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• Twin Peaks Essentials to Get You Ready for the Debut of Season 3: A 55-Minute Refresher, Maps, Commercials & Behind-the-Scenes Footage & More, 19 May 2017 in Television
• Guillermo del Toro Creates a List of His 20 Favorite Art House/Criterion Films, 18 May 2017 in Film
• Huge Hands Rise Out of Venice’s Waters to Support the City Threatened by Climate Change: A Poignant New Sculpture, 17 May 2017 in Art&Science
• Edward Gorey Illustrates H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds in His Inimitable Gothic Style (1960), 16 May 2017 in Art&Literature&Sci Fi
• Hear the 10 Best Albums of the 1960s as Selected by Hunter S. Thompson, 15 May 2017 in Music
• Japanese Computer Artist Makes “Digital Mondrians” in 1964: When Giant Mainframe Computers Were First Used to Create Art, 12 May 2017 in Art&Technology
• How Filmmakers Tell Their Stories: Three Insightful Video Essays Demystify the Craft of Editing, Composition & Color, 11 May 2017 in Film
• How Good Are Your Headphones? This 150-Song Playlist, Featuring Steely Dan, Pink Floyd & More, Will Test Them Out, 10 May 2017 in Music
• How Hunter S. Thompson Gave Birth to Gonzo Journalism: Short Film Revisits Thompson’s Seminal 1970 Piece on the Kentucky Derby, 09 May 2017 in Film&Writing
• 30 Hours of Doctor Who Audio Dramas Now Free to Stream Online, 08 May 2017 in Radio&Sci Fi
• “Play Without Bitching About the Key,” and Other Humorous, Blunt Annotations Added to Musical Scores, 05 May 2017 in Music
• Watch “A Family Tree,” Jonathan Demme’s 1980s Sitcom Episode with David Byrne & Rosanna Arquette, 04 May 2017 in Film&Television
• A Three-Minute Introduction to Buckminster Fuller, One of the 20th Century’s Most Productive Design Visionaries, 03 May 2017 in Design&Technology
• A Hypnotic Look at How Japanese Samurai Swords Are Made, 02 May 2017 in History
• The Career of Paul Thomas Anderson: A 5‑Part Video Essay on the Auteur of Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, and More, 01 May 2017 in Film
• Metamorfosis: Franz Kafka’s Best-Known Short Story Gets Adapted Into a Tim Burtonesque Spanish Short Film, 28 Apr 2017 in Film&Literature
• How Jonathan Demme Put Humanity Into His Films: From The Silence of the Lambs to Stop Making Sense, 27 Apr 2017 in Film
• Download 200+ Free Modern Art Books from the Guggenheim Museum, 26 Apr 2017 in Art&Books&Internet Archive
• Watch Teeny Tiny Japanese Meals Get Made in a Miniature Kitchen: The Joy of Cooking Mini Tempura, Sashimi, Curry, Okonomiyaki & More, 25 Apr 2017 in Food & Drink
• What Makes a Coen Brothers Movie a Coen Brothers Movie? Find Out in a 4‑Hour Video Essay of Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men & More, 24 Apr 2017 in Film
• Hear Four Hours of Music in Jim Jarmusch’s Films: Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins & More, 21 Apr 2017 in Film&Music
• Salvador Dalí Figurines Let You Bring the Artist’s Surreal Paintings Into Your Home, 20 Apr 2017 in Art
• Watch the First Chinese Animated Feature Film, Princess Iron Fan, Made Under the Strains of WWII (1941), 19 Apr 2017 in Animation&Film
• The Coffee Revolt of 1674: When Women Campaigned to Prohibit “That Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor Called COFFEE”, 18 Apr 2017 in Food & Drink&History
• Take a 16-Week Crash Course on the History of Movies: From the First Moving Pictures to the Rise of Multiplexes & Netflix, 17 Apr 2017 in Film&History
• Discover the “Lost” Final Scene of The Shining, Which Kubrick Personally Had Recalled and Destroyed, 14 Apr 2017 in Film
• How Quentin Tarantino Creates Suspense in His Favorite Scene, the Tension-Filled Opening Moments of Inglourious Basterds, 13 Apr 2017 in Film&Writing
• Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?: A 2‑Hour Debate with Neil Degrasse Tyson, David Chalmers, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark & More, 12 Apr 2017 in Philosophy&Science
• 138 Short Animated Introductions to the World’s Greatest Ideas: Plato, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir & More, 11 Apr 2017 in Animation&Education&History&Philosophy&Politics
• Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Very First Film, La Cravate, Based on a Novella by Thomas Mann (1957), 10 Apr 2017 in Film&Literature
• Watch Marcel Marceau Mime The Mask Maker, a Story Created for Him by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1959), 07 Apr 2017 in Dance&Film
• Steve Martin Teaches His First Online Course on Comedy, 06 Apr 2017 in Comedy&Education
• Graphic Designer Redesigns a Movie Poster Every Day, for One Year: Scarface, Mulholland Dr., The Graduate, Vertigo, The Life Aquatic and 360 More, 05 Apr 2017 in Art&Film
• Stream 72 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner: Relax, Go to Sleep in a Dystopian Future, 04 Apr 2017 in Film&Games&Sci Fi
• Richard Feynman’s “Notebook Technique” Will Help You Learn Any Subject–at School, at Work, or in Life, 03 Apr 2017 in Education&Productivity&Science
• The Philosophy of The Matrix: From Plato and Descartes, to Eastern Philosophy, 31 Mar 2017 in Film&Philosophy
• The Origins of Anime: Watch Free Online 64 Animations That Launched the Japanese Anime Tradition, 30 Mar 2017 in Animation&Film
• The Philosophy, Storytelling & Visual Creativity of Ghost in the Shell, the Acclaimed Anime Film, Explained in Video Essays, 29 Mar 2017 in Animation&Film
• Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf, 28 Mar 2017 in Art
• 200-Year-Old Robots That Play Music, Shoot Arrows & Even Write Poems: Watch Automatons in Action, 27 Mar 2017 in History&Technology
• Stream Loads of “City Pop,” the Electronic-Disco-Funk Music That Provided the Soundtrack for Japan During the Roaring 1980s, 24 Mar 2017 in Music
• How Orson Welles’ F for Fake Teaches Us How to Make the Perfect Video Essay, 23 Mar 2017 in Film
• Every Page of Depero Futurista, the 1927 Futurist Masterpiece of Graphic Design & Bookmaking, Is Now Online, 22 Mar 2017 in Books&Design
• How to Tell a Good Story, as Explained by George Saunders, Ira Glass, Ken Burns, Scott Simon, Catherine Burns & Others, 21 Mar 2017 in Radio&Writing
• Watch 70 Movies in HD from Famed Russian Studio Mosfilm: Classic Films, Beloved Comedies, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa & More, 20 Mar 2017 in Film
• Marshall McLuhan in Two Minutes: A Brief Animated Introduction to the 1960s Media Theorist Who Predicted Our Present, 17 Mar 2017 in Technology
• How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Illuminates the Central Problem of Modernity, 16 Mar 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• How Filmmakers Like Kubrick, Jodorowsky, Tarantino, Coppola & Miyazaki Use Color to Tell Their Stories, 15 Mar 2017 in Film
• See Japanese Musicians Play “Amazing Grace” with 273 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls–Then Learn How They Perform Their Magic, 14 Mar 2017 in Music&Technology
• How 1940s Film Star Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent the Technology Behind Wi-Fi & Bluetooth During WWII, 13 Mar 2017 in Film&History&Technology
• Memoranda: Haruki Murakami’s World Recreated as a Classic Adventure Video Game, 10 Mar 2017 in Literature&Video Games
• Akira Kurosawa’s Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death Finally in Production, Coming in 2020, 09 Mar 2017 in Film&Literature
• Leonard Bernstein Introduces 7‑Year-Old Yo-Yo Ma: Watch the Youngster Perform for John F. Kennedy (1962), 08 Mar 2017 in Music
