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• Dubai in Flow Motion: A Short Film That Takes Hyperlapses to the Next Level, 19 Feb 2015 in Travel
• An Animated Lou Reed Explains The Velvet Underground’s Artistic Goals, and Why The Beatles Were “Garbage”, 18 Feb 2015 in Animation&Music
• 187 Big Thinkers Answer the Question: What Do You Think About Machines That Think?, 18 Feb 2015 in Science&Technology
• Read 3 Stories from Haruki Murakami’s Short Story Collection Published in Japan Last Year, 17 Feb 2015 in e-books&Literature
• Monopoly: How the Original Game Was Made to Condemn Monopolies & the Abuses of Capitalism, 16 Feb 2015 in Economics&History
• Free Online Course: Robert Thurman’s Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Recorded at Columbia U), 15 Feb 2015 in Philosophy&Religion
• David Carr Gives 10 Pieces of Work & Life Advice to UC Berkeley Graduates, 14 Feb 2015 in Graduation Speech&Life&Media
• The Marvelous Health Benefits of Chocolate: A Curious Medical Essay from 1631, 13 Feb 2015 in Food & Drink&Health
• See Penguins Wearing Tiny “Penguin Books” Sweaters, Knitted by the Oldest Man in Australia, 12 Feb 2015 in Books&Random
• Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish”, 11 Feb 2015 in Life&Philosophy
• Designer Reimagines Iconic Movie Posters With Minimalist Designs: Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix & More, 10 Feb 2015 in Art&Film
• New Video Shows What May Be Michelangelo’s Lost & Now Found Bronze Sculptures, 10 Feb 2015 in Art
• Joni Mitchell’s Application for a Tenure Track Philosophy Position, 09 Feb 2015 in Comedy&Philosophy
• All You Need is Love: The Keys to Happiness Revealed by a 75-Year Harvard Study, 09 Feb 2015 in Health&Life&Psychology
• Watch 570 Million Years of Evolution on Earth in 60 Seconds, 08 Feb 2015 in Biology
• B.B. King Explains in an Animated Video Whether You Need to Endure Hardship to Play the Blues, 06 Feb 2015 in Music
• 19th Century Maps Visualize Measles in America Before the Miracle of Vaccines, 05 Feb 2015 in Health&History&Science
• Take a Super Slow Motion Look at What Happens Inside a DSLR Camera, 02 Feb 2015 in Photography
• What Questions Would Stephen Fry Ask God at the Pearly Gates?, 02 Feb 2015 in Life&Religion
• Marlene Dietrich Plays the Musical Saw (aka the Singing Saw) to Entertain the Troops During WWII, 02 Feb 2015 in Film&Music
• Auschwitz Captured in Haunting Drone Footage (and a New Short Film by Steven Spielberg & Meryl Streep), 01 Feb 2015 in History
• Stanford Launches Free Course on Developing Apps with iOS 8, 29 Jan 2015 in Online Courses&Stanford&Technology
• Stream Classic Poetry Readings from Harvard’s Rich Audio Archive: From W.H. Auden to Dylan Thomas, 29 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes the Air Out of Deflategate, 28 Jan 2015 in Sports
• Richard Dawkins Reads “Love Letters” from “Fans” (NSFW), 28 Jan 2015 in Random&Religion
• Confusion Through Sand: A Short, Hand-Drawn Animation on the Terror & Confusion of War, 27 Jan 2015 in Animation
• Hear the Only Recording of Raymond Carver Reading “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, 26 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• Dominic West, Stephen Fry & Benedict Cumberbatch Read From a Guantánamo Prisoner’s Diary, 22 Jan 2015 in Current Affairs
• 31 Rolls of Film Taken by a World War II Soldier Get Discovered & Developed Before Your Eyes, 20 Jan 2015 in Photography
• Download The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe on His Birthday, 19 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&e-books
• Gnome Chomsky: The Essential Ornament for the Thinking Person’s Garden, 18 Jan 2015 in Random
• Vintage Video of Joni Mitchell Performing in 1965 — Before She Was Even Named Joni Mitchell, 16 Jan 2015 in Music
• Neil Gaiman Reads “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury”, 15 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• 365: One Animated Film, Shot One Second a Day, Over One Year, 14 Jan 2015 in Animation
