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• Philosopher Sam Harris Leads You Through a 26-Minute Guided Meditation, 02 Aug 2016 in Health&Neuroscience&Psychology&Religion
• Simone de Beauvoir Defends Existentialism & Her Feminist Masterpiece, The Second Sex, in Rare 1959 TV Interview, 02 Aug 2016 in Gender&Philosophy
• Hear Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Sung as a One-Woman Opera, 01 Aug 2016 in Music&Philosophy
• John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band, 29 Jul 2016 in Music
• The Bizarre Time When Frank Zappa’s Entirely Instrumental Album Received an “Explicit Lyrics” Sticker, 28 Jul 2016 in Music
• Stream 18 Hours of Free Guided Meditations, 27 Jul 2016 in Health&Psychology&Religion
• The Last Known Photos of Jim Morrison, Taken Days Before His Death in Paris (June 1971), 26 Jul 2016 in Music
• What Are the Most Stolen Books? Bookstore Lists Feature Works by Murakami, Bukowski, Burroughs, Vonnegut, Kerouac & Palahniuk, 26 Jul 2016 in Books
• Allen Ginsberg Teaches You How to Meditate with a Rock Song Featuring Bob Dylan on Bass, 25 Jul 2016 in Music&Poetry&Politics&Religion
• Hear Albert Camus Read the Famous Opening Passage of The Stranger (1947), 22 Jul 2016 in Literature
• Octavia Butler’s 1998 Dystopian Novel Features a Fascistic Presidential Candidate Who Promises to “Make America Great Again”, 21 Jul 2016 in Current Affairs&Politics&Sci Fi
• Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants Arriving on America’s Welcoming Shores Circa 1907, 20 Jul 2016 in History&Photography
• The Largest Ever Tribute to Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” Choreographed by a Flashmob in Berlin, 20 Jul 2016 in Comedy&Dance&Music
• Download Alfred Stieglitz’s Proto-Dada Art Journal, 291, The First Art Magazine That Was Itself a Work of Art (1916), 19 Jul 2016 in Art&Magazines
• Hear 280 Blues, Country, Reggae & Rock Songs Keith Richards Namechecks in His Memoir, Life, 19 Jul 2016 in Music
• How to Jumpstart Your Creative Process with William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique, 18 Jul 2016 in Writing
• The Vatican Digitizes a 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the Aeneid, 15 Jul 2016 in Books&History&Literature
• Charles Bukowski’s Controversial Poem “Girl on the Escalator” Gets Literally Retold in a New Short Film, 14 Jul 2016 in Poetry
• Walt Whitman Gives Advice to Aspiring Young Writers: “Don’t Write Poetry” & Other Practical Tips (1888), 13 Jul 2016 in Literature&Poetry&Writing
• Download 50+ Issues of Legendary West Coast Punk Music Zines from the 1970–80s: Damage, Slash & No Mag, 13 Jul 2016 in Archives&Magazines&Music
• Download All 8 Issues of Dada, the Arts Journal That Publicized the Avant-Garde Movement a Century Ago (1917–21), 12 Jul 2016 in Art&Magazines
• Stream 15 Hours of the John Peel Sessions: 255 Tracks by Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees & Other Artists, 12 Jul 2016 in Music
• David Lynch Despises Product Placement & Watching Movies on iPhones (NSFW), 11 Jul 2016 in Business&Film&Technology
• The Secret Link Between Jazz and Physics: How Einstein & Coltrane Shared Improvisation and Intuition in Common, 09 Jul 2016 in Music&Physics&Science&TED Talks
• What Is an “Existential Crisis”?: An Animated Video Explains What the Expression Really Means, 09 Jul 2016 in Philosophy
• 32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking, 06 Jul 2016 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• The Prince Online Museum Archives 16 of Prince’s Official Web Sites, Spanning 20 Years, 06 Jul 2016 in Archives&Music
