failure is Just Part of Moving Through Life (19)
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- 31: Carl Jung’s Fascinating 1957 Letter on UFOs (16)
- 31: Watch Phish Play All of The Rolling Stones’ Classic Album, Exile on Main Street, Live in Concert (1)
- 31: Dexter Gordon’s Elegant Version of the Jazz Standard ‘What’s New,’ 1964 (1)
- 31: Tilda Swinton Recites Poem by Rumi While Reeking of Vetiver, Heliotrope & Musk (0)
- 30: Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #4, Visualized by the Great Music Animation Machine (1)
- 30: James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, Extols Some Odd Virtues of Ronald Reagan in New Animated Video (0)
- 30: Rediscovered: The First American Anti-Nazi Film, Banned by U.S. Censors and Forgotten for 80 Years (13)
- 30: Punk Meets High Fashion in Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition PUNK: Chaos to Couture (1)
- 29: Watch Sir Edmund Hillary Describe His Everest Ascent, on the 60th Anniversary of His Climb (2)
- 29: Eric Clapton’s Isolated Guitar Track From the Beatles’ ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (1968) (59)
- 29: The Beauty of Space Photography (2)
- 29: Hear Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in 1962 Recording (11)
- 29: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Visualized in a Computer Animation (4)
- 28: The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Heroes (3)
- 28: Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico Reunite, Play Acoustic Velvet Underground Songs on French TV, 1972 (0)
- 28: Hear the Classic Winnie-the-Pooh Read by Author A.A. Milne in 1929 (13)
- 28: Black Coffee: Documentary Covers the History, Politics & Economics of the “Most Widely Taken Legal Drug” (2)
- 28: Eight Radiohead Albums Reimagined as Vintage Paperback Books (0)
- 27: Leonard Cohen and U2 Perform ‘Tower of Song,’ a Meditation on Aging, Loss & Survival (3)
- 27: Hear the Little-Known Version of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” With Experimental Cellist Arthur Russell (2)
- 27: Piotr Dumala’s Artful Animations of Literary Works by Kafka & Dostoevsky (3)
- 26: Pakistani Orchestra Plays Eastern-Flavored Version of REM’s “Everybody Hurts” (16)
- 24: Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica and Other Art-Adorned Vatican Spaces (8)
- 24: Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer, 1934 (39)
- 24: Blackie Pagano Shows Off Vintage Guitar Amps, Including One That Belonged to Django Reinhardt (0)
- 24: Amanda Palmer’s Tips for Being an Artist in the Rough-and-Tumble Digital Age (0)
- 24: Watch Another Green World, a Hypnotic Portrait of Brian Eno (2010) (0)
- 23: Helen Keller Speaks About Her Greatest Regret — Never Mastering Speech (1)
- 23: Carl Sagan on the Virtues of Marijuana (1969) (1)
- 23: Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Rare TV Interview (1975) (13)
- 22: Dave Grohl, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt & Other Friends Make Surprise Appearances on Rolling Stones Tour (1)
- 22: Modern Artists Show How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Coins, Vases & Artisanal Glass (2)
- 22: Watch Tom Waits, Bill Murray, and Other Modern Bards Read Some of Your Favorite Classic Poems (3)
- 22: Three University Projects Use Twitter to Understand Happiness, Hate and Other Emotions in America (0)
- 21: Ricky Gervais Presents “Learn Guitar with David Brent” (3)
- 21: Hear Kurt Vonnegut’s Very First Public Reading from Breakfast of Champions (1970) (2)
- 21: Daniel Dennett Presents Seven Tools For Critical Thinking (14)
- 21: Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek Tells the Story of the Classic Song, ‘Riders on the Storm’ (6)
- 20: Dream, A Short Documentary on the Art and Culture of Burning Man (1)
- 20: Watch Picasso Create Entire Paintings in Magnificent Time-Lapse Film (1956) (12)
- 20: Keith Moon’s Last Interview, 1978 (1)
- 20: Charles Bukowski Provides Narration for the 1990 Documentary The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1)
- 20: Allen Ginsberg’s “Celestial Homework”: A Reading List for His Class “Literary History of the Beats” (0)
- 19: Download 100 Free Online Philosophy Courses & Start Living the Examined Life (9)
- 18: Duke Ellington’s Symphony in Black, Starring a 19-Year-old Billie Holiday in Her First Filmed Performance (5)
- 17: How Famous Writers — From J.K. Rowling to William Faulkner — Visually Outlined Their Novels (6)
- 17: Watch 5 Filmmakers Recall Their Most Cringeworthy Moments at the Movies with Mom & Dad (8)
- 17: Photographer Revisits Abandoned Movie Sets for Star Wars and Other Classic Films in North Africa (3)
- 16: 7 Nobel Speeches by 7 Great Writers: Hemingway, Faulkner, and More (13)
- 16: Listen to the National’s New Album, Trouble Will Find Me, on iTunes (Free for a Limited Time) (0)
- 16: Keith Richards Waxes Philosophical, Plays Live with His Idol, the Great Muddy Waters (0)
- 16: Free Science Fiction Classics Available on the Web (Updated) (1)
- 16: Haruki Murakami Translates The Great Gatsby, the Novel That Influenced Him Most (2)
- 16: 1927 London Shown in Moving Color (3)
- 15: The Art of Data Visualization: How to Tell Complex Stories Through Smart Design (1)
- 15: Dylan Thomas Sketches a Caricature of a Drunken Dylan Thomas (0)
- 15: Ten Buildings That Changed America: Watch the Debut Episode from the New PBS Series (0)
- 15: Jimi Hendrix’s Final Interview on September 11, 1970: Listen to the Complete Audio (1)
- 15: Ken Robinson Explains How to Escape the Death Valley of American Education (1)
- 14: Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Kiss My Ass” (11)
- 14: The Poetry of Bruce Lee: Discover the Artistic Life of the Martial Arts Icon (4)
- 14: Henry Miller Talks Writing and the Expat Life with Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, and Others (1969) (0)
- 14: Frank Lloyd Wright Reflects on Creativity, Nature and Religion in Rare 1957 Audio (2)
- 14: The Art of Sylvia Plath: Revisit Her Sketches, Self-Portraits, Drawings & Illustrated Letters (1)
- 13: Daft Punk’s New Album, Random Access Memories, Streaming for Free on iTunes for a Limited Time (0)
- 13: Carl Jung Explains His Groundbreaking Theories About Psychology in a Rare Interview (1957) (2)
- 13: Watch Isabella Rossellini Embody the Animal Kingdom’s Most Shocking Maternal Instincts in Mammas (2)
- 13: The Genius of Brian Eno On Display in 80 Minute Q&A: Talks Art, iPad Apps, ABBA, & More (1)
- 13: In 1969 Telegram, Jimi Hendrix Invites Paul McCartney to Join a Super Group with Miles Davis (13)
- 12: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Sings David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” On Board the International Space Station (6)
- 11: The Romantic George Carlin Writes a Nano-Powered, Sub Atomic-Filled Love Letter to His Wife (8)
- 11: Record-a-Poem for Mother’s Day (1)
- 11: How Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive Will Preserve the Infinite Information on the Web (0)
- 10: Listen to The John Bonham Story, a Radio Show Hosted by Dave Grohl (0)
- 10: Google Reveals the Evolution of Our Planet in Timelapse Motion (1)
- 10: Freiheit, George Lucas’ Short Student Film About a Fatal Run from Communism (1966) (2)
- 09: Rare 1952 Film: William Faulkner on His Native Soil in Oxford, Mississippi (2)
- 09: Five Cultural Tours of Los Angeles (0)
- 09: An Animated Visualization of Every Observed Meteorite That Has Hit Earth Since 861 AD (1)
- 09: A Theory of Justice, the Musical Imagines Philosopher John Rawls as a Time-Traveling Adventurer (1)
- 08: Tom Waits Sings and Tells Stories in Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna, a 1979 Austrian Film (4)
- 08: David Foster Wallace’s Famous Commencement Speech “This is Water” Visualized in a Short Film (0)
- 08: Celebrate Saul Bass’ 93rd Birthday with an Animated Google Doodle (0)
- 08: Steven Soderbergh Writes Twitter Novella After His Retirement From Filmmaking (1)
- 07: Growing Up John Waters: The Oddball Filmmaker Catalogues His Many Formative Rebellions (1993) (1)
- 07: How Marie Antoinette, Shakespeare and Other Historical Figures Might Look Today (1)
- 07: An Introduction to Great Economists — Adam Smith, the Physiocrats & More — Presented in New MOOC (0)
- 07: Glenn Gould Offers a Strikingly Unconventional Interpretation of 1806 Beethoven Composition (1)
- 07: The Philosophy of Kierkegaard, the First Existentialist Philosopher, Revisited in 1984 Documentary (0)
- 06: Revisit Martin Scorsese’s Hand-Drawn Storyboards for Taxi Driver (4)
- 06: The History of Typography Told in Five Animated Minutes (5)
- 06: The Craft and Philosophy of Building Wooden Boats by Hand (2)
- 06: The Strange Day When Bugs Bunny Saved the Life of Mel Blanc (12)
- 06: The Meticulous Business Ledger F. Scott Fitzgerald Kept Between Hangovers and Happy Hour (3)
- 06: James Joyce Plays the Guitar (1915) (4)
- 05: Mick Jones Plays Three Classics by The Clash at the Public Library (0)
- 04: Leonard Bernstein Conducts Beethoven’s 9th in a Classic 1979 Performance (1)
- 03: 10 Golden Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea (1941) (11)
- 03: Kurt Vonnegut to John F. Kennedy: ‘On Occasion, I Write Pretty Well’ (3)
- 03: Beth, I Hear You Loud and Clear: A Fictional Origin Story of KISS’ Best Selling Single (1)
- 03: Watch D.O.A., Rudolph Maté’s “Innovative and Downright Twisted” Noir Film (1950) (2)
- 02: Leonard Susskind Teaches You “The Theoretical Minimum” for Understanding Modern Physics (5)
- 02: ‘Beastie Boys on Being Stupid’: An Animated Interview From 1985 (1)
- 02: New Jazz Archive Features Rare Audio of Louis Armstrong & Other Legends Playing in San Francisco (3)
- 02: Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline (0)
- 02: John Cage Plays Amplified Cacti and Plant Materials with a Feather (1984) (0)
- 01: David Bowie Recalls the Strange Experience of Inventing the Character Ziggy Stardust (1977) (4)
- 01: A Boy And His Atom: IBM Creates the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film With Atoms (0)
- 01: Obey the Giant: Short Film Presents the True Story of Shepard Fairey’s First Act of Street Art (0)
- 01: 23 Cartoonists Unite to Demand Action to Reduce Gun Violence: Watch the Result (10)
- 01: The Finland Wartime Photo Archive: 160,000 Images From World War II Now Online (3)
- April 2013 (114)
- 30: Joan Baez Live in 1965: Full Concert (1)
- 30: Rare Miles Davis Live Recordings Capture the Jazz Musician at the Height of His Powers (4)
- 30: Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Animated in Two Minutes (7)
- 30: Watch the Finals of the Poetry Out Loud Competition, Live Tonight (0)
- 30: Willie Nelson Auditions for The Hobbit Film Sequel, Turns 80 Today (0)
- 30: Steven Spielberg’s Obama, Starring Daniel Day Lewis as the President (1)
- 29: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why He’s Uncomfortable Being Labeled an ‘Atheist’ (58)
- 29: A Short Animated History of the GIF (1)
- 29: How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War (19)
- 29: No Women Need Apply: A Disheartening 1938 Rejection Letter from Disney Animation (12)
- 27: The Odd Collection of Books in the Guantanamo Prison Library (4)
- 26: Andrés Segovia: Song of the Guitar, Beautifully Filmed at the Alhambra (2)
- 26: Tilda Swinton and Barry White Lead 1500 People in Dance-Along to Honor Roger Ebert (1)
- 26: History Declassified: New Archive Reveals Once-Secret Documents from World Governments (1)
- 26: Jane Austen, Game Theorist: UCLA Poli Sci Prof Finds Shrewd Strategy in “Cluelessness” (3)
- 26: Woody Allen Amuses Himself by Giving Untruthful Answers in Unaired 1971 TV Interview (9)
- 25: John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd Get Brian Wilson Out of Bed and Force Him to Go Surfing, 1976 (2)
- 25: Listen to Iggy & The Stooges’ New Album Ready to Die — Online For a Limited Time (0)
- 25: Hear the Voice of Alexander Graham Bell for the First Time in a Century (1)
- 25: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (16)
- 25: David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity (9)
- 25: Mark Rothko is Toast … and More Edible Art from SFMOMA (1)
- 24: A Middle-Eastern Version of Radiohead’s 1997 Hit “Karma Police” (12)
- 24: Led Zeppelin Plays One of Its Earliest Concerts (Danish TV, 1969) (3)
- 24: Inside Breaking Bad: Watch Conan O’Brien’s Extended Interview with the Show’s Cast and Creator (4)
- 24: The Physics of Mosh Pits at Heavy Metal Concerts (Explained by Cornell Grad Students) (0)
- 23: Kurt Cobain’s Isolated Vocal Track From ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ 1991 (12)
- 23: Watch Them Watch Us: A History of Breaking the “Fourth Wall” in Film (7)
- 23: The Power of Food in Quentin Tarantino’s Films (9)
- 23: Lady Lazarus: Watch an Experimental Film Spoken by Sylvia Plath (1)
- 23: Richard Feynman Introduces the World to Nanotechnology with Two Seminal Lectures (1959 & 1984) (2)
- 22: A Cult Classic: William Shatner Sings Elton John’s “Rocket Man” at 1978 SciFi Awards Show (1)
- 22: Two Beautifully-Crafted Russian Animations of Chekhov’s Classic Children’s Story “Kashtanka” (1)
- 22: Salvador Dalí Creates a Dream Sequence for Spellbound, Hitchcock’s Psychoanalytic Thriller (2)
- 21: Amazing Flipbook Animation Shows Off the Skills of Ronaldinho (0)
- 21: Read the First Page of Thomas Pynchon’s New Novel, Bleeding Edge (9)
- 20: Ira Glass on the Art and Craft of Telling Great Radio Stories (1)
- 19: The Surreal Short Films of Louis C.K., 1993-1999 (2)
- 19: Steel-Willed Hand Balancer Jaakko Tenhunen Explains Why Effort Brings the Most Satisfaction (0)
- 19: New Documentary Brings You Inside Africa’s Little-Known Punk Rock Scene (0)
- 19: Animations Revive Lost Interviews with David Foster Wallace, Jim Morrison & Dave Brubeck (0)
- 18: The Digital Public Library of America Launches Today, Opening Up Knowledge for All (3)
- 18: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Gives Teenage Girls Endearing Advice About Boys (And Much More) (1)
- 18: Flannery O’Connor Reads ‘Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction’ (c. 1960) (2)
- 18: Enrich Yourself with Free Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Textbooks & More (0)
- 18: John, Paul and George Perform Dueling Guitar Solos on The Beatles’ Farewell Song (1969) (8)
- 18: Martin Heidegger Talks About Language, Being, Marx & Religion in Vintage 1960s Interviews (0)
- 17: Friedrich Nietzsche & Existentialism Explained to Five-Year-Olds (in Comical Video by Reddit) (13)
- 17: 83 Years of Great Gatsby Book Cover Designs: A Photo Gallery (0)
- 17: Learn How Richard Feynman Cracked the Safes with Atomic Secrets at Los Alamos (2)
- 17: Abandoned Alternate Titles for Two Great Films: Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and Hitchcock’s Vertigo (0)
- 17: CERN Physicist Explains the Origins of the Universe for Beginners with a Short Animated Video (4)
- 16: Legendary Guitarist Andrés Segovia Plays J.S. Bach at the Alhambra, 1976 (1)
- 16: Sex Pistols Frontman Johnny Rotten Weighs In On Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Madonna & Katy Perry (1)
- 16: Harvard Thinks Big 4 Offers TED-Style Talks on Stats, Milk, and Traffic-Directing Mimes (0)
- 16: The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” Reworked from Major to Minor Scale; Ella’s “Summertime” Goes Minor to Major (8)
- 16: “Hummingbird,” A New Form of Music Notation That’s Easier to Learn and Faster to Read (18)
- 15: The Police Sing “Message in a Bottle” for the First Time Live (1979) (1)
- 15: Bitcoin, the New Decentralized Digital Currency, Demystified in a Three Minute Video (2)
- 15: The Always-NSFW Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes Catch Up in Jay and Silent Bob Get Old Podcast (2)
- 15: A Very Young Marianne Faithfull Sings Her First Hit, ‘As Tears Go By’ (1965) (0)
- 15: Patti Smith Shares William S. Burroughs’ Advice for Writers and Artists (3)
- 14: Free: Watch Jackie Robinson Star in The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) (0)
- 14: Remembering Maria Tallchief, America’s Great Prima Ballerina (4)
- 14: Watch Live Stream of Coachella Music Festival on YouTube This Weekend (0)
- 13: Pakistani Musicians Play a Delightful Version of Dave Brubeck’s Jazz Classic, “Take Five” (77)
- 12: David Bowie Sings ‘I Got You Babe’ with Marianne Faithfull in His Last Performance As Ziggy Stardust (6)
- 12: Tom Lehrer’s Mathematically and Scientifically Inclined Singing and Songwriting, Animated (0)
- 12: Watch 10-Year-Old Bruce Lee in His First Starring Role (1950) (0)
- 11: John Bonham’s Isolated Drum Track For Led Zeppelin’s ‘Fool in the Rain’ (11)
- 11: The Film Before the Film: An Introduction to the History of Title Sequences in 10 Minutes (0)
- 11: If Astronauts Cry in Space, Will Their Tears Fall? (0)
- 11: A Shirtless Slavoj Žižek Explains the Purpose of Philosophy from the Comfort of His Bed (5)
- 11: A View From the Room Where Melville Wrote Moby Dick (Plus a Free Celebrity Reading of the Novel) (1)
- 10: William Shatner Sings Nearly Blasphemous Version of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (1968) (3)
- 10: Artist Shepard Fairey Curates His Favorite YouTube Videos (0)
- 10: Watch Werner Herzog Eat His Shoe, Cooked by Chef Alice Waters (1980) (0)
- 10: Ernest Hemingway Appears on Cuban TV in 1954; Talks About Winning The Nobel Prize (0)
- 10: Alfred Hitchcock’s 7-Minute Master Class on Film Editing (2)
- 09: Fascinating Kodachrome Footage of “Victory over Japan Day” in Honolulu, 1945 (1)
- 09: The Rolling Stones Live in Hyde Park, 1969: The Complete Film (4)
- 09: The Personality of Parisian Neighborhoods Expressed Through Typography (3)
- 09: Italian Photographer Maurizio Galimberti Creates Cubist Polaroid Collages of Artists & Celebrities (1)
- 09: Room 237: New Documentary Explores Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Those It Obsesses (1)
- 09: The Only Known Footage of the 1926 Film Adaptation of The Great Gatsby (Which F. Scott Fitzgerald Hated) (0)
- 08: Flashmob Recreates Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” in a Dutch Shopping Mall (3)
- 08: The World According to John Coltrane: His Life & Music Revealed in Heartfelt 1990 Documentary (1)
- 08: Humans of New York: Street Photography as a Celebration of Life (3)
- 08: David Byrne Discusses Here Lies Love, His Disco Musical with Fatboy Slim on the Life of Imelda Marcos (0)
- 08: History of Rock: New MOOC Presents the Music of Elvis, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Hendrix & More (3)
- 08: 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy Explains the Big Bang, Relativity & More with Fun Animation (0)
- 06: The Fine Art of Painting Portraits on Coffee Foam (1)
- 05: Daniel Dennett and Cornel West Decode the Philosophy of The Matrix (4)
- 05: Bob Dylan and Van Morrison Sing ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,’ 1998 (8)
- 05: MOOC Interrupted: Top 10 Reasons Our Readers Didn’t Finish a Massive Open Online Course (14)
- 05: The Two Roger Eberts: Emphatic Critic on TV; Incisive Reviewer in Print (0)
- 04: The Shaggy, Cute, Eco-Friendly Lawnmowers of Paris (3)
- 04: Roger Ebert Talks Movingly About Losing and Re-Finding His Voice (TED 2011) (0)
- 04: “Professor Risk” at Cambridge University Says “One of the Biggest Risks is Being Too Cautious” (2)
- 04: The Popular Science Digital Archive Lets You Explore Every Science and Technology-Filled Edition Since 1872 (6)
- 04: 50 Film Posters From Poland: From The Empire Strikes Back to Raiders of the Lost Ark (0)
- 03: Borges: Profile of a Writer Presents the Life and Writings of Argentina’s Favorite Son, Jorge Luis Borges (2)
- 03: David Bowie Releases 36 Music Videos of His Classic Songs from the 1970s and 1980s (15)
- 03: Read the Original Letters Where Charles Darwin Worked Out His Theory of Evolution (2)
- 03: A Young, Clean Cut Jim Morrison Appears in a 1962 Florida State University Promo Film (6)
- 02: Albert Einstein on Individual Liberty, Without Which There Would Be ‘No Shakespeare, No Goethe, No Newton’ (2)
- 02: Nico Sings “Chelsea Girls” in the Famous Chelsea Hotel (1)
- 02: Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks Sing “Sweet Georgia Brown” Live…and in Polish (4)
- 02: A Look Back at Jim Carroll: How the Poet and Basketball Diaries Author Finally Finished His First Novel (4)
- 02: The Big Problem for MOOCs Visualized (56)
- 01: Revisit The Life & Music of Sister Rosetta Tharpe: ‘The Godmother of Rock and Roll’ (2)
- 01: Orson Welles Teaches Baccarat, Craps, Blackjack, Roulette, and Keno at Caesars Palace (1978) (0)
- 01: Rock and Roll Heart, 1998 Documentary Retraces the Remarkable Career of Lou Reed (3)
- 01: Get the History of the World in 46 Lectures: A Free Online Course from Columbia University (12)
- March 2013 (118)
- 31: Meet Frank Catalfumo, the Shoemaker Who Has Been Mending Souls in Brooklyn Since 1945 (3)
- 31: Speaking in Whistles: The Whistled Language of Oaxaca, Mexico (17)
- 30: Watch Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Voodoo Chile’ Performed on a Gayageum, a Traditional Korean Instrument (38)
- 30: Horses Wearing Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Stampede Into Grand Central Station (2)
- 29: Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Staggering Genius of Isaac Newton (4)
- 29: William Faulkner’s Newly-Discovered Short Story and Drawings (0)
- 29: Meet Delia Derbyshire, the Dr. Who Composer Who Almost Turned The Beatles’ “Yesterday” Into Early Electronica (2)
- 29: Read, Hear, and See Tweeted Four Stories by Jennifer Egan, Author of A Visit from the Goon Squad (0)
- 29: Humans Fall for Optical Illusions, But Do Cats? (12)
- 28: Leonard Bernstein Demystifies the Rock Revolution for Curious (if Square) Grown-Ups in 1967 (7)
- 28: The Nazis’ 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II (35)
- 28: Enter Jeff Slatnick’s Wonderful World of New-Fangled and Resurrected Instruments (1)
- 28: New Heat Map Reveals the Creation of Our Infant Universe (0)
- 28: The Grateful Dead Rock the National Anthem at Candlestick Park: Opening Day, 1993 (3)
- 27: Clever Animation Brings Figure Drawings to Life (1)
- 27: Rare Audio: Samuel Beckett Reads From His Novel Watt (6)
- 27: Stanley Kubrick’s Jazz Photography and The Film He Almost Made About Jazz Under Nazi Rule (3)
- 27: A Crash Course on Creativity and Other Stanford MOOCs to Launch in April: Enroll Today (6)
- 27: The Best of Quentin Tarantino: Celebrating the Director’s 50th Birthday with our Favorite Videos (0)
- 27: Listen to Supreme Court Arguments on Prop 8 and DOMA Online (1)
- 26: Dennis Hopper Reads From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Timeless Guide to Creativity, Letters to a Young Poet (3)
- 26: Read and Hear Famous Writers (and Armchair Sportsmen) J.M. Coetzee and Paul Auster’s Correspondence (0)
- 26: Creative Uses of the Fax Machine: From Iggy Pop’s Bile to Stephen Hawking’s Snark (3)
- 26: The Art and Science of Beer (0)
- 25: Tom Waits, Playing the Down-and-Out Barfly, Appears in Classic 1978 TV Performance (2)
- 25: Font Based on Sigmund Freud’s Handwriting Coming Courtesy of Successful Kickstarter Campaign (1)
- 25: Drones Over America!: Two Animated Satires of Misguided American Policy (0)
- 25: Frank Zappa Reads NSFW Passage From William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (1978) (4)
- 25: Philip K. Dick Previews Blade Runner: “The Impact of the Film is Going to be Overwhelming” (1981) (4)
- 24: Dan Ariely’s MOOC, “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior,” Starts Monday (5)
- 24: Climb Three of the World’s Highest Peaks on Google Street View (3)
- 22: 100 Metropolitan Museum Curators Talk About 100 Works of Art That Changed How They See the World (1)
- 22: Thelonious Monk, Legendary Jazz Pianist, Revealed in 1968 Cinéma Vérité Film (3)
- 22: How Pi Was Nearly Changed to 3.2 … and Copyrighted! (5)
- 22: Blade Runner: The Pillar of Sci-Fi Cinema that Siskel, Ebert, and Studio Execs Originally Hated (4)
- 21: Albert Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ (1941) (64)
- 21: What Should Have Entered the Public Domain in 2013?: Philip K. Dick, James Bond, Billie Holiday, Etc (1)
- 21: House of Earth: Hear Woody Guthrie’s Lost Novel, Published by Johnny Depp, as an Audio Book (1)
- 21: Yoko Ono’s Make-Up Tips for Men (1)
- 20: Oscar Wilde Offers Practical Advice on the Writing Life in a Newly-Discovered Letter from 1890 (3)
- 20: Ingrid Bergman Remembers How Ernest Hemingway Helped Her Get the Part in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1)
- 20: Three Raymond Carver Stories, Read by Richard Ford, Anne Enright, and David Means (3)
- 20: Carnegie Hall MOOC Will Teach You How to Listen to Orchestras (Free) (1)
- 20: Ralph Ellison Reads from His Novel-in-Progress, Juneteenth, in Rare Video Footage (1966) (1)
- 19: LA County Museum (LACMA) Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download (0)
- 19: John Cleese, Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers Trash Priceless Art (1969) (1)
- 19: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla Face Off in “Epic Rap Battles of History” (0)
- 19: Watch Brian Eno’s “Video Paintings,” Where 1980s TV Technology Meets Visual Art (2)
- 19: Watch Philip Roth, Now 80, Read from His Irreverent Classic, Portnoy’s Complaint (1)
- 19: Big History: David Christian Covers 13.7 Billion Years of History in 18 Minutes (7)
- 18: Adrian Belew Presents the Fine Art of Making Guitar Noise — Past, Present, and Future (2)
- 18: Free: Download Dan Brown’s Bestseller, The DaVinci Code, Until March 24 (22)
- 18: The Rise of Webcomics: PBS’ Off Book Series Explores the Emergence of New Popular Art Form (2)
- 18: Are You Ready for the Return of Lost Species?: Stewart Brand on the Dawn of De-Extinction (3)
- 18: The Life and Controversial Work of Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe Profiled in 1988 Documentary (0)
- 18: 10 Free Stories by George Saunders, Author of Tenth of December, “The Best Book You’ll Read This Year” (11)
- 17: The Zen Wisdom of Alan Watts Animated by the Creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (9)
- 16: A Gallery of Stanley Kubrick Cinemagraphs: Iconic Moments Briefly Animated (0)
- 15: Peter Gabriel and Genesis Live on Belgian TV in 1972: The Full Show (9)
- 15: BBC Radio Adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere Begins Saturday: A Preview (0)
- 15: Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter (9)
- 15: Creative Commons Announces “School of Open” with Courses to Focus on Digital Openness (3)
- 14: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy (23)
- 14: Clash of the Titans: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV, 1971 (21)
- 14: Donald Barthelme’s Syllabus Highlights 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education (14)
- 13: Bob Dylan and Van Morrison Sing Together in Athens, on Historic Hill Overlooking the Acropolis (21)
- 13: Rare Live Footage Documents The Clash From Their Raw Debut to the Career-Defining London Calling (1977-1980) (2)
- 13: Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove: Documentary Reveals How a Cold War Story Became a Kubrick Classic (2)
- 13: The Math in Good Will Hunting is Easy: How Do You Like Them Apples? (2)
- 13: The Mirroring Mind: An Espresso-Fueled Interpretation of Douglas Hofstadter’s Groundbreaking Ideas (1)
- 12: The “Amen Break”: The Most Famous 6-Second Drum Loop & How It Spawned a Sampling Revolution (11)
- 12: John Steinbeck Reads Two Short Stories, “The Snake” and “Johnny Bear” in 1953 (2)
- 12: Eric Clapton in the 60s: Film Revisits the Young Guitarist When He Took the Rock World by Storm (0)
- 12: Watch Powers of Ten and Let Designers Charles & Ray Eames Take You on a Brilliant Tour of the Universe (4)
- 12: A Look Inside Marilyn Monroe’s Personal Library (2)
- 11: FOUND: A New Collection of Rare Photos from the National Geographic Archives (0)
- 11: Nina Simone Sings Her Breakthrough Song, ‘I Loves You Porgy,’ in 1962 (7)
- 11: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling (6)
- 11: Storm: New Short Film Captures the Artistry of Winemaking (1)
- 11: 33 Sci-Fi Stories by Philip K. Dick as Free Audio Books & Free eBooks (10)
- 11: Support The Public Domain Review (1)
- 10: Michael Sandel’s Famous Harvard Course on Justice Launches as a MOOC on Tuesday (3)
- 09: Can’t Get That Song Out of My Head: An Animation of a Psychological Phenomenon We All Know (12)
- 09: The Physics Professor, the Glamour Model, and a Whole Suitcase Full of Trouble (1)
- 08: Charlie Parker Plays with Dizzy Gillespie in the Only Footage Capturing the “Bird” in True Live Performance (11)
- 08: Watch The Band Play “The Weight,” “Up On Cripple Creek” and More in Rare 1970 Concert Footage (0)
- 08: Artist Robbie Cooper’s Video Project Immersion Stares Back at Gamers and YouTubers (1)
- 08: Magnifying the Universe: Move From Atoms to Galaxies in HD (9)
- 08: Bertrand Russell on His Student Ludwig Wittgenstein: Man of Genius or Merely an Eccentric? (8)
- 07: Six Postcards From Famous Writers: Hemingway, Kafka, Kerouac & More (7)
- 07: David Foster Wallace Breaks Down Five Common Word Usage Mistakes in English (11)
- 07: Hear Jamaica Kincaid’s Classic Story “Girl” Read by Fellow New Yorker Writer Edwidge Danticat (0)
- 07: Hear Zora Neale Hurston Sing the Bawdy Prison Blues Song “Uncle Bud” (1940) (0)
- 07: “The Bay Lights,” The World’s Largest LED Light Sculpture, Debuts in San Francisco (0)
- 06: Seven Tips From William Faulkner on How to Write Fiction (3)
- 06: Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking & Arthur C. Clarke Discuss God, the Universe, and Everything Else (3)
- 06: Google Launches a New “Art Talks” Series: Tune in Tonight (1)
- 06: Pac-Man, Tetris, SimCity & Other Classic Video Games Opening Friday at the Museum of Modern Art (0)
- 06: Now Streaming Free: A New Jimi Hendrix Album with 12 Previously-Unreleased Songs (6)
- 05: Download the Universe: A Discerning Curator for Science eBooks (1)
- 05: Alfred Hitchcock Presents Some of the First Words Ever Spoken on Film …. and They’re Saucy Ones (1929) (2)
- 05: Leonard Cohen Narrates Film on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Featuring the Dalai Lama (1994) (13)
- 05: I Say I Say I Say: A Delightful Home Movie by Peter Sellers (1964) (2)
- 05: A Master List of 700 Free Courses From Great Universities (20)
- 05: 15,000 Volts Courses Through Plywood, Revealing “Lightning Made from Molasses” (0)
- 04: Free: Listen to Dave Grohl’s Soundtrack for New Film Celebrating the Days of Analog Recording (0)
- 04: E.E. Cummings Recites ‘Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town,’ 1953 (9)
- 04: The Confessions of Robert Crumb: A Portrait Scripted by the Underground Comics Legend Himself (1987) (2)
- 04: Patti Smith’s Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Strips the Song Down to its Heart (33)
- 04: Watch The Twilight Zone’s Pilot Episode, Pitched by Rod Serling Himself (1959) (1)
- 04: So You Want to Be a Writer?: Charles Bukowski Explains the Dos & Don’ts (2)
- 03: “The Me Bird” by Pablo Neruda: An Animated Interpretation (1)
- 02: Street Artist Plays Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” With Crystal Glasses (11)
- 01: Sleight of Hand: Stanford Student Solves Rubik’s Cube While Juggling! (1)
- 01: The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln (1)
- 01: Arthur Conan Doyle Fills Out the Questionnaire Made Famous By Marcel Proust (1899) (0)
- 01: The Making of John Mayer’s ‘Born & Raised’ Album Artwork, Captured in 18 Minute Short Film (1)
- 01: The Only Known Footage of George Orwell (Circa 1921) (8)
- February 2013 (104)
- 28: Visit the Museum of Endangered Sounds, and Experience a Blast from Technology’s Past (3)
- 28: Drift: Passenger Shoots Striking Short Film Out of Airplane Window (8)
- 28: Watch David Bowie’s New Video for ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’ With Tilda Swinton (1)
- 28: Take a Virtual Tour of the 1913 Exhibition That Introduced Avant-Garde Art to America (0)
- 28: W.H. Auden’s 1941 Literature Syllabus Asks Students to Read 32 Great Works, Covering 6000 Pages (37)
- 27: Short Documentary, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lolita?, Psychoanalyzes Vladimir Nabokov (0)
- 27: Hunter S. Thompson Runs for Aspen, Colorado Sheriff on the “Freak Power” Platform (1970) (3)
- 27: See Jimi Hendrix’s First TV Appearance, and His Last as a Backing Musician (1965) (6)
- 26: Physical Attraction: Marriage Proposal Comes in the Form of a Physics Paper (2)
- 26: Johnny Cash Stars as a Menacing, Musical Gangster in 1961 Film Five Minutes to Live (2)
- 26: Seven Tips From F. Scott Fitzgerald on How to Write Fiction (4)
- 26: The BBC’s Horrible Histories Videos Will Crack You Up and Teach You About WWI (and More) (1)
- 26: Learn to Code with Harvard’s Intro to Computer Science Course And Other Free Tech Classes (34)
- 26: An Oral History of Pulp Fiction: the Making of the Indie Film that Changed the Rules (1)
- 26: Norwegian Musician Creates Ice Instruments with a Chain Saw and Sub-Zero Weather (3)
- 25: Édith Piaf’s Moving Performance of ‘La Vie en Rose’ on French TV, 1954 (9)
- 25: “Don’t Try”: Charles Bukowski’s Concise Philosophy of Art and Life (28)
- 25: Listen to James Franco Read from Jack Kerouac’s Influential Beat Novel, On the Road (3)
- 25: David Foster Wallace’s 1994 Syllabus: How to Teach Serious Literature with Lightweight Books (8)
- 24: 33 Oscar-Winning Films Online (0)
- 24: Captivating Collaboration: Artist Hubert Duprat Uses Insects to Create Golden Sculptures (3)
- 24: Iconic Artists at Work: Watch Rare Videos of Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, Monet and More (8)
- 23: Eric Clapton Tries Out Guitars at Home and Talks About the Beatles, Cream, and His Musical Roots (14)
- 23: New Stamp Collection Celebrates Six Novels by Jane Austen (3)
- 22: Discover Ansel Adams’ 226 Photos of U.S. National Parks (and Another Side of the Legendary Photographer) (2)
- 22: Richard Dawkins Dies (Not Really) and Meets His Maker in a New NSFW Animation (5)
- 22: The Photographer Reveals the Philosophy, Techniques & Artistry of Edward Weston (1948) (1)
- 21: Watch Huell Howser’s Decades of Television Travels Online. It’s California Gold! (4)
- 21: George Martin, Legendary Beatles Producer, Shows How to Mix the Perfect
SongDry Martini (0) - 21: Queen Documentary Pays Tribute to the Rock Band That Conquered the World (1)
- 20: Ansel Adams Reveals His Creative Process in 1958 Documentary (3)
- 20: Artists Turn Weather Data into Swirling “Living Portraits” of Continental U.S. Wind Patterns (1)
- 20: Bertolt Brecht Sings ‘Mack the Knife’ From The Threepenny Opera, 1929 (4)
- 20: From The Stooges to Iggy Pop: 1986 Documentary Charts the Rise of Punk’s Godfather (1)
- 20: The History of Music Told in Seven Rapidly Illustrated Minutes (21)
- 20: Hear Gertrude Stein Read Works Inspired by Matisse, Picasso, and T.S. Eliot (1934) (0)
- 19: Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction (68)
- 19: The Unbelievers, A New Film Starring Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Werner Herzog, Woody Allen, & Cormac McCarthy (12)
- 19: Color Footage of Winston Churchill’s Funeral in 1965 (10)
- 19: Mark Twain Shirtless in 1883 Photo (10)
- 19: “Nothing Good Gets Away”: John Steinbeck Offers Love Advice in a Letter to His Son (1958) (3)
- 18: John Cleese’s Eulogy for Graham Chapman: ‘Good Riddance, the Free-Loading Bastard, I Hope He Fries’ (6)
- 18: Finding Vivian Maier: New Documentary Reveals the Vision of Obscure Chicago Street Photographer (0)
- 18: Start Your Startup with Free Stanford Courses and Lectures (2)
- 18: In Under Three Minutes, Hans Rosling Visualizes the Incredible Progress of the “Developing World” (5)
- 18: Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (10)
- 18: Simulate the Damage Caused by Comet and Asteroid Collisions with Impact: Earth! (1)
- 17: The Art of Illustration: Four Illustrators Introduce You to the Awe-Inspiring State of Their Art (0)
- 16: All Criterion Films Streaming Free on Hulu This Weekend (in the US) (1)
- 15: The BBC Presents a New Dramatization of Orwell’s 1984, with Christopher Eccleston as Winston Smith (0)
- 15: Live: Watch NASA’s Coverage of Asteroid As It Buzzes By Earth (3)
- 15: David Lynch Talks About His 99 Favorite Photographs at Paris Photo 2012 (0)
- 14: Beat Writer William S. Burroughs Spreads Counterculture Cool on Nike Sneakers, 1994 (1)
- 14: “PoemTalk” Podcast, Where Impresario Al Filreis Hosts Lively Chats on Modern Poetry (1)
- 14: Tom Waits Shows Us How Not to Get a Date on Valentine’s Day (3)
- 14: Watch Lambeth Walk—Nazi Style: The Early Propaganda Mash Up That Enraged Joseph Goebbels (3)
- 14: From the Annals of Optimism: The Newspaper Industry in 1981 Imagines its Digital Future (0)
- 13: How a Baltimore Hairdresser Became a World-Renowned “Hair Archaeologist” of Ancient Rome (4)
- 13: Listen to ‘Why I Am Not a Christian,’ Bertrand Russell’s Powerful Critique of Religion (1927) (22)
- 13: Watch the New Pirate Bay Documentary Free Online (3)
