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• Nina Simone’s Live Performances of Her Poignant Civil Rights Protest Songs, 02 Mar 2016 in Music
• Walter Benjamin’s 13 Oracular Writing Tips, 01 Mar 2016 in Literature&Philosophy&Writing
• Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes, 01 Mar 2016 in Poetry
• Gershwin Plays Gershwin: Hear the Original Recording of Rhapsody in Blue, with the Composer Himself at the Piano (1924), 26 Feb 2016 in Music
• Hear Harold Bloom Read From Three Sublime American Authors: Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson & Hart Crane, 26 Feb 2016 in Literature
• See The Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Played on the Oldest Martin Guitar in Existence (1834), 24 Feb 2016 in Music
• Californium: New Video Game Lets You Experience the Surreal World of Philip K. Dick, 24 Feb 2016 in Games&Literature
• Download 2,000 Magnificent Turn-of-the-Century Art Posters, Courtesy of the New York Public Library, 23 Feb 2016 in Art&Books&Magazines
• How the Moog Synthesizer Changed the Sound of Music, 23 Feb 2016 in Music
• Hear 30 of the Greatest Standup Comedy Albums: A Playlist Chosen by Open Culture Readers, 22 Feb 2016 in Comedy
• Existentialist Psychiatrist, Auschwitz Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains How to Find Meaning in Life, No Matter What Challenges You Face, 19 Feb 2016 in Philosophy&Psychology
• Crash Course Philosophy: Hank Green’s Fast-Paced Introduction to Philosophy Gets Underway on YouTube, 19 Feb 2016 in Education&Philosophy
• Watch Classic Performances from Maria Callas’ Wondrous and Tragically-Short Opera Career, 18 Feb 2016 in Music&Opera
• Legendary Classical Guitarist Andrés Segovia Plays Timeless Pieces by J.S. Bach, 17 Feb 2016 in Music
• An Animated Introduction to Leo Tolstoy, and How His Great Novels Can Increase Your Emotional Intelligence, 17 Feb 2016 in Literature&Psychology
• Mister Rogers Turns Kids On to Jazz with Help of a Young Wynton Marsalis and Other Jazz Legends (1986), 16 Feb 2016 in Music&Television
• The 120 Minutes Archive Compiles Clips & Playlists from 956 Episodes of MTV’s Alternative Music Show (1986–2013), 15 Feb 2016 in Music&Television
• This is Your Brain in Love: The Stanford Love Competition Shows What Love Looks Like on an MRI, 12 Feb 2016 in Life&Neuroscience&Stanford
• Hear Gabriel García Márquez’s Extraordinary Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, “The Solitude Of Latin America,” in English & Spanish (1982), 11 Feb 2016 in Literature
• Download Hundreds of Van Gogh Paintings, Sketches & Letters in High Resolution, 10 Feb 2016 in Art
• 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: Stream a Huge Playlist of Songs Based on the Bestselling Book, 10 Feb 2016 in Life&Music
• Iggy Pop Reads Walt Whitman in Collaborations With Electronic Artists Alva Noto and Tarwater, 09 Feb 2016 in Music
• “20 Rules For Writing Detective Stories” By S.S. Van Dine, One of T.S. Eliot’s Favorite Genre Authors (1928), 05 Feb 2016 in Literature&Writing
• Hear the Experimental Music of the Dada Movement: Avant-Garde Sounds from a Century Ago, 04 Feb 2016 in Art&Music
• Hunter S. Thompson Talks with Keith Richards in a Very Memorable and Mumble-Filled Interview (1993), 03 Feb 2016 in Music&Television
• Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40), 03 Feb 2016 in History&Letters
• Dave Grohl Shows How He Plays the Guitar As If It Were a Drum Kit, 02 Feb 2016 in Music
• Hear James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Read Unabridged & Set to Music By 17 Different Artists, 02 Feb 2016 in Literature&Music
• Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC, 01 Feb 2016 in Health&History
• 85 Compelling Films Starring and/or Directed By Women of Color: A List Created by Director Ava DuVernay & Friends on Twitter, 29 Jan 2016 in Film
