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• A Map Shows What Happens When Our World Gets Four Degrees Warmer: The Colorado River Dries Up, Antarctica Urbanizes, Polynesia Vanishes, 05 Feb 2018 in Environment&Maps&Science
• Behold the Beautiful Pages from a Medieval Monk’s Sketchbook: A Window Into How Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made (1494), 02 Feb 2018 in Art&Books&History
• Discover the Japanese Museum Dedicated to Collecting Rocks That Look Like Human Faces, 01 Feb 2018 in Museums&Nature
• Wim Wenders Explains How Polaroid Photos Ignite His Creative Process and Help Him Capture a Deeper Kind of Truth, 31 Jan 2018 in Film&Photography
• Boston Public Library Launches a Crowdsourced Project to Transcribe 40,000 Documents from Its Anti-Slavery Collection: You Can Now Help, 30 Jan 2018 in History&Libraries
• Carl Sagan’s Syllabus & Final Exam for His Course on Critical Thinking (Cornell, 1986), 29 Jan 2018 in Education&Science
• When Japan’s Top Animators Made a Thrilling Cyberpunk Commercial for Irish Beer: Watch Last Orders (1997), 26 Jan 2018 in Animation&Television
• Read the Shortest Academic Article Ever Written: “The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of ‘Writer’s Block’ ”, 25 Jan 2018 in Psychology&Writing
• Artificial Intelligence Writes a Piece in the Style of Bach: Can You Tell the Difference Between JS Bach and AI Bach?, 24 Jan 2018 in Music&Technology
• The Largest Early Map of the World Gets Assembled for the First Time: See the Huge, Detailed & Fantastical World Map from 1587, 23 Jan 2018 in History&Maps
• A YouTube Channel Completely Devoted to Medieval Sacred Music: Hear Gregorian Chant, Byzantine Chant & More, 22 Jan 2018 in Music&Religion
• Ian McKellen Chokes Up While Reading a Poignant Coming-Out Letter, 19 Jan 2018 in History&Letters&Literature&Uncategorized
• Coursera and Google Launch an Online Certificate Program to Help Students Become IT Professionals & Get Attractive Jobs, 18 Jan 2018 in Online Courses&Technology
• What is the Secret to Living a Long, Happy & Creatively Fulfilling Life?: Discover the Japanese Concept of Ikigai, 17 Jan 2018 in Life&Philosophy
• 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, 16 Jan 2018 in Current Affairs&Politics
• Omoshiroi Blocks: Japanese Memo Pads Reveal Intricate Buildings As The Pages Get Used, 15 Jan 2018 in Design&Technology
• Stream Big Playlists of Music from Haruki Murakami’s Personal Vinyl Collection and His Strange Literary Worlds, 12 Jan 2018 in Books&Literature&Music
• The History of the World in One Video: Every Year from 200,000 BCE to Today, 11 Jan 2018 in Animation&History&Maps
• Notations: John Cage Publishes a Book of Graphic Musical Scores, Featuring Visualizations of Works by Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, The Beatles & More (1969), 10 Jan 2018 in Books&Music
• Watch Gyorgy Ligeti’s Electronic Masterpiece Artikulation Get Brought to Life by Rainer Wehinger’s Brilliant Visual Score, 09 Jan 2018 in Art&Music
• A Map Shows What Every Country in the World Calls Itself in its Own Language: Explore the “Endonyms of the World” Map, 08 Jan 2018 in Maps
• Hear Glenn Gould Channel Marshall McLuhan and Create an Experimental Radio Documentary Analyzing the Pop Music of Petula Clark (1967), 05 Jan 2018 in Music&Radio
• The Story of How Beethoven Helped Make It So That CDs Could Play 74 Minutes of Music, 04 Jan 2018 in Music&Technology
• What Actually Is Bitcoin?: Princeton’s Free Online Course “Bitcoin and Currency Technologies” Provides Much-Needed Answers, 03 Jan 2018 in Computer Science&Economics&Online Courses&Technology
• 5,000+ Photographs by Minor White, One of the 20th Century’s Most Important Photographers, Now Digitized and Available Online, 02 Jan 2018 in Photography
• The David Bowie Book Club Gets Launched by His Son: Read One of Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books Every Month, 01 Jan 2018 in Books
