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• Hear 15 Hours of Frank Zappa’s Legendary 1977 Halloween Performances at New York’s Palladium, 31 Oct 2017 in Music
• What Makes The Death of Socrates a Great Work of Art?: A Thought-Provoking Reading of David’s Philosophical & Political Painting, 30 Oct 2017 in Art&History&Philosophy
• How the CIA Funded & Supported Literary Magazines Worldwide While Waging Cultural War Against Communism, 27 Oct 2017 in History&Literature&Politics
• The Social Lives of Trees: Science Reveals How Trees Mysteriously Talk to Each Other, Work Together & Form Nurturing Families, 26 Oct 2017 in Nature&Science
• The Art of Explaining Hard Ideas: Scientists Try to Explain Gene Editing & Brain Mapping to Young Kids & Students, 25 Oct 2017 in Biology&K-12&Neuroscience&Science
• Why Should You Read James Joyce’s Ulysses?: A New TED-ED Animation Makes the Case, 25 Oct 2017 in Literature
• Stephen Hawking’s Ph.D. Thesis, “Properties of Expanding Universes,” Now Free to Read/Download Online, 24 Oct 2017 in Physics&Science
• Stream Joni Mitchell’s Complete Discography: A 17-Hour Playlist Moving from Song to a Seagull (1968) to Shine (2007), 24 Oct 2017 in Music
• The Women of the Blues: Hear a Playlist of Great Blues Singers, from Bessie Smith & Etta James, to Billie Holiday & Janis Joplin, 23 Oct 2017 in Music
• “The Philosopher’s Web,” an Interactive Data Visualization Shows the Web of Influences Connecting Ancient & Modern Philosophers, 20 Oct 2017 in Design&Philosophy
• Maria Anna Mozart Was a Musical Prodigy Like Her Brother Wolfgang, So Why Did She Get Erased from History?, 19 Oct 2017 in Gender&History&Music
• Hallelujah!: You Can Stream Every Leonard Cohen Album in a 22-Hour Chronological Playlist (1967–2016), 18 Oct 2017 in Music
• The Power of Introverts: Author Susan Cain Explains Why We Need to Appreciate the Talents & Abilities of the Quiet Ones, 18 Oct 2017 in Psychology&TED Talks
• An Animated Introduction to Michel de Montaigne, 17 Oct 2017 in Philosophy
• 200,000+ Vintage Records Being Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library, 17 Oct 2017 in Archives&History&Internet Archive&Music
• Why Should We Read Virginia Woolf? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case, 16 Oct 2017 in Literature
• Eerie 19th Century Photographs of Ghosts: See Images from the Long, Strange Tradition of “Spirit Photography”, 13 Oct 2017 in History&Photography
• John Coltrane Draws a Mysterious Diagram Illustrating the Mathematical & Mystical Qualities of Music, 12 Oct 2017 in Math&Music
• Watch David Gilmour Play the Songs of Syd Barrett, with the Help of David Bowie & Richard Wright, 11 Oct 2017 in Music
• The History of Hip Hop Music Visualized on a Turntable Circuit Diagram: Features 700 Artists, from DJ Kool Herc to Kanye West, 11 Oct 2017 in Music
• The Philosophical Appreciation of Rocks in China & Japan: A Short Introduction to an Ancient Tradition, 10 Oct 2017 in Environment&Philosophy
• Watch the New Trailer for Electric Dreams, the Philip K. Dick TV Series, Starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi & More, 10 Oct 2017 in Sci Fi&Television
• Your Brain on Art: The Emerging Science of Neuroaesthetics Probes What Art Does to Our Brains, 09 Oct 2017 in Art&Science
• How Stress Can Change Your Brain: An Animated Introduction, 08 Oct 2017 in Health&Science&TED Talks
• Enter the The Cornell Hip Hop Archive: A Vast Digital Collection of Hip Hop Photos, Posters & More, 05 Oct 2017 in Archives&Music
• The Philosophy & Music of Devo, the Avant-Garde Art Project Dedicated to Revealing the Truth About De-Evolution, 04 Oct 2017 in Art&Music
• How Buddhism & Neuroscience Can Help You Change How Your Mind Works: A New Course by Bestselling Author Robert Wright, 03 Oct 2017 in Psychology&Religion
• Before the Bookmobile: When Librarians Rode on Horseback to Deliver Books to Rural Americans During the Great Depression, 02 Oct 2017 in Books&History
