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Posts by jdavidjones:
- Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known and Hand-Illustrated Children’s Book, Mr. Bliss, 05 Jan 2021 in Books
- Did Beethoven Use a Broken Metronome When Composing His String Quartets? Scientists & Musicians Try to Solve the Centuries-Old Mystery, 04 Jan 2021 in Music
- Antonio Gramsci Writes a Column, “I Hate New Year’s Day” (January 1, 1916), 01 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&History&Politics
- Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Snack Bar in the Ruins of Pompeii, 30 Dec 2020 in Food & Drink&History
- Your 15 Favorite Posts on Open Culture This Year–and What a Year It Has Been, 30 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs
- Listen to James Baldwin’s Record Collection in a 478-track, 32-Hour Spotify Playlist, 29 Dec 2020 in Literature&Music&Writing
- When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930), 29 Dec 2020 in Film&History&Science
- Revisit Kate Bush’s Peculiar Christmas Special, Featuring Peter Gabriel (1979), 25 Dec 2020 in Music
- How Jan van Eyck’s Masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, Became the Most Stolen Work of Art in History, 24 Dec 2020 in Art
- Octavia Butler’s Four Rules for Predicting the Future, 23 Dec 2020 in Sci Fi
- Tune Into Tree.fm: An Online Radio Station That Streams the Soothing Sounds of Forests from Around the World, 23 Dec 2020 in Nature
- Peter Jackson Gives Us an Enticing Glimpse of His Upcoming Beatles Documentary The Beatles: Get Back, 22 Dec 2020 in Film&Music
- The UN’s World Happiness Report Ranks “Socialist Friendly” Countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Sweden as Among the Happiest in the World, 22 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs&Economics&Politics
- How Joni Mitchell’s Song of Heartbreak, “River,” Became a Christmas Classic, 21 Dec 2020 in Music
- How Do Vaccines (Including the COVID-19 Vaccines) Work?: Watch Animated Introductions, 18 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs&Health&Science
- 160,000+ Medieval Manuscripts Online: Where to Find Them, 17 Dec 2020 in Books&History
- Discover the Ambient Music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, the Pioneering Japanese Composer, 17 Dec 2020 in Music
- Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover 8 Songs by Famous Jewish Artists for Hanukkah: Bob Dylan, Beastie Boys, Velvet Underground & More, 16 Dec 2020 in Music
- A Brief History of Talking Heads: How the Band Went from Scrappy CBGB’s Punks to New Wave Superstars, 16 Dec 2020 in Music
- David Byrne Turns His Acclaimed Musical American Utopia into a Picture Book for Grown-Ups, with Vivid Illustrations by Maira Kalman, 15 Dec 2020 in Art&Books&Current Affairs&Life
- How the Garage-Rock Anthem “Louie Louie” Became the Subject of a Lengthy FBI Investigation (1964), 15 Dec 2020 in Music
- A Visual History of The Rolling Stones Documented in a Beautiful, 450-Page Photo Book by Taschen, 14 Dec 2020 in Books&Music
- Jimi Hendrix’s Home Audio System & Record Collection Gets Recreated in His London Flat, 10 Dec 2020 in Music
- Don’t Think Twice: A Poignant Film Documents How Bob Dylan & The Beatles Bring Joy to a Dementia Patient, 09 Dec 2020 in Health&Music&Neuroscience&Psychology
- The Map of Doom: A Data-Driven Visualization of the Biggest Threats to Humanity, Ranked from Likely to Unlikely, 09 Dec 2020 in Data&Life&Science
- Marina Abramović’s Method for Overcoming Trauma: Go to a Park, Hug a Tree Tight, and Tell It Your Complaints for 15 Minutes, 08 Dec 2020 in Art&Life&Nature&Psychology
- The Sistine Chapel of the Ancients: Archaeologists Discover 8 Miles of Art Painted on Rock Walls in the Amazon, 08 Dec 2020 in Art&History
