About: cjmarshall
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Posts by cjmarshall:
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A Meditative Look at a Japanese Artisan’s Quest to Save the Brilliant, Forgotten Colors of Japan’s Past,
19 Jun 2018 in Art&History
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How Does Language Shape the Way We Think? Cognitive Scientist Lera Boroditsky Explains,
19 Jun 2018 in Neuroscience&TED Talks
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Hear David Lynch Read from His New Memoir Room to Dream, and Browse His New Online T‑Shirt Store,
15 Jun 2018 in Books&Fashion&Film
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Life Lessons from Anthony Bourdain: How He Developed His Iron Professionalism, Achieved Creative Freedom & Learned from Failure,
14 Jun 2018 in Food & Drink&Life
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How to Film Thought: A Close Look at the Masterful Editing of Sherlock, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch,
13 Jun 2018 in Film&Television
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“Back in Black,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “Welcome to the Jungle,” and Other Classic Rock Songs Played on Traditional Japanese Instruments,
12 Jun 2018 in Music
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Watch Anthony Bourdain’s Free Show, Raw Craft Where He Visits Craftsmen Making Guitars, Tattoos, Motorcycles & More (RIP),
11 Jun 2018 in Food & Drink&Travel
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A Deep Study of Terence Malick’s Filmography,
08 Jun 2018 in Film
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“The Directors Series” Presents Free Immersive Studies of Stanley Kubrick, the Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson & Christopher Nolan,
07 Jun 2018 in Film
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Ralph Steadman Creates an Unorthodox Illustrated Biography of Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis (1979),
06 Jun 2018 in Art&Books&History&Psychology
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Winston Churchill’s List of Tips for Surviving a German Invasion: See the Never-Distributed Document (1940),
05 Jun 2018 in History
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The Mother of All Maps of the “Father of Waters”: Behold the 11-Foot Traveler’s Map of the Mississippi River (1866),
04 Jun 2018 in History&Maps
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A Pakistani Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis Play an Enchanting Version of John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things”,
01 Jun 2018 in Music
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Hear Philip Roth Read from Five of His Major Novels: Sabbath’s Theater, The Ghost Writer and More,
31 May 2018 in Books&Literature
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David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called “Rabbits”: It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects,
30 May 2018 in Film&Television
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You Can Now Airbnb the Home of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Where the Author Wrote Tender Is the Night,
29 May 2018 in History&Literature&Travel
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Buckminster Fuller Appears on the Los Angeles New Age Cable TV Shows, Psychic Phenomena and Quest Four (1979–82),
28 May 2018 in Television
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Discover the Lost Early Computer Art of Telidon, Canada’s TV Proto-Internet from the 1970s,
25 May 2018 in Art&Technology
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When Robert Rauschenberg Asked Willem De Kooning for One of His Paintings … So That He Could Erase It,
24 May 2018 in Art
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The Art of Europe’s Forgotten Avant-Garde Artists Now Digitized and Put Online,
23 May 2018 in Archives&Art&History
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Discover David Lynch’s Bizarre & Minimalist Comic Strip, The Angriest Dog in the World (1983–1992),
22 May 2018 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
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The Art of Sci-Fi Book Covers: From the Fantastical 1920s to the Psychedelic 1960s & Beyond,
21 May 2018 in Art&Books&Sci Fi
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How Women Got Dressed in the 14th & 18th Centuries: Watch the Very Painstaking Process Get Cinematically Recreated,
18 May 2018 in Fashion&History
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How the Sounds You Hear in Movies Are Really Made: Discover the Magic of “Foley Artists”,
17 May 2018 in Film&Television
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Hear Tom Wolfe (RIP) Tell Studs Terkel All About Custom-Car Culture, the Subject of His Seminal Piece of New Journalism (1965),
16 May 2018 in Literature
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Groundbreaking Map from 1858 Colorfully Visualizes 6,000 Years of World History,
15 May 2018 in History&Maps
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The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online,
14 May 2018 in Art&History
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Erich Fromm’s Six Rules of Listening: Learn the Keys to Understanding Other People from the Famed Psychologist,
