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• Medievalist Professor Answers Medieval Questions From Twitter: Why Is It called the “Middle” Ages?, What Did Medieval English Sound Like?, and More, 20 Jun 2024 in History
• How Carl Jung Inspired the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, 19 Jun 2024 in Health&Life&Psychology
• Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Explained in One of the Earliest Science Films Ever Made (1923), 17 Jun 2024 in Film&Science
• Watch the Earliest-Known Charles Dickens Film: The Death of Poor Joe, 17 Jun 2024 in Film&Literature
• Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More, 13 Jun 2024 in Film&Literature&Music
• Download Issues of “Weird Tales” (1923–1954): The Pioneering Pulp Horror Magazine Features Original Stories by Lovecraft, Bradbury & Many More, 11 Jun 2024 in Literature&Magazines
• How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant., 11 Jun 2024 in Music
• Oh My God! Winston Churchill Received the First Ever Letter Containing “O.M.G.” (1917), 07 Jun 2024 in English Language&History
• The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps, 05 Jun 2024 in History&Maps
• Behold the Codex Gigas (aka “Devil’s Bible”), the Largest Medieval Manuscript in the World, 05 Jun 2024 in Books&History
• James Joyce Picked Drunken Fights, Then Hid Behind Ernest Hemingway, 04 Jun 2024 in History&Literature
• Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80, 31 May 2024 in Literature
• Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977), 29 May 2024 in Sci Fi&Technology
• This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience, 28 May 2024 in History&Life
• Philip K. Dick Theorizes The Matrix in 1977, Declares That We Live in “A Computer-Programmed Reality”, 27 May 2024 in Literature&Sci Fi
• Hunter S. Thompson’s Harrowing, Chemical-Filled Daily Routine, 26 May 2024 in Food & Drink
• Hear the Song Written on a Sinner’s Buttock in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, 23 May 2024 in Art&Music
• 9‑Year-Old Edward Hopper Draws a Picture on the Back of His 3rd Grade Report Card, 22 May 2024 in Art
• The First Professional Footage of Pink Floyd Gets Captured in a 1967 Documentary (and the Band Also Provides the Soundtrack), 22 May 2024 in Film&Music
• Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts, 21 May 2024 in History&Life
• Hear Leo Tolstoy Read From His Last Major Work in Four Languages, 1909, 20 May 2024 in Books&Language
• “The Virtues of Coffee” Explained in 1690 Ad: The Cure for Lethargy, Scurvy, Dropsy, Gout & More, 17 May 2024 in Food & Drink&History
• Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them”, 15 May 2024 in Music
• Read 20 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro (RIP) Free Online, 15 May 2024 in Literature
• Jerry Seinfeld Delivers Commencement Address at Duke University: You Will Need Humor to Get Through the Human Experience, 13 May 2024 in Comedy&Life
• The First Recording of Allen Ginsberg Reading “Howl” (1956), 09 May 2024 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Watch an Enthusiast Drive the First Car Ever Made, the 1885 Mercedes Benz, 09 May 2024 in History&Technology
• Read the Uncompromising Letter That Steve Albini (RIP) Wrote to Nirvana Before Producing In Utero (1993), 08 May 2024 in Music
• A Bicycle Trip: Watch an Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip in 1943, 07 May 2024 in Film&History
• 4 Franz Kafka Animations: Watch Creative Animated Shorts from Poland, Japan, Russia & Canada, 06 May 2024 in Animation&Literature
• Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified Version of Bach’s “Little Fugue in G”, 06 May 2024 in Music
• Artist Draws 9 Portraits on LSD During 1950s Research Experiment, 02 May 2024 in Art&Psychology
• Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to Increase Your Productivity, 30 Apr 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Google
• Behold The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907–1917), 30 Apr 2024 in Art&Literature