- Why Butt Trumpets & Other Bizarre Images Appeared in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts, 08 Dec 2020 in Art&Books&History
- When Sun Ra Went to Egypt in 1971: See Film & Hear Recordings from the Legendary Afrofuturist’s First Visit to Cairo, 03 Dec 2020 in Music
- The Internet Archive is Saving Classic Flash Animations & Games from Extinction: Explore Them Online, 02 Dec 2020 in Animation&Archives&Internet Archive&Software&Technology
- Japanese Art Installation Lets People Play Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” As They Walk on Socially-Distanced Notes on the Floor, 02 Dec 2020 in Art&Life&Music
- Quentin Tarantino’s Copycat Cinema: How the Postmodern Filmmaker Perfected the Art of the Steal, 01 Dec 2020 in Film
- 88 Philosophy Podcasts to Help You Answer the Big Questions in Life, 01 Dec 2020 in Philosophy&Podcasts
- An Animated Stan Lee Explains Why the F‑Word Is “the Most Useful Word in the English Language” (NSFW), 30 Nov 2020 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
- Toni Morrison’s 1,200 Volume Personal Library is Going on Sale: Get a Glimpse of the Books on Her Tribeca Condo Shelves, 27 Nov 2020 in Books&Literature
- The Beatles Create an Abstract Collaborative Painting, Images of a Woman, During Three Days of Lockdown in Japan (1966), 26 Nov 2020 in Art&Music
- Stevie Ray Vaughan Gives a Blistering Demonstration of His Guitar Technique, 25 Nov 2020 in Music
- The Uncanny Children’s Book Illustrations of Sigmund’s Freud’s Niece, Tom Seidmann-Freud, 25 Nov 2020 in Art&Education&K-12
- Hear Legendary BBC Composer Delia Derbyshire’s Electronic Version of Bach’s “Air on a G String”, 24 Nov 2020 in Music
- The Eden Project Built a Rainforest Ecosystem Inside Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Geodesic Domes, 24 Nov 2020 in Creativity&Design&Environment&Life&Technology
- A Curious Herbal: 500 Beautiful Illustrations of Medicinal Plants Drawn by Elizabeth Blackwell in 1737 (to Save Her Family from Financial Ruin), 23 Nov 2020 in Art&Books&History&Science
- Behold One of the Earliest Known Color Charts: The Table of Physiological Colors (1686), 20 Nov 2020 in Art&Science
- The Beautiful Video for David Gilmour’s “The Girl in the Yellow Dress,” Featuring 9,000 Hand-Drawn Frames of Animation, 19 Nov 2020 in Animation&Music
- Discover the Cyanometer, the Device Invented in 1789 Just to Measure the Blueness of the Sky, 18 Nov 2020 in Design&Science
- What Happens When You Spend Weeks, Months, or Years in Solitary Confinement, 17 Nov 2020 in Life&Science
- Rubens’ Cupid Escapes His Painting & Flies Around Brussels Airport, Thanks to Projection Mapping Technology, 17 Nov 2020 in Art&Technology
- Constantly Wrong: Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson Makes the Case Against Conspiracy Theories, 16 Nov 2020 in Current Affairs&History&Politics
- The History of Rock Mapped Out on the Circuit Board of a Guitar Amplifier: 1400 Musicians, Songwriters & Producers, 12 Nov 2020 in Music
- Former Ballerina with Dementia Gracefully Comes Alive to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, 11 Nov 2020 in Dance&Music&Neuroscience
- Experience the Bob Ross Experience: A New Museum Open in the TV Painter’s Former Studio Home, 11 Nov 2020 in Art&Museums&Television
- Hear a Rare First Recording of Janis Joplin’s Hit “Me and Bobby McGee,” Written by Kris Kristofferson, 10 Nov 2020 in Music
- When ABBA Wrote Music for the Cold War-Themed Musical, Chess: “One of the Best Rock Scores Ever Produced for the Theatre” (1984), 10 Nov 2020 in Music&Theatre
- Was Winston Churchill “The Greatest Briton”? A Short Claymation Looks at the Darker Side of the Prime Minister’s Life, 09 Nov 2020 in Film&History
- Neil Young Releases a Never-Before-Heard Version of His 1979 Classic, “Powderfinger”: Stream It Online, 06 Nov 2020 in Music
