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• 1200 Years of Women Composers: A Free 78-Hour Music Playlist That Takes You From Medieval Times to Now, 12 Oct 2015 in Music
• Arthur Conan Doyle Names His 19 Favorite Sherlock Holmes Stories, 09 Oct 2015 in Literature
• Inmates in New York Prison Defeat Harvard’s Debate Team: A Look Inside the Bard Prison Initiative, 08 Oct 2015 in Education
• The Great Leonard Nimoy Reads H.G. Wells’ Seminal Sci-Fi Novel The War of the Worlds, 07 Oct 2015 in Audio Books&Sci Fi
• Discover the Cinematic & Comedic Genius of Charlie Chaplin with 60+ Free Movies Online, 06 Oct 2015 in Comedy&Film
• What “Orwellian” Really Means: An Animated Lesson About the Use & Abuse of the Term, 05 Oct 2015 in English Language&Literature
• Akira Kurosawa Painted the Storyboards For Scenes in His Epic Films: Compare Canvas to Celluloid, 02 Oct 2015 in Art&Film
• Hear 150 Tracks Highlighting Brian Eno’s Career as a Musician, Composer & Producer & Stream His 2015 John Peel Lecture, 01 Oct 2015 in Art&Music&Radio
• Aubrey Beardsley’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories (1894), 30 Sep 2015 in Art&Literature
• “A Glorious Hour”: Helen Keller Describes The Ecstasy of Feeling Beethoven’s Ninth Played on the Radio (1924), 29 Sep 2015 in Music
• “Bleu, Blanc, Rouge”: a Striking Supercut of the Vivid Colors in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960s Films, 28 Sep 2015 in Film
• The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Podcast, Now at 370 Episodes, Expands into Eastern Philosophy, 25 Sep 2015 in Philosophy&Podcasts
• When Brian Eno & Other Artists Peed in Marcel Duchamp’s Famous Urinal, 24 Sep 2015 in Art
• James Baldwin’s One & Only, Delightfully-Illustrated Children’s Book, Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976), 23 Sep 2015 in Art&Books&K-12
• David Bowie Sings in a Wonderful M.C. Escher-Inspired Set in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, 22 Sep 2015 in Film
• The 2,000+ Films Watched by Presidents Nixon, Carter & Reagan in the White House, 21 Sep 2015 in Film&History
• A Film Festival of Kick Ass Kung Fu/Martial Arts Films in the Public Domain, 18 Sep 2015 in Film
• Radical French Philosophy Meets Kung-Fu Cinema in Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973), 17 Sep 2015 in Film&Philosophy
• 48 Animated Videos Explain the History of Ideas: From Aristotle to Sartre, 16 Sep 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Watch 1915 Video of Monet, Renoir, Rodin & Degas: The New Motion Picture Camera Captures the Innovative Artists, 15 Sep 2015 in Art
• Support “Where Is the City of the Future?”: A Journey Across the Pacific Rim Using a Brand New Model of Journalism, 15 Sep 2015 in Architecture&Current Affairs&Travel
• Hear Blade Runner, Terminator, Videodrome & Other 70s, 80s & 90s Movies as Novelized AudioBooks, 14 Sep 2015 in Books&Film
• A Wealth of Free Documentaries on All Things Japanese: From Bento Boxes to Tea Gardens, Ramen & Bullet Trains, 11 Sep 2015 in Television&Travel
• How Did David Fincher Become the Kubrick of Our Time? A New, 3.5 Hour Series of Video Essays Explains, 10 Sep 2015 in Film
• Classics Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Narrated by James Mason in a 1953 Oscar-Nominated Animation & 1958 Decca Album, 09 Sep 2015 in Animation&Audio Books&Literature
• Maurice Sendak Sent Beautifully Illustrated Letters to Fans — So Beautiful a Kid Ate One, 08 Sep 2015 in Art&Letters
• Jack Kerouac’s Poetry & Prose Read/Performed by 20 Icons: Hunter S. Thompson, Patti Smith, William S. Burroughs, Johnny Depp & More, 07 Sep 2015 in Music&Poetry
