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• One of World’s Oldest Books Printed in Multi-Color Now Opened & Digitized for the First Time, 14 Aug 2015 in Art&History
• Get a Free Subscription to the Beta Version of The Great Courses Plus (Space Limited), 13 Aug 2015 in Online Courses
• A Vintage Infographic of the Human Brain: The Wonders Within Your Head (1938), 12 Aug 2015 in Biology&Magazines
• Pipes with Cannabis Traces Found in Shakespeare’s Garden, Suggesting the Bard Enjoyed a “Noted Weed”, 11 Aug 2015 in Literature
• Hear Mahler’s 9th Played in 6 Minutes on the Squeezebox by “The Greatest Accordionist in the World”, 10 Aug 2015 in Music
• Audrey Hepburn’s Moving Screen Test for Roman Holiday (1953), 08 Aug 2015 in Film&Life
• Werner Herzog Narrates the Touching, Existential Journey of a Plastic Bag, 07 Aug 2015 in Film
• The 10 Commandments of Rock ‘n’ Roll, According to Robert Hunter, 06 Aug 2015 in Music
• Adorn Your Garden with Howard the Zinn Monk, 05 Aug 2015 in History&Random
• Why Sitting Is The New Smoking: An Animated Explanation, 04 Aug 2015 in Biology&Health
• Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Releases New Animated Video Inspired by Gustave Doré & Milton’s Paradise Lost, 03 Aug 2015 in Animation&Art&Literature&Music
• Endangered Species (Including Cecil the Lion) Projected Onto the Empire State Building, 02 Aug 2015 in Art
• Brooklyn–Based Makers of Artisanal Water Let You Sip From America’s Great Cultural Waters, 31 Jul 2015 in Uncategorized
• 1,000 Musicians Perform Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly” in Unison in Italy, 30 Jul 2015 in Music
• Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Coconut Cake Recipe Hints at How Baking Figured Into Her Creative Process, 30 Jul 2015 in Food & Drink&Poetry
• An Animated Hunter S. Thompson Talks with Studs Terkel About the Hell’s Angels & The Outlaw Life, 28 Jul 2015 in Life&Literature
• Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins & Grace Jones To Star in Gutterdämmerung, “The Loudest Silent Movie on Earth!”, 28 Jul 2015 in Film&Music
• Harper Lee Gets a Request for a Photo; Offers Important Life Advice Instead (2006), 27 Jul 2015 in Letters&Life&Literature
• School Teachers Turn Old Lockers Into Literary Works of Art, 22 Jul 2015 in Art&Books
• Creative Commons Launches Its First-Ever Kickstarter Campaign to Write a Book About Open Business Models, 21 Jul 2015 in Business&e-books
• MIT’s Introduction to Poker Theory: A Free Online Course, 21 Jul 2015 in Economics&MIT
• Stephen Colbert & Neil deGrasse Break Down Our Awesome 3 Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto, 20 Jul 2015 in Astronomy
• Free: Download Wilco’s Brand New Album, Star Wars, Free for a Limited Time, 19 Jul 2015 in Music
• Download The 4‑Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss as a Free Audio Book, 16 Jul 2015 in Audio Books
• Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno, 16 Jul 2015 in Architecture&Film
• 1980s Metalhead Kids Are All Right: New Study Suggests They Became Well-Adjusted Adults, 14 Jul 2015 in Music&Psychology
• Read the First Chapter of Harper Lee’s New Book, Then Hear It Read by Reese Witherspoon, 10 Jul 2015 in Audio Books&Books
• CERN’s Cosmic Piano and Jazz Pianist Jam Together at The Montreux Jazz Festival, 10 Jul 2015 in Music&Physics
• How to Make Sure You Get Open Culture in Your Facebook Newsfeed: Now You Can Take Control, 09 Jul 2015 in Media&Technology
• Meditation 101: A Short, Animated Beginner’s Guide, 09 Jul 2015 in Health&Psychology
• Watch Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and 2001: A Space Odyssey Get Run Through Google’s Trippy Deep Dream Software, 07 Jul 2015 in Film&Technology
• The Mysterious Physics Behind How Bikes Ride by Themselves, 07 Jul 2015 in Physics&Sports
• Books in the Films of Wes Anderson: A Supercut for Bibliophiles, 06 Jul 2015 in Books&Film
• Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944), 04 Jul 2015 in Music
