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• Free: Download Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Short Course, The Inexplicable Universe, in Audio or Video Format, 16 Jul 2015 in Astronomy&Physics&Science
• Andrei Tarkovsky Calls Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey a “Phony” Film “With Only Pretensions to Truth”, 15 Jul 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• 93 Films Stanley Kubrick Really Liked, 14 Jul 2015 in Film
• Vintage 1930s Japanese Posters Artistically Market the Wonders of Travel, 13 Jul 2015 in Art&Travel
• The 321 Books in David Foster Wallace’s Personal Library: From Blood Meridian to Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, 10 Jul 2015 in Books
• Download & Play The Shining Board Game, 09 Jul 2015 in Books
• Pico Iyer on “the Art of Stillness”: How to Enrich Your Busy, Distracted Life by Unplugging and Staying Put, 08 Jul 2015 in Life&TED Talks&Travel
• Blade Runner’s Miniature Props Revealed in 142 Behind-the-Scenes Photos, 07 Jul 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• An Animated Introduction to Michel Foucault, “Philosopher of Power”, 06 Jul 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• William Gibson’s Seminal Cyberpunk Novel, Neuromancer, Dramatized for Radio (2002), 03 Jul 2015 in Radio&Sci Fi
• An 18-Hour Playlist of Readings by the Beats: Kerouac, Ginsberg & Even Bukowski Too, 02 Jul 2015 in Poetry
• Venice in Beautiful Color Images 125 Years Ago: The Rialto Bridge, St. Mark’s Basilica, Doge’s Palace & More, 01 Jul 2015 in History&Photography
• George Orwell Blasts American Fashion Magazines (1946), 30 Jun 2015 in English Language&Magazines
• Dr. Seuss’ World War II Propaganda Films: Your Job in Germany (1945) and Our Job in Japan (1946), 29 Jun 2015 in Film&History
• Fritz Lang Invents the Video Phone in Metropolis (1927), 26 Jun 2015 in Film&Sci Fi&Technology
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Conjugates “to Cocktail,” the Ultimate Jazz-Age Verb (1928), 25 Jun 2015 in English Language&Food & Drink
• Take a Visual Walking Tour of Franz Kafka’s Prague with Will Self (Then Read His Digital Essay, “Kafka’s Wound”), 24 Jun 2015 in Literature&Travel
• Doctoral Dissertation as a Graphic Novel: Read a Free Excerpt of Nick Sousanis’ Unflattening, 23 Jun 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Education
• Did Stanley Kubrick Invent the iPad in 2001: A Space Odyssey?, 22 Jun 2015 in Film&Sci Fi&Technology
• Watch Hayao Miyazaki Animate the Final Shot of His Final Feature Film, The Wind Rises, 19 Jun 2015 in Animation&Film
• Free: Read 9 Travel Books Online by Monty Python’s Michael Palin, 18 Jun 2015 in Television&Travel
• Ralph Steadman’s Warped Illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on the Story’s 150th Anniversary, 17 Jun 2015 in Art&Literature
• Blade Runner Recut with the Sci-Fi Masterpiece’s Unused Original Footage, 16 Jun 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• Isaac Asimov’s Favorite Story “The Last Question” Read by Leonard Nimoy, 15 Jun 2015 in Audio Books&Sci Fi
• Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and From “The Fall of the House of Usher”, 12 Jun 2015 in Film&Literature
• Hear Friedrich Nietzsche’s Classical Piano Compositions: They’re Aphoristic Like His Philosophy, 11 Jun 2015 in Music&Philosophy
• Jim Jarmusch’s 10 Favorite Films: Ozu’s Tokyo Story, Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Other Black & White Classics, 10 Jun 2015 in Film
• The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic, 09 Jun 2015 in Art&Language Lessons
• Watch Lucian Freud’s Very Last Day of Painting (2011), 08 Jun 2015 in Art
• Eugène Delacroix Illustrates Goethe’s Faust, “One of the Very Greatest of All Illustrated Books”, 05 Jun 2015 in Art&Literature
• New Jorge Luis Borges-Inspired Project Will Test Whether Robots Can Appreciate Poetry, 04 Jun 2015 in Poetry&Technology
• Watch 1920s “City Symphonies” Starring the Great Cities of the World: From New York to Berlin to São Paulo, 03 Jun 2015 in Film
• David Bowie Launches His Acting Career in the Avant-Garde Play Pierrot in Turquoise (1967), 02 Jun 2015 in Music&Theatre
• Download the Complete Organ Works of J.S. Bach for Free, 01 Jun 2015 in Music
• Virginia Woolf’s Haunting Suicide Note Read by Actress Louise Brealey, 29 May 2015 in Letters