- How Charlie Chaplin Used Groundbreaking Visual Effects to Shoot the Death-Defying Roller Skate Scene in Modern Times (1936), 05 Nov 2020 in Film
- A Dictionary of Symbols: Juan Eduardo Cirlot’s Classic Study of Symbols Gets Republished in a Beautiful, Expanded Edition, 05 Nov 2020 in Art&History&Psychology
- A Digital Library for Bartenders: Vintage Cocktail Books with Recipes Dating Back to 1753, 04 Nov 2020 in Food & Drink&Libraries
- How the Iconic Colors of the New York City Subway System Were Invented: See the 1930 Color Chart Created by Architect Squire J. Vickers, 04 Nov 2020 in Design&History
- The Iconic Photography of Gordon Parks: An Introduction to the Renaissance American Artist, 03 Nov 2020 in Photography
- When Louis Armstrong Stopped a Civil War in The Congo (1960), 02 Nov 2020 in History&Music&Politics
- The Sublime Alice in Wonderland Illustrations of Tove Jansson, Creator of the Globally-Beloved Moomins (1966), 30 Oct 2020 in Art&Literature
- When Edward Gorey Created Set Designs & Tony Award-Winning Costumes for a Broadway Production of Dracula (1977), 29 Oct 2020 in Theatre
- The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s, 28 Oct 2020 in Music
- John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” & Bach’s “Prelude in C Major” Get Turned into Dazzling Musical Animations by an Artist with Synesthesia, 28 Oct 2020 in Film&Music&Neuroscience&Psychology
- Janis Joplin & Tom Jones Bring the House Down in an Unlikely Duet of “Raise Your Hand” (1969), 27 Oct 2020 in Music&Television
- How to Speak: Watch the Lecture on Effective Communication That Became an MIT Tradition for Over 40 Years, 26 Oct 2020 in Education&Language&MIT
- When Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick, the First Couple of Pop Art, Made an Odd Appearance on the Merv Griffin Show (1965), 26 Oct 2020 in Art&Television
- Glenn Gould Explains Why Mozart Was a Bad Composer in a Controversial Public TV Show (1968), 22 Oct 2020 in Music
- An Animated Video Shows the Building of a Medieval Bridge: 45 Years of Construction in 3 Minutes, 22 Oct 2020 in Architecture&History
- How the Doors Got Banned from The Ed Sullivan Show (1967), 21 Oct 2020 in Music
- Watch Cornel West’s Free Online Course on W.E.B. Du Bois, the Great 20th Century Public Intellectual, 21 Oct 2020 in Philosophy
- How to De-Stress with Niksen, the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing, 20 Oct 2020 in Health
- The Dorothea Lange Digital Archive: Explore 600+ Photographs by the Influential Photographer (Plus Negatives, Contact Sheets & More), 20 Oct 2020 in Archives&History&Photography
- The 100 Most Influential Photographs: Watch TIME’s Video Essays on Photos That Changed the World, 19 Oct 2020 in Photography
- Mapping the Differences in How Americans Speak English: A Geographic Look at Words, Accents & Dialects, 16 Oct 2020 in English Language
- 11 Hypnotic, Close-Up Minutes Watching Tool’s Legendary Drummer Danny Carey in Action, 15 Oct 2020 in Music
- How to Win an Argument (at the U.S. Supreme Court, or Anywhere Else): A Primer by Litigator Neal Katyal, 14 Oct 2020 in Law&Life
- The Incredible Six-Octave Vocal Range of Opera-Singing Punk Diva Nina Hagen, 13 Oct 2020 in Music
- How Science Fiction Formed Jimi Hendrix, 12 Oct 2020 in Music
- Restored Footage of 1896 Snowball Fight Makes It Seem Like the Fun Happened Yesterday, 08 Oct 2020 in Film
- The 1937 Experiment in Distance Learning: When Chicago Schools Went Remote, Over Radio, During a Polio Outbreak, 07 Oct 2020 in Education&History
- Why Do People Join Cults? An Animated Primer Explains, 07 Oct 2020 in Psychology
- Watch Some of Eddie Van Halen’s (RIP) Greatest Performances: “Shredding Was Eddie’s Very Essence”, 07 Oct 2020 in Music
