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• What Makes Us Human?: Chomsky, Locke & Marx Introduced by New Animated Videos from the BBC, 20 Feb 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Charles Mingus’ Instructions For Toilet Training Your Cat, Read by The Wire’s Reg E. Cathey, 20 Feb 2015 in Life&Music&Random
• A Gallery of Mad Magazine’s Rollicking Fake Advertisements from the 1960s, 20 Feb 2015 in Comedy&Magazines
• 7 Rock Album Covers Designed by Iconic Artists: Warhol, Rauschenberg, Dalí, Richter, Mapplethorpe & More, 19 Feb 2015 in Art&Music
• What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?: Lists by Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly & Other Forward-Thinking Minds, 18 Feb 2015 in Books&Life
• 7 Short Stories by Junot Díaz Free Online, In Text and Audio, 16 Feb 2015 in Literature
• Illustrations for a Chinese Lord of the Rings in a Stunning “Glass Painting Style”, 13 Feb 2015 in Art&Literature
• Gun Nut William S. Burroughs & Gonzo Illustrator Ralph Steadman Make Polaroid Portraits Together, 12 Feb 2015 in Art&Literature
• William Faulkner Outlines on His Office Wall the Plot of His Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel, A Fable (1954), 12 Feb 2015 in Literature
• Harper Lee on the Joy of Reading Real Books: “Some Things Should Happen On Soft Pages, Not Cold Metal”, 12 Feb 2015 in Books&Letters&Literature
• How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America, 11 Feb 2015 in Philosophy
• Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years, 10 Feb 2015 in History&Music
• Listen to 90 Famous Authors & Celebrities Read Great Stories & Poems, 09 Feb 2015 in Literature
• Watch a Young Bob Marley and The Wailers Perform Live in England (1973): For His 70th Birthday Today, 06 Feb 2015 in Music
• Invisible Cities Illustrated: Three Artists Paint Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel, 05 Feb 2015 in Art&Literature
• Romantic Poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey Write About Their Experiments with Laughing Gas (1799), 05 Feb 2015 in History&Literature&Science
• How David Bowie, Kurt Cobain & Thom Yorke Write Songs With William Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique, 04 Feb 2015 in Literature&Music
• Junot Díaz’s Syllabi for His MIT Writing Classes, and the Novels on His Reading List, 03 Feb 2015 in Education&Literature
• The Clash Play Their Final Show (San Bernardino, 1983), 02 Feb 2015 in Music
• Hear Isolated Guitar Tracks From Some of Rock’s Greatest: Slash, Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton & More, 30 Jan 2015 in Music
• An Illustration of Every Page of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, 29 Jan 2015 in Art&Literature
• Hear Gandhi’s Famous Speech on the Existence of God (1931), 28 Jan 2015 in History
• Bill Hicks’ 12 Principles of Comedy, 27 Jan 2015 in Comedy
• Dostoevsky Draws a Picture of Shakespeare: A New Discovery in an Old Manuscript, 26 Jan 2015 in Literature
• How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson, 23 Jan 2015 in Philosophy&Religion&Science
• How “America’s First Drug Czar” Waged War Against Billie Holiday and Other Jazz Legends, 22 Jan 2015 in Music&Politics
• Jean Cocteau Delivers a Speech to the Year 2000 in 1962: “I Hope You Have Not Become Robots”, 21 Jan 2015 in Art&Film&Life&Poetry
• Visit “Mariobatalivoice,” the Cooking Blog by Steve Albini, Musician & Record Producer, 21 Jan 2015 in Food & Drink&Music