- 13: When Orson Welles Met H.G. Wells in 1940: Hear the Legends Discuss War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, and WWII (2)
- 13: Download Eight Free Lectures on The Hobbit by “The Tolkien Professor,” Corey Olsen (2)
- 12: Ella Fitzgerald Sings ‘Summertime’ by George Gershwin, Berlin 1968 (8)
- 12: Alain de Botton Presents Ten Virtues for the Modern Day (3)
- 12: Listen to a Brief History of Papal Abdication (0)
- 12: Hear Walt Whitman (Maybe) Reading the First Four Lines of His Poem, “America” (1890) (7)
- 12: Backed by 157 Musicians, Beck Reimagines David Bowie’s 1977 Classic, “Sound and Vision” (3)
- 11: Musicians Re-Imagine the Complete Songbook of the Beatles on the Ukulele (0)
- 11: The Scared Is Scared: A Child’s Wisdom for Starting New Chapters (Creative or Otherwise) in Life (0)
- 11: Kerouac Wore Khakis: Ghost of the Beat Writer Stars in 1993 Gap Advertising Campaign (2)
- 11: Hear Sylvia Plath Read ‘Lady Lazarus’ on the 50th Anniversary of Her Death (2)
- 11: The Genius of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip (52)
- 10: Library Card Signed by 13-Year-Old Elvis Presley, the Earliest Known Signature of the King (11)
- 09: Do You Speak Java Jive?: The Language of the Indie Cafes (3)
- 08: Mathemusician Vi Hart Explains the Space-Time Continuum With a Music Box, Bach, and a Möbius Strip (5)
- 08: Walter Cronkite Imagines the Home of the 21st Century … Back in 1967 (7)
- 08: The Acoustic Guitar Project Gives Songwriters Worldwide a Guitar and One Week to Write a Song (2)
- 08: How Spike Lee Got His First Big Break: From She’s Gotta Have It to That Iconic Air Jordan Ad (0)
- 07: William Shatner Puts in a Long Distance Call to Astronaut Aboard the International Space Station (0)
- 07: Neil Gaiman Launches New Crowdsourced Storytelling Project (Sponsored by the New BlackBerry) (1)
- 07: Alain de Botton Proposes a Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success (0)
- 07: The Centrifuge Brain Project: Scientists Solve Mankind’s Great Problems by Spinning People (2)
- 07: The Troggs Tapes: ‘Put a Little Bit of F***ing Fairy Dust Over the Bastard!’ (0)
- 06: The Beauty of Namibian Nights in Timelapse Motion (3)
- 06: How to Build a Country From Scratch (0)
- 06: French Philosopher Jean Baudrillard Reads His Poetry, Backed By All-Star Arts Band (1996) (0)
- 06: Destination Earth: The Greatness of American Civilization Revealed in 1950s Sci-Fi Cartoon (2)
- 06: Download Walter Kaufmann’s Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre & Modern Thought (1960) (6)
- 06: Monty Python’s Life of Brian: Religious Satire, Political Satire, or Blasphemy? (4)
- 05: Google Street View Takes You on a Panoramic Tour of the Grand Canyon (0)
- 05: Anne Sexton, Confessional Poet, Reads “Wanting to Die” in Ominous 1966 Video (1)
- 05: The Podcast History of Our World Will Take You From Creation Myths to (Eventually) the Present Day (0)
- 05: James Taylor Teaches You to Play “Carolina in My Mind,” “Fire and Rain” & Other Classics on the Guitar (3)
- 05: James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Draws a Sketch of Leopold Bloom (1926) (3)
- 04: Confirmed: The Bones of Richard III (1452-1485) Found Under a UK Parking Lot (4)
- 04: Salvador Dalí Gets a Screen Test by Andy Warhol (1966) (0)
- 04: Kansas City Confidential: The 1952 Noir Film Said to Inspire Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (7)
- 04: Bruce Springsteen Performs “Growin’ Up” & “Henry Boy” When He Was an Opening Act (1972) (4)
- 04: William Faulkner Explains Why Writing is Best Left to Scoundrels … Preferably Living in Brothels (1956) (6)
- 03: The Tiny Transforming Apartment: 8 Rooms in 420 Square Feet (7)
- 01: Fake Bob Dylan Sings Real Dr. Seuss (5)
- 01: Artist Nina Katchadourian Creates Flemish Style Self-Portraits in Airplane Lavatory (4)
- 01: The Pixies “Acoustic Sessions”: See the Alt-Rock Stars Rehearse for the 2005 Newport Folk Festival (1)
- 01: Watch Paperman, A CGI Short from Disney that Looks and Feels Like Classic Handmade Animation (4)
- January 2013 (113)
- 31: Watch the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the Classic Jazz 625 Show, 1964 (5)
- 31: A Bird Ballet in Southern France (2)
- 31: Alistair Cooke’s Historic Letter From America (1946 – 2004) Now Online, Thanks to the BBC (4)
- 31: Read Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Free Online (1)
- 31: Two Very Early Concert Films of R.E.M., Live in ‘81 and ‘82 (6)
- 30: Get Ready for MIT’s “Introduction to Biology: The Secret of Life” on edX (1)
- 30: W.H. Auden Recites His 1937 Poem, ‘As I Walked Out One Evening’ (1)
- 30: Kingsley Browne, Wayne State Law Prof, Embarrasses Himself Spectacularly on The Daily Show (6)
- 30: Asteroid Will Give Earth a Close Shave on February 15 (1)
- 30: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Casting of The Godfather with Coppola, Pacino, De Niro & Caan (0)
- 30: Watch Patti Smith Read from Virginia Woolf, and Hear the Only Surviving Recording of Woolf’s Voice (15)
- 29: James Taylor Performs Live in 1970, Thanks to a Little Help from His Friends, The Beatles (20)
- 29: A Look Back at Andy Kaufman: Absurd Comic Performance Artist and Endearing Weirdo (3)
- 29: Watch a New Music Video Shot Entirely Within an MRI Machine (1)
- 28: Learn to Build iPhone & iPad Apps with Stanford’s Free Course, Coding Together (13)
- 28: John Coltrane’s Naval Reserve Enlistment Mugshot (1945) (1)
- 28: Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis Draws from the Life of Greenwich Village Icon Dave Van Ronk (0)
- 28: Meet “Father Philanthropy”: America’s Most Prolific and Unlikely Master Art Forger (0)
- 28: Hear Tennessee Williams Read Hart Crane’s “The Broken Tower” and “The Hurricane” (1960) (2)
- 28: Father Guido Sarducci Pitches “The Five Minute University” (2)
- 26: Join Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and Neuroscience (24)
- 25: Watch John Coltrane and His Great Quintet Play ‘My Favorite Things’ (1961) (10)
- 25: Meet “Dashan,” the Canadian Comedian Who Achieved Accidental Stardom in China (0)
- 25: Tom Waits and Keith Richards Sing Sea Song “Shenandoah” for New Pirate-Themed CD: Listen Online (12)
- 25: The Time Neil Young Met Charles Manson, Liked His Music, and Tried to Score Him a Record Deal (6)
- 24: Jack Kerouac’s Naval Reserve Enlistment Mugshot, 1943 (10)
- 24: How “Space Oddity” Launched David Bowie to Stardom: Watch the Original Music Video From 1969 (2)
- 24: NASA Sends Image of the Mona Lisa to the Moon and Back (2)
- 24: Lovers and Philosophers — Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir Together in 1967 (4)
- 24: “Moon Hoax Not”: Short Film Explains Why It Was Impossible to Fake the Moon Landing (14)
- 23: Gimme Shelter: Watch the Classic Documentary of the Rolling Stones’ Disastrous Concert at Altamont (0)
- 23: Pope John Paul II Takes Batting Practice in California, 1987 (5)
- 23: Walter Lewin, the Original Star of Open Education, Returns with a Brand New Physics MOOC (1)
- 23: Watch Bill Murray Perform a Satirical Anti-Technology Rant (1982) (0)
- 23: Arthur Conan Doyle & The Cottingley Fairies: How Two Young Girls Fooled Sherlock Holmes’ Creator (3)
- 22: What Entered the Public Domain in 2013? Zip, Nada, Zilch! (5)
- 22: National Geographic Photographer Steve McCurry Shoots the Very Last Roll of Kodachrome (0)
- 22: Cornell Launches Archive of 150,000 Bird Calls and Animal Sounds, with Recordings Going Back to 1929 (9)
- 22: John Hodgman’s Advice for Writers: The Competition is Insane, and Persistence Trumps Talent (0)
- 22: The First Pizza Ordered by Computer, 1974 (7)
- 21: Nichelle Nichols Explains How Martin Luther King Convinced Her to Stay on Star Trek (6)
- 21: Listen to Robert Frost Read ‘The Gift Outright,’ the Poem He Recited from Memory at JFK’s Inauguration (1)
- 21: An Animated Interpretation of Billy Collins’ Poem, “Forgetfulness” (1)
- 21: Watch Häxan, the Classic Cinematic Study of Witchcraft Narrated by William S. Burroughs (1922) (3)
- 21: Day of Light: A Crowdsourced Film by Multimedia Genius Brian Eno (0)
- 20: R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” Reworked from Minor to Major Scale (29)
- 19: Harder Than It Looks: How to Make a Great Stop Motion Animation (5)
- 18: Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff: Three Famous Pieces, 1919-1929 (12)
- 18: Watch Philip Glass Remix His Own Music—Then Try it Yourself With a New App (3)
- 18: Hear Lost Acetate Versions of Songs from The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966) (1)
- 18: MAKERS Tells the Story of 50 Years of Progress for Women in the U.S. (1)
- 17: The Ultimate Full Moon Shot (7)
- 17: Hear Ravel Play Ravel in 1922 (5)
- 17: The Enigma Machine: How Alan Turing Helped Break the Unbreakable Nazi Code (35)
- 17: Watch Moving Short Films of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the “Blue House” (3)
- 17: Lux Aeterna: A Journey of Light, From Distant Galaxies to Small Drops of Water (0)
- 16: Hear Debussy Play Debussy: A Vintage Recording from 1913 (30)
- 16: Hannah Arendt’s Original Articles on “the Banality of Evil” in the New Yorker Archive (5)
- 16: 152 Big Thinkers Answer the Question “What Should We Be Worried About?” (8)
- 16: The Beatles: Unplugged Collects Acoustic Demos of White Album Songs (1968) (33)
- 15: Bertrand Russell’s Improbable Appearance in a Bollywood Film (1967) (6)
- 15: Stanford Makes Open Source Platform, Class2Go, Available to All; Launches MOOC on Platform Today (2)
- 15: The Many Ways to Mars: A Reality Show, a New Martian City, and Mapping Mars from Home (1)
- 15: Watch Raymond Chandler’s Long-Unnoticed Cameo in Double Indemnity (6)
- 15: The ABC of Architects: An Animated Flipbook of Famous Architects and Their Best-Known Buildings (1)
- 14: ‘Boom Boom’ and ‘Hobo Blues’: Great Performances by John Lee Hooker (0)
- 14: Keith Moon’s Final Performance with The Who (1978) (3)
- 14: Hunter S. Thompson Mocks the Living in a New Short Animation (4)
- 14: The Very First Film of J.G. Ballard’s Crash, Starring Ballard Himself (1971) (3)
- 14: “Joe Strummer’s London Calling”: All 8 Episodes of Strummer’s UK Radio Show Free Online (4)
- 12: Woody Allen’s Typewriter, Scissors and Stapler: The Great Filmmaker Shows Us How He Writes (1)
- 11: ‘Stairway to Heaven’: Watch a Moving Tribute to Led Zeppelin at The Kennedy Center (21)
- 11: Author Gary Shteyngart Reveals Why He Willingly Blurbs His Brains Out (0)
- 11: Previously Unreleased Jimi Hendrix Recording, “Somewhere,” with Buddy Miles and Stephen Stills (12)
- 11: Tim Burton Shoots Two Music Videos for The Killers (0)
- 11: The Making of The Blues Brothers: When Belushi and Aykroyd Went on a Mission for Comedy & Music (0)
- 10: Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Live in Belgium, 1959: The Full Show (1)
- 10: Andy Warhol’s Brief Moment of Professional Wrestling Fame (1985) (1)
- 10: Trains and the Brits Who Love Them: Monty Python’s Michael Palin on Great Railway Journeys (0)
- 10: Jack Kerouac’s 30 Beliefs and Techniques For Writing Modern Prose (4)
- 10: Orchestral Manoeuvres in North Korea Prove Yet Again That Music is Universal (0)
- 09: Master Curator Paul Holdengräber Interviews Hitchens, Herzog, Gourevitch & Other Leading Thinkers (0)
- 09: Everything You Wanted to Know About Going to the Bathroom in Space But Were Afraid to Ask (0)
- 09: Jacques Lacan Talks About Psychoanalysis with Panache (1973) (1)
- 09: David Bowie Celebrates 66th Birthday with First New Song in a Decade, Plus Vintage Videos (8)
- 08: Slavoj Žižek Demystifies the Gangnam Style Phenomenon (13)
- 08: Muhammad Ali Surprises Kids in a Classic Candid Camera Show, 1974 (3)
- 08: “The Value of Culture” Revealed in a New BBC Radio Series by Melvyn Bragg (1)
- 08: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee with Blind Master Roaster Gerry Leary (0)
- 07: The Existential Adventures of Iconoclastic Brazilian Musician Tim Maia: A Short Animated Film (1)
- 07: Muddy Waters and Friends on the Blues and Gospel Train, 1964 (6)
- 07: Leonard Nimoy Narrates Short Film About NASA’s Dawn: A Voyage to the Origins of the Solar System (1)
- 07: An Anti, Anti-Smoking Announcement from John Waters (3)
- 07: 65 MOOCs/Certificate Courses Getting Started in January (1)
- 05: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Drag (1916) (3)
- 04: Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Film Tribute to America’s Great Musical Tradition (2)
- 04: Ken Kesey Talks About the Meaning of the Acid Tests (2)
- 04: Lick the Star: Sofia Coppola’s Very First Film Follows a 7th-Grade Conspiracy (1998) (3)
- 04: James Brown Gives You Dancing Lessons: From The Funky Chicken to The Boogaloo (5)
- 03: Bob Marley, The Legend, Live in Santa Barbara: Watch the Complete 1979 Concert (1)
- 03: British Actors Read Poignant Poetry from World War I (4)
- 03: Saul Bass’ Advice for Designers: Makes Something Beautiful and Don’t Worry About the Money (1)
- 03: Chuck Berry Takes Keith Richards to School, Shows Him How to Rock (1987) (28)
- 03: Akira Kurosawa & Francis Ford Coppola Star in Japanese Whisky Commercials (1980) (0)
- 02: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Advice to Young Filmmakers: Sacrifice Yourself for Cinema (10)
- 02: Maurice Sendak’s Emotional Last Interview with NPR’s Terry Gross, Animated by Christoph Niemann (6)
- 02: Albert Einstein Expresses His Admiration for Mahatma Gandhi, in Letter and Audio (34)
- 02: Watch the Only Known Footage of the Legendary Bluesman Lead Belly (1935 and 1945) (8)
- 01: The Best of Open Culture 2012: Free Music, Film, Books, Life Advice & More (1)
- 01: The Clock, the 24-Hour Montage of Clips from Film & TV History, Introduced by Alain de Botton (1)
- 01: Stephen Colbert Brings Laughs and Book Tour to Google (0)
- 01: Hear Beck’s Song Reader Songbook Performed by the Portland Cello Project (1)
- 01: The Genius of Charles Darwin Revealed in Three-Part Series by Richard Dawkins (2)
- December 2012 (106)
- 31: The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan (11)
- 31: The Ramones Play New Year’s Eve Concert in London, 1977 (3)
- 31: Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten: The Classic Film Re-Imagined By 40 Artists (1)
- 31: J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) (6)
- 29: Richard Feynman’s Ode to a Flower: A Short Animation (1)
- 28: The Recycled Orchestra: Paraguayan Youth Play Mozart with Instruments Cleverly Made Out of Trash (8)
- 28: Microscopic Battlefield: Watch as a Killer T Cell Attacks a Cancer Cell (5)
- 28: Richard Pryor Does Early Stand-Up Comedy Routine in New York, 1964 (0)
- 28: Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen Take Phone Calls on New York Cable TV (1978) (4)
- 27: Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1985: The Concert Film (0)
- 27: Bono and Glen Hansard Busking in Dublin on Christmas Eve (1)
- 27: Lenny Bruce Riffs and Rants on Injustice and Hypocrisy in One of His Final Performances (NSFW) (1)
- 27: Watch Portrait of an Artist: Jackson Pollock, the 1987 Documentary Narrated by Melvyn Bragg (2)
- 27: Jim Henson Teaches You How to Make Puppets in Vintage Primer From 1969 (1)
- 26: Richard Ford Reads Raymond Carver’s ‘The Student’s Wife’; One of 14 Podcasts of Famous Writers Reading a Favorite Story (1)
- 26: The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991) (5)
- 26: Decay: Zombies Invade the Large Hadron Collider in Movie Made by Ph.D. Students (2)
- 25: Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses & More (9)
- 25: ‘Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire’: Nat King Cole Sings ‘The Christmas Song,’ 1957 (1)
- 25: All You Need is Love: The Beatles Vanquish Pastor Terry Jones in the Big Apple (3)
- 25: An Animated Christmas Fable by Maurice Sendak (1977) (0)
- 24: David Bowie and Bing Crosby Sing “The Little Drummer Boy”: A Chestnut From 1977 (8)
- 24: Two Prison Concerts That Defined an Outlaw Singer: Johnny Cash at San Quentin and Folsom (1968-69) (2)
- 24: Michael Pollan Presents an Edible Education, A Free Online Course From UC Berkeley (2)
- 23: Watch The Snowman, the Classic Animated Children’s Tale Introduced by David Bowie (1)
- 23: Watch Cabbit: A Handmade Animation by Crosshatch Artist, Soogie (1)
- 22: A Selfie That is Out of This World (5)
- 22: Watch Meetin’ WA: Jean-Luc Godard Films Woody Allen in 1986 Short Film (0)
- 22: The Clash Live in Tokyo, 1982: Watch the Complete Concert (8)
- 21: What’s the Deal with Pop Tarts? Jerry Seinfeld Explains How to Write a Joke (5)
- 21: Michael Sandel’s Famous Harvard Course on Justice Now Available as a MOOC: Register Today (16)
- 21: Peter Gabriel Plays Full Concert in Modena, Italy (1994) (0)
- 21: Google Digitizes Ancient Copies of the Ten Commandments and Genesis (1)
- 20: Gift Giving Traditions Around the World in a Handy Infographic (4)
- 20: NASA Presents “The Earth as Art” in a Free eBook and Free iPad App (1)
- 20: The Fascinating Science of Snow (1)
- 20: A Christmas Carol, A Vintage Radio Broadcast by Orson Welles (1939) (0)
- 20: David Bowie’s First American Fan Letter And His Evolving Views of the U.S. (1967-1997) (0)
- 19: Introducing KA Lite: An Offline Version of the Khan Academy That Runs on Almost Anything (5)
- 19: Neil deGrasse Tyson Offers Advice on How to Be Yourself and Achieve Your Own Greatness (1)
- 19: PBS Short Video “Bad Behavior Online” Takes on the Phenomenon of Cyberbullying (0)
- 18: 10 Great Performances From 10 Legendary Jazz Artists: Django, Miles, Monk, Coltrane & More (6)
- 18: Watch 125 Korean Feature Films Free Online, Thanks to the Korean Film Archive (10)
- 18: Joni Mitchell: Singer, Songwriter, Artist, Smoking Grandma (9)
- 18: Donald Duck’s Bad Nazi Dream and Four Other Disney Propaganda Cartoons from World War II (7)
- 18: Woody Allen Boxes a Kangaroo, 1966 (1)
- 17: A Year of Grateful Dead Tunes Up in a Mashup (0)
- 17: James Brown Brings Down the House at the Paris Olympia, 1971 (3)
- 17: Eraserhead Stories: David Lynch on the Making of His Famously Nightmarish Movie (1)
- 17: Bob Dylan Shares a Drug-Hazed Taxi Ride with John Lennon (1966) (1)
- 17: Jean-Paul Sartre Writes a Script for John Huston’s Film on Freud (1958) (4)
- 16: Bowling for Columbine: It’s Online and 10 Years Later the School Massacres Continue. Have You Had Enough?!
- 16: What Makes Us Tick? Free Stanford Biology Course by Robert Sapolsky Offers Answers (0)
- 16: National Geographic Gives Us Intimate Moments with a Leopard Seal (0)
- 15: Miles Davis and His ‘Second Great Quintet,’ Filmed Live in Europe, 1967 (2)
- 14: Listen to the Beatles’ Holiday Messages to Fans: Seven Vintage Recordings from 1963 to 1969 (0)
- 14: Chowda!: Three Centuries of Recipes Reveal the Rise of New England’s Finest Culinary Export (1)
- 14: Annie Leibovitz, Photographer of Icons and Iconic Photographer, Profiled on American Masters (0)
- 14: Writers’ Houses Gives You a Virtual Tour of Famous Authors’ Homes (3)
- 13: Beatboxing Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1)
- 13: Enthusiastic Futurist Jason Silva Waxes Theoretical About the Immersive Power of Cinema (0)
- 13: Kickstart the Restoration of the Very First William S. Burroughs Documentary (0)
- 13: The Complete Sherlock Holmes Now Free on the Kindle (5)
- 13: The Physics of Guinness Beer Demystified (0)
- 12: Marilyn Monroe Explains Relativity to Albert Einstein (in a Nicolas Roeg Movie) (0)
- 12: The Wonder, Thrill & Meaning of Seeing Earth from Space. Astronauts Reflect on The Big Blue Marble (2)
- 12: 20 Animations of Classic Literary Works: From Plato and Dostoevsky, to Kafka, Hemingway & Bradbury (4)
- 12: 12.12.12 Concert For Sandy Relief. It’s Streaming Live! (0)
- 11: Ravi Shankar Gives George Harrison a Sitar Lesson … and Other Vintage Footage (4)
- 11: Ghosts of History: Dutch Artist Eerily Superimposes Modern Street Scenes on World War II Photos (2)
- 11: Europa Film Treasures Digitally Preserves 194 Films From 1890s to 1970s (6)
- 11: Watch PBS’ American Masters Documentaries (Including Scorsese’s Homage to Kazan) Free Online (0)
- 11: Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment Presented in a Beautifully Animated Short Film (7)
- 10: John Hodgman Presents a Survival Guide for the Coming Apocalypse (1)
- 10: Watch an Animated Film of Emily Dickinson’s Poem ‘I Started Early–Took My Dog’ (5)
- 10: Toni Morrison Dispenses Sound Writing Advice: Tips You Can Apply to Your Own Work (6)
- 10: Nate Silver (Sporting a Cookie Monster T-Shirt) Talks Serious Stats with Conan O’Brien (1)
- 10: A Crash Course in English Literature: A New Video Series by Best-Selling Author John Green (1)
- 10: Neil Gaiman Gives Sage Advice to Aspiring Artists (0)
- 09: Gary Larson’s The Far Side Comes Alive in Series of Animated Cartoons (6)
- 07: Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Classic, The Foundation Trilogy, Dramatized for Radio (1973) (1)
- 07: The Power of “Outrospection” — A Way of Life, A Force for Social Change — Explained with Animation (3)
- 07: The “Priest” They Called Him: A Dark Collaboration Between Kurt Cobain & William S. Burroughs (1)
- 07: Hilarious Video Proof: Your Ability to Make Realistic Sound Effects Is Gender-Based (4)
- 07: Quentin Tarantino’s 75 Minute Interview with Howard Stern (2)
- 06: Charles Bukowski’s Poem “Nirvana” Presented in Three Creative Videos (9)
- 06: Watch a Cool and Creepy Visualization of U.S. Births & Deaths in Real-Time (3)
- 06: Richard Burton Reads ‘Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait’ and 14 Other Poems by Dylan Thomas (1)
- 06: Schoolhouse Rock: Revisit a Collection of Nostalgia-Inducing Educational Videos (5)
- 06: Pier Paolo Pasolini Talks and Reads Poetry with Ezra Pound (1967) (0)
- 05: Kafka’s Nightmare Tale, ‘A Country Doctor,’ Told in Award-Winning Japanese Animation (2)
- 05: Remembering Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck (RIP) with a Very Touching Musical Moment (3)
- 05: A Colorfully Animated Biography of Bluesman Skip Pitts (0)
- 05: Alan Watts Brings Eastern Wisdom to American TV Viewers in 1959 (Complete Episodes) (0)
- 05: Rainn Wilson Talks About Life’s Big Questions in His Web Series Metaphysical Milkshake (0)
- 04: Vladimir Nabokov Talks About Life, Literature & Love in a Meticulously Prepared Interview, 1969 (0)
- 04: Orson Welles’ The Stranger Free Online, Where 1940s Film Noir Meets Real Horrors of WWII (0)
- 04: Einstein Documentary Offers A Revealing Portrait of the Great 20th Century Scientist (3)
- 04: President Obama Pays Tribute to Led Zeppelin in Washington D.C. (0)
- 04: Philosophy with a Southern Drawl: Rick Roderick Teaches Derrida, Foucault, Sartre and Others (7)
- 03: Self-Taught African Teenager Wows M.I.T. (and Other Innovators Changing Africa’s Fate) (2)
- 03: Celebrity Statistician Nate Silver Fields Questions from Data Wizards at Google (1)
- 03: Orson Welles Reads ‘The Secret Sharer,’ by Joseph Conrad (2)
- 03: Artist Ken Butler Turns One Man’s Trash Into Another Man’s Quirky Stringed Instrument (1)
- 03: The Best Books of 2012: Lists by The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian and More (8)
- 02: Every Apple Ad Ever Aired on TV (0)
- November 2012 (110)
- 30: Conan O’Brien Plays Charlie Rose, Talks Presidential History with Edmund Morris (0)
- 30: Radiohead-Approved, Fan-Made Film of the Band at Roseland for 2011’s The King of Limbs Tour (1)
- 30: Library of Congress Releases Audio Archive of Interviews with Rock ‘n’ Roll Icons (0)
- 30: Ira Glass Makes Balloon Animals and Gives NSFW Advice to Teens — At the Same Time!! (2)
- 30: Filming a Sprinting Cheetah at 1,200 Frames Per Second (3)
- 29: 15,000 Balloons Promote TEDxAmsterdam (Watch It Live on November 30) (3)
- 29: Watch as Alberto Giacometti Paints and Pursues the Elusive “Apparition” (1965) (2)
- 29: A Poignant, Elegant Tribute to the Mars Rover Curiosity (0)
- 29: Arthur Conan Doyle Discusses Sherlock Holmes and Psychics in a Rare Filmed Interview (1927) (2)
- 29: Kurt Vonnegut’s Tips for Teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (1967) (1)
- 28: Woody Allen Answers 12 Unconventional Questions He Has Never Been Asked Before (7)
- 28: Neil deGrasse Tyson Answers the Big Enchilada Question, “Does the Universe Have a Purpose?” (5)
- 28: Woody Guthrie’s Fan Letter To John Cage and Alan Hovhaness (1947) (7)
- 28: The Epistemology of Dr. Seuss & More Philosophy Lessons from Great Children’s Stories (5)
- 27: Leonard Bernstein’s First “Young People’s Concert” at Carnegie Hall Asks, “What Does Music Mean?” (1)
- 27: Nine Classic Superman Cartoons Restored and Now on YouTube (3)
- 27: Google Presents an Interactive Visualization of 100,000 Stars (3)
- 27: Hear the 1962 Beatles Demo that Decca Rejected: “Guitar Groups are on Their Way Out, Mr. Epstein” (10)
- 26: New MOOC Introduces You to the Wonderful World of Infographics & Data Visualization (3)
- 26: Existential Moments with Theo Jansen and His Amazing Kinetic Sculptures, the Strandbeests (0)
- 26: Introducing 200 Free Educational Resources for K-12 Students: Spread the Word & Tell Us Your Favorites (3)
- 26: Watch The Mind of a Chef, the Unconventional Travel-Cooking Show Online (for a Limited Time) (0)
- 26: Johnny Cash Sings “Man in Black” for the First Time, 1971 (1)
- 26: The Coen Brothers Make a TV Commercial — Ridiculing “Clean Coal” (1)
- 26: Khan Academy Releases New App for iPhone & iPod Touch, Giving You Mobile Access to 3600 Videos (2)
- 25: Big Brother Captures the Better Qualities of Humanity (3)
- 23: Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza and Other Misheard Lyrics for Your Listening Pleasure (22)
- 23: The Moon Disaster That Wasn’t: Nixon’s Speech In Case Apollo 11 Failed to Return (2)
- 23: Ai Weiwei’s Parody of ‘Gangnam Style’ (3)
- 23: Watch the World’s Oldest Working Digital Computer — the 1951 Harwell Dekatron — Get Fired Up Again (2)
- 22: William S. Burroughs’ “The Thanksgiving Prayer,” Shot by Gus Van Sant (4)
- 22: 11,215 Free Grateful Dead Concert Recordings in the Internet Archive (6)
- 22: The Photography of Ludwig Wittgenstein (3)
- 22: Alice’s Restaurant Illustrated: A Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (1)
- 21: John Coltrane: Three Great European Performances, 1960, 1961 and 1965 (0)
- 21: The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (As Told by Those Who Helped Him Make It) (0)
- 21: Astronaut Sunita Williams Gives an Extensive Tour of the International Space Station (0)
- 21: Watch the “Biblio-Mat” Book-Vending Machine Dispense Literary Delight (4)
- 20: Mashup Duet: Miles Davis Improvising on LCD Soundsystem (3)
- 20: Philip Roth Reads the Last Pages of His Last Work of Fiction: “The End of the Line After Thirty-One Books” (0)
- 20: Adam Savage (Host of MythBusters) Explains How Simple Ideas Become Great Scientific Discoveries (0)
- 20: Brian Eno Once Composed Music for Windows 95; Now He Lets You Create Music with an iPad App (0)
- 20: Resurrecting the Sounds of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s New Biopic (1)
- 20: Noam Chomsky Explains Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong (3)
- 19: The Rolling Stones at 50: Mick, Keith, Charlie & Ronnie Revisit Their Favorite Songs (1)
- 19: David Sedaris Reads You a Story By Miranda July (0)
- 19: Salvador Dalí Reveals the Secrets of His Trademark Moustache (1954) (2)
- 19: The Best Music to Write By, Part II: Your Favorites Brought Together in a Special Playlist (6)
- 18: Stanford “Election 2012” Course Draws to Close with a Post Mortem and Predictions (1)
- 17: How a Crossword Puzzle is Made: Behind the Scenes with The New York Times (2)
- 16: The Best Music to Write By: Give Us Your Recommendations (81)
- 16: Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) Pitches Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson) on the Famous Shower Scene (0)
- 16: How to Operate Your Brain: A User Manual by Timothy Leary (1993) (5)
- 16: Louis CK Plays Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th President and (Yes) Stand-Up Comedian Too (0)
- 15: The Ten Best American Essays Since 1950, According to Robert Atwan (3)
- 15: The History of Film — 2000 Movies Across 100 Years — Presented in One Big Zoomable Graphic (0)
- 15: After a Tour of Slavoj Žižek’s Pad, You’ll Never See Interior Design in the Same Way (9)
- 15: Skeptic Michael Shermer Shows You How to Bend Spoons with Your Mind (28)
- 14: 15,000+ Hours of Free Video & Audio Lectures from World-Class Universities (10)
- 14: Bertrand Russell and F.C. Copleston Debate the Existence of God, 1948 (9)
- 14: Watch Suddenly: Frank Sinatra Stars in a 1954 Noir Film (1)
- 14: Harry Taylor Brings 150-Year-Old Craft of Tintype Photography into the Modern Day (1)
- 14: Great Big Ideas: Free Course Features Top Thinkers Tackling the World’s Most Important Ideas in 12 Lectures (6)
- 14: The Normandy Invasion Captured on 16 mm Kodachrome Film (1944) (5)
- 13: ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’: Neil Young Plays on The Johnny Cash Show, 1971 (1)
- 13: Google Revisits the Fall of the Iron Curtain in New Online Exhibition (1)
- 13: The Creators Project Presents the Future of Art and Design, Brought to You by Intel and Vice Magazine (0)
- 13: Reefer Madness, 1936’s Most Unintentionally Hilarious “Anti-Drug” Exploitation Film, Free Online (3)
- 13: Monsterpiece Theater Presents Waiting for Elmo, Calls BS on Samuel Beckett (2)
- 12: Venice is Way Under Water… (2)
- 12: Meryl Streep Shrooms Her Way Through Modern Alice in Wonderland (1)
- 12: Watch Night of the Living Dead, the Seminal Zombie Movie, Free Online (0)
- 12: Alfred Molina Plays Merciless Children’s Theatre Critic, Comedy Ensues (0)
- 12: Bertolt Brecht Testifies Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1947) (5)
- 12: Dan Ariely Presents “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior” in Upcoming MOOC (4)
- 11: NASA’s “Spot the Station” Will Text or Email You When the Space Station Passes Over Your Home (28)
- 09: Watch Phish Play the Entirety of the Talking Heads’ Remain in Light (1996) (5)
- 09: Watch the Great Russian Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff in Home Movies (1)
- 09: Caught Mapping: A Cinematic Ride Through the Nitty Gritty World of Vintage Cartography (0)
- 09: An Introduction to Yasujiro Ozu, “the Most Japanese of All Film Directors” (5)
- 09: Astronaut Don Pettit Demystifies the Art of Taking Photographs in Space (1)
- 08: Noam Chomsky Spells Out the Purpose of Education (21)
- 08: Marilyn Monroe Reads Joyce’s Ulysses at the Playground (1955) (17)
- 08: Jean Cocteau’s Avante-Garde Film From 1930, The Blood of a Poet (1)
- 08: The History of Western Architecture: A Free Online Course Moving from Ancient Greece to Rococo (13)
- 07: Rare Footage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald From the 1920s (6)
- 07: Carnegie Mellon Takes Online Courses to Another Level with Its Open Learning Initiative (4)
- 07: A Celebration of Retro Media: Vinyl, Cassettes, VHS, and Polaroid Too (3)
- 07: The Drinking Party, 1965 Film Adapts Plato’s Symposium to Modern Times (1)
- 07: Nicolas Cage, Paul Newman & Dennis Hopper Bring Their American Style to Japanese Commercials (0)
- 06: Classic Charles Mingus Performance on Belgian Television, 1964 (5)
- 06: Nirvana’s Home Videos: Watch Nirvana Rehearse in Krist Novoselic’s Mother’s House (1988) (2)
- 06: Take First-Class Philosophy Courses Anywhere with Free Oxford Podcasts (9)
- 06: Alfred Hitchcock Tantalizes Audiences with a Playful Trailer for Psycho (1960) (0)
- 05: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Go International (8)
- 05: Bruce Springsteen Stumps/Sings for Obama: A Free Six-Song Set (2)
- 05: FolkStreams Presents a Big Film Archive on American Folk Art and Music (0)
- 05: Japanese Cartoons from the 1920s and 30s Reveal the Stylistic Roots of Anime (1)
- 05: Richard Feynman Talks Physics with Fred Hoyle in Take the World From Another Point of View, 1973 (4)
- 05: Making The Planet of the Apes: Roddy McDowall’s Home Movies and a 1966 Makeup Test (0)
- 04: Le Blog de Jean-Paul Sartre Discovered (1)
- 03: An Acoustic History of Punk Rock Sheds Light on NYC’s Lower East Side (NSFW) (0)
- 02: The Rijksmuseum Puts 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces Online, and Lets You Remix Its Art (8)
- 02: 13 Lectures by The Great Courses (1)
- 02: Russell Brand and Tracey Ullman Sing the Wonders of “Asstrology” in Eric Idle’s What About Dick? (2)
- 01: Filmmaker Errol Morris Gives Us “11 Excellent Reasons Not to Vote?” (9)
- 01: Watch Steven Spielberg’s Rarely Seen 1968 Film, Amblin’ (1)
- 01: Troma Entertainment, the Maker of Acclaimed B-Movies, Puts 150 Free Films on YouTube (4)
- 01: Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers Break Down Star Wars as an Epic, Universal Myth (2)
- 01: Hunter S. Thompson Interviews Keith Richards, and Very Little Makes Sense (5)
- October 2012 (117)
- 31: Archive of Handwritten Recipes (1600 – 1960) Will Teach You How to Stew a Calf’s Head and More (3)
- 31: Mountain Biker Joy Rides on a $13,000 Carbon Road Bike (1)
- 31: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi Square Off in a Monstrous Game of Chess (1934) (0)
- 31: Isaac Asimov Explains His Three Laws of Robots (4)
- 30: The Known Universe: The Hayden Planetarium’s Tour of the Cosmos Gets a Hans Zimmer Soundtrack (2)
- 30: Watch James Burke’s TV Series Connections, and Discover the Unexpected History of Innovation (3)
- 30: 50 Free Online Certificate Courses Starting Soon (Including Intro to Philosophy) (14)
- 30: Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959) (2)
- 29: New York is Empty: Art Imitates Life (2)
- 29: Lawrence Krauss Presents “Secular Sermon” on Theoretical Physics and the Meaning of Life (0)
- 29: Hurricane Sandy Seen from Outer Space, in Timelapse Motion (0)
- 29: Bela Lugosi Discusses His Drug Habit as He Leaves the Hospital in 1955 (43)
- 29: The Rolling Stones Sing the Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week” in a Hotel Room (1965) (4)
- 29: Download a Free, New Halloween Story by Neil Gaiman (and Help Charities Along the Way) (4)
- 29: The Physics of Coffee Rings Finally Explained (3)
- 27: The Moth Now Streams its Brilliant & Quietly Addictive Stories on the Web (0)
- 27: For Sylvia Plath’s 81st Birthday, Hear Her Read ‘A Birthday Present’ (3)
- 26: The Amazing Flights of Wingsuit Champion Espen Fadnes (1)
- 26: Watch Nosferatu, the Seminal Vampire Film, Free Online (1922) (1)
- 26: Stephen King Turns Short Story into a Free Webcomic (0)
- 26: Neil Young Reveals the New Killer Gadget That Will Save Music (30)
- 25: Calibre’s Open Source Software Makes It Easy to Read Free eBooks (and Much More) (4)
- 25: Fellini: I’m a Born Liar Profiles the Filmmaker’s Love of Artifice (and Features Italo Calvino) (1)
- 25: Watch Historic Footage of Joseph Kittinger’s 102,800 Jump from Space (1960) (2)
- 25: The Writer Who Couldn’t Read … And What That Tells Us About the Brain (0)
- 24: Remembering Janis Joplin: Some Classic Live Performances and Previews of a New Joplin Musical (0)
- 24: Amazing Human-Powered Helicopter Closes in on $250,000 Prize (1)
- 24: New Animated Film Tells the Life Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman (0)
- 24: Helen Keller Pays a Visit to Martha Graham’s Dance Studio Circa 1954 (0)
- 23: Tune into Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry Teaching Marathon (Free Streaming Audio) (0)
- 23: Richard Linklater’s Slacker, the Classic Gen-X Indie Film (6)
- 23: Ray Bradbury Appears with Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life (1955) (1)
- 23: Watch German Painter Gerhard Richter Create Abstract Art (1)
- 23: John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Two Appearances on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971 and 72 (5)
- 22: Download 397 Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (20)
- 22: Alan Rickman Does Epic Violence to a Cup of Tea in Super Slow Motion (2)
- 22: The Enduring Analog Underworld of Gramercy Typewriter (0)
- 22: Ezra Pound’s Fiery 1939 Reading of His Early Poem, ‘Sestina: Altaforte’ (1)
- 22: Hugh Hefner Defends “the Playboy Philosophy” to William F. Buckley (1966) (1)
- 22: Watch Herbie Hancock Demo a Fairlight CMI Synthesizer on Sesame Street (1983) (4)
- 20: Commuters Play Beethoven’s “Bus Station Sonata” in the UK (5)
- 20: “Name That Tune” at the Bob Dylan Concert (Echoes of Newport, 1965) (5)
- 19: Watch Scarlet Street, Fritz Lang’s Censored Noir Film, Starring the Great Edward G. Robinson (1945) (3)
- 19: Cartoonist Kate Beaton Plays on Literary Classics — The Great Gatsby, Julius Caesar & More (1)
- 19: Muhammad Ali Plans to Fight on Mars in Lost 1966 Interview (0)
- 19: World Shakespeare Festival Presents 37 Plays by the Bard in 37 Languages: Watch Them Online (1)
- 18: Aldous Huxley’s Most Beautiful, LSD-Assisted Death: A Letter from His Widow (1)
- 18: Where Your Web Searches, Emails, and Videos Live: A Tour Inside Google’s Data Centers (0)
- 18: Time-Lapse Film of the Space Shuttle Endeavor’s Final Journey Through the Narrow Streets of Los Angeles (0)
- 18: In the Short Film Gisbert: Paradisola a Man Goes on Holiday, Digs a Cave, Turns it into Life (1)
