Culture Tweets of the Week — March 13

Guar­an­teed to make you smarter, or your mon­ey back. You can fol­low us on Twit­ter here. (Or become a Face­book fan.) Here they go:

• RT @Boing­Bo­ing: Most beau­ti­ful book­store — Buenos Aires’s Libr­ería El Ate­neo Grand Splen­did http://bit.ly/c5iapa
• RT @Alyssa_Milano: Two new MIT class­es focus on help­ing #Haiti: http://is.gd/aa43H (via @brain­pick­er)
• RT @guardian­cul­ture: “Solar” by Ian McE­wan http://bit.ly/dpqBAq
• RT @kirstin­but­ler: View human his­to­ry’s great­est hits in 3‑D http://humanorigins.si.edu/ The Smith­so­ni­an’s Human Ori­gins Ini­tia­tive
• RT @courosa: McLuhan inter­view from 1967 — http://bit.ly/HvVuv — much of this wis­dom from 1967, while repeat­ed , has yet to catch on.
• French bread spiked with LSD in CIA exper­i­ment in 1951: http://bit.ly/cEDEV5
• RT @Guardian­Books: Google part­ners with Italy for ground­break­ing book scan­ning deal http://bit.ly/dxVwE7
• Look­ing for avant-garde film & video? Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, Allen Gins­berg, Jean Genet, etc. Vis­it @ubuweb http://bit.ly/amomfw
• RT @phi­los­o­phy­bites: Notes and links from the Tate Mod­ern Clas­sic Aes­thet­ics course (Pla­to, then Hume) on www.artandallusion.com
• RT @dylan­schenker: Watch The Acad­e­my Award Win­ning Ani­mat­ed Short ‘Logo­ra­ma’ Online http://bit.ly/9yUvQw
• RT @freemu­si­carchiv: http://freemusicarchive.org now hosts over 18,000 free & legal mp3s curat­ed by @wfmu @cbcradio3 @cre­ativecom­mons & more
• Chopin’s 1848 piano played for his 200th birth­day: http://bit.ly/9zyhZR Thanks Leisha
• His­to­ri­an Tony Judt’s strug­gle with ALS (and his recent intel­lec­tu­al life) chron­i­cled in New York Mag­a­zine. http://bit.ly/a8hT1W
• Why Ancient Wis­dom Mat­ters in the Mod­ern World: http://bit.ly/bgyZay Pre­sent­ed orig­i­nal­ly via @Long­now
• @ScottSigler “Who Needs You, Big Pub­lish­ing? How Authors Can Own All Rights and Make More Mon­ey” http://bit.ly/diR2xV (via @seth­har­wood
• RT @Elise­Black­well: Don DeLil­lo on Samuel Beck­ett: http://bit.ly/9GuwMg (via @Rhys­Tran­ter)
• RT @heoj: i love this arti­cle! Alge­bra in Won­der­land http://nyti.ms/aaPH9w
• Spo­ken Verse YouTube Chan­nel — http://bit.ly/aRTRkn — added to our Smart YouTube col­lec­tion: http://bit.ly/SouTb Thanks Ryan for the tip.