• How Jazz-Loving Teenagers–the Swingjugend–Fought the Hitler Youth and Resisted Conformity in Nazi Germany, 05 Jul 2016 in History&Jazz
• The Haunting Background Vocals on The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter:” Merry Clayton Recalls How They Came to Be, 05 Jul 2016 in Music
• The Steamy Love Letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (1925–1929), 04 Jul 2016 in Letters&Literature
• Watch “Don’t Be a Sucker!,” the 1947 US Government Anti-Hatred Film That’s Relevant All Over Again, 01 Jul 2016 in Film&History
• Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson’s Three Rules for Living Well: A Short and Succinct Life Philosophy, 30 Jun 2016 in Life&Music
• 23 Hours of H.P. Lovecraft Stories: Hear Readings & Dramatizations of “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” & Other Weird Tales, 29 Jun 2016 in Audio Books&Literature
• Laurie Anderson’s Top 10 Books to Take to a Desert Island, 29 Jun 2016 in Art&Books&Music
• Hear Anaïs Nin Read From Her Celebrated Diary: A 60-Minute Vintage Recording (1966), 28 Jun 2016 in Books&Letters
• The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910), 28 Jun 2016 in Film&Literature
• Free: Hear 24 Hours of Noam Chomsky’s Lectures & Talks on the Powers That Subvert Our Democracies, 27 Jun 2016 in Politics
• What Does “Kafkaesque” Really Mean? A Short Animated Video Explains, 24 Jun 2016 in Literature
• Hear the Only Castrato Ever Recorded Sing “Ave Maria” and Other Classics (1904), 22 Jun 2016 in History&Music
• Hear the Great Mixtapes Richard Linklater Created to Psych Up the Actors in Dazed and Confused and Everybody Wants Some!!, 22 Jun 2016 in Film&Music
• Meet Four Women Who Pioneered Electronic Music: Daphne Oram, Laurie Spiegel, Éliane Radigue & Pauline Oliveros, 21 Jun 2016 in Music
• An Animated Introduction to Charles Dickens’ Life & Literary Works, 21 Jun 2016 in Animation&Literature
• James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Gets Turned into an Interactive Web Film, the Medium It Was Destined For, 20 Jun 2016 in Film&Literature
• Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921), 17 Jun 2016 in Art&Literature&Magazines
• Carl Sagan Presents a Mini-Course on Earth, Mars & What’s Beyond Our Solar System: For Kids and Adults (1977), 16 Jun 2016 in Education&K-12&Science
• The History of Electronic Music, 1800–2015: Free Web Project Catalogues the Theremin, Fairlight & Other Instruments That Revolutionized Music, 15 Jun 2016 in Music&Technology
• Stephen Fry Hates Dancing: Watch Fry’s Rant Against Dancing Get Turned into a Wonderful Interpretative Dance, 15 Jun 2016 in Comedy&Dance&Film
• The Atlantic Slave Trade Visualized in Two Minutes: 10 Million Lives, 20,000 Voyages, Over 315 Years, 14 Jun 2016 in Animation&Education&History&Online Courses
• Filmmaker Ken Burns Urges Stanford Graduates to Defeat Trump & the Retrograde Forces Threatening the U.S., 14 Jun 2016 in Graduation Speech&History&Politics
• Bertrand Russell Lists His 20 Favorite Words in 1958 (and What Are Some of Yours?), 13 Jun 2016 in English Language&Literature&Philosophy&Poetry&Writing
• Helen Mirren Holds Her Own (and Then Some) in a Cringe-Inducingly Sexist TV Interview, 1975, 10 Jun 2016 in Film&Television&Theatre
• Moby Lets You Download 4 Hours of Ambient Music to Help You Sleep, Meditate, Do Yoga & Not Panic, 08 Jun 2016 in Health&Music
• Get a Fly-on-the-Wall View of John Lennon Recording & Arranging His Classic Song, “Imagine” (1971), 08 Jun 2016 in Music
• Hear a 1930 Recording of Bolero, Conducted by Ravel Himself, 07 Jun 2016 in Music
• 1,000-Year-Old Manuscript of Beowulf Digitized and Now Online, 07 Jun 2016 in Archives&Literature