• Listen to Glenn Gould’s Shockingly Experimental Radio Documentary, The Idea of North (1967), 30 Dec 2017 in Radio
• Invisible Cities Illustrated: Artist Illustrates Each and Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel, 28 Dec 2017 in Art&Books
• The Improbable Time When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982), 27 Dec 2017 in Comedy&Television
• 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), 26 Dec 2017 in Books&Travel
• Watch Santa Claus, the Earliest Movie About Santa in Existence (1898), 25 Dec 2017 in Film&History
• Hear the Christmas Carols Made by Alan Turing’s Computer: Cutting-Edge Versions of “Jingle Bells” and “Good King Wenceslas” (1951), 22 Dec 2017 in History&Music&Radio&Technology
• “Inemuri,” the Japanese Art of Taking Power Naps at Work, on the Subway, and Other Public Places, 21 Dec 2017 in Health
• The 1883 Krakatoa Explosion Made the Loudest Sound in History–So Loud It Traveled Around the World Four Times, 20 Dec 2017 in History&Nature
• How to Draw in the Style of Japanese Manga: A Series of Free & Wildly Popular Video Tutorials from Artist Mark Crilley, 19 Dec 2017 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&How to Learn for Free
• The Doodles in Leonardo da Vinci’s Manuscripts Contain His Groundbreaking Theories on the Laws of Friction, Scientists Discover, 18 Dec 2017 in History&Physics
• Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography in Her First Online Course, 15 Dec 2017 in Online Courses&Photography
• The Tree of Modern Art: Elegant Drawing Visualizes the Development of Modern Art from Delacroix to Dalí (1940), 14 Dec 2017 in Art&History&Magazines
• New Iranian Video Game, Engare, Explores the Elegant Geometry of Islamic Art, 13 Dec 2017 in Art&Video Games
• Stream 74 Sun Ra Albums Free Online: Decades of “Space Jazz” and Other Forms of Intergalactic, Afrofuturistic Musical Creativity, 12 Dec 2017 in Music
• The Map of Biology: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Biology Fit Together, 11 Dec 2017 in Biology
• The “True Size” Maps Shows You the Real Size of Every Country (and Will Change Your Mental Picture of the World), 08 Dec 2017 in Maps
• “Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better”: How Samuel Beckett Created the Unlikely Mantra That Inspires Entrepreneurs Today, 07 Dec 2017 in Life&Literature
• How Scientology Works: A Primer Based on a Reading of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Film, The Master, 06 Dec 2017 in Film&Psychology&Religion
• A Salute to Every Frame a Painting: Watch All 28 Episodes of the Finely-Crafted (and Now Concluded) Video Essay Series on Cinema, 05 Dec 2017 in Film
• Hear The Rite of Spring Conducted by Igor Stravinsky Himself: A Vintage Recording from 1929, 04 Dec 2017 in Music
• What Are the Most Effective Strategies for Learning a Foreign Language?: Six TED Talks Provide the Answers, 01 Dec 2017 in Language Lessons&TED Talks
• Carl Van Vechten’s 9,000 Portraits of Great 20th Century Cultural Icons: Billie Holiday, Orson Welles, Dizzy Gillespie & Beyond, 30 Nov 2017 in History&Photography
• A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest, 29 Nov 2017 in Language Lessons
• Lou Reed Sings “Sweet Jane” Live, Julian Schnabel Films It (2006), 28 Nov 2017 in Film&Music
• How American Women “Kickstarted” a Campaign to Give Marie Curie a Gram of Radium, Raising $120,000 in 1921, 27 Nov 2017 in History&Science
• Hear The Cinnamon Bear, the Classic Holiday Radio Series That Has Aired Between Thanksgiving and Christmas for 80 Years, 24 Nov 2017 in Radio
• Watch At the Museum, MoMA’s 8‑Part Documentary on What it Takes to Run a World-Class Museum, 23 Nov 2017 in Art
• 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, 22 Nov 2017 in Art&Technology
• 60-Second Introductions to 12 Groundbreaking Artists: Matisse, Dalí, Duchamp, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko & More, 21 Nov 2017 in Art&History