• All of the Music from Martin Scorsese’s Movies: Listen to a 326-Track, 20-Hour Playlist, 07 Mar 2017 in Film&Music
• Talking Heads Featured on The South Bank Show in 1979: How the Groundbreaking New Wave Band Made Normality Strange Again, 06 Mar 2017 in Music&Television
• Stream 8,000 Vintage Afropop Recordings Digitized & Made Available by The British Library, 03 Mar 2017 in Music
• Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will Wasn’t a Cinematic Masterpiece; It Was a Staggeringly Effective Piece of Propaganda, 03 Mar 2017 in Film&History
• Watch Umberto Eco Walk Through His Immense Private Library: It Goes On, and On, and On!, 02 Mar 2017 in Books
• What Is Apocalypse Now Really About? An Hour-Long Video Analysis of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam Masterpiece, 01 Mar 2017 in Film
• Arthur C. Clarke Creates a List of His 12 Favorite Science-Fiction Movies (1984), 28 Feb 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• Petite Planète: Discover Chris Marker’s Influential 1950s Travel Photobook Series, 27 Feb 2017 in Books&Photography&Travel
• Kurt Vonnegut Gives a Sermon on the Foolishness of Nuclear Arms: It’s Timely Again (Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1982), 27 Feb 2017 in History&Politics&Technology&Theatre
• A Free Short Course on How Pixar Uses Physics to Make Its Effects, 24 Feb 2017 in Animation&Film&Technology
• Bertrand Russell Writes an Artful Letter, Stating His Refusal to Debate British Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley (1962), 23 Feb 2017 in History&Letters
• “Stop It and Just DO”: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Advice on Overcoming Creative Blocks, Written by Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse (1965), 22 Feb 2017 in Art&Creativity&Letters
• Slavoj Žižek Expounds on His Hatred of Teaching, Grading Papers, and Particularly Holding Office Hours, 21 Feb 2017 in Education
• Rarely Seen, Very Early Godard Film Surfaces on YouTube, 20 Feb 2017 in Film
• Japanese Priest Tries to Revive Buddhism by Bringing Techno Music into the Temple: Attend a Psychedelic 23-Minute Service, 17 Feb 2017 in Music&Religion
• Hayao Miyazaki Meets Akira Kurosawa: Watch the Titans of Japanese Film in Conversation (1993), 16 Feb 2017 in Animation&Film&Television
• How Machiavelli Really Thought We Should Use Power: Two Animated Videos Provide an Introduction, 15 Feb 2017 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• Martin Scorsese on How “Diversity Guarantees Our Cultural Survival,” in Film and Everything Else, 14 Feb 2017 in Film&Life
• The Velvet Underground’s John Cale Plays Erik Satie’s Vexations on I’ve Got a Secret (1963), 13 Feb 2017 in Music&Television
• Abstract: Netflix’s New Documentary Series About “the Art of Design” Premieres Today, 10 Feb 2017 in Design&Television
• Hunter S. Thompson Gets in a Gunfight with His Neighbor & Dispenses Political Wisdom: “In a Democracy, You Have to Be a Player”, 09 Feb 2017 in Life&Politics
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes 375,000 Images of Fine Art Available Under a Creative Commons License: Download, Use & Remix, 08 Feb 2017 in Art
• David Foster Wallace on What’s Wrong with Postmodernism: A Video Essay, 07 Feb 2017 in Current Affairs&Television
• Discover the 1126 Books in John Cage’s Personal Library: Foucault, Joyce, Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Buckminster Fuller & More, 06 Feb 2017 in Books&Literature&Music&Philosophy
• Kraftwerk Plays a Live 40-Minute Version of their Signature Song “Autobahn:” A Soundtrack for a Long Road Trip (1974), 03 Feb 2017 in Music
• The Filmmaking of Martin Scorsese Demystified in 6 Video Essays, 02 Feb 2017 in Film
• John Cage Had a Surprising Mushroom Obsession (Which Began with His Poverty in the Depression), 01 Feb 2017 in Food & Drink&Music