• Download Issues of Landmark UK Feminist Magazine Spare Rib Free Online, 06 Jun 2016 in Archives&Gender&Magazines&Politics
• The Instrument Benjamin Franklin Invented, the Glass Armonica, Plays Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”, 03 Jun 2016 in History&Music
• Download 336 Issues of the Avant-Garde Magazine The Storm (1910–1932), Featuring the Work of Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy & More, 02 Jun 2016 in Art&Magazines
• The Opening of King Tut’s Tomb, Shown in Stunning Colorized Photos (1923–5), 01 Jun 2016 in History&Photography
• Go Inside the First 30 Minutes of Kubrick’s The Shining with This 360º Virtual Reality Video, 01 Jun 2016 in Art&Creativity&Film
• Free: Download 5.3 Million Images from Books Published Over Last 500 Years, 31 May 2016 in Archives&Art&Books
• The British Library Digitizes 300 Literary Treasures from 20th Century Authors: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce & More, 31 May 2016 in Books&Letters&Literature
• Noam Chomsky on Whether the Rise of Trump Resembles the Rise of Fascism in 1930s Germany, 30 May 2016 in History&Politics
• R. Crumb Illustrates Genesis: A Faithful, Idiosyncratic Illustration of All 50 Chapters, 27 May 2016 in Comics/Cartoons&Literature&Religion
• The British Library’s “Sounds” Archive Presents 80,000 Free Audio Recordings: World & Classical Music, Interviews, Nature Sounds & More, 26 May 2016 in Archives&History&Literature&Media&Music
• Daily Meditation Boosts & Revitalizes the Brain and Reduces Stress, Harvard Study Finds, 25 May 2016 in Harvard&Health&Neuroscience&Psychology&TED Talks
• Behold the Kinetic, 39-Ton Statue of Franz Kafka’s Head, Erected in Prague, 25 May 2016 in Art&Literature
• Watch 82-Year-Old Igor Stravinsky Conduct The Firebird, the Ballet Masterpiece That First Made Him Famous (1965), 24 May 2016 in Music
• 478 Dorothea Lange Photographs Poignantly Document the Internment of the Japanese During WWII, 24 May 2016 in History&Photography
• Ta-Nehisi Coates’ List of 13 Recommended Books, 19 May 2016 in Books&History&Literature&Politics
• Crowdsourced Database Will Locate the Burial Sites of Forgotten US Slaves, 18 May 2016 in Archives&History
• The Night John Belushi Cartwheeled Onstage During a Grateful Dead Show & Sang “U.S. Blues” with the Band (1980), 18 May 2016 in Comedy&Music
• 1,000+ Haunting & Beautiful Photos of Native American Peoples, Shot by the Ethnographer Edward S. Curtis (Circa 1905), 17 May 2016 in History&Photography
• Hear Robert Frost Read His Most Famous Poems: “The Road Not Taken,” “Mending Wall,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” & More, 17 May 2016 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 82 Commandments For Living, 16 May 2016 in Film&Life&Philosophy
• Visit 2+ Million Free Works of Art from 20 World-Class Museums Free Online, 13 May 2016 in Art
• Ursula K. Le Guin Names the Books She Likes and Wants You to Read, 13 May 2016 in Books&Literature
• Download 144 Beautiful Books of Russian Futurism: Mayakovsky, Malevich, Khlebnikov & More (1910–30), 11 May 2016 in Art&Literature&Poetry
• 170 Renowned Academics Talk About Why They Disbelieve, or Believe, in God, 11 May 2016 in Philosophy&Physics&Religion&Science
• Monty Python’s Philosopher’s Football Match: The Epic Showdown Between the Greeks & Germans (1972), 10 May 2016 in Comedy&Philosophy
• 4 Hours of Charles Bukowski’s Riotous Readings and Rants, 10 May 2016 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Hear Dante’s Inferno Read Aloud by Influential Poet & Translator John Ciardi (1954), 09 May 2016 in Poetry
• Download Sigmund Freud’s Great Works as Free eBooks & Free Audio Books: A Digital Celebration on His 160th Birthday, 06 May 2016 in Psychology
