About: jdavidjones
Posts by jdavidjones:
- 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
- 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
- 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 Prague’s Charles Bridge in the 14th Century: 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
- How Science Fiction Formed Jimi Hendrix, 12 Oct 2020 in Music
- Snowball Fight, the 1896 Film by the Lumière Brothers, Gets Restored in Captivating Color, 08 Oct 2020 in Film
- The 1937 Experiment in Distance Learning: When Chicago Schools Went Remote, Over Radio, During a Polio Outbreak, 07 Oct 2020 in Education&History
- Why Do People Join Cults? An Animated Primer Explains, 07 Oct 2020 in Psychology
- Watch Some of Eddie Van Halen’s (RIP) Greatest Performances: “Shredding Was Eddie’s Very Essence”, 07 Oct 2020 in Music
- Ted Turner Asks Carl Sagan “Are You a Socialist?;” Sagan Responds Thoughtfully (1989), 06 Oct 2020 in Economics&Politics
- The Only Time Prince & Miles Davis Jammed Together Onstage: Watch the New Year’s Eve, 1987 Concert, 06 Oct 2020 in Music
- Jazz Typefaces Capture the Essence of 100 Iconic Jazz Musicians, 05 Oct 2020 in Design&Jazz&Music
- An Animated Reading of “The Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense Poem That Somehow Manages to Make Sense, 02 Oct 2020 in Literature&Poetry
- Hear Readings of Albert Einstein’s Love Letters (and Chilly Divorce Letters) to His First Wife Mileva, 01 Oct 2020 in Letters&Science
- Ella Fitzgerald Imitates Louis Armstrong’s Gravelly Voice While Singing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby”, 30 Sep 2020 in Music
- When R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe Created the Lyrics for “The Voice of Harold” by Riffing on the Liner Notes of an Old Gospel Album (1983), 30 Sep 2020 in Music
- Explore the Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript, 29 Sep 2020 in History
- Hand-Colored Maps of Wealth & Poverty in Victorian London: Explore a New Interactive Edition of Charles Booth’s Historic Work of Social Cartography (1889), 28 Sep 2020 in History&Maps
- Discovered: The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World, 28 Sep 2020 in Computer Science
- What Voltaire Meant When He Said That “We Must Cultivate Our Garden”: An Animated Introduction, 24 Sep 2020 in Literature&Philosophy
- The Liberal Arts Can Make People Less Susceptible to Authoritarianism, a New Study Finds, 23 Sep 2020 in Current Affairs&Politics
- Is Mail-In Voting New in the United States?: It Actually Goes Back to the Civil War, 23 Sep 2020 in History&Politics
- 31 Buster Keaton Films: “The Greatest of All Comic Actors,” “One of the Greatest Filmmakers of All Time”, 22 Sep 2020 in Film
- The Internet Archive Will Digitize & Preserve Millions of Academic Articles with Its New Database, “Internet Archive Scholar”, 22 Sep 2020 in Archives&Data&Education&Internet Archive&Libraries
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Opera Recordings (and Her First Appearance in an Opera), 21 Sep 2020 in Current Affairs&Music&Politics
- Free Jazz Musicians Intentionally Play Terrible Music to Drown Out the Noise of a Danish Far-Right Politician, 18 Sep 2020 in Music&Politics
- Watch Rare Footage of Jimi Hendrix Performing “Voodoo Child” in Maui, Plus a Trailer for a New Documentary on Jimi Hendrix’s Legendary Maui Performances (1970), 17 Sep 2020 in Film&Music
- A Side-by-Side, Shot-by-Shot Comparison of Denis Villeneuve’s 2020 Dune and David Lynch’s 1984 Dune, 17 Sep 2020 in Film
- Debbie Harry Demonstrates the Punk Pogo Dance for a U.S. Audience (1978), 16 Sep 2020 in Music
- The Pentagon Created a Plan to Defend the US Against a Zombie Apocalypse: Read It Online, 16 Sep 2020 in Film&Life&Television
- The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh, 15 Sep 2020 in Art&History
- Explore Dozens of Drawings by Charles Darwin’s Creative Children, 15 Sep 2020 in History&Science
- Monty Python’s Michael Palin Is Also an Art Critic: Watch Him Explore His Favorite Paintings by Andrew Wyeth & Other Artists, 14 Sep 2020 in Art&Television
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Studies of the Human Heart Were 500 Years Ahead of Their Time, 11 Sep 2020 in Art&Biology&Health&History