• Stephen Hawking’s New Lecture, “Do Black Holes Have No Hair?,” Animated with Chalkboard Illustrations, 28 Jan 2016 in Physics&Radio
• Discover Europeana Collections, a Portal of 48 Million Free Artworks, Books, Videos, Artifacts & Sounds from Across Europe, 27 Jan 2016 in Archives&Art&Maps&Photography
• John Lennon Jams With Eric Clapton, Keith Richards & Mitch Mitchell at the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus (1968), 27 Jan 2016 in Film&Music
• The Power of Power Naps: Salvador Dali Teaches You How Micro-Naps Can Give You Creative Inspiration, 26 Jan 2016 in Art&Creativity&Life&Psychology
• Psychedelic Animation Takes You Inside the Mind of Stephen Hawking, 26 Jan 2016 in Animation&Physics&Science
• Kate Bush’s First Ever Television Appearance, Performing “Kite” & “Wuthering Heights” on German TV (1978), 25 Jan 2016 in Music&Television
• David Bowie Sings Impressions of Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits & More In Studio Outtakes (1985), 22 Jan 2016 in Comedy&Music
• Ursula Le Guin Gives Insightful Writing Advice in Her Free Online Workshop, 21 Jan 2016 in Writing
• Nietzsche Lays Out His Philosophy of Education and a Still-Timely Critique of the Modern University (1872), 20 Jan 2016 in Education&Philosophy
• John Cleese on The Importance of Making and Embracing Mistakes, 20 Jan 2016 in Business&Life
• Pioneering Electronic Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen Presents “Four Criteria of Electronic Music” & Other Lectures in English (1972), 19 Jan 2016 in Music
• Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday With Three Animations of “The Tell-Tale Heart”, 19 Jan 2016 in Animation&Literature
• Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992), 15 Jan 2016 in Music
• Download 650 Soviet Book Covers, Many Sporting Wonderful Avant-Garde Designs (1917–1942), 14 Jan 2016 in Archives&Books&Design
• 815 Free Art Books from World Class Museums: The Met, the Guggenheim, the Getty & LACMA, 13 Jan 2016 in Archives&Art&Books
• All of Bach is Putting Bach’s Complete Works Online: 253 Done, 827 to Come, 12 Jan 2016 in Music
• David Bowie Gives Graduation Speech At Berklee College of Music: “Music Has Been My Doorway of Perception” (1999), 11 Jan 2016 in Life&Music
• William S. Burroughs Reads & Sings His Experimental Prose in a Big, Free 7‑Hour Playlist, 11 Jan 2016 in Literature
• David Bowie Sings “Changes” in His Last Live Performance, 2006, 10 Jan 2016 in Life&Music
• The First Photo-Illustrated Book, Anna Atkins’ Austerely Beautiful Photographs of British Algae (1843), 08 Jan 2016 in Biology&Books&Photography&Science
• Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897, 06 Jan 2016 in Music&Technology
• Brazil Gives Out Books That Double as Subway Tickets, Promoting Literacy & Mass Transit at Once, 06 Jan 2016 in Books&Design&Life&Travel
• An Animated Neil deGrasse Tyson Gives an Eloquent Defense of Science in 272 Words, the Same Length as The Gettysburg Address, 05 Jan 2016 in Education&Science
• Hear Alec Guinness (The Legend Behind Obi-Wan Kenobi) Read T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets & The Waste Land, 04 Jan 2016 in Poetry
• The First Adult Coloring Book: See the Subversive Executive Coloring Book From 1961, 31 Dec 2015 in Books&Coloring Books&Politics
• Sartre Writes a Tribute to Camus After His Friend-Turned-Rival Dies in a Tragic Car Crash: “There Is an Unbearable Absurdity in His Death”, 30 Dec 2015 in Philosophy
• Discover The Music Vault: A Massive YouTube Archive of 22,000 Live Concert Videos, 30 Dec 2015 in Music
• David Bowie Sings “Changes” in 2006: The Last Time He Performed Live, and Maybe His Last Live Performance Ever, 29 Dec 2015 in Music
