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• Earthrise, Apollo 8’s Photo of Earth from Space, Turns 50: Download the Iconic Photograph from NASA, 28 Dec 2018 in Astronomy&History&Photography
• NASA Creates Movie Parody Posters for Its Expedition Flights: Download Parodies of Metropolis, The Matrix, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and More, 27 Dec 2018 in Design&Sci Fi&Science
• Buckminster Fuller Documented His Life Every 15 Minutes, from 1920 Until 1983, 26 Dec 2018 in Architecture&Design&History
• What Makes Music Sound Like Christmas Music? Hear the Single Most Christmassy Chord of All Explained, 25 Dec 2018 in Music
• Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Photos of People, None of Whom Actually Exist, 24 Dec 2018 in Photography&Technology
• Discover Isotype, the 1920s Attempt to Create a Universal Language with Stylish Icons & Graphic Design, 21 Dec 2018 in Design&History
• Take a Virtual Tour of Brazil’s National Museum & Its Artifacts: Google Digitized the Museum’s Collection Before the Fateful Fire, 20 Dec 2018 in Museums
• Watch the First-Ever Kiss on Film Between Two Black Actors, Just Honored by the Library of Congress (1898), 19 Dec 2018 in Film&History
• See Classic Japanese Woodblocks Brought Surreally to Life as Animated GIFs, 18 Dec 2018 in Animation&Art
• Pristine Footage Lets You Revisit Life in Paris in the 1890s: Watch Footage Shot by the Lumière Brothers, 17 Dec 2018 in Film&History
• The Revolutionary Title Sequences and Trailers Created by Pablo Ferro: Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Stop Making Sense, Bullitt & Other Films, 17 Dec 2018 in Animation&Film
• How the Astonishing Sushi Scene in Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Was Animated: A Time-Lapse of the Month-Long Shoot, 14 Dec 2018 in Animation&Film&Food & Drink
• The Evolution of The Great Wave off Kanagawa: See Four Versions That Hokusai Painted Over Nearly 40 Years, 13 Dec 2018 in Art&History
• Watch Andy Warhol Eat an Entire Burger King Whopper–While Wishing the Burger Came from McDonald’s (1981), 12 Dec 2018 in Art&Film&Food & Drink
• Wes Anderson’s Breakthrough Film, Rushmore, Revisited in Five Video Essays: It Came Out 20 Years Ago Today, 11 Dec 2018 in Film
• Hear the Very First Sounds Ever Recorded on Mars, Courtesy of NASA, 10 Dec 2018 in Astronomy&Science
• In 1964, Isaac Asimov Predicts What the World Will Look Like Today: Self-Driving Cars, Video Calls, Fake Meats & More, 06 Dec 2018 in History&Sci Fi&Technology
• David Byrne Creates a Playlist of Eclectic Music for the Holidays: Stream It Free Online, 05 Dec 2018 in Music
• See the Complete Works of Vermeer in Augmented Reality: Google Makes Them Available on Your Smartphone, 04 Dec 2018 in Art&Technology
• Behold the Original Deck of Oblique Strategies Cards, Handwritten by Brian Eno Himself, 03 Dec 2018 in Art&Creativity&Music
• Blade Runner Getting Adapted into a New Anime Series, Produced by Cowboy Bebop Animator Shinichiro Watanabe, 30 Nov 2018 in Animation&Film&Sci Fi&Television
• How David Lynch Manipulates You: A Close Reading of Mulholland Drive, 29 Nov 2018 in Film
• Watch 99 Movies Free Online Courtesy of YouTube & MGM: Rocky, The Terminator, Four Weddings and a Funeral & More, 28 Nov 2018 in Film
• How Nicolas Roeg (RIP) Used David Bowie, Mick Jagger & Art Garfunkel in His Mind-Bending Films, 27 Nov 2018 in Film&Music
• In 17th-Century Japan, Creaking Floors Functioned as Security Systems That Warned Palaces & Temples of Approaching Intruders and Assassins, 26 Nov 2018 in Architecture&History
• Japanese Artist Creates Bookshelf Dioramas That Magically Transport You Into Tokyo’s Back Alleys, 23 Nov 2018 in Art&Books
• How to Write a Bestselling Page Turner: Learn from The Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown’s New Masterclass, 22 Nov 2018 in Online Courses&Writing
