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• Hear Ray Bradbury’s Beloved Sci-Fi Stories as Classic Radio Dramas, 30 Sep 2015 in Literature&Radio
• An Animated Tom Waits Talks About Laughing at Funerals & the Moles Under Stonehenge (1988), 29 Sep 2015 in Music
• Gabriel García Márquez Describes the Cultural Merits of Soap Operas, and Even Wrote a Script for One, 28 Sep 2015 in Film&Literature
• John Lennon’s “Imagine” & Paul McCartney’s “Yesterday” Adapted into Smart, Moving Webcomics, 28 Sep 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
• Revel in The William Faulkner Audio Archive on the Author’s 118th Birthday, 25 Sep 2015 in Literature
• Stream 82 Hours of Frank Zappa Music: Free Playlists of Songs He Composed & Performed, 24 Sep 2015 in Music
• Young Orson Welles Directs “Voodoo Macbeth,” the First Shakespeare Production With An All-Black Cast: Footage from 1936, 23 Sep 2015 in Theatre
• Hear Radio Dramas of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Asimov Stories, 22 Sep 2015 in Radio&Sci Fi
• A Great Compilation of “The Lick” Found in Music Everywhere: From Coltrane & Stravinsky, to Christina Aguilera, 21 Sep 2015 in Music
• 18-Year-Old James Joyce Writes a Fan Letter to His Hero Henrik Ibsen (1901), 20 Sep 2015 in Literature
• Mark Twain Skewers Great Works of Art: The Mona Lisa (“a Smoked Haddock!”), The Last Supper (“a Mournful Wreck”) & More, 17 Sep 2015 in Art&Literature
• Hear Pablo Neruda Read His Poetry In English For the First Time, Days Before His Nobel Prize Acceptance (1971), 16 Sep 2015 in Poetry
• Hunter S. Thompson’s Advice for Aspiring Photographers: Skip the Fancy Equipment & Just Shoot, 15 Sep 2015 in Photography
• Harry Clarke’s 1926 Illustrations of Goethe’s Faust: Art That Inspired the Psychedelic 60s, 14 Sep 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• The Drawings & Paintings of Richard Feynman: Art Expresses a Dramatic “Feeling of Awe”, 10 Sep 2015 in Art&Physics&Science
• The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection, 08 Sep 2015 in Architecture&Archives&Books
• Tolstoy and Gandhi Exchange Letters: Two Thinkers’ Quest for Gentleness, Humility & Love (1909), 07 Sep 2015 in Letters&Philosophy&Politics&Religion
• New Research Shows How Music Lessons During Childhood Benefit the Brain for a Lifetime, 04 Sep 2015 in Education&K-12&Music&Science
• Albert Einstein​ & Sigmund Freud​ Exchange Letters and Debate How to Make the World Free from War (1932), 03 Sep 2015 in Letters&Philosophy&Politics&Psychology
• Bernie Sanders Sings “This Land is Your Land” on the Endearingly Bad Spoken Word Album, We Shall Overcome, 02 Sep 2015 in Music&Politics
• Oscar Wilde’s Play Salome Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley in a Striking Modern Aesthetic (1894), 01 Sep 2015 in Art&Literature
• How Drums & Bass Make the Song: Isolated Tracks from Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Pixies, The Beatles to Royal Blood, 31 Aug 2015 in Music
• Very Early Concert Footage of the B‑52s, When New Wave Music Was Actually New (1978), 27 Aug 2015 in Music
• Watch the Behind-the-Scenes Blade Runner Promo Film … Created to Prevent a Box Office Flop (1982), 26 Aug 2015 in Film
• Hear Demos of Keith Richards Singing Lead Vocals on Rolling Stones Classics: “Gimme Shelter,” “Wild Horses” & More, 25 Aug 2015 in Music
• Philosophy Explained With Donuts, 24 Aug 2015 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Meet America & Britain’s First Female Tattoo Artists: Maud Wagner (1877–1961) & Jessie Knight (1904–1994), 21 Aug 2015 in Art&History&Life
• Judy!: 1993 Judith Butler Fanzine Gives Us An Irreverent Punk-Rock Take on the Post-Structuralist Gender Theorist, 20 Aug 2015 in Gender&Philosophy
