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• Kurt Vonnegut Gives a Sermon on the Foolishness of Nuclear Arms: It’s Timely Again (Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1982), 27 Feb 2017 in History&Politics&Technology&Theatre
• A Free Short Course on How Pixar Uses Physics to Make Its Effects, 24 Feb 2017 in Animation&Film&Technology
• Bertrand Russell Writes an Artful Letter, Stating His Refusal to Debate British Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley (1962), 23 Feb 2017 in History&Letters
• “Stop It and Just DO”: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Advice on Overcoming Creative Blocks, Written by Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse (1965), 22 Feb 2017 in Art&Creativity&Letters
• Slavoj Žižek Expounds on His Hatred of Teaching, Grading Papers, and Particularly Holding Office Hours, 21 Feb 2017 in Education
• Rarely Seen, Very Early Godard Film Surfaces on YouTube, 20 Feb 2017 in Film
• Japanese Priest Tries to Revive Buddhism by Bringing Techno Music into the Temple: Attend a Psychedelic 23-Minute Service, 17 Feb 2017 in Music&Religion
• Hayao Miyazaki Meets Akira Kurosawa: Watch the Titans of Japanese Film in Conversation (1993), 16 Feb 2017 in Animation&Film&Television
• How Machiavelli Really Thought We Should Use Power: Two Animated Videos Provide an Introduction, 15 Feb 2017 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• Martin Scorsese on How “Diversity Guarantees Our Cultural Survival,” in Film and Everything Else, 14 Feb 2017 in Film&Life
• The Velvet Underground’s John Cale Plays Erik Satie’s Vexations on I’ve Got a Secret (1963), 13 Feb 2017 in Music&Television
• Abstract: Netflix’s New Documentary Series About “the Art of Design” Premieres Today, 10 Feb 2017 in Design&Television
• Hunter S. Thompson Gets in a Gunfight with His Neighbor & Dispenses Political Wisdom: “In a Democracy, You Have to Be a Player”, 09 Feb 2017 in Life&Politics
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes 375,000 Images of Fine Art Available Under a Creative Commons License: Download, Use & Remix, 08 Feb 2017 in Art
• David Foster Wallace on What’s Wrong with Postmodernism: A Video Essay, 07 Feb 2017 in Current Affairs&Television
• Discover the 1126 Books in John Cage’s Personal Library: Foucault, Joyce, Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Buckminster Fuller & More, 06 Feb 2017 in Books&Literature&Music&Philosophy
• Kraftwerk Plays a Live 40-Minute Version of their Signature Song “Autobahn:” A Soundtrack for a Long Road Trip (1974), 03 Feb 2017 in Music
• The Filmmaking of Martin Scorsese Demystified in 6 Video Essays, 02 Feb 2017 in Film
• John Cage Had a Surprising Mushroom Obsession (Which Began with His Poverty in the Depression), 01 Feb 2017 in Food & Drink&Music
• Watch “Geometry of Circles,” the Abstract Sesame Street Animation Scored by Philip Glass (1979), 31 Jan 2017 in Animation&Music&Television
• Henry David Thoreau on When Civil Disobedience Against Bad Governments Is Justified: An Animated Introduction, 30 Jan 2017 in History&Politics
• Meet Theda Bara, the First “Vamp” of Cinema, Who Revealed the Erotic Power of the Movies, 27 Jan 2017 in Film&History
• Why Time Seems to Speed Up as We Get Older: What the Research Says, 26 Jan 2017 in Psychology
• Hear Jeremy Irons Read the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (Available for a Limited Time), 25 Jan 2017 in Poetry&Radio
• Hear Kurt Vonnegut Visit the Afterlife & Interview Dead Historical Figures: Isaac Newton, Adolf Hitler, Eugene Debs & More (Audio, 1998), 24 Jan 2017 in History&Radio
• Before Siri & Alexa: Hear the First Attempt to Use a Synthesizer to Recreate the Human Voice (1939), 23 Jan 2017 in Technology