• Patti Smith’s Polaroids of Artifacts from Virginia Woolf, Arthur Rimbaud, Roberto Bolaño & More, 28 May 2015 in Art&Literature&Photography
• Hear Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley Lecture “The Power of Words”, 27 May 2015 in Music&UC Berkeley
• Rare Video: Georges Bataille Talks About Literature & Evil in His Only TV Interview (1958), 26 May 2015 in Literature&Philosophy&Television
• Mœbius Illustrates Paulo Coelho’s Inspirational Novel The Alchemist (1998), 25 May 2015 in Art&Books
• Astronaut Reads The Divine Comedy on the International Space Station on Dante’s 750th Birthday, 22 May 2015 in Poetry
• The Music of Avant-Garde Composer John Cage Now Available in a Free Online Archive, 21 May 2015 in Music
• Watch Sherlock Hound: Hayao Miyazaki’s Animated, Steampunk Take on Sherlock Holmes, 20 May 2015 in Animation&Television
• William S. Burroughs — Alternative Rock Star — Sings with Kurt Cobain, Tom Waits, REM & More, 19 May 2015 in Music
• The 10 Favorite Films of Avant-Garde Surrealist Filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Including His Own Collaboration with Salvador Dalí), 18 May 2015 in Film
• Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Read Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, 15 May 2015 in Literature&Radio
• Chris Burden (R.I.P.) Turns Late-Night TV Commercials Into Conceptual Art, 14 May 2015 in Art&Television
• Hear Samuel Beckett’s Avant-Garde Radio Plays: All That Fall, Embers, and More, 13 May 2015 in Radio&Theatre
• Nietzsche, Wittgenstein & Sartre Explained with Monty Python-Style Animations by The School of Life, 12 May 2015 in Philosophy
• New Web Site, “The Opera Platform,” Lets You Watch La Traviata and Other First-Class Operas Free Online, 11 May 2015 in Music&Opera
• Hear Thomas Edison’s Creepy Talking Dolls: An Invention That Scared Kids & Flopped on the Market, 08 May 2015 in History&Technology
• David Byrne’s Unusual Forms of Visual Art: Bike Racks, Corporate Signs & Powerpoint Presentations, 07 May 2015 in Art
• Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Short, Strange & Brutal Stint as an Elementary School Teacher, 06 May 2015 in Education&History&Philosophy
• The Animated Dostoevsky: Two Finely Crafted Short Films Bring the Russian Novelist’s Work to Life, 05 May 2015 in Animation&Literature
• How to Live a Good Life? Watch Philosophy Animations Narrated by Stephen Fry on Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Max Weber & More, 04 May 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Hear the “Seikilos Epitaph,” the Oldest Complete Song in the World: An Inspiring Tune from 100 BC, 01 May 2015 in History&Music
• John Green’s Crash Course in U.S. History: From Colonialism to Obama in 47 Videos, 30 Apr 2015 in History
• 110 Drawings and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien: Of Middle-Earth and Beyond, 29 Apr 2015 in Art&Literature
• Fritz Lang Tells the Riveting Story of the Day He Met Joseph Goebbels and Then High-Tailed It Out of Germany, 28 Apr 2015 in Film&History
• Visit The Online Library of Babel: New Web Site Turns Borges’ “Library of Babel” Into a Virtual Reality, 27 Apr 2015 in Literature&Technology
• Martin Scorsese Introduces Filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, “The Woody Allen of Korea”, 24 Apr 2015 in Film
• David Ogilvy’s 1982 Memo “How to Write” Offers 10 Pieces of Timeless Advice, 23 Apr 2015 in Writing
• What is the Self? Watch Philosophy Animations Narrated by Stephen Fry on Sartre, Descartes & More, 22 Apr 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Hear Orson Welles Read Edgar Allan Poe on a Cult Classic Album by The Alan Parsons Project, 21 Apr 2015 in Literature&Music
• Discover Haruki Murakami’s Advertorial Short Stories: Rare Short-Short Fiction from the 1980s, 20 Apr 2015 in Literature
• The Making of Star Wars As Told by C‑3PO & R2-D2: The First-Ever Documentary on the Film (1977), 18 Apr 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• Enter the Church of the SubGenius, the Parody Religion Backed by R. Crumb, David Byrne & Other Alt-Icons, 16 Apr 2015 in Comedy&Religion
• Hear Ursula K. Le Guin’s Pioneering Sci-Fi Novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, as a BBC Radio Play, 16 Apr 2015 in Radio&Sci Fi
• Disney’s 12 Timeless Principles of Animation Demonstrated in 12 Animated Primers, 15 Apr 2015 in Animation
