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Posts by jdavidjones:
- A List of 132 Radical, Mind-Expanding Books from Rage Against the Machine, 02 Mar 2021 in Books&Music&Politics
- What Are the Real Causes of Zoom Fatigue? And What Are the Possible Solutions?: New Research from Stanford Offers Answers, 02 Mar 2021 in Current Affairs&Health&Psychology&Stanford
- When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910), 01 Mar 2021 in Film&History&Sports
- Radiohead Ballets: Watch Ballets Choreographed Creatively to the Music of Radiohead, 26 Feb 2021 in Dance&Music
- RIP Radical Poet and Revolutionary Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), 24 Feb 2021 in Literature&Poetry&Politics
- The Complete Works of Hilma af Klint Will Get Published for the First Time in a Beautiful, Seven-Volume Collection, 24 Feb 2021 in Art
- Anthony Bourdain Talks About the Big Break That Changed His Life–at Age 44, 23 Feb 2021 in Books&Food & Drink&Television
- The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leondardo da Vinci (1504), 23 Feb 2021 in Art&History&Maps
- How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day–the Hard Way, One Page at a Time, 22 Feb 2021 in Archives&Books&Libraries
- 4,000 Priceless Scrolls, Texts & Papers From the University of Tokyo Have Been Digitized & Put Online, 18 Feb 2021 in Archives&Art&Books&History&Libraries&Literature
- Watch Chick Corea (RIP) Perform Intimate Acoustic Performances with Bobby McFerrin, Gary Burton, Hiromi Uehara & Others, 18 Feb 2021 in Music
- Peter Gabriel Re-Records “Biko,” His Anti-Apartheid Protest Song, with Musicians Around the World, 17 Feb 2021 in Music
- The Birth of Hip Hop: How DJ Kool Herc Used Turntables to Change the Musical World (1973), 17 Feb 2021 in Music
- Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970), 16 Feb 2021 in Music
- Archaeologists Find the Earliest Work of “Abstract Art,” Dating Back 73,000 Years, 16 Feb 2021 in Art&History&Life
- Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time in 18,000 Years, 15 Feb 2021 in History&Life&Music
- Watch “The Stroke,” a Hand-Animated Music Video Where the Visuals Came First & the Improvised Music Second, 12 Feb 2021 in Animation&Music
- Behold All 42 Maps from Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages, the Author’s 54-Volume Collection of “Geographical Fictions”, 11 Feb 2021 in Literature&Maps
- How the Food We Eat Affects Our Brain: Learn About the “MIND Diet”, 10 Feb 2021 in Health&Science
- Hear an Ancient Chinese Historian Describe The Roman Empire (and Other Voices of the Past), 10 Feb 2021 in History
- The “Academic Tarot”: 22 Major Arcana Cards Representing Life in the Academic Humanities Under COVID-19, 10 Feb 2021 in Current Affairs&Education&Life
- How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop”, 09 Feb 2021 in Music
- A New Database Will Document Every Slave House in the U.S.: Discover the “Saving Slave Houses Project”, 09 Feb 2021 in Archives&History
- The Magic of the Beach Boys’ Harmonies: Hear Isolated Vocals from “Sloop John B.,” “God Only Knows,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” & Other Pet Sounds Classics, 08 Feb 2021 in Music
- David Gilmour, David Crosby & Graham Nash Perform the Pink Floyd Classic, “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (2006), 05 Feb 2021 in Music
- All 80 Issues of the Influential Zine Punk Planet Are Now Online & Ready for Download at the Internet Archive, 04 Feb 2021 in Magazines&Music
- How Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” Created the “Blueprint for All Electronic Dance Music Today” (1977), 04 Feb 2021 in Music
- Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds: Timeless Advice in a Short Film, 04 Feb 2021 in Life
- Tony Bennett Duets with Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse & Other Musicians, Passing on the Great American Songbook, 02 Feb 2021 in Music