• 12 Million Declassified CIA Documents Now Free Online: Secret Tunnels, UFOs, Psychic Experiments & More, 20 Jan 2017 in History
• Learn What Old Norse Sounded Like, with UC Berkeley’s “Cowboy Professor, Dr. Jackson Crawford, 19 Jan 2017 in History&Language Lessons
• An Animated Introduction to Theodor Adorno & His Critique of Modern Capitalism, 18 Jan 2017 in Philosophy
• David Lynch Explains How Meditation Boosts Our Creativity (Plus Free Resources to Help You Start Meditating), 17 Jan 2017 in Creativity&Film&Health
• Learn Digital Photography with Harvard University’s Free Online Course, 16 Jan 2017 in Online Courses&Photography
• How the World’s Oldest Computer Worked: Reconstructing the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, 13 Jan 2017 in Astronomy&History&Technology
• Mesmerizing GIFs Illustrate the Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery — All Done Without Screws, Nails, or Glue, 12 Jan 2017 in Animation&Architecture&Art
• How the French New Wave Changed Cinema: A Video Introduction to the Films of Godard, Truffaut & Their Fellow Rule-Breakers, 11 Jan 2017 in Film
• Hear a 9,000 Year Old Flute—the World’s Oldest Playable Instrument—Get Played Again, 10 Jan 2017 in History&Music
• An Animated Introduction to the Feminist Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, 09 Jan 2017 in Animation&Gender&Philosophy
• Famed Art Critic Robert Hughes Hosts the Premiere of 20/20, Where Tabloid TV News Began (1978), 06 Jan 2017 in Television
• Franz Kafka’s Existential Parable “Before the Law” Gets Brought to Life in a Striking, Modern Animation, 05 Jan 2017 in Animation&Literature
• Philographics Presents a Visual Dictionary of Philosophy: 95 Philosophical Concepts as Graphic Designs, 04 Jan 2017 in Design&Philosophy
• John Berger (RIP) and Susan Sontag Take Us Inside the Art of Storytelling (1983), 03 Jan 2017 in Literature&Television
• Stream Brian Eno’s “Magnificently Peaceful” New Album Reflection: A Thoughtful Way to Start 2017, 02 Jan 2017 in Music
• Google Lets You Take a 360-Degree Panoramic Tour of Street Art in Cities Across the World, 30 Dec 2016 in Art
• Tuileries: The Coen Brothers’ Short Film About Steve Buscemi’s Very Bad Day in the Paris Metro, 29 Dec 2016 in Film
• Watch Japanese Woodworking Masters Create Elegant & Elaborate Geometric Patterns with Wood, 28 Dec 2016 in Art
• Stephen King Explains the Key to His Creativity: Not Losing the Dream-State Thinking All Children Are Born With, 27 Dec 2016 in Psychology&Writing
• Edward Hopper’s Iconic Painting Nighthawks Explained in a 7‑Minute Video Introduction, 26 Dec 2016 in Art&History
• How the Films of Hayao Miyazaki Work Their Animated Magic, Explained in 4 Video Essays, 23 Dec 2016 in Animation
• Watch a 2‑Year-Old Solve Philosophy’s Famous Ethical “Trolley Problem” (It Doesn’t End Well), 22 Dec 2016 in Philosophy
• Hear “Twas The Night Before Christmas” Read by Stephen Fry & John Cleese, 21 Dec 2016 in Audio Books&Poetry
• M.C. Escher Cover Art for Great Books by Italo Calvino, George Orwell & Jorge Luis Borges, 20 Dec 2016 in Art&Books
• Acclaimed Japanese Jazz Pianist Yōsuke Yamashita Plays a Burning Piano on the Beach, 19 Dec 2016 in Jazz&Music
• Neil Gaiman Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”: One Master of Dramatic Storytelling Reads Another, 16 Dec 2016 in Literature&Poetry
• The Late Alan Thicke Hosts a Twin Peaks Behind-the-Scenes Special (1990), 15 Dec 2016 in Television
• The Surreal Filmmaking of David Lynch Explained in 9 Video Essays, 14 Dec 2016 in Film
• Ansel Adams, Photographer: 1958 Documentary Captures the Creative Process of the Iconic American Photographer, 13 Dec 2016 in Film&Photography