• Nine Tips from Bill Murray & Cellist Jan Vogler on How to Study Intensely and Optimize Your Learning, 20 Nov 2017 in Education&Life&Music
• How Seinfeld, the Sitcom Famously “About Nothing,” Is Like Gustave Flaubert’s Novels About Nothing, 17 Nov 2017 in Comedy&Literature&Television
• Beautiful & Outlandish Color Illustrations Let Europeans See Exotic Fish for the First Time (1754), 16 Nov 2017 in Books&History&Nature
• How a Korean Potter Found a “Beautiful Life” Through His Art: A Short, Life-Affirming Documentary, 15 Nov 2017 in Art
• What Makes a David Lynch Film Lynchian: A Video Essay, 14 Nov 2017 in Film
• Why Did Leonardo da Vinci Write Backwards? A Look Into the Ultimate Renaissance Man’s “Mirror Writing”, 13 Nov 2017 in Art&History&Writing
• Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Middle-Aged Men: An Investigative Video, 10 Nov 2017 in Art&History
• The Internet Archive “Liberates” Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online, 09 Nov 2017 in Books
• Watch a 17th-Century Portrait Magically Get Restored to Its Brilliant Original Colors, 08 Nov 2017 in Art&History
• 2,000+ Impressionist, Post-impressionist & Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online, Thanks to the Barnes Foundation, 07 Nov 2017 in Archives&Art
• The Elegant Mathematics of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Famous Drawing: An Animated Introduction, 06 Nov 2017 in Art&History&Math
• The Thoth Tarot Deck Designed by Famed Occultist Aleister Crowley, 03 Nov 2017 in Art
• The Philosophy of Rick and Morty: What Everyone’s New Favorite Cartoon Has in Common with Albert Camus, 02 Nov 2017 in Comics/Cartoons&Philosophy&Television
• The Art of the Japanese Teapot: Watch a Master Craftsman at Work, from the Beginning Until the Startling End, 01 Nov 2017 in Art&Food & Drink
• Hear 14 Hours of Weird H.P. Lovecraft Stories on Halloween: “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dunwich Horror” & More, 31 Oct 2017 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Inksect: Award Winning Animation Envisions a Dystopian Future Without Books, Paying Homage to Kafka & Poe, 30 Oct 2017 in Animation&Books
• Three Huge Volumes of Stoic Writings by Seneca Now Free Online, Thanks to Tim Ferriss, 27 Oct 2017 in Philosophy
• Where Did the English Language Come From?: An Animated Introduction, 26 Oct 2017 in English Language&History
• Samuel L. Jackson Teaches Acting in a New Online Course, Drawing on His Iconic Pulp Fiction Performance & Others, 25 Oct 2017 in Film&Online Courses
• The Raven: a Pop-up Book Brings Edgar Allan Poe’s Classic Supernatural Poem to 3D Paper Life, 24 Oct 2017 in Books&Poetry
• How Saxophones Are Made: Two Short Films (Including One by Sesame Street) Take You Inside Saxophone Factories, 23 Oct 2017 in Music&Television
• New Digital Archive Puts Online 4,000 Historic Images of Rome: The Eternal City from the 16th to 20th Centuries, 20 Oct 2017 in Architecture&Archives&Art&History
• 2,000+ Architecture & Art Books You Can Read Free at the Internet Archive, 19 Oct 2017 in Architecture&Art&Books
• The Art of Hand-Drawn Japanese Anime: A Deep Study of How Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira Uses Light, 18 Oct 2017 in Animation&Film
• Ralph Steadman’s Hellish Illustrations for Ray Bradbury’s Classic Dystopian Novel, Fahrenheit 451, 16 Oct 2017 in Art&Books
• An Oral History of the Bauhaus: Hear Rare Interviews (in English) with Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & More, 13 Oct 2017 in Art&Design&History
• Napoleon’s Kindle: See the Miniaturized Traveling Library He Took on Military Campaigns, 12 Oct 2017 in Books&History
• The Existential Philosophy of Cowboy Bebop, the Cult Japanese Anime Series, Explored in a Thoughtful Video Essay, 11 Oct 2017 in Animation&Philosophy&Television
• An Animated Introduction to “the World’s Most Mysterious Book,” the 15th-Century Voynich Manuscript, 10 Oct 2017 in Books&History
