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• The Famous Schrodinger’s Cat Thought Experiment Gets Brought to Life in an Off-Kilter Animation, 24 Mar 2017 in Animation&Physics
• Hitler Was ‘Blitzed’ On Cocaine & Opiates During World War II: Hear a Wide-Ranging Interview with Best-Selling Author Norman Ohler, 23 Mar 2017 in History
• Introduction to Philosophy: A Free Online Course, 23 Mar 2017 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” Provides a Soundtrack for the Final Scene of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 22 Mar 2017 in Film&Music
• NASA’s New Online Archive Puts a Wealth of Free Science Articles Online, 21 Mar 2017 in Science
• Download Animals and Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights (Free), 20 Mar 2017 in Books&Philosophy
• An Animated Introduction to McCarthyism: What Is It? And How Did It Happen?, 20 Mar 2017 in History
• Chuck Berry (RIP) Reviews Punk Songs by The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Talking Heads & More (1980), 18 Mar 2017 in Music
• Tears for Fears Sings “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” with Musician Who Created Divine Dulcimer Version of Their Song, 17 Mar 2017 in Music
• David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Theme Song Gets the Seinfeld Treatment, 17 Mar 2017 in Music&Television
• What Did the Voice of Neanderthals, Our Distant Cousins, Sound Like?: Scientists Demonstrate Their “High Pitch” Theory, 16 Mar 2017 in History
• Steve Reich is Calling: A Minimalist Ringtone for the iPhone, 15 Mar 2017 in Apple&Music
• Rock Band: Hear The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” Played with Electromechanical Instruments That Make Music with Rocks, 15 Mar 2017 in Music&Technology
• Sesame Street’s Count Von Count counts Pi to 10,000 Places: A 5 Hour Recording for Pi Day, 14 Mar 2017 in Math
• NASA Puts Its Software Online & Makes It Free to Download, 14 Mar 2017 in Software
• Tony Conrad’s 200-Hour Avant-Garde Piano Composition, “Music & the Mind of the World”: Now Free Online for the First Time, 13 Mar 2017 in Music
• Alfred Hitchcock Reveals The Secret Sauce for Creating Suspense, 10 Mar 2017 in Film
• Free Audio: Hear Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Margaret Atwood & Authors, 09 Mar 2017 in Audio Books&Literature
• Alfred Hitchcock Meditates on Suspense & Dark Humor in a New Animated Video, 08 Mar 2017 in Animation&Film
• Free Download: The Book Lover’s Guide to Coffee, 07 Mar 2017 in Food & Drink&Literature
• Enchanting Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955: The End of a 500-Year Tradition, 07 Mar 2017 in Maps
• 42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor Who Will Help You Relax & Sleep, 03 Mar 2017 in Film&Random
• 10 Hours of Ambient Arctic Sounds Will Help You Relax, Meditate, Study & Sleep, 01 Mar 2017 in Random
• For Sale: The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein’s Creative Mind, 28 Feb 2017 in K-12&Physics
• Stanford University Launches Free Course on Developing Apps with iOS 10, 27 Feb 2017 in Apple&Software&Stanford
• W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem “When You Are Old” Gets Adapted Into a Beautiful Short Film, 27 Feb 2017 in Film&Poetry
• Watch the Dutch Paint “the Largest Mondrian Painting in the World”, 26 Feb 2017 in Art
• Marcel Proust Plays Air Guitar on a Tennis Racket (1891), 24 Feb 2017 in Literature&Random
• Watch Earth, a Landmark of Soviet Cinema (1930), 24 Feb 2017 in Film
• Watch Leonard Bernstein Conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Using Only His Eyebrows, 23 Feb 2017 in Music&Random
• Beer Archaeology: Yes, It’s a Thing, 22 Feb 2017 in Food & Drink
• Bach’s Most Famous Organ Piece Played on Wine Glasses, 21 Feb 2017 in Music
• Listen to Presidential, The Washington Post’s Podcast Exploring Each & Every U.S. President, 20 Feb 2017 in History&Podcasts
• A Hypnotic Look at How Tennis Balls Are Made, 20 Feb 2017 in Sports
• Pasta for War: The Award-Winning Animation That Satirizes 1930s Propaganda Films & Features Marching Rigatoni, 17 Feb 2017 in Animation
• The First Known Footage of Marcel Proust Discovered: Watch It Online, 16 Feb 2017 in Literature