• Discover Lincos, the Language a Dutch Mathematician Invented Just to Talk to Extraterrestrials (1960), 12 Dec 2016 in Astronomy&Language Lessons
• Organization Guru Marie Kondo’s Tips for Dealing with Your Massive Piles of Unread Books (or What They Call in Japan “Tsundoku”), 09 Dec 2016 in Books&Life
• A Complete Reading of George Orwell’s 1984: Aired on Pacifica Radio, 1975, 08 Dec 2016 in Audio Books&Literature&Radio
• 500+William S. Burroughs Book Covers from Across the Globe: 1950s Through the 2010s, 07 Dec 2016 in Art&Books&Literature
• An Introduction to Jean-Luc Godard’s Innovative Filmmaking Through Five Video Essays, 06 Dec 2016 in Film
• Why Making Accurate World Maps Is Mathematically Impossible, 05 Dec 2016 in History&Maps
• Blade Runner Gets Re-Created, Shot for Shot, Using Only Microsoft Paint, 02 Dec 2016 in Art&Film&Sci Fi
• Man Ray Creates a “Surrealist Chessboard,” Featuring Portraits of Surrealist Icons: Dalí, Breton, Picasso, Magritte, Miró & Others (1934), 01 Dec 2016 in Art&Photography
• All of Wes Anderson’s Cinematic Commercials: Watch His Spots for Prada, American Express, H&M & More, 30 Nov 2016 in Film
• Watch Come Together, Wes Anderson’s New Short Film/Commercial Starring Adrien Brody, 29 Nov 2016 in Film
• An Animated Introduction to George Orwell, 28 Nov 2016 in History&Literature
• J.M. Coetzee on the Pleasures of Writing: Total Engagement, Hard Thought & Productiveness, 24 Nov 2016 in Books&Literature&Writing
• Hear a 9‑Hour Tribute to John Peel: A Collection of His Best “Peel Sessions”, 24 Nov 2016 in Music
• How to Know if Your Country Is Heading Toward Despotism: An Educational Film from 1946, 23 Nov 2016 in History&Politics&Yale
• Three Pink Floyd Songs Played on the Traditional Korean Gayageum: “Comfortably Numb,” “Another Brick in the Wall” & “Great Gig in the Sky”, 22 Nov 2016 in Music
• The 10 Favorite Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 21 Nov 2016 in Film
• Franz Kafka Story Gets Adapted into an Award-Winning Australian Short Film: Watch Two Men, 18 Nov 2016 in Film&Literature
• Zen Master Alan Watts Explains What Made Carl Jung Such an Influential Thinker, 17 Nov 2016 in Philosophy&Psychology
• Thomas Edison’s Hugely Ambitious “To-Do” List from 1888, 16 Nov 2016 in History&Technology
• An Animated, Monty Python-Style Introduction to the Søren Kierkegaard, the First Existentialist, 15 Nov 2016 in Philosophy
• Carl Sagan’s Ambitious College Reading List: Plato, Shakespeare, Gide, and Plenty of Philosophy, Math & Physics (1954), 14 Nov 2016 in Books&Science
• Watch Moebius and Miyazaki, Two of the Most Imaginative Artists, in Conversation (2004), 11 Nov 2016 in Animation&Art&Film
• When Franz Kafka Invented the Answering Machine (1913), 10 Nov 2016 in History&Literature&Technology
• Is The Big Lebowski a Great Noir Film? A New Way to Look at the Coen Brothers’ Iconic Movie, 09 Nov 2016 in Film
• Edgar Allan Poe’s the Raven: Watch an Award-Winning Short Film That Modernizes Poe’s Classic Tale, 08 Nov 2016 in Film&Poetry
• Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life in Art, a Short Documentary on the Painter Narrated by Gene Hackman, 07 Nov 2016 in Art
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Incensed Letter to the High School That Burned Slaughterhouse-Five, 04 Nov 2016 in Letters&Literature
• Decoding the Screenplays of The Shining, Moonrise Kingdom & The Dark Knight: Watch Lessons from the Screenplay, 03 Nov 2016 in Film&Writing
• When Akira Kurosawa Watched Solaris with Andrei Tarkovsky: I Was “Very Happy to Find Myself Living on Earth”, 02 Nov 2016 in Film&Sci Fi