- Sounds of the Forest: A Free Audio Archive Gathers the Sounds of Forests from All Over the World, 11 Sep 2020 in Life&Nature
- Watch Lime Kiln Club Field Day, One of the Earliest Surviving Feature Films with an All Black Cast (1913), 11 Sep 2020 in Film&History
- Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)”, 09 Sep 2020 in Music
- The Fall of Civilizations Podcast Engagingly Explores the Collapse of Civilizations & Empires Throughout History, 08 Sep 2020 in History&Podcasts
- How Charlie Parker Changed Jazz Forever, 08 Sep 2020 in Music
- IKEA Digitizes & Puts Online 70 Years of Its Catalogs: Explore the Designs of the Swedish Furniture Giant, 08 Sep 2020 in Business&Design
- A Medieval Metropolis Existed In What’s Now St. Louis, Then Mysteriously Disappeared in the 14th Century, 07 Sep 2020 in History
- A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks–Covering 1,000 Years of Food History–Is Now Online, 03 Sep 2020 in Food & Drink
- A Short Introduction to Caravaggio, the Master Of Light, 03 Sep 2020 in Art
- Behold a Beautiful 400-Year-Old ‘Friendship Book’ Featuring the Signatures of Historic Figures, 02 Sep 2020 in Art&Books&History
- Bronze Age Britons Turned Bones of Dead Relatives into Musical Instruments & Ornaments, 02 Sep 2020 in History&Life
- Hear Patti Smith’s First Poetry Reading, Accompanied by Her Longtime Guitarist Lenny Kaye (St. Mark’s Church, 1971), 01 Sep 2020 in Music&Poetry
- Watch Bob Dylan Perform “Only A Pawn In Their Game,” His Damning Song About the Murder of Medgar Evers, at the 1963 March on Washington, 31 Aug 2020 in History&Music&Politics
- JamBase Launches a New Video Archive of 100,000 Streaming Concerts: Phish, Wilco, the Avett Brothers, Grateful Dead & Much More, 27 Aug 2020 in Music
- The Massive Harrods Catalogue from 1912 Gets Digitized: Before Amazon, Harrods Offered “Everything for Everyone, Everywhere”, 26 Aug 2020 in Business&Economics&History
- Sylvia Beach Tells the Story of Founding Shakespeare and Company, Publishing Joyce’s Ulysses, Selling Copies of Hemingway’s First Book & More (1962), 26 Aug 2020 in Books&Literature
- How Stevie Nicks Wrote “Rhiannon” & Embodied the Medieval Witch Character Onstage, 26 Aug 2020 in Music
- Hear Musicians Play the Only Playable Stradivarius Guitar in the World: The “Sabionari”, 25 Aug 2020 in Music
- A New Digital Archive Preserves Black Lives Matter & COVID-19 Street Art, 25 Aug 2020 in Art&Politics
- Nina Simone Writes an Admiring Letter to Langston Hughes: “Brother, You’ve Got a Fan Now!” (1966), 24 Aug 2020 in Literature&Music
- The British Museum is Full of Looted Artifacts, 21 Aug 2020 in History&Museums
- The Story of “Wipe Out,” the Classic Surf Rock Instrumental, 20 Aug 2020 in Music
- Essential Reads on Feminism: The New York Public Library Creates a Reading List to Honor the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, 19 Aug 2020 in Books&Gender
- A Record Store Designed for Mice in Sweden, Featuring Albums by Mouse Davis, Destiny’s Cheese, Dolly Parsley & More, 18 Aug 2020 in Art
- Every Possible Kind of Science Fiction Story: An Exhaustive List Created by Pioneering 1920s SciFi Writer Clare Winger Harris (1931), 18 Aug 2020 in Sci Fi
- An Introduction to Postmodernist Thinkers & Themes: Watch Primers on Foucault, Nietzsche, Derrida, Deleuze & More, 17 Aug 2020 in Philosophy
- The Recipes of Famous Artists: Dinners & Cocktails From Tolstoy, Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch & Many More, 17 Aug 2020 in Food & Drink
- When Salvador Dalí Met Alice Cooper & Turned Him into a Hologram: The Meeting of Two Kings of Camp (1973), 14 Aug 2020 in Art&Music
- Explore an Interactive, Online Version of the Beautifully Illustrated, 200-Year-Old British & Exotic Mineralogy, 13 Aug 2020 in Art&Education&Science
- Milton Glaser’s Stylish Album Covers for The Band, Nina Simone, John Cage & Many More, 12 Aug 2020 in Art&Design&Music
- Ballerina Misty Copeland Recreates the Poses of Edgar Degas’ Ballet Dancers, 12 Aug 2020 in Art&Dance&Photography
- The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague, 11 Aug 2020 in History
- Winston Churchill Praises the Virtue of “Brevity” in Memos to His Staff: Concise Writing Leads to Clearer Thinking, 10 Aug 2020 in Politics&Writing