• Duet for French Horn and Chair, 15 Feb 2017 in Music&Random
• Meet Jane Little: The Musician Who Played with the Same Orchestra for 71 Straight Years, a World Record, 15 Feb 2017 in Life&Music
• 5,000-Year-Old Chinese Beer Recipe Gets Recreated by Stanford Students, 14 Feb 2017 in Food & Drink
• A Short Anti-LSD Horror Film Made by the Lockheed Corporation (1969), 10 Feb 2017 in Random
• Watch Tears In the Rain: A Blade Runner Short Film–A New, Unofficial Prequel to the Ridley Scott Film, 09 Feb 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• Introduction to Political Philosophy: A Free Yale Course, 08 Feb 2017 in Online Courses&Philosophy&Politics
• Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: The Met, New York Public Library, Smithsonian & More, 07 Feb 2017 in Art&Coloring Books
• The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together, 06 Feb 2017 in Math
• 1950s Batman Cartoon Tells Kids: “Don’t Believe Those Crackpot Lies About People Who Worship Differently”, 05 Feb 2017 in Comics/Cartoons
• Stream Marc Maron’s Excellent, Long Interview with The Band’s Robbie Robertson, 02 Feb 2017 in Music
• Hear an Hour of the Jazzy Background Music from the Original 1967 Spider-Man Cartoon, 02 Feb 2017 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
• 1,000 Musicians Play Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Live, at the Same Time, 30 Jan 2017 in Music
• Pakistani Immigrant Goes to a Led Zeppelin Concert, Gets Inspired to Become a Musician & Then Sells 30 Million Albums, 30 Jan 2017 in Life&Music
• “Calling Bullshit”: See the Syllabus for a College Course Designed to Identify & Combat Bullshit, 27 Jan 2017 in Current Affairs&Science
• A Free Online Course on Dante’s Divine Comedy from Yale University, 26 Jan 2017 in Literature&Online Courses
• 81-Year-Old Man Walks into a Guitar Shop & Starts Playing a Sublime Solo: Ignore the Talents of the Elderly at Your Own Peril, 25 Jan 2017 in Life&Music
• George Orwell’s 1984 Is Now the #1 Bestselling Book on Amazon, 24 Jan 2017 in Film
• Watch Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future: Free for a Limited Time, 24 Jan 2017 in Architecture
• Musician Lugs a Cello Up a Mountain, Then Plays Bach at 10,000 Feet, at the “Top of the World”, 23 Jan 2017 in Music
• Watch Mr. Rogers Persuade Congress to Stop Cutting PBS Budget in 1969, 20 Jan 2017 in Education&Television
• Download & Print Free Shepard Fairey Protest Posters, 19 Jan 2017 in Art&Politics
• Watch The Danish Poet, the Oscar-Winning Animated Film Narrated by Ingmar Bergman’s Muse Liv Ullmann, 18 Jan 2017 in Animation
• The Grateful Dead Pays Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” in a 1982 Concert: Hear “Raven Space”, 17 Jan 2017 in Music
• Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi–Walt Disney’s 1943 Film Shows How Fascists Are Made, 16 Jan 2017 in Animation&History
• The Triumphant Night When a Teacher Saved His Students from a Motorcycle Gang: A True, Hand-Animated Story, 12 Jan 2017 in Animation&Education
• The American Novel Since 1945: A Free Yale Course on Novels by Nabokov, Kerouac, Morrison, Pynchon & More, 11 Jan 2017 in Literature&Online Courses&Yale
• The Corkscrew: The 700-Pound Mechanical Sculpture That Opens a Wine Bottle & Pours the Wine, 10 Jan 2017 in Art&Food & Drink&Technology
• Stream David Bowie’s New EP No Plan and Hear His Final Four Recordings, 08 Jan 2017 in Music
• Trainwreck: The Teach to One Math Experiment in Mountain View, CA Is a Cautionary Tale About the Perils of Digital Math Education, 06 Jan 2017 in Business&Math&Online Courses
• Download 243 Free eBooks on Design, Data, Software, Web Development & Business from O’Reilly Media, 05 Jan 2017 in Business&Data&e-books&Software&Television
• A Unified Theory of Mental Illness: How Everything from Addiction to Depression Can Be Explained by the Concept of “Capture”, 04 Jan 2017 in Psychology
• The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”, 03 Jan 2017 in English Language
• 205 Big Thinkers Answer the Question, “What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known?”, 02 Jan 2017 in Science
• The Science of Willpower: 15 Tips for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Last from Dr. Kelly McGonigal, 30 Dec 2016 in Psychology