• Watch a 20-Year-Old Mikhail Baryshnikov Win Gold in One of His Earliest Performances (1969), 01 Nov 2016 in Dance
• Hear 20 Minutes of Mark Frost’s New Secret History of Twin Peaks, the Book Fans Have Waited 25 Years to Read, 31 Oct 2016 in Audio Books&Books&Television
• The 14-Hour Epic Film, Dune, That Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pink Floyd, Salvador Dalí, Moebius, Orson Welles & Mick Jagger Never Made, 28 Oct 2016 in Film&Sci Fi
• What Happens When Blade Runner & A Scanner Darkly Get Remade with an Artificial Neural Network, 27 Oct 2016 in Film&Sci Fi&Technology
• How Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai Perfected the Cinematic Action Scene: A New Video Essay, 26 Oct 2016 in Film
• Stephen Fry Narrates 4 Philosophy Animations On the Question: How to Create a Just Society?, 25 Oct 2016 in Animation&History&Philosophy
• Hear J.G. Ballard Stories Adapted as Surreal Soundscapes That Put You Inside the Heads of His Characters, 24 Oct 2016 in Literature&Radio&Sci Fi
• Meet the Memphis Group, the Bob Dylan-Inspired Designers of David Bowie’s Favorite Furniture, 21 Oct 2016 in Design&Music
• MoMA’s Artists’ Cookbook (1978) Reveals the Meals of Salvador Dalí, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois & More, 20 Oct 2016 in Art&Books&Food & Drink
• John Cleese & Jonathan Miller Turn Profs Talking About Wittgenstein Into a Classic Comedy Routine (1977), 19 Oct 2016 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 18, 18 Oct 2016 in Life
• Watch a 27-Year-Old Glenn Gould Play Bach & Put His Musical Genius on Display (1959), 17 Oct 2016 in Music
• Hear Raymond Chandler & Ian Fleming–Two Masters of Suspense–Talk with One Another in Rare 1958 Audio, 14 Oct 2016 in Literature&Radio
• How to Fill the Blank Page: Advice from Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell & 5 Other Authors, 13 Oct 2016 in Literature&Writing
• The Night When Charlie Parker Played for Igor Stravinsky (1951), 12 Oct 2016 in Music
• The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Revisit 1980s Documentaries on David Lynch, John Waters, Alejandro Jodorowsky & Other Filmmakers, 11 Oct 2016 in Film
• Henri Matisse Illustrates James Joyce’s Ulysses (1935), 10 Oct 2016 in Art&Books&Literature
• Hear Christopher Walken’s Wonderful Reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, 07 Oct 2016 in Poetry
• Anthony Burgess Names the 99 Best Novels in English Between 1939 & 1983: Orwell, Nabokov, Huxley & More, 06 Oct 2016 in Books&Literature
• Experience Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in Virtual Reality: Download the Free App Created by Queen & Google, 05 Oct 2016 in Music&Technology
• Marshall McLuhan, W.H. Auden & Buckminster Fuller Debate the Virtues of Modern Technology & Media (1971), 04 Oct 2016 in Art&Radio&Television&Theatre
• H.G. Wells Pans Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in a 1927 Movie Review: It’s “the Silliest Film”, 03 Oct 2016 in Film&Sci Fi
• How the Coen Brothers Storyboarded Blood Simple Down to a Tee (1984), 30 Sep 2016 in Film
• Watch John Malkovich Portray David Lynch and Lynch’s Famous Characters from Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More, 29 Sep 2016 in Film
• J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: His 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature, 28 Sep 2016 in Literature
• Charlie Chaplin Finds Comedy Even in the Brutality of WWI: A Scene from Shoulder Arms (1918), 27 Sep 2016 in Film&History
• Akira Kurosawa’s Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers: Write, Write, Write and Read, 26 Sep 2016 in Film&Writing
• The Very First Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1897), 23 Sep 2016 in Art&Magazines&Sci Fi