- Listen to the Never-Heard Song Written for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 02 Feb 2021 in Film&Music
- When the Frequency for Tuning Instruments Became a Grand Conspiracy Theory, 01 Feb 2021 in Music
- YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists, 29 Jan 2021 in Art&Chemistry&Science
- The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee: The Journey from Coffee Bean, to Coffee Cup, 28 Jan 2021 in Food & Drink
- Watch the Pilot of Breaking Bad with a Chemistry Professor: How Sound Was the Science?, 28 Jan 2021 in Chemistry&Television
- Watch Amanda Gorman Read “The Hill We Climb,” “Making Mountains As We Run,” “Fury and Faith,” and More, 27 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&Poetry
- How Richard Feynman’s Diagrams Revolutionized Physics, 26 Jan 2021 in Physics&Science
- Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Tells Protestors What to Do–and Not Do–If Arrested by Authoritarian Police, 26 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&Politics
- How Quentin Tarantino Shoots a Film at 3 Different Budget Levels: Reservoir Dogs ($1 Million), Pulp Fiction ($8 Million), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ($95 Million), 22 Jan 2021 in Film
- When the Grateful Dead Performed on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy After Dark & Secretly Dosed Everyone With LSD (1969), 22 Jan 2021 in Music&Television
- “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More, 21 Jan 2021 in History&Science
- Innovative Pinscreen Animations of Kafka’s “Before the Law”, Gogol’s “The Nose” & Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” (1932-1972), 21 Jan 2021 in Animation&Literature
- Prince’s First Television Interview (1985), 20 Jan 2021 in Music
- Rarely-Seen Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy Are Now Free Online, Courtesy of the Uffizi Gallery, 20 Jan 2021 in Art&Literature
- The Deadliest Garden in the World: Visit Alnwick’s Poison Garden in Northumberland, England, 19 Jan 2021 in Nature&Travel
- Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Energy Accumulator Was Beloved by William S. Burroughs and Banned by the FDA: Find Plans to Build the Controversial Device Online, 19 Jan 2021 in Psychology
- Why Should You Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved? An Animated Video Makes the Case, 14 Jan 2021 in Books&Literature
- How the Bicycle Accelerated the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890), 14 Jan 2021 in History
- How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist: What the Experts Recommend, 13 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&Politics&Psychology
- Social Psychologist Erich Fromm Diagnoses Why People Wear a Mask of Happiness in Modern Society (1977), 13 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&Philosophy&Psychology
- Discover the First Illustrated Book Printed in English, William Caxton’s Mirror of the World (1481), 12 Jan 2021 in Books&History
- New Documentary Sisters with Transistors Tells the Story of Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers, 11 Jan 2021 in Film&Music
- Behold an Interactive Online Edition of Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants (1868), 08 Jan 2021 in Books&History&Science
- An Animated Introduction to Baruch Spinoza: The “Philosopher’s Philosopher”, 07 Jan 2021 in Philosophy
- The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 709,000 Works of Art, Including Famous Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, 06 Jan 2021 in Art
- How Tibetan Monks Use Meditation to Raise Their Peripheral Body Temperature 16-17 Degrees, 06 Jan 2021 in Health&Neuroscience&Religion
- When Iggy Pop Published an Essay, “Caesar Lives,” in an Academic Journal about His Love for Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1995), 05 Jan 2021 in Music
- Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known and Hand-Illustrated Children’s Book, Mr. Bliss, 05 Jan 2021 in Books
- Did Beethoven Use a Broken Metronome When Composing His String Quartets? Scientists & Musicians Try to Solve the Centuries-Old Mystery, 04 Jan 2021 in Music
- Antonio Gramsci Writes a Column, “I Hate New Year’s Day” (January 1, 1916), 01 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&History&Politics
- The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes, 31 Dec 2020 in Biology&Science
- Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Snack Bar in the Ruins of Pompeii, 30 Dec 2020 in Food & Drink&History
- Your 15 Favorite Posts on Open Culture This Year–and What a Year It Has Been, 30 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs
- Listen to James Baldwin’s Record Collection in a 478-track, 32-Hour Spotify Playlist, 29 Dec 2020 in Literature&Music&Writing
- When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930), 29 Dec 2020 in Film&History&Science
- Revisit Kate Bush’s Peculiar Christmas Special, Featuring Peter Gabriel (1979), 25 Dec 2020 in Music
- How Jan van Eyck’s Masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, Became the Most Stolen Work of Art in History, 24 Dec 2020 in Art
- Octavia Butler’s Four Rules for Predicting the Future, 23 Dec 2020 in Sci Fi
- Tune Into Tree.fm: An Online Radio Station That Streams the Soothing Sounds of Forests from Around the World, 23 Dec 2020 in Nature
- Peter Jackson Gives Us an Enticing Glimpse of His Upcoming Beatles Documentary The Beatles: Get Back, 22 Dec 2020 in Film&Music
- The UN’s World Happiness Report Ranks “Socialist Friendly” Countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Sweden as Among the Happiest in the World, 22 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs&Economics&Politics
- How Joni Mitchell’s Song of Heartbreak, “River,” Became a Christmas Classic, 21 Dec 2020 in Music
- How Do Vaccines (Including the COVID-19 Vaccines) Work?: Watch Animated Introductions, 18 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs&Health&Science
- 160,000+ Medieval Manuscripts Online: Where to Find Them, 17 Dec 2020 in Books&History
- Discover the Ambient Music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, the Pioneering Japanese Composer, 17 Dec 2020 in Music
- Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover 8 Songs by Famous Jewish Artists for Hanukkah: Bob Dylan, Beastie Boys, Velvet Underground & More, 16 Dec 2020 in Music
- A Brief History of Talking Heads: How the Band Went from Scrappy CBGB’s Punks to New Wave Superstars, 16 Dec 2020 in Music
- David Byrne Turns His Acclaimed Musical American Utopia into a Picture Book for Grown-Ups, with Vivid Illustrations by Maira Kalman, 15 Dec 2020 in Art&Books&Current Affairs&Life
- How the Garage-Rock Anthem “Louie Louie” Became the Subject of a Lengthy FBI Investigation (1964), 15 Dec 2020 in Music
- A Visual History of The Rolling Stones Documented in a Beautiful, 450-Page Photo Book by Taschen, 14 Dec 2020 in Books&Music
- Jimi Hendrix’s Home Audio System & Record Collection Gets Recreated in His London Flat, 10 Dec 2020 in Music
- Don’t Think Twice: A Poignant Film Documents How Bob Dylan & The Beatles Bring Joy to a Dementia Patient, 09 Dec 2020 in Health&Music&Neuroscience&Psychology
- The Map of Doom: A Data-Driven Visualization of the Biggest Threats to Humanity, Ranked from Likely to Unlikely, 09 Dec 2020 in Data&Life&Science
- Marina Abramović’s Method for Overcoming Trauma: Go to a Park, Hug a Tree Tight, and Tell It Your Complaints for 15 Minutes, 08 Dec 2020 in Art&Life&Nature&Psychology
- The Sistine Chapel of the Ancients: Archaeologists Discover 8 Miles of Art Painted on Rock Walls in the Amazon, 08 Dec 2020 in Art&History
