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• Marilyn Monroe & Elvis Presley Star in an Action-Packed Pop Art Japanese Monster Movie, 27 Sep 2017 in Animation
• A Virtual Tour of Japan’s Inflatable Concert Hall, 26 Sep 2017 in Architecture&Design&Music
• Stream Online The Vietnam War, the New Documentary by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, 25 Sep 2017 in Film&History
• Martin Scorsese to Teach His First Online Course on Filmmaking, 22 Sep 2017 in Film&Online Courses
• Lin-Manuel Miranda Reads Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 22 Sep 2017 in Audio Books&Literature
• Circus Artist Roxana Küwen Will Captivate You with Her Foot Juggling Routine, 21 Sep 2017 in Art
• AC/DC’s “Back in Black” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument Dating Back to the 6th Century, 20 Sep 2017 in Music
• Watch Björk’s Hypnotic Music Video for Her New Song, “The Gate”, 19 Sep 2017 in Music
• How a Simple Email Survey Pulled Scripts Out of Hollywood Purgatory & Turned Them Into Award-Winning Films, 19 Sep 2017 in Film
• Dr. Jane Goodall Is Now Teaching an Online Course on Conservation, Animal Intelligence & Activism, 17 Sep 2017 in Environment&Online Courses
• Harry Dean Stanton (RIP) Reads Poems by Charles Bukowski, 15 Sep 2017 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Download Theft! A History of Music, a New Free Graphic Novel Exploring 2,000 Years of Musical Borrowing, 15 Sep 2017 in Comics/Cartoons&Law
• Free Courses on Design from the Famous California Design Firm IDEO Start This Week, 14 Sep 2017 in Design&Online Courses
• The Velvet Underground Meets Lawrence Welk, 14 Sep 2017 in Music&Random
• What Is Fair Use?: A Short Introduction from the Maker of Everything is a Remix, 13 Sep 2017 in Law&Media
• A New Mural Pays Tribute to John Coltrane in Philadelphia, 12 Sep 2017 in Art&Music
• 20 Free Business MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) That Will Advance Your Career, 11 Sep 2017 in Business
• 54 Cats Riding Out Hurricane Irma in Ernest Hemingway’s Key West Home, 10 Sep 2017 in Literature&Random
• The Addams Family Dance to The Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop”, 07 Sep 2017 in Random
• NASA Lets You Download Free Posters Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Voyager Missions, 07 Sep 2017 in Astronomy
• The Planetarium Table Clock: Magnificent 1775 Timepiece Tracks the Passing of Time & the Travel of the Planets, 06 Sep 2017 in Art&Technology
• The 38 States of America: Geography Professor Creates a Bold Modern Map of America (1973), 05 Sep 2017 in Maps
• A Free Trial Offer for The Great Courses Plus: A Special Deal for Open Culture Readers, 04 Sep 2017 in Online Courses
• John Ashbery Reads “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”, 03 Sep 2017 in Uncategorized
• The Periodic Table of Elements Presented as Interactive Haikus, 31 Aug 2017 in Chemistry&Poetry
• How to Listen to Music: A Free Course from Yale University, 30 Aug 2017 in Music&Online Courses&Yale
• Bob Dylan Hates Me: An Animation, 29 Aug 2017 in Animation&Music
• Watch “Adam,” an Award-Winning Short Claymation That Wonderfully Re-Tells the Story of Creation, 28 Aug 2017 in Uncategorized
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Demonstrates the Physics-Defying Rattleback, 24 Aug 2017 in Physics
• How a Liberal Arts Education Helped Derek Black, the Godson of David Duke, Break with the White Nationalist Movement, 24 Aug 2017 in Education&Life
• Watch Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Acted Out Literally as a Short Crime Film, 23 Aug 2017 in Film&Music
• How to Win at Texas Hold ‘Em: A Free MIT Course, 23 Aug 2017 in Games&MIT&Online Courses
• Artists Put a Hidden Message in Their Letter Resigning from President’s Committee on the Arts & the Humanities, 21 Aug 2017 in Art&Current Affairs&Politics
• Final Show of Metallica’s North American Tour Now Streaming Free Online, 20 Aug 2017 in Music
• Artistic Maps of Pakistan & India Show the Embroidery Techniques of Their Different Regions, 19 Aug 2017 in Art&Maps
• Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Because of Pink Floyd, I’ve Spent Decades Undoing the Idea That There’s a Dark Side of the Moon”, 18 Aug 2017 in Music&Science
• The Last Surviving Witness of the Lincoln Assassination Appears on the TV Game Show “I’ve Got a Secret” (1956), 17 Aug 2017 in History&Television