- 18: Clouds Over Cuba: Interactive Documentary Revisits the Cuban Missile Crisis on Its 50th Anniversary (2)
- 17: Google Brings History to Life with 42 New Online Exhibitions (0)
- 17: Visit the World of Little Nemo Artist Winsor McCay: Three Classic Animations and a Google Doodle (1)
- 17: The Strange Tale of Rodriguez: Detroit Musician Becomes a Star in South Africa … Without Knowing It (3)
- 17: Hunter S. Thompson Calls Tech Support, Unleashes a Tirade Full of Fear and Loathing (NSFW) (16)
- 16: Glenn Gould Explains the Genius of Johann Sebastian Bach (1962) (8)
- 16: Amazing Fact: Spaghetti and Ukulele Strings Actually Grow on Trees (0)
- 16: Short Film Jamel Rockt Shows How German Musicians Respond to Neo-Nazi Occupation of Small Town (0)
- 16: The Making of The Empire Strikes Back Showcased on Long-Lost Dutch TV Documentary (0)
- 16: The Origin of Quantum Mechanics Explained in Four Animated Minutes (1)
- 15: See Ugly Thrift Store Paintings through Artist Wayne White’s Pretty Eyes (1)
- 15: A List of 60 Free Courses Granting Certificates from Great Universities (Some Starting This Week!) (169)
- 15: Rare 1946 Film: The Great Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev Plays Piano, Discusses His Music (5)
- 15: The Uncensored Andy Warhol-Directed Video for The Cars’ Hit “Hello Again” (NSFW) (2)
- 15: 60-Second Adventures in Religion: Watch New Animations by The Open University (0)
- 13: Philosophy Made Fun: Read the Free Preview Edition of the Action Philosophers! Comic (1)
- 13: Behold Charles Laughton Delivering the Gettysburg Address in its Entirety in Ruggles of Red Gap (0)
- 12: Ishu Patel’s Oscar-Nominated, Animated Films Reveal a Singular, Handcrafted Vision (3)
- 12: Learn New Languages (From Arabic to Yiddish) with 150+ Free Podcasts (0)
- 12: Stephen Fry Friday: His Musings on Life, Swearing, Shakespeare, Nanoscience & More (1)
- 11: Pull My Daisy: 1959 Beatnik Film Stars Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Shot by Robert Frank (5)
- 11: Codecademy’s Free Courses Democratize Computer Programming (8)
- 11: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Reunite in Exotic Marrakesh, 1994 (2)
- 11: Comedian Tig Notaro’s “Truly Great” Cancer Stand-up Set Now Available on Louis C.K.’s Website (0)
- 11: Watch a Water Droplet Bounce (That’s Right, Bounce) in Super Slow Motion (4)
- 10: Thelonious Monk, Live in Oslo and Copenhagen (1966) (2)
- 10: Braque in Bulk: Costco Gets Back into the Fine Art Market (0)
- 10: Leonard Cohen Plays a Spellbinding Set at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival (9)
- 10: Hear Paul Auster Read the Entirety of The Red Notebook, an Early Collection of Stories (0)
- 10: Samuel Beckett Directs His Absurdist Play Waiting for Godot (1985) (5)
- 10: The Quantum Physics of Harry Potter, Broken Down By a Physicist and a Magician (0)
- 09: John Lennon’s Victorian Circus Poster Lovingly Remade by Artists and Engravers (1)
- 09: Orson Welles Remembers his Stormy Friendship with Ernest Hemingway (1)
- 09: A Short History of Romanian Computing: From 1961 to 1989 (3)
- 09: Art.sy Rolls Out Huge Archive of Fine-Art Images and an Intelligent Art Appreciation Guide (0)
- 09: What If Money Was No Object?: Thoughts on the Art of Living from Eastern Philosopher Alan Watts (7)
- 08: How Political Commitment Led Lucy Lawless (AKA Xena, the Warrior Princess) to Study Philosophy (3)
- 08: Marginal Revolution University Launches, Bringing Free Online Courses in Economics to the Web (1)
- 08: Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Tweeted Daily By 92nd Street Y (0)
- 08: University Presses & Libraries Turn to Pinterest to Promote Books (2)
- 08: Steve Martin, “Home Crafts Expert,” Explains the Art of Paper Wadding, Endorses Bob Kerrey (2)
- 08: Miranda July Teaches You How to Avoid Procrastination (7)
- 07: Amazon Finally Gets the Kindle Right with the Paperwhite, Delivering on Price and Technology (5)
- 06: What an Astronaut’s Camera Sees (and What a Geographer Learns About Our Planet) from the ISS (3)
- 05: Christopher Lee Narrates a Beautiful Animation of Tim Burton’s Poem, Nightmare Before Christmas (2)
- 05: Albert Camus Talks About Nihilism & Adapting Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed for the Theatre, 1959 (13)
- 05: How Indie Video Game Makers Are Changing the Game (1)
- 05: The Scotch Pronunciation Guide: Brian Cox Teaches You How To Ask Authentically for 40 Scotches (0)
- 04: Neil Armstrong’s Parents Appear on the Classic American TV Show “I’ve Got a Secret,” 1962 (4)
- 04: Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye, a Revealing Look at “The Father of Modern Photography” (3)
- 04: The History of Byzantium Podcast Picks Up Where The History of Rome Left Off (2)
- 04: Higgs Boson, the Musical: CERN Data Turned into Melody (0)
- 04: Listen: Beck Reworks 20 Philip Glass Compositions Into a 20 Minute Song, ‘NYC: 73-78’ (0)
- 04: 1972 Diane Arbus Documentary Interviews Those Who Knew the American Photographer Best (1)
- 03: John Waters Reads Steamy Scene from Lady Chatterley’s Lover for Banned Books Week (NSFW) (0)
- 03: The ‘Tractate on the Steppenwolf’: Max Von Sydow Narrates Animated Scene from Hermann Hesse’s Novel (5)
- 03: The Long, Violent History of Israel and Palestine Musically Animated by Nina Paley (3)
- 03: Final Episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Features a Manic Michael Richards (15)
- 03: Steven Spielberg Reveals He Is Dyslexic. Making Movies Offered Him a “Great Escape” as a Child (3)
- 02: The Real Alice in Wonderland Circa 1862, and Our Favorite Culture Links on the Web (0)
- 02: Bob Dylan’s Historic Newport Folk Festival Performances, 1963-1965 (2)
- 02: Metamorphose: 1999 Documentary Reveals the Life & Work of Artist M.C. Escher (2)
- 02: Hundreds of Fans Collectively Remade Star Wars; Now They Remake The Empire Strikes Back (0)
- 01: Art Lovers Rejoice! New Goya and Rembrandt Databases Now Online (0)
- 01: Read Joyce’s Ulysses Line by Line, for the Next 22 Years, with Frank Delaney’s Podcast (4)
- 01: Dizzy Gillespie Runs for US President, 1964. Promises to Make Miles Davis Head of the CIA (9)
- 01: Election 2012: Your Free Ticket to a Popular Stanford Course (3)
- September 2012 (99)
- 30: N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős, the Most Prolific Mathematician of the 20th Century (0)
- 30: William Faulkner Quits His Post Office Job in Splendid Fashion with a 1924 Resignation Letter (7)
- 28: Sean Connery Reads C.P. Cavafy’s Epic Poem “Ithaca,” Set to the Music of Vangelis (32)
- 28: How to Make Better Decisions, a Thought-Provoking Documentary by the BBC (0)
- 28: Norman Mailer: Strong Writer, Weak Actor, Brutally Wrestles Actor Rip Torn (0)
- 28: Eisenhower Answers America: The First Political Advertisements on American TV (1952) (2)
- 27: Samuel L. Jackson Stars in “Wake the F**ck Up for Obama,” a NSFW Political Children’s Tale (1)
- 27: Peter Sellers Gives a Quick Demonstration of British Accents (3)
- 27: Great Cinema Discussed Director By Director on The Auteurcast (1)
- 27: Philosopher Slavoj Zizek Interprets Hitchcock’s Vertigo in The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006) (4)
- 27: Regina Spektor Live in L.A. — A Free 30 Minute Set with Songs from Her New Album (0)
- 26: Reef View: Google Gives Us Stunning Underwater Shots of Great Coral Reefs (0)
- 26: F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads From Shakespeare’s Othello (c.1940) (1)
- 26: Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music (1)
- 26: The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. (48)
- 26: Federico Fellini Introduces Himself to America in Experimental 1969 Documentary (0)
- 25: Hand Lettering Bob Dylan’s Lyrics to “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (0)
- 25: The Big Ernest Hemingway Photo Gallery: The Novelist in Cuba, Spain, Africa and Beyond (1)
- 25: Allen Ginsberg Recordings Brought to the Digital Age. Listen to Eight Full Tracks for Free (0)
- 25: Christopher Hitchens Remembers Ayatollah Khomeini’s Fatwa Against His Friend Salman Rushdie, 2010 (0)
- 25: Watch Simon & Garfunkel Play Their Big Central Park Concert (1981) (5)
- 25: Vladimir Nabokov Makes Editorial Tweaks to Franz Kafka’s Novella The Metamorphosis (2)
- 24: Watch Steven Spielberg’s Debut: Two Films He Directed as a Teenager (3)
- 24: Wearable Sculpture by Nick Cave (But No, Not That Nick Cave) Invade Microsoft (0)
- 24: Jazz Legend Jaco Pastorius Gives a 90 Minute Bass Lesson and Plays Live in Montreal (1982) (4)
- 24: David Lynch Teaches Louis C.K. How to Host The David Letterman Show (4)
- 24: Thelonious Monk Creates a List of Tips for Playing a Gig: “Don’t Listen to Me, I Am Supposed to Be Accompanying You!” (24)
- 22: Discovered: Lord Byron’s Copy of Frankenstein Signed by Mary Shelley (10)
- 21: Dan Ariely’s Animated Talk Reveals How and Why We’re All Dishonest (0)
- 21: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood Join Forces at the Historic Blind Faith Concert in Hyde Park, 1969 (3)
- 21: Seinfeld, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, and Ricky Gervais Dissect the Craft of Comedy (NSFW) (0)
- 21: The Moby Dick Big Read: Tilda Swinton & Others Read a Chapter a Day from the Great American Novel (4)
- 20: Two Legends Together: A Young Bob Dylan Talks and Plays on The Studs Terkel Program, 1963 (11)
- 20: David Byrne Gives Us the Lowdown on How Music Works (with Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin) (1)
- 20: Hear Zora Neale Hurston Sing Traditional American Folk Song “Mule on the Mount” (1939) (1)
- 20: The Big List of 530 Free Online Courses from Top Universities (New Additions) (4)
- 20: The Oldest Color Movies Bring Sunflowers, Exotic Birds and Goldfish Back to Life (1902) (4)
- 19: What’s Next for the Large Hadron Collider? PhD Comics Introduces the Search for Extra Dimensions (0)
- 19: “Single Sentence Animations” Visualize the Short Stories of Contemporary Writers (0)
- 19: Classic Films and Filmmakers, Rendered in Woodcut By a Los Angeles Artist-Cinephile (0)
- 19: Exquisite Paper Craft Animations Tell the Stories of Words (0)
- 18: A Symphony of Sound (1966): Velvet Underground Improvises, Warhol Films It, Until the Cops Turn Up (3)
- 18: Martin Scorsese Brings “Lost” Hitchcock Film to Screen in Short Faux Documentary (0)
- 18: An Annotated Charlie Chaplin Filmography — 82 Films with Links to Videos (1)
- 18: Thomas Edison’s Boxing Cats (1894), or Where the LOLCats All Began (0)
- 17: 53 Years of Nuclear Testing in 14 Minutes: A Time Lapse Film by Japanese Artist Isao Hashimoto (10)
- 17: Always the Director: Martin Scorsese Spoofs Himself in Two Commercials (1)
- 17: Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol Demystify Their Pop Art in Vintage 1966 Film (0)
- 17: Heat Mapping the Rise of Bruce Springsteen: How the Boss Went Viral in a Pre-Internet Era (0)
- 15: How Leo Tolstoy Learned to Ride a Bike at 67, and Other Tales of Lifelong Learning (1)
- 14: The Making of Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant’s First Major Film (1989) (0)
- 14: Yeah, Baby! Deep Purple Gets Shagadelic on Playboy After Dark (1)
- 14: With Or Without U: Promoting a Scrabble Book to the Tune of U2 (2)
- 14: William S. Burroughs Shows You How to Make “Shotgun Art” (8)
- 13: Pi in the Sky: The World’s Largest Ephemeral Art Installation over Beautiful San Francisco (2)
- 13: Empire State of Pen: Patrick Vale’s Epic Freehand Drawing of the Manhattan Skyline (1)
- 13: Gertrude Stein Recites ‘If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso’ (0)
- 13: Revisit the Radio Sessions and Record Collection of Groundbreaking BBC DJ John Peel (1)
- 13: Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit: A BBC Adaptation Starring Harold Pinter (1964) (6)
- 13: Watch Student Science Experiments Conducted on the International Space Station at 10:30 AM EDT (0)
- 12: Charade, the Best Hitchcock Film Hitchcock Never Made. Stars Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn (7)
- 12: Google Releases “Course Builder,” an Open Source Platform for Building Your Own Big Online Courses (3)
- 12: Fear of a Female Planet: Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) on Why Russia and the US Need a Pussy Riot (5)
- 12: Classic Ray Charles Performance: ‘What’d I Say’ Live in Paris, 1968 (0)
- 12: Artists Paint Paris, Berlin and London with High-Tech Video Graffiti (0)
- 11: Michio Kaku Schools a Moon Landing-Conspiracy Believer on His Science Fantastic Podcast (9)
- 11: The Comic Biography of Underground Publisher & Political Writer, John Wilcock (0)
- 11: O. Henry on the Secrets of Writing Short Stories: Rare Audio Recording (3)
- 11: Kids Record Audio Tours of NY’s Museum of Modern Art (with Some Silly Results) (1)
- 11: The Early Days of Animation Preserved in UCLA’s Video Archive (2)
- 11: Goodnight Keith Moon: “The Most Inappropriate Bedtime Story Ever” (0)
- 10: Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien Read Poems from The Fellowship of the Ring, in Elvish and English (1952) (4)
- 10: Leonard Cohen’s 1983 Musical for Canadian Television: I Am a Hotel (4)
- 10: The Wire Re-Imagined as a Classic Video Role-Playing Game (0)
- 09: A Big List of 375 Free eBooks for Your iPad, Kindle, Nook and Other Devices (7)
- 08: Signature Shots from the Films of Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective (1)
- 07: The Story of Ziggy Stardust: How David Bowie Created the Character that Made Him Famous (4)
- 07: The Chutzpah of Bret Easton Ellis: Calls David Foster Wallace “The Most Tedious, Overrated, Tortured, Pretentious Writer of My Generation” (19)
- 07: Ailing Christopher Hitchens Creates a List of Essential Books for an 8-Year-Old Girl to Read (16)
- 07: 60-Second Adventures in Economics: An Animated Intro to The Invisible Hand and Other Economic Ideas (5)
- 06: Jimi Hendrix Wreaks Havoc on the Lulu Show, Gets Banned From the BBC (1969) (16)
- 06: Mitch Hedberg Remembered by Modern Comedian, a New Documentary Web Series (0)
- 06: Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind, the Father of String Theory (2)
- 06: Charles Bukowski Tells the Story of His Worst Hangover Ever (2)
- 05: The Second Known Photo of Emily Dickinson Emerges (6)
- 05: Listen to the New David Byrne/St. Vincent Album, Love This Giant. Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 05: Franklin D. Roosevelt Says to Moneyed Interests (EG Bankers) in 1936: “I Welcome Their Hatred!” (3)
- 05: Danny MacAskill, Biker Extraordinaire, Takes on the Streets of San Francisco (1)
- 05: Chuck Jones’ The Dot and the Line Celebrates Geometry & Hard Work: An Oscar-Winning Animation (1965) (11)
- 05: The BBC Symphony Orchestra Performs 4′33,″ the Controversial Composition by John Cage, Born 100 Years Ago Today (1)
- 04: Ayn Rand’s Philosophy and Her Resurgence in 2012: A Quick Primer by Stanford Historian Jennifer Burns (1)
- 04: Le Ballet Mécanique: The Historic Cinematic Collaboration Between Fernand Legér and George Antheil (2)
- 04: The Business Card of William Carlos Williams: Doctor by Day, Poet by Night (0)
- 04: Steven Pinker Presents His Big Gallery of Cape Cod Photography (0)
- 04: Johnny Cash’s Short and Personal To-Do List (5)
- 03: Vintage Film: Watch Henri Matisse Sketch and Make His Famous Cut-Outs (1946) (0)
- 03: Herbie Hancock: All That’s Jazz! (2)
- 03: The Evolution of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Signature: From 5 Years Old to 21 (0)
- 01: Stephen Greenblatt’s Pulitzer Prize Winner, The Swerve, Available as AudioBook on iTunes for $5.95 (0)
- August 2012 (103)
- 31: Ray Bradbury: “The Things That You Love Should Be Things That You Do.” “Books Teach Us That” (2)
- 31: Face to Face with Bertrand Russell: ‘Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish’ (3)
- 31: Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) Talks Death Penalty with William F. Buckley (1968) (1)
- 31: Campbell’s to Sell Special Andy Warhol Soup Cans, and What Makes Those Cans Art Anyway (1)
- 30: Kurt Vonnegut Writes an Offbeat Contract Outlining His Chores Around the House, 1947 (1)
- 30: Peter Sellers: His Life in Home Movies (0)
- 30: Hollywood by Helicopter, 1958 (0)
- 30: Michio Kaku Explains the Physics Behind Absolutely Everything (16)
- 30: “Do Scientists Pray?”: A Young Girl Asks Albert Einstein in 1936. Einstein Then Responds. (21)
- 29: Dylan Thomas Recites ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night’ and Other Poems (3)
- 29: The Legendary Bluesman Robert Johnson Brought to Life in (Somewhat Creepy) Animated Image (1)
- 29: The Dead Authors Podcast: H.G. Wells Comically Revives Literary Greats with His Time Machine (1)
- 29: Pink Floyd Provides the Soundtrack for the BBC’s Broadcast of the 1969 Moon Landing (1)
- 28: The Crimson Permanent Assurance: Monty Python’s Comic Fantasy of Revolt Against the Corporations (5)
- 28: Take a Virtual Tour of CBGB, the Early Home of Punk and New Wave (1)
- 28: Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, and Dozens More Offer Advice in Free Creative Writing “Master Class” (8)
- 28: Keith Moon, Drummer of The Who, Passes Out at 1973 Concert; 19-Year-Old Fan Takes Over (11)
- 27: The Talking Heads Play CBGB, the New York Club That Shaped Their Sound (1975) (6)
- 27: Rudolf Brazda, Last Man to Wear the Pink Triangle During the Holocaust, Tells His Story (5)
- 27: What Do Satellites Have in Common with Falling Cats? Attitude Control (0)
- 27: Bill Nye, The Science Guy, Says Creationism is Bad for Kids and America’s Future (18)
- 25: Remembering Neil Armstrong, the First Man on the Moon, with Historic Footage and a BBC Bio Film (3)
- 24: When Asteroids Attack! Neil deGrasse Tyson and NASA Explain How To Stop an Armageddon (0)
- 24: How to Remove Egg Yolks with a Plastic Bottle, and More Strange Culinary Tips (3)
- 24: The Queen of Soul Conquers Europe: Aretha Franklin in Amsterdam, 1968 (1)
- 24: Jim Henson’s Animated Film, Limbo, the Organized Mind, Presented by Johnny Carson (1974) (1)
- 24: Three Public Service Announcements by Frank Zappa: Vote, Brush Your Teeth, and Don’t Do Speed (1)
- 24: The Famous Intro to 20th Century Fox Films … As It Ought to Be (8)
- 23: Steven Pinker Explains the Neuroscience of Swearing (NSFW) (4)
- 23: ‘The Character of Physical Law’: Richard Feynman’s Legendary Course Presented at Cornell, 1964 (8)
- 23: 2009 Kate Bush Documentary Dubs Her “Queen of British Pop” (6)
- 23: This is What Oliver Sacks Learned on LSD and Amphetamines (3)
- 22: Do Yourself a Favor and Watch Stress: Portrait of a Killer (with Stanford Biologist Robert Sapolsky) (4)
- 22: Henry Rollins Pitches Education as the Key to Restoring Democracy (11)
- 22: Hear Oscar Wilde Recite a Section of The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897) (10)
- 22: India’s Answer to M.I.T. Presents 268 Free Online Courses (in English) (13)
- 21: The Final Descent of NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity Captured in High Resolution (4)
- 21: Parking Garage Door Does Impression of Miles Davis’ Jazz Album, Bitches Brew (3)
- 21: Remembering The Clash’s Frontman Joe Strummer on His 60th Birthday (0)
- 21: What If Everyone Jumped at Once? What Color is a Mirror? Big Questions Answered in Viral Videos (0)
- 21: “Learn English With Ricky Gervais,” A New Podcast Debuts (NSFW) (4)
- 20: James Franco Reads a Dreamily Animated Version of Allen Ginsberg’s Epic Poem ‘Howl’ (0)
- 20: Sonny Rollins’ Enduring Musical Power: A Vintage 1965 Performance and Beyond (0)
- 20: Leonard Bernstein Explains Modern Music, From Stravinsky to Cage, with Baseball Analogies (1957) (7)
- 20: Bill Murray Reads Wallace Stevens Poems — “The Planet on The Table” and “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” (3)
- 18: Russian Punk Band, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Deriding Putin, Releases New Single (9)
- 17: One Trillion Frames Per Second: The Science of Capturing Light in Motion (3)
- 17: Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg Visit the Grave of Jack Kerouac (1975) (6)
- 17: Mnozil Brass: Europe’s Most Imaginative Brass Band (8)
- 17: Kids (and Less Savvy Marketers) Imagine the Internet in 1995 (0)
- 16: The Joy of Making Artistic Homemade Guitars (1)
- 16: ‘The Right of the People to Rule’: Listen to Theodore Roosevelt Speaking 100 Years Ago Today (3)
- 16: “Glitch” Artists Compose with Software Crashes and Corrupted Files (1)
- 16: The Making of Apocalypse Now Remixed/Revisited (4)
- 15: Dan Philips Presents Sustainable Housing with Wildly Creative Designs (0)
- 15: Julia Child Shows David Letterman How to Cook Meat with a Blow Torch (1)
- 15: Bukowski: Born Into This — The Definitive Documentary on the Hard-Living American Poet (2003) (2)
- 15: What Would It Be Like to Fly Through the Universe? (1)
- 15: The Wire Breaks Down The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Classic Criticism of America (NSFW) (3)
- 14: Famous Actors & Actresses Answer Revealing Questions on Inside the Actors Studio: A Compilation (1)
- 14: Ayn Rand (Paul Ryan’s Moral Heroine) Instructs Johnny Carson on the Virtue of Selfishness, 1967 (25)
- 14: Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1968): An Insider’s View of 60s London Counterculture (0)
- 14: What Makes Paris Look Like Paris? A Creative Use of Google Street View (4)
- 13: The Hearts of Age: Orson Welles’ Surrealist First Film (1934) (1)
- 13: Al Jazeera Travel Show Explores World Cities Through Their Street Food (1)
- 13: George Carlin Performs His “Seven Dirty Words” Routine: Historic and Completely NSFW (2)
- 11: David Rakoff Reads Personal Story During Live Stage Performance of This American Life (May, 2012) (5)
- 10: NASA Archive Collects Great Time-Lapse Videos of our Planet (0)
- 10: Django Reinhardt and the Inspiring Story Behind His Guitar Technique (7)
- 10: Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood: The BBC’s 1978 Portrait of Hunter S. Thompson (1)
- 10: Jon Hamm and Lena Dunham Unveil The New Yorker’s New iPhone App (0)
- 09: The Story of the Guitar: The Complete Three-Part Documentary (4)
- 09: E.M. Forster: Why I Stopped Writing Novels (1958) (7)
- 09: Unseen Scenes from Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 Jailbreak Movie Down By Law (1)
- 09: New Archive Showcases Dr. Seuss’s Early Work as an Advertising Illustrator and Political Cartoonist (0)
- 08: Watch Tom Waits’ Classic Appearance on Australian TV, 1979 (0)
- 08: Watch Astronaut Don Pettit Conduct Cool Experiments Aboard the International Space Station (1)
- 08: Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead Rehearse Together in Summer 1987: Hear 74 Tracks (12)
- 08: The Story of Wish You Were Here: Documentary of the Classic 1975 Pink Floyd Album (0)
- 08: Everything I Know: 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller’s Visionary Lectures Free Online (1975) (16)
- 07: Serial Entrepreneur Damon Horowitz Says “Quit Your Tech Job and Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities” (19)
- 07: Mark Hamill’s Star Wars Screen Test (Featuring Harrison Ford) (0)
- 07: Remembering Robert Hughes, the Art Critic Who Took No Prisoners (3)
- 07: Carl Sagan Presents Six Lectures on Earth, Mars & Our Solar System … For Kids (1977) (3)
- 07: Watch the Descent of Curiosity in Stop Motion Animation: The View from the Mars Rover (4)
- 06: A Room With A View: Camera Obscura Captures Beauty of Venice, Inside and Out (2)
- 06: “The Ducktators”: Loony Tunes Turns Animation into Wartime Propaganda (1942) (2)
- 06: Portrait Werner Herzog: The Director’s Autobiographical Short Film from 1986 (0)
- 06: Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Cover for On the Road (1)
- 05: Video: The Minutes Before & After the Landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover (1)
- 03: Salvador Dalí Goes Commercial: Three Strange Television Ads (0)
- 03: Too Big for Any Museum, AIDS Quilt Goes Digital Thanks to Microsoft (2)
- 03: John Lennon’s Appearances in How I Won the War, the Absurdist 1967 Film (1)
- 03: 19 Quotes on Writing by Gore Vidal. Some Witty, Some Acerbic, Many Spot On (1)
- 02: Take a Panoramic Tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with Google Street View (1)
- 02: Charles Mingus and His Eviction From His New York City Loft, Captured in Moving 1968 Film (5)
- 02: The Latest, Greatest Cultural Perk of Amazon Prime: Stream Movies and TV Shows to the iPad (4)
- 02: Errol Morris’ New Short Film, Team Spirit, Finds Sports Fans Loving Their Teams, Even in Death (0)
- 01: Take the ‘Happiness Experiment’ (6)
- 01: Jerry Garcia Sings a Soulful Peggy-O (For His Would-Be 70th Birthday) (0)
- 01: Versailles 3D, Created by Google, Gives You an Impressive Tour of Louis XIV’s Famous Palace (0)
- 01: At Home With John Irving (0)
- 01: Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Stanley Kubrick Never Made (3)
- July 2012 (101)
- 31: Gore Vidal (1925-2012) Feuds with Norman Mailer & William F. Buckley (0)
- 31: Paris in (Stop) Motion (0)
- 31: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio Show Podcast Tackles the History of Video Games (2)
- 31: The Benefits of Being Awestruck (2)
- 31: Star Trek Celebrities, William Shatner and Wil Wheaton, Narrate Mars Landing Videos for NASA (0)
- 30: France in the Year 2000, Imagined by Illustrators in 1900 (1)
- 30: Who’s Afraid of Ai Weiwei: A Short Documentary (0)
- 30: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Voyage in Time: A Portrait of the Filmmaker in Exile (1)
- 30: Wim Wenders Creates Ads to Sell Beer (Stella Artois), Pasta (Barilla), and More Beer (Carling) (2)
- 30: The Strawberry Fields Forever Demos: The Making of a Beatles Classic (1966) (5)
- 27: Leni Riefenstahl Captures Jesse Owens Dashing Nazi Dreams at the 1936 Olympics (2)
- 27: Celebrate Harry Potter’s Birthday with Song. Daniel Radcliffe Sings Tom Lehrer’s Tune, The Elements. (0)
- 27: Conan O’Brien Writes Chicago Blues Songs With School Kids (1)
- 27: Alexander Hamilton: Hip-Hop Hero at the White House Poetry Evening (7)
- 27: Miracle Mushrooms Power the Slums of Mumbai (1)
- 26: Face to Face with Carl Jung: ‘Man Cannot Stand a Meaningless Life’ (1959) (14)
- 26: Great Cities at Night: Views from the International Space Station (0)
- 26: The Science of the Olympic Flame; Ancient Style Meets Modern Technology (0)
- 26: Has Science Refuted Religion? Sean Carroll and Michael Shermer vs. Dinesh D’Souza and Ian Hutchinson (10)
- 25: Martin Scorsese Appears in New Apple Ad with Siri, Plays on His Chilling Cameo in Taxi Driver (1)
- 25: Rare 1933 Film: The Great Storyteller Rudyard Kipling on Truth in Writing (1)
- 25: Sally Ride Warns Against Global Warming; Wonders If Technology Can Save Us From Ourselves (2)
- 25: John Cleese Explains the Brain (1)
- 25: Great Moments with Bertrand Russell: The Philosopher on Love, Smoking and The Afterlife (0)
- 24: Bob Egan, Detective Extraordinaire, Finds the Real Locations of Iconic Album Covers (2)
- 24: Jim Power, aka “the Mosaic Man,” Adorns the Lampposts of New York City’s East Village (0)
- 24: The Cowboy and the Frenchman: French Culture Through the American Eyes of David Lynch (1988) (0)
- 24: NASA’s Van Gogh Sun (2)
- 23: T.S. Eliot Reads His Modernist Masterpieces “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (24)
- 23: Total Noob to Learning Online? P2PU’s Peer-to-Peer Courses Hold Your Hand (0)
- 23: “The Girl from Ipanema” Turns 50; Hear Its Bossa Nova Sound Covered by Sinatra, Krall, Metheny & Others (1)
- 23: Rare Film of Sculptor Auguste Rodin Working at His Studio in Paris (1915) (10)
- 23: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: Jerry Seinfeld’s News Series Debuts on the Web (4)
- 22: Pavarotti Sings with Lou Reed, Sting, James Brown and Other Friends (2)
- 20: Impressionist Painter Edgar Degas Takes a Stroll in Paris, 1915 (5)
- 20: Professor Ronald Mallett Wants to Build a Time Machine in this Century … and He’s Not Kidding (31)
- 20: Saul Bass Gives Ma Bell a Complete Makeover, 1969 (2)
- 20: Tom Davis, Original Saturday Night Live Writer, “De-animates” at 59 (0)
- 19: Claude Monet at Work in His Famous Garden at Giverny: Rare Film from 1915 (23)
- 19: The Mathematics of Spiderman and the Physics of Superheroes (2)
- 19: Hours of Classic Crime and Mystery Movies. Discover Our Film Noir and Alfred Hitchcock Collections (0)
- 19: Bob Dylan’s (In)Famous Electric Guitar From the Newport Folk Festival Discovered? (2)
- 18: Shakespeare’s Satirical Sonnet 130, As Read By Stephen Fry (5)
- 18: The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela Retold with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (1)
- 18: Astonishing Film of Arthritic Impressionist Painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1915) (23)
- 18: Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974) (7)
- 18: Google Street View Opens Up a Look at Shackleton’s Antarctic (0)
- 17: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rules for Watching Psycho (1960) (2)
- 17: Einstein’s Big Idea: E=mc² (1)
- 17: Philip Glass, Seen and Heard Through the Cinematic Mind of Peter Greenaway (1983) (1)
- 17: Coursera Strikes Partnerships with 12 Universities, Raises More $$$, Announces a Long List of Courses (1)
- 16: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky in Mexico, 1938 (10)
- 16: The Rolling Stones First Played 50 Years Ago; Watch Them Explode Into Fame Shortly Thereafter (0)
- 16: Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Movingly Flashmobbed in Spain (35)
- 16: “The Vertue of the COFFEE Drink”: An Ad for London’s First Cafe Printed Circa 1652 (7)
- 14: Our Big List of 500 Free Courses Featured by The Young Turks (2)
- 13: Woody Guthrie at 100: Celebrate His Amazing Life with a BBC Film (1)
- 13: Henry Rollins Remembers the Life-Changing Decision That Brought Him From Häagen-Dazs to Black Flag (2)
- 12: Does God Exist? Christopher Hitchens Debates Christian Philosopher William Lane Craig (2009) (15)
- 12: Before Mad Men: Familiar and Forgotten Ads from 1950s to 1980s Now Online (1)
- 12: Metropolis: Watch Fritz Lang’s 1927 Masterpiece (5)
- 12: Cinecitta Luce and Google to Bring Italy’s Largest Film Archive to YouTube (1)
- 11: Carl Sagan’s Undergrad Reading List: 40 Essential Texts for a Well-Rounded Thinker (22)
- 11: 40 Years Ago Today: Chess Rivals Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky Meet in the ‘Match of the Century’ (1)
- 11: Mr. Deity Greets Christopher Hitchens at the Gates of Heaven (1)
- 11: Neal Stephenson, SciFi Author, Crowdsources $500,000 for New Sword-Fighting Video Game (0)
- 11: Tom Waits and David Letterman: An American Television Tradition (2)
- 10: An Abridged History of Western Music: “What a Wonderful World” Sung in 16 Different Styles (1)
- 10: Cindy Sherman and the Art of Impersonation (0)
- 10: James Baldwin Bests William F. Buckley in 1965 Debate at Cambridge University (7)
- 10: The Tour de Francis: Can an Amateur Tackle the World’s Greatest Cycling Race? (2)
- 10: Six Early Short Films By Tim Burton (0)
- 10: When Super Heroes Get Old and Retire to Miami (2)
- 09: 22-Year-Old P.O.W. Kurt Vonnegut Writes Home from World War II: “I’ll Be Damned If It Was Worth It” (5)
- 09: Drunk History: An Intoxicated Look at the Famous Alexander Hamilton – Aaron Burr Duel (0)
- 09: Watch as David Hockney Creates ‘Late November Tunnel, 2006’ (1)
- 09: Books Made with Disappearing Ink Strategically Fade Away (7)
- 08: The Grand Finale: All 135 Space Shuttle Launches in One Video (0)
- 07: Stephen Hawking Loses $100 on the Higgs Boson Discovery (3)
- 06: William Faulkner Reads His Nobel Prize Speech (4)
- 06: Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade Pushed the Boundaries of Theater, and Still Does (0)
- 06: Johnny Cash: Singer, Outlaw, and, Briefly, Television Host (2)
- 06: The Evolution of the Moon: 4.5 Billions Years in 2.6 Minutes (and More Culture From Around the Web) (1)
- 05: Dark Matter Animated: The Next Frontier of Discovery for Physicists and Cosmologists (0)
- 05: The Ph.D. Grind: Philip J. Guo’s Free Memoir Offers An Insider’s Look at Doctoral Study (2)
- 05: Allen Ginsberg Reads a Poem He Wrote on LSD to William F. Buckley (5)
- 05: The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1)
- 04: The Higgs Boson and Its Discovery Explained with Animation (9)
- 04: Isaac Asimov: “I Am Crazy, Absolutely Nuts, About our National Anthem” (1991) (1)
- 04: Jon Stewart’s William & Mary Commencement Address: The Entire World is an Elective (0)
- 04: Andy Griffith (1926-2012) Gives a Lesson on the American Revolution (2)
- 03: Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí in Classic 1968 Braniff Commercials: ‘When You Got It, Flaunt It!’ (0)
- 03: New Crowdfunding Site, Unglue.It, Releases Books Stuck in Publishing Limbo (0)
- 03: NASA & Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Record Cosmic Sounds of the Universe on New Album (4)
- 03: Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Recalls His Near-Deadly Sailing Adventure (2)
- 02: Amelia Earhart: In Her Own Words (0)
- 02: The History of Philosophy Visualized (7)
- 02: A History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 100 Riffs (38)
- 02: UC Santa Cruz Opens a Deadhead’s Delight: The Grateful Dead Archive is Now Online (2)
- 02: Evolver: A Darwinist Reimagination of The Beatles’ 1966 album (1)
- 01: William Shatner Sings O Canada (and Happy Canada Day) (0)
- June 2012 (91)
- 29: Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Make Art in Some Rare Vintage Video (9)
- 29: Sonny Rollins Plays Jazz on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1977 Pioneer Electronics Ad (6)
- 29: Science Behind the Bike: Four Videos from the Open University on the Eve of the Tour de France (1)
- 29: Two Vintage Films by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel: Un Chien Andalou and L’Age d’Or (3)
- 28: Jason Silva Preaches the Gospel of “Radical Openness” in Espresso-Fueled Video (at TEDGlobal 2012) (2)
- 28: The Spanish Earth: Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 Film on The Spanish Civil War (0)
- 28: Stanford Launches iPhone/iPad App Course on iTunesU (with New Peer-to-Peer Learning Features) (0)
- 28: Discovered: Conversation with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Timothy Leary at Montreal Bed-In (1969) (2)
- 28: Jean-Luc Godard Takes Cannes’ Rejection of Breathless in Stride in 1960 Interview (1)
- 27: Bruce Springsteen Singin’ in the Rain in Italy, and How He Creates Powerful Imaginary Worlds (5)
- 27: Alfred Hitchcock Presents a Chilling Tale by Roald Dahl (1960) (4)
- 27: Dick Cavett’s Epic Woodstock Festival Show (August, 1969) (2)
- 27: Johnny Depp Recites ‘Chorus 113’ from Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues (2)
- 27: Nora Ephron’s Lists: “What I Will Miss” and “What I Won’t Miss” (3)
- 26: Bob Dylan Classic, “Forever Young,” Animated for Children (0)
- 26: “Science: It’s a Girl Thing!” OMG, Seriously?! The Botched Video by the EU (5)
- 26: Van Morrison, Jefferson Airplane & The Grateful Dead: Watch Classic Concerts from Wolfgang’s Vault (0)
- 26: Isaac Asimov Recalls the Golden Age of Science Fiction (1937-1950) (0)
- 25: Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Writers (19)
- 25: Mars Rover, Curiosity, Will Face Seven Minutes of Terror on August 5 (4)
- 25: Woody Allen Lives the “Delicious Life” in Early-80s Japanese Commercials (0)
- 25: The LEGO Turing Machine Gives a Quick Primer on How Your Computer Works (1)
- 23: Dangerous Knowledge & Breaking the Code: Two Films about Alan Turing on His 100th Birthday (1)
- 22: Mathematics Made Visible: The Extraordinary Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher (1)
- 22: Magician Marco Tempest Dazzles a TED Audience with “The Electric Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla” (1)
- 21: John Maynard Keynes Explains Cure to High Unemployment in His Own Voice (1939) (2)
- 21: Hollywood, Epic Documentary Chronicles the Early History of Cinema (0)
- 21: The Complete History of the World (and Human Creativity) in 100 Objects (2)
- 21: Bill Murray’s Baseball Hall of Fame Speech (and Hideous Sports Coat) (0)
- 20: Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story (10)
- 20: Microsoft Rolls Out Its New Tablet in Fine Apple Style (2)
- 20: Historic Barn Etchings Tell Tale of Hard-Working Children (3)
- 20: Salvador Dalí Sketches Five Spanish Immortals: Cervantes, Don Quixote, El Cid, El Greco & Velázquez (8)
- 19: The Karl Marx Credit Card – When You’re Short of Kapital (9)
- 19: Peefeeyatko: A Look Inside the Creative World of Frank Zappa (1)
- 19: Salman Khan Returns to MIT, Gives Commencement Speech, Likens School to Hogwarts (1)
- 19: The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps – Peter Adamson’s Podcast Still Going Strong (1)
- 19: Richard Dawkins Explains Why There Was Never a First Human Being (52)
- 18: Modern Masters: Watch BBC Series Introducing the Art of Warhol, Matisse, Picasso and Dali (0)
- 18: Paul McCartney Turns a Spry 70 Today, Thanks to Meditation, a Vegetarian Diet and Three Hour Gigs (0)
- 18: Do Khan Academy Videos Promote “Meaningful Learning”? (9)