- Ted Turner Asks Carl Sagan “Are You a Socialist?;” Sagan Responds Thoughtfully (1989), 06 Oct 2020 in Economics&Politics
- Jazz Typefaces Capture the Essence of 100 Iconic Jazz Musicians, 05 Oct 2020 in Design&Jazz&Music
- An Animated Reading of “The Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense Poem That Somehow Manages to Make Sense, 02 Oct 2020 in Literature&Poetry
- Hear Readings of Albert Einstein’s Love Letters (and Chilly Divorce Letters) to His First Wife Mileva, 01 Oct 2020 in Letters&Science
- Ella Fitzgerald Imitates Louis Armstrong’s Gravelly Voice While Singing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby”, 30 Sep 2020 in Music
- When R.E.M.‘s Michael Stipe Created the Lyrics for “The Voice of Harold” by Riffing on the Liner Notes of an Old Gospel Album (1983), 30 Sep 2020 in Music
- Explore the Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript, 29 Sep 2020 in History
- Hand-Colored Maps of Wealth & Poverty in Victorian London: Explore a New Interactive Edition of Charles Booth’s Historic Work of Social Cartography (1889), 28 Sep 2020 in History&Maps
- Discovered: The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World, 28 Sep 2020 in Computer Science
- What Voltaire Meant When He Said That “We Must Cultivate Our Garden”: An Animated Introduction, 24 Sep 2020 in Literature&Philosophy
- The Liberal Arts Can Make People Less Susceptible to Authoritarianism, a New Study Finds, 23 Sep 2020 in Current Affairs&Politics
- Is Mail-In Voting New in the United States?: It Actually Goes Back to the Civil War, 23 Sep 2020 in History&Politics
- 30 Buster Keaton Films: “The Greatest of All Comic Actors,” “One of the Greatest Filmmakers of All Time”, 22 Sep 2020 in Film
- The Internet Archive Will Digitize & Preserve Millions of Academic Articles with Its New Database, “Internet Archive Scholar”, 22 Sep 2020 in Archives&Data&Education&Internet Archive&Libraries
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Opera Recordings (and Her First Appearance in an Opera), 21 Sep 2020 in Current Affairs&Music&Politics
- Free Jazz Musicians Intentionally Play Terrible Music to Drown Out the Noise of a Danish Far-Right Politician, 18 Sep 2020 in Music&Politics
- Watch Rare Footage of Jimi Hendrix Performing “Voodoo Child” in Maui, Plus a Trailer for a New Documentary on Jimi Hendrix’s Legendary Maui Performances (1970), 17 Sep 2020 in Film&Music
- A Side-by-Side, Shot-by-Shot Comparison of Denis Villeneuve’s 2020 Dune and David Lynch’s 1984 Dune, 17 Sep 2020 in Film
- Debbie Harry Demonstrates the Punk Pogo Dance for a U.S. Audience (1978), 16 Sep 2020 in Music
- The Pentagon Created a Plan to Defend the US Against a Zombie Apocalypse: Read It Online, 16 Sep 2020 in Film&Life&Television
- The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh, 15 Sep 2020 in Art&History
- Monty Python’s Michael Palin Is Also an Art Critic: Watch Him Explore His Favorite Paintings by Andrew Wyeth & Other Artists, 14 Sep 2020 in Art&Television
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Studies of the Human Heart Were 500 Years Ahead of Their Time, 11 Sep 2020 in Art&Biology&Health&History
- Sounds of the Forest: A Free Audio Archive Gathers the Sounds of Forests from All Over the World, 11 Sep 2020 in Life&Nature
- Watch Lime Kiln Club Field Day, One of the Earliest Surviving Feature Films with an All Black Cast (1913), 11 Sep 2020 in Film&History
- Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)”, 09 Sep 2020 in Music
- The Fall of Civilizations Podcast Engagingly Explores the Collapse of Civilizations & Empires Throughout History, 08 Sep 2020 in History&Podcasts
- How Charlie Parker Changed Jazz Forever, 08 Sep 2020 in Music