• The Declaration of Independence Read by Thespians: Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Renee Zellweger & More, 04 Jul 2015 in History
• Watch a Needle Ride Through LP Record Grooves Under an Electron Microscope, 30 Jun 2015 in Music&Technology
• Watch Glass Walls, Paul McCartney’s Case for Going Vegetarian, 29 Jun 2015 in Food & Drink
• Watch President Obama Sing “Amazing Grace” at the Funeral of Clementa Pinckney, 26 Jun 2015 in Life&Music
• Commuters Can Download Free eBooks of Russian Classics While Riding the Moscow Metro, 26 Jun 2015 in e-books&Literature
• Climb Virtually Up “El Capitan,” Yosemite’s Iconic Rock Wall, With Google Street View, 25 Jun 2015 in Google&Travel
• 1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About Their Lost Ancestors, 24 Jun 2015 in History
• Watch an Animation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s New Story, “Love Is Blind and Deaf”, 24 Jun 2015 in Animation&Literature
• Neil Young’s New Album, The Monsanto Years, Now Streaming Free Online (For a Limited Time), 22 Jun 2015 in Music
• Meta Star Wars: All Six Films in One, 19 Jun 2015 in Film&Random
• Umberto Eco’s Advice to Aspiring Writers, 18 Jun 2015 in Life&Writing
• A Proportional Visualization of the World’s Most Popular Languages, 17 Jun 2015 in Language Lessons
• Christopher Lee Reads “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 Classic, 16 Jun 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• Read 18 Lost Stories From Hunter S. Thompson’s Forgotten Stint As a Foreign Correspondent, 15 Jun 2015 in Literature
• The Entirety of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless Artfully Compressed Into a 3 Minute Film, 11 Jun 2015 in Film
• What Kind of Bird Is That?: A Free App From Cornell Will Give You the Answer, 10 Jun 2015 in Biology&Science
• The John Lennon Sketchbook, a Short Animation Made of Lennon’s Drawings, 09 Jun 2015 in Animation&Music
• The Case for Andy Warhol in Three Minutes, 08 Jun 2015 in Art
• Brazilian Man Sings The Beatles’ “Yesterday” as Doctors Perform Brain Surgery on Him, 07 Jun 2015 in Music
• The Staggering Human Cost of World War II Visualized in a Creative, New Animated Documentary, 03 Jun 2015 in Animation&History
• The Animated Franz Kafka Rock Opera, 03 Jun 2015 in Literature&Music&Random
• The Well-Tempered Clavier: Download an Open Version of J.S. Bach’s Masterpiece, 02 Jun 2015 in Music
• MIT Creates Amazing Self-Folding Origami Robots & Leaping Cheetah Robots, 01 Jun 2015 in MIT&Technology
• JS Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier Artistically Animated with Pulsing Neon Lights, 29 May 2015 in Animation&Music
• The First Trailer for the Upcoming David Foster Wallace Film Is Now Online, 28 May 2015 in Film&Literature
• Joni Mitchell Talks About Life as a Reluctant Star in a New Animated Interview, 27 May 2015 in Music
• Flannery O’Connor to Grace New U.S. Postage Stamp, 26 May 2015 in Literature
• Italian Astronaut Reads The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on the International Space Station, 26 May 2015 in Astronomy&Books
• Watch a New, “Original” Episode of Seinfeld Performed Live on Stage, 25 May 2015 in Television&Theatre
• Six Books (and One Blog) Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer, 23 May 2015 in Books
• 3D Printed Zoetrope Animates Rubens’ Famous Painting, “The Massacre of the Innocents”, 22 May 2015 in Animation&Art&Religion
• Mesmerizing Timelapse Film Captures the Wonder of Bees Being Born, 20 May 2015 in Film
• Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning to America in His Final Interview (1996), 15 May 2015 in Life&Science
• Salvador Dalí Takes His Anteater for a Stroll in Paris, 1969, 14 May 2015 in Art
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail Re-Imagined as an Epic, Mainstream Hollywood Film, 12 May 2015 in Comedy&Film
• Van Gogh’s 1888 Painting, “The Night Cafe,” Animated with Oculus Virtual Reality Software, 11 May 2015 in Animation&Art