• Ayn Rand Writes a Harsh Letter To Her 17-Year-Old Niece: “I Will Write You Off As a Rotten Person” (1949), 20 Jan 2015 in Literature&Philosophy&Politics
• Nirvana’s Last Concert: Audio/ Video Recorded on March 1, 1994, 19 Jan 2015 in Music
• Edward Said Recalls His Depressing Meeting With Sartre, de Beauvoir & Foucault (1979), 16 Jan 2015 in Philosophy&Politics
• Hear Hemingway Read Hemingway, and Faulkner Read Faulkner (90 Minutes of Classic Audio), 15 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• Vladimir Nabokov Names the Greatest (and Most Overrated) Novels of the 20th Century, 14 Jan 2015 in Literature
• Buddhism 101: A Short Introductory Lecture by Jorge Luis Borges, 14 Jan 2015 in Literature&Religion
• Inside the Making of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, Rock’s Great Concept Album, 13 Jan 2015 in Music
• 7 Tips from Edgar Allan Poe on How to Write Vivid Stories and Poems, 12 Jan 2015 in Literature&Writing
• Wonderfully Kitschy Propaganda Posters Champion the Chinese Space Program (1962–2003), 09 Jan 2015 in Art&History&Science
• Three Essential Dadaist Films: Groundbreaking Works by Hans Richter, Man Ray & Marcel Duchamp, 08 Jan 2015 in Art&Film
• Steven Soderbergh Creates a Big List of What He Watched, Read & Listened to in 2014, 08 Jan 2015 in Film&Life&Literature&Television
• Jimmy Page Tells the Story of “Stairway to Heaven”: How the Most Played Rock Song Came To Be, 07 Jan 2015 in Music
• How Famous Writers Deal With Writer’s Block: Their Tips & Tricks, 06 Jan 2015 in Creativity&Writing
• Kurt Cobain’s Home Demos: Early Versions of Nirvana Hits, and Never-Released Songs, 05 Jan 2015 in Music
• Rare Footage of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & Other Beats Hanging Out in the East Village (1959), 02 Jan 2015 in Film&Literature&Photography&Poetry
• Marilyn Monroe’s Go-Getter List of New Year’s Resolutions (1955), 01 Jan 2015 in Film&Life
• Download 140 Free Philosophy Courses: Develop Critical Thinking Skills & Live the Examined Life, 31 Dec 2014 in Education&Online Courses&Philosophy
• Werner Herzog Plays Himself in Cartoon That Satirizes Obama’s 2008 Election & Race in America, 29 Dec 2014 in Comics/Cartoons&Current Affairs&Politics
• How the “Paul McCartney is Dead” Hoax Started at an American College Newspaper and Went Viral (1969), 26 Dec 2014 in Music
• Ayn Rand Helped the FBI Identify It’s A Wonderful Life as Communist Propaganda, 25 Dec 2014 in Film&History&Politics
• Young John Belushi Imitates Truman Capote & Performs Live on Second City Stage (1972), 23 Dec 2014 in Comedy
• The Tate Digitizes 70,000 Works of Art: Photos, Sketchbooks, Letters & More, 22 Dec 2014 in Archives&Art
• Joe Cocker Sings “With A Little Help From My Friends,” Live in 2013 and At Woodstock in 1969, 22 Dec 2014 in Music
• How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972), 19 Dec 2014 in Creativity&Film&Literature
• Discover the Church of St. John Coltrane, Founded on the Divine Music of A Love Supreme, 18 Dec 2014 in Jazz&Music&Religion
• Noam Chomsky Almost Appeared on Saturday Night Live During the 90s, 18 Dec 2014 in Comedy&Politics
• Johnny Cash’s Christmas Specials, Featuring June Carter, Steve Martin, Andy Kaufman & More (1976–79), 17 Dec 2014 in Music&Television
• Susan Sontag’s List of 10 Parenting Rules, 16 Dec 2014 in Life&Literature