- View 250,000 British Paintings & Sculptures Free Online, 07 Aug 2020 in Art
- A Physicist Examines the Scientific Accuracy of Physics Shown in Major Movies: Batman, Gravity, Contact, Interstellar, Star Trek & More, 06 Aug 2020 in Film&Science
- Seriously Awesome Ukulele Covers of “Sultans of Swing,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Thunderstruck,” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, 06 Aug 2020 in Music
- A Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 CE: Explore Stunning Recreations of The Forum, Colosseum and Other Monuments, 05 Aug 2020 in Architecture&History&Technology
- How Scholars Finally Deciphered Linear B, the Oldest Preserved Form of Ancient Greek Writing, 05 Aug 2020 in History
- The Iconic Album Covers of Hipgnosis: Meet “The Beatles of Album Cover Art” Who Created Unforgettable Designs for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel & Many More, 04 Aug 2020 in Art&Music
- James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America & Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969), 04 Aug 2020 in History&Politics&Television
- Zamrock: An Introduction to Zambia’s 1970s Rich & Psychedelic Rock Scene, 03 Aug 2020 in Music
- The Story Behind the Iconic Black Power Salute Photo at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, 30 Jul 2020 in History
- Historic Mexican Recipes Are Now Available as Free Digital Cookbooks: Get Started With Dessert, 30 Jul 2020 in Food & Drink
- The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity, 29 Jul 2020 in Music
- New Digital Archive Opens Access to Thousands of Digitized African American Funeral Programs (1886-2019), 29 Jul 2020 in History&Life
- Comedians Speaking Truth to Power: Lenny Bruce, George Carlin & Richard Pryor (NSFW), 28 Jul 2020 in Comedy
- Why Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green (RIP) Was the Most Underrated Guitarist in British Blues, 27 Jul 2020 in Music
- Watch the Last, Transcendent Performance of “Echoes” by Pink Floyd Keyboardist Richard Wright & David Gilmour (2006), 24 Jul 2020 in Music
- W.E.B. Du Bois Devastates Apologists for Confederate Monuments and Robert E. Lee (1931), 23 Jul 2020 in History
- How Ornette Coleman Freed Jazz with His Theory of Harmolodics, 23 Jul 2020 in Jazz&Music
- H.R. Giger’s Dark, Surrealist Album Covers: Debbie Harry, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Celtic Frost, Danzig & More, 22 Jul 2020 in Art&Music
- The Moment When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, 22 Jul 2020 in History&Music
- Lin-Manuel Miranda Breaks Down How He Wrote Hamilton‘s Big Hit, “My Shot”, 22 Jul 2020 in Current Affairs&Music&Theatre
- When Astronomer Johannes Kepler Wrote the First Work of Science Fiction, The Dream (1609), 21 Jul 2020 in Astronomy&Literature&Religion&Sci Fi&Science
- Icons of Art Wearing Masks: Frida Kahlo, Mona Lisa, Girl with the Pearl Earring & More, 20 Jul 2020 in Art&Current Affairs
- Dr. Wise on Influenza: Rare Silent Film Shows How They Tried to Educate the Public About the Spanish Flu a Century Ago (1919), 20 Jul 2020 in Film&History
- Hear an Enchanted Medieval Cover of Dolly Parton’s Classic Ode to Jealousy, “Jolene”, 16 Jul 2020 in Music
- A Short Documentary on the Courageous Tuskegee Airmen, Narrated by Morgan Freeman, 15 Jul 2020 in History
- What Happened When Americans Had to Wear Masks During the 1918 Flu Pandemic, 15 Jul 2020 in Current Affairs&Health&History
- How Cannonball Adderley Shared the Joy of Jazz, 15 Jul 2020 in Jazz&Music
- The Only Surviving Script Written by Shakespeare Is Now Online, 14 Jul 2020 in Literature
- Nursing Home Residents Replace Famous Rock Stars on Iconic Album Covers, 14 Jul 2020 in Creativity&Current Affairs&Music
- Emma Willard, the First Woman Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851), 13 Jul 2020 in Art&Education&History
- Watch the Famous James Baldwin-William F. Buckley Debate in Full, With Restored Audio (1965), 09 Jul 2020 in Current Affairs&History&Politics
- Explore the Beautiful Pages of the 1902 Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai: European Modernism Meets Traditional Japanese Design, 08 Jul 2020 in Art
- A Chilling Time-Lapse Video Documents Every COVID-19 Death on a Global Map: From January to June 2020, 08 Jul 2020 in Current Affairs&Health
