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• The “Feynman Technique” for Studying Effectively: An Animated Primer, 24 Mar 2020 in Education&Physics&Productivity&Science
• Japanese Artist Has Drawn Every Meal He’s Eaten for 32 Years: Behold the Delicious Illustrations of Itsuo Kobayashi, 24 Mar 2020 in Art&Food & Drink
• How a Virus Spreads, and How to Avoid It: A Former NASA Engineer Demonstrates with a Blacklight in a Classroom, 20 Mar 2020 in Biology&Health
• The Books We Can Use to Rebuild Civilization, Selected by Neal Stephenson, Brian Eno, Tim O’Reilly & More, 19 Mar 2020 in Books
• Live Performers Now Streaming Shows, from their Homes to Yours: Neil Young, Coldplay, Broadway Stars, Metropolitan Operas & More, 18 Mar 2020 in Music&Theatre
• A 5‑Hour, One-Take Cinematic Tour of Russia’s Hermitage Museum, Shot Entirely on an iPhone, 17 Mar 2020 in Museums&Technology
• Use Your Time in Isolation to Learn Everything You’ve Always Wanted To: Free Online Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Coloring Books & More, 16 Mar 2020 in Education&Online Courses
• Why You Should Read The Plague, the Albert Camus Novel the Coronavirus Has Made a Bestseller Again, 13 Mar 2020 in Literature
• The History of the Plague: Every Major Epidemic in an Animated Map, 12 Mar 2020 in Health&History&Maps
• Take a Drive Through 1940s, 50s & 60s Los Angeles with Vintage Through-the-Car-Window Films, 11 Mar 2020 in History&Travel
• See How Traditional Japanese Carpenters Can Build a Whole Building Using No Nails or Screws, 10 Mar 2020 in Architecture
• Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison Film Captured It in Action, 09 Mar 2020 in History&Technology
• Hear H.P. Lovecraft Horror Stories Read by Roddy McDowall, 06 Mar 2020 in Literature
• The Earth Archive Will 3D-Scan the Entire World & Create an “Open-Source” Record of Our Planet, 05 Mar 2020 in Environment&Science
• Meet ‘The Afronauts’: An Introduction to Zambia’s Forgotten 1960s Space Program, 04 Mar 2020 in History&Science
• An Interactive Social Network of Abstract Artists: Kandinsky, Picasso, Brancusi & Many More, 03 Mar 2020 in Art&History
• Chinese Museums, Closed by the Coronavirus, Put Their Exhibitions Online, 02 Mar 2020 in Museums
• The Story of Physics Animated in 4 Minutes: From Galileo and Newton, to Einstein, 28 Feb 2020 in History&Physics
• Bernie Sanders Time as an Educational Filmmaker: Watch His Documentary on Socialist Activist Eugene V. Debs (1979), 27 Feb 2020 in Film&History&Politics
• How France Invented a Popular, Profitable Internet of Its Own in the 80s: The Rise and Fall of Minitel, 26 Feb 2020 in History&Technology
• Watch the Spectacular Hieronymus Bosch Parade, Which Floats Through the Garden of Earthly Delights Painter’s Hometown Every Year, 25 Feb 2020 in Art
• Wes Anderson’s Shorts Films & Commercials: A Playlist of 8 Short Andersonian Works, 24 Feb 2020 in Film
• Hunter Thompson Died 15 Years Ago: Hear Him Remembered by Tom Wolfe, Johnny Depp, Ralph Steadman, and Others, 21 Feb 2020 in Literature
• Salvador Dalí Strolls onto The Dick Cavett Show with an Anteater, Then Talks About Dreams & Surrealism, the Golden Ratio & More (1970), 20 Feb 2020 in Art&Television
• Use the “Eisenhower Matrix” to Manage Your Time & Increase Your Productivity: The System Designed by the 34th President of the United States, 19 Feb 2020 in Life&Productivity
• Watch More Than 400 Classic Korean Films Free Online Thanks to the Korean Film Archive, 18 Feb 2020 in Archives&Film
• Explore Ancient Athens 3D, a Digital Reconstruction of the Greek City-State at the Height of Its Influence, 17 Feb 2020 in Architecture&History
• Watch This Year’s Oscar-Winning Short The Neighbor’s Window, a Surprising Tale of Urban Voyeurism, 14 Feb 2020 in Film