• Dementia Patients Find Some Eternal Youth in the Sounds of AC/DC, 11 May 2015 in Life&Music
• A Vintage Wine Course (UC Davis, 1973), 10 May 2015 in Online Courses
• Charles Mingus’ Sigmund Freud-Inspired Song Dedicated to Mothers Everywhere (1961), 10 May 2015 in Jazz&Music
• Prince’s New Protest Song “Baltimore” Now Streaming Online, 09 May 2015 in Current Affairs&Music
• Music for a String Quartet Made from Global Warming Data: Hear “Planetary Bands, Warming World”, 09 May 2015 in Environment&Music
• What’s It Like to Fight in 15th Century Armor?: A Surprising Demonstration, 07 May 2015 in History
• A Short History of the Venice Biennale, the World’s Most Important Art Exhibition, 06 May 2015 in Art
• Dramatic Color Footage Shows a Bombed-Out Berlin a Month After Germany’s WWII Defeat (1945), 05 May 2015 in History
• Making Turkish Sand Coffee: Culinary Alchemy on the Streets of Jordan, 04 May 2015 in Food & Drink
• A Beautiful Drone’s Eye View of Antarctica, 04 May 2015 in Travel
• Read Noam Chomsky & Sam Harris’ “Unpleasant” Email Exchange, 01 May 2015 in Current Affairs&Philosophy
• Coffee is for People, Not Robots: The New Ad for David Lynch’s Line of Organic Coffee, 01 May 2015 in Food & Drink
• Klingon for English Speakers: Sign Up for a Free Course Coming Soon, 30 Apr 2015 in Language Lessons&Random
• Take a Virtual Tour of Robben Island Where Nelson Mandela and Other Apartheid Opponents Were Jailed, 30 Apr 2015 in Google&History
• A Harrowing Test Drive of Buckminster Fuller’s 1933 Dymaxion Car: Art That Is Scary to Ride, 25 Apr 2015 in Design
• The Science of Singing: New, High-Speed MRI Machine Images Man Singing ‘If I Only Had a Brain’, 24 Apr 2015 in Music&Science
• Shakespearean Actor Brian Cox Teaches Hamlet’s Soliloquy to a 2‑Year-Old Child, 24 Apr 2015 in Theatre
• Hōshi: A Short Film on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations, 23 Apr 2015 in Architecture&History&Life
• High-Tech Japanese Camera Proves That the Shape of a Wine Glass Affects the Flavor of Wines, 22 Apr 2015 in Food & Drink&Science
• Watch a Timelapse Video Showing the Creation of New York City’s Skyline: 1500 to Present, 21 Apr 2015 in Architecture
• Johnny Cash Machines: Johnny Cash Stars in 1980s Commercials for ATM Machines, 21 Apr 2015 in Music&Television
• Yoda’s Long Lost Twin Found in a 14th Century Illuminated Manuscript, 18 Apr 2015 in Art&History&Sci Fi
• David Chase Reveals the Philosophical Meaning of The Soprano’s Final Scene, 17 Apr 2015 in Life&Television
• The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words, 15 Apr 2015 in Math
• Watch The Hitch: An Indie-Documentary on The Life & Times of Christopher Hitchens, 14 Apr 2015 in Current Affairs&Film&Religion
• The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences, 13 Apr 2015 in Math
• Stephen Hawking Sings Monty Python’s “Galaxy Song”: Hear the Newly-Released Single, 13 Apr 2015 in Astronomy&Comedy&Music&Physics
• Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story, 10 Apr 2015 in Literature&Writing
• Paper Animation Tells Curious Story of How a Meteorologist Theorized Pangaea & Continental Drift (1910), 09 Apr 2015 in Animation&Science
• Every Literary Reference Made by Sterling Archer in One Supercut, 06 Apr 2015 in Animation&Books&Television
• What Ignited Richard Feynman’s Love of Science Revealed in an Animated Video, 06 Apr 2015 in Animation&Science
• George R. R. Martin Puts Online a New Chapter from His Highly Anticipated Book, The Winds of Winter, 05 Apr 2015 in Sci Fi
• Do You See Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein in This Photo? An Amazing Eye Test Based on MIT Research, 03 Apr 2015 in Science
• Students Tells the Passover Story with a Rube Goldberg Machine, 02 Apr 2015 in Random&Religion
• Marshall McLuhan’s Strange Reading Habit: “I Read Only the Right-Hand Page of Serious Books”, 01 Apr 2015 in Books
• President Obama Chats with David Simon About Drugs, The Wire & Omar, 31 Mar 2015 in Politics&Television