• Lou Reed Reads Delmore Schwartz’s Famous Story “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities”, 13 Dec 2014 in Audio Books&Literature
• Eastern Philosophy Explained with Three Animated Videos by Alain de Botton’s School of Life, 12 Dec 2014 in Life&Philosophy
• Patti Smith’s Passionate Covers of Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Jefferson Airplane & Prince, 11 Dec 2014 in Music
• The Digital Dostoevsky: Download Free eBooks & Audio Books of the Russian Novelist’s Major Works, 10 Dec 2014 in Books&Literature
• Robert Sapolsky Explains the Biological Basis of Religiosity, and What It Shares in Common with OCD, Schizophrenia & Epilepsy, 09 Dec 2014 in Biology&Religion&Science
• Jazz on the Tube: An Archive of 2,000 Classic Jazz Videos (and Much More), 08 Dec 2014 in Archives&Jazz&Music
• H.P. Lovecraft Highlights the 20 “Types of Mistakes” Young Writers Make, 05 Dec 2014 in Literature&Sci Fi&Writing
• Hear Dave Grohl’s First Foo Fighters Demo Recordings, As Kurt Cobain Did in 1992, 04 Dec 2014 in Music
• Theodor Adorno’s Radical Critique of Joan Baez and the Music of the Vietnam War Protest Movement, 03 Dec 2014 in Music&Philosophy&Politics
• Pink Floyd’s The Wall: The Original Live Show & Behind-the-Scenes Footage of the 1980 Tour and 1982 Film, 02 Dec 2014 in Music
• George Harrison’s Mystical, Fisheye Self-Portraits Taken in India (1966), 01 Dec 2014 in Music&Photography&Religion
• Albert Camus: The Madness of Sincerity — 1997 Documentary Revisits the Philosopher’s Life & Work, 30 Nov 2014 in Literature&Philosophy
• 16,000 Pages of Charles Darwin’s Writing on Evolution Now Digitized and Available Online, 30 Nov 2014 in Archives&Biology&History&Science
• Behold a Beautiful Archive of 10,000 Vintage Cameras at Collection Appareils, 26 Nov 2014 in Archives&Photography
• The Digital Nietzsche: Download Nietzsche’s Major Works as Free eBooks, 25 Nov 2014 in Philosophy
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience Plays “Hey Joe” & “Wild Thing” on The Band’s Very First Tour: Paris, 1966, 21 Nov 2014 in Music
• Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57), 20 Nov 2014 in Radio&Sci Fi
• David Harvey’s Course on Marx’s Capital: Volumes 1 & 2 Now Available Free Online, 20 Nov 2014 in Economics&Philosophy&Politics
• 15 Great Films Adapted From Equally Great Novels, 19 Nov 2014 in Film&Literature
• Handmade Animation Shows You “How To Make a 1930 Paramount Record”, 19 Nov 2014 in Animation&Music
• The Red Menace: A Striking Gallery of Anti-Communist Posters, Ads, Comic Books, Magazines & Films, 18 Nov 2014 in Art&History&Politics
• A History of Ideas: Animated Videos Explain Theories of Simone de Beauvoir, Edmund Burke & Other Philosophers, 17 Nov 2014 in Animation&Philosophy
• The Art of Leo Tolstoy: See His Drawings in the War & Peace Manuscript & Other Literary Texts, 14 Nov 2014 in Art&Literature
• Hear J.R.R. Tolkien Read From The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, 13 Nov 2014 in Literature
• Hear The Ramones’ Raw Demo Recordings For Their Debut Album (1975), 12 Nov 2014 in Music
• Peter Gabriel’s First Solo Concert, Post-Genesis: Hear the Complete Audio Recording (1977), 11 Nov 2014 in Music
• Watch Genesis (from the Peter Gabriel Era) Perform in a Glorious, 1973 Restored Concert Film, 10 Nov 2014 in Music
• Watch Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, A 19 Minute Music Video for Their Last Album With Roger Waters (1983), 10 Nov 2014 in Music