• The First Animated Feature Film: The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger (1926), 04 Sep 2015 in Animation&Film
• Hayao Miyazaki’s Masterpieces Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke Imagined as 8‑Bit Video Games, 03 Sep 2015 in Animation&Film&Video Games
• 30 Minutes of Harry Potter Sung in an Avant-Garde Fashion by UbuWeb’s Kenneth Goldsmith, 02 Sep 2015 in Books&Music
• The Groundbreaking Silhouette Animations of Lotte Reiniger: Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and More, 01 Sep 2015 in Animation
• 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures Free Online: The Power of Myth & Storytelling, 31 Aug 2015 in History&Photography
• Take a 360° Virtual Tour of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Personal Home & Studio, 28 Aug 2015 in Architecture&Astronomy
• The 1982 DC Comics Style Guide Is Online: A Blueprint for Superman, Batman & Your Other Favorite Superheroes, 27 Aug 2015 in Comics/Cartoons
• Hear Kurt Vonnegut Read Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle & Other Novels, 26 Aug 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• Who Was Afraid of Ray Bradbury & Science Fiction? The FBI, It Turns Out (1959), 25 Aug 2015 in History&Sci Fi
• A Wonderfully Illustrated 1925 Japanese Edition of Aesop’s Fables by Legendary Children’s Book Illustrator Takeo Takei, 24 Aug 2015 in Art&Books
• The New York Times Makes 17,000 Tasty Recipes Available Online: Japanese, Italian, Thai & Much More, 23 Aug 2015 in Food & Drink
• James Baldwin Debates Malcolm X (1963) and William F. Buckley (1965): Vintage Video & Audio, 20 Aug 2015 in History&Politics
• How Can I Know Anything at All? BBC Animations Feature the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Hume, Popper & More, 19 Aug 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• H.P. Lovecraft’s Monster Drawings: Cthulhu & Other Creatures from the “Boundless and Hideous Unknown”, 18 Aug 2015 in Art&Literature
• Watch Vincent, Tim Burton’s Animated Tribute to Vincent Price & Edgar Allan Poe (1982), 17 Aug 2015 in Animation&Film
• “Auteur in Space”: A Video Essay on How Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris Transcends Science Fiction, 14 Aug 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• Learn to Speak 48 Languages for Free: Everything from Arabic to Indonesian to Yiddish on One Page, 12 Aug 2015 in Language Lessons
• The Theory of Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein & Sigmund Freud Sung by Kenneth Goldsmith, 11 Aug 2015 in Music&Philosophy
• Read Arthur C. Clarke’s Super Short, 31-Word Sci-Fi Story, “siseneG”, 10 Aug 2015 in Sci Fi
• Watch Nina Paley’s “Embroidermation,” a New, Stunningly Labor-Intensive Form of Animation, 07 Aug 2015 in Animation
• Read Pablo Picasso’s Poetry: Modernist Meditations on Making Art, World War, Dogs & More, 06 Aug 2015 in Art&Poetry
• Iggy Pop Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s Classic Horror Story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, 05 Aug 2015 in Literature&Music
• What is Love? BBC Philosophy Animations Feature Sartre, Freud, Aristophanes, Dawkins & More, 04 Aug 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Watch the Never-Aired Pilot for Clerks, the Sitcom Based on Kevin Smith’s 1994 Film, 03 Aug 2015 in Film&Television
• What Beatboxing and Opera Singing Look Like Inside an MRI Machine, 31 Jul 2015 in Music&Science
• Orson Welles Reads From Moby-Dick: The Great American Director Takes on the Great American Novel, 30 Jul 2015 in Film&Literature
• Free: Hours of Jack Kerouac Reading Beat Poems & Verse, 29 Jul 2015 in Music&Poetry