- IKEA Digitizes & Puts Online 70 Years of Its Catalogs: Explore the Designs of the Swedish Furniture Giant, 08 Sep 2020 in Business&Design
- A Medieval Metropolis Existed In What’s Now St. Louis, Then Mysteriously Disappeared in the 14th Century, 07 Sep 2020 in History
- A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks–Covering 1,000 Years of Food History–Is Now Online, 03 Sep 2020 in Food & Drink
- A Short Introduction to Caravaggio, the Master Of Light, 03 Sep 2020 in Art
- Behold a Beautiful 400-Year-Old ‘Friendship Book’ Featuring the Signatures of Historic Figures, 02 Sep 2020 in Art&Books&History
- Bronze Age Britons Turned Bones of Dead Relatives into Musical Instruments & Ornaments, 02 Sep 2020 in History&Life
- Hear Patti Smith’s First Poetry Reading, Accompanied by Her Longtime Guitarist Lenny Kaye (St. Mark’s Church, 1971), 01 Sep 2020 in Music&Poetry
- Watch Bob Dylan Perform “Only A Pawn In Their Game,” His Damning Song About the Murder of Medgar Evers, at the 1963 March on Washington, 31 Aug 2020 in History&Music&Politics
- JamBase Launches a New Video Archive of 100,000 Streaming Concerts: Phish, Wilco, the Avett Brothers, Grateful Dead & Much More, 27 Aug 2020 in Music
- The Massive Harrods Catalogue from 1912 Gets Digitized: Before Amazon, Harrods Offered “Everything for Everyone, Everywhere”, 26 Aug 2020 in Business&Economics&History
- Sylvia Beach Tells the Story of Founding Shakespeare and Company, Publishing Joyce’s Ulysses, Selling Copies of Hemingway’s First Book & More (1962), 26 Aug 2020 in Books&Literature
- How Stevie Nicks Wrote “Rhiannon” & Embodied the Medieval Witch Character Onstage, 26 Aug 2020 in Music
- Hear Musicians Play the Only Playable Stradivarius Guitar in the World: The “Sabionari”, 25 Aug 2020 in Music
- A New Digital Archive Preserves Black Lives Matter & COVID-19 Street Art, 25 Aug 2020 in Art&Politics
- Nina Simone Writes an Admiring Letter to Langston Hughes: “Brother, You’ve Got a Fan Now!” (1966), 24 Aug 2020 in Literature&Music
- The British Museum is Full of Looted Artifacts, 21 Aug 2020 in History&Museums
- The Story of “Wipe Out,” the Classic Surf Rock Instrumental, 20 Aug 2020 in Music
- Essential Reads on Feminism: The New York Public Library Creates a Reading List to Honor the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, 19 Aug 2020 in Books&Gender
- A Record Store Designed for Mice in Sweden, Featuring Albums by Mouse Davis, Destiny’s Cheese, Dolly Parsley & More, 18 Aug 2020 in Art
- Every Possible Kind of Science Fiction Story: An Exhaustive List Created by Pioneering 1920s SciFi Writer Clare Winger Harris (1931), 18 Aug 2020 in Sci Fi
- An Introduction to Postmodernist Thinkers & Themes: Watch Primers on Foucault, Nietzsche, Derrida, Deleuze & More, 17 Aug 2020 in Philosophy
- The Recipes of Famous Artists: Dinners & Cocktails From Tolstoy, Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch & Many More, 17 Aug 2020 in Food & Drink
- When Salvador Dalí Met Alice Cooper & Turned Him into a Hologram: The Meeting of Two Kings of Camp (1973), 14 Aug 2020 in Art&Music
- Explore an Interactive, Online Version of the Beautifully Illustrated, 200-Year-Old British & Exotic Mineralogy, 13 Aug 2020 in Art&Education&Science
- Milton Glaser’s Stylish Album Covers for The Band, Nina Simone, John Cage & Many More, 12 Aug 2020 in Art&Design&Music
- Ballerina Misty Copeland Recreates the Poses of Edgar Degas’ Ballet Dancers, 12 Aug 2020 in Art&Dance&Photography
- The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague, 11 Aug 2020 in History
- Winston Churchill Praises the Virtue of “Brevity” in Memos to His Staff: Concise Writing Leads to Clearer Thinking, 10 Aug 2020 in Politics&Writing
- View 250,000 British Paintings & Sculptures Free Online, 07 Aug 2020 in Art
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