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• Steven Soderbergh Creates Silent, Black & White Recut of Raiders of the Lost Ark to Explain the Art of “Staging”, 24 Sep 2014 in Film
• Longform’s New, Free App Lets You Read Great Journalism from Your Favorite Publishers, 23 Sep 2014 in iPad&iPhone&Magazines&Media
• Butterfly Lands on Flutist’s Face During Flute Competition: The Show Must Go On, 22 Sep 2014 in Music&Random
• Listen to the Long-Lost Freddie Mercury & Michael Jackson Duet, 19 Sep 2014 in Music
• The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online, 19 Sep 2014 in Art&Books
• Leonard Cohen’s New Album, Popular Problems, Is Now Streaming Free for a Limited Time, 18 Sep 2014 in Music
• The Last Saturday: A New Graphic Novel by Chris Ware Now Being Serialized at The Guardian (Free), 17 Sep 2014 in Comics/Cartoons
• Why We Love Repetition in Music: Explained in a New TED-Ed Animation, 16 Sep 2014 in Animation&Music
• “The Civil War and Reconstruction,” a New MOOC by Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian Eric Foner, 16 Sep 2014 in History&Online Courses
• How to Jump the Paris Metro: A Witty, Rebellious Primer from New Wave Director Luc Moullet (1984), 15 Sep 2014 in Film
• 81-Year-Old Professor Charlie Warner Goes to Burning Man: A Short Documentary (NSFW), 14 Sep 2014 in Film&Life
• Sound Effects Genius Michael Winslow Sings Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”: Vocal & Guitar Parts, 13 Sep 2014 in Music
• 100 Great Bass Riffs Played in One Epic Take: Covers 60 Years of Rock, Jazz and R&B, 13 Sep 2014 in Music
• John Lennon’s Ice Bucket Challenge, 12 Sep 2014 in Music
• Iraqi Artist Turns Saddam Hussein’s Propaganda Music into Pop, Jazz & Lounge-Style Love Songs, 11 Sep 2014 in Art&Music
• How Do They Get Caffeine Out of Coffee Beans?, 10 Sep 2014 in Food & Drink
• U2’s Album Songs of Innocence Released for Free on iTunes Today, 09 Sep 2014 in Apple&Music
• 178,000 Images Documenting the History of the Car Now Available on a New Stanford Web Site, 09 Sep 2014 in Archives&Stanford
• Buddy Holly & Waylon Jennings in a Photo Booth (New York, 1959), 08 Sep 2014 in Music
• Thomas Pynchon Edits His Lines on The Simpsons: “Homer is my role model and I can’t speak ill of him.”, 07 Sep 2014 in Literature&Television
• Help Kickstart Baba Brinkman’s Animated Rap Guide to Religion, 06 Sep 2014 in Animation&Religion
• Yale Launches an Archive of 170,000 Photographs Documenting the Great Depression, 04 Sep 2014 in Archives&History&Photography
• New Albums by Robert Plant, Ryan Adams & Justin Townes Earle Streaming Online for a Limited Time, 02 Sep 2014 in Music
• Three Outlandish Tracks from Van Morrison’s 1968 “Revenge Album”: “Ring Worm,” “Want a Danish?” & “The Big Royalty Check”, 02 Sep 2014 in Music
• Read a Never Published, “Subversive” Chapter from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 01 Sep 2014 in K-12
• Download for Free 2.6 Million Images from Books Published Over Last 500 Years on Flickr, 30 Aug 2014 in Art&Books
• The Right and Wrong Way to Eat Sushi: A Primer, 28 Aug 2014 in Food & Drink
• David Lynch Takes the ALS Ice Coffee Bucket Challenge, 27 Aug 2014 in Film
• Brian May’s Homemade Guitar, Made From Old Tables, Bike and Motorcycle Parts & More, 27 Aug 2014 in Music
• Paris Through Pentax: Short Film Lets You See a Great City Through a Different Lens, 26 Aug 2014 in Photography
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Now Completely Online, 26 Aug 2014 in Physics
• Jorge Luis Borges Poses with Bread Basket on His Head During a Light Moment, 24 Aug 2014 in Literature&Random
• Everyday Economics: A New Course by Marginal Revolution University Where Students Create the Syllabus, 22 Aug 2014 in Economics&Online Courses