• Behold the “3Dvarius,” the World’s First 3‑D Printed Violin, 04 May 2016 in Music&Technology
• Hear a Radio Drama of George Orwell’s 1984, Starring Patrick Troughton, of Doctor Who Fame (1965), 04 May 2016 in Literature&Radio
• T.S. Eliot Reads From “The Waste Land,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” & “The Hollow Men”: His Apocalyptic Post WWI Poems, 03 May 2016 in Poetry
• Hear “Starlight,” Michael Jackson’s Early Demo of “Thriller”: A Version Before the Lyrics Were Radically Changed, 03 May 2016 in Music
• Walt Whitman’s Unearthed Health Manual, “Manly Health & Training,” Urges Readers to Stand (Don’t Sit!) and Eat Plenty of Meat (1858), 02 May 2016 in Health&Literature
• Watch Animated Introductions to 35 Philosophers by The School of Life: From Plato to Kant and Foucault, 29 Apr 2016 in Philosophy
• What Makes the Stradivarius Special? It Was Designed to Sound Like a Female Soprano Voice, With Notes Sounding Like Vowels, Says Researcher, 27 Apr 2016 in Music&Science
• Prince Plays Unplugged and Wraps the Crowd Around His Little Finger (2004), 27 Apr 2016 in Music
• Founding Fathers, A Documentary Narrated By Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Presents the True History of Hip Hop, 26 Apr 2016 in Music
• Scientific Study Reveals What Made Freddie Mercury’s Voice One of a Kind; Hear It in All of Its A Cappella Splendor, 26 Apr 2016 in Music
• Hear Prince and Miles Davis’ Rarely-Heard Musical Collaborations, 25 Apr 2016 in Music
• Delight in Prince’s Extraordinarily Poignant Cover of Radiohead’s “Creep, 22 Apr 2016 in Music
• Prince Plays a Mind-Blowing Guitar Solo On “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, 21 Apr 2016 in Music
• Becoming Bilingual Can Give Your Brain a Boost: What Recent Research Has to Say, 21 Apr 2016 in Education&Language Lessons&Neuroscience
• Hear the Vintage Sherlock Holmes Radio Drama, Starring John Gielgud, Orson Welles & Ralph Richardson, 20 Apr 2016 in Literature&Radio
• Brian Eno Creates a List of His 13 Favorite Records: From Gospel to Afrobeat, Shoegaze to Bulgarian Folk, 19 Apr 2016 in Music
• Hear 100 Amazing Cover Versions of Beatles Songs, 18 Apr 2016 in Music
• Hear What It Sounds Like When Philosopher Daniel Dennett’s Brain Activity Gets Turned into Music, 15 Apr 2016 in Music&Neuroscience&Philosophy
• Tom Waits Makes a List of His Top 20 Favorite Albums of All Time, 14 Apr 2016 in Music
• Watch 50+ Documentaries on Famous Architects & Buildings: Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Hadid & Many More, 13 Apr 2016 in Architecture&Film
• New LSD Research Provides the First Images of the Brain on Acid, and Hints at Its Potential to Promote Creativity, 13 Apr 2016 in Neuroscience&Science
• Willie Nelson–Young, Clean-Shaven & Wearing a Suit–Sings Early Hits at the Grand Ole Opry (1962), 12 Apr 2016 in Music
• Metallica’s Bassist Robert Trujillo Plays Metallica Songs Flamenco-Style, Joined by Rodrigo y Gabriela, 12 Apr 2016 in Music
• Carl Sagan Presents His “Baloney Detection Kit”: 8 Tools for Skeptical Thinking, 11 Apr 2016 in Philosophy&Science
• Monty Python’s John Cleese Worries That Political Correctness Will Lead Us into a Humorless World, Reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984, 08 Apr 2016 in Comedy&Politics
• Pink Floyd Performs on US Television for the First Time: American Bandstand, 1967, 07 Apr 2016 in Music
• Tom Waits Names 14 of His Favorite Art Films, 06 Apr 2016 in Film&Music
• A Complete Archive of Vincent van Gogh’s Letters: Beautifully Illustrated and Fully Annotated, 06 Apr 2016 in Art&Letters
• Hear the Radical Musical Compositions of Marcel Duchamp (1912–1915), 05 Apr 2016 in Art&Music
