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• What Does the World’s Oldest Surviving Piano Sound Like? Watch Pianist Give a Performance on a 1720 Cristofori Piano, 02 Jan 2017 in History&Music
• Jim Jarmusch Lists His Favorite Poets: Dante, William Carlos Williams, Arthur Rimbaud, John Ashbery & More, 30 Dec 2016 in Film&Literature&Poetry
• An Animated Introduction to Voltaire: Enlightenment Philosopher of Pluralism & Tolerance, 29 Dec 2016 in Animation&Philosophy
• The Tarot Card Deck Designed by Salvador Dalí, 28 Dec 2016 in Art
• Carrie Fisher’s Long Career as a Writer, Screenwriter, and Hollywood Fixer: “I’m a Writer” First and Foremost, 28 Dec 2016 in Film&Writing
• When Ayn Rand Collected Social Security & Medicare, After Years of Opposing Benefit Programs, 27 Dec 2016 in Economics&Politics
• Watch Nina Simone Sing the Black Pride Anthem, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” on Sesame Street (1972), 27 Dec 2016 in Music&Television
• How Leo Tolstoy Became a Vegetarian and Jumpstarted the Vegetarian & Humanitarian Movements in the 19th Century, 26 Dec 2016 in Food & Drink&Literature&Philosophy&Politics&Religion
• Hear Jorge Luis Borges Read 30 of His Poems (in the Original Spanish), 23 Dec 2016 in Literature&Poetry
• A Crash Course in Existentialism: A Short Introduction to Jean-Paul Sartre & Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World, 22 Dec 2016 in Philosophy
• Yes, the Holocaust Happened, Even If a Top Google Search Result Says It Didn’t, 21 Dec 2016 in Current Affairs&History&Politics
• Hear the First Live Performance of the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar:” Recorded at the Fateful Altamont Free Concert in 1969, 21 Dec 2016 in History&Music
• George Orwell’s Life & Literature Presented in a 3‑Hour Radio Documentary: Features Interviews with Those Who Knew Orwell Best, 20 Dec 2016 in History&Literature&Politics&Radio
• 75 Years of CIA Maps Now Declassified & Made Available Online, 20 Dec 2016 in Design&History&Maps
• Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writing with Style (1882), 19 Dec 2016 in Philosophy&Psychology&Writing
• Slavoj Žižek Answers the Question “Should We Teach Children to Believe in Santa Claus?”, 16 Dec 2016 in Life&Philosophy
• Hear a Great 4‑Hour Radio Documentary on the Life & Music of Jimi Hendrix: Features Rare Recordings & Interviews, 15 Dec 2016 in Music&Radio
• Frank Zappa Gets Surprised & Serenaded by the U.S. Navy Band at the San Francisco Airport (1980), 14 Dec 2016 in Music
• Hear Controversial Versions of “The Star Spangled Banner” by Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, José Feliciano & John Philip Sousa, 13 Dec 2016 in History&Music
• Medieval Doodler Draws a “Rockstar Lady” in a Manuscript of Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy (Circa 1500), 13 Dec 2016 in History&Life&Philosophy
• Techie Working at Home Creates Bigger Archive of Historical Newspapers (37 Million Pages) Than the Library of Congress, 12 Dec 2016 in Archives&History
• 200,000 Years of Staggering Human Population Growth Shown in an Animated Map, 09 Dec 2016 in Health&History&Life&Science
• The Birth Control Handbook: The Underground Student Publication That Let Women Take Control of Their Bodies (1968), 08 Dec 2016 in Biology&Politics
• The Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol Stage Proto-Punk Performance Art: Discover the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966), 07 Dec 2016 in Art&Music
• George Orwell Tries to Identify Who Is Really a “Fascist” and Define the Meaning of This “Much-Abused Word” (1944), 07 Dec 2016 in History&Politics
• The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together, 06 Dec 2016 in Physics
• Was There a First Human Language?: Theories from the Enlightenment Through Noam Chomsky, 06 Dec 2016 in Biology&Philosophy&Science