• The Psychedelic 1970s Animations of Keiichi Tanaami: A Music Video for John Lennon’s “Oh Yoko!,” Surreal Tributes to Elvis & Marilyn Monroe, and More, 21 Nov 2018 in Animation&Art
• Download 586 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20 Nov 2018 in Art&Books
• Hear the Sounds of World War I: A Gas Attack Recorded on the Front Line, and the Moment the Armistice Ended the War, 20 Nov 2018 in History
• The Captivating Story Behind the Making of Ansel Adams’ Most Famous Photograph, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 19 Nov 2018 in Photography
• A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861): Features George Washington Punching Tigers, John Adams Slaying Snakes & Other Fantastic Scenes, 16 Nov 2018 in Art&Books&History
• NASA Digitizes 20,000 Hours of Audio from the Historic Apollo 11 Mission: Stream Them Free Online, 15 Nov 2018 in Archives&History
• The Art of Letterlocking: The Elaborate Folding Techniques That Ensured the Privacy of Handwritten Letters Centuries Ago, 14 Nov 2018 in History&Letters
• R.I.P. Stan Lee: Take His Free Online Course “The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture”, 13 Nov 2018 in Comics/Cartoons&History&Online Courses
• Hundreds of Wonderful Japanese Firework Designs from the Early-1900s: Digitized and Free to Download, 12 Nov 2018 in Books&Design
• Download Digitized Copies of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, the Pre-Civil Rights Guide to Traveling Safely in the U.S. (1936–66), 09 Nov 2018 in Books&History&Travel
• The Disgusting Food Museum Curates 80 of the World’s Most Repulsive Dishes: Maggot-Infested Cheese, Putrid Shark & More, 08 Nov 2018 in Food & Drink&Museums
• Behind the Banksy Stunt: An In-Depth Breakdown of the Artist’s Self-Shredding Painting, 07 Nov 2018 in Art
• The Exhilarating Filmmaking of Robert Bresson Explored in Eight Video Essays, 06 Nov 2018 in Film
• How to Make and Wear Medieval Armor: An In-Depth Primer, 05 Nov 2018 in History
• The Philosophy of Hayao Miyazaki: A Video Essay on How the Traditional Japanese Religion Shinto Suffuses Miyazaki’s Films, 02 Nov 2018 in Animation&Film&Philosophy&Religion
• The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596): A Stunningly Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Created over Three Decades, 01 Nov 2018 in Art&Books&History
• 36 Artists Give Advice to Young Creators: Wim Wenders, Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis, Patti Smith, David Byrne, Umberto Eco & More, 31 Oct 2018 in Art&Creativity&Education&Life
• Martin Scorsese Creates a List of the 11 Scariest Horror Films, 31 Oct 2018 in Film
• Wagashi: Peruse a Digitized, Centuries-Old Catalogue of Traditional Japanese Candies, 30 Oct 2018 in Books&Food & Drink
• How to Practice Effectively: Lessons from Neuroscience Can Help Us Master Skills in Music, Sports & Beyond, 29 Oct 2018 in Neuroscience&Productivity&Psychology
• The Ancient Egyptians Wore Fashionable Striped Socks, New Pioneering Imaging Technology Imaging Reveals, 26 Oct 2018 in Fashion&History
• The Golden Age of Ancient Greece Gets Faithfully Recreated in the New Video Game Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, 25 Oct 2018 in History&Video Games
• Leonardo da Vinci Saw the World Differently… Thanks to an Eye Disorder, Says a New Scientific Study, 24 Oct 2018 in Art
• How an 18th-Century Monk Invented the First Electronic Instrument, 23 Oct 2018 in History&Music
• The Big Lebowski at 20: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman & Steve Buscemi Reunite to Discuss the Coen Brothers’ Beloved Film, 22 Oct 2018 in Film
• Rembrandt’s Masterpiece, The Night Watch, Will Get Restored and You Can Watch It Happen Live, Online, 19 Oct 2018 in Art
• Stephen Hawking’s Final Book and Scientific Paper Just Got Published: Brief Answers to the Big Questions and “Information Paradox”, 18 Oct 2018 in Astronomy&Physics&Science