• Wes Anderson Releases the Official Trailer for His New Film, The French Dispatch: Watch It Online, 13 Feb 2020 in Film
• David Bowie Became Ziggy Stardust 48 Years Ago This Week: Watch Original Footage, 12 Feb 2020 in History&Music
• The Biodiversity Heritage Library Makes 150,000 High-Res Illustrations of the Natural World Free to Download, 11 Feb 2020 in Archives&Art&Nature
• Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece, Featuring 4,000 Illustrations: See Them Online, 10 Feb 2020 in Art&Books&Sci Fi
• Daphne Oram Created the BBC’s First-Ever Piece of Electronic Music (1957), 07 Feb 2020 in History&Music&Television
• The Graphic Novel Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, 06 Feb 2020 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Literature
• The Met Puts 650+ Japanese Illustrated Books Online: Marvel at Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji and More, 05 Feb 2020 in Archives&Art&Books
• 36,000 Flash Games Have Been Archived and Saved Before Flash Goes Extinct: Play Them Offline, 04 Feb 2020 in Archives&Video Games
• How Walter Murch Revolutionized the Sound of Modern Cinema: A New Video Essay Explores His Innovations in American Graffiti, The Godfather & More, 03 Feb 2020 in Film
• Monty Python Pays Tribute to Terry Jones: Watch Their Montage of Jones’ Beloved Characters in Action, 31 Jan 2020 in Comedy
• Why the Soviets Doctored Their Most Iconic World War II Victory Photo, “Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag”, 30 Jan 2020 in History&Photography
• The e‑Book Imagined in 1935, 29 Jan 2020 in Books&History&Technology
• The Secret of the “Perfect Montage” at the Heart of Parasite, the Korean Film Now Sweeping World Cinema, 28 Jan 2020 in Film
• China’s 8,000 Terracotta Warriors: An Animated & Interactive Introduction to a Great Archaeological Discovery, 27 Jan 2020 in Art&History
• A Concise Breakdown of How Time Travel Works in Popular Movies, Books & TV Shows, 24 Jan 2020 in Film&Literature&Sci Fi
• The Flute of Shame: Discover the Instrument/Device Used to Publicly Humiliate Bad Musicians During the Medieval Period, 23 Jan 2020 in History&Music
• The First Real Museum of Philosophy Prepares to Launch: See the Museo della Filosofia in Milan, 22 Jan 2020 in Museums&Philosophy
• Can You Spot Liars Through Their Body Language? A Former FBI Agent Breaks Down the Clues in Non-Verbal Communication, 21 Jan 2020 in Psychology
• How to Draw Like an Architect: An Introduction in Six Videos, 20 Jan 2020 in Architecture&Art
• Hear Christopher Tolkien (RIP) Read the Work of His Father J.R.R. Tolkien, Which He Tirelessly Worked to Preserve, 17 Jan 2020 in Books&Literature
• How Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Incited a Riot? An Animated Introduction, 16 Jan 2020 in Dance&History&Music
• How Sam Mendes’ WWI Film 1917 Was Made to Look Like One Long, Harrowing Shot, 15 Jan 2020 in Film
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Inventions Come to Life as Museum-Quality, Workable Models: A Swing Bridge, Scythed Chariot, Perpetual Motion Machine & More, 14 Jan 2020 in History&Physics&Technology
• Discover the Apprehension Engine: Brian Eno Called It “the Most Terrifying Musical Instrument of All Time”, 13 Jan 2020 in Music
• 14 Paris Museums Put 390,000 Works of Art Online: Download Classics by Monet, Cézanne & More, 10 Jan 2020 in Archives&Art&Museums
• The Art & Philosophy of Bonsai, 09 Jan 2020 in Art&Nature&Philosophy
• A Map of the Disney Entertainment Empire Reveals the Deep Connections Between Its Movies, Its Merchandise, Disneyland & More (1967), 08 Jan 2020 in Business&Comics/Cartoons&Film&Television