• Willie Nelson Shows You a Delightful Card Trick, 20 Aug 2014 in Random
• Dave Grohl Raises the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to an Art Form, 19 Aug 2014 in Film&Life&Music
• Don Pardo (1918–2014), Voice of Saturday Night Live, Suggests Using Short Words, 19 Aug 2014 in Comedy&Life&Television
• In the Voice of Robin Williams, Impressionist Jim Meskimen Reads an Elegy for the Departed Comedian, 17 Aug 2014 in Poetry
• Philosophy Referee Hand Signals, 15 Aug 2014 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Charles Bukowski Uncensored, 15 Aug 2014 in Poetry
• Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Abandoned Manuscript, The Watsons, 14 Aug 2014 in Writing
• Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky Demystifies Depression, Which, Like Diabetes, Is Rooted in Biology, 13 Aug 2014 in Biology&Life
• Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) and Humphrey Bogart Pal Around During a 1956 Screen Test, 12 Aug 2014 in Film&Life
• Patti Smith Reviews Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, 11 Aug 2014 in Books&Literature
• 50 Free Noir Films: An Easy Way to Sample a Great Cinematic Tradition, 09 Aug 2014 in Film
• The Story of Oedipus Retold with Vegetables in Starring Roles, 07 Aug 2014 in Animation&Literature
• Farmer Serenades Cows by Playing Lorde’s “Royals” on the Trombone, 05 Aug 2014 in Music
• 5‑Minute Animation Maps 2,600 Years of Western Cultural History, 04 Aug 2014 in Art&History
• The Art of Structured Procrastination, 01 Aug 2014 in Life&Philosophy&Psychology
• Brian Eno’s Take on the Gaza Conflict Appears on David Byrne’s Web Site, 01 Aug 2014 in Current Affairs&Music
• An Ivory Coast Cocoa Farmer Gets His Very First Taste of Chocolate, 30 Jul 2014 in Food & Drink
• Experience James Joyce’s Ulysses in Virtual Reality, Using the Oculus Rift Headset, 29 Jul 2014 in Literature&Technology
• Watch World War I Unfold in a 6 Minute Time-Lapse Film: Every Day From 1914 to 1918, 29 Jul 2014 in History
• Bertolt Brecht Sings “Mack the Knife” in a 1929 Recording, 28 Jul 2014 in Music&Theatre
• Above LA: A Top-Down Timelapse View of the Great Megacity, 26 Jul 2014 in Random
• Map Showing Where Today’s Countries Would Be Located on Pangea, 25 Jul 2014 in Maps
• The Baffler Makes Its Back Issues All Free to Read Online, 24 Jul 2014 in Magazines
• Read 15,000 Marvel Comics Online for 99 Cents (for a Limited Time), 23 Jul 2014 in Comics/Cartoons
• A Quick Animated Tour of Iconic Modernist Houses, 23 Jul 2014 in Architecture
• The New Yorker Web Site is Entirely Free This Summer (Until It Goes Behind a Paywall This Fall), 22 Jul 2014 in Magazines&Media
• Stephen Fry Explains the Rules of Cricket in 10 Animated Videos, 21 Jul 2014 in Animation&Sports
• In Dark PSA, Director Richard Linklater Suggests Radical Steps for Dealing with Texters in Cinemas, 20 Jul 2014 in Comedy
• Did the Wayback Machine Catch Russian-Backed Rebels Claiming Responsibility for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17?, 19 Jul 2014 in Current Affairs&Web/Tech
• Great Opening Lines of Fiction on Old School IBM Punch Cards, 17 Jul 2014 in Literature&Technology
• 5 Free Short Stories by Nadine Gordimer, 15 Jul 2014 in Literature
• Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe, 13 Jul 2014 in Food & Drink&History
• Animated: Winston Churchill’s Top 10 Sayings About Failure, Courage, Setbacks, Haters & Success, 13 Jul 2014 in Life
• A Threat to Internet Freedom: Filmmaker Brian Knappenberger Explains Why Net Neutrality Matters, 10 Jul 2014 in Technology
• Game of Thrones: A Great Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Show’s Visual Effects, 10 Jul 2014 in Television
• 130 Free Microsoft eBooks & Guides, 09 Jul 2014 in e-books&Technology