• 50 Years of Changing David Bowie Hair Styles in One Animated GIF, 13 Jan 2015 in Music
• David Sedaris Spends 3–8 Hours Per Day Picking Up Trash in the UK; Testifies on the Litter Problem, 12 Jan 2015 in Comedy&Current Affairs
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Ponders the Big Question “Does the Universe Have a Purpose” in a Simple Animation, 12 Jan 2015 in Life&Physics&Science
• A Look Inside Charlie Hebdo, Their Creative Process & the Making of a Fateful Cartoon, 10 Jan 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Current Affairs
• Three Actresses from Downton Abbey Play a Raunchy Card Game (NSFW), 08 Jan 2015 in Comedy&Random
• Isaac Asimov Wrote “Gross” Limericks — Lots of Them, 07 Jan 2015 in Poetry&Sci Fi
• Bound by Law?: Free Comic Book Explains How Copyright Complicates Art, 05 Jan 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Law
• The Ramones’ First Press Release: We’re Part Musicians, Dentists & Degenerates (1975), 05 Jan 2015 in Music
• We Are Wired to Be Kind: How Evolution Gave Us Empathy, Compassion & Gratitude, 01 Jan 2015 in Psychology
• Great Minds Answer the Question “What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement?” in a New Film, 31 Dec 2014 in Science
• Play Chess Against the Ghost of Marcel Duchamp: A Free Online Chess Game, 30 Dec 2014 in Art&Technology
• Home Movies of Duke Ellington Playing Baseball (And How Baseball Coined the Word “Jazz”), 30 Dec 2014 in Jazz&Music&Sports
• Is There an Afterlife? Christopher Hitchens Speculates in an Animated Video, 29 Dec 2014 in Religion
• Watch a Music Video & Hear Tracks From Maya Angelou’s Posthumous Hip-Hop Album, Caged Bird Songs, 29 Dec 2014 in Music&Poetry
• Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses & More, 25 Dec 2014 in Audio Books&e-books&Film&iPad&Online Courses
• The Interview Now Available on Google Play, YouTube Movies, the Xbox & the Web, 24 Dec 2014 in Film
• David Bowie & Bing Crosby Sing “The Little Drummer Boy” (1977), 24 Dec 2014 in Music
• A Fun Parody of Downton Abbey Features George Clooney & the Cast of the Show, 23 Dec 2014 in Comedy&Television
• A Computer Gets Delivered in 1957: Great Moments in Schlepping History, 23 Dec 2014 in Technology
• Ayn Rand’s Reviews of Children’s Movies: From Bambi to Frozen, 20 Dec 2014 in Comedy&Film
• Download the John Lennon/Yoko Ono “War is Over (If You Want It)” Poster in 100+ Languages, 20 Dec 2014 in Current Affairs
• Lou Reed Sings “Blue Christmas” with Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright & Friends (2008), 19 Dec 2014 in Music
• Ideasthesia: An Animated Look at How Ideas Feel, 19 Dec 2014 in Philosophy&Science
• How to Defeat the US with Math: An Animated North Korean Propaganda Film for Kids, 18 Dec 2014 in Animation&Current Affairs&History
• Watch Adam Savage Build Barbarella’s Space Rifle in One Day, 18 Dec 2014 in Design&Film
• Lennon or McCartney? 550 Artists Answer the Essential, Timeless Question, 17 Dec 2014 in Music
• Alfred Hitchcock Conducts a Politically Incorrect Sound Test on the Set of Blackmail (1929), 16 Dec 2014 in Film
• Watch Bob Dylan Play a Private Concert for One Lucky Fan, 14 Dec 2014 in Music
• The Swing Wing: From the Annals of Bad Toys for Kids (1965), 12 Dec 2014 in Random
• John Waters Narrates Offbeat Documentary on an Environmental Catastrophe, the Salton Sea, 11 Dec 2014 in Environment&Film
• Animated Introductions to Quantum Mechanics: From Schrödinger’s Cat to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, 09 Dec 2014 in Animation&Physics
• What We Heard on the Night John Lennon Was Shot: Radio & TV (December 8, 1980), 08 Dec 2014 in Music&Radio&Television
• Digital Einstein: Princeton Web Site Puts 1000s of Einstein’s Papers Online, 08 Dec 2014 in Archives&Physics
• How Bourbon is Made: The ABC’s in 9 Minutes, 05 Dec 2014 in Food & Drink
• Jeff Bridges Narrates a Brief History of Bob Dylan’s and The Band’s Basement Tapes, 04 Dec 2014 in Music