• The 5 Best Noir Films in the Public Domain: From Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street to Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker, 28 Jul 2015 in Film
• Hear All of Mozart in a Free 127-Hour Playlist, 27 Jul 2015 in Music
• Björk Presents Groundbreaking Experimental Musicians in Modern Minimalists, a 1997 Documentary, 25 Jul 2015 in Music&Television
• Jean-Paul Sartre Reviews Orson Welles’ Masterwork (1945): “Citizen Kane Is Not Cinema”, 23 Jul 2015 in Film&Photography
• Listen to 188 Dramatized Science Fiction Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard & More, 22 Jul 2015 in Radio&Sci Fi
• How to Take Photographs Like Ansel Adams: The Master Explains The Art of “Visualization”, 21 Jul 2015 in Photography
• Lewis Carroll’s Classic Story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Told in Sand Animation, 20 Jul 2015 in Animation&Literature
• Experimental Post-Punk Band Xiu Xiu Plays the Music from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, 17 Jul 2015 in Music&Television
• Free: Download Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Short Course, The Inexplicable Universe, in Audio or Video Format, 16 Jul 2015 in Astronomy&Physics&Science
• Andrei Tarkovsky Calls Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey a “Phony” Film “With Only Pretensions to Truth”, 15 Jul 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• 93 Films Stanley Kubrick Really Liked, 14 Jul 2015 in Film
• Vintage 1930s Japanese Posters Artistically Market the Wonders of Travel, 13 Jul 2015 in Art&Travel
• The 321 Books in David Foster Wallace’s Personal Library: From Blood Meridian to Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, 10 Jul 2015 in Books
• Download & Play The Shining Board Game, 09 Jul 2015 in Books
• Pico Iyer on “the Art of Stillness”: How to Enrich Your Busy, Distracted Life by Unplugging and Staying Put, 08 Jul 2015 in Life&TED Talks&Travel
• Blade Runner’s Miniature Props Revealed in 142 Behind-the-Scenes Photos, 07 Jul 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• An Animated Introduction to Michel Foucault, “Philosopher of Power”, 06 Jul 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• William Gibson’s Seminal Cyberpunk Novel, Neuromancer, Dramatized for Radio (2002), 03 Jul 2015 in Radio&Sci Fi
• An 18-Hour Playlist of Readings by the Beats: Kerouac, Ginsberg & Even Bukowski Too, 02 Jul 2015 in Poetry
• Venice in Beautiful Color Images 125 Years Ago: The Rialto Bridge, St. Mark’s Basilica, Doge’s Palace & More, 01 Jul 2015 in History&Photography
• George Orwell Blasts American Fashion Magazines (1946), 30 Jun 2015 in English Language&Magazines
• Dr. Seuss’ World War II Propaganda Films: Your Job in Germany (1945) and Our Job in Japan (1946), 29 Jun 2015 in Film&History
• Fritz Lang Invents the Video Phone in Metropolis (1927), 26 Jun 2015 in Film&Sci Fi&Technology
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Conjugates “to Cocktail,” the Ultimate Jazz-Age Verb (1928), 25 Jun 2015 in English Language&Food & Drink
• Take a Visual Walking Tour of Franz Kafka’s Prague with Will Self (Then Read His Digital Essay, “Kafka’s Wound”), 24 Jun 2015 in Literature&Travel
• Doctoral Dissertation as a Graphic Novel: Read a Free Excerpt of Nick Sousanis’ Unflattening, 23 Jun 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Education
• Did Stanley Kubrick Invent the iPad in 2001: A Space Odyssey?, 22 Jun 2015 in Film&Sci Fi&Technology
• Watch Hayao Miyazaki Animate the Final Shot of His Final Feature Film, The Wind Rises, 19 Jun 2015 in Animation&Film