• Watch Richard Linklater’s Anti-Ted Cruz Political Ads: The Texas Director Versus the Texas Senator, 17 Oct 2018 in Film&Politics
• A 16th Century Book That Opens Six Different Ways, Revealing Six Different Books in One, 16 Oct 2018 in Books&History&Technology
• Haruki Murakami Became a DJ on a Japanese Radio Station for One Night: Hear the Music He Played for Delighted Listeners, 15 Oct 2018 in Literature&Music&Radio
• Buckminster Fuller Creates Striking Posters of His Own Inventions, 12 Oct 2018 in Architecture&Art&Design
• The 10 Commandments of Chindōgu, the Japanese Art of Creating Unusually Useless Inventions, 11 Oct 2018 in Art&Comedy&Technology
• The Cornell Note-Taking System: Learn the Method Students Have Used to Enhance Their Learning Since the 1940s, 10 Oct 2018 in Education
• A Radical Map Puts the Oceans–Not Land–at the Center of Planet Earth (1942), 09 Oct 2018 in Maps
• How the Ancient Mayans Used Chocolate as Money, 08 Oct 2018 in Economics&Food & Drink&History
• “Lynchian,” “Kubrickian,” “Tarantinoesque” and 100+ Film Words Have Been Added to the Oxford English Dictionary, 05 Oct 2018 in English Language&Film
• When Andy Warhol Made a Batman Superhero Movie (1964), 04 Oct 2018 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
• How Youtube’s Algorithm Turned an Obscure 1980s Japanese Song Into an Enormously Popular Hit: Discover Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love”, 03 Oct 2018 in Music
• The Outsiders: Lou Reed, Hunter S. Thompson, and Frank Zappa Reveal Themselves in Captivatingly Animated Interviews, 02 Oct 2018 in Animation&Radio
• What Makes The Night Watch Rembrandt’s Masterpiece, 01 Oct 2018 in Art&History
• Hear Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Pioneering Compositions for Music Boxes, 28 Sep 2018 in Music
• 1,100 Classic Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade: Play Them Free Online, 27 Sep 2018 in Internet Archive&Video Games
• The Talmud Is Finally Now Available Online, 26 Sep 2018 in Philosophy&Religion
• How Ancient Scrolls, Charred by the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Are Now Being Read by Particle Accelerators, 3D Modeling & Artificial Intelligence, 25 Sep 2018 in History&Physics&Science
• In 1900, a Photographer Had to Create an Enormous 1,400-Pound Camera to Take a Picture of an Entire Train, 24 Sep 2018 in Photography
• William Shatner Is Releasing a Christmas Album with Iggy Pop & Henry Rollins : Get a First Listen to “Jingle Bells”, 21 Sep 2018 in Music
• Discover Rare 1980s CDs by Lou Reed, Devo & Talking Heads That Combined Music with Computer Graphics, 20 Sep 2018 in Computer Science&Music&Software&Technology
• Get a First Listen to David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti’s Long-Lost Album, Thought Gang, 19 Sep 2018 in Film&Music&Television
• Download Classic Japanese Wave and Ripple Designs: A Go-to Guide for Japanese Artists from 1903, 18 Sep 2018 in Art&Books&Design&History
• Umberto Eco Explains Why We Make Lists, 17 Sep 2018 in History&Literature
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovered Radio Pulsars in 1974, But the Credit Went to Her Advisor; In 2018, She Gets Her Due, Winning a $3 Million Physics Prize, 14 Sep 2018 in Astronomy&Physics&Science
• One Second from Each Episode of Twin Peaks: Experience David Lynch’s Groundbreaking TV Drama in Less than a Minute, 13 Sep 2018 in Television
• Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscript of Frankenstein: This Is “Ground Zero of Science Fiction,” Says William Gibson, 12 Sep 2018 in Literature&Sci Fi
• Stephen Fry Voices a New Dystopian Short Film About Artificial Intelligence & Simulation Theory: Watch Escape, 11 Sep 2018 in Film&Technology
• A Drone’s Eye View of the Ruins of Pompeii, 10 Sep 2018 in History