11 May 2018 in Psychology
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How the Mysteries of the Vatican Secret Archives Are Being Revealed by Artificial Intelligence,
10 May 2018 in History&Technology
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You Could Soon Be Able to Text with 2,000 Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs,
09 May 2018 in History&Technology
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The Cutting-Edge Science That Can Turn Everyday Objects, Like a Bag of Chips, Into a Listening Device,
08 May 2018 in Science&Technology
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Europe After the Rain: Watch the Vintage Documentary on the Two Great Art Movements, Dada & Surrealism (1978),
07 May 2018 in Art&Film&History
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How Master Japanese Animator Satoshi Kon Pushed the Boundaries of Making Anime: A Video Essay,
04 May 2018 in Animation&Film
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Enter an Archive of Over 95,000 Aerial Photographs Taken Over Britain from 1919 to 2006,
03 May 2018 in History&Photography
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Studio Ghibli Releases Tantalizing Concept Art for Its New Theme Park, Opening in Japan in 2022,
02 May 2018 in Animation&Film&Travel
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What Is Blockchain? Three Videos Explain the New Technology That Promises to Change Our World,
01 May 2018 in Technology
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Hear the Famously Controversial Concert Where Leonard Bernstein Introduces Glenn Gould & His Idiosyncratic Performance of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto (1962),
30 Apr 2018 in Music
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Hear the Very First Pieces of Ambient Music, Erik Satie’s Furniture Music (Circa 1917),
27 Apr 2018 in Music
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Braille Neue: A New Version of Braille That Can Be Simultaneously Read by the Sighted and the Blind,
26 Apr 2018 in Design
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A Cinematic Journey Through Paris, As Seen Through the Lens of Legendary Filmmaker Éric Rohmer: Watch Rohmer in Paris,
25 Apr 2018 in Film
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Watch Life on the Streets of Tokyo in Footage Recorded in 1913: Caught Between the Traditional and the Modern,
24 Apr 2018 in Film&History
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Watch the Trailer for a Stunning New 70-Millimeter Print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Released by Christopher Nolan on the Film’s 50th Anniversary,
23 Apr 2018 in Film
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Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911,
20 Apr 2018 in Film&History
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Martin Scorsese Teaches His First Online Course on Filmmaking: Features 30 Video Lessons,
19 Apr 2018 in Film&Online Courses
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Dress Like an Intellectual Icon with Japanese Coats Inspired by the Wardrobes of Camus, Sartre, Duchamp, Le Corbusier & Others,
18 Apr 2018 in Design&Fashion
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What Made Studio Ghibli Animator Isao Takahata (RIP) a Master: Two Video Essays,
17 Apr 2018 in Animation&Film
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Malcolm Gladwell Explains Where His Ideas Come From,
16 Apr 2018 in Creativity&Writing
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Watch Ancient Ruins Get Restored to their Glorious Original State with Animated GIFs: The Temple of Jupiter, Luxor Temple & More,
13 Apr 2018 in Architecture&History
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A Map Showing How the Ancient Romans Envisioned the World in 40 AD,
12 Apr 2018 in History&Maps
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The Political Thought of Confucius, Plato, John Locke & Adam Smith Introduced in Animations Narrated by Aidan Turner,
11 Apr 2018 in Philosophy&Politics
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Stephen King Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Novels,
10 Apr 2018 in Books
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Behold 3,000 Digitized Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina: The Mother of All Medieval Libraries Is Getting Reconstructed Online,
09 Apr 2018 in Books&History
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Gustave Flaubert Tells His Mother Why Serious Writers Shouldn’t Bother with Day Jobs (1850),
06 Apr 2018 in Letters&Life&Writing
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Enter “The Magazine Rack,” the Internet Archive’s Collection of 34,000 Digitized Magazines,
05 Apr 2018 in Magazines
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Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958),
04 Apr 2018 in Politics&Technology&Television
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Hidden Ancient Greek Medical Text Read for the First Time in a Thousand Years — with a Particle Accelerator,
03 Apr 2018 in Books&History&Physics&Stanford&Technology
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Brian Eno’s Advice for Those Who Want to Do Their Best Creative Work: Don’t Get a Job,