• How a Good Night’s Sleep — and a Bad Night’s Sleep — Can Enhance Your Creativity, 29 Dec 2015 in Creativity&Health&Neuroscience&Psychology
• What is the Good Life? Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, & Kant’s Ideas in 4 Animated Videos, 28 Dec 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Watch HD Versions of The Beatles’ Pioneering Music Videos: “Hey Jude,” “Penny Lane,” “Revolution” & More, 24 Dec 2015 in Music
• John Cleese’s Advice to Young Artists: “Steal Anything You Think Is Really Good”, 23 Dec 2015 in Comedy&Creativity&Writing
• B.B. King Plays Live at Sing Sing Prison in One of His Greatest Performances (1972), 23 Dec 2015 in Music
• Stream 22 Hours of Funky, Rocking & Swinging Christmas Albums: From James Brown and Johnny Cash to Christopher Lee & The Ventures, 22 Dec 2015 in Music
• Jane Austen Writes a Letter to Her Sister While Hung Over: “I Believe I Drank Too Much Wine Last Night”, 22 Dec 2015 in Letters&Literature
• In 1911, Thomas Edison Predicts What the World Will Look Like in 2011: Smart Phones, No Poverty, Libraries That Fit in One Book, 21 Dec 2015 in History&Magazines&Science
• 16 Great Star Wars Fan Films, Documentaries & Video Essays to Get You Ready for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 18 Dec 2015 in Film
• Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of Book Illustration, 17 Dec 2015 in Art&Books&Literature&Magazines
• Creativity, Not Money, is the Key to Happiness: Discover Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihaly’s Theory of “Flow”, 16 Dec 2015 in Creativity&Psychology
• William S. Burroughs Narrates a Claymation of His Grim Holiday Story “The Junky’s Christmas”, 16 Dec 2015 in Literature&Music
• Religious Songs That Secular People Can Love: Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash & Your Favorites, 15 Dec 2015 in Music&Religion
• Frank Zappa’s Experimental Advertisements For Luden’s Cough Drops, Remington Razors & Portland General Electric, 15 Dec 2015 in Music&Television
• 28 Tips for Writing Stories from Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald, 14 Dec 2015 in Literature&Writing
• George Saunders Demystifies the Art of Storytelling in a Short Animated Documentary, 11 Dec 2015 in Literature&Writing
• The Daily Habits of Famous Writers: Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, Stephen King & More, 10 Dec 2015 in Creativity&Life&Literature&Writing
• Jorge Luis Borges Picks 33 of His Favorite Books to Start His Famous Library of Babel, 09 Dec 2015 in Literature
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Writes a List of 16 Suggestions for African-Americans Riding Newly-Integrated Buses (1956), 09 Dec 2015 in History
• George Orwell’s 1984 Staged as an Opera: Watch Scenes from the 2005 Production in London, 08 Dec 2015 in Literature&Opera
• Hear Flannery O’Connor’s Short Story, “Revelation,” Read by Legendary Historian & Radio Host, Studs Terkel, 08 Dec 2015 in Literature
• Striking Poster Collection from the Great Depression Shows That the US Government Once Supported the Arts in America, 07 Dec 2015 in Art&Education&History&Literature&Theatre
• Musicians Play Bach on the Octobass, the Gargantuan String Instrument Invented in 1850, 04 Dec 2015 in Music
• Hear All Three of Jack Kerouac’s Spoken-World Albums: A Sublime Union of Beat Literature and 1950s Jazz, 03 Dec 2015 in Literature&Poetry
• 15-Year-Old French Guitar Prodigy Flawlessly Rips Through Solos by Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour, Yngwie Malmsteen & Steve Vai, 02 Dec 2015 in Music
• Immanuel Kant’s Life & Philosophy Introduced in a Short Monty Python-Style Animation, 02 Dec 2015 in Philosophy
• Prince (RIP) Performs Early Hits in a 1982 Concert: “Controversy,” “I Wanna Be Your Lover” & More, 01 Dec 2015 in Music