• Watch Heavy Metal Parking Lot, the Cult Classic Film That Ranks as One of the “Great Rock Documentaries” of All Time, 05 Apr 2016 in Film&Music
• David Bowie Dreamed of Turning George Orwell’s 1984 Into a Musical: Hear the Songs That Survived the Abandoned Project, 04 Apr 2016 in Music
• Christopher Lee Reads Five Horror Classics: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera & More, 31 Mar 2016 in Books
• 11 Shakespeare Tragedies Mapped Out with Network Visualizations, 30 Mar 2016 in Design&Literature
• 5 Books You Can Read Again .… and Again and Again: Here’s Our Picks, Now Yours, 30 Mar 2016 in Books
• A Massive 800-Track Playlist of 90s Indie & Alternative Music, in Chronological Order, 29 Mar 2016 in Music
• Carol Kaye, 81-Year-Old Pioneer of Rock, Gives Kiss’ Gene Simmons a Bass Lesson, 29 Mar 2016 in Music
• Download the Sublime Anatomy Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci: Available Online, or in a Great iPad App, 28 Mar 2016 in Art&Science
• Virginia Woolf Offers Gentle Advice on “How One Should Read a Book”, 24 Mar 2016 in Books&Literature
• Peter Sellers Recites The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” in the Style of Shakespeare’s Richard III, 23 Mar 2016 in Comedy&Music&Television
• Actors from The Wire Star in a Short Film Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six-Bits” (2001), 22 Mar 2016 in Film&Literature
• Watch Édith Piaf Sing Her Most Famous Songs: “La Vie en Rose,” “Non, Je Regrette Rien” & More, 22 Mar 2016 in Music
• Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an “Insignificant, Inartistic Writer”; 40 Years Later, George Orwell Weighs in on the Debate, 21 Mar 2016 in Literature
• Take Vladimir Nabokov’s Quiz to See If You’re a Good Reader–The Same One He Gave to His Students, 18 Mar 2016 in Literature
• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Puts Online 90,000 Works of Modern Art, 17 Mar 2016 in Art
• Scientists Discover That James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Has an Amazingly Mathematical “Multifractal” Structure, 16 Mar 2016 in Art&Literature&Math
• Discovering Electronic Music: 1983 Documentary Offers a Fun & Educational Introduction to Electronic Music, 16 Mar 2016 in Music
• Hear John Malkovich Read Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Set to Music Mixed by Ric Ocasek, Yoko Ono & Sean Lennon, OMD & More, 15 Mar 2016 in Music&Philosophy&Photography
• Watch David Bowie Star in His First Film Role, a Short Horror Flick Called The Image (1967), 15 Mar 2016 in Film&Music
• See the First “Drum Machine,” the Rhythmicon from 1931, and the Modern Drum Machines That Followed Decades Later, 14 Mar 2016 in Music
• Hear the Unique, Original Compositions of George Martin, Beloved Beatles Producer (RIP), 10 Mar 2016 in Music
• 10 Must-Read Dystopian Novels: Our Readers’ Picks, 09 Mar 2016 in Literature
• Mapping the Sounds of Greek Byzantine Churches: How Researchers Are Creating “Museums of Lost Sound”, 09 Mar 2016 in Architecture&Art&History
• A Collection of Sun Ra’s Business Cards from the 1950s: They’re Out of This World, 08 Mar 2016 in Music
• Free: Read All of George Orwell’s War Diaries Online (1938–1942), 08 Mar 2016 in History&Literature&Politics
• A Clockwork Orange Author Anthony Burgess Lists His Five Favorite Dystopian Novels: Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Island & More, 07 Mar 2016 in Literature
• The Anti-Slavery Alphabet: 1846 Book Teaches Kids the ABCs of Slavery’s Evils, 03 Mar 2016 in History
• Jean-Paul Sartre on How American Jazz Lets You Experience Existentialist Freedom & Transcendence, 02 Mar 2016 in Literature&Music&Philosophy