• Read Online J.K. Rowling’s New Harry Potter Story: The First Glimpse of Harry as an Adult, 08 Jul 2014 in K-12&Literature&Sci Fi
• Robert De Niro’s Taxi Cab License Used to Prepare for Taxi Driver (1976), 07 Jul 2014 in Film
• Watch John Coltrane Turn His Handwritten Poem Into a Sublime Musical Passage on A Love Supreme, 04 Jul 2014 in Jazz&Music&Poetry
• 45 Massive Open Online Courses Getting Started in July: Enroll in a MOOC Today, 03 Jul 2014 in Uncategorized
• The Art of Mapping Music: Mike Hamad’s 200 Schematics of Songs by Phish, Pink Floyd & The Dead, 02 Jul 2014 in Art&Maps&Music
• E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth Released as a Free eBook and Free Course on iTunes, 01 Jul 2014 in Biology&Books&e-books&Online Courses
• Neil deGrasse Tyson, High School Wrestling Team Captain, Invented a Physics-Based Wrestling Move, 01 Jul 2014 in Physics&Sports
• Free Download: They Might Be Giants Play Their Entire First Album Live, 30 Jun 2014 in Media
• Stephen Fry Reads the Legendary British Shipping Forecast, 30 Jun 2014 in Comedy&Radio
• The Internet’s Own Boy: New Documentary About Aaron Swartz Now Free Online, 29 Jun 2014 in Current Affairs&Film&Life&Web/Tech
• Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us, 27 Jun 2014 in Food & Drink
• Free Archive of Audio Interviews with Rock, Jazz & Folk Legends Now on iTunes, 26 Jun 2014 in Archives&Music
• Leo Tolstoy’s Family Recipe for Macaroni and Cheese, 25 Jun 2014 in Food & Drink&Literature
• Routledge Gives Free Access to 6,000 eBooks in June (Including Philosophy & Cultural Studies Texts), 24 Jun 2014 in e-books&Philosophy
• Eddie Vedder Sings Disney’s “Let It Go” at Pearl Jam Concert in Italy, 22 Jun 2014 in Music
• Jim Carrey Commencement Speech: It’s Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don’t, 22 Jun 2014 in Graduation Speech&Life
• Stephen Hawking Shows His Funny Side in John Oliver’s Series “Great Minds: People Who Think Good”, 19 Jun 2014 in Comedy&Physics
• 15-Year-Old George R.R. Martin Writes a Fan Letter to Stan Lee & Jack Kirby (1963), 19 Jun 2014 in Letters&Sci Fi
• Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand (1960), 18 Jun 2014 in Literature
• The Oldest Known Illustration of Circumcision (2400 B.C.E.), 17 Jun 2014 in Art&History
• Ultra Violet — Artist and Friend of Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol — Dies at 78, 16 Jun 2014 in Art
• Restored Footage from the First World Cup: Uruguay, 1930, 16 Jun 2014 in History&Sports
• Anthony Burgess’ Lost Introduction to Joyce’s Dubliners Now Online, 15 Jun 2014 in e-books
• Archive of 5,000 Images Document the History of San Francisco and the Vehicles That Put It in Motion, 13 Jun 2014 in Archives&History&Photography
• 1756 TED Talks Listed in a Neat Spreadsheet, 11 Jun 2014 in TED Talks
• Rare Video: Fidel Castro Plays Baseball (1959), 11 Jun 2014 in History&Sports
• Free Audio: Go the F–k to Sleep Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, 10 Jun 2014 in Audio Books&K-12
• Deleted Scene from Almost Famous: Mom, “Stairway to Heaven” is Based on the Literature of Tolkien, 09 Jun 2014 in Film&Music
• David Brooks’ List of “Really Good Books”, 09 Jun 2014 in Books
• David Foster Wallace Subscribes to the The Believer Magazine with a Little Humor & Snark (2003), 05 Jun 2014 in Literature
• Introducing Ergo, the New Open Philosophy Journal, 04 Jun 2014 in e-books&Philosophy
• Philip Seymour Hoffman Contemplates Happiness in New Animated Video, 04 Jun 2014 in Animation&Life
• Free: Download 30,000 Images from The Museum of New Zealand (All in High Resolution), 03 Jun 2014 in Art&Museums
• John Cheever Reads “The Swimmer,” His Famous Short Story, in Its Entirety (1977), 03 Jun 2014 in Audio Books&Literature