• The Genius of Paul McCartney’s Bass Playing in 7 Isolated Tracks, 05 Dec 2016 in Music
• 29 Lists of Recommended Books Created by Well-Known Authors, Artists & Thinkers: Jorge Luis Borges, Patti Smith, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, David Bowie & More, 02 Dec 2016 in Books
• Hear 20 Hours of Romantic & Victorian Poetry Read by Ralph Fiennes, Dylan Thomas, James Mason & Many More, 01 Dec 2016 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Richard Feynman’s Poignant Letter to His Departed Wife Arline: Watch Actor Oscar Isaac Read It Live Onstage, 30 Nov 2016 in Letters&Life
• The Photography of Poet Arthur Rimbaud (1883), 30 Nov 2016 in Photography&Poetry
• Why Socrates Hated Democracies: An Animated Case for Why Self-Government Requires Wisdom & Education, 29 Nov 2016 in Philosophy&Politics
• Hear a 20 Hour Playlist Featuring Recordings by Electronic Music Pioneer Pauline Oliveros (RIP), 29 Nov 2016 in Music
• Watch Georges Méliès’ The Dreyfus Affair, the Controversial Film Censored by the French Government for 50 Years (1899), 28 Nov 2016 in Film&History&Politics
• Watch Animations of Two Italo Calvino Stories: “The False Grandmother” and “The Distance from the Moon”, 25 Nov 2016 in Animation&Literature
• The Physics of Playing a Guitar Visualized: Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” Viewed from Inside the Guitar, 24 Nov 2016 in Music&Physics
• Browse & Download 1,198 Free High Resolution Maps of U.S. National Parks, 23 Nov 2016 in Maps
• Hear the Brilliant Guitar Work of Charlie Christian, Inventor of the Electric Guitar Solo (1939), 23 Nov 2016 in Music
• Watch the Evolution of Ringo Starr, Dave Grohl, Tré Cool & 19 Other Drummers in Short 5‑Minute Videos, 22 Nov 2016 in Music
• How to Recognize a Dystopia: Watch an Animated Introduction to Dystopian Fiction, 21 Nov 2016 in Literature&Politics&Sci Fi
• Hear Kurt Vonnegut’s Novel, Cat’s Cradle, Get Turned into Avant-Garde Music (Featuring Kurt Himself), 18 Nov 2016 in Literature&Music
• Philosopher Richard Rorty Chillingly Predicts the Results of the 2016 Election … Back in 1998, 17 Nov 2016 in Literature&Philosophy&Politics
• The New York Times’ First Profile of Hitler: His Anti-Semitism Is Not as “Genuine or Violent” as It Sounds (1922), 16 Nov 2016 in History
• Stewart Brand’s List of 76 Books for Rebuilding Civilization, 16 Nov 2016 in Books&Education
• Frank Zappa’s Amazing Final Concerts: Prague and Budapest, 1991, 15 Nov 2016 in Music
• Henry David Thoreau on When Civil Disobedience and Resistance Are Justified (1849), 15 Nov 2016 in Philosophy&Politics
• Hear Leonard Cohen’s Final Interview: Recorded by David Remnick of The New Yorker, 14 Nov 2016 in Music
• Say Goodbye to Leonard Cohen Through Some of His Best-Loved Songs: “Hallelujah,” “Suzanne” and 235 Other Tracks, 11 Nov 2016 in Music
• Young Frank Zappa Plays the Bicycle on The Steven Allen Show (1963), 10 Nov 2016 in Music
• Hear “Weightless,” the Most Relaxing Song Ever Made, According to Researchers (You’ll Need It Today), 09 Nov 2016 in Music&Psychology
• The Only Known Footage of Louis Armstrong in a Recording Studio: Watch the Recently-Discovered Film (1959), 09 Nov 2016 in Music
• David Bowie Sings “Fame” & “Golden Years” on Soul Train (1975), 08 Nov 2016 in Music
• What Did Nietzsche Really Mean When He Wrote “God is Dead”?, 08 Nov 2016 in Philosophy
• Patti Smith Reads from Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, the Love Letter He Wrote From Prison (1897), 07 Nov 2016 in Current Affairs&Literature
• When Vladimir Nabokov Taught Ruth Bader Ginsburg, His Most Famous Student, To Care Deeply About Writing, 04 Nov 2016 in Current Affairs&Literature&Politics
• The Graceful Movements of Kung Fu & Modern Dance Revealed in Stunning Motion Visualizations, 03 Nov 2016 in Animation&Art&Dance&Technology