• The Modernist Gas Stations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, 14 Apr 2015 in Architecture
• Watch the Only Known Footage of Anne Frank, 10 Apr 2015 in History
• Charles Darwin Creates a Handwritten List of Arguments for and Against Marriage (1838), 09 Apr 2015 in History&Life
• Notebook on Cities and Culture’s Yearlong Podcast Exploration of Seattle Is Kickstarting Now, 08 Apr 2015 in Podcasts&Travel
• Langston Hughes Reveals the Rhythms in Art & Life in a Wonderful Illustrated Book for Kids (1954), 08 Apr 2015 in Books&Music&Poetry
• Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 361,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces by Rembrandt Included!, 07 Apr 2015 in Art
• Discover the Life & Work of Stanley Kubrick in a Sweeping Three-Hour Video Essay, 06 Apr 2015 in Film
• Jack Kerouac Was a Secret, Obsessive Fan of Fantasy Baseball, 03 Apr 2015 in Literature&Sports
• All of Bach Is Putting Videos of 1,080 Bach Performances Online: Watch the First 53 Recordings and the St. Matthew Passion, 02 Apr 2015 in Music
• Guernica: Alain Resnais’ Haunting Film on Picasso’s Painting & the Crimes of the Spanish Civil War, 01 Apr 2015 in Art&Film
• The Visionary Thought of Marshall McLuhan, Introduced and Demystified by Tom Wolfe, 31 Mar 2015 in Media&Philosophy
• Leo Tolstoy’s 17 “Rules of Life:” Wake at 5am, Help the Poor, & Only Two Brothel Visits Per Month, 30 Mar 2015 in Life&Literature&Writing
• Download 576 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 28 Mar 2015 in Art&Books
• Download 100,000 Free Art Images in High-Resolution from The Getty, 27 Mar 2015 in Art
• Quentin Tarantino Lists His 20 Favorite Spaghetti Westerns, 26 Mar 2015 in Film
• The History & Legacy of Magna Carta Explained in Animated Videos by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, 24 Mar 2015 in History
• Hear a “DNA-Based Prediction of Nietzsche’s Voice:” First Attempt at Simulating Voice of a Dead Person, 23 Mar 2015 in Philosophy
• Rome Reborn: Take a Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 C.E., 20 Mar 2015 in History
• Play Mark Twain’s “Memory-Builder,” His Game for Remembering Historical Facts & Dates, 19 Mar 2015 in History
• Watch an Animated Buckminster Fuller Tell Studs Terkel All About “the Geodesic Life”, 18 Mar 2015 in Animation&Architecture
• Philip K. Dick Makes Off-the-Wall Predictions for the Future: Mars Colonies, Alien Viruses & More (1981), 17 Mar 2015 in Sci Fi
• Take the 146-Question Knowledge Test Thomas Edison Gave to Prospective Employees (1921), 16 Mar 2015 in History&Science
• Late Rembrandts Come to Life: Watch Animations of Paintings Now on Display at the Rijksmuseum, 13 Mar 2015 in Animation&Art
• Sci-Fi Legend Ray Bradbury Creates a Visionary Plan to Redesign Los Angeles, 12 Mar 2015 in Sci Fi
• A Guide to Logical Fallacies: The “Ad Hominem,” “Strawman” & Other Fallacies Explained in 2‑Minute Videos, 11 Mar 2015 in Philosophy
• The 1981 TIME Magazine Profile That Introduced Michel Foucault to America, 10 Mar 2015 in Philosophy
• Wittgenstein’s Masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Gets Turned into Beautiful, Meditative Music, 09 Mar 2015 in Music&Philosophy
• Philosophers Drinking Coffee: The Excessive Habits of Kant, Voltaire & Kierkegaard, 06 Mar 2015 in Food & Drink&Philosophy
• The Paintings of Akira Kurosawa, 05 Mar 2015 in Art&Film
• Has Technology Changed Us?: BBC Animations Answer the Question with the Help of Marshall McLuhan, 04 Mar 2015 in Animation&Photography&Technology
• Victor Hugo’s Drawings Made with Coal, Dust & Coffee (1848–1851), 03 Mar 2015 in Art
• The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa: A Wonderful Sand Animation of the Classic Kafka Story (1977), 02 Mar 2015 in Film&Literature
• Brian Eno Lists the Benefits of Singing: A Long Life, Increased Intelligence, and a Sound Civilization, 27 Feb 2015 in Music
• Leonard Nimoy Reads Ray Bradbury Stories From The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man (1975–76), 27 Feb 2015 in Audio Books&Sci Fi
• Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Strikingly Illustrated by Expressionist Painter Alice Neel (1938), 26 Feb 2015 in Art&Literature
• Glorious Early 20th-Century Japanese Ads for Beer, Smokes & Sake (1902–1954), 25 Feb 2015 in Art&History
• A Playlist of 172 Songs from Wes Anderson Soundtracks: From Bottle Rocket to The Grand Budapest Hotel, 24 Feb 2015 in Film&Music