02 Apr 2018 in Art&Economics&Music
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Japanese Designer Creates Incredibly Detailed & Realistic Maps of a City That Doesn’t Exist,
30 Mar 2018 in Maps
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Martin Scorsese Creates a List of 38 Essential Films About American Democracy,
29 Mar 2018 in Film&History&Politics
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Read and Hear Tristan Tzara’s “Dada Manifesto,” the Avant-Garde Document Published 100 Years Ago (March 23, 1918),
28 Mar 2018 in Art&History
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The Museum of Failure: A Living Shrine to New Coke, the Ford Edsel, Google Glass & Other Epic Corporate Fails,
27 Mar 2018 in Business&Design
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What Happened When Stephen Hawking Threw a Cocktail Party for Time Travelers (2009),
26 Mar 2018 in Physics&Science
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Spike Lee Teaching an Online Course on Independent Filmmaking: The Course Is Now Officially Live,
23 Mar 2018 in Film&Online Courses
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Infographics Show How the Different Fields of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Fit Together,
22 Mar 2018 in Biology&Chemistry&Computer Science&Math&Physics
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The Story of How David Jones Became David Bowie Gets Told in a New Graphic Novel,
21 Mar 2018 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
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Play a Collection of Classic Handheld Video Games at the Internet Archive: Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Tron and MC Hammer,
20 Mar 2018 in Technology&Video Games
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A Huge Scale Model Showing Ancient Rome at Its Architectural Peak (Built Between 1933 and 1937),
19 Mar 2018 in History
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H.P. Lovecraft Writes “Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance,” a Devastating Parody of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (1923),
15 Mar 2018 in Literature&Poetry
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An Archive of 20,000 Movie Posters from Czechoslovakia (1930–1989),
14 Mar 2018 in Art&Film
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Buckminster Fuller’s Collaboration with The North Face Culminates with a New Geodesic Dome Tent, the Geodome 4,
13 Mar 2018 in Architecture&Design
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Watch Ta-Nehisi Coates Speak French Before & After Attending Middlebury’s Immersion Program,
12 Mar 2018 in Language Lessons
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Google Launches Three New Artificial Intelligence Experiments That Could Be Godsends for Artists, Museums & Designers,
09 Mar 2018 in Art&Photography&Technology
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An Impressive Audio Archive of John Cage Lectures & Interviews: Hear Recordings from 1963–1991,
08 Mar 2018 in Music&Philosophy&Radio
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How Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts Were Made: A Step-by-Step Look at this Beautiful, Centuries-Old Craft,
07 Mar 2018 in Books&History
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The Case for Writing in Coffee Shops: Why Malcolm Gladwell Does It, and You Should Too,
06 Mar 2018 in Food & Drink&Writing
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Mozart’s Diary Where He Composed His Final Masterpieces Is Now Digitized and Available Online,
05 Mar 2018 in History&Music
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David Sedaris Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Jazz Tracks: Stream Them Online,
02 Mar 2018 in Jazz&Music&Radio
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Get Free Drawing Lessons from Katsushika Hokusai, Who Famously Painted The Great Wave of Kanagawa: Read His How-To Book, Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings,
01 Mar 2018 in Art&Books
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Malcolm Gladwell Teaching His First Online Course: A Master Class on How to Turn Big Ideas into Powerful Stories,
28 Feb 2018 in Online Courses&Writing
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A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905–2007),
27 Feb 2018 in Random
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Hear Rick Wakeman’s Musical Adaptation of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, “One of Prog Rock’s Crowning Achievements”,
27 Feb 2018 in Literature&Music
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A Demonstration of Perfect Samurai Swordsmanship,
26 Feb 2018 in History
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Google Digitizes and Puts Online a Vast Archive of Latino Artworks and Artifacts,
22 Feb 2018 in Art&History
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Watch 3000 Years of Art, a 1968 Experimental Film That Takes You on a Visual Journey Through 3,000 Years of Fine Art,
21 Feb 2018 in Art&Film&Music
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An Animated Introduction to the Existentialist Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre… and How It Can Open Our Eyes to Life’s Possibilities,
20 Feb 2018 in Philosophy