• Organized Religion Got You Down? Discover The Church Of Saint John Coltrane, 02 Nov 2016 in Music&Religion
• Cook Up Aleister Crowley’s Rice Recipe: Perfect for Eating with Curry, 02 Nov 2016 in Food & Drink
• Videos Recreate Isaac Newton’s Neat Alchemy Experiments: Watch Silver Get Turned Into Gold, 01 Nov 2016 in History&Science
• Father Writes a Great Letter About Censorship When Son Brings Home Permission Slip to Read Ray Bradbury’s Censored Book, Fahrenheit 451, 01 Nov 2016 in Current Affairs&Education&Literature&Politics
• Isaac Newton’s Recipe for the Mythical ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ Is Being Digitized & Put Online (Along with His Other Alchemy Manuscripts), 31 Oct 2016 in Archives&History&Science
• Huge Archive of American Films–From Casablanca to Gigli–Are Protected & Preserved in a Nuclear Bunker, 28 Oct 2016 in Film
• What Does Jorge Luis Borges’ “Library of Babel” Look Like? An Accurate Illustration Created with 3D Modeling Software, 27 Oct 2016 in Architecture&Computer Science&Literature
• Spike Jonze’s Stop Motion Film Hauntingly Animates Paris’ Famed Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, 26 Oct 2016 in Animation&Books
• Odd Vintage Postcards Document the Propaganda Against Women’s Rights 100 Years Ago, 25 Oct 2016 in Gender&History&Politics
• The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook Collects Recipes From T.C. Boyle, Marina Abramović, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates & More, 25 Oct 2016 in Books&Food & Drink
• When Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe Met, and Dickens’ Pet Raven Inspired Poe’s Poem “The Raven”, 24 Oct 2016 in Literature
• Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek, 21 Oct 2016 in History&Literature&Music
• Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967), 20 Oct 2016 in Music
• The U.S. National Archives Launches an Animated GIF Archive: See Whitman, Twain, Hemingway & Others in Motion, 19 Oct 2016 in Archives&Web/Tech
• H.G. Wells Reads Finnegans Wake & Tells James Joyce: It’s “A Dead End,” “You Have Turned Your Back on Common Men” (1928), 19 Oct 2016 in Letters&Literature
• Hear Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies & Ballets in a Complete, 32-Hour, Chronological Playlist, 18 Oct 2016 in Music
• The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs Great Covers of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” & More, 17 Oct 2016 in Comedy&Music
• Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature for Creating “New Poetic Expressions within the Great American Song Tradition”, 13 Oct 2016 in Literature&Music
• Goethe’s Colorful & Abstract Illustrations for His 1810 Treatise, Theory of Colors: Scans of the First Edition, 13 Oct 2016 in Art&Books&History&Science
• Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980), 12 Oct 2016 in Education&Politics&Sci Fi
• 21 Artists Give “Advice to the Young:” Vital Lessons from Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Umberto Eco, Patti Smith & More, 12 Oct 2016 in Art&Creativity&Education&Life
• Hear Steve Reich’s Minimalist Compositions in a 28-Hour Playlist: A Journey Through His Influential Recordings, 11 Oct 2016 in Music
• Aleister Crowley & William Butler Yeats Get into an Occult Battle, Pitting White Magic Against Black Magic (1900), 10 Oct 2016 in Poetry&Religion
• Monty Python’s “Argument Clinic” Sketch Reenacted by Two Vintage Voice Synthesizers (One Is Stephen Hawking’s Voice), 07 Oct 2016 in Comedy
• Some of Buster Keaton’s Great, Death-Defying Stunts Captured in Animated Gifs, 06 Oct 2016 in Film
• Salvador Dalí’s 1973 Cookbook Gets Reissued: Surrealist Art Meets Haute Cuisine, 05 Oct 2016 in Art&Food & Drink
• A Master List of 800 Free Classic eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices, 05 Oct 2016 in Books&Education&Literature
