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• What Kind of Bird Is That?: A Free App From Cornell Will Give You the Answer, 10 Jun 2015 in Biology&Science
• The John Lennon Sketchbook, a Short Animation Made of Lennon’s Drawings, 09 Jun 2015 in Animation&Music
• The Case for Andy Warhol in Three Minutes, 08 Jun 2015 in Art
• Brazilian Man Sings The Beatles’ “Yesterday” as Doctors Perform Brain Surgery on Him, 07 Jun 2015 in Music
• The Staggering Human Cost of World War II Visualized in a Creative, New Animated Documentary, 03 Jun 2015 in Animation&History
• The Animated Franz Kafka Rock Opera, 03 Jun 2015 in Literature&Music&Random
• The Well-Tempered Clavier: Download an Open Version of J.S. Bach’s Masterpiece, 02 Jun 2015 in Music
• MIT Creates Amazing Self-Folding Origami Robots & Leaping Cheetah Robots, 01 Jun 2015 in MIT&Technology
• JS Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier Artistically Animated with Pulsing Neon Lights, 29 May 2015 in Animation&Music
• The First Trailer for the Upcoming David Foster Wallace Film Is Now Online, 28 May 2015 in Film&Literature
• Joni Mitchell Talks About Life as a Reluctant Star in a New Animated Interview, 27 May 2015 in Music
• Flannery O’Connor to Grace New U.S. Postage Stamp, 26 May 2015 in Literature
• Italian Astronaut Reads The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on the International Space Station, 26 May 2015 in Astronomy&Books
• Watch a New, “Original” Episode of Seinfeld Performed Live on Stage, 25 May 2015 in Television&Theatre
• Six Books (and One Blog) Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer, 23 May 2015 in Books
• 3D Printed Zoetrope Animates Rubens’ Famous Painting, “The Massacre of the Innocents”, 22 May 2015 in Animation&Art&Religion
• Mesmerizing Timelapse Film Captures the Wonder of Bees Being Born, 20 May 2015 in Film
• Salvador Dalí Takes His Anteater for a Stroll in Paris, 1969, 14 May 2015 in Art
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail Re-Imagined as an Epic, Mainstream Hollywood Film, 12 May 2015 in Comedy&Film
• Van Gogh’s 1888 Painting, “The Night Cafe,” Animated with Oculus Virtual Reality Software, 11 May 2015 in Animation&Art
• Dementia Patients Find Some Eternal Youth in the Sounds of AC/DC, 11 May 2015 in Life&Music
• A Vintage Wine Course (UC Davis, 1973), 10 May 2015 in Online Courses
• Charles Mingus’ Sigmund Freud-Inspired Song Dedicated to Mothers Everywhere (1961), 10 May 2015 in Jazz&Music
• Prince’s New Protest Song “Baltimore” Now Streaming Online, 09 May 2015 in Current Affairs&Music
• Music for a String Quartet Made from Global Warming Data: Hear “Planetary Bands, Warming World”, 09 May 2015 in Environment&Music
• What’s It Like to Fight in 15th Century Armor?: A Surprising Demonstration, 07 May 2015 in History
• A Short History of the Venice Biennale, the World’s Most Important Art Exhibition, 06 May 2015 in Art
• Dramatic Color Footage Shows a Bombed-Out Berlin a Month After Germany’s WWII Defeat (1945), 05 May 2015 in History
• Making Turkish Sand Coffee: Culinary Alchemy on the Streets of Jordan, 04 May 2015 in Food & Drink
• A Beautiful Drone’s Eye View of Antarctica, 04 May 2015 in Travel
• Read Noam Chomsky & Sam Harris’ “Unpleasant” Email Exchange, 01 May 2015 in Current Affairs&Philosophy
• Coffee is for People, Not Robots: The New Ad for David Lynch’s Line of Organic Coffee, 01 May 2015 in Food & Drink
• Klingon for English Speakers: Sign Up for a Free Course Coming Soon, 30 Apr 2015 in Language Lessons&Random
• Take a Virtual Tour of Robben Island Where Nelson Mandela and Other Apartheid Opponents Were Jailed, 30 Apr 2015 in Google&History
• A Harrowing Test Drive of Buckminster Fuller’s 1933 Dymaxion Car: Art That Is Scary to Ride, 25 Apr 2015 in Design
• The Science of Singing: New, High-Speed MRI Machine Images Man Singing ‘If I Only Had a Brain’, 24 Apr 2015 in Music&Science
• Shakespearean Actor Brian Cox Teaches Hamlet’s Soliloquy to a 2‑Year-Old Child, 24 Apr 2015 in Theatre