• Prince Gets an Official Purple Pantone Color, 16 Aug 2017 in Music
• New BBC Dramatization of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children Now Streaming Free for a Limited Time, 15 Aug 2017 in Audio Books&Literature
• Harvard Course on Positive Psychology: Watch 30 Lectures from the University’s Extremely Popular Course, 15 Aug 2017 in Harvard&Online Courses&Psychology
• How Doors Open onto Philosophical Mysteries in Robert Bresson’s Films: A Short Video Essay by Kogonada, 14 Aug 2017 in Film&Philosophy
• Apple’s Hypercard Software, the Innovative 1980s Precursor to Hypertext, Now Made Available by Archive.org, 14 Aug 2017 in Apple&Internet Archive&Software
• Adam Savage Takes Us Inside Jack White’s Third Man Records, the First New Record-Pressing Plant in the US in 30 Years, 13 Aug 2017 in Music
• A Century of Global Warming Visualized in a 35 Second Video, 10 Aug 2017 in Environment
• The Nano Guitar: Discover the World’s Smallest, Playable Microscopic Guitar, 09 Aug 2017 in Music&Technology
• New Deep Learning Courses Released on Coursera, with Hope of Teaching Millions the Basics of Artificial Intelligence, 09 Aug 2017 in Artificial Intelligence&Computer Science&Online Courses
• New Yorkers Can Now Stream 30,000 Free Movies, Including the Entire Criterion Collection, with Their Library Cards, 07 Aug 2017 in Film
• People Are Planting Flowers in Potholes Worldwide: See the Creative Protest Taking Place in Montreal, Ukraine & Beyond, 07 Aug 2017 in Current Affairs
• Free: You Can Now Read Classic Books by MIT Press on Archive.org, 04 Aug 2017 in Books&Internet Archive&MIT
• Watch “The Woodswimmer,” a Stop Motion Film Made Entirely with Wood, and “Brutally Tedious” Techniques, 03 Aug 2017 in Random
• Siri Can Sing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, 02 Aug 2017 in Random
• Graphic Shows the House Plants That Naturally Clean the Air in Your Home, According to a NASA Study, 01 Aug 2017 in Health&Science
• Google Launches Free Course on Deep Learning: The Science of Teaching Computers How to Teach Themselves, 28 Jul 2017 in Computer Science&Google&Online Courses
• Watch 50 Hours of Nature Soundscapes from the BBC: Scientifically Proven to Ease Stress and Promote Happiness & Awe, 27 Jul 2017 in Nature
• The British Museum Creates 3D Models of the Rosetta Stone & 200+ Other Historic Artifacts: Download or View in Virtual Reality, 25 Jul 2017 in Art&Museums&Technology
• 2,000+ Cassettes from the Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection Now Streaming Online, 24 Jul 2017 in Literature&Poetry&Stanford
• Salvador Dalí’s Body Gets Exhumed, Revealing That, 28 Years After His Death, His Moustache Remains Perfectly Intact, 21 Jul 2017 in Art&Life
• Google’s DeepMind AI Teaches Itself to Walk, and the Results Are Kooky, No Wait, Chilling, 21 Jul 2017 in Technology
• Director Michel Gondry Makes a Charming Film on His iPhone, Proving That We Could Be Making Movies, Not Taking Selfies, 20 Jul 2017 in Apple&Film&Technology
• Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Actually Get Used in Making Everyday Things, 19 Jul 2017 in Chemistry
• Eadweard Muybridge’s 1870s Photographs of Galloping Horses Get Encoded on the DNA of Living Bacteria Cells, 18 Jul 2017 in Photography&Science
• Watch A Single Life: An Oscar-Nominated Short About How Vinyl Records Can Take Us Magically Through Time, 17 Jul 2017 in Animation
• Attempting to Set the World Record for Most Frida Kahlo Lookalikes in One Place: It Happened in Dallas, 14 Jul 2017 in Art&Random
• Syd Barrett’s “Effervescing Elephant” Comes to Life in a New Retro-Style Animation, 13 Jul 2017 in Animation&Music
• Send a Text Message to SFMOMA, and They’ll Send Works of Art to Your Mobile Phone, 12 Jul 2017 in Art
• Watch the Making of a Hand-Crafted Violin, from Start to Finish, in a Beautifully-Shot Documentary, 11 Jul 2017 in Music
• 65,000 Fans Break Into a Singalong of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” at a Green Day Concert in London’s Hyde Park, 07 Jul 2017 in Music
• When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975), 05 Jul 2017 in Physics&Random
• John Wayne Recites and Explains the Pledge of Allegiance (1972), 04 Jul 2017 in Politics
• Dog Crashes a Performance of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, in the Ancient City of Ephesus: The “Cutest Moment in Classical Music”, 03 Jul 2017 in Random