• Watch Peluca, the Student Film That Became the Cultural Phenomenon Napoleon Dynamite (2002), 07 Jan 2020 in Film
• The Vatican Library Goes Online and Digitizes Tens of Thousands of Manuscripts, Books, Coins, and More, 06 Jan 2020 in Books&History
• How Anna Karina (RIP) Became the Mesmerizing Face of the French New Wave, 03 Jan 2020 in Film
• The Music, Books & Films Liberated into the Public Domain in 2020: Rhapsody in Blue, The Magic Mountain, Sherlock, Jr., and More, 02 Jan 2020 in Books&Film&Music
• RIP Syd Mead: Revisit the Life and & Art of the Designer Behind Blade Runner, Alien & More, 01 Jan 2020 in Art&Film&Sci Fi
• A Recently-Discovered 44,000-Year-Old Cave Painting Tells the Oldest Known Story, 31 Dec 2019 in Art&History
• Why You Should Read Dune: An Animated Introduction to Frank Herbert’s Ecological, Psychological Sci-Fi Epic, 30 Dec 2019 in Animation&Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book Your Name? Robot, Created by Tarkovsky Art Director Mikhail Romadin (1979), 27 Dec 2019 in Art&Books
• Watch Annie Leibovitz Photograph and Get Scolded by Queen Elizabeth: “What Do You Think This Is?”, 26 Dec 2019 in Photography
• Hear Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas Carol Just as Dickens Read It, 25 Dec 2019 in Audio Books&History&Literature
• When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960), 25 Dec 2019 in Art&History
• Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Most Troubling Christmas Film Ever Made, 24 Dec 2019 in Film
• A Beautiful New Book of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Visual History of 200 Japanese Masterpieces Created Between 1680 and 1938, 23 Dec 2019 in Art&Books
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication in a New Online Course, 20 Dec 2019 in Online Courses&Science
• The Zen of Bill Murray: I Want to Be “Really Here, Really in It, Really Alive in the Moment”, 19 Dec 2019 in Life&Philosophy&Religion
• Why the University of Chicago Rejected Kurt Vonnegut’s Master’s Thesis (and How a Novel Got Him His Degree 27 Years Later), 18 Dec 2019 in Literature&Writing
• Seven Videos Explain How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Expressed American Loneliness and Alienation, 17 Dec 2019 in Art
• How Andrew Wyeth Made a Painting: A Journey Into His Best-Known Work Christina’s World, 16 Dec 2019 in Art
• “Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski, 13 Dec 2019 in Creativity&Life&Literature
• Malcolm Gladwell Admits His Insatiable Love for Thriller Novels and Recommends His Favorites, 12 Dec 2019 in Books
• David Lynch Turns Twin Peaks into a Virtual Reality Game: Watch the Official Trailer, 11 Dec 2019 in Games&Technology&Television
• How Martin Scorsese Directs a Movie: The Techniques Behind Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and More, 10 Dec 2019 in Film
• How to Improve Your Memory: Four TED Talks Explain the Techniques to Remember Anything, 09 Dec 2019 in Psychology&TED Talks
• David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling & Humor His New Masterclass, 06 Dec 2019 in Online Courses&Writing
• For the First Time, Studio Ghibli’s Entire Catalog Will Soon Be Available for Digital Purchase, 05 Dec 2019 in Animation&Film
• Kabuki Star Wars: Watch The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi Reinterpreted by Japan’s Most Famous Kabuki Actor, 04 Dec 2019 in Film&Sci Fi&Theatre
• Clive James & Jonathan Miller (Both RIP) Talk Together About How the Brain Works, 03 Dec 2019 in Neuroscience&Podcasts
• Watch a Hand-Drawn Animation of Neil Gaiman’s Poem “The Mushroom Hunters,” Narrated by Amanda Palmer, 02 Dec 2019 in Animation&Poetry&Science
• The Dream-Driven Filmmaking of Werner Herzog: Watch the Video Essay, “The Inner Chronicle of What We Are: Understanding Werner Herzog”, 29 Nov 2019 in Film