• When Steve Jobs Taught Andy Warhol to Make Art on the Very First Macintosh (1984), 07 Sep 2018 in Art&History&Technology
• Watch Willem Dafoe Become Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s New Film, At Eternity’s Gate, 06 Sep 2018 in Art&Film
• How Breaking Bad Crafted the Perfect TV Pilot: A Video Essay, 06 Sep 2018 in Television
• A First Look at The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks, a Feature-Length Journey Into the Mind of the Famed Neurologist, 05 Sep 2018 in Animation&Film&Neuroscience
• “The Long Tomorrow”: Discover Mœbius’ Hard-Boiled Detective Comic That Inspired Blade Runner (1975), 04 Sep 2018 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Sci Fi
• MIT Students Solve the Spaghetti Breaking Mystery That Stumped Richard Feynman, 03 Sep 2018 in Food & Drink&Physics
• Watch the New Trailer for Orson Welles’ Lost Film, The Other Side of the Wind: A Glimpse of Footage from the Finally Completed Film, 31 Aug 2018 in Film
• John Turturro Introduces America to the World Wide Web in 1999: Watch A Beginner’s Guide To The Internet, 30 Aug 2018 in Film&History&Web/Tech
• How Jim Jarmusch Gets Creative Ideas from William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, 29 Aug 2018 in Creativity&Film
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Online, 28 Aug 2018 in Sci Fi
• V.S. Naipaul Creates a List of 7 Rules for Beginning Writers, 27 Aug 2018 in Literature&Writing
• Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd, 24 Aug 2018 in Animation&Film&Music
• The Assassin’s Cabinet: A Hollowed Out Book, Containing Secret Cabinets Full of Poison Plants, Made in 1682, 23 Aug 2018 in Books&History
• The Hobo Code: An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s Train-Hoppers, 22 Aug 2018 in History
• Free: Download 70,000+ High-Resolution Images of Chinese Art from Taipei’s National Palace Museum, 21 Aug 2018 in Art&History&Museums
• French Illustrator Revives the Byzantine Empire with Magnificently Detailed Drawings of Its Monuments & Buildings: Hagia Sophia, Great Palace & More, 20 Aug 2018 in Architecture&Art&History
• Hundreds of Classical Sculptures from the Uffizi Gallery Now Digitized & Put Online: Explore a Collection of 3D Interactive Scans, 17 Aug 2018 in Art&Technology
• How David Lynch Got Creative Inspiration? By Drinking a Milkshake at Bob’s Big Boy, Every Single Day, for Seven Straight Years, 16 Aug 2018 in Film
• How Jean-Luc Godard Liberated Cinema: A Video Essay on How the Greatest Rule-Breaker in Film Made His Name, 15 Aug 2018 in Film
• How Leonard Cohen Wrote a Love Song, 14 Aug 2018 in Music
• Ken Burns Teaches Documentary Filmmaking with His New Online Masterclass, 13 Aug 2018 in Film&History
• What Made Robin Williams a Uniquely Expressive Actor: A Video Essay Explores a Subtle Dimension of His Comic Genius, 10 Aug 2018 in Comedy&Film
• The “Weird Objects” in the New York Public Library’s Collections: Virginia Woolf’s Cane, Charles Dickens’ Letter Opener, Walt Whitman’s Hair & More, 09 Aug 2018 in History&Literature
• A Visionary 115-Year-Old Color Theory Manual Returns to Print: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Color Problems, 08 Aug 2018 in Art&Books
• Filmmaker Wim Wenders Explains How Mobile Phones Have Killed Photography, 07 Aug 2018 in Film&Photography&Technology
• The Surprising Pattern Behind the Names of Colors Around the World, 06 Aug 2018 in Psychology
• Andrei Tarkovsky Reveals His Favorite Filmmakers: Bresson, Antonioni, Fellini, and Others, 03 Aug 2018 in Film
• Watch the First “Interactive” TV Show: Winky Dink and You Encouraged Kids to Draw on the Screen (1953), 02 Aug 2018 in History&Television
• How Charlie Kaufman Goes Deep into the Human Condition in Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Other Movies, 01 Aug 2018 in Film
• Meet Sergei Parajanov, the Filmmaker Persecuted & Imprisoned by the Soviets, and Championed by Tarkovsky, Fellini, Godard, Buñuel, and Others, 31 Jul 2018 in Film