• An Animated David Lynch Explains Where He Gets His Ideas, 22 Sep 2016 in Film&Psychology
• Frank Lloyd Wright Designs an Urban Utopia: See His Hand-Drawn Sketches of Broadacre City (1932), 21 Sep 2016 in Architecture
• Jorge Luis Borges Creates a List of 16 Ironic Rules for Writing Fiction, 20 Sep 2016 in Literature&Writing
• Every Exhibition Held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Presented in a New Web Site: 1929 to Present, 19 Sep 2016 in Archives&Art&Design
• Hear Waiting for Godot, the Acclaimed 1956 Production Starring The Wizard of Oz’s Bert Lahr, 16 Sep 2016 in Theatre
• “The Wonderground Map of London Town,” the Iconic 1914 Map That Saved the World’s First Subway System, 15 Sep 2016 in History&Maps
• Why Marvel and Other Hollywood Films Have Such Bland Music: Every Frame a Painting Explains the Perils of the “Temp Score”, 14 Sep 2016 in Film&Music
• Deconstructing Saving Private Ryan’s Epic Opening Battle Scene: How Spielberg Captures Chaos with Clarity, 13 Sep 2016 in Film&History
• The History of Spiritual Jazz: Hear a Transcendent 12-Hour Mix Featuring John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock & More, 12 Sep 2016 in Jazz&Music&Religion
• Eadweard Muybridge’s Motion Photography Experiments from the 1870s Presented in 93 Animated Gifs, 09 Sep 2016 in Animation&Photography
• Things to Come, the 1936 Sci-Fi Film Written by H.G. Wells, Accurately Predicts the World’s Very Dark Future, 08 Sep 2016 in Film&History&Sci Fi
• What Makes Vertigo the Best Film of All Time? Four Video Essays (and Martin Scorsese) Explain, 07 Sep 2016 in Film
• Good Morning, Mr. Orwell: Nam June Paik’s Avant-Garde New Year’s Celebration with Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Peter Gabriel & More, 06 Sep 2016 in Art&Television
• The History of Literature Podcast Takes You on a Literary Journey: From Ancient Epics to Contemporary Classics, 05 Sep 2016 in History&Literature&Podcasts
• Malcolm Gladwell on Why Genius Takes Time: A Look at the Making of Elvis Costello’s “Deportee” & Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, 02 Sep 2016 in Music&Podcasts
• How Ancient Greek Statues Really Looked: Research Reveals Their Bold, Bright Colors and Patterns, 01 Sep 2016 in Art&History
• Watch M.C. Escher Make His Final Artistic Creation (1971), 31 Aug 2016 in Art&Math
• Tilda Swinton Gets a Portrait Drawn by Art Critic John Berger, 30 Aug 2016 in Art&Film
• 1850s Japan Comes to Life in 3D, Color Photos: See the Stereoscopic Photography of T. Enami, 29 Aug 2016 in History&Photography
• Angelo Badalamenti Reveals How He and David Lynch Composed the Twin Peaks’ “Love Theme”, 26 Aug 2016 in Music&Television
• Take a Virtual Reality Tour of the World’s Stolen Art, 25 Aug 2016 in Art&Technology
• The Best 100 Movies of the 21st Century (So Far) Named by 177 Film Critics, 24 Aug 2016 in Film
• The History of Photography in Five Animated Minutes: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone, 23 Aug 2016 in Photography
• The Hidden Secrets in “Daydreaming,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Radiohead Music Video, 22 Aug 2016 in Film&Music
• Hear Arthur C. Clarke Read 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Vintage 1976 Vinyl Recording, 19 Aug 2016 in Audio Books&Sci Fi
• When Steve Buscemi Was a Firefighter — and Took It Up Again After 9/11, 18 Aug 2016 in Film&History
• When Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Brought Klaus Nomi, Blondie & Basquiat to Public Access TV (1978–82), 17 Aug 2016 in Music&Television
• Oliver Sacks Explains the Biology of Hallucinations: “We See with the Eyes, But with the Brain as Well”, 16 Aug 2016 in Neuroscience