• Free: Read 9 Travel Books Online by Monty Python’s Michael Palin, 18 Jun 2015 in Television&Travel
• Ralph Steadman’s Warped Illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on the Story’s 150th Anniversary, 17 Jun 2015 in Art&Literature
• Blade Runner Recut with the Sci-Fi Masterpiece’s Unused Original Footage, 16 Jun 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• Isaac Asimov’s Favorite Story “The Last Question” Read by Leonard Nimoy, 15 Jun 2015 in Audio Books&Sci Fi
• Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and From “The Fall of the House of Usher”, 12 Jun 2015 in Film&Literature
• Hear Friedrich Nietzsche’s Classical Piano Compositions: They’re Aphoristic Like His Philosophy, 11 Jun 2015 in Music&Philosophy
• Jim Jarmusch’s 10 Favorite Films: Ozu’s Tokyo Story, Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Other Black & White Classics, 10 Jun 2015 in Film
• The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic, 09 Jun 2015 in Art&Language Lessons
• Watch Lucian Freud’s Very Last Day of Painting (2011), 08 Jun 2015 in Art
• Eugène Delacroix Illustrates Goethe’s Faust, “One of the Very Greatest of All Illustrated Books”, 05 Jun 2015 in Art&Literature
• New Jorge Luis Borges-Inspired Project Will Test Whether Robots Can Appreciate Poetry, 04 Jun 2015 in Poetry&Technology
• Watch 1920s “City Symphonies” Starring the Great Cities of the World: From New York to Berlin to São Paulo, 03 Jun 2015 in Film
• David Bowie Launches His Acting Career in the Avant-Garde Play Pierrot in Turquoise (1967), 02 Jun 2015 in Music&Theatre
• Download the Complete Organ Works of J.S. Bach for Free, 01 Jun 2015 in Music
• Virginia Woolf’s Haunting Suicide Note Read by Actress Louise Brealey, 29 May 2015 in Letters
• Patti Smith’s Polaroids of Artifacts from Virginia Woolf, Arthur Rimbaud, Roberto Bolaño & More, 28 May 2015 in Art&Literature&Photography
• Hear Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley Lecture “The Power of Words”, 27 May 2015 in Music&UC Berkeley
• Rare Video: Georges Bataille Talks About Literature & Evil in His Only TV Interview (1958), 26 May 2015 in Literature&Philosophy&Television
• Mœbius Illustrates Paulo Coelho’s Inspirational Novel The Alchemist (1998), 25 May 2015 in Art&Books
• Astronaut Reads The Divine Comedy on the International Space Station on Dante’s 750th Birthday, 22 May 2015 in Poetry
• The Music of Avant-Garde Composer John Cage Now Available in a Free Online Archive, 21 May 2015 in Music
• Watch Sherlock Hound: Hayao Miyazaki’s Animated, Steampunk Take on Sherlock Holmes, 20 May 2015 in Animation&Television
• William S. Burroughs — Alternative Rock Star — Sings with Kurt Cobain, Tom Waits, REM & More, 19 May 2015 in Music
• The 10 Favorite Films of Avant-Garde Surrealist Filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Including His Own Collaboration with Salvador Dalí), 18 May 2015 in Film
• Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Read Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, 15 May 2015 in Literature&Radio
• Chris Burden (R.I.P.) Turns Late-Night TV Commercials Into Conceptual Art, 14 May 2015 in Art&Television
• Hear Samuel Beckett’s Avant-Garde Radio Plays: All That Fall, Embers, and More, 13 May 2015 in Radio&Theatre
• Nietzsche, Wittgenstein & Sartre Explained with Monty Python-Style Animations by The School of Life, 12 May 2015 in Philosophy
• New Web Site, “The Opera Platform,” Lets You Watch La Traviata and Other First-Class Operas Free Online, 11 May 2015 in Music&Opera
• Hear Thomas Edison’s Creepy Talking Dolls: An Invention That Scared Kids & Flopped on the Market, 08 May 2015 in History&Technology