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Bizarre Caricatures & Monster Drawings, 29 Sep 2017 in Art
• Ralph Steadman’s Wildly Illustrated Biography of Leonardo da Vinci (1983), 28 Sep 2017 in Art&Books
• When John Cage & Marcel Duchamp Played Chess on a Chessboard That Turned Chess Moves Into Electronic Music (1968), 27 Sep 2017 in Art&Music
• Watch Brian Eno’s Experimental Film “The Ship,” Made with Artificial Intelligence, 27 Sep 2017 in Art&Music&Technology
• Photo Archive Lets You Download 4,300 High-Res Photographs of the Historic Normandy Invasion, 26 Sep 2017 in History&Photography
• The Strange Story of Dr. James Barry, the Pioneering 19th Century British Doctor Who Was a Woman in Disguise, 26 Sep 2017 in Gender&History
• An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published, 25 Sep 2017 in Art&Books
• How Can We Know What is True? And What Is BS? Tips from Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman & Michael Shermer, 22 Sep 2017 in Philosophy&Science
• How a Recording Studio Mishap Created the Famous Drum Sound That Defined 80s Music & Beyond, 20 Sep 2017 in Music
• Laurie Anderson Introduces Her Virtual Reality Installation That Lets You Fly Magically Through Stories, 19 Sep 2017 in Art&Technology
• The Sex Pistols Make a Scandalous Appearance on the Bill Grundy Show & Introduce Punk Rock to the Startled Masses (1976), 19 Sep 2017 in Music&Television
• Wassily Kandinsky Syncs His Abstract Art to Mussorgsky’s Music in a Historic Bauhaus Theatre Production (1928), 18 Sep 2017 in Art&Music
• When Michel Foucault Tripped on Acid in Death Valley and Called It “The Greatest Experience of My Life” (1975), 15 Sep 2017 in Philosophy
• Behold the Beautiful Designs of Brazil’s 1920s Art Deco Magazine, Para Todos, 14 Sep 2017 in Art&Magazines
• Hear What Happens When Avant-Garde Composer Pierre Boulez Conducts Three Frank Zappa Songs, 13 Sep 2017 in Music
• When Roald Dahl Hosted His Own Creepy TV Show Way Out, a Companion to Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone (1961), 13 Sep 2017 in Television
• An Animated Introduction to Rene Descartes & His Philosophy of Radical Doubt, 12 Sep 2017 in Philosophy
• When Pink Floyd Tried to Make an Album with Household Objects: Hear Two Surviving Tracks Made with Wine Glasses & Rubber Bands, 12 Sep 2017 in Music
• Hear Classic Readings of Poe’s “The Raven” by Vincent Price, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee & More, 11 Sep 2017 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Map of Computer Science: New Animation Presents a Survey of Computer Science, from Alan Turing to “Augmented Reality”, 08 Sep 2017 in Computer Science&Science&Technology
• Watch John Lennon’s Last Live Performance (1975): “Imagine,” “Stand By Me” & More, 07 Sep 2017 in Music
• Trigonometry Discovered on a 3700-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Tablet, 06 Sep 2017 in History&Math&Science
• When Albert Einstein Championed the Creation of a One World Government (1945), 06 Sep 2017 in History&Politics
• The Earliest Known Appearance of the F‑Word, in a Bizarre Court Record Entry from 1310, 05 Sep 2017 in English Language
• Learn the Untold History of the Chinese Community in the Mississippi Delta, 05 Sep 2017 in History
• The “Lost” Pink Floyd Soundtrack for Michelangelo Antonioni’s Only American Film, Zabriskie Point (1970), 04 Sep 2017 in Film&Music
• Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896–1940), 01 Sep 2017 in Art&Magazines
• An Animated Introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein & His Philosophical Insights on the Problems of Human Communication, 30 Aug 2017 in Philosophy
• Margaret Hamilton, Lead Software Engineer of the Apollo Project, Stands Next to Her Code That Took Us to the Moon (1969), 30 Aug 2017 in Gender&Science&Software&Technology
• “The Art of David Lynch”— How Rene Magritte, Edward Hopper & Francis Bacon Influenced David Lynch’s Cinematic Vision, 29 Aug 2017 in Art&Film