- 18: Udacity to Launch 5 New Courses, from Statistics to Physics. Shooting for Largest Online Class Ever. (1)
- 16: Stephen Fry Explains His Love for James Joyce’s Ulysses (4)
- 16: 1905 Video: The Funeral of Hiram Cronk, The Last Surviving Veteran of the War of 1812 (5)
- 15: Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: Live at the Royal Albert Hall and The Song Remains the Same–the Full Shows (0)
- 15: A Master List of 500 Free Courses From Great Universities (11)
- 15: James Cameron Revisits the Making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (6)
- 14: Inside the 1969 Bob Dylan-Johnny Cash Sessions (20)
- 14: Thomas Pynchon Novels Coming to eBook, at Long Last (0)
- 14: Marlon Brando Screen Tests for Rebel Without A Cause (1947) (1)
- 14: Watch Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer, a 1963 Film That Captures the Creative Process of the Legendary Sci-Fi Author (2)
- 14: World Cinema: Joel and Ethan Coen’s Playful Homage to Cinema History (2)
- 13: Simon Schama Presents Van Gogh and the Beginning of Modern Art (0)
- 13: Rare 1930s Audio: W.B. Yeats Reads Four of His Poems (9)
- 13: Found: Lost Great Depression Photos Capturing Hard Times on Farms, and in Town (0)
- 12: A Stringed Salute to AC/DC and Guns N’ Roses (2)
- 12: The Classic 1956 Oscar-Winning Children’s Film, The Red Balloon (13)
- 12: Young Robert De Niro Appears in 1969 AMC Car Commercial (3)
- 12: The Art of Making the Hofner Beatles Bass Guitar (1)
- 12: Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull Singing “As Tears Go By” (1966) (3)
- 11: Kevin Spacey Plays Hapless Ventriloquist in New Series of International Films (0)
- 11: Orson Welles on the Art of Acting: ‘There is a Villain in Each of Us’ (1)
- 11: Michael Lewis Tells Princeton Graduates How Moneyball Rules Apply to Real Life (0)
- 08: Stanley Kubrick’s Rare 1965 Interview with The New Yorker (6)
- 08: Kurt Vonnegut: “How To Get A Job Like Mine” (2002) (2)
- 08: What Is a Flame?: The First Prize-Winner at Alan Alda’s Science Video Competition (3)
- 08: Watch Hendrix, The Who, and Others Play 1967’s Monterey Pop, the “First Real Rock Festival” (1)
- 07: Rembrandt’s Facebook Timeline (4)
- 07: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Very First Films: Three Student Films, 1956-1960 (3)
- 07: Explorer David Livingstone’s Diary (Written in Berry Juice) Now Digitized with New Imaging Technology (4)
- 07: Neil Young’s New Album, Americana, Electrifies the Folklore You Know and Love (0)
- 07: Ray Bradbury Reads Moving Poem, “If Only We Had Taller Been,” on the Eve of NASA’s 1971 Mars Mission (3)
- 06: The Transit of Venus in HD Video (1)
- 06: Ray Bradbury Offers 12 Essential Writing Tips and Explains Why Literature Saves Civilization (3)
- 06: Patti Smith Reads Her Final Words to Her Dear Friend Robert Mapplethorpe (0)
- 05: Talking Heads Live in Rome, 1980: The Concert Film You Haven’t Seen (16)
- 05: Rare Color Footage of the 1939 World Series: Yankees v. Reds (0)
- 05: Robert Penn Warren Archive Brings Early Civil Rights to Life (0)
- 05: Great Violinists Playing as Kids: Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, & More (6)
- 05: Author Flannery O’Connor Captured on Film at Age 5, with Her Chickens (0)
- 05: This is Coffee!: A 1961 Tribute to Our Favorite Stimulant (5)
- 04: Transit of Venus: A Quick Guide to a Last-of-a-Lifetime Event (0)
- 04: A Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali, Narrated by the Great Orson Welles (4)
- 04: Dark Side of the Moon: A Mockumentary on Stanley Kubrick and the Moon Landing Hoax (8)
- 04: The “Collapse” of the Sydney Opera House Sails (0)
- 03: The Ghosts of Père Lachaise (0)
- 03: Allen Ginsberg Reads His Famously Censored Beat Poem, Howl (1959) (3)
- 01: The Best Animated Films of All Time, According to Terry Gilliam (1)
- 01: All Eyes on Ai Weiwei: Life Under Surveillance … and on Twitter … After His Arrest (0)
- 01: The 15 Worst Covers of Beatles Songs: William Shatner, Bill Cosby, Tiny Tim, Sean Connery & Your Excellent Picks (32)
- 01: The New Yorker’s Fiction Podcast: Where Great Writers Read Stories by Great Writers (0)
- May 2012 (103)
- 31: The Bill Evans Trio in London, 1965: Two Sets by the Legendary Combo (0)
- 31: “Good Chemistry” Explains Chemical Bonds with Cutout Animation and Teenage Romance (0)
- 31: Entitled Opinions, the “Life and Literature” Podcast That Refuses to Dumb Things Down (6)
- 31: The Art of Making a Flamenco Guitar: 299 Hours of Blood, Sweat & Tears Experienced in 3 Minutes (1)
- 30: Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Retro Film Featuring Original Archival Footage (0)
- 30: Download David Hockney’s Playful Drawings for the iPhone and iPad (4)
- 30: Flannery O’Connor Reads ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ in Rare 1959 Audio (32)
- 30: When Respected Authors, from Goethe to Henry Miller, Try Their Hand at Painting (0)
- 30: William F. Buckley Meets (Possibly Drunk) Jack Kerouac, Tries to Make Sense of Hippies, 1968 (10)
- 29: Neil deGrasse Tyson Delivers the Greatest Science Sermon Ever (9)
- 29: Breaking News: Socrates Tried Again in Athens and Acquitted! (2)
- 29: The Ideas of Noam Chomsky: An Introduction to His Theories on Language & Knowledge (1977) (2)
- 29: The Open Goldberg Variations: J.S. Bach’s Masterpiece Free to Download (8)
- 28: Measuring the Universe: How Astronomers Learned to Measure Celestial Distances Explained with Animation (3)
- 28: Daniel Dennett (a la Jeff Foxworthy) Does the Routine, “You Might be an Atheist If…” (12)
- 28: Vladimir Nabokov–Channelled by Christopher Plummer (RIP)–Teaches Kafka at Cornell (2)
- 27: Andy Samberg Announces Death of Liberal Arts, Coolness of Science Majors at Harvard Class Day (1)
- 26: Bill Murray Stars in Playful, Slo-Mo, Mock Trailer (and More Culture from Around the Web) (0)
- 26: Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge with a Free iPad App (1)
- 25: How David Byrne and Brian Eno Make Music Together: A Short Documentary (2)
- 25: ZeroN: An Amazing, Gravity-Defying New Interactive Technology at M.I.T. (0)
- 25: David Rees and His One-Man Artisanal Pencil Sharpening Service (7)
- 25: Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-Winner, Tweets New Story with The New Yorker (0)
- 24: New Great Gatsby, On the Road Adaptations Revive an Old Debate: Can Great Books Make Great Movies? (7)
- 24: Leonard Susskind, Father of String Theory, Warmly Remembers His Friend, Richard Feynman (1)
- 24: Bill Murray Introduces Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom (And Plays FDR In December) (2)
- 24: Watch: New Film by Roman Polanski, Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Sir Ben Kingsley & Prada Shoes (1)
- 23: The First Films of Great Directors: Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Tarantino & Truffaut (1)
- 23: The Idea TED Didn’t Consider Worth Spreading: The Rich Aren’t Really Job Creators (27)
- 23: Seven Questions for Stephen Hawking: What Would He Ask Albert Einstein & More (0)
- 23: Ridley Scott Demystifies the Art of Storyboarding (and How to Jumpstart Your Creative Project) (2)
- 22: Sigmund Freud’s Home Movies: A Rare Glimpse of His Private Life (3)
- 22: Charles Bukowski: Depression and Three Days in Bed Can Restore Your Creative Juices (NSFW) (7)
- 22: Manuel Lima Visualizes Knowledge in Our Interconnected World in a Brand New RSA Animated Video (0)
- 21: A Most Unfortunate Commencement Typo at UT Austin (16)
- 21: Neil Gaiman Gives Graduates 10 Essential Tips for Working in the Arts (3)
- 21: Last Night’s Solar Eclipse in a 60-Second, 700-Picture Timelapse Video (2)
- 21: Mussolini Sends to America a Happy Message, Full of Friendly Feelings, in English (1927) (2)
- 21: Sketches of Artists by the Late New Media Designer Hillman Curtis (1)
- 20: Adam Savage (Host of Mythbusters) Tells Sarah Lawrence Grads to Think Broadly … and Don’t Work for Fools (0)
- 20: Moons, Moons, They’re Everywhere. The Unexpected Shadows of the Solar Eclipse (0)
- 19: Play Caesar: Travel Ancient Rome with Stanford’s Interactive Map (0)
- 18: Einstein Explains His Famous Formula, E=mc², in Original Audio (Plus More Cultural Curiosities) (4)
- 18: The Miracle of Flight, the Classic Early Animation by Terry Gilliam (0)
- 18: Bryan Magee’s In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers (1978-87) (7)
- 17: Morgan Freeman Teaches Kids to Read in Vintage Electric Company Footage from 1971 (7)
- 17: A Brief History of John Baldessari, Narrated by Tom Waits (4)
- 17: Brussels Express: The Perils of Cycling in Europe’s Most Congested City (1)
- 17: Ken Burns on the Art of Storytelling: “It’s Lying Twenty-Four Times a Second” (0)
- 16: Studs Terkel Reads Poem ‘Blessed be the Nation’ (1)
- 16: A Child’s Introduction to Jazz by Cannonball Adderley (with Louis Armstrong & Thelonious Monk) (3)
- 16: Stephen Fry, Language Enthusiast, Defends The “Unnecessary” Art Of Swearing (7)
- 16: Carlos Fuentes: “You Have to See the Face of Death in Order to Start Writing Seriously” (2)
- 16: Archive of Hemingway’s Newspaper Reporting Reveals Novelist in the Making (0)
- 16: Willie Nelson Sings Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe” (And We’re Taking a Deep Breath Too) (0)
- 15: Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story of the Singer’s Journey From Zanzibar to Stardom (5)
- 15: True Story: The Time Pixar Almost Deleted Toy Story 2 (1)
- 15: Glenn Gould Predicts Mash-up Culture in 1969 Documentary (2)
- 14: Why the University System, as We Know It, Won’t Last …. and What’s Coming Next (20)
- 14: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Richard Dawkins Ponder the Big Enchilada Questions of Science (2)
- 14: Headbanging Anthropologist Takes Us Through the World of Heavy Metal in 2005 Documentary (1)
- 14: Remembering Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, the Backbone of Memphis Soul, with Grooving Video (0)
- 13: John Cleese Plays the Devil, Makes a Special Appeal for Hell, 1966 (2)
- 12: What Happens When a Terry Gross/Fresh Air Interview Ends: A Comic Look (1)
- 11: The Original Episode of Dark Shadows, the 1960s TV Series That Inspired Tim Burton’s New Film (3)
- 11: James Joyce Manuscripts Online, Free Courtesy of The National Library of Ireland (2)
- 11: 1377 TED Talks Listed in a Neat Spreadsheet — And More Stellar Culture Links on the Web (0)
- 11: Five Historical Misconceptions Debunked (1)
- 10: The History of Rome in 179 Podcasts (5)
- 10: The Electronic Nose and The Strange Future of Public Health & Safety (0)
- 10: Duke Ellington Plays for Joan Miró in the South of France, 1966: Bassist John Lamb Looks Back on the Day (1)
- 10: The Making of “Tomorrow Never Knows,” The Beatles’ Song That Aired on an Historic Episode of Mad Men (9)
- 09: Leo Tolstoy Reads From His Last Major Work in 4 Languages, 1909 (4)
- 09: See What David Lynch Can Do With a 100-Year-Old Camera and 52 Seconds of Film (3)
- 09: TED-Ed Brings the Edginess of TED to Learning (1)
- 09: Watch the Animation of Maurice Sendak’s Surreal and Controversial Story, In the Night Kitchen (1)
- 08: Flash Mob Fun Part II: Copenhagen Philharmonic Plays Grieg’s Peer Gynt in the Subway (9)
- 08: Crowdsourcing Free Educational Resources for Kids: We Want Your Help (21)
- 08: Jacques Tati Film Festival: Four Rare Films, 1935-1967 (1)
- 08: David Byrne Plays Seven Characters & Interviews Himself in Funny Promo for Stop Making Sense (1)
- 08: Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary) (31)
- 07: Coldplay Covers Fight For Your Right to Party at the Hollywood Bowl: A Tribute to MCA (0)
- 07: Pursuit of Light: The Earth & Beyond Seen with NASA’s Amazing Data Visualizations (1)
- 07: Steve Jobs Plays FDR in Apple’s Rally-the-Troops Film, 1944 (1)
- 07: Henry Rollins Tells Young People to Avoid Resentment and to Pursue Success with a “Monastic Obsession” (3)
- 07: Sigmund Freud Speaks: The Only Known Recording of His Voice, 1938 (8)
- 06: Something from Nothing? Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Discuss Cosmology, Origins of Life & Religion Before a Packed Crowd (5)
- 06: Yale’s Open Courses Inspire a New Series of Old-Fashioned Books (1)
- 05: Fight For Your Right Revisited: Adam Yauch’s 2011 Film Commemorates the Beastie Boys’ Legendary Music Video (0)
- 04: WWII Britain Revisited in 120 Short Films, Now Free on the Web (3)
- 03: MIT & Khan Academy Team Up to Develop Science Videos for Kids. Includes The Physics of Unicycling (5)
- 03: Brian Eno on Creating Music and Art As Imaginary Landscapes (1989) (2)
- 03: Jim Henson’s Commercials for Wilkins Coffee: 15 Twisted Minutes of Muppet Coffee Ads (1957-1961) (7)
- 03: The Anatomical Drawings of Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci (1)
- 03: Lit2Go’s 200 Free (and Teacher-Friendly) Audio Books: Ready for Downloads (7)
- 03: Supermassive Black Hole Shreds a Star, and You Get to Watch (3)
- 02: Harvard and MIT Create EDX to Offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Worldwide (9)
- 02: Hitchcock on the Filmmaker’s Essential Tool: The Kuleshov Effect (4)
- 02: The Broken Tower, James Franco’s Docudrama On “Difficult” Poet Hart Crane: A Preview (1)
- 02: Q: Salvador Dalí, Are You a Crackpot? A: No, I’m Just Almost Crazy (1969) (0)
- 01: Shel Silverstein Reads His Poem ‘Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too’ in Animated Video (1)
- 01: Screen Tests for Gone with the Wind: What Could Have Been (0)
- 01: Christopher Walken, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry & Other Celebs Read Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (16)
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- 30: Man Ray and the Cinéma Pur: Four Surrealist Films From the 1920s (3)
- 30: Venice in a Day: From Daybreak to Sunset in Timelapse (3)
- 30: Neuroscience and Propaganda Come Together in Disney’s World War II Film, Reason and Emotion (1)
- 30: All You Need is Cash: 1978 Mockumentary by Eric Idle (Monty Python) Satires The Beatles (0)
- 30: The Man Who Quit Money — and Lived to Tell About It (10)
- 27: The Higgs Boson, AKA the God Particle, Explained with Animation (11)
- 27: All Hail the Beat: How the 1980 Roland TR-808 Drum Machine Changed Pop Music (5)
- 27: Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” Performed on Traditional Chinese Instruments (16)
- 27: Why Man Creates: Saul Bass’ Oscar-Winning Animated Look at Creativity (1968) (12)
- 26: Just How Small are Atoms? Mind Blowing TEDEd Animation Puts It All Into Perspective (3)
- 26: A Quick Video Introduction to the World’s First Asteroid Mining Company (1)
- 26: The Art of Film and TV Title Design (1)
- 26: Orson Welles Explains Why Ignorance Was His Major “Gift” to Citizen Kane (1)
- 25: Steven Spielberg on the Genius of Stanley Kubrick (1)
- 25: The Canterbury Tales Remixed: Baba Brinkman’s New Album Uses Hip Hop to Bring Chaucer Into the 21st Century, Yo (2)
- 25: Werner Herzog Reads From Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses (2)
- 24: The Mystery of Picasso: Landmark Film of a Legendary Artist at Work, by Henri-Georges Clouzot (2)
- 24: Alain de Botton’s Quest for The Perfect Home and Architectural Happiness (0)
- 24: Animated Plays by William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Othello and Other Great Tales Brought to Life (4)
- 23: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Space Exploration is Good for Our Culture (and More Good Links From Around the Web) (0)
- 23: Acclaimed BBC Production of Hamlet, Starring David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Patrick Stewart (Star Trek) (4)
- 23: Bruce Springsteen Exhibition Held in Philadelphia; It’s Now Official, The Boss is an American Icon (1)
- 23: McLuhan Said “The Medium Is The Message”; Two Pieces Of Media Decode the Famous Phrase (1)
- 21: An Easy, Scientifically-Proven Way to Make Yourself Smarter. Go for a Good Walk or Swim Every Day (3)
- 20: Celestial Lights: Spectacular Auroras Move Across the Scandinavian Skies (4)
- 20: Clive Owen & Nicole Kidman Star in HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn: Two Writers, A Marriage and a Civil War (0)
- 20: Martin Scorsese Captures Levon Helm and The Band Performing “The Weight” in The Last Waltz (0)
- 19: The Geometry of Sound Waves Visualized (4)
- 19: Roger McGuinn, Frontman of The Byrds, Curates Folk Den, Lets You Download Free Folk Music (0)
- 19: Alfred Hitchcock Adapts Joseph Conrad’s Novel of Terrorism in Sabotage (1936) (2)
- 19: The Art of the Book Cover Explained at TED (0)
- 18: Coursera Adds Humanities Courses, Raises $16 Million, Strikes Deal with 3 Universities (5)
- 18: Frankenweenie: Tim Burton Turns Frankenstein Tale into Disney Kids Film (1984) (0)
- 18: John Cage Unbound: A New Digital Archive Presented by The New York Public Library (0)
- 18: Growing Up in the Universe: Richard Dawkins Presents Captivating Science Course for Kids (1991) (15)
- 17: ‘The Ballad of the Skeletons’: Allen Ginsberg’s 1996 Collaboration with Philip Glass and Paul McCartney (4)
- 17: Art Critic Robert Hughes Demystifies Modern Art in The Shock of the New (1)
- 17: The First Images and Video Footage from Outer Space, 1946-1959 (5)
- 16: Watch the German Expressionist Film, The Golem, with a Soundtrack by The Pixies’ Black Francis (3)
- 16: J.D. Salinger, Out for a Stroll: Reclusive Author of The Catcher in the Rye Caught on Film (4)
- 16: Isaac Asimov Imagines Learning in the Electronic Age … and Gets It Quite Right (1989) (0)
- 14: Paul McCartney Shoots New Music Video with Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp (2)
- 14: Coachella Streaming Live on YouTube (Plus Free Tracks from Coachella Bands) (0)
- 14: Joy in the Congo: The Inspiring Story of the Only Symphony Orchestra in Central Africa (2)
- 13: The Works of H.P. Lovecraft: Text, Audio and Now Graphic Novel (2)
- 13: Celebrate Samuel Beckett’s Birthday with Waiting For Godot (the Film) and Harold Pinter’s Memories (0)
- 13: Alan Watts On Why Our Minds And Technology Can’t Grasp Reality (18)
- 13: Damien Hirst Takes Us Through His New Exhibition at Tate Modern (3)
- 12: Martin Scorsese’s Very First Films: Three Imaginative Short Works (3)
- 12: Philosophy Bites: Podcasting Ideas From Plato to Singularity Since 2007 (1)
- 12: Orson Whales!: Welles Meets Led Zeppelin Meets Melville in Mashup Animation (0)
- 11: John Cleese, Monty Python Icon, on How to Be Creative (4)
- 11: Yale Introduces Another Seven Free Online Courses, Bringing Total to 42 (3)
- 11: ‘The Sound of Miles Davis’: Classic 1959 Performance with John Coltrane (3)
- 11: Reading David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Live on Stage; Paperback Coming Soon (1)
- 10: Watch The Critic: The Oscar-Winning, Animated Film Narrated by Mel Brooks (1963) (1)
- 10: My Best Friend’s Birthday, Quentin Tarantino’s 1987 Debut Film (4)
- 10: Henri Matisse Illustrates 1935 Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses (6)
- 10: The Invention (and Demonstration) of the First Football Helmet, 1932 (0)
- 09: Purdue Sets World Record with Largest Rube Goldberg Machine (0)
- 09: Richard Feynman Presents Quantum Electrodynamics for the NonScientist (0)
- 09: How the Titanic Sank: James Cameron’s New CGI Animation (6)
- 08: Salvador Dali Gets Surreal with Mike Wallace (RIP) in 1958 (1)
- 07: Download Neil Gaiman’s Award-Winning Novelette: The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (2)
- 06: How Fender Guitars Are Made, Then (1959) and Nowadays (2012) (4)
- 06: Jim Henson’s Original, Spunky Pitch for The Muppet Show (0)
- 06: The Odd Couple: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, 1986 (0)
- 06: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Performs The Wall at the Berlin Wall (1990) (1)
- 05: The Birth and Decline of a Book: Two Videos for Bibliophiles (0)
- 05: The Universal Mind of Bill Evans: Advice on Learning to Play Jazz & The Creative Process (4)
- 05: Google Gives 360° Tour of the White House (and More Great Culture Links from Around the Web) (1)
- 04: Ray Bradbury Gives 12 Pieces of Writing Advice to Young Authors (2001) (33)
- 04: Art for the One Percent: 60 Minutes on the Excess & Hubris of the International Art Market (4)
- 04: Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea Animated Not Once, But Twice (2)
- 03: Google Art Project Expands, Bringing 30,000 Works of Art from 151 Museums to the Web (1)
- 03: Views from Hitchcock’s Rear Window in Timelapse (1)
- 03: Perpetual Ocean: A Van Gogh-Like Visualization of our Ocean Currents (2)
- 03: Andy Warhol Digitally Paints Debbie Harry with the Amiga 1000 Computer (1985) (2)
- 03: David Lynch’s New ‘Crazy Clown Time’ Video: Intense Psychotic Backyard Craziness (NSFW) (3)
- 02: David Byrne: From Talking Heads Frontman to Leading Urban Cyclist (5)
- 02: NASA’s Stunning Tour of the Moon (1)
- 01: James Joyce’s Ulysses: Download as a Free Audio Book & Free eBook (8)
- 01: Jon Hamm Revisits His Daunting First Scene as Don Draper (3)
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- 31: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC in 1974 (1)
- 30: Making Paper in L.A., Pianos in Paris: Old Craftsmen Hanging on in a Changing World (1)
- 30: Hunter S. Thompson and Franz Kafka Inspire Animation for a Bookstore Benefiting Oxfam (3)
- 30: Orson Welles’ Last Interview and Final Moments Captured on Film (4)
- 29: Steve Martin on the Legendary Bluegrass Musician Earl Scruggs (0)
- 29: The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Blues & Folk Recordings (7)
- 29: The Wondrous Night When Glen Hansard Met Van Morrison (2)
- 29: Nelson Mandela Archive Goes Online (With Help From Google) (0)
- 29: The Bayeux Tapestry Animated (5)
- 28: Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters) (5)
- 28: Wim Wenders and Celebrated Directors Talk About the Future of Cinema (1982) (0)
- 28: Monty Python’s Away From it All: A Twisted Travelogue with John Cleese (1)
- 27: Ballet in Super Slow Motion (And More Culture Around the Web) (2)
- 27: Watch The Hitch-Hiker by Ida Lupino (the Only Female Director of a 1950s Noir Film) (4)
- 27: Richard Dawkins Rallies for Reason in Washington DC (6)
- 27: Newly Discovered Piece by Mozart Performed on His Own Fortepiano (8)
- 26: Star Gazing from the International Space Station (and Free Astronomy Courses Online) (1)
- 26: Robert Frost Recites ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ (3)
- 26: The Animation of Billy Collins’ Poetry: Everyday Moments in Motion (1)
- 26: Free Science Fiction Classics on the Web: Huxley, Orwell, Asimov, Gaiman & Beyond (37)
- 23: The Art and Science of Violin Making (2)
- 23: Tom Schiller’s 1975 Journey Through Henry Miller’s Bathroom (NSFW) (1)
- 23: Filmmaker James Cameron Going 36,000 Feet Under the Sea (0)
- 22: Terry Gilliam’s Debut Animated Film, Storytime (1)
- 22: Cinema History by Titles & Numbers (0)
- 22: Tour the Amazon with Google Street View; No Passport Needed (2)
- 21: ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’: The Story of the Iconic World War II Poster (6)
- 21: Van Gogh to Rothko in 30 Seconds (1)
- 21: Michael Pollan’s Book, Food Rules, Brought to Life with Animation (0)
- 21: Man Flies Like a Bird in The Hague (3)
- 20: Astronaut Films Auroras from Above (2)
- 20: Fact Checking Bill Murray: A Short, Comic Film from Sundance 2008 (3)
- 20: The Tyranny of The New Yorker (And More Culture Around the Web) (0)
- 20: Albert Einstein Archive Now Online, Bringing 80,000+ Documents to the Web (0)
- 19: ParaHawking in Nepal: What It’s Really Like to Fly with Birds (5)
- 19: Bono Reads Two Poems by Charles Bukowski, “Laureate of American Lowlife” (2)
- 19: Has Wes Anderson Sold Out? Can He Sell Out? Critics Take Up the Debate (4)
- 19: Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘How Much Would You Pay for the Universe?’ (22)
- 18: Bruce Springsteen’s Personal Journey Through Rock ‘n’ Roll (Slightly NSFW But Simply Great) (0)
- 17: Hitchcock on Happiness (3)
- 16: Beginnings Profiles Shakespeare and Company’s Sylvia Beach Whitman (1)
- 16: Autonomous Flying Robots Play the Theme From the James Bond Movies (0)
- 15: “Sweet Home Alabama” Played on Tesla Coils (and More Culture Around the Web) (2)
- 15: Keith Haring’s Eclectic Journal Entries Go Online (0)
- 15: Detour: The Cheap, Rushed Piece of 1940s Film Noir Nobody Ever Forgets (7)
- 15: Michael Shermer’s Baloney Detection Kit: What to Ask Before Believing (0)
- 15: Robert Altman’s First Film Found at Flea Market (Free to Watch Online) (3)
- 14: Andy Warhol’s ‘Screen Test’ of Bob Dylan: A Classic Meeting of Egos (3)
- 14: Dementia 13: The Film That Took Francis Ford Coppola From Schlockster to Auteur (3)
- 13: Quentin Tarantino Gives Sneak Peek of Pulp Fiction to Jon Stewart in 1994 (0)
- 13: RIP Peter Bergman; Hear the Firesign Theatre’s 1970 Masterpiece (8)
- 13: John Belushi’s Improvised Screen Test for Saturday Night Live (1975) (5)
- 13: Leonard Bernstein’s Masterful Lectures on Music (11+ Hours of Video Recorded at Harvard in 1973) (16)
- 12: Rome Reborn – An Amazing Digital Model of Ancient Rome (18)
- 12: In Search of Mœbius: A Documentary Introduction to the Inscrutable Imagination of the Late Comic Artist Mœbius (1)
- 12: Celebrate Jack Kerouac’s 90th Birthday with Kerouac, the Movie (5)
- 12: Michio Kaku: We’re Born Scientists But Switch to Investment Banking (and More Culture Around the Web) (0)
- 10: Nabokov Reads Lolita, and Names the Greatest Books of the 20th Century (2)
- 10: How Bertrand Russell Turned The Beatles Against the Vietnam War (2)
- 10: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live at the Apollo (1)
- 09: For 95 Minutes, the BBC Brings George Orwell to Life (7)
- 09: Frank Zappa Debates Censorship on CNN’s Crossfire (1986) (4)
- 08: Thelonious Monk in His Prime: Copenhagen, 1966 (4)
- 08: Socrates on TV, Courtesy of Alain de Botton (2000) (3)
- 08: Science & Cooking: Harvard Profs Meet World-Class Chefs in Unique Online Course (5)
- 08: The Most Astounding Fact According to Neil deGrasse Tyson (1)
- 07: The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene: Watch the Complete NOVA Series Online (0)
- 07: Wes Anderson’s New Commercials Sell the Hyundai Azera (3)
- 07: Vintage Footage of Picasso and Jackson Pollock Painting … Through Glass (7)
- 06: Five Free Courses from Stanford Start This Month (1)
- 06: Mick Jones Plays Three Favorite Songs by The Clash at the Library (4)
- 06: ‘This Is Water’: Complete Audio of David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon Graduation Speech (2005) (4)
- 05: 16th-Century Amsterdam Stunningly Visualized with 3D Animation (2)
- 05: Neil deGrasse Tyson Remembers His First Meeting with Carl Sagan (3)
- 05: Did Shakespeare Write Pulp Fiction? (No, But If He Did, It’d Sound Like This) (3)
- 05: Slavoj Žižek & Pres. Obama Give Their Take on The Wire (and More Culture Around the Web) (0)
- 02: Spielberg Reacts to the 1975 Oscar Nominations: ‘Commercial Backlash!’ (3)
- 02: Stephen Hawking’s Universe: A Visualization of His Lectures with Stars & Sound (2)
- 02: Pan Am’s 1960s and 70s Travel Films: Visit 11 Places, in 7 Languages (0)
- 01: 75 Free Philosophy Courses (5)
- 01: The Falcon and the Murmuration: Nature’s Aerial Battle Above Rome (4)
- 01: Ridley Scott Readies a Prequel to Alien; Guy Pearce Gives Its “TED Talk” (0)
- February 2012 (72)
- 29: The Crazy Never Die: Hunter S. Thompson in Rare 1988 Documentary (NSFW) (2)
- 29: Wes Anderson from Above. Quentin Tarantino From Below. (0)
- 29: The Power of Silent Movies, with The Artist Director Michel Hazanavicius (1)
- 28: Neil Young Busking in Glasgow, 1976: The Story Behind the Footage (18)
- 28: Futurist Ray Kurzweil, 17 Years Old, Appears on “I’ve Got a Secret” (1965) (1)
- 28: Errol Morris Captures Competitive Eating Champion “El Wingador” (0)
- 27: John Steinbeck’s Six Tips for the Aspiring Writer and His Nobel Prize Speech (7)
- 27: Watch Francois Truffaut’s Short Film, Les Mistons, Or What He Called “My First Real Film” (0)
- 27: Earth-Size Tornadoes On The Sun (0)
- 26: 36 Free Oscar Winning Films Available on the Web (14)
- 26: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: Film for Book Lovers Wins Oscar (6)
- 26: Dhani Harrison Presents The George Harrison Guitar App for the iPad (0)
- 24: Jim Henson Pilots The Muppet Show with Adult Episode, “Sex and Violence” (1975) (2)
- 24: Inspirations: A Short Film Celebrating the Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher (5)
- 24: “The Periodic Table Table” — All The Elements in Hand-Carved Wood (1)
- 24: Jefferson Airplane Plays on a New York Rooftop; Jean-Luc Godard Captures It (1968) (32)
- 23: Harvard Thinks Big 2012: 8 All-Star Professors. 8 Big Ideas. (1)
- 23: The Birth of the Moon: How Did It Get There in the First Place? (1)
- 23: Watch Battleship Potemkin and Other Free Sergei Eisenstein Films (1)
- 23: Princeton v. Yale, 1903: The Oldest College Football Game on Film (0)
- 22: Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and More on the Classic Jazz 625 Show (3)
- 22: 30 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace on the Web (10)
- 22: How Woody Allen Discovered Ingmar Bergman, and How You Can Too (2)
- 21: The Times They Are a-Changin’: 1964 Broadcast Gives a Rare Glimpse of the Early Bob Dylan (16)
- 21: Peter Greenaway Looks at the Day Cinema Died — and What Comes Next (4)
- 21: The David Foster Wallace Audio Archive: A Little Gift For the Novelist’s 50th Birthday (0)
- 20: Animated: Robert Johnson’s Classic Blues Tune Me and the Devil Blues (1)
- 20: David Foster Wallace: The Big, Uncut Interview (2003) (12)
- 20: Remembering John Glenn’s Historic Space Flight, 50 Years Ago Today (3)
- 18: How the Great George Carlin Showed Louis CK the Way to Success (NSFW) (1)
- 18: Bertrand Russell’s ABC of Relativity: The Classic Introduction to Einstein (Free Audio) (2)
- 17: Name That Movie: 26 Films in One Animated Minute (0)
- 17: Francis Bacon on the South Bank Show: A Singular Profile of the Singular Painter (1)
- 17: Alfred Hitchcock: A Rare Look Into the Filmmaker’s Creative Mind (7)
- 16: Everything is a Remix: An Exploration of Remixing as a Form of Creativity (2)
- 16: Suzanne Vega, “The Mother of the MP3,” Records “Tom’s Diner” with the Edison Cylinder (2)
- 15: A Brief, Animated Introduction to Thomas Edison (and Nikola Tesla) (0)
- 15: Trotsky, Russian Revolutionary, Makes Debut Performance Before Microphone (1932) (0)
- 15: In Search of Haruki Murakami: A Documentary Introduction to Japan’s Great Postmodernist Novelist (6)
- 15: The Weird World of Vintage Sports (3)
- 14: Enroll in MIT’s First Free Certificate Course Today (98)
- 14: Mr. Happy Man (5)
- 14: David Lynch Falls in Love: A Classic Scene From Twin Peaks (0)
- 14: William S. Burroughs on Saturday Night Live, 1981 (2)
- 13: Peter Sellers Reads The Beatles’ “She Loves You” in 4 Different Accents: Dr. Strangelove, Cockney, Irish & Upper Crust (4)
- 13: The Story Behind Rodin’s ‘The Kiss’ (1)
- 12: Frankenstein: The First Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Novel to Film (1910) (0)
- 11: The Internet Imagined in 1969 (4)
- 10: Famous Literary Characters Visualized with Police Composite Sketch Software (2)
- 10: Watch Breaking the Code, About the Life & Times of Alan Turing (1996) (12)
- 09: 14 Years of US Weather in 33 Minutes, Set to Beethoven (0)
- 09: The Far Side of Moon: A Rare Glimpse from NASA (0)
- 09: Disneyland 1957: A Little Stroll Down Memory Lane (2)
- 08: Werner Herzog Has a Beef With Chickens (3)
- 08: Neil Young on the Travesty of MP3s (24)
- 08: Solve For X: Google Presents Moonshot Thinking in Short, TED-Style Talks (1)
- 07: Celebrate the 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens with Free Movies, eBooks and Audio Books (2)
- 07: The Art of Living: A Free Stanford Course Explores Timeless Questions (3)
- 07: Koyaanisqatsi at 1552% Speed (6)
- 06: Tom Waits Fishing with John Lurie: ‘Like Waiting for Godot on Water’ (5)
- 06: Thomas Edison’s 1889 Recording of Otto von Bismarck Discovered (1)
- 06: An Animated History Of Aviation: From da Vinci’s Sketches to Apollo 11 (7)
- 04: The Instant Mongolian Home (1)
- 03: A Crash Course in World History (16)
- 03: The Intelligent Channel Launches (with Colum McCann Interview) (4)
- 03: Harold Bloom Recites ‘Tea at the Palaz of Hoon’ by Wallace Stevens (2)
- 02: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying (0)
- 02: James Joyce Reads ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ from Finnegans Wake (7)
- 02: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Read in Celebrity Voices (0)
- 01: A Roundup of David Lynch’s Surreal Commercials: Sony PlayStation, Calvin Klein, Georgia Coffee & More (5)
- 01: The Archaeology of an Ant Colony (2)
- 01: Philip Glass Composes Music for a Sesame Street Animation (1979) (3)
- January 2012 (71)
- 31: Paul McCartney’s New Album, Kisses On The Bottom, Streaming for Free (0)
- 31: Three Passions of Bertrand Russell (and a Collection of Free Texts) (2)
- 31: Writing Tips by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman & George Orwell (34)
- 30: The Muppets Strike Back at Fox! (4)
- 30: Richard Brautigan’s Story, ‘One Afternoon in 1939,’ Read From a Wooden Spool (1)
- 30: 30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God & Reason (13)
- 30: The Last (Faxed) Poem of Charles Bukowski (5)
- 27: The Lost Guitar Solo for “Here Comes the Sun” by George Harrison, Discovered by George Martin (21)
- 27: We Were Wanderers on a Prehistoric Earth: A Short Film Inspired by Joseph Conrad (1)
- 27: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: An Oscar-Nominated Film for Book Lovers (6)
- 26: Before Brokeback: The First Same-Sex Kiss in Cinema (1927) (35)
- 26: A Tour Inside Salvador Dalí’s Labyrinthine Spanish Home (7)
- 26: Wilco Rehearses ‘The Weight’ Backstage in Chicago with Mavis Staples and Nick Lowe (1)
- 26: Alain de Botton Wants a Religion for Atheists: Introducing Atheism 2.0 (10)
- 25: Watch Sunday & Wild Life: Two Animated Shorts Just Nominated for an Oscar (3)
- 25: Apocalypse Not Quite Yet: Why Solar Storms Won’t End the World in 2012 (0)
- 25: Jim Henson’s Zany 1963 Robot Film Uncovered by AT&T: Watch Online (0)
- 24: Cambridge Nights: Late Night TV-Style Show Takes Deep Look at Scientific Thinking (1)
- 24: Nine PAC Ads from Stephen Colbert Spoof U.S. Election System (0)
- 24: James Bond: 50 Years in Film (and a Big Blu-Ray Release) (0)
- 24: Leonard Cohen’s New Album, Old Ideas: Stream It for Free Online (2)
- 23: Global Warming: A Free Course from UChicago Explains Climate Change (3)
- 23: Star Wars Uncut: The Epic Fan Film (0)
- 23: Michel Foucault: Free Lectures on Truth, Discourse & The Self (UC Berkeley, 1980-1983) (17)
- 23: Yosemite National Park in All of Its Time-Lapse Splendor (5)
- 21: An Animated Tour of Fallingwater, One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Finest Creations (6)
- 20: A Robot That Flies with the Grace of a Bird: A Great TED Flight (3)
- 20: Remembering the Soulful Etta James (1)
- 20: Willie and the Hand Jive, by the Late Great Johnny Otis (1)
- 20: Christopher Walken Reads The Three Little Pigs, The Raven, and a Little Lady Gaga (1)
- 19: Everything You Wanted to Know About Coffee in Three Minutes (14)
- 19: Apple Releases Free iTunesU App & Enhanced University Courses (Plus Textbooks) (5)
- 19: A Rare Interview with Fritz Lang and His 1931 Masterpiece of Suspense, M (0)
- 19: The Disney Cartoon That Introduced Mickey Mouse & Animation with Sound (1928) (0)
- 19: The Costa Concordia Shipwreck Viewed from Outer Space (1)
- 18: How Film Was Made in 1958: A Kodak Nostalgia Moment (2)
- 18: What is Wrong with SOPA? (1)
- 18: Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, with Jonathan Miller (17)
- 18: The Monk and the Fish, the Classic Animation by Michael Dudok de Wit (0)
- 17: Physicist Lawrence Krauss Explains How Everything Comes from Nothing (8)
- 17: Madeline 365: A Year in the Life (0)
- 16: 190 Thinkers Answer the Question: “What is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?” (0)
- 16: 200,000 Martin Luther King Papers Go Online (0)
- 16: 100 Years in 10 Minutes: A Quick Video History of the Past Century (9)
- 14: Johnny Depp Reads Letters from Hunter S. Thompson (NSFW) (3)
- 12: The Page Turner: A Fabulous Rube Goldberg Machine for Readers (7)
- 12: Free: The Guggenheim Puts 65 Modern Art Books Online (15)
- 12: Robert DeNiro, Woody Allen and Others in the Post 9/11 “New York Miracle” TV Commercials (0)
- 11: Countries and Coastlines: A Dramatic View of Earth from Outer Space (1)
- 11: Underground Cartoonist R. Crumb Introduces Us to His Rollicking Album Cover Designs (0)
- 11: George Orwell’s Animal Farm: Watch the Film Online (4)
- 10: Fellini’s Fantastic TV Commercials (8)
- 10: The Joy of Books (2)
- 10: Harvard Thinks Green: Big Ideas from 6 All-Star Environment Profs (2)
- 09: Tim Burton’s The World of Stainboy: Watch the Complete Animated Series (5)
- 09: Harry Houdini’s Great Rope Escape (Circa 1920) (0)
- 09: Dave Brubeck Gets an Uplifting Musical Surprise from a Young Violinist in Moscow (1997) (8)
- 08: Katharine Hepburn Rearranges the Furniture on The Dick Cavett Show (0)