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The Brian Eno Discography: Stream 29 Hours of Recordings by the Master of Ambient Music,
19 Feb 2018 in Music
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Joan Didion Creates a Handwritten List of the 19 Books That Changed Her Life,
16 Feb 2018 in Books&Literature
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The Science of Well-Being: Take a Free Online Version of Yale University’s Most Popular Course,
15 Feb 2018 in Online Courses&Psychology
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How to Get Over the Anxiety of Public Speaking?: Watch the Stanford Video, “Think Fast, Talk Smart,” Viewed Already 15 Million Times,
14 Feb 2018 in How to Learn for Free&Stanford
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Watch Edith+Eddie, an Intense, Oscar-Nominated Short Film About America’s Oldest Interracial Newlyweds,
13 Feb 2018 in Film
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Artist Re-Envisions National Parks in the Style of Tolkien’s Middle Earth Maps,
12 Feb 2018 in Literature&Maps
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An Animated Introduction to Epicurus and His Answer to the Ancient Question: What Makes Us Happy?,
09 Feb 2018 in Life&Philosophy
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“The Couch to 80k” Writing Boot Camp: Take a Free 8‑Week Podcast Course to Start Writing Fiction, or Even Finish a Novel,
08 Feb 2018 in Podcasts&Writing
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How the Brilliant Colors of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made with Alchemy,
07 Feb 2018 in Art&Books&Chemistry&History
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NASA Puts 400+ Historic Experimental Flight Videos on YouTube,
06 Feb 2018 in History&Science&Technology
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A Map Shows What Happens When Our World Gets Four Degrees Warmer: The Colorado River Dries Up, Antarctica Urbanizes, Polynesia Vanishes,
05 Feb 2018 in Environment&Maps&Science
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Behold the Beautiful Pages from a Medieval Monk’s Sketchbook: A Window Into How Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made (1494),
02 Feb 2018 in Art&Books&History
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Discover the Japanese Museum Dedicated to Collecting Rocks That Look Like Human Faces,
01 Feb 2018 in Museums&Nature
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Wim Wenders Explains How Polaroid Photos Ignite His Creative Process and Help Him Capture a Deeper Kind of Truth,
31 Jan 2018 in Film&Photography
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Boston Public Library Launches a Crowdsourced Project to Transcribe 40,000 Documents from Its Anti-Slavery Collection: You Can Now Help,
30 Jan 2018 in History&Libraries
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Carl Sagan’s Syllabus & Final Exam for His Course on Critical Thinking (Cornell, 1986),
29 Jan 2018 in Education&Science
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When Japan’s Top Animators Made a Thrilling Cyberpunk Commercial for Irish Beer: Watch Last Orders (1997),
26 Jan 2018 in Animation&Television
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Read the Shortest Academic Article Ever Written: “The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of ‘Writer’s Block’ ”,
25 Jan 2018 in Psychology&Writing
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Artificial Intelligence Writes a Piece in the Style of Bach: Can You Tell the Difference Between JS Bach and AI Bach?,
24 Jan 2018 in Music&Technology
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The Largest Early Map of the World Gets Assembled for the First Time: See the Huge, Detailed & Fantastical World Map from 1587,
23 Jan 2018 in History&Maps
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A YouTube Channel Completely Devoted to Medieval Sacred Music: Hear Gregorian Chant, Byzantine Chant & More,
22 Jan 2018 in Music&Religion
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Ian McKellen Chokes Up While Reading a Poignant Coming-Out Letter,
19 Jan 2018 in History&Letters&Literature&Uncategorized
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Coursera and Google Launch an Online Certificate Program to Help Students Become IT Professionals & Get Attractive Jobs,
18 Jan 2018 in Online Courses&Technology
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What is the Secret to Living a Long, Happy & Creatively Fulfilling Life?: Discover the Japanese Concept of Ikigai,
17 Jan 2018 in Life&Philosophy
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David Byrne Launches the “Reasons to Be Cheerful” Web Site: A Compendium of News Meant to Remind Us That the World Isn’t Actually Falling Apart,
16 Jan 2018 in Current Affairs&Politics
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Omoshiroi Blocks: Japanese Memo Pads Reveal Intricate Buildings As The Pages Get Used,
15 Jan 2018 in Design&Technology
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Stream Big Playlists of Music from Haruki Murakami’s Personal Vinyl Collection and His Strange Literary Worlds,
12 Jan 2018 in Books&Literature&Music
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The History of the World in One Video: Every Year from 200,000 BCE to Today,
11 Jan 2018 in Animation&History&Maps