• 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”, 29 Aug 2017 in Music&Politics
• A Colorful Map Visualizes the Lexical Distances Between Europe’s Languages: 54 Languages Spoken by 670 Million People, 28 Aug 2017 in Maps
• Read 1,000 Editions of The Village Voice: A Digital Archive of the Iconic New York City Paper, 25 Aug 2017 in Art&Film&Magazines&Music
• Discover the Paintings, Drawings & Collages of Sylvia Plath: Now on Display at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 24 Aug 2017 in Art&Literature&Poetry
• Brooklyn Academy of Music Puts Online 70,000 Objects Documenting the History of the Performing Arts: Download Playbills, Posters & More, 23 Aug 2017 in Art&Dance&Opera&Theatre
• What’s a Scientifically-Proven Way to Improve Your Ability to Learn? Get Out and Exercise, 23 Aug 2017 in Education&Health
• Repairing Willie Nelson’s Trigger: A Good Look at How a Luthier Gets America’s Most Iconic Guitar on the Road Again, 22 Aug 2017 in Music
• On the Power of Teaching Philosophy in Prisons, 22 Aug 2017 in Life&Philosophy
• The Comedic Legacies of Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis (RIP): A Study in Contrasts, 21 Aug 2017 in Comedy&Life
• Hear the Beach Boys’ Angelic Vocal Harmonies in Four Isolated Tracks from Pet Sounds: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows,” “Sloop John B” & “Good Vibrations”, 18 Aug 2017 in Music
• Noam Chomsky Explains the Best Way for Ordinary People to Make Change in the World, Even When It Seems Daunting, 17 Aug 2017 in Politics
• When Gonzo Artist Ralph Steadman Illustrated George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1995), 16 Aug 2017 in Art&Books&Literature
• F.D.R. Proposes a Second Bill of Rights: A Decent Job, Education & Health Care Will Keep Us Free from Despotism (1944), 16 Aug 2017 in History&Politics
• The Case for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts & Doing Valuable “Deep Work” Instead, According to Computer Scientist Cal Newport, 15 Aug 2017 in Life&Media&Productivity&Psychology&TED Talks
• Artist Draws 9 Portraits While on LSD: Inside the 1950s Experiments to Turn LSD into a “Creativity Pill”, 15 Aug 2017 in Art&Creativity&Psychology&Science
• Stream 35 Hours of Classic Blues, Folk, & Bluegrass Recordings from Smithsonian Folkways: 837 Tracks Featuring Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie & More, 14 Aug 2017 in Music
• Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers & Francis Stewart’s Censored Photographs of a WWII Japanese Internment Camp, 11 Aug 2017 in History&Photography
• Rebecca Solnit Picks 13 Songs That Will Remind Us of Our Power to Change the World, Even in Seemingly Dark Times, 10 Aug 2017 in Books&Music&Politics
• The Roland TR-808, the Drum Machine That Changed Music Forever, Is Back! And It’s Now Affordable & Compact, 09 Aug 2017 in Music
• 25,000+ 78RPM Records Now Professionally Digitized & Streaming Online: A Treasure Trove of Early 20th Century Music, 09 Aug 2017 in History&Internet Archive&Music
• Stream 935 Songs That Appeared in “The John Peel Festive 50” from 1976 to 2004: The Best Songs of the Year, as Selected by the Beloved DJ’s Listeners, 08 Aug 2017 in Music
• Bertrand Russell Reveals the 4 Human Desires That Make Our World: Acquisitiveness, Rivalry, Vanity & Love of Power, 08 Aug 2017 in Philosophy&Politics
• When Mistakes/Studio Glitches Give Famous Songs Their Personality: Pink Floyd, Metallica, The Breeders, Steely Dan & More, 07 Aug 2017 in Music
• How Information Overload Robs Us of Our Creativity: What the Scientific Research Shows, 05 Aug 2017 in Creativity&Neuroscience&Productivity&Psychology
• DC’s Legendary Punk Label Dischord Records Makes Its Entire Music Catalog Free to Stream Online, 03 Aug 2017 in Music
• Hear Patti Smith Read the Poetry that Would Become Horses: A Reading of 14 Poems at Columbia University, 1975, 02 Aug 2017 in Music&Poetry