- Why Butt Trumpets & Other Bizarre Images Appeared in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts, 08 Dec 2020 in Art&Books&History
- How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound in the Groundbreaking Recording of “My Favorite Things”, 07 Dec 2020 in Music
- When Sun Ra Went to Egypt in 1971: See Film & Hear Recordings from the Legendary Afrofuturist’s First Visit to Cairo, 03 Dec 2020 in Music
- The Internet Archive is Saving Classic Flash Animations & Games from Extinction: Explore Them Online, 02 Dec 2020 in Animation&Archives&Internet Archive&Software&Technology
- Japanese Art Installation Lets People Play Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” As They Walk on Socially-Distanced Notes on the Floor, 02 Dec 2020 in Art&Life&Music
- Quentin Tarantino’s Copycat Cinema: How the Postmodern Filmmaker Perfected the Art of the Steal, 01 Dec 2020 in Film
- 88 Philosophy Podcasts to Help You Answer the Big Questions in Life, 01 Dec 2020 in Philosophy&Podcasts
- An Animated Stan Lee Explains Why the F-Word Is “the Most Useful Word in the English Language” (NSFW), 30 Nov 2020 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
- Toni Morrison’s 1,200 Volume Personal Library is Going on Sale: Get a Glimpse of the Books on Her Tribeca Condo Shelves, 27 Nov 2020 in Books&Literature
- The Beatles Create an Abstract Collaborative Painting, Images of a Woman, During Three Days of Lockdown in Japan (1966), 26 Nov 2020 in Art&Music
- Stevie Ray Vaughan Gives a Blistering Demonstration of His Guitar Technique, 25 Nov 2020 in Music
- The Uncanny Children’s Book Illustrations of Sigmund’s Freud’s Niece, Tom Seidmann-Freud, 25 Nov 2020 in Art&Education&K-12
- Hear Legendary BBC Composer Delia Derbyshire’s Electronic Version of Bach’s “Air on a G String”, 24 Nov 2020 in Music
- The Eden Project Built a Rainforest Ecosystem Inside Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Geodesic Domes, 24 Nov 2020 in Creativity&Design&Environment&Life&Technology
- A Curious Herbal: 500 Beautiful Illustrations of Medicinal Plants Drawn by Elizabeth Blackwell in 1737 (to Save Her Family from Financial Ruin), 23 Nov 2020 in Art&Books&History&Science
- Behold One of the Earliest Known Color Charts: The Table of Physiological Colors (1686), 20 Nov 2020 in Art&Science
- The Beautiful Video for David Gilmour’s “The Girl in the Yellow Dress,” Featuring 9,000 Hand-Drawn Frames of Animation, 19 Nov 2020 in Animation&Music
- Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80, 18 Nov 2020 in Books&Writing
- Discover the Cyanometer, the Device Invented in 1789 Just to Measure the Blueness of the Sky, 18 Nov 2020 in Design&Science
- What Happens When You Spend Weeks, Months, or Years in Solitary Confinement, 17 Nov 2020 in Life&Science
- Rubens’ Cupid Escapes His Painting & Flies Around Brussels Airport, Thanks to Projection Mapping Technology, 17 Nov 2020 in Art&Technology
- Constantly Wrong: Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson Makes the Case Against Conspiracy Theories, 16 Nov 2020 in Current Affairs&History&Politics
- 1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums: Enter Van Gogh Worldwide, 12 Nov 2020 in Art
- The History of Rock Mapped Out on the Circuit Board of a Guitar Amplifier: 1400 Musicians, Songwriters & Producers, 12 Nov 2020 in Music
- Former Ballerina with Dementia Gracefully Comes Alive to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, 11 Nov 2020 in Dance&Music&Neuroscience
- Experience the Bob Ross Experience: A New Museum Open in the TV Painter’s Former Studio Home, 11 Nov 2020 in Art&Museums&Television
- Hear a Rare First Recording of Janis Joplin’s Hit “Me and Bobby McGee,” Written by Kris Kristofferson, 10 Nov 2020 in Music
- When ABBA Wrote Music for the Cold War-Themed Musical, Chess: “One of the Best Rock Scores Ever Produced for the Theatre” (1984), 10 Nov 2020 in Music&Theatre