• The Isamu Noguchi Museum Puts Online an Archive of 60,000 Photographs, Manuscripts & Digitized Drawings by the Japanese Sculptor, 28 Nov 2019 in Archives&Art
• The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912): The Truly Weird Origin of Modern Stop-Motion Animation, 27 Nov 2019 in Animation&Film&History
• Watch 21 Animated Ideas from Big Thinkers: Steven Pinker, Carol Dweck, Philip Zimbardo, David Harvey & More, 26 Nov 2019 in Animation&Economics&Education&Psychology
• What Is Higher Consciousness?: How We Can Transcend Our Petty, Day-to-Day Desires and Gain a Deeper Wisdom, 25 Nov 2019 in Neuroscience&Philosophy&Psychology
• Neurosymphony: A High-Resolution Look into the Brain, Set to the Music of Brain Waves, 22 Nov 2019 in Neuroscience
• Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Explained in Animation, 21 Nov 2019 in Astronomy&Physics&Science
• 10 Paintings by Edward Hopper, the Most Cinematic American Painter of All, Turned into Animated GIFs, 20 Nov 2019 in Animation&Art
• Quentin Tarantino’s World War II Reading List, 19 Nov 2019 in Books&Film&History
• What Ancient Chinese Sounded Like — and How We Know It: An Animated Introduction, 18 Nov 2019 in History
• Download Hellvetica, a Font that Makes the Elegant Spacing of Helvetica Look as Ugly as Possible, 15 Nov 2019 in Design
• The First High-Resolution Map of America’s Food Supply Chain: How It All Really Gets from Farm to Table, 14 Nov 2019 in Food & Drink&Maps
• The Virtual Choir: Watch a Choir Conductor Digitally Unite 3500 Singers from Around the World, 13 Nov 2019 in Music&Technology
• An MRI Shows How a Singer Sings Two Tones at Once (With the Music of Mozart and Brian Eno), 12 Nov 2019 in Music
• Why David Sedaris Hates America’s Favorite Word, “Awesome”, 11 Nov 2019 in English Language
• A Map of How the Word “Tea” Spread Across the World, 08 Nov 2019 in Food & Drink&History
• The Benefits of Boredom: How to Stop Distracting Yourself and Get Creative Ideas Again, 07 Nov 2019 in Creativity&Neuroscience&Psychology
• Comic Sans Turns 25: Graphic Designer Vincent Connare Explains Why He Created the Most Hated Font in the World, 06 Nov 2019 in Design
• Watch J.S. Bach’s “Air on the G String” Played on the Actual Instruments from His Time, 05 Nov 2019 in Music
• The Very First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon, Taken 60 Years Ago, 05 Nov 2019 in Astronomy&History&Photography
• The Entire History of the British Isles Animated: 42,000 BCE to Today, 01 Nov 2019 in Animation&History
• Bowie’s Bookshelf: A New Essay Collection on The 100 Books That Changed David Bowie’s Life, 31 Oct 2019 in Books&Music
• Watch the Opening of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with the Original, Unused Score, 30 Oct 2019 in Film&Music
• The Beauty of Degraded Art: Why We Like Scratchy Vinyl, Grainy Film, Wobbly VHS & Other Analog-Media Imperfection, 29 Oct 2019 in Art&Film&Music
• Explore 1400 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh–and Much More–at the Van Gogh Museum’s Online Collection, 28 Oct 2019 in Art&Museums
• Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: The Occult Meets Surrealism in a Classic Tarot Card Deck, 26 Oct 2019 in Art&Books
• A Flowchart of Philosophical Novels: Reading Recommendations from Haruki Murakami to Don DeLillo, 25 Oct 2019 in Literature&Philosophy
• The Provocative Art of Modern Sketch, the Magazine That Captured the Cultural Explosion of 1930s Shanghai, 24 Oct 2019 in Art&History&Magazines
• The First Faked Photograph (1840), 22 Oct 2019 in History&Photography
• 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, 21 Oct 2019 in Games&Internet Archive