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Notations: John Cage Publishes a Book of Graphic Musical Scores, Featuring Visualizations of Works by Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, The Beatles & More (1969),
10 Jan 2018 in Books&Music
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Watch Gyorgy Ligeti’s Electronic Masterpiece Artikulation Get Brought to Life by Rainer Wehinger’s Brilliant Visual Score,
09 Jan 2018 in Art&Music
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A Map Shows What Every Country in the World Calls Itself in its Own Language: Explore the “Endonyms of the World” Map,
08 Jan 2018 in Maps
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Hear Glenn Gould Channel Marshall McLuhan and Create an Experimental Radio Documentary Analyzing the Pop Music of Petula Clark (1967),
05 Jan 2018 in Music&Radio
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The Story of How Beethoven Helped Make It So That CDs Could Play 74 Minutes of Music,
04 Jan 2018 in Music&Technology
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What Actually Is Bitcoin?: Princeton’s Free Online Course “Bitcoin and Currency Technologies” Provides Much-Needed Answers,
03 Jan 2018 in Computer Science&Economics&Online Courses&Technology
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5,000+ Photographs by Minor White, One of the 20th Century’s Most Important Photographers, Now Digitized and Available Online,
02 Jan 2018 in Photography
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The David Bowie Book Club Gets Launched by His Son: Read One of Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books Every Month,
01 Jan 2018 in Books
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Listen to Glenn Gould’s Shockingly Experimental Radio Documentary, The Idea of North (1967),
30 Dec 2017 in Radio
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Invisible Cities Illustrated: Artist Illustrates Each and Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel,
28 Dec 2017 in Art&Books
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The Improbable Time When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982),
27 Dec 2017 in Comedy&Television
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Mark Twain on Why “Travel is Fatal to Prejudice, Bigotry and Narrow-Mindedness, and Many of Our People Need It Sorely on These Accounts” (1869),
26 Dec 2017 in Books&Travel
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Watch Santa Claus, the Earliest Movie About Santa in Existence (1898),
25 Dec 2017 in Film&History
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Hear the Christmas Carols Made by Alan Turing’s Computer: Cutting-Edge Versions of “Jingle Bells” and “Good King Wenceslas” (1951),
22 Dec 2017 in History&Music&Radio&Technology
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“Inemuri,” the Japanese Art of Taking Power Naps at Work, on the Subway, and Other Public Places,
21 Dec 2017 in Health
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The 1883 Krakatoa Explosion Made the Loudest Sound in History–So Loud It Traveled Around the World Four Times,
20 Dec 2017 in History&Nature
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How to Draw in the Style of Japanese Manga: A Series of Free & Wildly Popular Video Tutorials from Artist Mark Crilley,
19 Dec 2017 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&How to Learn for Free
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The Doodles in Leonardo da Vinci’s Manuscripts Contain His Groundbreaking Theories on the Laws of Friction, Scientists Discover,
18 Dec 2017 in History&Physics
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Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography in Her First Online Course,
15 Dec 2017 in Online Courses&Photography
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The Tree of Modern Art: Elegant Drawing Visualizes the Development of Modern Art from Delacroix to Dalí (1940),
14 Dec 2017 in Art&History&Magazines
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New Iranian Video Game, Engare, Explores the Elegant Geometry of Islamic Art,
13 Dec 2017 in Art&Video Games
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Stream 74 Sun Ra Albums Free Online: Decades of “Space Jazz” and Other Forms of Intergalactic, Afrofuturistic Musical Creativity,
12 Dec 2017 in Music
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The Map of Biology: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Biology Fit Together,
11 Dec 2017 in Biology
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The “True Size” Maps Shows You the Real Size of Every Country (and Will Change Your Mental Picture of the World),
08 Dec 2017 in Maps
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“Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better”: How Samuel Beckett Created the Unlikely Mantra That Inspires Entrepreneurs Today,
07 Dec 2017 in Life&Literature
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How Scientology Works: A Primer Based on a Reading of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Film, The Master,
06 Dec 2017 in Film&Psychology&Religion
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A Salute to Every Frame a Painting: Watch All 28 Episodes of the Finely-Crafted (and Now Concluded) Video Essay Series on Cinema,
05 Dec 2017 in Film