• Discover Langston Hughes’ Rent Party Ads & The Harlem Renaissance Tradition of Playing Gigs to Keep Roofs Over Heads, 02 Aug 2017 in History&Jazz&Music&Poetry
• What Makes John Bonham Such a Good Drummer? A New Video Essay Breaks Down His Inimitable Style, 01 Aug 2017 in Music
• Hear Siouxsie and the Banshee’s Raw & Completely Improvised First Show, with Sid Vicious on Drums (1976), 31 Jul 2017 in Music
• People Who Swear Are More Honest Than Those Who Don’t, Finds a New University Study, 27 Jul 2017 in Literature&Psychology
• James Franco Hosts Philosophy Time, a New Videos Series Created to Help Philosophy Reach a Wider Audience, 26 Jul 2017 in Philosophy
• When Soviet Artists Turned Textiles (Scarves, Tablecloths & Curtains) into Beautiful Propaganda in the 1920s & 1930s, 26 Jul 2017 in Art&History
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages, 25 Jul 2017 in Art&History&Science
• Hear the 150 Greatest Albums by Women: NPR Creates a New Canon of Albums That Puts Women at the Center of Music History, 25 Jul 2017 in Gender&Music
• The Strange Story of Wonder Woman’s Creator William Moulton Marston: Polyamorous Feminist, Psychologist & Inventor of the Lie Detector, 24 Jul 2017 in Comics/Cartoons&Gender
• The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book, a 1633 Chinese Calligraphy & Painting Manual, Now Digitized and Put Online, 21 Jul 2017 in Art&Books
• How Aristotle Invented Computer Science, 20 Jul 2017 in Computer Science&Philosophy
• How Insomnia Shaped Franz Kafka’s Creative Process and the Writing of The Metamorphosis: A New Study Published in The Lancet, 19 Jul 2017 in Literature&Science
• An Archive of Iconic Photos from the Golden Age of Jazz: William Gottlieb’s Portraits of Dizzy, Thelonious, Billie, Satchmo & More, 18 Jul 2017 in Music&Photography
• Historical Plaque Memorializes the Time Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs Came to Blows Over the Oxford Comma (Or Not), 18 Jul 2017 in Literature&Writing
• George Eliot’s Middlemarch Gets Reborn as a 21st Century Web Series: Watch It Online, 17 Jul 2017 in Gender&Literature
• Mark Knopfler Gives a Short Masterclass on His Favorite Guitars & Guitar Sounds, 14 Jul 2017 in Music
• Renaissance Knives Had Music Engraved on the Blades; Now Hear the Songs Performed by Modern Singers, 13 Jul 2017 in History&Music
• John Steinbeck Has a Crisis in Confidence While Writing The Grapes of Wrath: “I am Not a Writer. I’ve Been Fooling Myself and Other People”, 12 Jul 2017 in Literature&Writing
• Discover Dr. Seuss’s Audacious Advertisements from the 1930s & 40s: All on Display in a Digital Archive, 12 Jul 2017 in Business&Literature
• How Did the Romans Make Concrete That Lasts Longer Than Modern Concrete? The Mystery Finally Solved, 11 Jul 2017 in Architecture&History&Science
• Hand-Colored Photographs from 19th Century Japan: 110 Images Capture the Waning Days of Traditional Japanese Society, 11 Jul 2017 in History&Photography
• Miles Davis Dishes Dirt on His Fellow Jazz Musicians: “The Trombone Player Should be Shot”; That Ornette is “F‑ing Up the Trumpet”, 10 Jul 2017 in Music
• Watch 12-Year-Old Joe Bonamassa Shred the Blues as He Opens for B.B. King in 1989, 07 Jul 2017 in Music
• New Archive Is Digitizing the Entirety of Phenomenology: Browse Works by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and More, 06 Jul 2017 in Philosophy
• Women of Jazz: Stream a Playlist of 91 Recordings by Great Female Jazz Musicians, 05 Jul 2017 in Gender&Music
• An Animated Introduction to Economist John Maynard Keynes, 05 Jul 2017 in Economics
• Hear Chris Cornell’s Masterful Vocals in the Isolated Track for Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun”, 04 Jul 2017 in Music
• 209 Beatles Songs in 209 Days: Memphis Musician Covers The Beatles’ Songbook, 03 Jul 2017 in Music
• How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer, 30 Jun 2017 in Computer Science&History&Science&Technology