• Simone de Beauvoir Tells Studs Terkel How She Became an Intellectual and a Feminist (1960), 07 Nov 2014 in Gender&Philosophy&Radio
• Hear The Clash’s Vanilla Tapes, Demos of Nearly Every Song From London Calling, 06 Nov 2014 in Music
• What Are Literature, Philosophy & History For? Alain de Botton Explains with Monty Python-Style Videos, 05 Nov 2014 in Education&History&Literature&Philosophy
• 27 More “Essential Films for the Student of Philosophy,” As Suggested By Open Culture Readers, 04 Nov 2014 in Film&Philosophy
• Kandinsky, Klee & Other Bauhaus Artists Designed Ingenious Costumes Like You’ve Never Seen Before, 03 Nov 2014 in Art
• Walter Benjamin’s Radio Plays for Kids (1929–1932), 01 Nov 2014 in Philosophy&Radio
• 44 Essential Movies for the Student of Philosophy, 30 Oct 2014 in Film&Philosophy
• H.P. Lovecraft Gives Five Tips for Writing a Horror Story, or Any Piece of “Weird Fiction”, 29 Oct 2014 in Literature&Writing
• A Quick Introduction to Literary Theory: Watch Animated Videos from the Open University, 28 Oct 2014 in Education&Literature
• Behold the Blistering Bass Solos of Cream Bassist and Singer, Jack Bruce (1943–2014), 28 Oct 2014 in Music
• David Bowie and Lou Reed Perform Live Together for the First and Last Time: 1972 and 1997, 27 Oct 2014 in Music
• Hear Beowulf Read In the Original Old English: How Many Words Do You Recognize?, 24 Oct 2014 in English Language&Literature
• New Animated Web Series Makes the Theory of Evolution Easy to Understand, 23 Oct 2014 in Biology&Education&K-12&Science
• H.P. Lovecraft’s Classic Horror Stories Free Online: Download Audio Books, eBooks & More, 23 Oct 2014 in Literature
• Rick Rubin Revisits the Origins of Def Jam Records & the NYU Dorm Room Where It All Began, 22 Oct 2014 in Music
• The Groundbreaking Art of Alex Steinweiss, Father of Record Cover Design, 22 Oct 2014 in Art&Music
• Different From the Others (1919): The First Gay Rights Movie Ever … Later Destroyed by the Nazis, 21 Oct 2014 in Film
• Steven Pinker Identifies 10 Breakable Grammatical Rules: “Who” Vs. “Whom,” Dangling Modifiers & More, 20 Oct 2014 in Writing
• The C.I.A.‘s “Bestiary of Intelligence Writing” Satirizes Spook Jargon with Maurice Sendak-Style Drawings, 17 Oct 2014 in Comedy&Creativity&English Language&History
• Professor Michael Stipe: R.E.M.‘s Frontman Now Teaching Art Classes at NYU, 16 Oct 2014 in Art&Music
• Breaking Bad Illustrated by Gonzo Artist Ralph Steadman, 16 Oct 2014 in Art&Television
• Prof. Iggy Pop Delivers the BBC’s 2014 John Peel Lecture on “Free Music in a Capitalist Society”, 15 Oct 2014 in Music
• Hear Michel Foucault’s Final UC Berkeley Lectures, “Discourse and Truth” (1983), 14 Oct 2014 in Philosophy
• The Distortion of Sound: A Short Film on How We’ve Created “a McDonald’s Generation of Music Consumers”, 13 Oct 2014 in Music
• Watch the Rare Reunions of Pink Floyd: Concerts from 2005, 2010 & 2011, 13 Oct 2014 in Music
• 7 Free Stephen King Stories: Presented in Text, Audio, Web Comic & a Graphic Novel Video, 10 Oct 2014 in Audio Books&Comics/Cartoons&Literature
• The Making (and Remaking) of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, Arguably the Greatest Rock Album of All Time, 09 Oct 2014 in Music
• “Heidegger in the Kitchen”: Alain de Botton’s Video Essay Explains the Philosopher’s Concept of Being, 09 Oct 2014 in Philosophy
• Bruce Springsteen Plays East Berlin in 1988: I’m Not Here For Any Government. I’ve Come to Play Rock, 08 Oct 2014 in History&Music&Politics