• Garry Kasparov Now Teaching an Online Course on Chess, 30 Jun 2017 in Games
• All the Rivers & Streams in the U.S. Shown in Rainbow Colors: A Data Visualization to Behold, 29 Jun 2017 in Maps
• A Lecture About the History of the Scots Language … in Scots: How Much Can You Comprehend?, 27 Jun 2017 in Language Lessons
• Google Uses Artificial Intelligence to Map Thousands of Bird Sounds Into an Interactive Visualization, 26 Jun 2017 in Computer Science&Nature
• A Light Show on The Empire State Building Gets Synced to the Dead’s Live Performance of “Touch of Grey” (6/24/2017), 25 Jun 2017 in Art&Music
• Herbie Hancock to Teach His First Online Course on Jazz, 23 Jun 2017 in Music&Online Courses
• Sigourney Weaver Stars in a New Experimental Sci-Fi Film: Watch “Rakka” Free Online, 22 Jun 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• Bill Gates Recommends Five Books for Summer 2017, 22 Jun 2017 in Books
• Free eBooks with Modern Typography & Nice Formatting, All “Carefully Produced for the True Book Lover”, 21 Jun 2017 in e-books&Literature
• The Illustrated Guide to a PhD: 12 Simple Pictures That Will Put the Daunting Degree into Perspective, 20 Jun 2017 in Education
• Watch a Star Get Devoured by a Supermassive Black Hole, 19 Jun 2017 in Astronomy
• Sci-Fi Radio: Hear Radio Dramas of Sci-Fi Stories by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. LeGuin & More (1989), 16 Jun 2017 in Audio Books&Radio&Sci Fi
• Talking Heads Perform The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” Live in 1977 (and How the Bands Got Their Start Together), 15 Jun 2017 in Music
• See New York City in the 1930s and Now: A Side-by-Side Comparison of the Same Streets & Landmarks, 15 Jun 2017 in History
• Take Free Philosophy Courses from The Institute of Art and Ideas: From “The Meaning of Life” to “Heidegger Meets Van Gogh”, 14 Jun 2017 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• American Archive of Public Broadcasting Lets You Stream 7,000 Hours of Historic Public TV & Radio Programs, 13 Jun 2017 in Radio&Television
• Introduction to Python, Data Science & Computational Thinking: Free Online Courses from MIT, 12 Jun 2017 in Computer Science&MIT&Online Courses
• Batman Goes Surfing: Remembering Adam West (RIP) with Perhaps the Campiest Batman Episode Ever, 12 Jun 2017 in Television
• Radiohead’s “Creep” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument Dating Back to the 6th Century, 10 Jun 2017 in Music
• 7‑Foot Tall Clown with a Golden Voice Sings Chris Cornell’s “When I’m Down:” A Tribute Filled with Raw Emotion, 09 Jun 2017 in Life&Music
• 10-Story High Mural of Muddy Waters Goes Up in Chicago, 09 Jun 2017 in Art&Music
• Ancient Rome’s System of Roads Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps, 08 Jun 2017 in History&Maps
• Ennio Morricone’s Iconic Song, “The Ecstasy of Gold,” Spellbindingly Arranged for Theremin & Voice, 06 Jun 2017 in Music
• Dr. Jane Goodall Will Teach an Online Course About Conserving Our Environment, 05 Jun 2017 in Environment&Nature&Online Courses
• Bob Dylan Potato Chips, Anyone?: What They’re Snacking on in China, 05 Jun 2017 in Food & Drink&Music
• Long Strange Trip, the New 4‑Hour Documentary on the Grateful Dead, Is Now Streaming Free on Amazon Prime, 03 Jun 2017 in Film&Music
• 240 Hours of Relaxing, Sleep-Inducing Sounds from Sci-Fi Video Games: From Blade Runner to Star Wars, 02 Jun 2017 in Health&Sci Fi
• Manchester Benefit Concert Is Streaming Live Now, 02 Jun 2017 in Music
• See What Happens When a Camera’s Shutter Speed Gets Perfectly Synced with a Helicopter’s Rotor, 01 Jun 2017 in Photography
• Blitzscaling: A Free Stanford Course on Scaling a Startup, Led by LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, 01 Jun 2017 in Business&Entrepreneurship&Online Courses
• LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Creates a New Podcast Offering Wisdom on Nurturing & Scaling New Businesses, 30 May 2017 in Business&Entrepreneurship
• When Bowie & Jagger’s “Dancing in the Street” Music Video Becomes a Silent Film, 30 May 2017 in Comedy&Music
• Artificial Intelligence: A Free Online Course from MIT, 29 May 2017 in Artificial Intelligence&Computer Science&MIT&Online Courses
• Watch Clouds Roil Through the Grand Canyon: A Beautiful Timelapse Film Captures a Rare Full Cloud Inversion, 28 May 2017 in Nature
• Timelapse Animation Lets You See the Rise of Cities Across the Globe, from 3700 BC to 2000 AD, 26 May 2017 in History&Maps