• Watch Johnny Cash’s Poignant Final Interview & His Last Performance: “Death, Where Is Thy Sting?” (2003), 29 Jun 2017 in Music
• George Orwell Reviews We, the Russian Dystopian Novel That Noam Chomsky Considers “More Perceptive” Than Brave New World & 1984, 28 Jun 2017 in Literature&Politics
• An Animated Introduction to Stoicism, the Ancient Greek Philosophy That Lets You Lead a Happy, Fulfilling Life, 28 Jun 2017 in Philosophy
• Albert Einstein Writes the 1949 Essay “Why Socialism?” and Attempts to Find a Solution to the “Grave Evils of Capitalism”, 27 Jun 2017 in Economics&Politics&Science
• The Sound of Avant Garde Jazz: Stream 35 Hours of Experimental Jazz by Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane & More, 27 Jun 2017 in Jazz&Music
• Going to Concerts and Experiencing Live Music Can Make Us Healthier & Happier, a New Psychology Study Confirms, 26 Jun 2017 in Music&Psychology
• Langston Hughes Creates a List of His 100 Favorite Jazz Recordings: Hear 80+ of Them in a Big Playlist, 23 Jun 2017 in Literature&Music
• 24,000 Vintage Cartoons from the Library of Congress Illustrate the History of This Modern Art Form (1780–1977), 22 Jun 2017 in Comics/Cartoons
• 2,000-Year-Old Manuscript of the Ten Commandments Gets Digitized: See/Download “Nash Papyrus” in High Resolution, 21 Jun 2017 in History&Religion
• Carl Sagan Sent Music & Photos Into Space So That Aliens Could Understand Human Civilization (Even After We’re Gone), 21 Jun 2017 in Astronomy&History&Music&Science&Technology
• The 10 Most Depressing Radiohead Songs According to Data Science: Hear the Songs That Ranked Highest in a Researcher’s “Gloom Index”, 20 Jun 2017 in Music
• When Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman Joined the Grateful Dead Onstage for Some Epic Improvisational Jams: Hear a 1993 Recording, 20 Jun 2017 in Music
• The CIA Assesses the Power of French Post-Modern Philosophers: Read a Newly Declassified CIA Report from 1985, 16 Jun 2017 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• How Arabic Translators Helped Preserve Greek Philosophy … and the Classical Tradition, 15 Jun 2017 in History
• How Russian Artists Imagined in 1914 What Moscow Would Look Like in 2259, 14 Jun 2017 in History&Sci Fi
• The Art of the Marbler: An Enchanting Film on the Centuries-Old Craft of Making Handmade Marbled Paper, 14 Jun 2017 in Art&Books
• Google Creates a Digital Archive of World Fashion: Features 30,000 Images, Covering 3,000 Years of Fashion History, 13 Jun 2017 in Archives&Art&Fashion&Google&History
• A Short, Animated Introduction to Emil Cioran, the “Philosopher of Despair”, 13 Jun 2017 in Philosophy
• Rare Footage Shows US and British Soldiers Getting Dosed with LSD in Government-Sponsored Tests (1958 + 1964), 12 Jun 2017 in History&Psychology&Science
• 150 Songs from 100+ Rappers Get Artfully Woven into One Great Mashup: Watch the “40 Years of Hip Hop”, 09 Jun 2017 in Music
• The History of Classical Music in 1200 Tracks: From Gregorian Chant to Górecki (100 Hours of Audio), 08 Jun 2017 in Music
• Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Take Our Jobs: From Writing Essays, Books & Songs, to Performing Surgery and Driving Trucks, 07 Jun 2017 in Economics&Life&Science&Technology
• Everything You Need to Know About Modern Russian Art in 25 Minutes: A Visual Introduction to Futurism, Socialist Realism & More, 07 Jun 2017 in Art
• Lou Reed Curates an Eclectic Playlist of His Favorite Songs During His Final Days: Stream 27 Tracks Lou Was Listening To, 06 Jun 2017 in Music
• Hear Bob Dylan’s Newly-Released Nobel Lecture: A Meditation on Music, Literature & Lyrics, 06 Jun 2017 in Literature&Music
• Hunter S. Thompson Typed Out The Great Gatsby & A Farewell to Arms Word for Word: A Method for Learning How to Write Like the Masters, 05 Jun 2017 in Literature&Writing
• The History of Punk Rock in 300 Tracks: A 13-Hour Playlist Takes You From 1965 to Present, 02 Jun 2017 in Music