• George Mason Students Create Revolutionary Fire Extinguisher That Uses Sound Waves to Blow Out Fires, 30 Mar 2015 in Technology
• A Short Animated History of Daylight Saving Time, Narrated by Stephen Fry, 29 Mar 2015 in Animation&Economics&History
• Animated: The Inspirational Story of Jane Goodall, and Why She Believes in Bigfoot, 26 Mar 2015 in Animation&Science
• Watch a New Star Wars Animation, Drawn in a Classic 80s Japanese Anime Style, 25 Mar 2015 in Animation&Sci Fi
• The Psychology of Blame: Another Animated Lesson That Can Make You a Better Person, 24 Mar 2015 in Psychology
• The Touching Story Behind Paraguay’s Landfill Orchestra: Now Told in Film, and Soon a Book, 23 Mar 2015 in Film&Life&Music
• Cookie Monster, Life Coach, Shows Why Cookies Are the Key to Happiness, 22 Mar 2015 in Food & Drink&Life
• Watch the “Youngest String Quartet Ever” Perform Vivaldi, Michael Jackson & Katy Perry, 21 Mar 2015 in K-12&Music
• A Mesmerizing Supercut of the First and Final Frames of 55 Movies, Played Side by Side, 19 Mar 2015 in Film
• Robert Reich Debunks Three Economic Myths by Drawing Cartoons, 19 Mar 2015 in Art&Economics
• Irish Navy Builds Ships Named After Samuel Beckett & James Joyce, 19 Mar 2015 in Literature
• An Animated Marc Maron Recalls Interviewing a Shirtless Iggy Pop in LA Garage, 17 Mar 2015 in Music&Podcasts
• Download Free NASA Software and Help Protect the Earth from Asteroids!, 16 Mar 2015 in Astronomy&Science&Software
• Bob Dylan Goes Film Noir in His New Music Video, 14 Mar 2015 in Film&Music
• Kapow! Stan Lee Is Co-Teaching a Free Comic Book MOOC, and You Can Enroll for Free, 12 Mar 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&MOOCs
• How to Draw Don Draper: A Short Video Primer from Mad Men Insider Josh Weltman, 12 Mar 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Television
• Download The Newly-Discovered Sherlock Holmes Story as a Free Audio Book, 10 Mar 2015 in Audio Books
• Weapons of Mass Instruction: Watch a 1979 Ford Falcon Get Converted in a Tank Armored with 900 Free Books, 10 Mar 2015 in Books
• Albert Einstein Sports a Native American Headdress and a Peace Pipe at the Grand Canyon, 1931, 09 Mar 2015 in History&Physics
• Life and Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion, 08 Mar 2015 in Food & Drink
• Richard Dawkins’ Famous “What If You’re Wrong” Speech Animated in the Style of South Park, 06 Mar 2015 in Animation&Religion
• Artist Takes Old Books and Gives Them New Life as Intricate Sculptures, 05 Mar 2015 in Art&Books&TED Talks
• A Final Wish: Terminally Ill Patients Visit Rembrandt’s Paintings in the Rijksmuseum One Last Time, 04 Mar 2015 in Art&Life
• Free eBook: Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave, 02 Mar 2015 in e-books&Travel
• Hear Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth Rocker, Read From Her New Memoir, Girl in a Band, 02 Mar 2015 in Audio Books&Music
• The Linguistics Behind Kevin Spacey’s Southern Accent in House of Cards: A Quick Primer, 01 Mar 2015 in Language Lessons
• A Racy Philosophy Lesson on Kant’s Aesthetics by Alain de Botton’s “School of Life”, 26 Feb 2015 in Philosophy
• The Musical Career of David Bowie in One Minute … and One Continuous Take, 25 Feb 2015 in Music&Random
• Kids Orchestra Plays Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” and Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”, 25 Feb 2015 in K-12&Music
• The New Yorker Presents: Watch the 30 Minute Pilot of the New Docu-Series from The New Yorker, 23 Feb 2015 in Media
• Read the Lost Sherlock Holmes Story That Was Just Discovered in an Attic in Scotland, 22 Feb 2015 in e-books&Literature
• 77 Exercises: A Workout Video For Fans of the Talking Heads, 21 Feb 2015 in Comedy&Music
• Oliver Sacks Contemplates Mortality (and His Terminal Cancer Diagnosis) in a Thoughtful, Poignant Letter, 19 Feb 2015 in Life
• How Clocks Changed Humanity Forever, Making Us Masters and Slaves of Time, 19 Feb 2015 in History&Technology