- Vintage Science Face Masks: Conquer the Pandemic with Science, Courtesy of Maria Popova’s BrainPickings, 07 Jul 2020 in Current Affairs&Health&Science
- Ella Fitzgerald’s Lost Interview about Racism & Segregation: Recorded in 1963, It’s Never Been Heard Until Now, 07 Jul 2020 in Music
- Did the CIA Write the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change,” One of the Bestselling Songs of All Time?, 06 Jul 2020 in History&Music&Podcasts
- An Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Groundbreaking Linguistic Theories, 02 Jul 2020 in Language
- John Prine’s Last Song Was Also His First to Go No. 1: Watch Him Perform “I Remember Everything”, 02 Jul 2020 in Music
- How Ornette Coleman Shaped the Jazz World: An Introduction to His Irreverent Sound, 01 Jul 2020 in Music
- How Two Teenage Dutch Sisters Ended Up Joining the Resistance and Assassinating Nazis During World War II, 01 Jul 2020 in History
- When the Beatles Refused to Play Before Segregated Audiences on Their First U.S. Tour (1964), 30 Jun 2020 in Music
- An Immaculate Copy of Leonardo’s The Last Supper Digitized by Google: View It in High Resolution Online, 30 Jun 2020 in Art
- The Beastie Boys & Rick Rubin Reunite and Revisit Their Formative Time Together in 1980s NYC, 29 Jun 2020 in Music
- Nile Rodgers Tells the Story of How He Turned David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” from Folk to New Wave Funk, 26 Jun 2020 in Music
- Hear the Voices of Americans Born in Slavery: The Library of Congress Features 23 Audio Interviews with Formerly Enslaved People (1932-75), 25 Jun 2020 in History&Libraries
- How Georgia O’Keeffe Became Georgia O’Keeffe: An Animated Video Tells the Story, 24 Jun 2020 in Art
- Neil Armstrong Sets Straight an Internet Truther Who Accused Him of Faking the Moon Landing (2000), 24 Jun 2020 in Letters&Science
- John Trumbull’s Famous 1818 Painting Declaration of Independence Virtually Defaced to Show Which Founding Fathers Owned Slaves, 23 Jun 2020 in Art&History&Philosophy&Politics
- Miles Davis is Attacked, Beaten & Arrested by the NYPD Outside Birdland, Eight Days After the Release of Kind of Blue (1959), 22 Jun 2020 in History&Music
- In 1968, a Teenager Convinced Thelonious Monk to Play a Gig at His High School to Promote Racial Unity; Now the Concert Recording Is Getting Released, 22 Jun 2020 in Jazz&Music
- The Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” Played By Musicians Around the World (with Cameos by David Crosby, Jimmy Buffett & Bill Kreutzmann), 18 Jun 2020 in Music
- Artificial Intelligence Brings to Life Figures from 7 Famous Paintings: The Mona Lisa, Birth of Venus & More, 17 Jun 2020 in Art&Creativity&Software&Technology
- Tom Jones Performs “Long Time Gone” with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young–and Blows the Band & Audience Away (1969), 17 Jun 2020 in Music&Television
- When Punk & Reggae Fans Launched the “Rock Against Racism” Movement and Pushed Back Against Britain’s Racist Right (1976), 17 Jun 2020 in Music&Politics
- When John Maynard Keynes Predicted a 15-Hour Workweek “in a Hundred Year’s Time” (1930), 16 Jun 2020 in Economics
- An Introduction to Thought Forms, the Pioneering 1905 Theosophist Book That Inspired Abstract Art: It Returns to Print on November 6th, 15 Jun 2020 in Art&Books&Religion
- Hear Enchanting Mixes of Japanese Pop, Jazz, Funk, Disco, Soul, and R&B from the 70s and 80s, 12 Jun 2020 in Music
- Tom Morello Responds to Angry Fans Who Suddenly Realize That Rage Against the Machine’s Music Is Political: “What Music of Mine DIDN’T Contain Political BS?”, 11 Jun 2020 in Current Affairs&Music&Politics
- Daniel Radcliffe Writes a Thoughtful Response to J.K. Rowling’s Statements about Trans Women, 10 Jun 2020 in Books&Current Affairs&Film
- Is This the Most Accurate Fan Cover of the Beatles Ever? Hear a Faithful Recreation of the Abbey Road Medley, 10 Jun 2020 in Music
- How the “First Photojournalist,” Mathew Brady, Shocked the Nation with Photos from the Civil War, 09 Jun 2020 in History&Photography
- Imagining the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate That Never Happened, 09 Jun 2020 in History&Politics
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