• Watch a Mesmerizing Hourglass Filled with 1,250,000 “Nanoballs” (Created by the Designer of the Apple Watch), 26 May 2017 in Design
• Large Choir Sings “Black Hole Sun”: A Moving Tribute to Chris Cornell, 25 May 2017 in Life&Music
• Animations Show the Melting Arctic Sea Ice, and What the Earth Would Look Like When All of the Ice Melts, 24 May 2017 in Current Affairs&Science
• The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download, 23 May 2017 in Data
• Sgt. Pepper’s Album Cover Gets Reworked to Remember Icons Lost in 2016, 22 May 2017 in Life&Music
• 36 eBooks on Computer Programming from O’Reilly Media: Free to Download and Read, 19 May 2017 in Computer Science&e-books&Technology
• Learn Python with a Free Online Course from MIT, 18 May 2017 in Online Courses&Software
• Stephen Wolfram’s Bestseller, A New Kind of Science, Now Free to Read/Download Online, 17 May 2017 in Science
• Meet the Iconic Figures on the Cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 16 May 2017 in Art&Music
• “Calling Bullshit”: Watch Lectures for the College Course Designed to Combat the BS in our Information Age, 15 May 2017 in Current Affairs&Online Courses
• All 886 episodes of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood Streaming Online (for a Limited Time), 14 May 2017 in K-12&Television
• A Free Course on Machine Learning & Data Science from Caltech, 12 May 2017 in Computer Science&Data&Online Courses
• The History of the World in 20 Odd Minutes, 11 May 2017 in History
• The Frida Kahlo Action Figure, 11 May 2017 in Art
• A Complete Digitization of Eros Magazine: The Controversial 1960s Magazine on the Sexual Revolution, 10 May 2017 in Media
• Stevie Nicks “Shows Us How to Kick Ass in High-Heeled Boots” in a 1983 Women’s Self Defense Manual, 09 May 2017 in Music&Random
• The Official Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Long-Awaited Blade Runner Sequel Is Finally Out, 08 May 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Pioneering Physics TV Show, The Mechanical Universe, Is Now on YouTube: 52 Complete Episodes from Caltech, 08 May 2017 in Online Courses&Physics
• Watch Coda, a Prize-Winning, Thought-Provoking Animation About a Lost Soul’s Encounter with Death, 05 May 2017 in Animation&Life
• The Museum of Failure: A New Swedish Museum Showcases Harley-Davidson Perfume, Colgate Beef Lasagne, Google Glass & Other Failed Products, 04 May 2017 in Business&Museums&Technology
• Watch a Reading of Steve Bannon’s Screenplay Which Attempted to Turn Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Into a Rap Musical, 03 May 2017 in Media
• A Free Course from Yale on the U.S. Civil War, 02 May 2017 in History
• Montblanc Unveils a New Line of Miles Davis Pens … and (Kind of) Blue Ink, 01 May 2017 in Business&Music
• An Animation of The Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” … for Your Sunday Morning, 30 Apr 2017 in Animation&Music
• Animated Stories Written by Tom Waits, Nick Cave & Other Artists, Read by Danny Devito, Zach Galifianakis & More, 28 Apr 2017 in Art&Audio Books&Music
• George Saunders Tries to Order One Mousetrap Over The Phone, 27 Apr 2017 in Random
• The News Is Broken, and Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Plans to Fix It With His New Site, Wikitribune, 27 Apr 2017 in Media
• Jonathan Demme Narrates I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!,” a Short Film About the Counterculture Cartoon Reid Fleming, 26 Apr 2017 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
• If You Could Spend Eternity with Your Ashes Pressed Into a Vinyl Record, What Album Would It Be?, 26 Apr 2017 in Life&Music
• David Mamet Teaches Dramatic Writing in a New Online Course, 25 Apr 2017 in Online Courses&Writing
• Discover the Creative, New Philosophy Podcast Hi-Phi Nation: The First Story-Driven Show About Philosophy, 24 Apr 2017 in Philosophy&Podcasts
• How to Make the World’s Smallest Cup of Coffee, from Just One Coffee Bean, 24 Apr 2017 in Food & Drink
• Alec Baldwin Has a Podcast: Hear His Intimate Interviews with Patti Smith, Thom Yorke, Jerry Seinfeld, Ira Glass, Amy Schumer & More, 21 Apr 2017 in Podcasts
• An Interactive Visualization of Hegel’s Science of Logic (Available on Github), 21 Apr 2017 in Philosophy
• Peter Singer’s Course on Effective Altruism Puts Philosophy Into Worldly Action, 20 Apr 2017 in Online Courses