• Science Journal Nature Will Make Its Archives Free to View Online (Kind of), Dating Back to 1869, 03 Dec 2014 in Archives&Magazines
• Wanderers: A Short Sci-Fi Film About Humanity’s Future in Space, Narrated by Carl Sagan, 01 Dec 2014 in Sci Fi
• A Haunting Drone’s-Eye View of Chernobyl, 30 Nov 2014 in Current Affairs
• All of Lionel Messi’s 253 Record-Setting Goals in La Liga, Shown in One Video, 30 Nov 2014 in Sports
• Neil Gaiman Reads Bad, Fake Neil Gaiman Stories, 28 Nov 2014 in Comedy&Radio
• Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow Finally Gets Released as an Audio Book, 27 Nov 2014 in Audio Books&Literature
• Bob Dylan’s Thanksgiving Radio Show: A Playlist of 18 Delectable Songs, 26 Nov 2014 in Music
• A Year in the Life of Earth’s CO2: A Striking Visualization, 25 Nov 2014 in Environment&Science
• Read Online Key Documents from the Ferguson Grand Jury: Witness Testimony, Forensic Evidence & More, 24 Nov 2014 in Current Affairs
• Literary Remains of Gabriel García Márquez Will Rest in Texas, 24 Nov 2014 in Literature
• A Cabinet of Curiosities: Discover The Public Domain Review’s New Book of Essays, 23 Nov 2014 in Books
• French Couple Sings an Achingly Charming Version of VU’s “Femme Fatale”, 23 Nov 2014 in Music
• The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, 21 Nov 2014 in Art&Physics
• Stephen Fry Reads You Have To F**king Eat, the New Mock Children’s Book by Adam Mansbach, 21 Nov 2014 in Audio Books&Comedy
• Stanley Kubrick’s Obsession with the Color Red: A Supercut, 19 Nov 2014 in Film
• Wittgenstein Day-by-Day: Facebook Page Tracks the Philosopher’s Wartime Experience 100 Years Ago, 18 Nov 2014 in History&Philosophy
• Watch the New Trailer for the Upcoming Joan Didion Documentary, We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live, 17 Nov 2014 in Film&Literature
• Watch Harvard Students Fail the Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote in 1964, 16 Nov 2014 in History
• Follow Us on Facebook, Twitter … Or, Better Yet, Get Our Daily Email, 16 Nov 2014 in Uncategorized
• Download 135 Free Philosophy eBooks: From Aristotle to Nietzsche & Wittgenstein, 14 Nov 2014 in e-books&Philosophy
• The Great War: Video Series Will Document How WWI Unfolded, Week-by-Week, for the Next 4 Years, 14 Nov 2014 in History
• ‘You Are Done’: The Chilling “Suicide Letter” Sent to Martin Luther King by the F.B.I., 13 Nov 2014 in History&Letters
• Download Bryan Cranston’s Reading of You Have to F–king Eat as a Free Audio Book (NSFW), 12 Nov 2014 in Audio Books&Comedy
• 8‑Bit Philosophy: Plato, Sartre, Derrida & Other Thinkers Explained With Vintage Video Games, 12 Nov 2014 in Philosophy&Video Games
• How to Clean Your Vinyl Records with Wood Glue, 09 Nov 2014 in Music
• The Red Hot Chili Orchestra, 09 Nov 2014 in Music
• Albert Camus’ Lessons Learned from Playing Goalie: “What I Know Most Surely about Morality and Obligations, I Owe to Football”, 07 Nov 2014 in Philosophy&Sports
• The Ebola Virus Explained with Animated Video, 06 Nov 2014 in Biology
• The Internet Arcade Lets You Play 900 Vintage Video Games in Your Web Browser (Free), 05 Nov 2014 in Internet Archive&Video Games
• How to Dance Your Dissertation: See the Winning Video in the 2014 “Dance Your PhD” Contest, 05 Nov 2014 in Biology&Dance
• Hear/Download Kurt Cobain’s Unearthed, Experimental Mixtape, “Montage Of Heck” (1986), 04 Nov 2014 in Music
• 28 Important Philosophers List the Books That Influenced Them Most During Their College Days, 03 Nov 2014 in Books&Philosophy
• J.K. Rowling Publishes New Harry Potter Story About the Malevolent Dolores Umbridge, 01 Nov 2014 in Literature&Sci Fi
• Springsteen’s Favorite Books & Reading List, 31 Oct 2014 in Books&Music
• Man Hauls a Piano Up a Mountain in Thailand and Plays Beethoven for Injured Elephants, 30 Oct 2014 in Life&Music
• Maya Angelou Tells Studs Terkel How She Learned to Count Cards & Hustle in a New Animated Video, 29 Oct 2014 in Life&Literature
