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• Prof. Brian Cox Has a Maddening Conversation with a Climate Science-Denying Politician, 22 Aug 2016 in Current Affairs&Environment&Science
• Free: Hear Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Read by Hans Conried (1958), 21 Aug 2016 in Audio Books&Literature
• What Do Movies Say When They Say Nothing at All: A Video Essay, 18 Aug 2016 in Film
• Hear Marc Maron’s Long Talk with Werner Herzog, 17 Aug 2016 in Film&Technology
• The 5 Books on President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List, 16 Aug 2016 in Books
• The History of Civilization Mapped in 13 Minutes: 5000 BC to 2014 AD, 15 Aug 2016 in History&Maps
• A Free POTUS Summer Playlist: Pres. Obama Curates 39 Songs for a Summer Day, 12 Aug 2016 in Music
• Learn Ancient Greek in 64 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard, 11 Aug 2016 in Language Lessons
• Free: National Geographic Lets You Download Thousands of Maps from the United States Geological Survey, 10 Aug 2016 in Maps
• Werner Herzog Tells a Book Club Why The Peregrine Is One of His Favorite Books, a 20th-Century Masterpiece, 09 Aug 2016 in Books&Film
• The Philosophy of Bruce Lee Gets Explored in a New Podcast, 08 Aug 2016 in Philosophy
• Book Readers Live Longer Lives, According to New Study from Yale University, 04 Aug 2016 in Books&Health
• The Last Bookstore: A Short Documentary on Perseverance & the Love of Books, 03 Aug 2016 in Books&Life
• Stream Iggy Pop’s Two-Hour Radio Tribute to David Bowie, 02 Aug 2016 in Music
• Get a Free Pocket Edition of the U.S. Constitution (Now #2 on the Amazon Bestseller List), 02 Aug 2016 in Books&Current Affairs
• Watch Carl Sagan’s “A Glorious Dawn” Become the First Vinyl Record Played in Space, Courtesy of Jack White, 01 Aug 2016 in Music&Science&Technology
• Test Your Literary Mettle: Take a 50 Question Quiz from The Strand Bookstore, 27 Jul 2016 in Books&Literature
• Replica of an Algerian City, Made of Couscous: Now on Display at The Guggenheim, 26 Jul 2016 in Art&Food & Drink
• Hear Maggie Gyllenhaal Read the Opening Lines of Anna Karenina: The Beginning of a 36-Hour, New Audio Book, 24 Jul 2016 in Books
• If Coffee Commercials Told the Unvarnished Truth, 22 Jul 2016 in Comedy&Food & Drink
• The Beatles “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Gets a Dreamy New Music Video from Cirque du Soleil, 21 Jul 2016 in Music
• Why Economics is for Everyone!, Explained in a New RSA Animated Video, 20 Jul 2016 in Animation&Economics
• Enroll in a Free Online Course about ‘The Hobbits’ (aka Homo floresiensis), 19 Jul 2016 in History&Online Courses
• Browse & Stream Jeff Buckley’s Entire Record Collection on a New Interactive Web Site, 19 Jul 2016 in Music
• How to Start a Start-Up: A Free Online Course from Y Combinator Taught at Stanford, 18 Jul 2016 in Business&How to Learn for Free&Online Courses&Stanford&Technology
• Fashionable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well, 17 Jul 2016 in Fashion&History
• How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?: A Short Free Course, 17 Jul 2016 in History
• The Entire Discipline of Philosophy Visualized with Mapping Software: See All of the Complex Networks, 14 Jul 2016 in Maps&Philosophy
• New Web Comic Revisits the Artists & Writers at the Bloody ’68 Convention: Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs & More, 13 Jul 2016 in Comics/Cartoons&History&Politics
• A Young Nora Ephron Gets Animated About Breasts, Feminism, Journalism & New Possibilities (1975), 12 Jul 2016 in Life
• The Source Code for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Mission Is Now Free on Github, 11 Jul 2016 in Technology
• Hunter S. Thompson Gets Confronted by The Hell’s Angels: Where’s Our Two Kegs of Beer? (1967), 11 Jul 2016 in Literature
• An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast, 09 Jul 2016 in Food & Drink
• Animated: Frank Zappa on Why the Culturally-Bereft United States Is So Susceptible to Fads (1971), 07 Jul 2016 in Music
• What’s the Essence of Music & Sound?: Meditations from Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad Presented in a Short, Creative Film, 06 Jul 2016 in Music