• Hear Dramatizations of H.P. Lovecraft’s Stories On His Birthday: “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dunwich Horror,” & More, 20 Aug 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Fascinating Whistled Languages of the Canary Islands, Turkey & Mexico (and What They Say About the Human Brain), 18 Aug 2015 in Language Lessons&Science
• Stream 58 Hours of Free Classical Music Selected to Help You Study, Work, or Simply Relax, 17 Aug 2015 in Music
• A Look Inside Hannah Arendt’s Personal Library: Download Marginalia from 90 Books (Heidegger, Kant, Marx & More), 14 Aug 2015 in Archives&Philosophy&Politics
• Hear What Hamlet, Richard III & King Lear Sounded Like in Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation, 13 Aug 2015 in English Language&Literature&Theatre
• Theodor Adorno’s Critical Theory Text Minima Moralia Sung as Hardcore Punk Songs, 12 Aug 2015 in Music&Philosophy
• The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain, 11 Aug 2015 in Health&Music&Neuroscience&Psychology
• New Study: Immersing Yourself in Art, Music & Nature Might Reduce Inflammation & Increase Life Expectancy, 07 Aug 2015 in Art&Health&Life&Philosophy&Psychology
• R. Crumb’s Vibrant, Over-the-Top Album Covers (1968–2004), 06 Aug 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
• The Women of the Avant-Garde: An Introduction Featuring Audio by Gertrude Stein, Kathy Acker, Patti Smith & More, 05 Aug 2015 in Art&Music&Poetry
• Ralph Steadman’s Evolving Album Cover Designs: From Miles Davis & The Who, to Frank Zappa & Slash (1956–2010), 04 Aug 2015 in Art&Design&Jazz&Music
• Ernest Hemingway & His Sister Dressed as Twin Girls Shown in Newly Digitized Scrapbooks From Hemingway’s Youth, 03 Aug 2015 in Literature
• Patti Smith Plays at CBGB In One of Her First Recorded Concerts, Joined by Seminal Punk Band Television (1975), 31 Jul 2015 in Music
• Vladimir Nabokov’s Hand-Drawn Sketches of Mind-Bending Chess Problems, 30 Jul 2015 in Games&Literature
• An Animated Intro to G.W.F. Hegel, and Everything Else You Wanted to Know About the Daunting German Philosopher, 29 Jul 2015 in Philosophy
• Radiohead’s “Creep” Performed in a Vintage Jazz-Age Style, 28 Jul 2015 in Jazz&Music
• 7 Female Bass Players Who Helped Shape Modern Music: Kim Gordon, Tina Weymouth, Kim Deal & More, 27 Jul 2015 in Music
• 1,000,000 Minutes of Newsreel Footage by AP & British Movietone Released on YouTube, 25 Jul 2015 in Education&History&Television&YouTube
• How ABC Television Introduced Rap Music to America in 1981: It’s Painfully Awkward, 24 Jul 2015 in Music&Television
• David Bowie Becomes a DJ on BBC Radio in 1979; Introduces Listeners to The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Blondie & More, 22 Jul 2015 in Music&Radio
• The Story of Bluesman Robert Johnson’s Famous Deal With the Devil Retold in Three Animations, 21 Jul 2015 in Music
• A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare’s Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More, 20 Jul 2015 in Literature&Theatre
• The Same Song Sung in 15 Places: A Wonderful Case Study of How Landscape & Architecture Shape the Sounds of Music, 17 Jul 2015 in Music
• How Django Reinhardt, After Losing Two Fingers, Developed An Innovative Style & Inspired Black Sabbath Guitarist Toni Iommi to Do the Same, 16 Jul 2015 in Music
• Allen Ginsberg’s Handwritten Poem For Bernie Sanders, “Burlington Snow” (1986), 15 Jul 2015 in Poetry&Politics
• Hear Dylan Thomas Read Three Poems by W.H. Auden, Including “September 1, 1939”, 15 Jul 2015 in Poetry