• Pete Seeger Teaches You How to Play Guitar for Free in The Folksinger’s Guitar Guide (1955), 04 Oct 2016 in Education&Music
• Watch Soviet Avant-Garde Composers Create Synthesized Music with Hand-Drawn Animations (1934), 04 Oct 2016 in Art&Film&Music&Technology
• Chris Rock Creates a List of His 13 Favorite Standup Comedy Specials, 30 Sep 2016 in Comedy
• Sci-Fi Icon Robert Heinlein Lists 5 Essential Rules for Making a Living as a Writer, 29 Sep 2016 in Sci Fi&Writing
• Hear the First Recording of Computer Generated Music: Researchers Restore Music Programmed on Alan Turing’s Computer (1951), 28 Sep 2016 in Computer Science&Music&Technology
• When L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz Series Was Banned for “Depicting Women in Strong Leadership Roles” (1928), 28 Sep 2016 in Books&K-12&Literature&Politics
• The Sights & Sounds of 18th Century Paris Get Recreated with 3D Audio and Animation, 27 Sep 2016 in History&Philosophy&Technology
• 8+ Hours of Classic Charles Dickens Stories Dramatized, Starring Orson Welles, Boris Karloff, Richard Burton & More, 27 Sep 2016 in Literature&Radio
• Explore 5,300 Rare Manuscripts Digitized by the Vatican: From The Iliad & Aeneid, to Japanese & Aztec Illustrations, 26 Sep 2016 in Archives&Books&History&Literature&Museums
• David Byrne & Neil deGrasse Tyson Explain the Importance of an Arts Education (and How It Strengthens Science & Civilization), 23 Sep 2016 in Art&Creativity&Education&Science
• Build Your Own Miniature Sets from Hayao Miyazaki’s Beloved Films: My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service & More, 22 Sep 2016 in Creativity&Film
• W.E.B. Du Bois Creates Revolutionary, Artistic Data Visualizations Showing the Economic Plight of African-Americans (1900), 21 Sep 2016 in Data&Design&History
• Hear George Orwell’s 1984 Adapted as a Radio Play at the Height of McCarthyism & The Red Scare (1953), 20 Sep 2016 in Literature&Politics&Radio
• Watch Jimmy Page Rock the Theremin, the Early Soviet Electronic Instrument, in Some Hypnotic Live Performances, 20 Sep 2016 in Music
• John Austen’s Haunting Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Masterpiece of the Aesthetic Movement (1922), 19 Sep 2016 in Art&Books&Literature
• Watch 222 Great Films in the Public Domain: Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Buster Keaton & More, 16 Sep 2016 in Archives&Film
• Carl Sagan & the Dalai Lama Meet in 1991 and Discuss When Science Can Answer Big Questions Better Than Religion, 14 Sep 2016 in Religion&Science
• Hear 9 Hours of Ennio Morricone’s Scores for Classic Western Films: From Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns to Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, 14 Sep 2016 in Film&Music
• Frank Zappa Explains the Decline of the Music Business (1987), 13 Sep 2016 in Music
• Hear 21 Hours of Lectures & Talks by Howard Zinn, Author of the Bestselling A People’s History of the United States, 12 Sep 2016 in History&Politics
• Take a Free Course on Digital Photography from Stanford Prof Marc Levoy, 09 Sep 2016 in How to Learn for Free&Online Courses&Photography
• How to Get Started with Yoga: Free Yoga Lessons on YouTube, 09 Sep 2016 in Health&How to Learn for Free&Religion
• William Blake’s Masterpiece Illustrations of the Book of Job (1793–1827), 09 Sep 2016 in Art&Literature&Poetry&Religion
• Learn How to Read Sheet Music: A Quick, Fun, Tongue-in-Cheek Introduction, 08 Sep 2016 in Music
• Patti Smith’s New Haunting Tribute to Nico: Hear Three Tracks, 07 Sep 2016 in Music
• Watch Russian Futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky Star in His Only Surviving Film, The Lady and the Hooligan (1918), 07 Sep 2016 in Film&Poetry
• An Animated Introduction to French Philosopher Jacques Derrida, 05 Sep 2016 in Philosophy