• Amazon to Launch Amazon Inspire, a Platform Offering Free Educational Resources for K‑12 Teachers, 05 Jul 2016 in K-12
• Rufus Wainwright and 1,500 Singers Sing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, 04 Jul 2016 in Music
• The Fight to Liberate the “Happy Birthday” Song, Told in a Short Documentary, 01 Jul 2016 in Law&Music
• Physics & Caffeine: Stop Motion Film Uses a Cup of Coffee to Explain Key Concepts in Physics, 30 Jun 2016 in Food & Drink&Physics
• President Warren G. Harding’s Steamy Love Letters, 29 Jun 2016 in Letters
• Hear Young Bob Dylan, Before Releasing His First Album, Tell Amazing Tales About Growing Up in a Carnival, 28 Jun 2016 in Music
• Brexit 101: The UK’s Stunning Vote Explained in 4 Minutes, 23 Jun 2016 in Current Affairs&Politics
• 1930s Fashion Designers Predict How People Would Dress in the Year 2000, 23 Jun 2016 in Fashion&History&Technology
• Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” and “Self Portrait” Painted on Dark Water, Using a Traditional Turkish Art Form, 22 Jun 2016 in Art
• A Handy Guide on How to Download Old Coursera Courses Before They Disappear, 17 Jun 2016 in Online Courses
• The Best Drone Cinema in the World, 17 Jun 2016 in Film
• Download a Complete, Cover-to-Cover Parody of The New Yorker: 80 Pages of Fine Satire, 16 Jun 2016 in Comedy&Magazines
• Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Rendered in the Style of Picasso; Blade Runner in the Style of Van Gogh, 14 Jun 2016 in Art&Film
• Harvard Dean Lists the 5 Essential Questions to Ask In Life … Which Will Bring You Happiness & Success, 13 Jun 2016 in Graduation Speech&Life
• Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz on How Trump May Change (If Not Destroy) the GOP, 13 Jun 2016 in Current Affairs&Politics
• Bertrand Russell: “The Problem with the World Is That Fools & Fanatics Are So Certain of Themselves”, 12 Jun 2016 in Life&Philosophy
• The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946, 11 Jun 2016 in Animation&Film
• Hear a BBC Radio Drama of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: Streaming Free for a Limited Time, 10 Jun 2016 in Audio Books&Literature
• Martin Scorsese Sends a Sweet Video to the Young Creator a Kubrick/Scorsese Mashup, 09 Jun 2016 in Film&Life
• Free: Learn Foreign Languages in Your Car, 08 Jun 2016 in Language Lessons
• How to Achieve Professional Happiness Through “Creative Incompetence”: A Corollary to the Famous “Peter Principle”, 07 Jun 2016 in Business&Life
• A Complete Digitization of the 1960s Magazine Avant Garde: From John Lennon’s Erotic Lithographs to Marilyn Monroe’s Last Photos, 06 Jun 2016 in Magazines
• “Muhammad Ali, This Is Your Life!”: Celebrate Ali’s Life & Times with This Touching 1978 TV Tribute, 03 Jun 2016 in Life&Sports
• Philosophy Prof Illustrates Nietzsche’s Zarathustra in the Style of Dr. Seuss, 02 Jun 2016 in Comics/Cartoons&Philosophy
• The Battle to Finish a PhD: World War I Soldier Completes His Dissertation in the Trenches (1916), 01 Jun 2016 in Education&History&Life
• Live Stream the World Science Festival, Starting (Now) with This Tribute to Oliver Sacks, 01 Jun 2016 in Science
• 10 Most Popular MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in June: Enroll Free Today, 31 May 2016 in Online Courses
• 4 Simple Ways You Can Personally Reduce Your Risk of Getting Cancer, 30 May 2016 in Food & Drink&Health
• The Influence of Miles Davis Revealed with Data Visualization: For His 90th Birthday Today, 26 May 2016 in Music
• Wake Up & Smell the Coffee: The New All-in-One Coffee-Maker/Alarm Clock is Finally Here!, 26 May 2016 in Food & Drink
• How to Build Stuff: A Free Short Course on Making Prototypes by Entrepreneur Dan Gelbart, 24 May 2016 in How to Learn for Free&Technology
• Learning How to Learn: The Most Popular MOOC of All Time, 23 May 2016 in Education&Neuroscience&Online Courses
• The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” Played by Musicians Around the World, 21 May 2016 in Music
• 5 Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer, 19 May 2016 in Books
• Watch Paul McCartney Perform Live, with 10-Year-Old Leila on Bass, in Buenos Aires Yesterday, 18 May 2016 in Life&Music