• This Is Your Brain on Jane Austen: The Neuroscience of Reading Great Literature, 14 Jul 2015 in Health&Literature&Neuroscience&Science
• Alexander Pushkin’s Poem “The Mermaid” Brought to Life in a Masterfully Hand-Painted Animation, 13 Jul 2015 in Animation&Literature
• With Medieval Instruments, Band Performs Classic Songs by The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica & Deep Purple, 10 Jul 2015 in Music
• A Dreamily Animated Introduction to Haruki Murakami, Japan’s Jazz and Baseball-Loving Postmodern Novelist, 09 Jul 2015 in Animation&Literature
• How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers and Writers Have Always Known, 08 Jul 2015 in Creativity&Life&Literature&Psychology
• The Grateful Dead’s Final Farewell Concerts Now Streaming Online, 07 Jul 2015 in Music
• Every Grateful Dead Song Annotated in Hypertext: Web Project Reveals the Deep Literary Foundations of the Dead’s Lyrics, 06 Jul 2015 in Music&Poetry
• Roberto Bolaño’s 12 Tips on “the Art of Writing Short Stories”, 03 Jul 2015 in Literature&Writing
• 2,200 Radical Political Posters Digitized: A New Archive, 02 Jul 2015 in Archives&History&Politics
• Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music, 01 Jul 2015 in Music
• New Archive Offers Free Access to 22,000 Literary Documents From Great British & American Writers, 30 Jun 2015 in Archives&Letters&Literature
• Free: Listen to John Rawls’ Course on “Modern Political Philosophy” (Recorded at Harvard, 1984), 29 Jun 2015 in Philosophy
• How Leonard Cohen’s Stint As a Buddhist Monk Can Help You Live an Enlightened Life, 26 Jun 2015 in Graduation Speech&Philosophy&Religion
• Watch the First Russian Science Fiction Film, Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924), 25 Jun 2015 in Film
• Animated Introductions to Three Sociologists: Durkheim, Weber & Adorno, 24 Jun 2015 in Economics&Education&Philosophy&Politics&Psychology
• Young T.S. Eliot Writes “The Triumph of Bullsh*t” and Gives the English Language a New Expletive (1910), 23 Jun 2015 in English Language&Poetry
• Tom Waits Reads Two Charles Bukowski Poems, “The Laughing Heart” and “Nirvana”, 22 Jun 2015 in Music&Poetry
• The Psychology of Messiness & Creativity: Research Shows How a Messy Desk and Creative Work Go Hand in Hand, 19 Jun 2015 in Art&Creativity&Life
• Alan Watts Explains Why Death is an Art, Adventure and Creative Act, 17 Jun 2015 in Philosophy&Religion
• Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014), 16 Jun 2015 in Music
• An Introduction to the Literary Philosophy of Marcel Proust, Presented in a Monty Python-Style Animation, 15 Jun 2015 in Animation&Literature
• Hear Ornette Coleman Collaborate with Lou Reed, Which Lou Called “One of My Greatest Moments”, 12 Jun 2015 in Music
• Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art, 11 Jun 2015 in Art
• David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Queen & Elvis Presley Star in Delightfully Absurd Musicless Music Videos, 10 Jun 2015 in Comedy&Music&Random
• Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Brought to Life in Sand Animations by the Hungarian Artist Ferenc Cakó, 09 Jun 2015 in Animation
• The Mystical Poetry of Rumi Read By Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks, 08 Jun 2015 in Poetry
• Hear the Enchanting Jorge Luis Borges Read “The Art of Poetry”, 05 Jun 2015 in Literature&Poetry
• 10 Million Years of Evolution Visualized in an Elegant, 5‑Foot Long Infographic from 1931, 04 Jun 2015 in Education&Science
• 13-Year-Old Jimmy Page Plays Guitar on TV in 1957, an Early Moment in His Spectacular Career, 03 Jun 2015 in Music
• Hear Toni Morrison’s Poetic Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993), 02 Jun 2015 in Literature