• Banksy Launches a New Online Store: Make Purchases Through October 28, 18 Oct 2019 in Art
• The Politics & Philosophy of the Bauhaus Design Movement: A Short Introduction, 17 Oct 2019 in Art&Design&History&Politics
• How Magazine Pages Were Created Before Computers: A Veteran of the London Review of Books Demonstrates the Meticulous, Manual Process, 16 Oct 2019 in Design&History&Magazines
• Fight Club Came Out 20 Years Ago Today: Watch Five Video Essays on the Film’s Philosophy and Lasting Influence, 15 Oct 2019 in Film
• MIT Researchers 3D Print a Bridge Imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in 1502— and Prove That It Actually Works, 15 Oct 2019 in History&MIT&Technology
• William Burroughs Meets Francis Bacon: See Never-Broadcast Footage (1982), 14 Oct 2019 in Art&Literature&Television
• H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds Becomes a New BBC Miniseries Set in Edwardian England, 14 Oct 2019 in Literature&Sci Fi&Television
• Where Did Human Beings Come From? 7 Million Years of Human Evolution Visualized in Six Minutes, 10 Oct 2019 in Biology
• Watch 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki Free Online: A Four Part-Part Documentary on the Unstoppable Japanese Animator, 09 Oct 2019 in Animation&Film
• Talking Heads Songs Become Midcentury Pulp Novels, Magazines & Advertisements: “Burning Down the House,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and More, 08 Oct 2019 in Art&Design&Music
• 26-Year-Old Steve Jobs Debates the Utopian & Dystopian Promise of the Computer (1981), 08 Oct 2019 in History&Technology
• When Ted Turner Tried to Colorize Citizen Kane: See the Only Surviving Scene from the Great Act of Cinematic Sacrilege, 04 Oct 2019 in Film
• Metropolis Remixed: Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist Sci-Fi Classic Gets Fully Colorized and Dubbed, 02 Oct 2019 in Film&Sci Fi
• Quentin Tarantino Explains How to Write & Direct Movies, 01 Oct 2019 in Film
• The Japanese Fairy Tale Series: The Illustrated Books That Introduced Western Readers to Japanese Tales (1885–1922), 30 Sep 2019 in Art&Books
• Libraries & Archivists Are Digitizing 480,000 Books Published in 20th Century That Are Secretly in the Public Domain, 27 Sep 2019 in Archives&Books&Internet Archive
• A New Kurt Vonnegut Museum Opens in Indianapolis … Right in Time for Banned Books Week, 26 Sep 2019 in Literature&Museums
• The Proper Way to Eat Ramen: A Meditation from the Classic Japanese Comedy Tampopo (1985), 25 Sep 2019 in Film&Food & Drink
• “Thou Shalt Not”: A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Movie Censorship Code, 24 Sep 2019 in Film
• A Brief History of the Great American Road Trip, 24 Sep 2019 in History&Travel
• Wes Anderson Explains How He Writes and Directs Movies, and What Goes Into His Distinctive Filmmaking Style, 23 Sep 2019 in Film
• Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour Teaches a Course on Creativity & Leadership, 19 Sep 2019 in Fashion&Magazines&Online Courses
• Visit the Homes That Great Architects Designed for Themselves: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius & Frank Gehry, 18 Sep 2019 in Architecture
• Art Trips: Visit the Art of Cities Around the World, from Los Angeles & London, to Venice and New York, 17 Sep 2019 in Art&Travel
• How Sergio Leone Made Music an Actor in His Spaghetti Westerns, Creating a Perfect Harmony of Sound & Image, 16 Sep 2019 in Film&Music
• Watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice in Strikingly Restored Footage (1931), 13 Sep 2019 in Film&History&Sports
• Expressionist Dance Costumes from the 1920s, and the Tragic Story of Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt, 12 Sep 2019 in Dance&History