- Was Winston Churchill “The Greatest Briton”? A Short Claymation Looks at the Darker Side of the Prime Minister’s Life, 09 Nov 2020 in Film&History
- Neil Young Releases a Never-Before-Heard Version of His 1979 Classic, “Powderfinger”: Stream It Online, 06 Nov 2020 in Music
- How Charlie Chaplin Used Groundbreaking Visual Effects to Shoot the Death-Defying Roller Skate Scene in Modern Times (1936), 05 Nov 2020 in Film
- A Dictionary of Symbols: Juan Eduardo Cirlot’s Classic Study of Symbols Gets Republished in a Beautiful, Expanded Edition, 05 Nov 2020 in Art&History&Psychology
- A Digital Library for Bartenders: Vintage Cocktail Books with Recipes Dating Back to 1753, 04 Nov 2020 in Food & Drink&Libraries
- How the Iconic Colors of the New York City Subway System Were Invented: See the 1930 Color Chart Created by Architect Squire J. Vickers, 04 Nov 2020 in Design&History
- The Iconic Photography of Gordon Parks: An Introduction to the Renaissance American Artist, 03 Nov 2020 in Photography
- When Louis Armstrong Stopped a Civil War in The Congo (1960), 02 Nov 2020 in History&Music&Politics
- The Sublime Alice in Wonderland Illustrations of Tove Jansson, Creator of the Globally-Beloved Moomins (1966), 30 Oct 2020 in Art&Literature
- When Edward Gorey Created Set Designs & Tony Award-Winning Costumes for a Broadway Production of Dracula (1977), 29 Oct 2020 in Theatre
- The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s, 28 Oct 2020 in Music
- John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” & Bach’s “Prelude in C Major” Get Turned into Dazzling Musical Animations by an Artist with Synesthesia, 28 Oct 2020 in Film&Music&Neuroscience&Psychology
- Janis Joplin & Tom Jones Bring the House Down in an Unlikely Duet of “Raise Your Hand” (1969), 27 Oct 2020 in Music&Television
- How to Speak: Watch the Lecture on Effective Communication That Became an MIT Tradition for Over 40 Years, 26 Oct 2020 in Education&Language&MIT
- When Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick, the First Couple of Pop Art, Made an Odd Appearance on the Merv Griffin Show (1965), 26 Oct 2020 in Art&Television
- Glenn Gould Explains Why Mozart Was a Bad Composer in a Controversial Public TV Show (1968), 22 Oct 2020 in Music
- An Animated Video Shows the Building of a Medieval Bridge: 45 Years of Construction in 3 Minutes, 22 Oct 2020 in Architecture&History
- How the Doors Got Banned from The Ed Sullivan Show (1967), 21 Oct 2020 in Music
- Watch Cornel West’s Course on W.E.B. Du Bois, the Great 20th Century Public Intellectual, 21 Oct 2020 in Philosophy
- How to De-Stress with Niksen, the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing, 20 Oct 2020 in Health
- The Dorothea Lange Digital Archive: Explore 600+ Photographs by the Influential Photographer (Plus Negatives, Contact Sheets & More), 20 Oct 2020 in Archives&History&Photography
- The 100 Most Influential Photographs: Watch TIME’s Video Essays on Photos That Changed the World, 19 Oct 2020 in Photography
- Mapping the Differences in How Americans Speak English: A Geographic Look at Words, Accents & Dialects, 16 Oct 2020 in English Language
- 11 Hypnotic, Close-Up Minutes Watching Tool’s Legendary Drummer Danny Carey in Action, 15 Oct 2020 in Music
- Explore the Roman Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, the Oldest Known Cookbook in Existence, 14 Oct 2020 in Food & Drink&History
- How to Win an Argument (at the U.S. Supreme Court, or Anywhere Else): A Primer by Litigator Neal Katyal, 14 Oct 2020 in Law&Life
- 10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection, 13 Oct 2020 in Archives&Food & Drink
- The Incredible Six-Octave Vocal Range of Opera-Singing Punk Diva Nina Hagen, 13 Oct 2020 in Music
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