• Classic Blues Songs By John Lee Hooker, B.B. King & Muddy Waters Played on the Gayageum, a Traditional Korean Instrument, 30 Nov 2015 in Music
• Albert Einstein On God: “Nothing More Than the Expression and Product of Human Weakness”, 27 Nov 2015 in Physics&Religion
• Terry Gilliam on the Difference Between Kubrick & Spielberg: Kubrick Makes You Think, Spielberg Wraps Everything Up with Neat Little Bows, 26 Nov 2015 in Film
• Monty Python’s John Cleese Creates Ads for the American Philosophical Association, 25 Nov 2015 in Comedy&Education&Philosophy
• Jimi Hendrix Plays the Delta Blues on a 12-String Acoustic Guitar in 1968, and Jams with His Blues Idols, Buddy Guy & B.B. King, 25 Nov 2015 in Music
• Free Speech Bites: Nigel Warburton, Host of Philosophy Bites, Creates a Spin Off Podcast Dedicated to Freedom of Expression, 25 Nov 2015 in Philosophy&Podcasts&Politics&Religion
• Mark Twain’s Patented Inventions for Bra Straps and Other Everyday Items, 24 Nov 2015 in History&Literature
• New Wave Music–DEVO, Talking Heads, Blondie, Elvis Costello–Gets Introduced to America by ABC’s TV Show, 20/20 (1979), 24 Nov 2015 in Music&Television
• One Man-Band Plays Amazing Covers, Note-for-Note, of Yes, CSNY, Zeppelin & More, 24 Nov 2015 in Music
• Hear Ray Bradbury’s Classic Sci-Fi Story Fahrenheit 451 as a Radio Drama, 19 Nov 2015 in Audio Books&Books&Literature&Radio
• Get to Know Socrates, Camus, Kierkegaard & Other Great Philosophers with the BBC’s Intelligent Radio Show, In Our Time, 19 Nov 2015 in Philosophy&Podcasts&Radio
• The Lord of the Rings Mythology Explained in 10 Minutes, in Two Illustrated Videos, 18 Nov 2015 in Education&Literature
• Charles Dickens (Channeling Jorge Luis Borges) Created a Fake Library, with 37 Witty Invented Book Titles, 17 Nov 2015 in Books&Letters&Literature
• The Making of The Beatles’ Abbey Road: Alternate Album Cover Photos, Recording Session Outtakes & Interviews, 17 Nov 2015 in Music
• Three Historic Performances at Paris’ Le Bataclan: The Velvet Underground (1972), Genesis with Peter Gabriel (1973) & Jeff Buckley (1995), 16 Nov 2015 in Music
• Punk & Heavy Metal Music Makes Listeners Happy and Calm, Not Aggressive, According to New Australian Study, 13 Nov 2015 in Music&Psychology
• 100 Novels All Kids Should Read Before Leaving High School, 12 Nov 2015 in Books&Education&K-12&Literature
• Freed Slave Writes Letter to Former Master: You Owe Us $11,680 for 52 Years of Unpaid Labor (1865), 11 Nov 2015 in History&Letters
• Michio Kaku & Brian Green Explain String Theory in a Nutshell: Elegant Explanations of an Elegant Theory, 11 Nov 2015 in Physics
• Dostoevsky Draws Doodles of Raskolnikov and Other Characters in the Manuscript of Crime and Punishment, 10 Nov 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• Hear the Writing of French Theorists Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard & Roland Barthes Sung by Poet Kenneth Goldsmith, 10 Nov 2015 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Two Guitar Effects That Revolutionized Rock: The Invention of the Wah-Wah & Fuzz Pedals, 09 Nov 2015 in Music&Technology
• Horror Legend Christopher Lee Reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 06 Nov 2015 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Film&Literature
• Stephen Hawking Wonders Whether Capitalism or Artificial Intelligence Will Doom the Human Race, 05 Nov 2015 in Economics&Life&Science&Technology
• The Night John Lennon & Yoko Ono Jammed with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore East (1971), 04 Nov 2015 in Music
• Listen to Ira Glass’ 10 Favorite Episodes of This American Life, 03 Nov 2015 in Radio
• Hear All of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia Novels as Free Audio Books, 02 Nov 2015 in Audio Books&Books&K-12&Literature&Religion
• Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” Read by the Great Bela Lugosi (1946), 30 Oct 2015 in Film&Literature
• Stephen King Creates a List of 82 Books for Aspiring Writers (to Supplement an Earlier List of 96 Recommend Books), 29 Oct 2015 in Books&Literature&Writing
• Fly Through 17th-Century London’s Gritty Streets with Prize-Winning Animations, 29 Oct 2015 in Animation&History
• Stream the Complete Works of Bach & Beethoven: 250 Free Hours of Music, 28 Oct 2015 in Music
• New Film Extraordinary Tales Animates Edgar Poe Stories, with Narrations by Guillermo Del Toro, Christopher Lee & More, 28 Oct 2015 in Animation&Film&Literature
• See Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment Performed in the World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber, and on the Moon, 27 Oct 2015 in Physics&Science
• The First Horror Film, Georges Méliès’ The Haunted Castle (1896), 27 Oct 2015 in Film
• Watch Behind-the-Scenes Footage From Freddie Mercury’s Final Video Performance, 26 Oct 2015 in Music
• The Neuroscience of Bass: New Study Explains Why Bass Instruments Are Fundamental to Music, 23 Oct 2015 in Music&Neuroscience&Science
• Hear the World’s Oldest Surviving Written Song (200 BC), Originally Composed by Euripides, the Ancient Greek Playwright, 22 Oct 2015 in History&Music
• The Maligned Impressionist Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Illustrates Emile Zola’s Gritty Novel L’Assommoir (1878), 21 Oct 2015 in Art&Books
• Hear a Playlist of 300 Songs That Influenced Elvis Costello, Drawn From His New Memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, 20 Oct 2015 in Books&Music
• How Cultured Are You? Test Your Knowledge With Cultural Quizzes from 1958, 20 Oct 2015 in Art&Education&History&Literature
• Watch All 18,225 Lines of The Iliad Read by 66 Actors in a Marathon Event For an Audience of 50,000, 19 Oct 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• William Faulkner Draws Maps of Yoknapatawpha County, the Fictional Home of His Great Novels, 16 Oct 2015 in Art&Literature
• How to Sing Two Notes At Once (aka Polyphonic Overtone Singing): Lessons from Singer Anna-Maria Hefele, 15 Oct 2015 in How to Learn for Free&Music
• Music That Helps You Sleep: Minimalist Composer Max Richter, Pop Phenom Ed Sheeran & Your Favorites, 14 Oct 2015 in Music
• The History of the Blues in 50 Riffs: From Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928) to Joe Bonamassa (2009), 13 Oct 2015 in Music
• Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in its Original Ancient Language, Akkadian, 12 Oct 2015 in History&Literature
• NBC University Theater Adapted Great Novels to Radio & Gives Listeners College Credit : Hear 110 Episodes from a 1940s eLearning Experiment, 09 Oct 2015 in Education&Literature&Radio
• 226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online, 08 Oct 2015 in Photography
• 1902 French Trading Cards Imagine “Women of the Future”, 07 Oct 2015 in History&Photography
• Watch Noam Chomsky & Lawrence Krauss Talk About Education, Political Activism, Technology & More Before a Sold-Out Crowd, 06 Oct 2015 in Education&Philosophy&Science&Technology
• Watch Gandhi Talk in His First Filmed Interview (1947), 06 Oct 2015 in Film&History&Politics
• 8,400 Stunning High-Res Photos From the Apollo Moon Missions Are Now Online, 05 Oct 2015 in Photography&Science
• The Guggenheim Puts Online 1700 Great Works of Modern Art from 625 Artists, 02 Oct 2015 in Art
• The Complete Star Wars “Filmumentary”: A 6‑Hour, Fan-Made Star Wars Documentary, with Behind-the-Scenes Footage & Commentary, 02 Oct 2015 in Film
• It’s Banned Books Week: Listen to Allen Ginsberg Read His Famously Banned Poem, “Howl,” in San Francisco, 1956, 30 Sep 2015 in Books&Literature&Poetry