• 25 Animations of Great Literary Works: From Plato, Dostoevsky & Dickinson, to Kafka, Hemingway & Bradbury, 29 Dec 2016 in Animation&Literature
• Download 20 Free eBooks on Design from O’Reilly Media, 29 Dec 2016 in Business&e-books
• Roman Architecture: A Free Online Course from Yale University, 29 Dec 2016 in Architecture&Online Courses&Yale
• Watch a Young Carrie Fisher (RIP) Audition for Star Wars (1975), 27 Dec 2016 in Film
• Watch the First Surf Movie Ever Made: A 1906 Thomas Edison Film Shot in Hawaii, 27 Dec 2016 in History&Life&Sports
• Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner: A Free Yale Course, 26 Dec 2016 in Literature&Online Courses&Yale
• Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader with Free eBooks, Audio Books, Online Courses & More, 25 Dec 2016 in Uncategorized
• The Employment: A Prize-Winning Animation About Why We’re So Disenchanted with Work Today, 24 Dec 2016 in Animation&Business
• Radio Garden Lets You Instantly Tune into Radio Stations Across the Entire Globe, 22 Dec 2016 in Radio
• David Bowie Sends a Christmas Greeting in the Voice of Elvis Presley, 21 Dec 2016 in Music
• Introduction to Ancient Greek History: A Free Online Course from Yale, 20 Dec 2016 in History&Online Courses&Yale
• Learn Python: A Free Online Course from Google, 19 Dec 2016 in Google&Online Courses&Technology
• Introduction to Psychology: A Free Course from Yale University, 18 Dec 2016 in Online Courses&Psychology
• Bill Gates Lists His Favorite Books of 2016, 16 Dec 2016 in Books
• “Every Country in the World”–Two Videos Tell You Curious Facts About 190+ Countries, 15 Dec 2016 in Random
• A Lccokrkow Garneo: All 245,000 Frames of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange Randomized., 14 Dec 2016 in Film&Random
• Woody: A Prize-Winning Short Animation About a Wooden Man’s Dream of Becoming a Concert Pianist, 13 Dec 2016 in Animation
• Italian Pianist Ludovico Einaudi Plays a Grand Piano While Floating in the Middle of the Arctic Ocean, 12 Dec 2016 in Environment&Music
• Patti Smith Sings Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rains Gonna Fall” at Nobel Prize Ceremony & Gets a Case of the Nerves, 10 Dec 2016 in Music
• Noam Chomsky & Harry Belafonte Speak on Stage for the First Time Together: Talk Trump, Klan & Having a Rebellious Heart, 09 Dec 2016 in Current Affairs&Life
• Infinity Minus Infinity Equals Pi: This Video Proves It, 08 Dec 2016 in Math
• Bruce Springsteen Narrates Audiobook Version of His New Memoir (and How to Download It for Free), 06 Dec 2016 in Audio Books&Music
• The Science of Why We Laugh, 06 Dec 2016 in Biology&Comedy
• What’s the Fastest Way to Alphabetize Your Bookshelf?, 05 Dec 2016 in Books
• Man Ray Designs a Supremely Elegant, Geometric Chess Set in 1920–and It Now Gets Re-Issued, 02 Dec 2016 in Art&Games
• When Ursula K. Le Guin & Philip K. Dick Went to High School Together, 01 Dec 2016 in Literature&Random
• The Psychology That Leads People to Vote for Extremists & Autocrats: The Theory of Cognitive Closure, 30 Nov 2016 in Politics&Psychology
• Performance Artist Marina Abramović Describes Her “Really Good Plan” to Lose Her Virginity, 29 Nov 2016 in Art&Life
• Great 19 Century Poems Read in French: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine & More, 27 Nov 2016 in Audio Books&Poetry
• 1905 Fairground Organ Plays Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and It Works Like a Charm, 25 Nov 2016 in Music
• Alice’s Restaurant: An Illustrated Version of Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic, 24 Nov 2016 in Music
• How Can You Tell a Good Drummer from a Bad Drummer?: Ringo Starr as Case Study, 23 Nov 2016 in Music
• Download Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man as a Free Audiobook (Available for a Limited Time), 22 Nov 2016 in Audio Books&Literature
• Hieronymus Bosch’s Medieval Painting, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” Comes to Life in a Gigantic, Modern Animation, 21 Nov 2016 in Art
• We’re Gonna Build a Fourth Wall, and Make the Brechtians Pay for It, 20 Nov 2016 in Current Affairs&Theatre&Twitter
