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• Watch a Band Perform the Sound Effects from Pink Floyd’s “Money,” Using a Money Counter, Torn Sheets of Paper & More, 10 Aug 2026 in Music
• Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898: Read His Sci-Fi Crime Story, “From The ‘London Times’ in 1904”, 06 Aug 2026 in Literature&Sci Fi
• How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer, 05 Aug 2026 in Computer Science&History&Science&Technology
• Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music, 04 Aug 2026 in History&Music
• Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992), 03 Aug 2026 in Music
• The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book, 30 Jul 2026 in Art&Psychology&Religion
• Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek, 29 Jul 2026 in History&Literature&Music
• What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise, 28 Jul 2026 in Life&Music
• The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation, 27 Jul 2026 in Animation&Creativity&Writing
• 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body, 24 Jul 2026 in Art
• How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson, 23 Jul 2026 in Philosophy&Religion&Science
• Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967), 22 Jul 2026 in Music
• Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War, 21 Jul 2026 in Fashion&History
• Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure, 20 Jul 2026 in History&Religion
• A Walk Through Homer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Epic Before Seeing Christopher Nolan’s Film, 17 Jul 2026 in History&Literature
• Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983, 16 Jul 2026 in Philosophy
• 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix, 15 Jul 2026 in Architecture&Comedy&History&Travel
• How Russian Artists Imagined in 1914 What Moscow Would Look Like in 2259, 14 Jul 2026 in History&Sci Fi
• How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats, 13 Jul 2026 in Film
• Albert Einstein Imposes on His First Wife a Cruel List of Marital Demands, 09 Jul 2026 in Letters&Physics&Science
• A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It, 08 Jul 2026 in Art&History&Museums
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Albert Camus’ Touching Thank You Letter to His Elementary School Teacher, 07 Jul 2026 in K-12&Letters&Life&Literature
• When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930), 06 Jul 2026 in Film&History&Science
• Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980), 01 Jul 2026 in Education&Politics&Sci Fi
• Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate, 30 Jun 2026 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• Rare Film of Sculptor Auguste Rodin Working at His Studio in Paris (1915), 26 Jun 2026 in Art&Film
• When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934), 25 Jun 2026 in Art
• How to Cook Like Frida Kahlo & Georgia O’Keeffe, 24 Jun 2026 in Art&Food & Drink
• How Can I Know Right From Wrong? Watch Philosophy Animations on Ethics Narrated by Harry Shearer, 23 Jun 2026 in Animation&Philosophy
• The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern, 22 Jun 2026 in Gender&Philosophy
• The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together, 18 Jun 2026 in Physics
• Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Make Art in Some Rare Vintage Video, 17 Jun 2026 in Art
• Clare Torry’s Rare Live Performances of “Great Gig in the Sky” with Pink Floyd, 16 Jun 2026 in Music
• The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 15 Jun 2026 in Books&Design
• David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs, 11 Jun 2026 in Music
• How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972), 10 Jun 2026 in Creativity&Film&Literature
• How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look, 09 Jun 2026 in History&Maps
• Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago, 03 Jun 2026 in Design&Literature&Writing
• The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991), 02 Jun 2026 in Music
• Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More, 01 Jun 2026 in Language&Music
• The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, 28 May 2026 in Art&Math
• M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040, 27 May 2026 in Computer Science&Data&Life
• The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974), 26 May 2026 in Film
• Enjoy Three Hours of Free Nature Videos Narrated by David Attenborough, 22 May 2026 in Nature
• Watch Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Rock the Theremin, the Early Soviet Electronic Instrument, 21 May 2026 in Music
• Hand-Colored Photographs from 19th Century Japan: 110 Images Capture the Waning Days of Traditional Japanese Society, 20 May 2026 in History&Photography
• What Happens When a Musician Plays Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” on a $25 Kids’ Guitar at Walmart, 19 May 2026 in Music
• The Forgotten Moment When Superman Fought Prejudice in America Instead of Villains (1950), 15 May 2026 in Comics/Cartoons&Education&Life
• The Tarot Card Deck Created by Salvador Dalí, 14 May 2026 in Art
• When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961), 12 May 2026 in Books&Literature
• How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound with His Recording of “My Favorite Things” (1961), 12 May 2026 in Music
• Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station, 11 May 2026 in Music&Television
• Buckminster Fuller Creates an Animated Visualization of Human Population Growth from 1000 B.C.E. to 1965, 07 May 2026 in Design&Maps
• Confidence: The Cartoon That Helped America Get Through the Great Depression (1933), 06 May 2026 in Animation&History&Music
• You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes, 04 May 2026 in Life&Music
• Chuck Jones’ The Dot and the Line Celebrates Geometry & Hard Work: An Oscar-Winning Animation (1965), 04 May 2026 in Animation&Education&Film&Math
• The Simpsons Present Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and Teachers Now Use It to Teach Kids the Joys of Literature, 30 Apr 2026 in Animation&Literature&Television
• Explosive Cats Imagined in a Strange, 16th Century Military Manual, 28 Apr 2026 in History
• Harvard Professor Answers Burning Questions About Iranian History, 28 Apr 2026 in History
• An Ancient Philosophical Song Reconstructed and Played for the First Time in 1,000 Years, 24 Apr 2026 in History&Music
• What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished, 23 Apr 2026 in History
• Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche, 23 Apr 2026 in Music&Philosophy
• “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More, 22 Apr 2026 in History&Photography&Science
• 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), 21 Apr 2026 in History&Letters
• Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC, 20 Apr 2026 in Health&History
• Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line, 16 Apr 2026 in Animation
• Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back, 15 Apr 2026 in Literature
• Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More, 13 Apr 2026 in Science&Technology
• 9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971, 09 Apr 2026 in Gender&History
• How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War, 08 Apr 2026 in Art&History
• John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band, 07 Apr 2026 in Music
• How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954, 06 Apr 2026 in History
• Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today, 02 Apr 2026 in Life&Music
• Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921), 01 Apr 2026 in Art&Literature&Magazines
• A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University, 31 Mar 2026 in Economics&Philosophy
• When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples, 27 Mar 2026 in Film&History&Music
• Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897, 26 Mar 2026 in Music&Technology
• Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom, 24 Mar 2026 in Art&Creativity&Productivity&Technology
• Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count, 24 Mar 2026 in Animation&Music&Television
• An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict, 19 Mar 2026 in Current Affairs&Economics
• Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings, 19 Mar 2026 in Music
• Jim Jarmusch Picks His Favorite Films from the The Criterion Collection, 19 Mar 2026 in Film
• Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard, 18 Mar 2026 in Language Lessons
• Enchanting Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955: The End of a 500-Year Tradition, 17 Mar 2026 in Maps
• Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014), 13 Mar 2026 in Music
• The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans, 13 Mar 2026 in Comedy&Sports
• How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer, 12 Mar 2026 in Books
• Watch Peter Tork Quietly Mouth Other Actors’ Lines in The Monkees: A Strange Quirk You’ll Never Unsee, 11 Mar 2026 in Random&Television
• The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art, 10 Mar 2026 in Art&Food & Drink
• Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors, 06 Mar 2026 in Art&History
• Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”, 05 Mar 2026 in Life&Philosophy
• Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More, 04 Mar 2026 in Art
• Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More, 03 Mar 2026 in History&Photography&Travel
• Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE), 02 Mar 2026 in Art&History
• What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them, 26 Feb 2026 in Art&Music
• Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57), 25 Feb 2026 in Radio&Sci Fi
• How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”, 24 Feb 2026 in Food & Drink
• An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published, 23 Feb 2026 in Art&Books
• Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe, 23 Feb 2026 in Food & Drink&History
• How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction, 20 Feb 2026 in Design
• Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity, 19 Feb 2026 in Life&Music
• Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen, 18 Feb 2026 in History
• An Animated Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism: The World’s First Analog Computer from Ancient Greece, 17 Feb 2026 in History&Technology
• David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds, 16 Feb 2026 in Film
• Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments, 12 Feb 2026 in Music
• Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose, 11 Feb 2026 in Uncategorized
• Rare Video: Vince Guaraldi’s First Televised Performance of “Linus and Lucy” (1964), 10 Feb 2026 in Music&Television
• Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots, 06 Feb 2026 in Design&History&Language
• The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”, 06 Feb 2026 in English Language
• Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings, 05 Feb 2026 in Art&History&Religion
• The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796), 04 Feb 2026 in Food & Drink&History
• 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”, 03 Feb 2026 in Music&Politics
• Bruce Springsteen Won’t Back Down: Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” Live in Minneapolis, 02 Feb 2026 in Current Affairs&Life&Music
• Scott Galloway Unveils “Resist and Unsubscribe,” an Action Plan for Consumers to Push Back Against Government Overreach, 01 Feb 2026 in Current Affairs&Economics
• Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”, 29 Jan 2026 in Current Affairs&Music
• Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935), 28 Jan 2026 in Film&History
• Enjoy a Medieval Cover of R.E.M.‘s “Losing My Religion”, 27 Jan 2026 in Music
• Scott Galloway Explains How YOU Can Stop Government Overreach Using the Power of Your Purse, 26 Jan 2026 in Current Affairs
• Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism, 26 Jan 2026 in History&Politics
• Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing, 22 Jan 2026 in Film&Music
• Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes, 21 Jan 2026 in Television
• Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970), 20 Jan 2026 in Music
• What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol, 19 Jan 2026 in Food & Drink&History&Life
• Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America, 15 Jan 2026 in Art&Biology&Nature
• “Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World, 14 Jan 2026 in Music
• Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt “Vigorous” and “Alert”, 13 Jan 2026 in Biology&Life&Science
• Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir, 12 Jan 2026 in Life&Music
• Hear James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929), 08 Jan 2026 in Literature
• Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online, 07 Jan 2026 in History&Language
• 300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library, 06 Jan 2026 in Art&Nature&Photography&Science
• J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952), 05 Jan 2026 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life, 02 Jan 2026 in Food & Drink&History
• 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, 01 Jan 2026 in Uncategorized
• Brian Eno’s Book & Music Recommendations, 30 Dec 2025 in Books&Music
• How to Jumpstart Your Creative Process with William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique, 29 Dec 2025 in Literature&Writing
• Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950, 22 Dec 2025 in Life&Literature&Poetry
• Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Nearly Burning His House Down (1990), 19 Dec 2025 in Literature&Random
• Hear Debussy Play Debussy: A Vintage Recording from 1913, 18 Dec 2025 in History&Music&Photography
• Why Coffee Makes You Go #2, 17 Dec 2025 in Food & Drink&Science
• How Many Humans Have Ever Lived, and How Many Are Alive Right Now?, 16 Dec 2025 in Biology&History