• Watch “Geometry of Circles,” the Abstract Sesame Street Animation Scored by Philip Glass (1979), 31 Jan 2017 in Animation&Music&Television
• Henry David Thoreau on When Civil Disobedience Against Bad Governments Is Justified: An Animated Introduction, 30 Jan 2017 in History&Politics
• Meet Theda Bara, the First “Vamp” of Cinema, Who Revealed the Erotic Power of the Movies, 27 Jan 2017 in Film&History
• Why Time Seems to Speed Up as We Get Older: What the Research Says, 26 Jan 2017 in Psychology
• Hear Jeremy Irons Read the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (Available for a Limited Time), 25 Jan 2017 in Poetry&Radio
• Hear Kurt Vonnegut Visit the Afterlife & Interview Dead Historical Figures: Isaac Newton, Adolf Hitler, Eugene Debs & More (Audio, 1998), 24 Jan 2017 in History&Radio
• Before Siri & Alexa: Hear the First Attempt to Use a Synthesizer to Recreate the Human Voice (1939), 23 Jan 2017 in Technology
• 12 Million Declassified CIA Documents Now Free Online: Secret Tunnels, UFOs, Psychic Experiments & More, 20 Jan 2017 in History
• Learn What Old Norse Sounded Like, with UC Berkeley’s “Cowboy Professor, Dr. Jackson Crawford, 19 Jan 2017 in History&Language Lessons
• An Animated Introduction to Theodor Adorno & His Critique of Modern Capitalism, 18 Jan 2017 in Philosophy
• David Lynch Explains How Meditation Boosts Our Creativity (Plus Free Resources to Help You Start Meditating), 17 Jan 2017 in Creativity&Film&Health
• Learn Digital Photography with Harvard University’s Free Online Course, 16 Jan 2017 in Online Courses&Photography
• How the World’s Oldest Computer Worked: Reconstructing the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, 13 Jan 2017 in Astronomy&History&Technology
• Mesmerizing GIFs Illustrate the Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery — All Done Without Screws, Nails, or Glue, 12 Jan 2017 in Animation&Architecture&Art
• How the French New Wave Changed Cinema: A Video Introduction to the Films of Godard, Truffaut & Their Fellow Rule-Breakers, 11 Jan 2017 in Film
• Hear a 9,000 Year Old Flute—the World’s Oldest Playable Instrument—Get Played Again, 10 Jan 2017 in History&Music
• An Animated Introduction to the Feminist Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, 09 Jan 2017 in Animation&Gender&Philosophy
• Famed Art Critic Robert Hughes Hosts the Premiere of 20/20, Where Tabloid TV News Began (1978), 06 Jan 2017 in Television
• Franz Kafka’s Existential Parable “Before the Law” Gets Brought to Life in a Striking, Modern Animation, 05 Jan 2017 in Animation&Literature
• Philographics Presents a Visual Dictionary of Philosophy: 95 Philosophical Concepts as Graphic Designs, 04 Jan 2017 in Design&Philosophy
• John Berger (RIP) and Susan Sontag Take Us Inside the Art of Storytelling (1983), 03 Jan 2017 in Literature&Television
• Stream Brian Eno’s “Magnificently Peaceful” New Album Reflection: A Thoughtful Way to Start 2017, 02 Jan 2017 in Music
• Google Lets You Take a 360-Degree Panoramic Tour of Street Art in Cities Across the World, 30 Dec 2016 in Art
• Tuileries: The Coen Brothers’ Short Film About Steve Buscemi’s Very Bad Day in the Paris Metro, 29 Dec 2016 in Film
• Watch Japanese Woodworking Masters Create Elegant & Elaborate Geometric Patterns with Wood, 28 Dec 2016 in Art
• Stephen King Explains the Key to His Creativity: Not Losing the Dream-State Thinking All Children Are Born With, 27 Dec 2016 in Psychology&Writing
• Edward Hopper’s Iconic Painting Nighthawks Explained in a 7‑Minute Video Introduction, 26 Dec 2016 in Art&History
• How the Films of Hayao Miyazaki Work Their Animated Magic, Explained in 4 Video Essays, 23 Dec 2016 in Animation
• Watch a 2‑Year-Old Solve Philosophy’s Famous Ethical “Trolley Problem” (It Doesn’t End Well), 22 Dec 2016 in Philosophy