• Five Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy: A Free AudioBook, 20 Nov 2016 in Audio Books&Literature
• Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Lovely Sung in Yiddish: A Tribute, 18 Nov 2016 in Music
• The Cast of Hamilton Sends a Strong Message to Mike Pence (After the Crowd Jeers Him), 18 Nov 2016 in Current Affairs&Politics&Theatre
• Watch Soundbreaking, PBS’ 8‑Part Documentary Exploring the History of Recorded Music (Free for a Limited Time), 18 Nov 2016 in Music
• How Superman Defeated the KKK (in Real Life): Hear the World-Changing 1946 Radio Drama, 16 Nov 2016 in Comics/Cartoons&History&Life
• Free: Watch 92 Episodes of the Surrealist Cartoon, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Featuring Björk, Thom Yorke & More, 15 Nov 2016 in Comics/Cartoons&Television
• Watch Dave Chappelle’s Saturday Night Live Monologue: “We’ve Elected an Internet Troll as Our President”, 13 Nov 2016 in Comedy&Current Affairs&Life
• David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” Performed Live by The Biggest Rock Band on Earth (1,000 Musicians in Total), 13 Nov 2016 in Life
• Bruce Springsteen Plays 3 Classic Songs & Makes the Case for Hillary at Rally Last Night, 08 Nov 2016 in Music
• Stephen King’s The Shining Is Now an Opera: Hear a Recording of the Entire Production (for a Limited Time), 08 Nov 2016 in Music
• What Character Traits Do Geniuses Share in Common?: From Isaac Newton to Richard Feynman, 04 Nov 2016 in Science
• 215 Hours of Free Foreign Language Lessons on Spotify: French, Chinese, German, Russian & More, 03 Nov 2016 in Language Lessons
• Hear Vincent Price, Horror Film Legend, Read 8+ Hours of Scary Stories, 31 Oct 2016 in Audio Books
• Hear Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage (1967), 28 Oct 2016 in Audio Books&Media
• The 20 CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and Placed on Prototype iPods (2001), 27 Oct 2016 in Music&Technology
• Green Day Fan Joins Band On Stage, Takes Over on Guitar, and Acts Like He’s Been There Many Times Before, 27 Oct 2016 in Music
• Wabi-Sabi: A Short Film on the Beauty of Traditional Japan, 26 Oct 2016 in Art
• “Alexander Hamilton” Performed with American Sign Language, 25 Oct 2016 in Theatre
• Watch 52,000 Books Getting Reshelved at The New York Public Library in a Short, Timelapse Film, 24 Oct 2016 in Books
• Sean Penn Narrates Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: Download It for Free, 23 Oct 2016 in Audio Books
• Leonard Cohen Has Passed at Age 82: His New and Now Final Album Is Streaming Free Online, 21 Oct 2016 in Music
• How Movie Studios Rejected Scripts During the Silent-Film Era: A Cold, 17-Point Checklist Circa 1915, 20 Oct 2016 in Film
• The Entire History of Japan in 9 Quirky Minutes, 19 Oct 2016 in History
• Watch Online Every Presidential Debate Since 1960–and Revisit America’s Saner Political Days, 17 Oct 2016 in History&Politics&Television
• The History of Europe: 5,000 Years Animated in a Timelapse Map, 14 Oct 2016 in History&Maps
• How to Break Open a Big Wheel of Parmesan Cheese: A Delightful, 15-Minute Primer, 13 Oct 2016 in Food & Drink
• Free Audio Book: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Read by British Actor Hayward Morse, 12 Oct 2016 in Audio Books&Literature
• How to Raise Creative Children Who Can Change the World: 3 Lessons from Wharton Professor Adam Grant, 11 Oct 2016 in Creativity&K-12
• Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: The 2016 Edition, 09 Oct 2016 in Computer Science&Online Courses
• Great Courses Plus Now Offers a 30-Day Free Trial: 7,000 Video Lectures Covering Philosophy, Photography & More, 06 Oct 2016 in Online Courses
• The New York Public Library Lets Patrons Download 300,000 eBooks, 06 Oct 2016 in e-books
• What Life Was Like for Teenagers in Ancient Rome: Get a Glimpse from a TED-ED Animation, 06 Oct 2016 in History
• Hear Sylvia Plath’s Barely-Known Radio Play, Three Women, 05 Oct 2016 in Literature&Poetry&Theatre
• The Rise & Fall of the Romans: Every Year Shown in a Timelapse Map Animation (753 BC ‑1479 AD), 04 Oct 2016 in History&Maps
• Hear a Playlist of the 336 Songs Mentioned in Bruce Springsteen’s New Memoir, Born to Run, 30 Sep 2016 in Books&Music