• Free: Stream Songs from Bob Dylan’s Upcoming Release, The Basement Tapes Complete, 28 Oct 2014 in Music
• Edward Snowden Explains Why He Blew the Whistle on the NSA in Video Interview with Lawrence Lessig, 27 Oct 2014 in Current Affairs&Law
• Yoga in an X‑Ray Machine, 27 Oct 2014 in Animation
• Stephen Hawking Starts Posting on Facebook: Join His Quest to Explain What Makes the Universe Exist, 26 Oct 2014 in Astronomy&Physics
• Get the New 7‑Minute Workout on Your Mobile Device: A Free App from The New York Times, 26 Oct 2014 in Sports
• Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Gets a Brand New Trailer to Celebrate Its Digital Re-Release, 22 Oct 2014 in Film
• Pablo Picasso’s Two Favorite Recipes: Eel Stew & Omelette Tortilla Niçoise, 21 Oct 2014 in Art&Food & Drink
• Google Makes Available 750 Icons for Designers & Developers: All Open Source , 21 Oct 2014 in Google&Web/Tech
• Hear The Flaming Lips Cover All of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s: Streaming Free for a Limited Time, 20 Oct 2014 in Music
• The Electric Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla: As Told by Technoillusionist Marco Tempest, 20 Oct 2014 in Science
• How Wolves Change Rivers, 19 Oct 2014 in Environment&Science
• IAI Academy Now Offers Free Courses: From “The Meaning of Life” to “A Brief Guide to Everything”, 17 Oct 2014 in Online Courses
• 6 Hours of Mannequins Flying From Newark to San Francisco, 16 Oct 2014 in Random
• Stephen Colbert & Neil Young in a Comic Duet: “Who’s Gonna Stand Up? (and Save the Earth)”, 15 Oct 2014 in Comedy&Current Affairs&Online Courses
• Take Big History: A Free Short Course on 13.8 Billion Years of History, Funded by Bill Gates, 14 Oct 2014 in History&Online Courses
• What Happens When You Take a Nobel Prize Through Airport Security, 13 Oct 2014 in Random
• 2nd Graders Eat at Fancy French Restaurant, Daniel; Acclaimed Director Captures Their Reactions, 12 Oct 2014 in Food & Drink
• Coleman Hawkins’ Landmark Recording of “Body and Soul” Turns 75 This Week, 11 Oct 2014 in Music
• The Empire Strikes Back Uncut: A New Fan-Made, Shot-for-Shot Remake of the 1980 Sci-Fi Classic, 11 Oct 2014 in Film&Sci Fi
• 50% Off Criterion Films Until 2pm ET Today (October 10), 09 Oct 2014 in Uncategorized
• Hear ‘Louder Than Words,’ Pink Floyd’s New Song on What’s Likely Their Last Album, 09 Oct 2014 in Music
• Free Stanford Course: 18 Experts Assess What’s Ailing America in 2014, 08 Oct 2014 in Current Affairs&Online Courses
• John Lennon’s Solo Albums Now Streaming for Free on Spotify, 08 Oct 2014 in Music
• Bill Murray Sings the Poetry of Bob Dylan: Shelter From the Storm, 07 Oct 2014 in Music&Poetry
• Musician Shows How to Sing Two Notes at Once in Mesmerizing Video, 06 Oct 2014 in Music
• 9 New Episodes of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks to Air in 2016, 06 Oct 2014 in Television
• Free Download of The History Manifesto: Historians New Call for Big-Picture Thinking, 06 Oct 2014 in Books&History
• Download the “Great American Comic Sci Fi Novel,” Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, 05 Oct 2014 in Books&Sci Fi
• Electric Guitars Made from the Detritus of Detroit, 05 Oct 2014 in Music
• The Chemistry Behind the Smell of Old Books: Explained with a Free Infographic, 03 Oct 2014 in Books&Chemistry
• 1000 Digits of Pi, Recited by Jane Barbe, Famous Voice of Telephone Company Recordings, 02 Oct 2014 in Math
• Peter Thiel’s Stanford Course on Startups: Read the Lecture Notes Free Online, 02 Oct 2014 in Business&Entrepreneurship&Stanford
• Martin Scorsese’s New Documentary on The New York Review of Books Airs Tonight on HBO, 29 Sep 2014 in Film&Media
• Rare Footage of the “Human Be-In,” the Landmark Counter-Culture Event Held in Golden Gate Park, 1967, 28 Sep 2014 in History&Music
• A Sneak Preview of Haruki Murakami’s Forthcoming Illustrated Novel, The Strange Library, 25 Sep 2014 in Art&Books