• High-Tech Japanese Camera Proves That the Shape of a Wine Glass Affects the Flavor of Wines, 22 Apr 2015 in Food & Drink&Science
• Watch a Timelapse Video Showing the Creation of New York City’s Skyline: 1500 to Present, 21 Apr 2015 in Architecture
• Johnny Cash Machines: Johnny Cash Stars in 1980s Commercials for ATM Machines, 21 Apr 2015 in Music&Television
• Yoda’s Long Lost Twin Found in a 14th Century Illuminated Manuscript, 18 Apr 2015 in Art&History&Sci Fi
• David Chase Reveals the Philosophical Meaning of The Soprano’s Final Scene, 17 Apr 2015 in Life&Television
• Watch The Hitch: An Indie-Documentary on The Life & Times of Christopher Hitchens, 14 Apr 2015 in Current Affairs&Film&Religion
• The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences, 13 Apr 2015 in Math
• Stephen Hawking Sings Monty Python’s “Galaxy Song”: Hear the Newly-Released Single, 13 Apr 2015 in Astronomy&Comedy&Music&Physics
• Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story, 10 Apr 2015 in Literature&Writing
• Paper Animation Tells Curious Story of How a Meteorologist Theorized Pangaea & Continental Drift (1910), 09 Apr 2015 in Animation&Science
• Every Literary Reference Made by Sterling Archer in One Supercut, 06 Apr 2015 in Animation&Books&Television
• What Ignited Richard Feynman’s Love of Science Revealed in an Animated Video, 06 Apr 2015 in Animation&Science
• George R. R. Martin Puts Online a New Chapter from His Highly Anticipated Book, The Winds of Winter, 05 Apr 2015 in Sci Fi
• Do You See Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein in This Photo? An Amazing Eye Test Based on MIT Research, 03 Apr 2015 in Science
• Students Tells the Passover Story with a Rube Goldberg Machine, 02 Apr 2015 in Random&Religion
• Marshall McLuhan’s Strange Reading Habit: “I Read Only the Right-Hand Page of Serious Books”, 01 Apr 2015 in Books
• President Obama Chats with David Simon About Drugs, The Wire & Omar, 31 Mar 2015 in Politics&Television
• George Mason Students Create Revolutionary Fire Extinguisher That Uses Sound Waves to Blow Out Fires, 30 Mar 2015 in Technology
• A Short Animated History of Daylight Saving Time, Narrated by Stephen Fry, 29 Mar 2015 in Animation&Economics&History
• Animated: The Inspirational Story of Jane Goodall, and Why She Believes in Bigfoot, 26 Mar 2015 in Animation&Science
• Watch a New Star Wars Animation, Drawn in a Classic 80s Japanese Anime Style, 25 Mar 2015 in Animation&Sci Fi
• The Psychology of Blame: Another Animated Lesson That Can Make You a Better Person, 24 Mar 2015 in Psychology
• The Touching Story Behind Paraguay’s Landfill Orchestra: Now Told in Film, and Soon a Book, 23 Mar 2015 in Film&Life&Music
• Cookie Monster, Life Coach, Shows Why Cookies Are the Key to Happiness, 22 Mar 2015 in Food & Drink&Life
• Watch the “Youngest String Quartet Ever” Perform Vivaldi, Michael Jackson & Katy Perry, 21 Mar 2015 in K-12&Music
• A Mesmerizing Supercut of the First and Final Frames of 55 Movies, Played Side by Side, 19 Mar 2015 in Film
• Robert Reich Debunks Three Economic Myths by Drawing Cartoons, 19 Mar 2015 in Art&Economics
• Irish Navy Builds Ships Named After Samuel Beckett & James Joyce, 19 Mar 2015 in Literature
• An Animated Marc Maron Recalls Interviewing a Shirtless Iggy Pop in LA Garage, 17 Mar 2015 in Music&Podcasts
• Download Free NASA Software and Help Protect the Earth from Asteroids!, 16 Mar 2015 in Astronomy&Science&Software
• Bob Dylan Goes Film Noir in His New Music Video, 14 Mar 2015 in Film&Music
• Kapow! Stan Lee Is Co-Teaching a Free Comic Book MOOC, and You Can Enroll for Free, 12 Mar 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&MOOCs
• How to Draw Don Draper: A Short Video Primer from Mad Men Insider Josh Weltman, 12 Mar 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Television
• Download The Newly-Discovered Sherlock Holmes Story as a Free Audio Book, 10 Mar 2015 in Audio Books
• Weapons of Mass Instruction: Watch a 1979 Ford Falcon Get Converted in a Tank Armored with 900 Free Books, 10 Mar 2015 in Books