- 07: Watch A Brief History of Time, Errol Morris’ Film About the Life & Work of Stephen Hawking (9)
- 06: Remembering Eve Arnold, Pioneering Photojournalist (0)
- 06: Life in 4,748 Self-Portraits (0)
- 05: The Zen of Steve Jobs: A New Graphic Novel (0)
- 05: Ancient Greek Punishments: The Retro Video Game (0)
- 04: Free: Isaac Asimov’s Epic Foundation Trilogy Dramatized in Classic Audio (13)
- 04: The Bloody Olive: A Wickedly Fun Homage to the Film Noir Tradition (0)
- 04: Lawrence Krauss on the Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions (0)
- 03: Free Philip K. Dick: Download 13 Great Science Fiction Stories (25)
- 03: J.R.R. Tolkien in His Own Words (0)
- 03: A Young Frank Zappa Turns the Bicycle into a Musical Instrument on The Steve Allen Show (1963) (8)
- 02: Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Decline of Scientific Research in America (6)
- 02: The Best of Open Culture 2011 (0)
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- 30: Neil Gaiman’s Free Short Stories (7)
- 30: John Cage Performs Water Walk on “I’ve Got a Secret” (1960) (3)
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- 24: Watch Terry Gilliam’s Animated Short, The Christmas Card (1968) (1)
- 24: “Werner Herzog” Reads ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (0)
- 23: 40 Great Filmmakers Go Old School, Shoot Short Films with 100 Year Old Camera (4)
- 23: Chet Baker’s Soulful Version of ‘Time After Time’ (3)
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- 20: MIT to Offer Certificates to Students Taking Free Courses on the Web (11)
- 19: Pickin’ & Trimmin’ in a Down-Home North Carolina Barbershop: Award-Winning Short Film (6)
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- 16: RIP Christopher Hitchens: Stephen Fry Pays Tribute, Hitch Rejects the Deathbed Conversion (11)
- 16: Helen Mirren Tells Us Why Wassily Kandinsky Is Her Favorite Artist (And What Acting & Modern Art Have in Common) (3)
- 16: The Godfather Without Brando?: Coppola Explains How It Almost Happened (0)
- 15: M.I.T. Camera Captures Speed of Light: A Trillion-Frames-Per-Second (3)
- 15: A Panoramic Virtual Tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (2)
- 15: Remembering George Whitman, Owner of Famed Bookstore, Shakespeare & Company (1)
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- 14: Incredible Mental Math Gymnastics on “Countdown” (3)
- 14: David Attenborough Reads “What a Wonderful World” in a Moving Video (4)
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- 02: Philip Glass, Lou Reed Speak At Occupy Lincoln Center (0)
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- 01: A Brief Visual Introduction to Saul Bass’ Celebrated Title Designs (1)
- 01: All Together Now: Every Beatles Song Played at Once (8)
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- 30: Beware of the Big Brinicle of Death (1)
- 29: Iron Mike Tyson Sings “The Girl From Ipanema” (0)
- 29: The World’s Highest Artificial Tornado (1)
- 29: To Infinity and Beyond: A Mind-Bending Documentary from the BBC (8)
- 29: A Day in Venezia (1)
- 28: Stanford Launching 14 Free Online Courses in January/February: Enroll Today (31)
- 28: Address is Approximate: A Lovely Animated Film Made with Google Maps (6)
- 28: Free Films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Eisenstein & Other Russian Greats (1)
- 27: Dave Grohl Rocks the White House, Plays Band on the Run (0)
- 25: Terry Gilliam Explains The Difference Between Kubrick (Great Filmmaker) and Spielberg (Less So) (106)
- 25: Mankind’s First Steps on the Moon: The Ultra High Res Photos (1)
- 25: Werner Herzog Gets Shot During Interview, Doesn’t Miss a Beat (0)
- 24: The Thanksgiving Math Lecture: Real Meets Virtual (0)
- 24: Seeing Double: The Lake Twins Meet the Cholmondeley Ladies (1)
- 23: Striking Posters From Occupy Wall Street: Download Them for Free (10)
- 23: Shepard Fairey Caves In, Revises Occupy Wall Street Poster (6)
- 23: Mathematics in Movies: Harvard Prof Curates 150+ Scenes (0)
- 23: Stephen Fry & Friends Pay Tribute to Christopher Hitchens (7)
- 22: A Big Bach Download: The Complete Organ Works for Free (18)
- 22: The Battle for LA’s Murals (0)
- 22: Lt. John Pike Pepper Sprays His Way Into Art History (14)
- 21: Iconic Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson Takes You Inside His Creative World: Watch “The Decisive Moment” (6)
- 21: Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey (Free Online Course) (18)
- 21: A 3D Tour of Picasso’s Guernica (11)
- 20: Pepper Spraying Peaceful Protestors Continues; This Time at UC Davis (4)
- 18: Stanford Opens Seven New Online Courses for Enrollment (Free) (7)
- 18: Moby Offers Up Free Music to Filmmakers (4)
- 17: Remembering Jeff Buckley on His 45th Birthday (4)
- 17: French in Action: Cult Classic French Lessons from Yale (52 Episodes) Available Online (55)
- 17: Conception to Birth Visualized (3)
- 17: Copenhagen Philharmonic Plays Ravel’s Bolero at Train Station (7)
- 16: How to Potty Train Your Cat: A Handy Manual by Charles Mingus (5)
- 16: Werner Herzog: Movies Won’t Change the World (1)
- 16: Tom Waits Makes Comic Appearance on Fernwood Tonight (1977) (1)
- 15: Jazz on a Summer’s Day (5)
- 15: Create iPhone/iPad Apps in iOS 5 with Free Stanford Course (4)
- 15: How Many U.S. Marines Could Bring Down the Roman Empire? (77)
- 14: The Always Bankable Banksy (1)
- 14: The Story of Broke: An Animated Look at US Federal Spending and Values (2)
- 13: A Brief, Wondrous Tour of Earth (From Outer Space) (11)
- 13: A Stunning, Chance Encounter With Nature (5)
- 12: Peter Gabriel and His Big Orchestra Play Live at the Ed Sullivan Theater (4)
- 12: Christopher Hitchens: No Deathbed Conversion for Me, Thanks, But it was Good of You to Ask (65)
- 12: The Van Doos in Afghanistan (Free Until Monday) (0)
- 11: Neil deGrasse Tyson Stars in New Symphony of Science (0)
- 10: It’s the Tax Code, Stupid: Niall Ferguson Solves Our Economic Mess (6)
- 10: Steve Jobs Muses on What’s Wrong with American Education, 1995 (5)
- 10: The Rolling Stones Sing Jingle for Rice Krispies Commercial (1964) (1)
- 09: Death Masks of Dante, Nietzsche, Joyce, Beethoven and Other Greats (8)
- 09: Yo-Yo Ma & The Goat Rodeo Sessions (1)
- 09: David Crosby & Graham Nash at Occupy Wall Street; Echoes of Woodstock (1)
- 08: Visualizing Bach: Alexander Chen’s Impossible Harp (1)
- 08: Social Media in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (0)
- 08: Alfred Hitchcock Reveals The Secret Sauce for Creating Suspense (0)
- 07: Open Culture Now on Google + (0)
- 07: 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz (5)
- 04: The Wonderful, Wooden Marble Adding Machine (0)
- 04: Calculus Lifesaver: A Free Online Course from Princeton (5)
- 04: Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary: a ‘Warped Casablanca’ (0)
- 03: Duelity: Creationist and Darwinist Origin Stories Animated (3)
- 03: David Lynch’s “Crazy Clown Time,” Stream the New Album (1)
- 03: How Much Does The Entire, Big Internet Weigh? (0)
- 03: Kim Kardashian Gets Divorced; Salman Rushdie Writes Limerick (0)
- 02: Jim Jarmusch: The Art of the Music in His Films (8)
- 02: The Fabric of the Cosmos, Exploring Mysteries of Physics, Kicks Off with Live Webcast Tonight (0)
- 02: Joan Didion Reads From New Memoir, Blue Nights, in Short Film Directed by Griffin Dunne (0)
- 01: Monty Python’s Best Philosophy Sketches (2)
- 01: Noam Chomsky at Occupy Boston (2)
- 01: Hans Rosling Uses Ikea Props to Explain World of 7 Billion People (2)
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- 31: Filmmaking Advice from Quentin Tarantino and Sam Raimi (NSFW) (1)
- 31: Demystifying the Protect IP Act (0)
- 31: Beware the Horror of…The Gawper (0)
- 31: Watch the 1953 Animation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Narrated by James Mason (2)
- 30: James Franco Reads Short Story in Bed for The Paris Review (0)
- 30: Names of Paris Métro Stops Acted Out: Photos by Janol Apin (0)
- 28: Bertrand Russell Explains How Smoking Paradoxically Saved His Life (2)
- 28: Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers, a Halloween Treat (1)
- 28: Books Come to Life in Classic Cartoons from 1930s and 1940s (3)
- 27: 10,000 Solutions (4)
- 27: ‘Catch-22,’ Joseph Heller’s Darkly Hilarious Indictment of War, is 50 (0)
- 27: Royal Society Opens Online Archive; Puts 60,000 Papers Online (0)
- 27: Leonard Cohen Gives a Great Speech on How His Love Affair with Music First Began (2011) (0)
- 26: Norah Jones Sings Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young” in Honor of Steve Jobs (Plus Coldplay’s Performance) (4)
- 26: Listen to the New Tom Waits Album, ‘Bad As Me,’ Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 26: Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People (1962) (5)
- 25: Pete Seeger: To Hear Your Banjo Play (1946) (7)
- 25: Free: Download Copy of New Steve Jobs Biography (11)
- 24: The Decline of Civilization’s Right Brain: Animated (5)
- 24: Tim Burton: A Look Inside His Visual Imagination (2)
- 24: Anémic Cinéma: Marcel Duchamp’s Whirling Avant-Garde Film (1926) (3)
- 22: Willie Nelson, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie at Occupy Wall Street (4)
- 21: Watch ‘Jammin’ the Blues,’ One of the Most Stylish Jazz Films Ever Made (1944) (1)
- 21: 20 Christian Academics Speaking About God (10)
- 21: As the World Burns (0)
- 20: Legendary Folklorist Alan Lomax: ‘The Land Where the Blues Began’ (1)
- 20: Orson Welles Narrates Animated Version of Kafka’s Parable, “Before the Law” (3)
- 20: Robot Sets Rubik’s Cube World Record: 5.35 Seconds (1)
- 19: Spike Jonze Presents a Stop Motion Film for Book Lovers (10)
- 19: Iceland in the Midnight Sun (1)
- 19: Under a Brooding Sky: The Photography of Don McCullin (1)
- 19: Fun with Quantum Levitation (1)
- 18: Philip Roth Predicts the Death of the Novel; Paul Auster Counters (4)
- 18: Hail! Hail! Chuck Berry, the Father of Rock & Roll, Is 85 (1)
- 18: Animations of 6 Famous Thought Experiments (0)
- 17: Crossing El Camino del Rey, the Most Dangerous Hike in the World (4)
- 17: Math Doodling (1)
- 17: Getz and Gilberto Perform ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ (and the Woman Who Inspired the Song) (3)
- 17: John Turturro Reads Italo Calvino’s Fairy Tale, “The False Grandmother,” in a Short Animated Film (6)
- 15: Aldous Huxley, Dying of Cancer, Left This World Tripping on LSD (1963) (15)
- 14: Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (1)
- 14: Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen: The Poet-Musician Featured in a 1965 Documentary (3)
- 13: Paul Simon, Then and Now: Celebrating His 70th Birthday (1)
- 13: An Introduction to Cosmology by Sean Carroll (0)
- 13: Marshall McLuhan on the Stupidest Debate in the History of Debating (1976) (0)
- 13: Sir Ian McKellen Reads Manual for Changing Tires in Dramatic Voice (3)
- 12: Joseph Stiglitz and Lawrence Lessig at Occupy Wall Street (4)
- 12: Ai Weiwei and the Seeds of Freedom (2)
- 12: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee Talks @Google (1)
- 12: The Power of Conformity (0)
- 11: A Minimal Glimpse of Philip Glass (0)
- 11: The Fall by Albert Camus Animated (0)
- 11: Slavoj Zizek Takes the Stage at Occupy Wall Street (4)
- 10: Steve Jobs Narrates the First “Think Different” Ad (Never Aired) (5)
- 10: How the King James Bible Forever Changed English: 400th Anniversary Celebrated with Fun Videos (1)
- 10: The Nobel Prize: Saul Perlmutter & the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe (0)
- 09: The Rolling Stone Interview with John Lennon (1970) (0)
- 08: Steve Jobs at Heaven’s Gate: The New Yorker Cover (4)
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- 07: Drinking Coffee at Zero Gravity (4)
- 07: The Matrix: What Went Into The Mix (1)
- 06: The Best of the Culture Web. Open Culture Beat No. 10 (0)
- 06: Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl: The Comedy Classic (0)
- 05: Steve Jobs Demos the First Macintosh in 1984 (1)
- 05: Stream It: Title Track of David Lynch’s Upcoming Solo Album (0)
- 05: Haruki Murakami: New Short Story. New Book. And Perhaps Nobel Prize? (1)
- 05: Richard Feynman on Beauty (2)
- 05: Martin Scorsese: Why I Made The George Harrison Documentary (1)
- 04: Kickstarter: the Future of Self-Publishing? (6)
- 04: The Mechanical Monsters: Seminal Superman Animated Film from 1941 (6)
- 03: It’s 5:46 A.M. and Paris Is Under Water (0)
- 03: George Harrison in the Spotlight: The Dick Cavett Show (1971) (4)
- 03: Jacques Derrida Deconstructs American Attitudes (6)
- 01: Italy’s Youngest Led Head (1)
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- 30: Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse (5)
- 30: Jimmy Page Tells the Story of “Kashmir” (16)
- 30: What Earth Will Look Like 100 Million Years from Now (7)
- 29: How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds (7)
- 29: Steven Pinker on the History of Violence: A Happy Tale (0)
- 29: Salvador Dali Gets Surreal with Mike Wallace (1958) (3)
- 28: Six Ideas That Set the West Apart from the Rest (And Why It’s All Over Now Baby Blue) (3)
- 28: Lawrence Krauss Explains How You Get ‘A Universe From Nothing’ (17)
- 27: Stephen King Reads from His Upcoming Sequel to The Shining (2)
- 27: John Hodgman Riffs on Magicians and Their Craft at Maker Faire (2)
- 27: How Paulo Coelho Started Pirating His Own Books (And Where You Can Find them) (6)
- 26: Google Puts The Dead Sea Scrolls Online (in Super High Resolution) (3)
- 26: The Great Dr. Fox Lecture: A Vintage Academic Hoax (1970) (0)
- 26: Download 20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books (29)
- 24: Jazz Toons: Allen Mezquida’s Journey from Bebop to Smigly (2)
- 23: Dangerous Knowledge: 4 Brilliant Mathematicians & Their Drift to Insanity (6)
- 23: R.E.M.’s Final Encore (and an Early Concert from Germany) (0)
- 22: Three “Anti-Films” by Andy Warhol: Sleep, Eat & Kiss (7)
- 22: Frank W. Buckles, The Last U.S. Veteran of World War I (1)
- 22: The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert: The Last Gig Filmed in January 1969 (16)
- 21: David’s Diary: The New David Sedaris App for Apple & Android (0)
- 21: The Aurora Borealis Viewed from Orbit (and What Creates Those Northern Lights?) (1)
- 20: This is Real Democracy (2)
- 20: The Birth of Film: 11 Firsts in Cinema (10)
- 19: Kenneth Branagh Stars in Radio Dramatization of Epic Soviet Novel, Life and Fate (Free Audio) (1)
- 19: Foo Fighters “Perform” for Westboro Baptist Church (2)
- 19: What It Feels Like to Fly Over Planet Earth (1)
- 17: The Austin City Limits Music Festival & Miles Davis Streaming Online (1)
- 16: Google Brings The Johnny Cash Project to Chrome (1)
- 16: Duck and Cover: The 1950s Film That Taught Millions of Schoolchildren How to Survive a Nuclear Bomb (0)
- 16: Jack Nicholson Puts His Star Power Behind “Green” Cars, 1978 (0)
- 16: Richard Dawkins Introduces His New Illustrated Book, The Magic of Reality (8)
- 15: The Sounds That Made Pop (3)
- 14: Inside the Renaissance of Iranian Cinema (2)
- 14: 24 Hours of Reality: Learn About Our Climate Crisis in Real Time (5)
- 14: Atlas Shrugged Released as an iPad App (1)
- 13: 25 Great Culture Links: Open Culture Beat No. 9 (0)
- 12: Tchaikovsky Puppet in Timelapse Film (0)
- 12: 10 Free Lectures by “The Great Courses/Teaching Company” (in a Sea of Free Courses) (4)
- 12: Andy Warhol Quits Painting, Manages The Velvet Underground (1965) (2)
- 09: She Was the One: An Animated 9/11 Remembrance (7)
- 09: Back to School: Free Resources for Lifelong Learners Everywhere (2)
- 09: Las Calles de Borges: A Tribute to Argentina’s Favorite Son (1)
- 09: The Making of a Nazi: Disney’s 1943 Animated Short (3)
- 08: William S. Burroughs Reads His First Novel, Junky (5)
- 08: Frankie: Best Short Film at 2008 Berlinale (2)
- 08: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe: A Visual Introduction (2)
- 07: The Great Gatsby and Waiting for Godot: The Video Game Editions (0)
- 07: Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road (1959) (2)
- 06: Endless Summer: Hollywood Icons at the Beach (1965) (1)
- 05: Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Complete Improv Series Now Free Online (2)
- 05: The First 3D Digital Film Created by Ed Catmull, Co-Founder of Pixar (1970) (4)
- 05: Freddie Mercury’s 65th Birthday: Celebrate with Google Doodle and a Concert (0)
- 04: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind of Nails It (21)
- 02: 37 Hitchcock Cameo Appearances Over 50 Years: All in One Video (4)
- 02: Santiago de Compostela: A View From the Octocopter (5)
- 01: Paola Antonelli on Design as the Interface Between Progress and Humanity (0)
- 01: The Blade Runner Promotional Film (0)
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- 31: The History of Philosophy … Without Any Gaps (8)
- 31: Blade Runner is a Waste of Time: Siskel & Ebert in 1982 (8)
- 31: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: Uncut & Restored (2)
- 30: Jerry’s Map: An Amazing Half Century Act of Imagination (3)
- 30: Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Talks Writing @Google (2)
- 30: Mr. Deity: The Everyday Life of the Creator (1)
- 29: Download Free Courses from Famous Philosophers: From Bertrand Russell to Michel Foucault (11)
- 29: Sweet Jane: Then and Now (0)
- 26: Miss USA 2011: Should Schools Teach Evolution? … or Math? (21)
- 26: The Decemberists’ New Video Inspired by Scenes from Infinite Jest (1)
- 26: Martin Scorsese Documentary on George Harrison Coming This Fall (1)
- 25: Anselm Kiefer at Work, Creating His “World of Ruination” (0)
- 25: Archive of 9/11 TV Coverage Launches with 3,000+ Hours of Video (0)
- 25: Biblioburro: Library on a Donkey (2)
- 25: The Brief Wondrous Career of Arthur Rimbaud (1870-1874) (0)
- 24: Richard Feynman: The New Graphic Novel (1)
- 24: Forensic Linguistics: Finding a Murderer Through Text Messages (9)
- 24: Jackson Pollock 51: Short Film Captures the Painter Creating Abstract Expressionist Art (13)
- 23: James Taylor Gives Free Acoustic Guitar Lessons Online (15)
- 23: OK Go Covers The Muppet Show Theme Song (Stream New Album Online) (0)
- 23: Jerry Leiber, Writer of Enduring Rock Classics, on What’s My Line? (1958) (1)
- 22: The Guardian’s Guide to Opera (and Free Opera Until Sept. 12) (0)
- 22: Destino: The Salvador Dalí – Disney Collaboration 57 Years in the Making (7)
- 19: The MIT “Checker Shadow Illusion” Brought to Life (0)
- 19: Extreme Photography: Shooting Big Climbs at Yosemite (1)
- 19: Marlene Dietrich’s Temperamental Screen Test for The Blue Angel (1929) (1)
- 18: The Beatles: Why Music Matters in Two Animated Minutes (0)
- 18: Lou Gehrig, Yankee Legend, Stars in 1938 Western Rawhide (4)
- 18: The DIY Tornado Machine (0)
- 17: Hiroshima After the Atomic Bomb in 360 Degrees (2)
- 17: The Cookie Monster/Tom Waits Mashup (0)
- 17: David Lynch’s Eraserhead Remade in Clay (1)
- 17: Our Extraterrestrial DNA (0)
- 16: Take Stanford Computer Science Courses This Fall: Free Worldwide (3)
- 16: William S. Burroughs Tells the Story of How He Started Writing with the Cut-Up Technique (4)
- 16: Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita: Just Another Great Love Story? (2)
- 15: 50 Famous Scientists & Academics Speak About God: Part II (10)
- 13: Bed Peace Revisits John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Famous Anti-Vietnam Protests (7)
- 12: Young Terry Gilliam Shows You How to Make Your Own Cutout Animation (5)
- 12: Marlon Brando Screen Tests for Rebel Without A Cause (1947) (3)
- 12: The Sins of the Renaissance, or The History That Shaped Michele Bachmann’s Worldview (6)
- 12: Planet of the Apes: A Species Misunderstood (3)
- 11: The Moon Up Close, in HD (2)
- 11: Crater Lake Under the Stars (1)
- 10: Pachelbel’s Music Box Canon (4)
- 10: Orson Welles Reads Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” in a 1977 Experimental Film (4)
- 10: The Making of The Shining (1)
- 09: Harry Partch’s Kooky Orchestra of DIY Musical Instruments (6)
- 09: Pendulum Waves as Kinetic Art (1)
- 09: A Day in California (0)
- 08: Financial Markets Course with Yale Sage Robert Shiller (1)
- 08: Astonish Me: A Magical Mystery Through Nature’s Hidden Secrets (0)
- 08: The Math Guy Radio Archive (1)
- 08: Fellini + Abrams = Super 8½ (1)
- 05: Ken Kesey’s First LSD Trip Animated (10)
- 05: Watch John Huston’s Beat the Devil (2)
- 05: Mariachi Band Serenades Beluga Whale at Mystic Aquarium (1)
- 04: Dave Eggers: The Teacher Who Encouraged Me to Write (3)
- 04: The Last Surviving Witness of the Lincoln Assassination Appears on a Game Show (1956) (0)
- 04: The Adoration of the Mona Lisa Begins with Theft (4)
- 03: David Lynch’s Video Response to Washington Debt Deal (3)
- 03: The Rolling Stones Jam With Their Idol, Muddy Waters (1981) (0)
- 03: Hear Voices from the 19th Century: Tennyson, Gladstone & Tchaikovsky (0)
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- 02: Richard Feynman: The Likelihood of Flying Saucers (4)
- 02: Download The Edupunks’ Guide to a DIY Credential (Free eBook) (1)
- 02: Animated: Stephen Fry & Ann Widdecombe Debate the Catholic Church (2)
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- 01: Snack Foods of Great Writers (0)
- 01: How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built: A New Theory in 3D Animation (62)
- 01: Klaus Nomi: Watch the Final, Brilliant Performance of a Dying Man (16)
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- 30: The Concert for Bangladesh Streaming Free on iTunes (1)
- 29: The Tarantino Mixtape (NSFW) (0)
- 29: Time Capsule: The Internet in 1995 (2)
- 29: Richard Dawkins’ Uncut Interviews with Peter Singer & Big Thinkers (3)
- 29: The Persecution of Daniel Lee (1)
- 28: Salman Rushdie: Machiavelli’s Bad Rap (0)
- 28: Jason Alexander Promotes Netflix Relief Fund (2)
- 28: Life in Moments/Moments in Life (3)
- 28: Movie Tearjerkers: What’s the Saddest Scene in Cinema? (11)
- 27: Open Culture Beat No. 7: The Best Culture Links of the Week (3)
- 27: A Heartfelt, Animated Tribute to Jim Henson (1)
- 27: Improv with New Yorker Cartoonists (0)
- 26: 50 Famous Academics & Scientists Talk About God (121)
- 26: Bill Graham’s Concert Vault: From Miles Davis to Bob Marley (2)
- 26: The Seashell and the Clergyman: The World’s First Surrealist Film (0)
- 25: Donald Duck & Friends Star in World War II Propaganda Cartoons (3)
- 25: Remembering Amy Winehouse’s Better Days: Her American Debut (0)
- 23: Free Rap in the Streets of NYC (0)
- 22: Hunter S. Thompson Gets Confronted by The Hell’s Angels (1967) (20)
- 22: Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) (1)
- 22: “You Just Don’t Get It, Do You?” – A Montage of Cinema’s Worst Cliché (0)
- 21: The Year According to The New York Times, in 12,000 Screenshots (0)
- 21: Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Remembered with Google Earth (3)
- 21: Spike Jonze and Beastie Boys, Together Again (1)
- 20: Impressionist Does Shakespeare in 25 Celebrity Voices (20)
- 20: Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life (6)
- 20: The Machine: Top Prize Winner at the Robot Film Festival (0)
- 20: Metropolis II: Chris Burden’s Amazing, Frenetic Mini-City (0)
- 19: Kurt Russell Auditions for Star Wars (3)
- 19: Kutiman Mashes Led Zep’s Black Dog: 80 Clips Stitched into One (2)
- 19: Jack Kerouac Plays Pool, 1967 (2)
- 19: Orson Welles Narrates an Animation of Plato’s Cave Allegory (4)
- 18: Classic Jazz Album Covers Animated & Brought to Life (2)
- 18: Revisit Havana, the “Paris of the Caribbean,” in the 1930s (4)
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- 15: Good Vibrations: Guitar and Cymbal Caught on Video (5)
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- 12: Coming Soon: Kafka’s Metamorphosis, The New Movie (2)
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- 11: Raymond Chandler: There’s No Art of the Screenplay in Hollywood (0)
- 11: E.B. White Narrates an Animation of His Story “The Family That Dwelt Apart” (1)
- 11: Doonesbury Confronts Creationism in the Classroom (3)
- 08: Watch The 39 Steps, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 Classic (5)
- 08: Open Culture Beat No. 6: The Best Culture Links of the Week (2)
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- 07: Baba Brinkman: The Rap Guide to Evolution (2)
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- 06: How Alice Herz-Sommer, the Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Survived the Horrific Ordeal with Music (2)
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- 04: Stephen Fry on Philosophy and Unbelief (4)
- 02: Remembering Ernest Hemingway, Fifty Years After His Death (2)
- 01: Gertie the Dinosaur: The Mother of all Cartoon Characters (1914) (1)
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- 30: The “Ask Sam Harris Anything” Hour (7)
- 30: Splitscreen: A Love Story (0)
- 30: Gone With the Wind Turns 75, and Shows its Age (8)
- 29: The Perils of the Bike Lane: Pratfalls with a Purpose (0)
- 29: Springsteen’s Eulogy for Clarence Clemons (0)
- 29: iPhone Magic by Techno-Illusionist Marco Tempest (0)
- 29: The History of the English Language in Ten Animated Minutes (5)
- 29: Beatles, Friends & Family: Photos by Linda McCartney (1)
- 28: Fantastic BBC Footage of J.R.R. Tolkien in 1968 (1)
- 28: Google App Enhances Museum Visits; Launched at the Getty (2)
- 28: Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” for Eight Pianos (2)
- 27: Buddy Holly at Age 12: His First Recording (1)
- 27: The 25 Best Non-Fiction Books Ever: Readers’ Picks (22)
- 26: 8,000 Chinese Lanterns over Poland (6)
- 25: Peter Falk (RIP) in Wings of Desire (2)
- 24: Andy Warhol Eats a Burger King Whopper, and We Watch … and Watch (3)
- 24: First Meeting Between Papua New Guinea Tribesmen & Outside World (3)
- 24: Darwin’s Personal Library Goes Digital: 330 Books Online (1)
- 23: Open Culture No. 5: The Best Culture Links of the Week (0)
- 23: The Joy of Easy Listening, BBC Documentary Online (0)
- 23: The Best Magazine Articles Ever, Curated by Kevin Kelly (0)
- 23: Man as Industrial Palace: Famous 1926 Lithograph Brought to Life (0)
- 22: Renata Salecl: The Paradox of Choice (4)
- 22: The Elements of Creativity (1)
- 21: Anatomy of a Computer Virus: A 3.5 Minute Primer (1)
- 21: New Fiction by Jonathan Lethem in the Paris Review (0)
- 21: The Black Cab Sessions: One Song, One Take, One Cab (2)
- 21: Vintage Australian Mugshots from the 1920s (1)
- 20: The Animals of Costa Rica, Up Close (1)
- 20: Norman Mailer & Martin Amis, No Strangers to Controversy, Talk in 1991 (0)
- 20: What Are Your Favorite Non-Fiction Books? (68)
- 19: Stephen Colbert Dishes Out Wisdom & Laughs at Northwestern (0)
- 18: Clarence Clemons, The Big Man & His Big Sound Will Be Missed (1)
- 17: War & Peace: An Epic of Soviet Cinema (9)
- 17: How Shea Hembrey Became 100 Artists (2)
- 17: Sylvia Plath Reads “Daddy” (0)
- 16: My Water’s On Fire Tonight: The Fracking Song (0)
- 16: Open Culture Beat No. 4: The Best Culture Links of the Week (1)
- 16: A Year of the Moon in 2.5 Minutes (6)
- 16: Un Chien Andalou: Revisiting Buñuel and Dalí’s Surrealist Film (3)
- 15: Werner Herzog Reads “Go the F**k to Sleep” in NYC (NSFW) (2)
- 15: A Tour of Earth from Outer Space (in HD). (1)
- 15: The Sounds of Jerusalem (3)
- 15: Steve Martin Releases Bluegrass Album/Animated Video (1)
- 14: The Ayn Rand Guide to Romance (7)
- 14: Loom: A Web of Horrors in 3D Animation (0)
- 14: When James Joyce Got Into a Bar Fight, He’d Yell: “Deal With Him, Hemingway!” (30)
- 13: Conan O’Brien Kills It at Dartmouth Graduation (4)
- 13: Guns N’ Roses Meet Two Cellos: Monday Mashup (1)
- 13: 230 Cultural Icons: A New Collection (1)
- 11: Bohemian Rhapsody Played in a Rusty Old VW (0)
- 10: A Video Illusion: Can You Spot the Change? (10)
- 10: Walt Disney Presents the Super Cartoon Camera (1937) (1)
- 09: Stairway to Heaven Played with Google Guitar Doodle (3)
- 09: British Classics on the iPad App (Free… For Now) (6)
- 09: Samuel Beckett in 3-D: The Making of Unmakeable Love (0)
- 09: Muddy Waters on The Blues and Gospel Train (1)
- 09: Mark Kelly Beams David Bowie Lines to His Wife, Gabby Giffords (0)
- 08: Errol Morris and Werner Herzog in Conversation (0)
- 08: “Lift” – A Portrait of Life in a London High Rise (1)
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- 07: Andrés Segovia, Father of Classical Guitar, at the Alhambra (6)
- 07: Saturday Night Fever: The (Fake) Magazine Story That Started it All (6)
- 07: Bono Tells Graduates “Pick a Fight, Get in It” (2004) (4)
- 07: Cassini Solstice Mission: Saturn’s Moons Meet Nine Inch Nails (3)
- 06: 10 Famous Philosophers in Words and Images (0)
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- 03: Aldous Huxley Reads Dramatized Version of Brave New World (3)
- 03: Nelson Algren, the Exiled King (2)
- 02: Chaplin Meets Inception: The Final Speech of The Great Dictator (11)
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- 02: Free: European Cultural History in 91 Lectures by Eminent Historian George L. Mosse (1500-1920) (3)
- 01: Open Culture Beat No. 3 (0)
- 01: X-Men: Science Can Build Them, But Is It Ethical? (0)
- 01: Hey London! What Song are You Listening To? (8)
- 01: The Arctic Light (1)
- May 2011 (81)
- 31: 3D Map of Universe Captures 43,000 Galaxies (6)
- 31: Penn Sound: Fantastic Audio Archive of Modern & Contemporary Poets (0)
- 31: A Digital Reconstruction of Washington D.C. in 1814 (8)
- 31: Chemistry on YouTube: “Periodic Table of Videos” Wins SPORE Prize (1)
- 30: City of Eight Million Soundtracks (4)
- 30: The Musalman: The Last Handwritten Newspaper in the World (5)
- 29: The Guitar Prodigy from Karachi (13)
- 29: Don’t Dance at the Jefferson Memorial: A Quick PSA (36)
- 27: Gil Scott-Heron, Godfather of Rap, Rest in Peace (6)
- 27: John Banville: Art is a Minority Sport (0)
- 27: Orson Welles Performs a Magic Trick (2)
- 27: Sir Anthony Hopkins Reads Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night.” (2)
- 27: Tom Hanks Addresses the Yale Class of 2011 (0)
- 26: E. chromi: Designer Bacteria (2)
- 26: Paulo Coelho on How to Handle the Fear of Failure (12)
- 26: Watch Selected Cannes Films for Free (For A Limited Time Only) (4)
- 26: Endeavour’s Launch Viewed from Booster Cameras (3)
- 25: Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange: Malcolm McDowell Looks Back (2)
- 25: 23-Year-Old Eric Clapton Demonstrates the Elements of His Guitar Sound (10)
- 25: Darren’s Big DIY Camera (0)
- 24: Jimmy Fallon Nails the Bob Dylan Impersonation (2)
- 24: Pop-Motion Animation: A New Take on the Flip Book (2)
- 24: Peter Sellers Performs The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” in Shakespearean Voice (7)
- 24: For Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday, Footage From His Earliest NYC Days (0)
- 23: Open Culture Beat No. 2 (1)
- 23: Lost Films: Identify Missing Cinema Through Crowdsourcing (4)
- 23: Leo Strauss: 15 Political Philosophy Courses Online (2)
- 21: George Carlin’s “Modern Man” Rap (7)
- 20: 3 Dreams of Black: A Mind-blowing Interactive Music Video (4)
- 20: A Brief History of Light (1)
- 19: Lars von Trier Expelled from Cannes (2)
- 19: The Climate Scientist Rap (Warning: Offensive Language) (0)
- 19: The National Jukebox: Play 10,000 Songs Released Between 1901 and 1925 (0)
- 19: 3D Street Art (0)
- 19: Open Culture Beat No. 1 (16)
- 19: Kepler, Galileo & Nostradamus in Color, on Google (6)
- 18: Collision: Award-Winning Film Explores Politics Through Shapes (2)
- 18: The Wild Kingdom: Brought to You by Mutual of Omaha (and It’s Now on YouTube) (2)
- 18: How TV Ruined Your Life (1)
- 17: Richard Dawkins to Publish Children’s Book This Fall (2)
- 17: Jacques Demy’s Lyrical Masterpiece, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- 17: Free Vintage Cartoons: Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop and More (4)
- 17: Jon Stewart & Bill O’Reilly Debate Rapper’s Visit to the White House (0)
- 16: Milky Way Panorama (with a Backstory) (4)
- 16: The Book Trailer as Self-Parody: Stars Gary Shteyngart with James Franco Cameo (0)
- 16: Free Short Films by Osamu Tezuka aka “The Japanese Walt Disney” (4)
- 15: A Paul Simon Feelin’-Very-Groovy Moment (2)
- 14: Bob Dylan Answers China Charges (10)
- 13: 1956 Home Movie: Laurel & Hardy Together for the Last Time (1)
- 13: The City Limits: Beautiful Time Lapse of Five Cities (4)
- 13: Keith Richards Interviewed at The New York Public Library (1)
- 12: SnagFilms: Free Documentaries on the iPad (and Web) (0)
- 12: The Next-Generation Digital Book (16)
- 12: The Legend of Bluesman Robert Johnson Animated (1)
- 11: 64 Years of Posters for the Cannes Film Festival (0)
- 11: David Lynch’s Organic Coffee (Barbie Head Not Included) (2)
- 11: World Literature in 13 Parts: From Gilgamesh to García Márquez (4)
- 10: Short Film: “Nuit Blanche” Mixes Romance with Matrix-Style Visuals (2)
- 10: William F. Buckley Explains How He Flogged Himself to Get Through Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (21)
- 10: The Existential Star Wars: Sartre Meets Darth Vader (2)
- 09: Classical Music: A History According to YouTube (1)
- 09: A Daily Dose of Jerry Seinfeld (0)
- 08: Noam Chomsky: “My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death” (29)
- 08: David Hume in 3 Minutes … For His 300th Birthday (4)
- 06: Orson Welles’ Birthday Bash: Three Movies, One Radio Classic, and Two Great Narrations (2)
- 06: Stanley Kubrick’s Filmography Animated (0)
- 06: Bubbles Over Stinson Beach (2)
- 05: RIP Arthur Laurents, Writer of West Side Story (0)
- 05: 50 Classic Russian Films (Including Tarkovsky’s Finest) Now Online (3)
- 05: Celebrate Carnegie Hall Anniversary with Jascha Heifetz Playing Tchaikovsky (0)
- 04: The Cinemagraph: A Haunting Photo/Video Hybrid (8)
- 04: The Clash Star in Hell W10, a Gangster Parody Film Directed by Joe Strummer (1983) (1)
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- 03: Way of Life: Rare Footage of the Hiroshima Aftermath, 1946
- 03: Free Courses “Netted” by the Webbys (0)
- 03: David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve (2)
- 03: Phoenix Still Rising: Egypt After The Revolution (2)
- 02: The World’s First (and Slightly Scandalous) Hand-Tinted Motion Picture (0)
- 02: Oil’d, by Chris Harmon (1)
- 02: Vladimir Nabokov Marvels Over Different “Lolita” Book Covers (4)
- 01: Obama Announces Death of Osama bin Laden (Video) (22)
- April 2011 (61)
- 29: Warhol’s Screen Tests of Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper, Nico & More (2)
- 29: Orion: The Beauty of South Dakota Nights in Time Lapse (2)
- 28: Flux: Short Animation Inspired by İlhan Koman (4)
- 28: Spy Magazine (1986-1998) Now Online (5)
- 28: A Very Brief History of Royal Weddings (8)
- 27: “Jersey Shore” in the Style of Oscar Wilde (1)
- 27: Fire Ants Create Life Raft in 100 Seconds Flat (2)
- 26: Ray Kurzweil, Futurist: 10 Questions About What’s Coming Next (0)
- 26: Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Documentary Presents Three Philosophers in Three Hours (4)
- 26: Tina Fey Brings Bossypants Tour to Google (0)
- 25: The Kitty Genovese Myth and the Popular Imagination (4)
- 25: The Hourglass: A Short Film that Celebrates Time, Slowly (0)
- 25: The Soundtrack of the Universe (2)
- 24: A Perfect Springtime Animation: The Windmill Farmer by Joaquin Baldwin (10)
- 22: Astrophysics Goes Extreme (0)
- 22: Kevin Spacey & Alec Baldwin Go to Bat for the Arts (0)
- 22: The Beatles: Live at Shea Stadium, 1965 (4)
- 21: Eagles Hatch, Millions Watch (2)
- 21: Charlie Chaplin Mini Film Festival (2)
- 20: Diary: The Last Short Film by Tim Hetherington (5)
- 20: The Symmetry of Life (0)
- 20: Paul Simon’s Christmas Gets Animated in April (2)
- 20: The Physics of the Bike (6)
- 19: Morgan Spurlock: The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold (2)
- 19: Rare Footage: Home Movie of FDR’s 1941 Inauguration (6)
- 19: The Discipline of D.E.: Gus Van Sant Adapts a Story by William S. Burroughs (0)
- 18: The Bay of Pigs: 50 Years Later (1)
- 18: Collaborations: Spike Jonze, Yo-Yo Ma, and Lil Buck (4)
- 18: The Pale King: How the Book Came Together (and How to Download the Novel in Audio) (2)
- 16: El Teide in Time Lapse (6)
- 15: Yale Rolls Out 10 New Courses – All Free (13)
- 15: American Philosophy on Film: Pragmatism, Richard Rorty and More (5)
- 14: Werner Herzog and Cormac McCarthy Talk Science and Culture (6)
- 14: Walter Kaufmann’s Classic Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960) (19)
- 14: Inventing the Digital Camera: A Short Portrait of Steven Sasson (2)
- 13: Historic Spain in Time Lapse Film (4)
- 13: Poems as Short Films: Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda and More (2)
- 13: Killer’s Kiss: Where Stanley Kubrick’s Filmmaking Career Really Begins (4)
- 12: “First Orbit”: Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagaran’s Space Flight (0)
- 12: Photos of Famous Writers (and Rockers) with their Dogs (1)
- 12: Every Step You Take, They’ll Be Tracking You (0)
- 11: Updated Book Titles: Less Pretentious, More Accurate (2)
- 11: Hofmann’s Potion: 2002 Documentary Revisits the History of LSD (0)
- 11: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann at 50 (2)