• The History of Russia in 70,000 Photos: New Photo Archive Presents Russian History from 1860 to 1999, 02 Sep 2016 in History&Photography
• 3,000 Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Complete Works from Victorian England, Neatly Presented in a New Digital Archive, 01 Sep 2016 in Archives&Art&Literature
• Chris Rock Reads James Baldwin’s Still Timely Letter on Race in America: “We Can Make What America Must Become”, 31 Aug 2016 in Literature
• Hear 508 Hours of Songs Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder (1924–2016), the Engineer Who Created the Sound of Modern Jazz, 31 Aug 2016 in Jazz&Music
• Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online, 30 Aug 2016 in Archives&Books&e-books&K-12&Literature
• Gene Wilder Recalls the Beginnings of His Creative Life in Two Hilarious, Poignant Stories, 30 Aug 2016 in Comedy&Creativity&Film
• Download 100,000 Photos of 20 Great U.S. National Parks, Courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service, 29 Aug 2016 in History&Photography
• Rome Comes to Life in Photochrom Color Photos Taken in 1890: The Colosseum, Trevi Fountain & More, 26 Aug 2016 in Photography&Poetry&Travel
• Hear the One Night Sun Ra & John Cage Played Together in Concert (1986), 25 Aug 2016 in Jazz&Music
• Penn Jillette Makes the Philosophical & Pragmatic Case for Libertarianism, 24 Aug 2016 in Politics
• Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Gets an Epic, Instrumental Soundtrack from the Indie Band Joan of Arc, 23 Aug 2016 in Film&Music
• A 12-Hour Eastern Spirituality Playlist: Features Lectures & Readings by Joseph Campbell, Christopher Isherwood, the Dalai Lama & Others, 23 Aug 2016 in Religion
• Read the Original 32-Page Program for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), 19 Aug 2016 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Neuroscience & Psychology of Procrastination, and How to Overcome It, 18 Aug 2016 in Neuroscience&Productivity&Psychology
• The CIA Puts Hundreds of Declassified Documents About UFO Sightings Online, Plus 10 Tips for Investigating Flying Saucers, 17 Aug 2016 in Sci Fi&Science&Television
• Three-Hour Mixtape Offers a Sonic Introduction to Underground Goth Music, 17 Aug 2016 in Music
• 33 Songs That Document the History of Feminist Punk (1975–2015): A Playlist Curated by Pitchfork, 16 Aug 2016 in Gender&Music
• Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects, 16 Aug 2016 in Art
• When James Joyce & Marcel Proust Met in 1922, and Totally Bored Each Other, 15 Aug 2016 in Literature
• Watch What Happens When 100 Metronomes Perform György Ligeti’s Controversial Poème Symphonique, 12 Aug 2016 in Art&Music
• Cate Blanchett Stars in a New Massive Attack Video, Which Doubles as a Short Art-House Film, 11 Aug 2016 in Music
• Stephen Fry on Coping with Depression: It’s Raining, But the Sun Will Come Out Again, 10 Aug 2016 in Health&Psychology
• James Joyce: An Animated Introduction to His Life and Literary Works, 10 Aug 2016 in Literature
• In the Only Surviving Recording of Her Voice, Virginia Woolf Explains Why Writing Isn’t a “Craft” (1937), 09 Aug 2016 in Literature&Writing
• Malcolm Gladwell Asks Hard Questions about Money & Meritocracy in American Higher Education: Stream 3 Episodes of His New Podcast, 09 Aug 2016 in Education&Life&Podcasts
• Stream a Massive Collection of Indie, Noise Industrial Mixtapes from the 80s and 90s, 05 Aug 2016 in Music
• Carl Jung Explains Why His Famous Friendship with Sigmund Freud Fell Apart in Rare 1959 Audio, 04 Aug 2016 in History&Psychology
• Hear 17,000+ Traditional Folk & Blues Songs Curated by the Great Musicologist Alan Lomax, 03 Aug 2016 in History&Music
• Michio Kaku on Why Immigrants Are America’s Secret Weapon: They Compensate for Our Mediocre STEM Education & Keep Prosperity Going, 03 Aug 2016 in Politics&Science