• Kintsugi: The Centuries-Old Japanese Craft of Repairing Pottery with Gold & Finding Beauty in Broken Things, 09 Oct 2017 in Art&History&TED Talks
• Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Read John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” and Other Great Works by Shakespeare, Dante & Coleridge, 07 Oct 2017 in Poetry
• How Marilyn Monroe Helped Break Ella Fitzgerald Into the Big Time (1955), 05 Oct 2017 in History&Music
• Three Blade Runner Prequels: Watch Them Online, 04 Oct 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Famously Controversial “Monty Hall Problem” Explained: A Classic Brain Teaser, 03 Oct 2017 in Math&Television
• 1,000+ Historic Japanese Illustrated Books Digitized & Put Online by the Smithsonian: From the Edo & Meji Eras (1600–1912), 02 Oct 2017 in Art&Books&History&Museums
• Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Vivid Illustrations of Jules Verne’s Around the Moon: The First Serious Works of Space Art (1870), 29 Sep 2017 in Art&Books&Sci Fi
• How Did the Egyptians Make Mummies? An Animated Introduction to the Ancient Art of Mummification, 28 Sep 2017 in History
• Watch the New Anime Prequel to Blade Runner 2049, by Famed Japanese Animator Shinichiro Watanabe, 27 Sep 2017 in Animation&Film
• Wes Anderson’s Cinematic Debt to Stanley Kubrick Revealed in a Side-By-Side Comparison, 26 Sep 2017 in Film
• Behold the “Book Wheel”: The Renaissance Invention Created to Make Books Portable & Help Scholars Study Several Books at Once (1588), 25 Sep 2017 in Books&History&Technology
• Watch the New Trailer for Wes Anderson’s Stop Motion Film, Isle of Dogs, Inspired by Akira Kurosawa, 22 Sep 2017 in Animation&Film
• The Smithsonian Design Museum Digitizes 200,000 Objects, Giving You Access to 3,000 Years of Design Innovation & History, 21 Sep 2017 in Art&Design&Museums
• Ridley Scott Walks You Through His Favorite Scene from Blade Runner, 20 Sep 2017 in Film
• New Study Reveals How the Neanderthals Made Super Glue 200,000 Years Ago: The World’s Oldest Synthetic Material, 19 Sep 2017 in History&Technology
• David Lynch Gives Unconventional Advice to Graduates in an Unusual Commencement Address, 18 Sep 2017 in Film
• Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints, 15 Sep 2017 in Art
• Who Painted the First Abstract Painting?: Wassily Kandinsky? Hilma af Klint? Or Another Contender?, 14 Sep 2017 in Art&History
• A First Glimpse of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, Compared with the Real Freddie Mercury Performing at Live Aid in 1985, 13 Sep 2017 in Film&Music
• 1,000-Year-Old Illustrated Guide to the Medicinal Use of Plants Now Digitized & Put Online, 12 Sep 2017 in Books&History
• The Complex Geometry of Islamic Art & Design: A Short Introduction, 11 Sep 2017 in Art&Math
• Watch Werner Herzog’s Very First Film, Herakles, Made When He Was Only 19-Years-Old (1962), 08 Sep 2017 in Film
• Watch Steve Martin Make His First TV Appearance: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1968), 07 Sep 2017 in Comedy&Television
• What Is Freedom? Watch Four Philosophy Animations on Freedom & Free Will Narrated by Harry Shearer, 06 Sep 2017 in Neuroscience&Philosophy
• Gustav Klimt’s Haunting Paintings Get Re-Created in Photographs, Featuring Live Models, Ornate Props & Real Gold, 05 Sep 2017 in Art&Photography
• The 100 Funniest Films of All Time, According to 253 Film Critics from 52 Countries, 04 Sep 2017 in Comedy&Film
• The Tokyoiter: Artists Pay Tribute to the Japanese Capital with New Yorker-Style Magazine Covers, 01 Sep 2017 in Art&Magazines
• Jared Leto Stars in a New Prequel to Blade Runner 2049: Watch It Free Online, 31 Aug 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• Alice in Wonderland Gets Re-Envisioned by a Neural Network in the Style of Paintings By Picasso, van Gogh, Kahlo, O’Keeffe & More, 30 Aug 2017 in Art&Technology