- 09: Farewell Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011 (4)
- 08: Star Wars the Musical: The Force is Strong in this One (0)
- 08: Bubble Watch: Is China Next? (7)
- 07: Billy Collins Poetry Brought to Animated Life (1)
- 07: Awe-Inspiring Interactive 3D Model of the Solar System (0)
- 07: Free: Richard Feynman’s Physics Course from Cornell (1964) (14)
- 06: Soviet Scifi Cinema: The Other Tolstoy in the Movies (1)
- 06: Everything Is Rhythm (6)
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- 05: The Onion: Fake News Site Launches Real Archive (3)
- 05: How Venice Works: 124 Islands, 183 Canals & 438 Bridges (6)
- 04: The Quadrocopter Opera (0)
- 04: The Ramones Live in 1978: 26 Songs in 54 Minutes (0)
- 04: The Shape of A Story: Writing Tips from Kurt Vonnegut (10)
- 03: How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made: 1939 Documentary Gives an Inside Look (6)
- 01: Inside Job, Oscar-Winning Documentary, Now Online (Free) (114)
- 01: More than 20 Years Before “Lost” — “The New People” (4)
- March 2011 (74)
- 31: Father and Daughter: An Oscar-Winning Animated Short Film (19)
- 31: Japan’s Earthquake & Tsunami: How They Happened (4)
- 30: Do Look Back: Pennebaker and Marcus Talk Bob Dylan (0)
- 30: The Billion-Bug Highway You Can’t See (6)
- 30: Kinetic Strandbeests on the Beach: Alchemy of Art & Engineering (0)
- 29: Dementia 13: Coppola’s First Full-Length Feature (0)
- 29: Scifoo: How Would You Spend a Billion Dollars? (2)
- 29: James Earl Jones Reads Othello at White House Poetry Jam (1)
- 28: Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: The Film (2)
- 28: Steve Martin Writes Song for Hymn-Deprived Atheists (31)
- 28: Biology That Makes Us Tick: Free Stanford Course by Robert Sapolsky (27)
- 26: Free Grateful Dead Concert Archive (0)
- 25: David Lynch “Directs” Duran Duran Concert in L.A. (0)
- 25: Blinky™: A Touching Short Film About A Killer Robot (2)
- 25: The Wire as Great Victorian Novel (6)
- 24: Hunter S. Thompson Interviews Keith Richards (1)
- 24: The New York Philharmonic Opens Digital Archives to the Public (0)
- 24: Evgeny Morozov Animated: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (0)
- 23: Le Flaneur: Time Lapse Video of Paris Without the People (10)
- 23: Elizabeth Taylor on “What’s My Line?” (1954) (4)
- 22: Leonard Cohen Reads “The Future” (Not Safe for Work) (1)
- 22: Kutiman’s Trip to Jerusalem (0)
- 21: Lawrence Krauss: Every Atom in Your Body Comes From a Star (6)
- 21: Charismatic Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan Gives Public Lecture (1972) (22)
- 20: Alain de Botton Tweets Short Course in Political Philosophy (2)
- 20: Adieu Alfred (0)
- 18: Daniel Levitin Shows How Musicians Communicate Emotion (0)
- 18: Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan (2)
- 18: A is for Atom: Vintage PR Film for Nuclear Energy (3)
- 17: A Famous Chess Match from 1910 Reenacted with Claymation (4)
- 17: Middle Eastern History: Free Courses (1)
- 17: Endangered Species in Unforgettable Images (2)
- 16: Faith: Time-Lapse from Mecca (0)
- 16: The Birth of a Word: Deb Roy at TED (0)
- 16: Forget the Films, Watch the Titles (1)
- 15: Fukushima Reactor Explained & Tsunami 101 (2)
- 15: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands (0)
- 15: 36 Hitchcock Murder Scenes Climaxing in Unison (1)
- 15: Who Is the World’s Most Typical Person? (2)
- 14: Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein Live at a Cinema Near You (1)
- 14: Teens Ponder Meaning of Contemporary Art (0)
- 14: Harvard Thinks Big (0)
- 13: Floor of Kilauea Volcano Crater Collapses Before Your Eyes (0)
- 12: Inception Redone in 60 Seconds (0)
- 11: Bobby McFerrin Shows the Power of the Pentatonic Scale (3)
- 11: Alain de Botton: The Glass of Life is Half Empty (2)
- 11: Tsunami Ripples Across Globe: Animated Video (0)
- 10: Live Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Coverage on Al Jazeera (5)
- 10: Terrific Hand-Crafted Animation Puts the Novel, Going West, Into (Stop) Motion (1)
- 10: The Smithsonian Wildlife Photo Archive (0)
- 10: Mark Twain Lives (in Animation) (0)
- 09: DalíLinguistics (0)
- 09: The Dancer on the Staten Island Ferry (4)
- 09: Mr. Rogers Goes to Washington (2)
- 08: Dopamine Jackpot! Robert Sapolsky on the Science of Pleasure (2)
- 08: James Bond in Drag For International Women’s Day (0)
- 08: Georgia O’Keeffe at 92 (2)
- 07: Ahead of Time: The Life & Times of Ruth Gruber (1)
- 07: Free Movies by Category (0)
- 06: Michael Moore Tells Wisconsin Teachers “America Isn’t Broke” (9)
- 04: Jon Stewart: Teachers Have it Too Good (Wink) (9)
- 04: Spelling Counts… (0)
- 04: Great Cultural Icons Talk Civil Rights: James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte & Sidney Poitier (1963) (3)
- 04: North Korea’s Cinema of Dreams (2)
- 03: New David Foster Wallace Story Appears in The New Yorker (0)
- 03: Jay-Z: The Evolution of My Style (1)
- 03: Visualizing WiFi Signals with Light (5)
- 03: Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel Promotes World’s Largest Online Guitar Lesson (2)
- 02: Revolutions in the Middle East: Head of Al Jazeera Speaks at TED (0)
- 02: NASA Captures Giant Solar Storm (3)
- 02: The Restoration of a Masterpiece, as Narrated by Martin Scorsese (0)
- 01: 50 Years Ago Today: JFK Authorizes Peace Corps (0)
- 01: Jane Russell (RIP) Stars in “Outlawed” Western (0)
- 01: The Big Apple in Incredible Time Lapse Video (3)
- February 2011 (53)
- 28: The New Yorker: Finger Drumming Keith Moon (0)
- 28: Alan Davies: How Long is a Piece of String? (1)
- 28: Gay Talese: Drinking at New York Times Put Mad Men to Shame (1)
- 26: Discovery’s Final Launch Viewed from Airplane (2)
- 26: The Art of Making Movie Sounds (1)
- 25: The Facebook Obsession (0)
- 25: Pete Eckert: Blind Photographer, Visual Artist (3)
- 24: Bruce Lee’s Lost Interview (3)
- 24: Rauschenberg Erases De Kooning (0)
- 23: Kasparov Talks Chess, Technology and a Little Life at Google (1)
- 23: A Free Archive of 85,000 Classical Music Scores (23)
- 23: Teclópolis: Modernity in Stop Motion (2)
- 22: Free Interactive Comic Book: Poe’s “Pit and the Pendulum” (0)
- 21: Tim O’Brien & Tobias Wolff Talk “Writing and War” (2)
- 21: Sub Zero: Winter Time-Lapse in South Dakota (2)
- 21: The Great Train Robbery: Where Westerns Began (0)
- 18: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Animation Concepts (1)
- 17: The Ice Book, a Beautiful Pop-Up Book (2)
- 17: “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” Open Text Changes Face of Egypt. (1)
- 17: NASA Zooms into Spiral Galaxy (2)
- 17: Christopher Hitchens Answers Reddit User Questions (0)
- 17: Evolution Made Us All (0)
- 16: A Rare Look Inside Pixar Studios (1)
- 16: The First Talk Radio Show on the Net (1993) (2)
- 16: Norman Mailer & Gore Vidal Feud on The Dick Cavett Show (3)
- 15: Steven Pinker: How Innuendo Makes Things Work (0)
- 14: NYU Launches Open Courses (0)
- 14: What’s Your English? British v. Canadian Rap Battle (2)
- 13: First 360 Degree View of the Sun (5)
- 11: 100 Greatest Posters of Film Noir (0)
- 11: IBM Supercomputer v. Humans on Jeopardy! Next Week (1)
- 10: Rethinking Education: A New Michael Wesch Video (4)
- 10: Tall Painting (2)
- 09: Oedipus … Starring Vegetables (1)
- 09: Undercity: Exploring the Underbelly of New York City (4)
- 09: Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” Played by Musicians Around the World (0)
- 08: MIT OpenCourseWare Launches iPhone App (3)
- 08: The James Dean Story: The Early Documentary by Robert Altman (0)
- 08: James Dean at 80 (0)
- 07: Discovering Sherlock Holmes (2)
- 07: Footage of the World’s Last Uncontacted Tribe, Deep in the Brazilian Amazon (10)
- 06: 875 TEDTalks in a Neat Spreadsheet (1)
- 04: What if Tarantino Directed the Super Bowl Broadcast? (1)
- 04: Watch Ducked and Covered: A Survival Guide to the Post Apocalypse (A Little NSFW) (6)
- 03: Wunderkind Fun (1)
- 03: Paris Underground (0)
- 03: Star Wars is a Remix (2)
- 02: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2)
- 02: The King’s Speech 1938 (1)
- 02: Tarkovsky’s Solaris Revisited (1)
- 01: Fully Flared (3)
- 01: Google “Art Project” Brings Great Paintings & Museums to You (6)
- 01: Jake Shimabukuro Plays “Bohemian Rhapsody” on the Uke (2)
- January 2011 (60)
- 31: What’s the Internet? That’s So 1994… (0)
- 31: What Technology Wants: Kevin Kelly @ Google (1)
- 31: An Evening with Werner Herzog (1)
- 30: Smarthistory: Help Kickstart 100 New Art History Videos (0)
- 28: 15 Free Alfred Hitchcock Films (0)
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- 27: Ira Glass, the Host of This American Life, Breaks Down the Fine Art of Storytelling (4)
- 27: The Photography of The Sartorialist & Musings on the Creative Life (2)
- 27: “They Were There” — Errol Morris Finally Directs a Film for IBM (2)
- 26: Don’t You Eva Interrupt Me While I’m Reading a Book! (0)
- 26: MIT’s Vintage 1970 Calculus Courses Now Online … And Still Handy (0)
- 26: Beyond the Still: The Largest Online Collaborative Film Contest (0)
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- 18: Norman Mailer & Marshall McLuhan Debate the Electronic Age (2)
- 17: Winter in Yosemite National Park (1)
- 17: MLK’s Last Days and Final Speech (0)
- 17: Physics from Hell: How Dante’s Inferno Inspired Galileo’s Physics (4)
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- 13: MIT Introduces Complete Courses to OpenCourseWare Project (4)
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- 12: Raymond Chandler & Ian Fleming in Conversation (1958) (0)
- 11: NASA: The Frontier Is Everywhere (1)
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- 01: Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree: The Animated Film Narrated by Shel Himself (1973) (8)
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- 29: The Best of Open Culture 2010 (0)
- 29: Stephen Hawking: Abandon Earth Or Face Extinction (6)
- 29: The Beauty of Pixar (2)
- 28: Denis Dutton (RIP) Talks Beauty @ TED (0)
- 28: Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable Freedom River (1971) (3)
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- 23: My Blackberry Is Not Working! (4)
- 23: Sir David Frost Interviews Julian Assange Upon Release from Jail (0)
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- 22: Neil Gaiman’s Dark Christmas Poem Animated (3)
- 21: Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse in Time Lapse Video (1)
- 21: F. Scott Fitzgerald Recites “Ode to a Nightingale” (6)
- 21: The Vimeo Video School (0)
- 20: Richard Dawkins Plays the Piano: “Earth History in C Major” (1)
- 20: Watch “Ryan,” Winner of an Oscar and 60 Other Awards (2)
- 18: WikiRebels: New Documentary Tells the WikiLeaks Story (8)
- 17: Werner Herzog Reads Twas The Night Before Christmas (0)
- 16: Google Visualizes Words & Culture (2)
- 16: The Most Amazing Science Images Of 2010 (0)
- 16: Five Free Philosophy Courses from Notre Dame (0)
- 15: Water Drop Filmed in 10,000 Frames Per Second (3)
- 14: Visionaries Imagine 2011 in 1931 (1)
- 14: The Bill of Rights: Birthday Webcast Today (0)
- 14: Famous Authors Read Other Famous Authors (0)
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- 13: Multiplication: The Vedic Way (19)
- 13: Streaming Great Movies on Netflix (4)
- 13: The Best of NASA Space Shuttle Videos (1981-2010) (2)
- 10: Glenn Gould and Leonard Bernstein Play Bach (0)
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- 05: Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck Celebrates His 90th Today (0)
- 03: 200 Countries & 200 Years in 4 Minutes, Presented by Hans Rosling (5)
- 02: 3D Rome Was Built in a Day (0)
- 02: Who is Julian Assange? Three Profiles of the WikiLeaks Founder (9)
- 01: The Titanic: Rare Footage of the Ship Before Disaster Strikes (1911-1912) (4)
- 01: Dear Monsieur Picasso: A Free eBook (0)
- November 2010 (44)
- 30: The World in a Satirical Nutshell (0)
- 30: Early Experiments in Color Film (1895-1935) (2)
- 29: H.G. Wells’ 1930s Radio Broadcasts (0)
- 29: A Darwinian Theory of Beauty, or TED Does Its Best RSA (0)
- 28: Why Can’t We Walk Straight? (3)
- 26: Developing Apps for iPhone & iPad: A Free Stanford Course (23)
- 25: Donald Duck Wants You to Pay Your Taxes (1943) (2)
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- 24: A Big Bach Download: All of Bach’s Organ Works for Free (19)
- 23: The Big Cheat (23)
- 23: NPR Hip Hop (0)
- 23: Neuroscience and Free Will (6)
- 22: Five Minutes with Richard Dawkins (1)
- 21: 45 Great Cultural Icons Revisited (3)
- 20: The Very Last Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured on Video (9)
- 19: London 360 (0)
- 19: Ayn Rand Argues That Believing in God Is an Insult to Reason on The Phil Donahue Show (Circa 1979) (15)
- 18: David Sedaris and Ian Falconer Introduce “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk” (0)
- 17: Frankenstein Hits the Silver Screen (1910) (2)
- 17: MoMA Puts Pollock, Rothko & de Kooning on Your iPad (1)
- 16: The Physics Behind “Unstoppable” (3)
- 16: Europe: 10 Centuries in 5 Minutes (3)
- 16: Evidence, Godfrey Reggio’s Short Film on What TV Does to Kids’ Brains (23)
- 15: Rimbaud: A Life in Slideshow (0)
- 14: David Hockney’s iPad Art Goes on Display (10)
- 13: The Economist Presents the Global Online MBA Forum (2)
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- 10: Paul Auster Reads from New Novel, Sunset Park (1)
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- 02: What A Glorious Space To Dwell (0)
- 02: In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy (1)
- 02: Down to the Bone (1)
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- 31: iTunes U Introduces Free eBooks: Download Shakespeare’s Complete Works (4)
- 31: “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf (1)
- 29: The Milky Way over Texas (2)
- 28: Introduction to Computer Science & Programming: Free Courses (12)
- 28: So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities? (7)
- 28: Open Culture Goes Mobile: Your Feedback Requested (3)
- 27: Stephen Fry Gets Animated about Language (1)
- 27: The Best American Science Writing 2010: Free Essays (5)
- 26: Malcolm Gladwell: Taxes Were High and Life Was Just Fine (9)
- 26: Art in “Augmented Reality” at The Getty Museum (0)
- 26: Shakespeare in the Original Voice (2)
- 25: The Milky Way in 360 Degrees (2)
- 24: Free Movies: Watch the Classics & Gems Online (3)
- 22: The Office Meets the Twilight Zone (0)
- 22: Nikon Small World Photography: The Winners (0)
- 21: OK Go & Kutiman: Live from the Guggenheim (0)
- 21: Vintage Literary T-Shirts (1)
- 21: The Dalai Lama on the Neuroscience of Compassion (0)
- 20: Vincent: Tim Burton’s Early Animated Film (2)
- 20: A Slo-Mo Look Inside North Korea (0)
- 19: Sir Ken Robinson: A Creative Education (1)
- 18: David Lynch Talks Meditation with Paul McCartney (1)
- 18: Open Video, Open Knowledge (0)
- 18: Darth Vader’s Theme in the Style of Beethoven (1)
- 17: Mark Twain #1 on Amazon (1)
- 16: The Last Farm: An Oscar Nominated Short Film (16)
- 14: Net Positive: A Conversation with Clay Shirky (0)
- 14: Mickey Mouse Discovers Conspiracy Against Glenn Beck (3)
- 14: Prague Monument Doubles as Artist’s Canvas (1)
- 14: The Best American Essays 2010: The Free Route (1)
- 13: The World is Full of Interesting Things… (1)
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- 12: Dark Side of the Lens: A Poetic Short Film by Surf Photographer Mickey Smith (10)
- 11: The Bob Dylan Demos: They Are A-Streamin’ (0)
- 11: The Ware Tetralogy: Free SciFi Download (3)
- 10: Dancing in the Rain (4)
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- 07: Freebies from The New York Times (0)
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- 05: David Sedaris Reads From New book, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (0)
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- 01: 74 Free Banned Books (for Banned Books Week) (15)
- 01: Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in the Original Akkadian and Enjoy the Sounds of Mesopotamia (68)
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- 30: The Mother of All Funk Chords (0)
- 30: Neil Young’s Film “Le Noise” Debuts Online (0)
- 30: Puppet Making with Jim Henson: A Priceless Primer from 1969 (7)
- 29: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Hear the Classic Radio Episodes (1947-1951) (1)
- 28: John Waters: The Point of Contemporary Art (6)
- 28: Ira Glass Cameo on The Simpsons (2)
- 27: David Simon, Creator of The Wire, Named 2010 MacArthur Fellow (0)
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- 27: Dick Tracy: The Original Film Series Online (0)
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- 23: John Cleese on the Origin of Creativity (12)
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- 22: The Paris Review Interviews Now Online (0)
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- 20: Waiting for Superman (to Fix America’s Broken School System) (6)
- 20: The Khan Academy Now on iTunesU (4)
- 20: Dispatches from Afghanistan (0)
- 19: The Unseen Sea: San Francisco Natural Beauty in HD (0)
- 18: The Jane Goodall Online Archive (1)
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- August 2010 (43)
- 31: Philip Roth’s Creative Surge & the Death of the Novel (0)
- 31: The Power of Music (2)
- 31: Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine (2)
- 30: Journalism for Our Century (0)
- 30: America on the Brink (5)
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- 28: 3D Light Show from Ukraine to Your Living Room (5)
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- 25: All the Great Operas in 10 Minutes (0)
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- 24: Jane Austen’s Fight Club (0)
- 24: Still Life: A Short Film about Tony Judt (0)
- 23: Christopher Walken Reads Lady Gaga (1)
- 22: Where to Find Free Textbooks (1)
- 20: 3 Year Old Recites Poem, “Litany,” by Billy Collins (4)
- 20: Leon Trotsky: Love, Death and Exile in Mexico (3)
- 19: Download George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 as Free Audio Books (13)
- 19: Bill Gates: Solving the World’s Problems Through Technology (2)
- 18: Stanford Online Writing Courses (Fall) (0)
- 18: Good Capitalist Karma: Zizek Animated (7)
- 17: Christopher Walken: Radio Host for a Day (0)
- 17: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks (According to Julian Assange) (5)
- 16: Is TED the New Harvard? (16)
- 15: Reporting the Good News (6)
- 12: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin (Listen Online This Sunday) (0)
- 12: How to Find Cheaper College Textbooks (1)
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- 11: Michael Sandel on Justice, Aristotle & Gay Marriage (4)
- 10: Visit 890 UNESCO World Heritage Sites with Free iPhone/iPad App (0)
- 10: Richard Dawkins & John Lennox Debate Science & Atheism (24)
- 09: Science Under a Microscope (0)
- 09: Christopher Hitchens on Cancer, Life and Religion (0)
- 06: Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” Animated (Part II) (0)
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- 05: Harvard Presents Free Courses with the Open Learning Initiative (23)
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- 03: Harvard Releases OpenScholar 2.0 (1)
- 03: Arthur C. Clarke Presents the Colors of Infinity (4)
- 02: Pete Seeger, 91, Performs BP Protest Song (0)
- 02: Zooming Into the World (1)
- July 2010 (43)
- 30: Penguin Turns 75 & Two Bestsellers to Give Away (0)
- 29: Elvis Costello Sings “Penny Lane” for Sir Paul McCartney at The White House (6)
- 29: Venezia (3)
- 29: The New Science of Morality (in Video) (0)
- 29: The Math of Rock Climbing (0)
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- 27: Powers of Ten: 1977 Short Film by Designers Ray & Charles Eames Gives Brilliant Tour of Universe (8)
- 27: Mike Wallace and Bennett Cerf (Founder of Random House) Talk Censorship (0)
- 26: US Government Opens Tech/Culture (4)
- 26: What is WikiLeaks? (4)
- 25: The Rolling Stones in Exile (Win a Free DVD) (1)
- 23: Daniel Schorr’s Introduction to Twitter (0)
- 22: BBC Launches World Music Archive (5)
- 22: Criterion Films 50% Off (2)
- 22: Before Gaga… (1)
- 22: The 1910 Tour de France Revisited (1)
- 21: Ingmar Bergman Visits The Dick Cavett Show, 1971 (3)
- 21: The Who by Tracks (1)
- 20: Oppenheimer: The Man Behind the Bomb (2)
- 19: 20 Great Authors (and Actors) Read Famous Literature Out Loud (4)
- 18: Your Brain on Caffeine (1)
- 16: Eudora Welty on “A Worn Path” (0)
- 15: William Faulkner Audio Archive Goes Online (2)
- 14: Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” Days After the Song Was Released (1967) (0)
- 14: Snagging Free Hitchcock and Fritz Lang Movies Online (1)
- 14: The Civil War & Reconstruction: A Free Course from Yale University (4)
- 13: Watch Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films Free Online: Stalker, The Mirror & Andrei Rublev (108)
- 12: Roman Polanski on Making Chinatown (5)
- 12: Three Minute Philosophy – Immanuel Kant (4)
- 12: A Brief, Artistic Introduction to Nikola Tesla (4)
- 10: The Monty Python Philosophy Football Match: The Greeks v. the Germans (10)
- 09: John Wayne Recites the Pledge of Allegiance (3)
- 08: New Twain Online (0)
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- 07: Jimmy Page, 13, Plays Guitar on BBC Talent Show (1957) (6)
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- 06: Michael Tilson Thomas: How Mahler Changed My Life (1)
- 05: The Crisis of Capitalism Animated (11)
- 02: Watch Franz Kafka, the Short Animated Film by Piotr Dumala (2)
- 02: The Strange Tale of “Dazed and Confused” (16)
- 01: Move Over Oil, Algae is Coming (0)
- June 2010 (47)
- 30: National Film Board of Canada Launches Free iPad App (1)
- 30: Animated Aurora Borealis from Orbit (1)
- 29: Leon Levinstein: Photography Reveals How Little We See (1)
- 29: Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus Will Change the World? (1)
- 28: 5,000 Years in 90 Seconds (1)
- 28: Document the World’s Story on 10.10.10. (4)
- 28: Early Films of New York City (1)
- 25: Hitchens Cancels Speaking Engagements (0)
- 24: Einstein for the Masses: Yale Presents a Primer on the Great Physicist’s Thinking (2)
- 23: Daniel Pink: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us (2)
- 23: We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot (1)
- 22: Bruce Lee Auditions for The Green Hornet (1964) (7)
- 22: The Meta Summer Reading List (0)
- 21: Kubrick vs. Scorsese Montage (0)
- 21: Meryl Streep Gives Graduation Speech at Barnard (2)
- 20: Chaos & Creation at Abbey Road: Paul McCartney Revisits The Beatles’ Fabled Recording Studio (1)
- 18: Soccer’s Lost Boys (0)
- 17: Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man (3)
- 17: Johnny Cash Remembered with 1,000+ Drawings (1)
- 17: Crime and Punishment: Free AudioBook and eBook (7)
- 16: Brontë Sisters Power Dolls (0)
- 16: The Search For Hidden Dimensions (3)
- 14: Cognitive Consequences: A Conversation with Nicholas Carr (16)
- 13: The Life You Can Save in 3 Minutes, by Peter Singer (3)
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- 13: Stephen Hawking on Religion: ‘Science Will Win Because it Works’ (5)
- 11: What the Big Spill Means for Sea Life (0)
- 10: Michael Sandel: The Lost Art of Democratic Debate (2)
- 10: Andrei Tarkovsky: Two Free Films & Some Polaroids Too (0)
- 10: Dan Ariely on the Irrationality of Bonuses (0)
- 09: Bearish on the Humanities (7)
- 08: Smile or Die: The Perils of Positive Psychology (3)
- 08: Plato’s Cave Allegory Brought to Life with Claymation (12)
- 07: William S. Burroughs Shoots Shakespeare (3)
- 06: For Neda: The New HBO Documentary Now Online (2)
- 05: John Wooden Defines True Success (1)
- 03: The Secret Powers of Time (8)
- 03: Birds in the Oil (1)
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- 02: Dangerous Knowledge (4)
- 02: Dennis Hopper Reads Rudyard Kipling on Johnny Cash Show (3)
- 01: The Beatles Complete on Ukulele (0)
- 01: Einztein (0)
- 01: Bob Woodward: How Investigative Journalism Gets Done (0)
- May 2010 (46)
- 31: Crisis & Dislocation: A Universal Story (1)
- 29: Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider: A Look Back (0)
- 28: Putting the Web Inside the Printed Book (3)
- 28: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: 35 Days From Space (1)
- 27: Space Shuttle Discovery: From Prep to Launch in Three Minutes (2)
- 27: Martin Gardner: A Video Remembrance (0)
- 27: Letters with Literary Character (0)
- 26: Clouds, Stars and Meteors Over the Cotopaxi Volcano (0)
- 26: The Greek Crisis Explained (1)
- 25: Economic Crisis and Globalization (2)
- 25: Writing the U.S. Constitution (in Tweets) (0)
- 25: Can Monkeys Talk? (0)
- 24: Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution! (1)
- 24: Mark Twain Finally to Publish Autobiography (1)
- 23: James Joyce Encoded in Venter’s Artificial Life (2)
- 21: David Simon Takes New York Down a Peg (0)
- 20: Bill Gates Holds Office Hours; Talks about Giving Back (3)
- 20: HuffPo on Literary One-Hit Wonders (1)
- 19: Spring: A Short Film Based on Hemingway’s Memoir (1)
- 19: Insults Shakespeare Style (3)
- 19: Beyond Silicon Valley: Online Education in Emerging Markets (4)
- 18: The New York Times Starts New Philosophy Blog (5)
- 18: Iron Man: The Science in Science Fiction (2)
- 17: David Lynch Debuts Lady Blue Shanghai (3)
- 17: Viktor Frankl on Our Search for Meaning (0)
- 16: Stanford Online Writing Courses (Summer) (0)
- 14: Tom Waits Reads Charles Bukowski (7)
- 13: Lawrence of Arabia Remembered with Rare Footage (1)
- 13: Ask Philosophers Goes Mobile (0)
- 12: The College Dorm Window Show (3)
- 12: Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man, A Free Documentary on the Argentine Writer (4)
- 11: Piano Stairs (5)
- 11: The Very End of Time (1)
- 10: Lena Horne on “What’s My Line” (1958) (0)
- 10: Lena Horne Sings Stormy Weather (1943) (0)
- 10: The Walker Library of Human Imagination (2)
- 08: Conan O’Brien @ Google (3)
- 06: Listen to Brave New World for Free: Dramatized Version Read by Aldous Huxley (22)
- 06: Woody Allen Talks Life with Priest (0)
- 06: William Carlos Williams Reads His Poetry (1954) (1)
- 05: Building The Colosseum: The Icon of Rome (0)
- 05: Open Meets New Meets Old Publishing (0)
- 04: Bill Murray Reads Poetry at a Construction Site: Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins & More (4)
- 03: Alice In Openland (0)
- 02: The Best of Ken Loach on YouTube (3)
- 01: Jean-Luc Godard Meets Woody Allen (2)
- April 2010 (40)
- 30: Apollo 11 Launch in Very Slow Motion (0)
- 29: Vermeer with a BiC (2)
- 29: Truman Capote Reads from Breakfast at Tiffany’s in NYC (1963) (1)
- 26: Ernest Hemingway Reads “In Harry’s Bar in Venice” (2)
- 26: Oscar Wilde in His Own Words (1)
- 26: Gravity Makes Music (0)
- 26: James Dean and Ronald Reagan Clash in Newly Discovered Video (5)
- 24: The Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Discovery (0)
- 23: Life: Creeper Plants Climb Trees (4)
- 23: Hitler Reacts to Takedown of Hitler Parodies (2)
- 22: Flight of the Bumblebee … On an iPad (0)
- 21: Michael Pollan on Sustainable Food (1)
- 21: Artists Under the Influence (3)
- 21: An Epic Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railroad (1)
- 20: David Remnick on Obama (0)
- 20: City Poems: A New Literary iPhone App (0)
- 19: Nokta . (4)
- 19: What Leonardo da Vinci Really Looked Like (7)
- 18: Why Volcanic Ash Wreaks Havoc on Airplane Engines (1)
- 17: How to Learn Something for Nothing (1)
- 16: The Best of YouTube (According to Open Culture) (1)
- 15: Tour New York City in 3D with Google Earth (1)
- 14: Marshall McLuhan: The World is a Global Village (7)
- 14: Photos That Changed the World (1)
- 13: Johnny Depp Reads Letters from Hunter S. Thompson (4)
- 13: Samuel Beckett Speaks (2)
- 12: The Joy of Math (3)
- 12: Allen Ginsberg on a Tugboat Ride (1969) (0)
- 11: A Model for Extraterrestrial Life? (0)
- 10: David Lynch Lists His Favorite Movies & Filmmakers in 59 Seconds (0)
- 08: Life in 2020 (2)
- 08: Record Making With Duke Ellington (1937) (2)
- 07: Love on the Metro: Watch J’Attendrai Le Suivant (I’ll Wait for the Next One) (14)
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- 06: Libel Reform: A Conversation with Simon Singh (3)
- 05: William Faulkner Reads from As I Lay Dying (13)
- 05: The Future of the Textbook: A Quick Glimpse (0)
- 05: Philosophy on Late Night TV (0)
- 04: The iPad eBook Reader: Some First Reactions (40)
- 01: Woody Allen on Moby Dick, Cole Porter & Artistic Theft (0)
- March 2010 (56)
- 31: “April is the Cruellest Month…” (0)
- 31: Google Creating Grants to Study Digital Books (2)
- 31: Kurt Vonnegut Reads from Slaughterhouse-Five (2)
- 30: Early Hollywood Censored (0)
- 30: Free Stanford Course Explains Particle Physics & the Large Hadron Collider (2)
- 30: Tony Judt on our Uncertain Future (2)
- 29: A Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel (5)
- 29: Aldous Huxley Warns Against Dictatorship in America (2)
- 28: Papiroflexia (0)
- 27: Marlon Brando Opens Up to Tennessee Williams (1)
- 26: Orson Welles Reads Moby Dick (1)
- 25: YouTube EDU Turns One Today (1)
- 24: Sam Harris: Science Can Answer Moral Questions (3)
- 24: Tim O’Reilly: The University as an Open iPhone Platform (1)
- 24: The Wilhelm Scream is Back (1)
- 23: Harvard Comes to iTunes U (0)
- 23: The Essential Kurosawa (0)
- 23: Our Thirsty World: A Free National Geographic Download (9)
- 22: For a Tiny Instant, Physicists Broke a Law of Nature (0)
- 21: Nature by Numbers: Short Film Captures the Geometrical & Mathematical Formulas That Reveal Themselves in Nature (5)
- 21: Amazon Releases Kindle App for the iPad & Mac OS X (1)
- 20: Open Video Coming to Wikipedia (0)
- 18: Cannes for Free! (4)
- 18: Mark Twain Captured on Film by Thomas Edison in 1909. It’s the Only Known Footage of the Author. (14)
- 18: New Magazine & Video Archives Coming Online (1)
- 17: The End of Attribution? (7)
- 16: The Uniqueness of Humans (4)
- 16: The End of Publishing. Or Is It? (3)
- 15: Einstein in 60 Seconds (or 40 Hours) (0)
- 15: Tony Judt, Leading Public Intellectual, Confronts ALS (1)
- 14: Julius Caesar Gets Clipped 2054 Years Ago Today (1)
- 14: The Greatest Film Scenes Ever Shot (0)
- 13: Iceland! (0)
- 13: Culture Tweets of the Week – March 13 (0)
- 12: A Day in the Life of New York City (5)
- 11: Christopher Hitchens Revises the Ten Commandments (10)
- 11: Twilight Zone Radio: Download Free Episodes (15)
- 10: Logorama: The Oscar Winning Animated Short Now Online (3)
- 09: Avant-Garde Media: The UbuWeb Collection (2)
- 09: Making the Case Against Laptops … With Liquid Nitrogen (8)
- 09: Getting Smart During Your Daily Commute (5)
- 09: GoodReads (1)
- 08: Great Theatre for Free (0)
- 08: Lawrence Lessig: What Conservatives Can Teach Us About Free Culture (1)
- 08: The Milky Way in Time-Lapse Video (0)
- 06: Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1903 Film Adaptation (4)
- 05: Best Free Movies Online (2)
- 05: Catch TEDxNYED Live on Saturday (2)
- 04: Where Is Technology Taking Us? (4)
- 03: Opera in the Fruit & Veggie Market (8)
- 03: Chilean Earthquake Waves in Animation (2)
- 02: Stars Orbiting Black Holes (1)
- 02: Join the Facebook Committee to Support Liao Yiwu (1)
- 02: John Battelle Doesn’t Like the iPad Because… (1)
- 01: World War II Relived through Sand Painting (0)
- 01: Chilean Quake Shortens the Day (1)
- February 2010 (52)
- 28: Henry Miller on New York (0)
- 25: Handy Octopus Opens Bottles (0)
- 25: Ten Rules for Writing Fiction (0)
- 25: Lawrence Lessig Speech Streamed Live Today (0)
- 24: Blowin’ in the Wind (0)
- 24: Give Librivox a Hand (0)
- 24: The Deepest Part of the Ocean – To Scale! (0)
- 23: Bernstein Breaks Down Beethoven (2)
- 23: Kindle Experiment Falls Flat at Princeton (6)
- 23: Jonathan Safran Foer on Eating (0)
- 22: MIT LED Helicopters: The Early Smart Pixels (2)
- 22: The Remixable Textbook (4)
- 22: Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Spring Lineup (0)
- 22: Loudon Wainwright III Sings “The Krugman Blues” (1)
- 21: When the Dalai Lama Meets the Neuroscientists (1)
- 21: Classical Bits (1)
- 20: Tweets of the Week – February 20 (0)
- 19: Google Lit Trips (2)
- 18: The Stanford Mini Med School: Visit the Web Site (0)
- 18: Bill Gates on Energy: Innovating to Zero! (4)
- 18: Werner Herzog Reads Curious George (2)
- 18: The Science/Liberty Nexus (0)
- 17: Deep Thinking on the Web (6)
- 17: Carl Sandburg on “What’s My Line?” (1)
- 15: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater Animated (1)
- 15: Validation, or The Magic of Free Parking (2)
- 14: Django at 100 (0)
- 14: Notre Dame Marching Band Performs “This Too Shall Pass” (2)
- 13: Tweets of the Week (2/13) (0)
- 12: Picasso Painting on Glass (1)
- 12: Hyperspace to Berlin, Watch Metropolis Live (0)
- 11: Restored ‘Metropolis’ to Stream Live on Friday (0)
- 11: A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything (4)
- 10: 10,000 Galaxies in 3D (5)
- 10: Why You Share (2)
- 10: Bob Dylan at the White House (0)
- 09: Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness (1)
- 08: Time Travel with Google Earth (2)
- 08: What Are You Staring At? (0)
- 07: F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads Shakespeare (1)
- 07: British Library to Offer 65,000 Free eBooks (37)
- 07: The Physics of a Quarterback’s Pass (2)
- 05: Learning Languages Online with The New York Times (3)
- 05: The Beautiful Math of Coral & Crochet (1)
- 04: What Teachers Make (2)
- 03: An Open Invitation: Suggest & Contribute (1)
- 03: Top 10 Reasons Why iPad Marks Kindle’s Death (22)
- 02: Virginia Woolf: Her Voice Recaptured (0)
- 02: 10 Reasons iPad Will Not Kill Kindle (7)
- 01: Bertrand Russell on the Existence of God & the Afterlife (1959) (7)
- 01: Holden Caulfield in NYC: An Interactive Map (0)
- 01: PIRACY: A Free eBook (Today Only) (6)
- January 2010 (50)
- 31: A Young Glenn Gould Plays Bach (11)
- 31: Einstein is Money (1)
- 30: The Open v. Closed Culture Smackdown (17)
- 28: The iPad and Information’s Third Age (9)
- 28: J.D. Salinger Dies at 91 (1)
- 27: Hayek vs. Keynes Rap (3)
- 27: The 2:30 A.M. Nobel Prize Call (0)
- 27: Howard Zinn Dies at 87 (2)
- 27: First Glimpse of Apple’s New eReader (1)
- 26: A History of the World in 100 Objects (5)
- 26: The History of the Seemingly Impossible Chinese Typewriter (1)
- 25: Lessig on Political Corruption in America (0)
- 24: Richard Dawkins on the Awe of Life & Science (3)
- 24: Introduction to New Testament History and Literature: A Free Yale Course (3)
- 22: Test Your Awareness (4)
- 21: Jared Diamond Explains Haiti’s Enduring Poverty (0)
- 20: The Stanford Mini Med School: A Free Course Now Online (31)
- 20: Dewey Music: Putting a Friendly Face on Public Domain Music (0)
- 19: Jaron Lanier Makes “Open Culture” a Buzzword (2)
- 19: Understanding Financial Markets (5)
- 18: Peter Singer on Greed & Wall Street Excesses (2)
- 18: Voltaire & the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 (0)
- 18: I Have a Dream (1)
- 18: Rod Serling: Where Do Ideas Come From? (1972) (2)
- 17: The Beatles as Teens (1957) (3)
- 15: What Would MLK Say About the USA Today? (0)
- 14: B- Classic Movies Now Online (0)
- 13: Vladimir Horowitz Plays Mozart Back in the USSR (3)
- 13: Two Gentlemen of Lebowski (0)
- 13: The Neurons That Shaped Civilization (2)
- 12: Stanford Releases New iPhone App Development Course (0)
- 12: A.C. Grayling on “Teaching the Controversy” (6)
- 11: Is Anything Real? (3)
- 11: How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? (4)
- 11: Experiments in Publishing: Kindle Rush Results (5)
- 09: Modern Physics: A Free 6-Course Introduction by Stanford’s Leonard Susskind (5)
- 07: The Kurosawa Digital Archive (3)
- 07: The Best of Books, 2009-2010 (2)
- 07: Yellow Sticky Notes (2)
- 06: How to Live to Be 100 and Beyond: 9 Diet & Lifestyle Tips (1)
- 05: Faith and Globalization: Tony Blair Teaches at Yale (5)
- 05: Hot Action: Comet Gets Eaten by the Sun (1)
- 05: Learn Anything Online for Free: A Primer (0)
- 04: Michael Sandel: Our Bodies in the Marketplace (3)
- 04: Underwater Volcanic Eruption Witnessed for the First Time (1)
- 03: Earthrise in HD (3)
- 03: Free Courses Now Easier to Find (2)
- 02: John Irving: The Road Ahead for Aspiring Novelists (0)
- 01: Can You Train the Aging Brain? (0)
- 01: Learn a New Language in the New Year (0)
- December 2009 (47)
- 31: Open Culture Makes You Say, “Holy Cow This is So Cool” (9)
- 29: The Best of Open Culture 2009 (1)
- 29: Quentin Tarantino Lists His Favorite Films Since 1992 (6)
- 27: Free eBooks for Your PC, iPhone, Kindle & Beyond (4)
- 27: Disney Kindle Commando Sunday is Here! (4)
- 26: Twenty-Five Essential Films of the 2000s (0)
- 26: Early David Lynch Short Films (0)
- 25: 2009: The Year in Pictures (0)
- 24: One of the Biggest Risks is Being Too Cautious… (1)
- 23: Talking American History with Joseph Ellis (0)
- 22: Visages d’Art (2)
- 22: Making Books Free: David Pogue’s Experiment (0)
- 22: The Bohr-Einstein Debates, Reenacted With Dog Puppets (2)
- 21: Experiments in Publishing (Take 1) (7)