• Behold the Sea Organ: The Massive Experimental Musical Instrument That Makes Music with the Sea, 18 May 2016 in Music
• Hear the Music of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Played by the Experimental Band, Xiu Xiu: A Free Stream of Their New Album, 17 May 2016 in Music&Television
• Sheryl Sandberg Talks About What Death Has Taught Her About Life: UC Berkeley Commencement Address, 2016, 16 May 2016 in Life
• Free: Stream Bob Dylan’s Brand New Album Fallen Angels for a Limited Time, 13 May 2016 in Music
• This Is What It Sounds Like When 1999 People Sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry”, 12 May 2016 in Life&Music
• Jon Stewart Resurfaces and Breaks Down the 2016 Election: The “Man Baby” v. the “Inauthentic”, 11 May 2016 in Current Affairs&Politics
• The Wizard of Oz Broken Apart and Put Back Together in Alphabetical Order, 11 May 2016 in Film&Random
• A Clever Supercut of Writers Struggling with Writer’s Block in 53 Films: From Barton Fink to The Royal Tenenbaums, 10 May 2016 in Film&Writing
• The Thomas Pynchon Crossword Puzzle, 09 May 2016 in Literature
• Edward Snowden & Jean-Michel Jarre Record a Techno Protest Song, “Exit”, 09 May 2016 in Current Affairs&Music&Technology
• The New Radiohead Album is Out; Watch a Paul Thomas Anderson-Directed Music Video for One of the New Singles, 08 May 2016 in Music
• 7 Tips for Reading More Books in a Year, 05 May 2016 in Books
• Watch Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue: The PBS American Masters Documentary That’s Streaming Free for a Limited Time, 04 May 2016 in Film&Music
• Hermeneutics of Toilets by Slavoj Žižek: An Animation About Finding Ideology in Unlikely Places, 04 May 2016 in Animation&Philosophy&Politics
• Walter Benjamin Jots in His Notebook Every Book He’s Read Since He Was 18, 03 May 2016 in Books
• Sir Ian McKellen Releases New Apps to Make Shakespeare’s Plays More Enjoyable & Accessible, 02 May 2016 in iPad&Literature&Theatre
• President Obama’s 2016 Stand-Up Comedy Routine, 02 May 2016 in Comedy&Politics
• Peter Frampton Plays a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, Featuring Acoustic Versions of His Classic Songs, 28 Apr 2016 in Music
• Young Patti Smith Rails Against the Censorship of Her Music: An Animated, NSFW Interview from 1976, 28 Apr 2016 in Music
• An Ancient Philosophical Song Reconstructed and Played for the First Time in 1,000 Years, 26 Apr 2016 in History&Music
• In Search of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Secluded Hut in Norway: A Short Travel Film, 25 Apr 2016 in Philosophy&Travel
• Frida!, 22 Apr 2016 in Art
• A Short Animated History of Zero (0): How It Started in India, Then Made Its Journey to the West, 20 Apr 2016 in Math
• Watch the Titanic Sink in Real Time in a New 2‑Hour, 40 Minute Animation, 19 Apr 2016 in Animation&History
• Spike Lee Directs, “Wake Up,” a Five-Minute Campaign Film for Bernie Sanders, 17 Apr 2016 in Current Affairs&Film&Politics
• John Cage Performs His Avant-Garde Piano Piece 4′33″ … in 1′22″ (Harvard Square, 1973), 15 Apr 2016 in Music
• Radiooooo: A Musical Time Machine That Lets You Hear What Played on the Radio in Different Times & Places, 14 Apr 2016 in Music&Radio
• How the Sound Effects on 1930s Radio Shows Were Made: An Inside Look, 13 Apr 2016 in Business&Film&Radio
• The Cleanest Recordings of 1920s Louis Armstrong Songs You’ll Ever Hear, 12 Apr 2016 in Music
• Lolita Book Covers: 200+ Designs From 40 Countries Since 1955, Including Nabokov’s Favorite Design, 11 Apr 2016 in Art&Books
• Question: Where Can You Watch 65 Charlie Chaplin Films Free Online?, 08 Apr 2016 in Comedy&Film
• Watch the First Episode of Vinyl: Mick Jagger & Martin Scorsese’s Series on the 1970s Music Scene, 08 Apr 2016 in Music&Television
• Spike Lee Interviews Bernie Sanders: Two Guys from Brooklyn Talk About Education, Inequality & More, 07 Apr 2016 in Current Affairs
• NASA Releases 3 Million Thermal Images of Our Planet Earth, 06 Apr 2016 in Science
• What Are the Keys to Happiness? Lessons from a 75-Year-Long Harvard Study, 05 Apr 2016 in Life&Psychology
• How to Open a Wine Bottle with Your Shoe, 01 Apr 2016 in Food & Drink
• An Animated Carl Sagan Talks with Studs Terkel About Finding Extraterrestrial Life (1985), 31 Mar 2016 in Animation&Astronomy&Radio