• David Byrne’s Unusual Forms of Visual Art: Bike Racks, Corporate Signs & Powerpoint Presentations, 07 May 2015 in Art
• Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Short, Strange & Brutal Stint as an Elementary School Teacher, 06 May 2015 in Education&History&Philosophy
• The Animated Dostoevsky: Two Finely Crafted Short Films Bring the Russian Novelist’s Work to Life, 05 May 2015 in Animation&Literature
• How to Live a Good Life? Watch Philosophy Animations Narrated by Stephen Fry on Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Max Weber & More, 04 May 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Hear the “Seikilos Epitaph,” the Oldest Complete Song in the World: An Inspiring Tune from 100 BC, 01 May 2015 in History&Music
• John Green’s Crash Course in U.S. History: From Colonialism to Obama in 47 Videos, 30 Apr 2015 in History
• 110 Drawings and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien: Of Middle-Earth and Beyond, 29 Apr 2015 in Art&Literature
• Fritz Lang Tells the Riveting Story of the Day He Met Joseph Goebbels and Then High-Tailed It Out of Germany, 28 Apr 2015 in Film&History
• Visit The Online Library of Babel: New Web Site Turns Borges’ “Library of Babel” Into a Virtual Reality, 27 Apr 2015 in Literature&Technology
• Martin Scorsese Introduces Filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, “The Woody Allen of Korea”, 24 Apr 2015 in Film
• David Ogilvy’s 1982 Memo “How to Write” Offers 10 Pieces of Timeless Advice, 23 Apr 2015 in Writing
• What is the Self? Watch Philosophy Animations Narrated by Stephen Fry on Sartre, Descartes & More, 22 Apr 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Hear Orson Welles Read Edgar Allan Poe on a Cult Classic Album by The Alan Parsons Project, 21 Apr 2015 in Literature&Music
• Discover Haruki Murakami’s Advertorial Short Stories: Rare Short-Short Fiction from the 1980s, 20 Apr 2015 in Literature
• The Making of Star Wars As Told by C‑3PO & R2-D2: The First-Ever Documentary on the Film (1977), 18 Apr 2015 in Film&Sci Fi
• Enter the Church of the SubGenius, the Parody Religion Backed by R. Crumb, David Byrne & Other Alt-Icons, 16 Apr 2015 in Comedy&Religion
• Hear Ursula K. Le Guin’s Pioneering Sci-Fi Novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, as a BBC Radio Play, 16 Apr 2015 in Radio&Sci Fi
• Disney’s 12 Timeless Principles of Animation Demonstrated in 12 Animated Primers, 15 Apr 2015 in Animation
• The Modernist Gas Stations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, 14 Apr 2015 in Architecture
• Watch the Only Known Footage of Anne Frank, 10 Apr 2015 in History
• Charles Darwin Creates a Handwritten List of Arguments for and Against Marriage (1838), 09 Apr 2015 in History&Life
• Notebook on Cities and Culture’s Yearlong Podcast Exploration of Seattle Is Kickstarting Now, 08 Apr 2015 in Podcasts&Travel
• Langston Hughes Reveals the Rhythms in Art & Life in a Wonderful Illustrated Book for Kids (1954), 08 Apr 2015 in Books&Music&Poetry
• Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 361,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces by Rembrandt Included!, 07 Apr 2015 in Art
• Discover the Life & Work of Stanley Kubrick in a Sweeping Three-Hour Video Essay, 06 Apr 2015 in Film
• Jack Kerouac Was a Secret, Obsessive Fan of Fantasy Baseball, 03 Apr 2015 in Literature&Sports
• All of Bach Is Putting Videos of 1,080 Bach Performances Online: Watch the First 53 Recordings and the St. Matthew Passion, 02 Apr 2015 in Music
• Guernica: Alain Resnais’ Haunting Film on Picasso’s Painting & the Crimes of the Spanish Civil War, 01 Apr 2015 in Art&Film