• Two Short Films on Coffee and Cigarettes from Jim Jarmusch & Paul Thomas Anderson, 23 Feb 2015 in Film
• Orson Welles Names His 10 Favorite Films: From Chaplin’s City Lights to Ford’s Stagecoach, 20 Feb 2015 in Film
• What’s the Big Deal About Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel? Matt Zoller Seitz’s Video Essay Explains, 19 Feb 2015 in Film
• Let Me Librarian That for You: What People Asked Librarians Before Google Came Along, 18 Feb 2015 in History&Life
• 600+ Covers of Philip K. Dick Novels from Around the World: Greece, Japan, Poland & Beyond, 17 Feb 2015 in Art&Books
• Advertisements from Japan’s Golden Age of Art Deco, 16 Feb 2015 in Art
• Predict Which 21st Century Novels Will Enter the Literary Canon? And Which Overrated Ones Won’t?, 13 Feb 2015 in Books&Literature
• Haruki Murakami Reads in English from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in a Rare Public Reading (1998), 11 Feb 2015 in Books&Literature
• Watch the Coen Brothers’ TV Commercials: Swiss Cigarettes, Gap Jeans, Taxes & Clean Coal, 10 Feb 2015 in Film
• What Films Should Get Into The Criterion Collection? Video Series “Three Reasons” Makes the Case, 09 Feb 2015 in Film
• William S. Burroughs’ Home Movies, Featuring Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Steve Buscemi & Cats, 06 Feb 2015 in Literature
• The Shining and Other Complex Stanley Kubrick Films Recut as Simple Hollywood Movies, 05 Feb 2015 in Film
• Listen to 60+ Free, High-Quality AudioBooks of Classic Literature on Spotify: Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy & More, 04 Feb 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• Hear Albums from Brian Eno’s 1970s Label, Obscure Records, 03 Feb 2015 in Music
• Cinematic Experiment: What Happens When The Bicycle Thief’s Director and Gone With the Wind’s Producer Edit the Same Film, 02 Feb 2015 in Film
• The Geometric Beauty of Akira Kurosawa and Wes Anderson’s Films, 30 Jan 2015 in Film
• Arthur C. Clarke Predicts in 2001 What the World Will Look By December 31, 2100, 29 Jan 2015 in Sci Fi&Science&Technology
• Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Gets Turned Into “The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made” by Jack Kirby, 27 Jan 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Sci Fi
• NASA Puts Online a Big Collection of Space Sounds, and They’re Free to Download and Use, 26 Jan 2015 in Archives&Science
• Read The Very First Comic Book: The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck (1837), 23 Jan 2015 in Comics/Cartoons
• Whitney Museum Puts Online 21,000 Works of American Art, By 3,000 Artists, 22 Jan 2015 in Archives&Art
• The Public Domain Project Makes 10,000 Film Clips, 64,000 Images & 100s of Audio Files Free to Use, 21 Jan 2015 in Art&Creativity&Film&History&Photography
• Haruki Murakami’s Advice Column (“Mr. Murakami’s Place”) Is Now Online: Read English Translations, 20 Jan 2015 in Literature
• William Blake Illustrates Dante’s Divine Comedy (1827), 19 Jan 2015 in Art&Literature
• John Landis Deconstructs Trailers of Great 20th Century Films: Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, 2001 & More, 16 Jan 2015 in Film
• Federico Fellini’s List of His 10 Favorite Films … Including One of His Own, 15 Jan 2015 in Film
• Allen Ginsberg Sings the Poetry of William Blake (1970), 14 Jan 2015 in Music&Poetry
• How Paul Thomas Anderson Dropped Out of NYU Film School in 2 Days; Studied Literature with David Foster Wallace, 13 Jan 2015 in Film&Literature
• The Long-Lost Illustrated Production Stills from the Set of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 12 Jan 2015 in Film
• You’ve Never Heard Carl Sagan Say “Billions” Like This Before, 09 Jan 2015 in Astronomy&Television
• Three Films Capture 1940s New York, Chicago & Los Angeles in Vivid Color, 08 Jan 2015 in History
• Free: Play 2,400 Vintage Computer Games in Your Web Browser, 07 Jan 2015 in Video Games
• Mœbius Illustrates Dante’s Paradiso, 06 Jan 2015 in Art&Literature
• Existential Philosophy of Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus Explained with 8‑Bit Video Games, 05 Jan 2015 in Animation&Philosophy&Video Games
• Kandinsky, Mondrian, Munch & Fleming Entered Public Domain in 2015 — But Welles, Achebe, and “Purple People Eater” Didn’t, 02 Jan 2015 in Art&Law