• Watch City Out of Time, A Short Tribute to Venice, Narrated by William Shatner in 1959, 30 Mar 2016 in Film
• Recalling Albert Camus’ Fashion Advice, Noam Chomsky Pans Glenn Greenwald’s Shiny, Purple Tie, 29 Mar 2016 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Harvard’s Michael Sandel Launches “The Global Philosopher,” a New Digital Show Exploring Pressing Philosophical Problems, 28 Mar 2016 in Philosophy
• Software Used by Hayao Miyazaki’s Animation Studio Is Now Officially Ready to Download, 27 Mar 2016 in Animation&Software
• Google Makes Its $149 Photo Editing Software Now Completely Free to Download, 25 Mar 2016 in Photography&Software
• A Hulking 1959 Chevy Bel Air Gets Obliterated by a Mid-Size 2009 Chevy Malibu in a Crash Test, 24 Mar 2016 in Technology
• Free M.I.T. Course Teaches You How to Become Bill Nye & Make Great Science Videos for YouTube, 23 Mar 2016 in MIT&Online Courses&Science&YouTube
• You Can Find the Proof of Evolution in Our Own Spare Body Parts: From Third Molars to Vestigial Tails, 22 Mar 2016 in Biology
• Hear a Complete 24-Hour Reading of Moby-Dick, Recorded at the Southbank Centre in London (2015), 21 Mar 2016 in Audio Books&Literature
• Peter Sellers Reads The Beatles’ “She Loves You” in 4 Different Accents: Dr. Strangelove, Cockney, Irish & Upper Crust, 19 Mar 2016 in Comedy&Music
• Artists Put Online 3D, High Resolution Scans of 3,000-Year-Old Nefertiti Bust (and Controversy Ensues), 17 Mar 2016 in Art
• Julia Child Marathon: 201 Episodes of “The French Chef” Streaming Free (for a Limited Time), 16 Mar 2016 in Food & Drink&Television
• Download the Foo Fighters’ EP Saint Cecilia Free: MP3, FLAC, WAV, iTunes & Other Formats, 15 Mar 2016 in Music
• “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” a Quote Falsely Attributed to Edmund Burke, 13 Mar 2016 in History&Politics
• Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa?: Kickstart the Making of the Definitive Frank Zappa Documentary, 11 Mar 2016 in Film&Music
• The History of Rock Told in a Whirlwind 15-Minute Video, 10 Mar 2016 in Music
• New Order’s “Blue Monday” Played with Obsolete 1930s Instruments, 09 Mar 2016 in Music
• Learn How to Code for Free: A DIY Guide for Learning HTML, Python, Javascript & More, 07 Mar 2016 in Computer Science&How to Learn for Free
• Unearthed Songs by Jeff Buckley Now Streaming Online (Free For a Limited Time), 04 Mar 2016 in Music
• Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” Played with Medieval Instruments, and Kickstart More Medieval Covers, 03 Mar 2016 in Music
• Watch Star Trek: New Voyages: The Original Fan-Made Sequel to the 1960s TV Series, 01 Mar 2016 in Sci Fi&Television
• Download All 36 of Jan Vermeer’s Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in Brilliant High Resolution), 29 Feb 2016 in Art
• Brian Greene Breaks Down Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Waves for Stephen Colbert, 29 Feb 2016 in Physics
• Watch the Trailer for a “Fully Painted” Van Gogh Film: Features 12 Oil Paintings Per Second by 100+ Painters, 27 Feb 2016 in Animation&Art&Film
• 13 Van Gogh’s Paintings Painstakingly Brought to Life with 3D Animation & Visual Mapping, 25 Feb 2016 in Animation&Art
• John Grisham Is Letting You Download His New Novel as a Free eBook, 24 Feb 2016 in Books&e-books
• Coffee Entrepreneur Renato Bialetti Gets Buried in the Espresso Maker He Made Famous, 22 Feb 2016 in Food & Drink&Life
• Stephen Hawking’s Uplifting Message: You Can Get Yourself Out of Any Hole, No Matter What Their Size, 22 Feb 2016 in Animation&Physics
• Umberto Eco Dies at 84; Leaves Behind Advice to Aspiring Writers, 19 Feb 2016 in Life&Writing
• Paul Giamatti Plays Honoré de Balzac, Hopped Up on 50 Coffees Per Day, 19 Feb 2016 in Food & Drink&Literature
• Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin Is Now Streaming Free for a Limited Time, 19 Feb 2016 in Music
• New Digital Archive, “Richard Pryor’s Peoria,” Takes You Inside the Dark, Lively World That Shaped the Pioneering Comedian, 18 Feb 2016 in Comedy&History
• Chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley Plays Unsuspecting Trash Talker in Washington Square Park, 17 Feb 2016 in Games