• High School Teacher Reads Allen Ginsberg’s Explicit Poem “Please Master” and Loses His Job, 01 Jun 2015 in Current Affairs&Education&Poetry
• Watch Alfred Hitchcock Make Cameo Appearances in 37 of His Films, 29 May 2015 in Film
• The Absurd Philosophy of Albert Camus Presented in a Short Animated Film by Alain De Botton, 28 May 2015 in Philosophy
• Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters, 27 May 2015 in Letters&Literature
• Robert De Niro Tells Graduating NYU Arts Grads, “You Made It… And You’re F*cked”, 25 May 2015 in Art&Creativity&Education&Graduation Speech&Life
• Norman Rockwell Illustrates Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (1936–1940), 22 May 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• Watch the Hardcore Original Ending to Kevin Smith’s 1994 Cult Hit Clerks, 21 May 2015 in Film
• Peter Sellers Covers the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night,” “She Loves You” & “Help!”, 20 May 2015 in Comedy&Music
• 6 Political Theorists Introduced in Animated “School of Life” Videos: Marx, Smith, Rawls & More, 18 May 2015 in Philosophy&Politics
• The Thrill is Gone: See B.B. King Play in Two Electric Live Performances, 15 May 2015 in Music
• The Letter Between Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke That Sparked the Greatest SciFi Film Ever Made (1964), 14 May 2015 in Film&Letters
• Mark Twain & Helen Keller’s Special Friendship: He Treated Me Not as a Freak, But as a Person Dealing with Great Difficulties, 13 May 2015 in History&Letters&Literature
• Watch Miles Davis Improvise Music for Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle’s New Wave Thriller (1958), 11 May 2015 in Film&Jazz&Music
• Learn to Play Guitar for Free: Intro Courses Take You From The Very Basics to Playing Songs In No Time, 08 May 2015 in Education&How to Learn for Free&Music
• Michael Moore’s 13 Rules for Making Documentaries — Really Powerful & Entertaining Documentaries, 07 May 2015 in Film&Politics
• Maurice Sendak’s Bawdy Illustrations For Herman Melville’s Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, 06 May 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter Alan Turing Wrote in “Distress” Before His Conviction For “Gross Indecency”, 05 May 2015 in History&Letters
• 96 Drawings of David Bowie by the “World’s Best Comic Artists”: Michel Gondry, Kate Beaton & More, 04 May 2015 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Music
• Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970), 01 May 2015 in Music
• George Orwell & Christopher Hitchens’ Ironclad Rules for Making a Good Cup of Tea, 30 Apr 2015 in Food & Drink
• Hear Dziga Vertov’s Revolutionary Experiments in Sound: From His Radio Broadcasts to His First Sound Film, 28 Apr 2015 in Art&Film
• Kickstart the Theatrical Release of the First Comprehensive Black Panther Party Documentary, 28 Apr 2015 in Film&History
• Animated Philosophers Presents a Rocking Introduction to Socrates, the Father of Greek Philosophy, 27 Apr 2015 in Philosophy
• Baudelaire, Balzac, Dumas, Delacroix & Hugo Get a Little Baked at Their Hash Club (1844–1849), 24 Apr 2015 in Literature&Poetry
• Slavoj Žižek Calls Political Correctness a Form of “Modern Totalitarianism”, 22 Apr 2015 in Philosophy&Politics
• Henry Miller Makes a List of “The 100 Books That Influenced Me Most”, 20 Apr 2015 in Books&Literature
• Interactive Music Video Lets You Explore the Apartments on the Cover of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, 17 Apr 2015 in Animation&Creativity&Music
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Has a Strange Dinner with James Joyce & Draws a Cute Sketch of It (1928), 16 Apr 2015 in Literature