- 18: Our Known Universe in Six Minutes (4)
- 18: Ravel’s Bolero (0)
- 17: Tarantino’s Tops of ’09 (0)
- 17: In The Nick of Time: Holiday Book Sampler! (0)
- 17: Disruptive Technology: Student Brings Typewriter to Class (2)
- 17: Sapolsky Breaks Down Depression (33)
- 15: The War of the Worlds: Orson Welles’ 1938 Radio Drama That Petrified a Nation (3)
- 14: Orhan Pamuk Reads Vladimir Nabokov (0)
- 14: Classic French Films Online (for the UK) (4)
- 14: Paul Samuelson: How I Became an Economist (2)
- 13: Physics in the Tiger Woods Scandal (0)
- 11: Free Download of A Confederacy of Dunces (7)
- 11: Why Open Video? (0)
- 10: Kindle Competitor Gets Off to a Shaky Start (0)
- 10: Stream Neil Young’s New Album Online (0)
- 10: Charles Bukowski “Bluebird” (2)
- 09: Great Movie Directors During Wartime: Hitchcock, Capra, Huston & Their WWII Films (1)
- 08: Hear John Lennon’s 3-Hour Interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, 1970 (2)
- 08: New David Foster Wallace in The New Yorker (0)
- 08: Herta Müller’s Nobel Lecture: Text Here (0)
- 07: Would You Pay $3.99 for a Short Story? (1)
- 07: The World’s Smallest Writing Ever. Going Subatomic at Stanford. (0)
- 06: Learning, Memory and the Brain: A Primer (0)
- 05: Google to Provide Virtual Tours of 19 World Heritage Sites (2)
- 04: Visit Pompeii (also Stonehenge & Versailles) with Google Street View (0)
- 04: U. Michigan iPhone Orchestra (0)
- 03: Magnetic Fields Made Visible (2)
- 03: Behavioral Economics and Underwater Mortgages (2)
- 02: 10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners (14)
- 02: Elvis Mitchell Talks “Bad Lieutenant” with Werner Herzog (0)
- 01: The Best of TED: A Stroke of Insight? (2)
- 01: When the Day Breaks (0)
- 01: The Velvet Revolution Revisited: Havel at Columbia (0)
- November 2009 (40)
- 30: Warhol: The Bellwether of the Art Market (0)
- 30: Royal Society Launches Web Site Celebrating 350 Years of Science (0)
- 29: Making Money By Giving Your Movie Away (But How Much?) (0)
- 28: Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Winter Lineup (2)
- 27: Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” Take 1 (0)
- 26: T.S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land (3)
- 25: Three Free Luis Buñuel Films (0)
- 25: Your Favorite TED Talk Ever? (19)
- 24: Get $3 in MP3s from Amazon.com (0)
- 23: The American Novel Since 1945: A Free Online Course from Yale University (1)
- 23: The Big NASA Image Archive (1)
- 22: Kindle the Answer? For Author J.A. Konrath It Is (3)
- 21: 100 Great, Free Movies Online (11)
- 20: Jimi Hendrix Breaks Out in America, Covers Bob Dylan (0)
- 19: Free, Rare, Early Shakespeare Digital Archive (1)
- 19: I Met the Walrus: An Animated Film Revisiting a Teenager’s 1969 Interview with John Lennon (1)
- 18: Remix Manifesto: A True Movie for the Digital Age (0)
- 18: Einstein’s Relativity: An Animated New Yorker Cartoon (0)
- 17: Interviews with Schoenberg and Bartók (0)
- 17: Google Puts Supreme Court Opinions Online (2)
- 16: The Crowdsourced Musical Collaboration (0)
- 16: Nabokov’s Last (0)
- 14: Tchaikovsky’s Voice Captured on an Edison Cylinder (1890) (2)
- 12: Can Cultural Evolution Stave Off Global Collapse? (1)
- 12: A New TV Guide for Internet Television (1)
- 11: Stephen Hawking/Carl Sagan Mashup Released as Single (2)
- 11: Free Movies Online: Now Expanded with Many Classics (0)
- 10: The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Moving Images (0)
- 09: World War I Remembered in Second Life (0)
- 09: Lawrence Lessig Speaks Once Again About Copyright and Creativity (0)
- 09: Philosophers Don’t Die Pretty (0)
- 09: Jonathan Lethem on Art & The Digital Future (1)
- 08: A Smart Guide to Free Magazines (0)
- 08: SNL Shames Goldman Sachs (4)
- 06: Paul McCartney on the Cheap (0)
- 05: Carl Sagan’s Last Interview (0)
- 04: Leading Like the Great Conductors (0)
- 04: Asteroids: Deadly Impact (0)
- 03: “The Wire” @ Harvard (6)
- 03: Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss Remembered (1)
- October 2009 (42)
- 31: Film Version of Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire Now Online (4)
- 30: Stephen Colbert on Particle Physics (4)
- 28: Sita Sings the Blues Now on YouTube (6)
- 28: Free Philip Glass Album (Act Today) (14)
- 27: This American Life Demystifies the American Healthcare System (1)
- 27: Galapagos Rap: 3.5* ’til infinity… (0)
- 26: Richard Dawkins v. Bill O’Reilly: Round 2 (10)
- 25: Yale Adds New Batch of Free Open Courses (4)
- 25: Barnes & Noble’s Answer to the Kindle (2)
- 23: Ira Glass on the Art of Story Telling (2)
- 23: Wallace Stevens Reads His Own Poetry (1)
- 22: Reader Podcast Picks (2)
- 21: 50 Intelligent Video Sites (10)
- 21: Big Canadian Film Archive Online (0)
- 20: U2 to Webcast Sunday’s Rose Bowl Concert (1)
- 19: Calculus Lifesaver: A Free Online Course (2)
- 18: The Bayeux Tapestry Animated (7)
- 15: Beauty Through a Microscope (0)
- 15: A Vision of Students Today (0)
- 14: E-Books in OverDrive (0)
- 14: Rare Interview with Alfred Hitchcock Now Online (1)
- 13: Anne Frank’s Diary: From Reject Pile to Bestseller (1)
- 12: Arts & Letters Daily (3)
- 12: Plagiarism Software Discovers New Shakespeare Play (2)
- 11: 50 Years of Space Exploration in One Image (0)
- 11: John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” Animated (2)
- 10: Free Beethoven No. 9 Courtesy of Dudamel (0)
- 09: John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the Dick Cavett Show (2)
- 08: Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” Now on YouTube (0)
- 08: James Ellroy on Re-Writing History (2)
- 08: Who is Herta Muller? (0)
- 07: Richard Dawkins on “The Greatest Show on Earth” (2)
- 07: Free Film Noir at Archive.org (0)
- 07: The Case for God: The First Chapter (3)
- 06: Michael Sandel on Justice: Lecture III (3)
- 06: PBS and NPR Launch the Forum Network, Offering Free Online Lectures (4)
- 05: The 10 Best Twilight Zone Episodes (2)
- 04: Hidden America Exposed (0)
- 04: Will Books Be Napsterized? (8)
- 02: Anne Frank: The Only Existing Video Now Online (9)
- 02: Fora.TV Goes Mobile (0)
- 01: YouTube Edu Releases Version 2.0, Goes International (0)
- September 2009 (44)
- 30: Introduction to Ancient Greece: A Free Online Course from Yale (3)
- 30: The Open Culture Archive (0)
- 29: Should You Give to Harvard? (0)
- 29: The Book That Changed Your Life (0)
- 29: Stanford Students Set Record with Model Plane (0)
- 29: When The Wall Comes Tumbling Down: History on YouTube (0)
- 29: Justice: Putting a Price Tag on Life & How to Measure Pleasure (2)
- 28: Princeton Students Pan the Kindle DX (0)
- 27: Nabokov Makes Editorial Improvements to Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (0)
- 27: Filmmaker Roman Polanski Arrested After 31Years (0)
- 25: Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking Remixed (3)
- 25: Michael Sandel’s Free Course on Justice, the Most Popular Course at Harvard, Is Now Online (6)
- 25: Math & Science Tutoring on YouTube (7)
- 24: Armstrong’s Case for God (0)
- 23: Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials (1)
- 23: Sublime Photos of our Solar System (0)
- 22: Bob Dylan Christmas Preview (2)
- 22: The Old Man & The Sea Animated (11)
- 20: The Beatles Remastered: An Inside Look (0)
- 18: US Justice Department Looks to Restructure Google Books Settlement (0)
- 18: The Google Book Downloader (0)
- 17: The End of Wall Street?: Michael Lewis (0)
- 17: Uranium Wars: A Free Audio Chapter (1)
- 17: Philosophy Still Matters (3)
- 16: Something for Mary (1)
- 16: Universities Launch “Futurity” to Bring Science to the Web (0)
- 15: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats (2)
- 15: Watch Birds Sitting on Electrical Wires Become Sheet Music & Make a Melody (2)
- 14: Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum (2)
- 14: Google Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars? (0)
- 13: Beethoven’s 5th: The Animated Score (1)
- 11: How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant. (41)
- 11: James Watson on Jesus as Scientist (6)
- 10: The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection (0)
- 09: Get Smart with Your iPhone (5)
- 09: Be a 2010 TED Fellow! (0)
- 08: Ansel Adams Talks (1)
- 08: The Obama School Nontroversy (3)
- 07: Every TED Talk Under the Sun (2)
- 07: The Beatles: Rock Band Intro (1)
- 06: Blackbird (3)
- 03: Underwater Astonishments (0)
- 02: Touring Mars with Google Earth (0)
- 01: “September 1, 1939” by W.H. Auden (0)
- August 2009 (42)
- 31: The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It (2)
- 31: Socrates Flubs His Academic Interview (2)
- 30: Watch Malcolm X Debate at Oxford, Quoting Lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1964) (6)
- 29: Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach at Ted Kennedy’s Funeral (0)
- 27: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (16)
- 27: Dominick Dunne Looks at the Dark Side (0)
- 26: A Bob Dylan Christmas (1)
- 26: Open Books from Google (0)
- 25: The Beatles Talk Before the Fall (0)
- 25: Will Sony Beat Amazon Where It Counts? (4)
- 25: Google Knol Prediction Revisited (2)
- 24: We Are as Gods (0)
- 24: Is OpenCourseWare Hitting the Mainstream? (0)
- 24: David Sedaris Guest DJ’s (0)
- 22: Helen Keller Captured on Video (2)
- 21: Good “Reads” On Audible (with Freebie Possibilities) (2)
- 20: Argument to Beethoven’s 5th (2)
- 20: Freud in One Yale Hour (1)
- 20: How to Get an Author to Sign Your Kindle (0)
- 18: The Future of Content Delivery (2)
- 17: Reading Free Books on the Kindle (6)
- 17: Woodstock Revisited in Three Minutes (2)
- 16: Making the Web Work for Science (0)
- 14: Rod Blagojevich Sings Elvis with Fabio (0)
- 13: Nobel Prize Winner Reads From His New Novel (0)
- 13: In Memory of Les Paul (2)
- 12: Introducing “Book Oven” (2)
- 11: Top Ten Reasons Why the Kindle Won’t Be an iPod for Books (24)
- 11: Will Amazon (or Apple) Cut Publishers Out of the Loop? (0)
- 10: Science Catches the Eye of the Police (2)
- 09: English and its Evolution (2)
- 09: Hendrix Plays the National Anthem (3)
- 06: Plastics Out, Statistics In (0)
- 06: John Hughes: Backdrop for an Adolescence (0)
- 06: Caravaggio and Rembrandt Side by Side (0)
- 05: Junot Díaz Reads From “Drown” (0)
- 05: Martin Sheen’s Senior Moment (0)
- 04: Chris Anderson @ Google (1)
- 04: New Pynchon Book Out Today: Watch the Trailer (1)
- 03: Math Magic (0)
- 02: Big Ideas (0)
- 01: Oliver Sacks on the iPod (0)
- July 2009 (27)
- 30: Another Godfather “What If” (1)
- 30: The New Yorker Knocks The Kindle (4)
- 29: Dylan & Cash Together (0)
- 28: Solving Stonehenge? (4)
- 27: Ira Glass, Host of This American Life, Explains Why Creative Excellence Takes Time (3)
- 26: Yale Open Courses Now on iTunesU (1)
- 23: Ideas to Die For (4)
- 22: Never Mind Amazon, Get Your Free Orwell Here (1)
- 21: The Ancient History Learning Guide (4)
- 20: David Lynch Favorite Movies and FilmMakers (1)
- 19: The Free Music Archive (3)
- 16: Bill Gates Puts Richard Feynman Lectures Online (12)
- 15: The Open Culture iPhone App (27)
- 15: The Beatles Look Back (1)
- 14: Download The Crucible by Arthur Miller (26)
- 13: Philosophy for Beginners: A Free Course from Oxford University (4)
- 12: The Future of Content (0)
- 12: Music Gets Back at the Man (1)
- 09: Update: How to Get “Free” Anywhere (4)
- 09: Now Download Free Audiobook of Chris Anderson’s “Free” (3)
- 08: Free e-Book of Chris Anderson’s “Free” (4)
- 07: View from the Bookstore Shelf (3)
- 06: McNamara & The Fog of War (2)
- 05: Dominic West (aka Jimmy McNulty) Reads Jane Austen (0)
- 03: Jefferson, Adams and the Declaration of Independence (1)
- 02: Al Franken Effortlessly Draws the Map of America (0)
- 01: 100 Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists (0)
- June 2009 (42)
- 30: Oliver Sacks Talks Music with Jon Stewart (0)
- 30: Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella (0)
- 28: Cosmology Online (3)
- 27: The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time (0)
- 27: Streaming Movies Online: The Future is Almost Now (2)
- 26: Philip Roth on Aging (1)
- 24: Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Streets of Tehran (2)
- 24: A Master List of Free Language Learning Resources (2)
- 21: Hodgman (and Obama) on Geeks, Jocks & Nerds (0)
- 20: The Back Story in Iran (0)
- 19: James Joyce Reading from Finnegans Wake (4)
- 19: Curb Your Enthusiasm With Hair (1)
- 18: Bike Tricks Courtesy of Thomas Edison (0)
- 17: The American Founders and Their World (0)
- 17: Hard Words in The New York Times (0)
- 17: How to Build Your Online Author Fan Base (in One Minute!) (3)
- 16: Angels & Demons: The Science Revealed (1)
- 16: Stephen Colbert Reads Joyce’s Ulysses (0)
- 15: Live-Tweeting The Revolution (0)
- 14: Sedaris Reads “Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle” (0)
- 14: Watch “Home” Today (1)
- 13: Blogging the Iranian Election & Aftermath (2)
- 11: Our Earth Captured in Wide Angle (1)
- 11: Art on the iPhone (1)
- 11: 6 Lessons One Campus Learned About E-Textbooks (2)
- 10: Exploring the Spiritual Side of Tibet (0)
- 10: Colbert Goes to Iraq (0)
- 09: A New Politics of the Common Good (0)
- 09: Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature (2)
- 09: Pico Iyer on “The Joy of Less” (0)
- 08: Writing in the Digital Age: It’s All About the Platform (4)
- 08: Apple Will Bring a Million Books to the iPhone (1)
- 08: Online Educational Resources in Africa (0)
- 07: Ian McKellen Stars in King Lear (1)
- 07: The Dalai Lama’s Introduction to Buddhism (6)
- 05: Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites (37)
- 04: Harvard Studies Twitter (4)
- 04: David Carradine: Rewind the Videotape (0)
- 03: Is Gay the New Black? (0)
- 01: TED To China: An Inside View (2)
- 01: Is The College Bubble Next? (4)
- 01: How to Read The Wall Street Journal for Free (1)
- May 2009 (44)
- 31: John Hodgman@Google (0)
- 28: Where Do You Go for Intelligent Video? (30)
- 28: Christopher Hitchens Gets Waterboarded (0)
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- 26: Listen to 1800 Free Audio Books on Your iPhone (5)
- 26: Stanford and iTunes Offer 30 Free Songs (0)
- 26: Technology Is Amazing, Nobody Is Happy… (0)
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- 24: 80+ Videos for Tech & Media Literacy (0)
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- 18: Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Summer Lineup (2)
- 17: Ecological Intelligence (0)
- 15: Timothy Leary’s Wild Ride and the Folsom Prison Interview (2)
- 14: Getting Hired and Fired by The New Yorker, As Told by Tweets (0)
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- 13: Remembrance of German Things Past (0)
- 12: Malcolm Gladwell on the Beatles – Prodigies or Not? (0)
- 12: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (0)
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- 08: The Fate of Nabokov’s Final, Unpublished Work (0)
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- 04: The Kindle to Save the Elderly .. and the Newspaper Industry (4)
- 03: 13,500 Sing “Hey Jude” in Trafalgar Square (6)
- 02: Bach on Ukulele (0)
- 02: Free PDF Download of The Alchemyst (8)
- 01: Ballard Rediscovered (0)
- April 2009 (43)
- 30: The Invention of Self: One Woman, Eight Characters (0)
- 29: The Big List of OpenCourseWare Resources (0)
- 29: Pete Seeger on “Turn! Turn! Turn!” (1)
- 29: Who Says Music Doesn’t Make a Difference? (2)
- 29: Ending the University as We Know It (7)
- 27: The Australian Screen Archive (1)
- 27: How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write (10)
- 26: When Galaxies Collide (1)
- 24: Open Culture on Facebook (0)
- 23: Bill Moyers with The Wire’s David Simon (1)
- 22: Adult Content. For Mature Thinkers Only (1)
- 22: Jon Stewart on the Relevance of Cultural Magazines (0)
- 22: World Digital Library (0)
- 21: Web 2.0 to Book Deal in 3 Minutes (5)
- 20: Mark Twain’s New Book (1)
- 20: Paul McCartney Live @ Coachella (1)
- 19: Watch Super Size Me and Other Feature Films on YouTube (3)
- 19: J.G.Ballard on Sensation (1)
- 19: Photo Animation Goodness (4)
- 19: Talent = 10,000 Hours + Luck (2)
- 16: John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things (1961) (1)
- 16: David Sedaris Reads “Of Mice and Men” (0)
- 14: How Do You Use Open Courses? (30)
- 13: Learning Physics Through Free Courses (42)
- 13: Open Culture Now at OpenCulture.com … and a Small Favor to Ask (1)
- 11: Crime Fiction: Download and Listen (1)
- 11: Good Novels For Hard Times (0)
- 11: ArtBabble: The New Destination for Art Videos (1)
- 11: Twitter in the University Classroom (0)
- 08: World’s Most Interesting Bookstores (0)
- 08: Twitter in the University Classroom (0)
- 08: The Internet’s Librarian (1)
- 08: The Evolution of Religions: A Talk by Jared Diamond (1)
- 08: YouTube Launches Library of Congress Channel (and Thomas Edison’s Boxing Cat) (0)
- 08: The Talking Heads at CBGB’s (and a Virtual Tour of the Joint) (0)
- 08: More New Dylan (0)
- 08: Women in Film (0)
- 05: Stanford Teaches You to Develop iPhone Apps (Free) (1)
- 05: The Original Spider-Man TV Series Now Online (0)
- 05: The Rothko Panoramic Tour: A New Way to See Art (3)
- 05: What Did Shakespeare Really Look Like? (4)
- 05: Classic Oscar Moments (0)
- 01: The Gates of Hell (4)
- March 2009 (58)
- 31: The Gates of Hell (1)
- 31: Mike Wallace Interviews Ayn Rand (1959) (7)
- 31: A Closer Look at YouTube EDU (3)
- 30: New Mega Author Web Site Now Online (0)
- 30: Download New Bob Dylan (Free for the Next 24 Hours) (1)
- 29: John Hope Franklin on Obama (0)
- 29: Art Inspired Poetry (0)
- 28: Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport (0)
- 27: Video from The Aspen Environment Forum (4)
- 27: The Hubble Space Telescope’s Greatest Images (0)
- 27: Jupiter Slips Behind the Sun (3)
- 27: Welcome New York Times Readers (1)
- 26: Introducing YouTube EDU! (13)
- 26: Podcast Lectures: Better Than the Real Deal? (2)
- 25: Yale Courses on YouTube (4)
- 25: A Song for Paul Krugman (1)
- 24: The Mobile Phone Orchestra (Does It Beat the Big Piece of Broccoli?) (0)
- 24: Woody Allen’s Existential Lobster Bit (0)
- 23: The Keynesian Moment (1)
- 23: Funny, Fascinating, Educational Lecture on Primate Sexuality (0)
- 22: Is Anybody Listening? (0)
- 22: Twitter in Plain English (3)
- 20: Extreme Sheepherding (0)
- 19: Is GWB The Worst President Of The Past 50 Years? (1)
- 19: Amy Tan: The Sources of Creativity (1)
- 19: Undersea Volcano Erupts (1)
- 18: Stevie Wonder Performs “Sketches of a Life” (0)
- 18: What Web 3.0 Might Look Like (0)
- 18: Sean Penn Reads Bob Dylan’s Memoir (0)
- 17: Stephen Colbert’s History Lesson: Bring Angry Mob to AIG (0)
- 17: Ancient Rome in 3D on Google Earth (6)
- 17: Orson Welles’ Final Moments (2)
- 15: Seth Godin’s Tribes: Download the Free Audio Book (5)
- 15: Clay Shirky on the Demise of the Newspaper (0)
- 15: Stephen Colbert on Ayn Rand Thinking (3)
- 15: Cheap Culture on Amazon (1)
- 13: Jon Stewart v. CNBC, or The Failure of the Financial Media (5)
- 13: Sita Sings the Blues (0)
- 12: No Title; Just Watch (2)
- 12: Leonard Cohen, Live From The Beacon Theatre (2)
- 10: Colonial and Revolutionary America: A Free Course (4)
- 10: The Tolstoy Bailout, Or Why The Humanities Matter (3)
- 09: Ricky Gervais on American Optimism (4)
- 09: The New Open Source Textbook (3)
- 08: Learn Acoustic Guitar with YouTube (1)
- 06: The Books We Say We’ve Read (3)
- 05: New Bob Dylan Album Coming (1)
- 05: The Life You Can Save (1)
- 05: David Foster Wallace’s Unfinished Work (0)
- 04: Kindle on iPhone (1)
- 03: 10 Classic Films from the Internet Archive (2)
- 03: Hitchcock Round II (1)
- 03: Pulitzer Prize Winner Picks Essential US History Books (3)
- 02: What We Can Learn from Past Presidents (0)
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- 02: This American Life: The Financial Crisis in 59 Minutes (2)
- 02: Five Classic Alfred Hitchcock Films (6)
- 01: William S. Burroughs’ “Writings” on eBay (1)
- February 2009 (46)
- 27: Blogs & Podcasts for the Financial Crisis (9)
- 27: The New Kindle and the Audio Book Threat (7)
- 27: Allan Bloom on YouTube (0)
- 26: Public Radio on the iPhone (1)
- 26: Newspaper Front Pages from Across the World (3)
- 25: The American Future (0)
- 24: If Life Were Only Like This … (1)
- 23: Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Spring Lineup (3)
- 22: The Top Educational iPhone/iPad Apps (68)
- 21: The Unrepentant Terrorist? A Conversation with Bill Ayers (2)
- 20: Stream the New U2 Album (0)
- 19: Dylan and Baez Sing Blowin’ in the Wind (0)
- 18: Hitchens & D’Souza Go Mano-a-Mano on Faith (0)
- 18: Welcome to the New Age of Upheaval (1)
- 18: On the Blogging and Cultural Virtues of Twitter (3)
- 17: Sounds of Opera 1907 (0)
- 16: Swapping Your Way to Enlightenment: A Recession Special (0)
- 16: John Cheever Story Revived Online (1)
- 16: The Art History Web Book (4)
- 16: Harper’s Index Now Open (0)
- 15: Who Believes in Evolution? (6)
- 13: The Odds on America’s Collapse (2)
- 12: Watch Educational Videos Offline with YouTube (1)
- 12: A Guide to E-Books (and 100 E-Text Classics) (0)
- 11: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains What Would Happen If You Fell into a Black Hole (11)
- 11: Our Rapidly Changing Digital World (1)
- 11: Bridging the Science-Religion Divide (2)
- 10: Milton Friedman on Greed (3)
- 10: The Obama “Hope” Poster & The New Copyright Controversy (4)
- 09: Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Genius (2)
- 09: Bill Gates on Changing the World (1)
- 08: Lincoln on Flickr (1)
- 07: Extra Goodies on Twitter (0)
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- 06: Amazon: New Kindle and Free E-Books (1)
- 05: Steve Jobs Demos the First Macintosh in 1984 (3)
- 05: Google Puts Free Books on Your Mobile Phone (3)
- 04: The Future of Human Health TED-Style (3)
- 04: Faulkner and Delillo Writing for Sports Illustrated (0)
- 04: Can YouTube Save the Nuns? (1)
- 03: Japan’s Lost Decade and What It Means for the US (1)
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- 02: The Historical Jesus on Your iPod (2)
- 02: Jon Stewart on the Bizarro World of Wall Street (3)
- 01: Bob Dylan at The Super Bowl (2)
- 01: Gopnik on Darwin & Lincoln: Read the First Chapter (1)
- January 2009 (39)
- 31: Follow Open Culture on Twitter! (0)
- 31: Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Arturo Toscanini, 1952 (1)
- 30: The Lincoln Revival (1)
- 29: Talking with Steven Soderbergh (0)
- 29: Bob Dylan Goes a Little Commercial (1)
- 28: The New Design and Your Feedback (8)
- 28: Amazon Serves Up Free Music (1)
- 28: Inaugural Poet Talks with Stephen Colbert (1)
- 28: Academic Earth Goes Live (3)
- 27: John Updike at Rest (1)
- 26: Darwin’s Legacy on YouTube (1)
- 26: Google and the Path To Enlightenment (2)
- 25: When a Volcano Erupts Beneath the Ice (1)
- 25: Download New Horror Stories Free (15)
- 24: 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (2)
- 23: In Honor of Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Hat (0)
- 22: Salvador Dali on “What’s My Line?” (2)
- 22: The Story Behind the Iconic Obama Campaign Poster (7)
- 21: Malcolm Gladwell: What We Can Learn from Spaghetti Sauce (1)
- 21: Obama’s Inauguration and Address (1)
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- 19: Foreign Policy: The 10 Top Stories You Missed in 2008 (0)
- 18: For MLK on His Birthday (0)
- 17: The Educational Audio & Video Library (5)
- 15: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity: Now Live on YouTube and iTunes (6)
- 14: Visit the Prado Art Collection with Google Earth (9)
- 14: Leonard Bernstein Conducting Shostakovich’s Fifth with Some YouTube Comments Sprinkled on Top (1)
- 13: “Stand By Me” Sung By Musicians Around the World (9)
- 12: Learning Ancient History for Free (14)
- 12: Alex the Parrot and the Hidden World of Animal Intelligence (2)
- 10: The Whole Earth Catalog Now Online (22)
- 09: Audio Book FYI (1)
- 07: What Will Change Everything? (According to the World’s Leading Scientific Minds) (0)
- 06: The History of the Internet in 8 Minutes (11)
- 05: Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Winter Lineup (2)
- 04: Bugs Bunny in The Big Snooze (1946) (0)
- 03: The Ten Best Classical Music Recordings of 2008 (1)
- 03: Steven Spielberg Admits Swallowing a Transistor to Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger (8)
- 01: Top 10 Blog Posts of 2008 (0)
- December 2008 (37)
- 31: Put Tolstoy, Twain and Others on Your Mobile Phone (0)
- 31: John Lennon Returns to Promote “One Laptop Per Child” (1)
- 29: The Life of a Star: 12 Billion Years in Six Minutes (3)
- 29: One Year in 40 seconds (1)
- 29: Unauthorized Beatles Masterpieces (0)
- 29: The Clash of Civilizations (and the Passing of its Author) (0)
- 26: Remembering Harold Pinter (0)
- 26: Christmas Under Fire (1940) (0)
- 23: Christmas Eve in the Trenches, 1914: When Warring Sides Laid Down Their Arms & Joined Each Other in Song (1)
- 23: E-Books Finally Here to Stay? (0)
- 22: David Lynch on His Favorite Movies and Filmmakers (0)
- 22: The Nepotism Special (0)
- 21: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 – Karajan or Muppet Style (1)
- 19: It’s a Wonderful (Scratch That, Miserable) Life (0)
- 19: Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008 (0)
- 19: U2 at Live Aid, 1985 (1)
- 18: The President’s Guide to Science (0)
- 18: Top Ten Versions of Leonard Cohen’s Classic “Hallelujah” (1)
- 16: The Oxford-Cambridge Podcasts (4)
- 15: Get Wikipedia on Your Mobile Phone (0)
- 14: Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis (4)
- 12: 40 Inspirational Film Speeches in 2 Minutes (2)
- 11: Woody Allen on The Dick Cavett Show Circa 1970 (2)
- 10: Animated Aurora Borealis (0)
- 10: Google Brings Magazines To The Web (1)
- 09: A Short Introduction to The Great Depression & The New Deal (3)
- 09: Radio Free World (1)
- 09: Download New Book From the Free Culture Movement (0)
- 08: T.S. Eliot on YouTube (0)
- 07: Footage of Nietzsche’s Final Days (4)
- 04: 10 Best Books of 2008 (0)
- 03: The Wire: Four Seasons in Four Minutes (0)
- 03: Voices from the Depression: Studs Terkel Interviews (1)
- 03: 100 Movie Spoilers in 5 Minutes (1)
- 02: Philip Roth on Indignation (0)
- 01: YouTube Gets a Little More Intelligent (0)
- 01: Capitalism with Humility (1)
- November 2008 (40)
- 30: The New Psychology of Time (2)
- 29: We Didn’t Start the Fire, or The World From 1949 to 1989 (3)
- 29: Mozart’s Complete Works (1)
- 28: Books Authors Want (and Plan to Give) for the Holidays (0)
- 26: The Birth Of A Tornado (3)
- 26: Top 10 Amazing Biology Videos (4)
- 25: Next in Line for a Bailout? A Major Art Museum (2)
- 24: Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash Together in 1969: Free MP3s (2)
- 24: Peter Schiff on the Economy and What’s Coming Next (1)
- 23: The White Album Turns 40 (2)
- 23: Bruce Lee Plays Ping Pong with Nunchucks (0)
- 20: Malcolm Gladwell and The Secret of Success (1)
- 20: Hitler’s Real Estate Downfall (0)
- 19: Monty Python Channel Launches on YouTube (0)
- 18: Google Brings Massive LIFE Photo Archive to The Web (0)
- 18: Unlocking the European Film Vault (1)
- 18: Revisiting the Depression in The Grapes of Wrath (The Film) (0)
- 17: Einstein the Talking Parrot (0)
- 16: The YouTube Presidency (1)
- 16: Mitch Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix Drummer, 1969 (0)
- 14: The Death of Planet Finance (2)
- 14: Funny, If It Wasn’t So Sad (1)
- 13: Decoding the Obama Victory: The Geography of US Presidential Elections (0)
- 13: Fire Ants Create a Living Lifeboat in the Amazon (1)
- 12: Puppies for These Hard Times (0)
- 12: Vintage Nabokov (2)
- 11: Thomas Friedman on the Green Revolution (3)
- 11: Oxford Scholars Name Top Ten Irritating Phrases (27)
- 10: Joss Whedon: The Death of Orson Welles, The History of Women and Beyond (0)
- 09: Woody Allen and the Reverend Billy Graham In Conversation (6)
- 08: Obama’s Victory: The View From Grant Park (Chicago) (1)
- 06: This American Life: Another Frightening Show About the Economy (0)
- 06: Volcano Eruption Captured By Satellite (0)
- 06: The African-American Freedom Struggle & Barack Obama’s American Dream (Free Stanford Course) (0)
- 05: From Nixon to W – The Geography of US Presidential Elections (0)
- 05: Michael Crichton (RIP) on the Environment (0)
- 05: How Al Pacino Almost Missed The Godfather (1)
- 04: America Redeemed (1)
- 02: Ricky Gervais Does Biblical Creation Stand-Up (0)
- 02: Picasso in Motion (0)
- October 2008 (52)
- 31: Farewell to Studs Terkel (2)
- 30: From the Civil War to the Vietnam War – The Geography of US Presidential Elections (1)
- 30: “Angels We Have Heard On High” Played with Broccoli (0)
- 30: The 13th Amendment (3)
- 29: The Political Wire (0)
- 28: Darwin’s Legacy (4)
- 28: Elephant Jumping On Trampoline (1)
- 27: What Makes a Poem a Poem in 60 Seconds (5)
- 26: Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi Explains Why the Source of Happiness Lies in Creativity and Flow, Not Money (6)
- 25: Ali G and Noam “Norman” Chomsky Talk Linguistics (6)
- 23: From Washington to Lincoln – The Geography of US Presidential Elections (1)
- 23: Ninth Circuit Judge on The Dating Game Way Back When (0)
- 22: Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” Animated (0)
- 22: Paul Krugman On The Financial Crisis And the Coming Recession (0)
- 22: Free Tech How-To Books (0)
- 21: Electing a US President in Plain English (0)
- 21: Your Digital Magazine Rack (1)
- 21: More Free Classical (1)
- 21: The Sun and Its Magnetic Beauty (0)
- 20: Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin – Round #4 (1)
- 19: The Old Man and the Sea Animated (10)
- 17: As promised (0)
- 16: Yale Open Courses: The New Lineup (8)
- 15: The Geography of US Presidential Elections: Week 1 (0)
- 15: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (0)
- 14: Noam Chomsky vs. William F. Buckley, 1969 (6)
- 14: Paul Krugman’s Nobel Prize in Economics (0)
- 13: A Brief History of the 1929 Crash (1)
- 13: Virtual Tour of the Forbidden City (2)
- 12: Morphing Van Gogh Portraits (3)
- 12: President Tours U.S To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency (1)
- 12: Saturday Night Live on AIG’s Bottomless Chutzpah (6)
- 11: YouTube Starts Airing Full-Length TV Shows (2)
- 10: Invitation to Stanford’s Course on the US Presidential Elections (3)
- 09: A Short Course in Behavioral Economics (5)
- 09: And the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes To … (0)
- 08: The Living Camera in Rome (0)
- 08: The 2nd Presidential Debate in Ten Easy Minutes (0)
- 07: Joseph Stiglitz on Managing the Global Credit Crunch (1)
- 07: Writing on the Margins of the Web (2)
- 06: A Day in the Life of Air Traffic (0)
- 06: Live from Bombay (0)
- 05: A Brief History of Disbelief (0)
- 05: Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin Round #3 (0)
- 05: Betty Boop for President (1932) (1)
- 04: Peter & Ben (1)
- 03: The Global Challenges Facing The Next U.S. President (0)
- 02: UCLA on YouTube (0)
- 02: NPR’s Planet Money Podcast (0)
- 01: Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Read by Neil Gaiman (2)
- 01: Now and Then: More Poetry in Motion (0)
- 01: The Web According to Google in 2001 (2)
- September 2008 (54)
- 30: Depression Humor Revived (0)
- 30: Dave Eggers in Conversation with Chris Elliott (0)
- 29: Jonathan Franzen Reads (0)
- 29: China’s Space Walk: Fresh Footage (0)
- 29: What Happens on Mars (0)
- 28: George Orwell’s 1984: Download Free Audio Book Version (15)
- 28: New Fiction in Five Parts (0)
- 27: Used Book Sculptures (0)
- 27: Paul Newman and James Dean Screentest for East of Eden (4)
- 26: MAD Parodies the Bailout: “Smells Like Greed Spirit” (0)
- 25: The Financial Crisis Explained (0)
- 25: The Life of “W” According to Oliver Stone (2)
- 25: Music for Our Economic Times, Or a Creative R.E.M. Remix (0)
- 24: The Top Five Collections of Free University Courses (8)
- 23: 2008 MacArthur “Genius” Grants Awarded (0)
- 23: Michael Moore’s New Film (Slacker) Now Free Online (1)
- 23: The New York Times Picks Five Online Lectures (1)
- 23: Chris Rock on Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin and Shooting Moose (0)
- 22: Live Performances at AOL Sessions (0)
- 22: Beatboxing Flute (0)
- 21: Philip Roth’s New Novel: Read The First Chapter (0)
- 21: The 2008 Bailout v. The Great Depression Bailouts (5)
- 20: Solar Eclipse Seen From Outer Space (1)
- 18: What It Feels Like To Have a Stroke (And More About Your Brain) (5)
- 18: Free Stanford Computer Science & Engineering Courses Now Online (105)
- 18: Ten Days That Shook the Financial World (0)
- 16: Free Presidential Biographies on iTunes: FDR and Beyond (0)
- 16: When Fiction Failed David Foster Wallace (0)
- 16: A Movie For Our Times (0)
- 15: How Did We Get Into This Financial Mess? This American Life Explains (1)
- 14: Tina Fey Has Sarah Palin Down (2)
- 13: Writer David Foster Wallace Found Dead at 46 (Rewind the Video Tape) (0)
- 13: Animated Poetry by US Poet Laureate (0)
- 12: Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Connect with Everyday People (Long Version) (0)
- 12: The Creator of the Wire on American Urban Decline (1)
- 11: New Yorker Fiction Podcast: Wolff Reads Dog Heaven (0)
- 10: Learning Chemistry on YouTube (8)
- 10: The Tribe: Now Playing in the YouTube Screening Room (1)
- 10: Download Cory Doctorow’s Technology Writings (Free New Book) (0)
- 09: Father Guido Sarducci’s Publicizes the Virtues of Art School (0)
- 08: Thomas Friedman’s Green Revolution: The New Book for the Left & Right (0)
- 08: Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos (Including Boomerang in Zero Gravity) (0)
- 07: Knol: Ok, It’s Not Wikipedia. But What Is It? (5)
- 07: The iPhone: Your Foreign Travel Companion (1)
- 05: Download Michael Moore’s New Film For Free (1)
- 04: When Comedy Keeps American Politics Honest (1)
- 04: Darius Goes West: Film For Good (0)
- 03: Color Photos From 1909 (3)
- 03: America Needs More Palin … Michael Palin, That Is (0)
- 03: 500 KM Asteroid Hits Earth (1)
- 02: Stanford Online Writing Courses (Fall) (2)
- 02: The Comic Book Introduces Google’s New Web Browser (0)
- 01: The 50 Greatest Arts Videos on YouTube (0)
- 01: iPods in Iraq (0)
- August 2008 (26)
- 31: What a Hurricane Looks Like From Outer Space (1)
- 29: On the Lighter Side: Re-Thinking Classic Films (0)
- 28: Knock $100 Off Amazon’s Kindle (0)
- 27: Teach Your Children Mandarin … They’re Going to Need It (2)
- 26: Learning Spanish with Free Audio Lessons: The Lay of the Land (10)
- 26: An Animated History of Evil (0)
- 25: The Story of Stuff in 20 Animated Minutes (1)
- 24: Photography in Motion: 360-Degree View of Beijing’s Olympic Stadium (1)
- 21: Download a Free Copy of Cory Doctorow’s Bestseller, Little Brother (2)
- 20: The World Without Us: Get A Free Copy of the NY Times Bestseller (25)
- 19: Watch Quality Films on Hulu for Free (9)
- 19: Stephen Hawking Asks Big Questions About The Universe (0)
- 18: How to Pronounce Beijing Once and For All (0)
- 15: Jean-Luc Godard Meets Woody Allen (0)
- 13: Replaceable You (and Other Free Stem Cells Courses) (0)
- 12: Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia: Diving at the ’36 Games (0)
- 12: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Other Goodies From Our Readers (0)
- 11: Top Ten Psychology Videos (0)
- 10: The Decline and Fall of the Roman (and American?) Empire: A Free Audiobook (2)
- 10: Isaac Hayes Performs Shaft Live, 1973 (3)
- 09: Live Streams of the Olympics (1)
- 06: Archaeologists Uncover Shakespeare’s First Theater (0)
- 05: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube (4)
- 04: It Happened One Night: Frank Capra’s 1934 Classic (1)
- 04: John Gielgud’s Hamlet (0)
- 03: Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89; David Remnick Reflects (0)
- July 2008 (32)
- 31: The Ancient Origins of the Olympic Games (Two Free Lectures) (0)
- 31: Tsunami Surfing (3)
- 30: George Orwell: Blogger (0)
- 29: Learning Arabic (and Other Languages) with YouTube (4)
- 29: The Randy Pausch Video You (Probably) Haven’t Seen (0)
- 28: Cuil: The New Search Engine (4)
- 27: A Year in Antarctica Boiled Down to Six Minutes (2)
- 27: What Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales, Thinks about Knol, the New Google Competitor (2)
- 25: “Last Lecture” Professor Randy Pausch Dies (2)
- 24: Google’s Answer to Wikipedia Now Live (1)
- 23: The Great Dictator: A Classic Chaplin Moment (0)
- 22: Physics for Future Presidents: Buy the Book, or Watch the Free Online Course (0)
- 21: Watch Online: Francis Ford Coppola’s First Mainstream Movie, Dementia 13 (1963) (2)
- 20: Understanding Modern Physics: Download Leonard Susskind Video Lectures (22)
- 20: When the Flintstones Peddled Cigarettes (4)
- 17: Watch Complete Documentary Films For Free (Featuring Super-Size Me) (2)
- 17: Neuroscience and the 2008 Election (0)
- 17: Radiohead: Making Videos Without Cameras (or Lights) (0)
- 16: What Email Subscribers Missed Over the Past Week (0)
- 15: School of Life: An Award-Winning Short Indie Film (3)
- 15: The African-American Freedom Struggle & Barack Obama’s American Dream (Free Stanford Course) (0)