• The Dune Coloring & Activity Books: When David Lynch’s 1984 Film Created Countless Hours of Peculiar Fun for Kids, 29 Aug 2017 in Coloring Books&Film
• The Roman Roads of Britain Visualized as a Subway Map, 28 Aug 2017 in History&Maps
• Three Charles Bukowski Books Illustrated by Robert Crumb: Underground Comic Art Meets Outsider Literature, 25 Aug 2017 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Literature
• The Web Site “Centuries of Sound” is Making a Mixtape for Every Year of Recorded Sound from 1860 to Present, 24 Aug 2017 in History&Music
• Hear What Music Sounds Like When It’s Created by Synthesizers Made with Artificial Intelligence, 23 Aug 2017 in Music&Technology
• Reality Is Nothing But a Hallucination: A Mind-Bending Crash Course on the Neuroscience of Consciousness, 22 Aug 2017 in Neuroscience&TED Talks
• Long Before Photoshop, the Soviets Mastered the Art of Erasing People from Photographs — and History Too, 21 Aug 2017 in History&Photography
• How TV Addles Kids’ Brains: A Short Film Directed by Godfrey Reggio (Maker of Koyaanisqatsi) & Scored by Philip Glass, 18 Aug 2017 in Film&Television
• The Color Palettes of Your Favorite Films: The Royal Tenenbaums, Reservoir Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner & More, 17 Aug 2017 in Film
• Hear 9 Hours of Hans Zimmer Soundtracks: Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight & Much More, 16 Aug 2017 in Film&Music
• Download 400,000 Free Classical Musical Scores & 46,000 Free Classical Recordings from the International Music Score Library Project, 15 Aug 2017 in Music
• An Online Guide to 350 International Art Styles & Movements: An Invaluable Resource for Students & Enthusiasts of Art History, 14 Aug 2017 in Art
• Video Essayist Kogonada Makes His Own Acclaimed Feature Film: Watch His Tributes to Its Inspirations Like Ozu, Linklater & Malick, 11 Aug 2017 in Architecture&Film
• Ray Bradbury Reveals the True Meaning of Fahrenheit 451: It’s Not About Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by TV”, 10 Aug 2017 in Books
• Free: A Crash Course in Design Thinking from Stanford’s Design School, 09 Aug 2017 in Design&Stanford
• Marshall McLuhan Explains Why We’re Blind to How Technology Changes Us, Raising the Question: What Have the Internet & Social Media Done to Us?, 08 Aug 2017 in Media&Technology
• What Happens When the Books in William S. Burroughs’ Personal Library Get Artistically Arranged — with His Own “Cut-Up” Method, 07 Aug 2017 in Art&Books
• Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Account Goes Public, Revealing 600 New Photos & Many Strange Self-Portraits, 04 Aug 2017 in Art&Photography
• How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums, 03 Aug 2017 in Life&Music
• 3D Scans of 7,500 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Download & 3D Print Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More, 02 Aug 2017 in Art&History&Technology
• Métal hurlant: The Hugely Influential French Comic Magazine That Put Moebius on the Map & Changed Sci-Fi Forever, 01 Aug 2017 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Sci Fi
• Accidental Wes Anderson: Every Place in the World with a Wes Anderson Aesthetic Gets Documented by Reddit, 31 Jul 2017 in Design&Film&Photography
• When J.M. Coetzee Secretly Programmed Computers to Write Poetry in the 1960s, 29 Jul 2017 in Literature&Poetry&Technology
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Illustrated by Salvador Dalí in 1969, Finally Gets Reissued, 27 Jul 2017 in Art&Books
• How Did Akira Kurosawa Make Such Powerful & Enduring Films? A Wealth of Video Essays Break Down His Cinematic Genius, 26 Jul 2017 in Film
• H.R. Giger’s Tarot Cards: The Swiss Artist, Famous for His Design Work on Alien, Takes a Journey into the Occult, 25 Jul 2017 in Art&Sci Fi
• Marshall McLuhan Predicts That Electronic Media Will Displace the Book & Create Sweeping Changes in Our Everyday Lives (1960), 24 Jul 2017 in Media&Television