• Albert Einstein Sports a Native American Headdress and a Peace Pipe at the Grand Canyon, 1931, 09 Mar 2015 in History&Physics
• Life and Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion, 08 Mar 2015 in Food & Drink
• Richard Dawkins’ Famous “What If You’re Wrong” Speech Animated in the Style of South Park, 06 Mar 2015 in Animation&Religion
• Artist Takes Old Books and Gives Them New Life as Intricate Sculptures, 05 Mar 2015 in Art&Books&TED Talks
• A Final Wish: Terminally Ill Patients Visit Rembrandt’s Paintings in the Rijksmuseum One Last Time, 04 Mar 2015 in Art&Life
• Free eBook: Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave, 02 Mar 2015 in e-books&Travel
• Hear Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth Rocker, Read From Her New Memoir, Girl in a Band, 02 Mar 2015 in Audio Books&Music
• The Linguistics Behind Kevin Spacey’s Southern Accent in House of Cards: A Quick Primer, 01 Mar 2015 in Language Lessons
• A Racy Philosophy Lesson on Kant’s Aesthetics by Alain de Botton’s “School of Life”, 26 Feb 2015 in Philosophy
• The Musical Career of David Bowie in One Minute … and One Continuous Take, 25 Feb 2015 in Music&Random
• Kids Orchestra Plays Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” and Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”, 25 Feb 2015 in K-12&Music
• The New Yorker Presents: Watch the 30 Minute Pilot of the New Docu-Series from The New Yorker, 23 Feb 2015 in Media
• Read the Lost Sherlock Holmes Story That Was Just Discovered in an Attic in Scotland, 22 Feb 2015 in e-books&Literature
• 77 Exercises: A Workout Video For Fans of the Talking Heads, 21 Feb 2015 in Comedy&Music
• Oliver Sacks Contemplates Mortality (and His Terminal Cancer Diagnosis) in a Thoughtful, Poignant Letter, 19 Feb 2015 in Life
• How Clocks Changed Humanity Forever, Making Us Masters and Slaves of Time, 19 Feb 2015 in History&Technology
• Dubai in Flow Motion: A Short Film That Takes Hyperlapses to the Next Level, 19 Feb 2015 in Travel
• An Animated Lou Reed Explains The Velvet Underground’s Artistic Goals, and Why The Beatles Were “Garbage”, 18 Feb 2015 in Animation&Music
• 187 Big Thinkers Answer the Question: What Do You Think About Machines That Think?, 18 Feb 2015 in Science&Technology
• Read 3 Stories from Haruki Murakami’s Short Story Collection Published in Japan Last Year, 17 Feb 2015 in e-books&Literature
• Monopoly: How the Original Game Was Made to Condemn Monopolies & the Abuses of Capitalism, 16 Feb 2015 in Economics&History
• Free Online Course: Robert Thurman’s Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Recorded at Columbia U), 15 Feb 2015 in Philosophy&Religion
• David Carr Gives 10 Pieces of Work & Life Advice to UC Berkeley Graduates, 14 Feb 2015 in Graduation Speech&Life&Media
• The Marvelous Health Benefits of Chocolate: A Curious Medical Essay from 1631, 13 Feb 2015 in Food & Drink&Health
• See Penguins Wearing Tiny “Penguin Books” Sweaters, Knitted by the Oldest Man in Australia, 12 Feb 2015 in Books&Random
• Designer Reimagines Iconic Movie Posters With Minimalist Designs: Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix & More, 10 Feb 2015 in Art&Film
• New Video Shows What May Be Michelangelo’s Lost & Now Found Bronze Sculptures, 10 Feb 2015 in Art
• Joni Mitchell’s Application for a Tenure Track Philosophy Position, 09 Feb 2015 in Comedy&Philosophy
• All You Need is Love: The Keys to Happiness Revealed by a 75-Year Harvard Study, 09 Feb 2015 in Health&Life&Psychology
• Watch 570 Million Years of Evolution on Earth in 60 Seconds, 08 Feb 2015 in Biology
• B.B. King Explains in an Animated Video Whether You Need to Endure Hardship to Play the Blues, 06 Feb 2015 in Music
• 19th Century Maps Visualize Measles in America Before the Miracle of Vaccines, 05 Feb 2015 in Health&History&Science
• Take a Super Slow Motion Look at What Happens Inside a DSLR Camera, 02 Feb 2015 in Photography
• What Questions Would Stephen Fry Ask God at the Pearly Gates?, 02 Feb 2015 in Life&Religion