- 14: E=mc²: Einstein Explains His Famous Formula (4)
- 12: Craphound: Download Cory Doctorow’s Short Story via Free MP3 (and other Goodies) (0)
- 11: 70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (8)
- 10: 10 New iPhone Apps for the Thinking Person (0)
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- 08: Online Courses in the Age of High Gas Prices (2)
- 07: Architecture in Motion (2)
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- 02: Stephen Colbert Reads Joyce’s Ulysses (1)
- 01: Will Google Kill Science? (2)
- 01: Seymour Hersh Reveals Covert Operations In Iran (0)
- June 2008 (44)
- 30: Looking Inside Darwin’s Room (and Also Where Virginia Woolf, Lord Byron, & Kipling Did Their Thing) (0)
- 30: Wind Powered Art (0)
- 30: Find Any Song Online and Share. Now. (1)
- 28: Top 10 TEDTalks (and Do Schools Today Kill Creativity?) (1)
- 27: Stephen Hawking’s Explosive New Theory (0)
- 26: Superstring Theory Explained Dynamically (0)
- 26: No Ice at the North Pole (1)
- 26: The Gas Mileage Illusion (and the Future of Electric Cars) (0)
- 25: Great Literature in Three Lines or Less (0)
- 25: How’s This for a Book Trailer? (1)
- 24: Salman Rushdie’s Book Tour Rolls Through Google (0)
- 24: The Candid Side of George Carlin (1)
- 23: iTunesU Goes Beyond The Campus: Spotlight on the ResearchChannel (6)
- 23: The Danish Poet: The Oscar-Winning Animated Film Narrated by Liv Ullmann (7)
- 23: RIP: George Carlin on the Tonight Show (1966) (2)
- 22: Zurich Chamber Orchestra Animated on YouTube (0)
- 20: YouTube’s New Screening Room (Free Indie Films) (6)
- 20: The Grey Video: Mixing The Beatles with Jay-Z (3)
- 19: Warrantless Wiretaps: They’re Not Just for Terrorists Anymore; They’re for Pulitzer Prize Winners Too (0)
- 18: Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey (Free Lectures) (1)
- 18: Learn About Memory & Aging on YouTube (2)
- 17: Animated Woody Allen Standup (0)
- 16: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Adopting Collaborative Approach, Whispers Uncle (0)
- 15: Stanford Launches YouTube Channel; Oprah Gives Graduation Speech (0)
- 15: Not Sure What to Title This: Just Some Video Goodness (0)
- 14: File This Under “I Don’t Get It” (3)
- 14: Harry Potter Prequel Now Online (1)
- 13: Is the Internet Making Us Stupid? (0)
- 11: What’s Wrong With What We Eat? (0)
- 10: Classic Photographs Remade Lego Style (1)
- 10: Viral Video: The New Way to Market Books (0)
- 10: Steve Jobs’ iPhone Spiel in 60 Seconds (0)
- 09: Free Download of Cory Doctorow’s Graphic Novels (2)
- 09: Best Online Language Tools for Word Nerds (4)
- 08: World’s First Robot Rock Band (0)
- 07: J.K. Rowling Tells Harvard Grads Why Success Begins with Failure (3)
- 06: Download George Orwell’s 1984 for Free (35)
- 06: Puppets Deconstruct Orwell’s 1984 (0)
- 05: Learn a Language Online (0)
- 04: Magnetic Fields Made Visible (4)
- 04: How Not to Get Caught Reading at Work (0)
- 03: Learn the Art of Photography: The Nikon Way (0)
- 03: Remembering Bo Diddley on YouTube (0)
- 01: Great Stories from Everyday People (0)
- May 2008 (32)
- 29: Ira Glass on Why Creative Excellence Takes Time (2)
- 29: Art by Committee: The Story Behind the Writing of “Shake Girl” (0)
- 28: Robot Conducts The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (2)
- 28: Maps Explaining Why Americans Know Less About the World (0)
- 27: India’s Answer to M.I.T. Presents Free Courses on YouTube (in English) (1)
- 27: Ninja Fast Dictionary (4)
- 26: 1001 Books to Read Before You Die (0)
- 26: HBO Revisits 2000 Election with “Recount” (0)
- 22: Harvard Law Faculty Votes to Put Articles Online (0)
- 21: Jacques Brel Sings “Ne Me Quitte Pas” (0)
- 20: Tobias Wolff Reads From His New Collection (2)
- 20: Stanford Online Writing Courses (0)
- 19: Learn to Play Instruments (and Also Some Music Theory) Online (2)
- 19: The Smithsonian Channel on the Vietnam War Memorial (0)
- 18: Smart Culture on BlogTalkRadio (1)
- 17: Rare Recording of Walt Whitman Reading From His Poem “America” (2)
- 17: Earliest Recording of the Human Voice (3)
- 15: This American Life Demystifies the Housing/Credit Crisis (1)
- 14: Burning Issues Inside the Arab World (0)
- 13: 100 Essential Jazz Albums According to The New Yorker (0)
- 12: Steve Jobs: Wisdom for the New Graduate (1)
- 11: Can a Novel Be Written Wikipedia Style? The Results Are In. (0)
- 09: Shark Surfing: File Under Novel Ways to Spend Your Weekend (1)
- 07: Wikipedia Goes Commercial (7)
- 06: Video Lectures for the Science Mind (0)
- 05: Junot Diaz, New Pulitzer Prize Winner, Speaks @ Google (0)
- 05: Introducing The Straddler (0)
- 04: How Wikis (and Other Stuff) Work in Plain English (0)
- 04: The Kindle is Back in Supply (0)
- 04: This American Life on TV: Season II Starts Sunday (0)
- 01: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (and Other Classic Films Online) (2)
- 01: How to Turn Your iPod Into Anything (75+ Tutorials) (0)
- April 2008 (32)
- 30: One Day, One World, United by Film (0)
- 30: Teaching on YouTube Goes Viral (0)
- 29: Self-Regenerating Robots (0)
- 28: The British Slant on the Mac v. PC Ads (2)
- 27: Body of War: Paralyzed in Iraq and the Long Road Back (1)
- 26: The Story Behind Ansel Adams’ Famous Yosemite Shots (0)
- 26: Grateful Dead Donates Archive to UC Santa Cruz (0)
- 24: Scott Sigler’s Infected: Free via Podcast, $16.47 on Amazon (2)
- 23: Thomas Friedman (While Not Dodging Eco-Pies) Argues “Green is the New Red, White & Blue” (0)
- 22: Lifehack for Learning Foreign Languages (2)
- 22: Teaching on YouTube (9)
- 21: 41 Hours in an Elevator (1)
- 21: Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Web Publishers (2)
- 20: The Lecture That Captured the Public Imagination: From YouTube Sensation to #1 Best-Selling Book (1)
- 18: Water Balloon Exploding at 2,000 Frames per Second (0)
- 17: Global Geopolitics: A New Stanford Course on iTunes (5)
- 17: Free Digital Fiction from Penguin (1)
- 16: Learn Moviemaking From a Master (Courtesy of Apple) (0)
- 15: Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven Read by 18 YouTubers (or Christopher Walken) (1)
- 14: The Automated Publishing House (0)
- 13: MIT’s (Free) Introduction to Physics (0)
- 12: The Perfect Library (0)
- 11: New York Public Library Now Live on iTunes (2)
- 10: The New York Literary Canon (0)
- 09: 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time (2)
- 09: Interview with Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, Robert Hass (0)
- 07: Philosophy Makes a Comeback (0)
- 07: Daily Caffeine ‘Protects Brain’ (1)
- 06: Gehry’s Vision for Architecture (2)
- 03: In Search of TV 2.0 (6)
- 02: Thinking Big About John Adams (1)
- 01: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Explained (0)
- March 2008 (42)
- 30: Elephant Painting (4)
- 30: Dith Pran on Genocide (0)
- 28: Nosferatu: The Silent Adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1)
- 27: 80+ Free Courses from UCSD (0)
- 27: Bush’s War (0)
- 27: The Real Cost of the Iraq War (0)
- 26: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (0)
- 25: Grateful Dead Free Concert Archive (2)
- 24: David Lynch: The Lesser Known Work (0)
- 24: The Kindle: Amazon Has a Winner (0)
- 23: Attack Ad Hall of Fame (0)
- 20: The Future of Tibet: Does It Have One? (2)
- 20: Web 2.0 and Culture: A Debate (0)
- 19: The Pre-Fab Four (0)
- 18: Arthur C. Clarke Retrospective (0)
- 18: Demystifying the Credit Crisis & the Fed (Serious and Not So Serious) (0)
- 17: Google Sky, Moon and Mars (2)
- 17: Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (0)
- 16: 100 Best Last Lines from Modern Novels (1)
- 13: Intelligent YouTube Channels (49)
- 12: History, Power and our Global Society (7)
- 12: David Mamet on Politics (0)
- 11: 500 Years of Women in Art (Give This Video Points for Creativity) (0)
- 11: More Cat Shenanigans (0)
- 11: Samantha Power & the Obama Controversy (1)
- 10: How Traffic Jams Begin (1)
- 10: Australia’s Electronic Canvas (0)
- 09: David Sedaris Delivers a Pizza (1)
- 09: Top 10 Grammar Myths (3)
- 08: The State of the Digital Commons & Open Source Education (0)
- 06: Listening to Famous Poets Reading Their Own Work (4)
- 06: Richard Feynman Plays the Bongos (4)
- 06: Cat Shenanigans (1)
- 05: Win the Pulitzer Center Contest (0)
- 05: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Some Yo-Yo Ma and More: Free Classical Music Podcasts (0)
- 04: Eat, Pray, Love @ Google (1)
- 04: Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos (2)
- 04: The iPhone and the 21st Century University (2)
- 02: A New Media Scholar’s Dilemma (2)
- 02: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods – Free Digital Copy (1)
- 02: When You Google “Open Culture” (0)
- 01: Physics for Future Presidents (0)
- February 2008 (39)
- 28: 10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget (4)
- 27: William F. Buckley v. Gore Vidal – 1968 (7)
- 27: Not Always a Nation of Dunces (7)
- 26: How to Learn a Foreign Language (2)
- 26: The Best Place on the Web for Film Junkies (0)
- 25: Cracking Tarantino (4)
- 25: 80 Years of Academy Award Winning Films in Posters (0)
- 24: Where to Get Free Online Courses from Great Universities? (1)
- 24: Online Writing Courses at Stanford (Spring) (0)
- 23: Free Books from HarperCollins (0)
- 21: An Animated History of Evil (0)
- 21: Paul McCartney Goes Classical (0)
- 20: Lawrence Lessig’s Last Speech on Free Culture (Watch it) (5)
- 20: A Nation of Dunces Revisted: Video + Podcast (0)
- 20: The Dearth of Conservative Professors Explained (1)
- 18: A Nation of Dunces? (5)
- 17: The Christian Darwin You Don’t Know (0)
- 15: Who is Your Unconscious Mind Voting For in ’08? (0)
- 15: What Does 47 Billion Light Years (in Radius) Look Like? (1)
- 13: Harvard Opens Scholarship, Freeing Up Knowledge and Budgets (2)
- 13: Paris at Night (0)
- 13: The Vegetable Orchestra (0)
- 13: James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Free Audiobook (2)
- 12: The Secret History of Silicon Valley (1)
- 10: Psychedelics Revisited (0)
- 10: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1)
- 09: The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes (6)
- 08: Hitchcock 2008 (0)
- 07: The Mystery of Gravity (0)
- 07: Freedom for the Thought That We Hate (0)
- 06: How to Extend the Life Of Your iPod Battery (0)
- 06: The World is Flat: The #1 Free Podcast on iTunesU (1)
- 04: Don’t Forget to Vote (0)
- 04: Ukulele Orchestra Performs ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (2)
- 04: Philosopher Attack Ads: Kant and Nietzsche Go Negative in ’08 (0)
- 02: NASA to Beam Beatles’ Song into Space (0)
- 01: Drawing Obama, Thinking Lincoln (0)
- 01: From Our “Inner Chimp” to our “Inner Fish” (0)
- 01: Political Satire on the Tube (0)
- January 2008 (46)
- 30: 10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (Smart Video Collections) (2)
- 30: 14 Easy Ways You Can Be An Everyday Environmentalist (0)
- 30: How Evolution Happens (in 5 Minutes, 48 Seconds) (1)
- 29: How Camera Lenses are Made (0)
- 29: Is Morality Hardwired in Us? (0)
- 29: Cha-Cha-Changes: Politicians Sing Bowie (0)
- 27: Turn Your iPod into a Travel Guide: 20 Travel Podcasts (29)
- 26: The Subprime Mortgage Meltdown Satirically Explained (0)
- 26: 10 University Collections on YouTube (13)
- 25: Stay in Bed & Grow Your Hair: John Lennon and Yoko Ono Protesting the Vietnam War (1)
- 23: Earthrise & Earthset in HD (1)
- 23: Obama Speaks at Martin Luther King’s Church (0)
- 23: A Slew of New Audiobooks (for Free) (4)
- 22: Comments We Love to Hear (1)
- 21: Waves Freeze in Newfoundland (4)
- 20: The Future of Ideas: Download Your Free Copy (and More) (5)
- 19: Steve Jobs’ 90 Minute Keynote Boiled Down to 60 Seconds (0)
- 18: The Second Amendment: Does It Really Let You Bear Arms? (3)
- 17: Jimi Hendrix Vintage Footage (2)
- 17: Resolving the Omnivore’s Dilemma: Pollan’s New Book (1)
- 16: Library of Congress Adds 3,000 Photos to Flickr (0)
- 16: Central Intelligence: From Ants to the Web (4)
- 16: The Long Shadow of Henry Kissinger (0)
- 14: Open Sourcing Congress (0)
- 14: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1)
- 14: Harold Bloom on the Ghastly Decline of the Humanities (and on Obama’s Poetry) (2)
- 14: Smart Links (0)
- 11: Malcolm X at Oxford University 1964 (1)
- 10: Thanks for the Digg (4)
- 10: Medieval Tech Support (0)
- 09: YouTube’s Slow Drift Toward Enlightenment (2)
- 08: 17 Free and Downloadable Graphic Novels (2)
- 07: David Lynch on iPhone (1)
- 07: The Launch of Wikia Search (0)
- 07: Pulp Fiction Audio Tales (1)
- 06: When 165 Thinkers Changed Their Minds (0)
- 05: One Laptop Per Child vs. Intel (5)
- 05: Ipod Radio (2)
- 04: Mailer on the Ali-Foreman Classic (2)
- 04: Christopher Hitchens on the Unalterable Celestial Dictatorship of God (3)
- 04: What a Hurricane Looks Like From Outer Space (2)
- 03: R.E.M. George Bush Style (0)
- 02: Classics from The Atlantic Monthly (0)
- 02: Who Do We Vote For This Time Around? A Letter from Michael Moore (1)
- 02: The Best Photoblogs of 2007 (0)
- 02: George Harrison & The Concert for Bangladesh (1971) (2)
- December 2007 (35)
- 31: Open Culture’s YouTube Playlist (1)
- 30: 10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (Smart Video Collections) (23)
- 30: 10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget (42)
- 29: A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto (2)
- 28: Favorite Books of 2007 (1)
- 27: Landing on the Moon: July 20, 1969 (2)
- 25: Christmas Audio Tales: Orson Welles’ Christmas Carol (and More) (2)
- 23: How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?: The #2 Podcast on iTunesU (1)
- 23: Andy, Are You Goofing on Apple? (0)
- 22: Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History (2)
- 19: The Final Cut of Blade Runner: Now Out on DVD (0)
- 19: University Podcasts Turn Professors into Stars (0)
- 14: 15 Most Viewed Posts in 2007 (3)
- 13: Yale Launches Open Courses (4)
- 12: Betting Against Google’s Answer to Wikipedia (13)
- 11: Even Ahmadinejad Blogs (0)
- 10: Led Zeppelin Reunion – First Images (0)
- 10: Nobel Prize Winners on YouTube (0)
- 10: Al Gore’s Nobel Presentation (0)
- 10: Raising Sand (0)
- 09: Coppola is Back (0)
- 09: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness – Free Audiobook Podcasts (1)
- 09: The 53 Places to Go in 2008 (0)
- 07: Knowledge in 60 Seconds (0)
- 06: JFK in 1960, Romney in 2007 – Religion in America (1)
- 05: Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries (1)
- 05: Favorite Books of the Year (0)
- 04: Learning Foreign Languages the Mango Way (3)
- 04: On Hanukkah (0)
- 04: The 20 Best iPod Utilities (2)
- 04: The Western Tradition by Eugen Weber: 52 Video Lectures (29)
- 03: The 50 Greatest Independent Films (1)
- 03: Online Writing Courses at Stanford (0)
- 02: James Joyce’s Dubliners: Four Stories (1)
- 02: MIT & Google for High School Students (2)
- November 2007 (46)
- 30: The Beginnings of New Journalism: Capote’s In Cold Blood (1)
- 30: Wikipedia Dominates Search (0)
- 29: The 10 Best Books of 2007 (1)
- 28: Predictions for the World in 2008 (1)
- 27: The MIT Lecture Browser & A Beautiful Mind (0)
- 27: Stephen King on Britney, Lindsay, Jenna & Waterboarding (1)
- 27: How to Watch DVDs on Your iPod? (1)
- 27: The Graduate at 40 (0)
- 27: The Future of Print (2)
- 26: WIRED SCIENCE: What’s Inside Rainn Wilson? (0)
- 26: Guest on FORA.tv This Week (1)
- 25: When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Newport, 1965 (2)
- 25: A World in Your Ear (1)
- 24: No Country for Old Men: The Coen Brothers’ Latest (0)
- 23: 100 Notable Books of 2007 (0)
- 21: Nixon and Kissinger: Best of Allies and Rivals (0)
- 20: Landmark Moments in Film: Hitchcock’s Psycho (0)
- 20: The Kindle v. The Book (0)
- 20: U2’s Joshua Tree Remastered and Expanded (1)
- 19: Amazon’s New eBook Reader is Out (0)
- 19: Museums Crossing the Line?: An Interview with Jori Finkel (1)
- 18: Free eBook on iTunes: The Millionaires (1)
- 18: Not The Daily Show (0)
- 17: 150 Monty Python Sketches (and a Related Prank) (0)
- 16: Intelligent Design on Trial (0)
- 15: Steve Jobs on Life (0)
- 14: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Some Yo-Yo Ma and More: Free Classical Music Podcasts (0)
- 13: 20+ Public Domain E-Book Sources (0)
- 13: Not Your Father’s Scientific American (0)
- 12: Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone 1966 (0)
- 11: 201 Stories by Anton Chekhov (3)
- 10: Norman Mailer Dies at 84 in NYC (0)
- 09: Landmark Moments in Film: Apocalypse Now (0)
- 09: 100 Photographs that Changed the World (0)
- 09: Raising the Next Generation with Google Docs (2)
- 08: The Psychology of Evil: The Stanford Prison Experiment to Abu Ghraib (1)
- 07: Deadhead Hunter and Dirty Hairy (0)
- 07: How Radiohead’s Experiment Turned Out (1)
- 07: America’s Endless Capacity to Reward Failure (2)
- 05: Listening to Poetry Online (1)
- 04: The Nine Minute Sopranos (2)
- 04: Weekly Wrap – November 4 (0)
- 03: The Godfather Without Brando?: It Almost Happened (8)
- 02: Where to Get Online Music For Free (3)
- 01: Watching Wikipedia Get Written in Real Time (0)
- 01: Learning Mandarin for Free Online (8)
- October 2007 (54)
- 30: Talks from The New Yorker Festival Available as Video Podcasts (0)
- 30: 100 Top Jazz CDs (2)
- 30: Reading Great Books with The New York Times (Starting with War & Peace) (0)
- 29: Open Culture Turns One: The State of the Blog Address (0)
- 27: Weekly Wrap – October 28 (0)
- 27: Human Species May Split into Two: Life Imitates Art Again? (2)
- 26: Timely Talk About Fire (0)
- 26: Essential Books for the Critic’s Library (1)
- 25: Debating Religion The Dawkins Way (1)
- 25: More Swapping (0)
- 24: Better Thinking Through Podcasts (1)
- 23: Science for The Rest of Us: Podcasts At a Glance (0)
- 22: 500 Years of Art in Morphing Action (Excellent Video) (0)
- 22: Information R/evolution: The New Video (4)
- 21: Our Ancestral Mind in the Modern World: An Interview with Satoshi Kanazawa (22)
- 21: Weekly Wrap – October 20 (0)
- 19: Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” Now Online: 1999 – Present (0)
- 18: One Formula Thinking (2)
- 18: Einstein and the Mind of God (0)
- 17: Re-Organizing the Free Audiobook Podcast Collection (1)
- 17: Animated Woody Allen Stand-Up (0)
- 16: Give Books Away; Get Books You Want (0)
- 15: A New Model for Investigative Journalism (0)
- 15: Religion: 5000 Years in 90 Seconds (2)
- 15: Stephen Colbert For President (0)
- 15: Al Gore’s “Earth in the Balance”: A Free, Environment Friendly Copy (Almost) (1)
- 13: Weekly Wrap – October 13 (0)
- 12: The Future of Collaborative Culture? (0)
- 12: Philosophers and Theorists on YouTube (0)
- 11: How Doris Lessing Reacts to Winning the Nobel Prize (3)
- 11: The New Stanford Blog Directory: Stem Cells, Philosophy and Beyond (1)
- 10: New Radiohead and R.E.M. at a Nice Price (2)
- 10: Goethe (and Shakespeare) on Google (2)
- 10: The Complete Beatles in One Hour (and The Sopranos in Seven Minutes) (0)
- 10: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the War in Iraq (2)
- 10: Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (0)
- 09: “One of The Supreme Creations of Documentary Filmmaking” Airs Tonight (0)
- 09: David Foster Wallace: Deciderization 2007 Online (0)
- 09: Lifehacker on the .Edu Web World (0)
- 08: Coffee Break French (and Nine Other Ways to Parler Français) (4)
- 08: Satirizing Ahmadinejad: The New Yorker Picks Up Where SNL Left Off (1)
- 07: Vintage Woody Allen (From His Stand Up Days) (4)
- 07: Weekly Wrap – October 6 (0)
- 05: Stephen Colbert’s New Book Released Early as Audiobook (0)
- 05: Animated New Yorker Cartoons: A Funny Twist on Einstein’s Relativity (0)
- 05: YouTube Gets Smart: The Launch of New University Channels (16)
- 04: Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost: Free Chapters, Podcasts & More (0)
- 04: The iPod Deathclock (4)
- 04: Ahmadinejad Spoofed on Saturday Night Live (1)
- 04: (1)
- 03: The World Without Us: Author Interview (0)
- 02: What is Blackwater? (2)
- 02: Kasparov, The Chess Master, Takes on Putin: A New Yorker Podcast (0)
- 01: The Grey Video: Mixing The Beatles with Jay-Z (0)
- September 2007 (41)
- 30: Blade Runner: The Final, Final Cut of the Cult Classic (1)
- 29: Martin Scorsese on The Rolling Stones, Then George Harrison (0)
- 29: Support Monks’ Protest in Burma on Facebook (3)
- 27: The Elegant Universe (1)
- 27: Newly Minted Genius: 2007 MacArthur Fellows (0)
- 26: Hannibal on iTunes: From the Classical World to Archaeology Today (0)
- 26: Beyond Free Speech: Ahmadinejad at Columbia (on Video) (0)
- 26: Amazon Goes Head-to-Head with iTunes (and How to Get iTunes Freebies) (0)
- 24: Halberstam’s The Coldest Winter (0)
- 24: Classic Films on Google Video (0)
- 23: Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History (4)
- 22: The War: New Ken Burns’ Documentary Starts Sunday (1)
- 22: Weekly Wrap – September 22 (0)
- 21: (0)
- 21: The Writing Rooms of Famous Writers (1)
- 20: NBC Leaves the iTunes Fold (2)
- 19: Bob Dylan Video Goodness (1)
- 19: iPod Classic Not Quite Ready for Primetime (0)
- 18: The World of Words & Carnal Knowledge (0)
- 18: The New York Times “Opens Up” at Midnight (2)
- 18: Keeping Wikipedia Honest (1)
- 17: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (0)
- 15: The End of History Revisited (0)
- 15: SmartLinks From Our Readers (0)
- 14: Remembering Lenny Bruce and When Taboo-Breaking Comedy Collided with the Law (0)
- 13: The New iPod Lineup Versus Its Rivals (0)
- 13: New R.E.M. Concert Video “Leaving New York” (1)
- 11: FYI for Smart Money Readers (0)
- 11: Falling Man 9-11 (0)
- 11: Meet Larry David (in Video) (0)
- 10: Life-Changing Books Now on Google’s “My Library” (3)
- 10: The World Without Us: The Staggering Thought Experiment (0)
- 10: Google’s “My Library” (and Other Bookish Social Networks) (6)
- 10: The Digital Tipping Point: The Wild Ride from Podcast to Book Deal (3)
- 09: A Blogging Scholarship (2)
- 07: The Return of Dr. Strangelove? (0)
- 07: New eBook Initiatives from Amazon and Google (3)
- 05: America’s Bloggiest Cities and Neighborhoods (0)
- 04: New Springsteen Album: Free Download of Lead Single (0)
- 03: A Bungled Beauty Pageant and Our Reason for Being (1)
- 02: MP3 Search Engine: Find Audio in a Snap (4)
- August 2007 (32)
- 31: On the Road: The Original Scroll (0)
- 31: What New Yorkers Heard on the Radio the Night John Lennon was Shot (7)
- 30: 100 Great American Speeches (9)
- 29: Wine Tasting for Beginners (0)
- 28: Learn the Art of Photography: The Nikon Way (3)
- 27: 15 Ways to Avert a Climate Crisis (1)
- 25: Weekly Wrap – August 25 (0)
- 24: A Short History of Man, God, and Political Philosophy (2)
- 23: Google GeoMaps the Book World: A Little More “Gee Whiz” Than Utility (2)
- 23: New Stanford Online Writing Courses (0)
- 21: William Gibson, Father of Cyberpunk, Reads New Novel in Second Life (1)
- 21: OnClassical Relaunches (0)
- 21: The New Grammar Podcast on the Block (2)
- 19: Life-Changing Books: Your Picks (205)
- 18: 100 Days That Changed Music (2)
- 18: Jon Stewart on 1994 and 2003 Dick Cheney (3)
- 17: The Science Behind the Bible (0)
- 17: Your Secret iPod Shame (1)
- 14: Tracking Wikipedia’s Manipulations (0)
- 14: Voices of American Presidents (1)
- 12: The Beatles: Podcasts From Yesterday (2)
- 12: Weekly Wrap – August 12 (0)
- 10: What Books Made a Difference? Last Call (0)
- 08: The Rich Get Busy and the Poor Get Poorer (0)
- 08: Freakonomics Moves to The New York Times (0)
- 08: Rowling Reads From New Harry Potter (2)
- 06: Bestselling Novelist Sells Story Ideas for $1 (0)
- 06: How to Make Your Podcasts More Mobile (0)
- 05: Weekly Wrap – August 5 (0)
- 04: Sci Fi with a French Twist (1)
- 03: The Fifteen Minute Book Machine (2)
- 02: What Books Made a Difference? (Yes, We’re Talking to You) (63)
- July 2007 (33)
- 31: The War of the Worlds on Podcast: How H.G. Wells and Orson Welles Riveted A Nation (12)
- 31: The Digital Encyclopedia of Life (3)
- 30: The Worst Sentence Awards (1)
- 30: The New Yorker Magazine Crosses the Digital Divide (1)
- 30: Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89 (1)
- 28: America’s Philosopher President (0)
- 27: Wolf Brother: Serial Literary Entertainment (0)
- 25: The Plot Against FDR: Stranger than Fiction (1)
- 25: Straight Talk about Stem Cells: Another Stanford Course via Podcast (0)
- 24: University Course Collection Now Updated with RSS Feeds (1)
- 24: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex …. (3)
- 23: Filling the Idea Void in Iraq (2)
- 22: Stephen Colbert on Books (1)
- 20: The Rise of the Cultureboxes, Part III: The iPhone (0)
- 19: The Rise of the Cultureboxes, Part 2: Tivo (0)
- 19: Sneak Preview of Nobel Winner’s Next Novel (0)
- 18: The Rise of the Cultureboxes, Part 1: The Xbox (0)
- 17: Radio Lab: A Great Science Podcast (2)
- 16: The Future of the Internet: A New Stanford Course (4)
- 15: Weekly Wrap – July 15 (0)
- 14: The Cult of the Amateur: A Short Review (and a Free Book) (3)
- 13: The Decline and Fall of the Roman (and American?) Empire: A Free Audiobook (7)
- 13: Elvis Costello: The First Ten Years Podcast (0)
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- 05: Radio Open Source Goes Radio Silent (0)
- 04: Off For the Fourth (0)
- 02: Michael Moore’s “Sicko” — Fox Likes It More Than Google? (0)
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- 30: Weekly Wrap – June 30 (0)
- 29: Colbert Gives iPhone Zero Stars (1)
- 28: What Feed Readers Don’t See on Open Culture (0)
- 27: Philosophy Bites (0)
- 26: Miles and Coltrane on YouTube: The Jazz Greats (4)
- 24: French Podcasts – Learn French (0)
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- 24: Weekly Wrap – June 24 (0)
- 23: The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes – June 22 (1)
- 22: The Trouble with Judas (1)
- 21: James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Free Podcast (8)
- 20: University Podcasts: The New Video Wave on iTunes (2)
- 19: The Salman Rusdie Affair: Part II (0)
- 17: New Look on WordPress (3)
- 17: Did Tony Get Whacked? (And The First Full Episode of John From Cincinnati) (2)
- 16: Reader Favorites (0)
- 14: MP3 Music Blogs: For Your Listening Pleasure (24)
- 13: Bill Clinton at Harvard (1)
- 12: David Chase Speaks (1)
- 11: Richard Rorty: 1931 – 2007 (3)
- 10: Weekly Wrap – June 10 (0)
- 09: Interview with Khaled Hosseini (in Video) (1)
- 08: Audio Library (13)
- 07: Author Talks on Podcasts (0)
- 07: A Whole Lotta Chomsky (0)
- 06: D-Day Relived in Real Time (0)
- 06: We’re Talking University Podcasts (0)
- 05: Books That Writers Recommend (1)
- 04: A History of the West: 52 Free Videos (0)
- 02: The Cannes Film Festival: 60 Years of Images (0)
- 02: Best of Open Culture – May (0)
- 01: The Cannes Film Festival Re-Cap (0)
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- 31: iTunes U & What It Means For You (2)
- 30: 10 Free University Courses on iTunes (4)
- 29: Who Didn’t See This One Coming? (3)
- 29: Talks from the 92nd Street Y (0)
- 28: French Lessons from the BBC and the Peace Corps (1)
- 26: Weekly Wrap – May 19 (0)
- 25: Fonts of Fame (0)
- 25: What Pirates Can Teach Us about Democracy (1)
- 24: New Books on Mp3 (For Free) (0)
- 23: YouTube’s Impact on the 2008 Election: The Hype and the Fact (2)
- 21: Art Blogs – A New Addition to the Culture Blogs Family (5)
- 21: Who Killed JFK? Two New Studies (2)
- 21: New Online Writing Courses from Stanford (0)
- 20: U2 Plays @ The Cannes Film Festival (1)
- 19: Weekly Wrap – May 19 (0)
- 18: The Book World Goes Sensibly Digital (2)
- 17: Smart Links (0)
- 17: A Little Lifehacker Love (1)
- 16: The Skinny on Second Life (2)
- 15: Climate Crisis, the Happiness Conundrum & the Evolution of Religions: TED Talks on YouTube (10)
- 15: Serving Up 25 Music Blogs (1)
- 14: America’s Perception Problem in the Middle East (0)
- 14: The Portable University (0)
- 14: Free Classical Music Podcasts (3)
- 11: The Death of the Book Review? (0)
- 11: 25 Blogs for Movie Buffs (3)
- 10: George Tenet’s Defense (0)
- 10: The Great God Debate (0)
- 09: 20+ Great Book & Literature Blogs
- 08: The Supreme Court Goes Digital (0)
- 06: John Stewart: When Comedians Start Asking the Tough Questions (0)
- 06: Oh the Humanity (0)
- 05: Spiderman 3: Web Roundup (2)
- 05: Weekly Wrap – May 4 (0)
- 04: Vintage Radio Archive: The Lone Ranger, Abbott & Costello, and Bob Hope (2)
- 03: David Byrne and Daniel Levitin Have Music on the Brain (0)
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- 02: Great Writers on Free Speech and the Environment (0)
- 02: What Culture Blogs Are You Reading? (0)
- 02: What Genius Looks Like at Zero Gravity (3)
- 01: Five Stanford Courses Available as Free Podcasts on iTunes (2)
- April 2007 (41)
- 30: 10 Unexpected Uses of the iPod (54)
- 28: Authors@Google: Video Talks From the Epicenter of the Universe (2)
- 27: Weekly Wrap – April 27 (0)
- 27: David Halberstam’s Last Speech and Supper (1)
- 26: Richard Dawkins on Bill O’Reilly: How It Went Down (2)
- 26: Rare Ezra Pound Recordings Now Online (1)
- 24: A Better Way to Read News and Blogs (2)
- 24: The Pirates of Silicon Valley Courtesy (?) of Google Video (0)
- 23: Stanford Rolls Out Another Podcast Course and a New iTunes Look (2)
- 20: 20 Audio Lessons That Will Teach You Spanish, French, Italian and German (22)
- 20: Where the American Press Went Wrong on the Iraq War: Bill Moyers Returns to TV Next Week (0)
- 19: How Web 2.0 Will Transform the Humanities (0)
- 19: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play Ready to Download and Sync (0)
- 19: 2007 Pulitzer Prizes Announced (0)
- 18: Podcasts That Book Fans Can Groove On (0)
- 18: iTunes Freebies From Around the World (0)
- 18: Joni Mitchell on “When Free is Not Enough” (0)
- 17: Joshua Bell Plays Multimillion Dollar Fiddle in D.C. Metro (0)
- 17: Pop!Tech Pop!Casts (and Some New TED Talks) (0)
- 16: How Einstein Became Einstein (1)
- 15: Jazz Podcasts – A New Collection Begins (5)
- 14: Houdini Photo Retrospective (0)
- 13: The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes – April 13 (0)
- 13: Steve Jobs on Life (11)
- 12: Kurt Vonnegut in Second Life (0)
- 12: Touring Great Cities with Podcasts (0)
- 11: Podcasts for Slower, Better Thinking (1)
- 10: E-learning Programs from Top American Universities (2)
- 09: New SciFi and Horror Podcasts (2)
- 09: Sopranos – All 6 Seasons Recapped in a 7 Minute Video (1)
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- 06: Learning English with Free Audio Lessons (ESL) (6)
- 06: Indie films for Your Apple TV (0)
- 05: The War of the Worlds on Podcast: How H.G. Wells and Orson Welles Riveted A Nation (0)
- 05: The Lost Orson Welles Film Likely Coming to a Theatre Near You (0)
- 04: The Sucking Sound at The Wall Street Journal (0)
- 03: Nietzsche, Melville, Jane Austen & More: The Latest Audio Book Classics Released by Librivox (0)
- 02: Shakespeare and the Uses of Political Power (0)
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- 30: Weekly Wrap Up – March 30 (0)
- 30: Atheists for Jesus, or Really a Debate Over Whether Religion and Science Can Get Along (0)
- 29: 25 Smart Video Podcasts That You Can Watch on Apple TV (0)
- 28: Wikipedia’s (Sometimes Dirty) Little Secret (7)
- 27: Starting Startups: A Free Course (and More) for the Entrepreneur (6)
- 26: Apple TV: Turn Your TV into a Smart Box (0)
- 25: The First Episode of This American Life: A Sneak Peek (0)
- 25: The Health Benefits of the iPod (0)
- 23: Weekly Wrap Up – March 23 (0)
- 23: Oxford University Takes to iTunes (0)
- 23: Oodles of Google Video Documentaries (2)
- 22: Mr. Gore Goes Back to Washington (0)
- 21: The YouTube Threat to iTunes? (1)
- 21: The New Psychology of Success (4)
- 20: America’s Shadow Army in Iraq (1)
- 20: The Next Fifty Years of Science, and Other Videos from Googleplex (0)
- 19: Podcast Tutorial (2)
- 19: Podcasts from Top American Law Schools (14)
- 17: Weekly Wrap Up – March 16 (0)
- 16: Has Stephen Hawking Been Wrong For The Last 30 Years? (3)
- 15: My Trip to Al Qaeda: A New Yorker Video (0)
- 14: Smart Links (4)
- 14: BondCast (AKA a James Bond Podcast) (0)
- 12: The Problem with GooTube (and Inside Iran) (1)
- 10: 25 UC Berkeley Courses Available via Free Video (30)
- 10: Weekly Wrap Up – March 9 (0)
- 09: Bono, Richard Dawkins and Al Gore Speaking at TED (1)
- 08: The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes (0)
- 08: The Famous Stanford Prison Experiment on YouTube (13)
- 07: “Is America Too Damn Religious?” (A Debate) (1)
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- 05: This American Life Goes Hollywood (or Something Like That) (1)
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- 28: 101 Early Wallace Stevens Poems on Free Audio (5)
- 28: The Podcast Library (2)
- 28: Einstein’s E = mc2 Explained (5)
- 27: The Big Picture: Who Won and Lost in Iraq (0)
- 26: Stanford Online Writing Courses: Now Open for Registration (1)
- 26: The New Yorker Magazine’s Famous Cartoons Now Available on Podcast (1)
- 26: More Free Classical Music Podcasts: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and Some Yo-Yo Ma (4)
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- 23: University Video Collections (2)
- 23: Goodies from Our Readers – Take 1 (1)
- 22: The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes (0)
- 21: Part 4: Learning the Languages of the New World Powers – China (2)
- 20: Steve Jobs on DRM: The Business Strategy Behind the Manifesto (0)
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- 19: Part 2: Learning the Languages of the New World Powers – Russian (1)
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- 16: Weekly Wrap-Up – Feb. 16 (0)
- 16: Is America Broken?: A Talk with The Economist’s New Editor-in-Chief (0)
- 16: Business School Podcast Collection – Download MBA Podcasts and other Business Podcasts (2)
- 15: Jazz Great Sonny Rollins on iTunes and Youtube (0)
- 15: The Lowdown on the Shiite-Sunni Divide (1)
- 14: A Mother Lode of Public Radio Podcasts (0)
- 13: Welcome to the Islamic Reformation (and How to Make Sense of bin Laden) (0)
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- 07: Next Stop Iran? Podcast Perspectives from Two Sets of Experts (4)
- 06: Pirating The Long Tail: The Audio Book Dilemma (3)
- 06: New Italian and German Audio Lessons (Plus English as a Second Language) (1)
- 05: A Little Book Junkie Fix (0)
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- 30: Harvard Now on iTunes: A New Model for University Podcasts? (2)
- 30: 45 Free Cutting-Edge Books … Courtesy of Creative Commons (10)
- 30: Norman Mailer’s Fuhrer in MultiMedia (0)
- 29: Digital MBA: America’s Best Business Schools on Your iPod (8)
- 26: The Sundance Film Festival on iTunes and YouTube (0)
- 25: Enlightenment on iTunes: The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (2)
- 25: Pluggd’s State of the Union Address (0)
- 22: Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture: Available in Text or Audio (For Free) (0)
- 20: Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Manet Go Digital: Art Museum Podcasts on iTunes (3)
- 19: 10 Excellent University Podcasts (1)
- 19: Why 160 Scientists Are Optimistic in 2007 (1)
- 18: The Ancient Greek Who Speaks to All History and Military Buffs (0)
- 17: Open Culture Podcast Directories Viewable in Feed Readers (1)
- 17: Ali G at Harvard; or How Sacha Baron Cohen Got Blessed by America’s Cultural Establishment (3)
- 17: How to Get Started Podcasting on Your Campus (0)
- 15: Digital MBA: America’s Best Business Schools on Your iPod (1)
- 15: The American Idol for Thinking People: The New Twist on Book Publishing (1)
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- 12: Steve Jobs Presents the iPhone and the Podcast World Reacts (0)
- 12: Podcasts to Hit Inflection Point in ’07 (2)
- 11: Worldly Citizens Take Notice (1)
- 10: The Art of Reading a Poem (According to Harold Bloom) (6)
- 08: 50+ Free Courses from UC Berkeley on iTunes (6)
- 06: The #3 Podcast on iTunes: Coffee Break Spanish & The Threat to Traditional Media (0)
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- 05: A Mention in the Christian Science Monitor (0)
- 04: Free Beethoven and Mozart Recordings via Podcast (9)
- 02: Culture Kiosque: The Euro Guide to Culture (0)
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- 31: Making Your Own Podcasts: Resources to Get You Started (0)
- 29: Philip Roth’s Everyman and Beyond (0)
- 28: A World Without Net Neutrality (0)
- 27: Open Culture Podcast Collection Gets Some Play on Diggnation Podcast (0)
- 26: Philosophy Talk and Intelligent Design (0)
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- 14: MIT Brings Science & Technology Courses to Your Home (4)
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- 01: Coltrane Spotify Sample (0)
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- 30: The Thinking Man’s iPod (1)
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- 28: The Nobel Prize in Literature: Who is Orhan Pamuk? (1)
- 25: The Wealth of Nations (0)
- 24: Podcasting Taking Off Slowly … But Certainly (0)
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