• Hear “Twas The Night Before Christmas” Read by Stephen Fry & John Cleese, 21 Dec 2016 in Audio Books&Poetry
• M.C. Escher Cover Art for Great Books by Italo Calvino, George Orwell & Jorge Luis Borges, 20 Dec 2016 in Art&Books
• Acclaimed Japanese Jazz Pianist Yōsuke Yamashita Plays a Burning Piano on the Beach, 19 Dec 2016 in Jazz&Music
• Neil Gaiman Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”: One Master of Dramatic Storytelling Reads Another, 16 Dec 2016 in Literature&Poetry
• The Late Alan Thicke Hosts a Twin Peaks Behind-the-Scenes Special (1990), 15 Dec 2016 in Television
• The Surreal Filmmaking of David Lynch Explained in 9 Video Essays, 14 Dec 2016 in Film
• Ansel Adams, Photographer: 1958 Documentary Captures the Creative Process of the Iconic American Photographer, 13 Dec 2016 in Film&Photography
• Discover Lincos, the Language a Dutch Mathematician Invented Just to Talk to Extraterrestrials (1960), 12 Dec 2016 in Astronomy&Language Lessons
• Organization Guru Marie Kondo’s Tips for Dealing with Your Massive Piles of Unread Books (or What They Call in Japan “Tsundoku”), 09 Dec 2016 in Books&Life
• A Complete Reading of George Orwell’s 1984: Aired on Pacifica Radio, 1975, 08 Dec 2016 in Audio Books&Literature&Radio
• 500+William S. Burroughs Book Covers from Across the Globe: 1950s Through the 2010s, 07 Dec 2016 in Art&Books&Literature
• An Introduction to Jean-Luc Godard’s Innovative Filmmaking Through Five Video Essays, 06 Dec 2016 in Film
• Why Making Accurate World Maps Is Mathematically Impossible, 05 Dec 2016 in History&Maps
• Blade Runner Gets Re-Created, Shot for Shot, Using Only Microsoft Paint, 02 Dec 2016 in Art&Film&Sci Fi
• Man Ray Creates a “Surrealist Chessboard,” Featuring Portraits of Surrealist Icons: Dalí, Breton, Picasso, Magritte, Miró & Others (1934), 01 Dec 2016 in Art&Photography
• All of Wes Anderson’s Cinematic Commercials: Watch His Spots for Prada, American Express, H&M & More, 30 Nov 2016 in Film
• Watch Come Together, Wes Anderson’s New Short Film/Commercial Starring Adrien Brody, 29 Nov 2016 in Film
• An Animated Introduction to George Orwell, 28 Nov 2016 in History&Literature
• J.M. Coetzee on the Pleasures of Writing: Total Engagement, Hard Thought & Productiveness, 24 Nov 2016 in Books&Literature&Writing
• Hear a 9‑Hour Tribute to John Peel: A Collection of His Best “Peel Sessions”, 24 Nov 2016 in Music
• How to Know if Your Country Is Heading Toward Despotism: An Educational Film from 1946, 23 Nov 2016 in History&Politics&Yale
• Three Pink Floyd Songs Played on the Traditional Korean Gayageum: “Comfortably Numb,” “Another Brick in the Wall” & “Great Gig in the Sky”, 22 Nov 2016 in Music
• The 10 Favorite Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 21 Nov 2016 in Film
• Franz Kafka Story Gets Adapted into an Award-Winning Australian Short Film: Watch Two Men, 18 Nov 2016 in Film&Literature
• Zen Master Alan Watts Explains What Made Carl Jung Such an Influential Thinker, 17 Nov 2016 in Philosophy&Psychology
• Thomas Edison’s Hugely Ambitious “To-Do” List from 1888, 16 Nov 2016 in History&Technology
• An Animated, Monty Python-Style Introduction to the Søren Kierkegaard, the First Existentialist, 15 Nov 2016 in Philosophy
• Carl Sagan’s Ambitious College Reading List: Plato, Shakespeare, Gide, and Plenty of Philosophy, Math & Physics (1954), 14 Nov 2016 in Books&Science
• Watch Moebius and Miyazaki, Two of the Most Imaginative Artists, in Conversation (2004), 11 Nov 2016 in Animation&Art&Film
• When Franz Kafka Invented the Answering Machine (1913), 10 Nov 2016 in History&Literature&Technology
• Is The Big Lebowski a Great Noir Film? A New Way to Look at the Coen Brothers’ Iconic Movie, 09 Nov 2016 in Film