• Stephen Fry Explains Humanism in 4 Animated Videos: Happiness, Truth and the Meaning of Life & Death, 07 Oct 2014 in Life&Philosophy&Religion
• In Her Final Speech, Ayn Rand Denounces Ronald Reagan, the Moral Majority & Anti-Choicers (1981), 06 Oct 2014 in Politics
• Alain de Botton’s School of Life Presents Animated Introductions to Heidegger, The Stoics & Epicurus, 05 Oct 2014 in Life&Philosophy
• Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Other American Blues Legends Perform in the UK (1963–66), 02 Oct 2014 in Music
• Django Reinhardt Demonstrates His Guitar Genius in Rare Footage From the 1930s, 40s & 50s, 01 Oct 2014 in Music
• Swedish Scientists Sneak Bob Dylan Lyrics Into Their Academic Publications For Last 17 Years, 01 Oct 2014 in Music&Science
• Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poetry: 23 Poems from the Last 6 Years of Her Life, 30 Sep 2014 in Poetry
• Christopher Walken Reads Where The Wild Things Are, 29 Sep 2014 in Comedy
• Philosopher Jacques Derrida Interviews Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman: Talk Improvisation, Language & Racism (1997), 26 Sep 2014 in Jazz&Music&Philosophy
• Watch George Harrison’s Final Interview and Performance (1997), 25 Sep 2014 in Music
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail Censorship Letter: We Want to Retain “Fart in Your General Direction”, 24 Sep 2014 in Comedy
• Read 14 Great Banned & Censored Novels Free Online: For Banned Books Week 2014, 23 Sep 2014 in Books&Politics
• Hear Allen Ginsberg Teach “Literary History of the Beats”: Audio Lectures from His 1977 & 1981 Naropa Courses, 22 Sep 2014 in Poetry
• Pakistani Orchestra Plays Enchanting Rendition of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”, 19 Sep 2014 in Music
• Allen Ginsberg Talks About Coming Out to His Family & Fellow Poets on 1978 Radio Show (NSFW), 18 Sep 2014 in Life&Poetry&Politics
• Hear Bob Dylan’s Unedited & Bewildering Interview With Nat Hentoff for Playboy Magazine (1965), 17 Sep 2014 in Music
• Literary Critic Northrop Frye Teaches “The Bible and English Literature”: All 25 Lectures Free Online, 17 Sep 2014 in Literature&Religion
• Partisan Review Now Free Online: Read All 70 Years of the Preeminent Literary Journal (1934–2003), 16 Sep 2014 in Archives&Literature&Magazines
• Hear Demo Recordings of David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust,” “Space Oddity” & “Changes”, 15 Sep 2014 in Music
• Hear David Foster Wallace Read His Own Essays & Short Fiction on the 6th Anniversary of His Death,, 12 Sep 2014 in Literature
• Bill Murray Gives a Delightful Reading of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (1996), 11 Sep 2014 in Literature
• Georges Bataille: An Introduction to The Radical Philosopher’s Life & Thought Through Film and eTexts, 10 Sep 2014 in Film&Literature&Philosophy
• The Beatles Saturday Morning Cartoon Show (1965–1969), 10 Sep 2014 in Comics/Cartoons&Music&Television
• The First Color Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, and Other Amazing Color Photos of Czarist Russia (1908), 09 Sep 2014 in Literature&Photography
• The History of Rock n Roll in 10 Songs: A List Created by Legendary Rock Critic Greil Marcus, 08 Sep 2014 in Music
• David Bowie and Klaus Nomi’s Hypnotic Performance on SNL (1979), 05 Sep 2014 in Music&Television
• Joan Rivers (1933–2014) Describes on Louie Her Undying Commitment to Comedy, 04 Sep 2014 in Comedy