• Every Cover of MAD Magazine, from 1952 to the Present: Behold 553 Covers from the Satirical Publication, 30 Jul 2018 in Comedy&Magazines
• Who Was Joan Vollmer, the Wife William Burroughs Allegedly Shot While Playing William Tell?, 26 Jul 2018 in History&Literature
• Watch Jean Cocteau’s Short Film About the Elegant House He Painted/“Tattooed” on the French Riviera (1952), 25 Jul 2018 in Art&Film
• The Discipline of D.E.: Gus Van Sant Adapts a Story by William S. Burroughs (1978), 24 Jul 2018 in Film&Literature
• What a Conductor Actually Does on Stage: Two Short Videos Explain the Little-Understood Art, 23 Jul 2018 in Music
• The 10 Rules for Students and Teachers Popularized by John Cage: “Nothing Is a Mistake,” “Consider Everything an Experiment” & More, 20 Jul 2018 in Creativity
• David Foster Wallace Explains How David Lynch’s Blue Velvet Taught Him the True Meaning of Avant Garde Art, 19 Jul 2018 in Film
• Stanley Kubrick’s “Lost” Script Burning Secret Surfaces, Complete Enough to Make into a Film, 18 Jul 2018 in Film&Literature
• Kurt Vonnegut Offers 8 Tips on How to Write Good Short Stories (and Amusingly Graphs the Shapes Those Stories Can Take), 17 Jul 2018 in Literature&Writing
• Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation, 16 Jul 2018 in Film&Television
• How the Radical Buildings of the Bauhaus Revolutionized Architecture: A Short Introduction, 13 Jul 2018 in Architecture&Art&Design&History
• New Web Site Showcases 700,000 Artifacts Dug Up from the Canals of Amsterdam, Some Dating Back to 4300 BC, 12 Jul 2018 in Archives&History
• Frank Lloyd Wright Creates a List of the 10 Traits Every Aspiring Artist Needs, 11 Jul 2018 in Architecture&Art&History
• Steely Dan Creates the Deadhead/Danfan Conversion Chart: A Witty Guide Explaining How You Can Go From Loving the Dead to Idolizing Steely Dan, 10 Jul 2018 in Music
• Stanley Kubrick Explains the Mysterious Ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a Newly Unearthed Interview, 09 Jul 2018 in Film&Sci Fi
• Nick Offerman Explains the Psychological Benefits of Woodworking–and How It Can Help You Achieve Zen in Other Parts of Your Life, 06 Jul 2018 in Art&Comedy
• All the Roman Roads of Italy, Visualized as a Modern Subway Map, 05 Jul 2018 in History&Maps
• An Animated Introduction to Anna Freud: The Psychoanalyst (and Daughter of Sigmund) Who Theorized Denial, Projection & Other Defense Mechanisms for Our Egos, 04 Jul 2018 in Psychology
• The Rise and Fall of The Simpsons: An In-Depth Video Essay Explores What Made the Show Great, and When It All Came to an End, 03 Jul 2018 in Animation&Comedy&Television
• Take a 360° Virtual Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpieces, Taliesin & Taliesin West, 02 Jul 2018 in Architecture&Technology
• Do Our Dreams Predict the Future? Vladimir Nabokov Spent Three Months Testing That Theory in 1964, 29 Jun 2018 in Books&Literature&Psychology
• Glenn Gould Plays Bach on His U.S. TV Debut … After Leonard Bernstein Explains What Makes His Playing So Great (1960), 28 Jun 2018 in Music&Television
• Joseph Heller’s Handwritten Outline for Catch-22, One of the Great Novels of the 20th Century, 27 Jun 2018 in Books&Literature
• James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, 26 Jun 2018 in History&Literature
• Get a First Glimpse of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the “Cursed” Film 29 Years in the Making, 25 Jun 2018 in Film
• A Brief, Visual Introduction to Surrealism: A Primer by Doctor Who Star Peter Capaldi, 22 Jun 2018 in Art&History
• What Makes Taxi Driver So Powerful? An In-Depth Study of Martin Scorsese’s Existential Film on the Human Condition, 21 Jun 2018 in Film
• Carl Sagan Returns to His Old Sixth-Grade Classroom to Turn a New Generation of Kids On To Science, 20 Jun 2018 in Astronomy&Science