• Marlene Dietrich Plays the Musical Saw (aka the Singing Saw) to Entertain the Troops During WWII, 02 Feb 2015 in Film&Music
• Auschwitz Captured in Haunting Drone Footage (and a New Short Film by Steven Spielberg & Meryl Streep), 01 Feb 2015 in History
• Stanford Launches Free Course on Developing Apps with iOS 8, 29 Jan 2015 in Online Courses&Stanford&Technology
• Stream Classic Poetry Readings from Harvard’s Rich Audio Archive: From W.H. Auden to Dylan Thomas, 29 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes the Air Out of Deflategate, 28 Jan 2015 in Sports
• Richard Dawkins Reads “Love Letters” from “Fans” (NSFW), 28 Jan 2015 in Random&Religion
• Confusion Through Sand: A Short, Hand-Drawn Animation on the Terror & Confusion of War, 27 Jan 2015 in Animation
• Hear the Only Recording of Raymond Carver Reading “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, 26 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• Dominic West, Stephen Fry & Benedict Cumberbatch Read From a Guantánamo Prisoner’s Diary, 22 Jan 2015 in Current Affairs
• 31 Rolls of Film Taken by a World War II Soldier Get Discovered & Developed Before Your Eyes, 20 Jan 2015 in Photography
• Download The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe on His Birthday, 19 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&e-books
• Gnome Chomsky: The Essential Ornament for the Thinking Person’s Garden, 18 Jan 2015 in Random
• Vintage Video of Joni Mitchell Performing in 1965 — Before She Was Even Named Joni Mitchell, 16 Jan 2015 in Music
• Neil Gaiman Reads “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury”, 15 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• 365: One Animated Film, Shot One Second a Day, Over One Year, 14 Jan 2015 in Animation
• 50 Years of Changing David Bowie Hair Styles in One Animated GIF, 13 Jan 2015 in Music
• David Sedaris Spends 3–8 Hours Per Day Picking Up Trash in the UK; Testifies on the Litter Problem, 12 Jan 2015 in Comedy&Current Affairs
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Ponders the Big Question “Does the Universe Have a Purpose” in a Simple Animation, 12 Jan 2015 in Life&Physics&Science
• A Look Inside Charlie Hebdo, Their Creative Process & the Making of a Fateful Cartoon, 10 Jan 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Current Affairs
• Three Actresses from Downton Abbey Play a Raunchy Card Game (NSFW), 08 Jan 2015 in Comedy&Random
• Isaac Asimov Wrote “Gross” Limericks — Lots of Them, 07 Jan 2015 in Poetry&Sci Fi
• Bound by Law?: Free Comic Book Explains How Copyright Complicates Art, 05 Jan 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Law
• The Ramones’ First Press Release: We’re Part Musicians, Dentists & Degenerates (1975), 05 Jan 2015 in Music
• We Are Wired to Be Kind: How Evolution Gave Us Empathy, Compassion & Gratitude, 01 Jan 2015 in Psychology
• Great Minds Answer the Question “What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement?” in a New Film, 31 Dec 2014 in Science
• Play Chess Against the Ghost of Marcel Duchamp: A Free Online Chess Game, 30 Dec 2014 in Art&Technology
• Home Movies of Duke Ellington Playing Baseball (And How Baseball Coined the Word “Jazz”), 30 Dec 2014 in Jazz&Music&Sports
• Is There an Afterlife? Christopher Hitchens Speculates in an Animated Video, 29 Dec 2014 in Religion
• Watch a Music Video & Hear Tracks From Maya Angelou’s Posthumous Hip-Hop Album, Caged Bird Songs, 29 Dec 2014 in Music&Poetry
• Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses & More, 25 Dec 2014 in Audio Books&e-books&Film&iPad&Online Courses
• The Interview Now Available on Google Play, YouTube Movies, the Xbox & the Web, 24 Dec 2014 in Film
• David Bowie & Bing Crosby Sing “The Little Drummer Boy” (1977), 24 Dec 2014 in Music
• A Fun Parody of Downton Abbey Features George Clooney & the Cast of the Show, 23 Dec 2014 in Comedy&Television
• A Computer Gets Delivered in 1957: Great Moments in Schlepping History, 23 Dec 2014 in Technology