• Günter Grass Takes On Facebook: “Someone Who Has 500 Friends, Has No Friends.”, 15 Apr 2015 in Current Affairs&Literature&Politics
• Brian May Shows You How to Play Licks & Solos from 18 Queen Songs, and Reveals the Joy of the Guitar Riff, 14 Apr 2015 in Music
• Teacher Calls Jacques Derrida’s College Admission Essay on Shakespeare “Quite Incomprehensible” (1951), 13 Apr 2015 in Philosophy
• The Rolling Stones Release a Soulful, Never-Heard Acoustic Version of “Wild Horses”, 12 Apr 2015 in Music
• Edgar Allan Poe Animated: Watch Four Animations of Classic Poe Stories, 09 Apr 2015 in Animation&Literature
• Artists Illustrate Dante’s Divine Comedy Through the Ages: Doré, Blake, Botticelli, Mœbius & More, 08 Apr 2015 in Art&Literature
• Watch Four Iconic Live Performances by Billie Holiday, 07 Apr 2015 in Music
• Read An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: A Fun Primer on How to Strengthen, Not Weaken, Your Arguments, 06 Apr 2015 in Books&Philosophy&Politics
• Watch Stars Read Classic Children’s Books: Betty White, James Earl Jones, Rita Moreno & Many More, 03 Apr 2015 in Books&Education&English Language&K-12
• Listen to Nick Cave’s Lecture on the Art of Writing Sublime Love Songs (1999), 02 Apr 2015 in Music
• Download the Major Works of Jane Austen as Free eBooks & Audio Books, 01 Apr 2015 in Audio Books&e-books&Literature
• Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children’s Book (1955), 31 Mar 2015 in K-12&Music
• How Can I Know Right From Wrong? Watch Philosophy Animations on Ethics Narrated by Harry Shearer, 30 Mar 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• An Online Gallery of Over 900,000 Wonderful Photos of Historic New York City, 27 Mar 2015 in History&Photography
• The (Urban) Legend of Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Story: “For sale, Baby shoes, Never worn.”, 24 Mar 2015 in Literature
• Umberto Eco’s How To Write a Thesis: A Witty, Irreverent & Highly Practical Guide Now Out in English, 23 Mar 2015 in Books&Education&Writing
• Watch Rock Pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe Wow Audiences With Her Gospel Guitar, 20 Mar 2015 in Music
• Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Drawings Show How He First Visualized the Ego, Superego, Id & More, 19 Mar 2015 in History&Psychology&Science
• The Story of Lorem Ipsum: How Scrambled Text by Cicero Became the Standard For Typesetters Everywhere, 18 Mar 2015 in Books&Design
• Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche: 43 Original Tracks, 17 Mar 2015 in Music&Philosophy
• Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” Suggest He Was a Serious Anti-Semite, Not Just a Naive Nazi, 13 Mar 2015 in Philosophy
• Hear John Lennon’s Final Interview, Taped on the Last Day of His Life (December 8, 1980), 12 Mar 2015 in Music
• Hear the Never Released Jimi Hendrix Track, “Station Break,” Which Shows Us the Guitar Legend as an R&B Sideman, 11 Mar 2015 in Music
• The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche Explained with 8‑Bit Video Games, 11 Mar 2015 in Philosophy
• The Visual Art of William S. Burroughs: Book Covers, Portraits, Collage, Shotgun Art & More, 10 Mar 2015 in Art&Literature
• Chuck Jones’ 9 Rules For Drawing Road Runner Cartoons, or How to Create a Minimalist Masterpiece, 09 Mar 2015 in Animation&Comics/Cartoons
• Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh & Other Arists Tell Their Musical Stories in the Animated Video Series, “California Inspires Me”, 06 Mar 2015 in Animation&Creativity&Literature&Music
• Read Chez Foucault, the 1978 Fanzine That Introduced Students to the Radical French Philosopher, 05 Mar 2015 in Philosophy&Politics