• Ballet Dancers Do Their Hardest Moves in Slow Motion, 02 Jun 2014 in Dance
• Free NASA eBook Theorizes How We Will Communicate with Aliens, 31 May 2014 in Astronomy&e-books
• Stephen Hawking Reveals the Conditions That Could Lead to England’s Victory at The World Cup, 28 May 2014 in Sports
• Matthew Weiner on The Art of Writing Mad Men: The Paris Review Interview, 28 May 2014 in Television
• In Basho’s Footsteps: Hiking the Narrow Road to the Deep North Three Centuries Later, 28 May 2014 in Poetry
• Morgan Freeman & Fake Neil deGrasse Tyson Teach Physics While High on Helium and Grass, 27 May 2014 in Comedy&Physics&Television
• Chicken Infinite: A 532 Page Avant-Garde Chicken Recipe, 26 May 2014 in Food & Drink
• NPR Launches Database of Best Commencement Speeches Ever, 23 May 2014 in Graduation Speech&Life
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Puts Bill Gates’ Wealth into Funny Perspective, 22 May 2014 in Business&Random
• Support Metafilter, 21 May 2014 in Uncategorized
• Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison & Steven Pinker Cultivate Thought on Chipotle’s Cups and Bags, 21 May 2014 in Business&Literature
• David Bowie Remembers His Ziggy Stardust Days in Animated Video, 21 May 2014 in Animation&Music
• The First-Ever Look at the Original Disneyland Prospectus, 20 May 2014 in History
• 62 Psychedelic Classics: A Free Playlist Created by Sean Lennon, 18 May 2014 in Music
• Rare Video Shows FDR Walking: Filmed at the 1937 All-Star Game, 17 May 2014 in History
• Neil Gaiman Reads The Graveyard Book, His Award-Winning Kids Fantasy Novel, Chapter by Chapter, 16 May 2014 in Audio Books&K-12
• Bob Dylan Releases a New Cover of Frank Sinatra’s “Full Moon and Empty Arms”, 14 May 2014 in Music
• Johnny Cash Impersonates Elvis Presley: A Slapstick Version of “Heartbreak Hotel” (1959), 14 May 2014 in Comedy&Music
• Jimmy Page Gives Commencement Address at Berklee; Students Perform Led Zep Classics for Him, 13 May 2014 in Graduation Speech&Music
• Short Film Takes You Inside the Recovery of Andy Warhol’s Lost Computer Art, 12 May 2014 in Art&Technology
• David Lynch Explains Where His Ideas Come From, 12 May 2014 in Creativity
• The Evolution of London: 2,000 Years of Change Animated in 7 Minutes, 12 May 2014 in Animation&History
• 700 Free eBooks: Fiction, Poetry & Non-Fiction for Kindle, iPad & Other Devices, 11 May 2014 in e-books
• Golden Apples of the Sun: 2 Hours of Dramatized Ray Bradbury Stories, 09 May 2014 in Audio Books&Sci Fi
• Vi Hart Explains & Defends Net Neutrality in a New Doodle-Filled Video, 08 May 2014 in Business&Current Affairs
• Support “Green Reads,” a Program That Finances Libraries by Distributing Used Books in Eco-Friendly Vending Machines, 07 May 2014 in Books
• 15 Free eBooks on New Media Studies & the Digital Humanities, 06 May 2014 in e-books
• Global Breakfast Radio Lets You Listen to Radio Broadcasts From Wherever the Sun is Rising, 05 May 2014 in Radio
• What Was It Like to Have Philip Roth as an English Prof?, 05 May 2014 in Literature
• All of Bach for Free! New Site Will Put Performances of 1080 Bach Compositions Online, 04 May 2014 in Music
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Moonwalking, 04 May 2014 in Dance&Physics
• Pablo Picasso Poses as Popeye (1957), 01 May 2014 in Art&Photography
• Play “Space War!,” One of the Earliest Video Games, on Your Computer (1962), 30 Apr 2014 in Video Games
• Animated Life Lesson from Auschwitz: Make Sure All of Your Words Could Be Your Very Last, 29 Apr 2014 in Life
• German String Quartet Performs Vivaldi & Mozart in Delightfully Comical & Acrobatic Routine, 28 Apr 2014 in Music
• Piketty’s Capital in a Nutshell, 27 Apr 2014 in Books&Economics
• Free Online: Meet John Doe, Frank Capra’s Inspiring 1941 Classic, 26 Apr 2014 in Film