• Bukowski Reads Bukowski: Watch a 1975 Documentary Featuring Charles Bukowski at the Height of His Powers, 29 Apr 2024 in Poetry
• The Origins of Anime: Watch Early Japanese Animations (1917 to 1931), 26 Apr 2024 in Animation
• Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign, 25 Apr 2024 in Music
• Hear Flannery O’Connor Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959), 24 Apr 2024 in Audio Books&Literature
• Watch Iconic Artists at Work: Rare Videos of Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, Monet, Pollock & More, 23 Apr 2024 in Art
• Daniel Dennett Presents the 4 Biggest Ideas in Philosophy in One of His Final Videos (RIP), 19 Apr 2024 in Philosophy
• Watch Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mind-Bending Masterpiece Free Online, 19 Apr 2024 in Film
• Learn How to Create Your Own Custom AI Assistants Using OpenAI GPTs: A Free Course from Vanderbilt University, 18 Apr 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Television
• Free: Download the The Anarchist’s Tool Chest, The Anarchist’s Design Book, The Anarchist’s Workbench & Other Woodworking Texts, 17 Apr 2024 in Books&Design
• Google & MIT Offer a Free Course on Generative AI for Teachers and Educators, 16 Apr 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Google&MIT
• Beavis and Butt-Head on SNL, 14 Apr 2024 in Comedy
• Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online, 12 Apr 2024 in Literature&Poetry&Science
• Who’s Behind These Scammy Text Messages We’ve All Been Getting?: The Search Engine Podcast Demystifies the Global Scam, 12 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs&Technology
• The Fictional Brand Archives: Explore a Growing Collection of Iconic But Fake Brands Found in Movies & TV, 11 Apr 2024 in Design&Film&Television
• 67 Logical Fallacies Explained in 11 Minutes, 10 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs&Philosophy
• Aldous Huxley, Dying of Cancer, Left This World Tripping on LSD (1963), 09 Apr 2024 in Life&Science
• How Was the Great Pyramid Built?; What Did the Ancient Egyptian Language Sound Like?; Were There Bars in Ancient Egypt?: An Egyptologist Answers These Questions & More from Internet Users, 08 Apr 2024 in History
• Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist Daniel Kahneman (RIP) Explains the Key Question Every Investor Must Ask, and Why It’s a Fool’s Errand to Pick Stocks, 05 Apr 2024 in Economics&Psychology
• What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change, 04 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs&Environment
• Sun Ra Plays a Music Therapy Gig at a Psychiatric Hospital & Inspires a Patient to Talk for the First Time in Years, 03 Apr 2024 in Music&Psychology
• Goethe’s Theory of Colors: The 1810 Treatise That Inspired Kandinsky & Early Abstract Painting, 01 Apr 2024 in Art&Design
• Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from a Publisher (1912), 29 Mar 2024 in Letters&Literature
• The Beautiful Art of Making Japanese Calligraphy Ink Out of Soot & Glue, 28 Mar 2024 in Art
• Radiohead’s “Creep” Sung by a 1,600-Person Choir in Australia, 27 Mar 2024 in Music
• 3,000 Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Complete Works from Victorian England, Presented in a Digital Archive, 26 Mar 2024 in Art&Literature&Theatre
• Learn to Become a Supply Chain Data Analyst with Unilever’s New Certificate Program, 25 Mar 2024 in Business&Online Courses
• A Day in Tokyo: A 1968 Film Captures a City Reborn 23 Years After Its Destruction, 21 Mar 2024 in History&Travel
• Free Coloring Books from Libraries & Museums: Download & Color Thousands of Free Images (2024), 20 Mar 2024 in Art&Coloring Books
• OpenVertebrate Presents a Massive Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Vertebrate Specimens, 19 Mar 2024 in Biology
• An Animated Introduction to the Rosetta Stone, and How It Unlocked Our Understanding of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, 18 Mar 2024 in History
• The Founder of the Red Cross Creates a Diagram of the Apocalypse (1887), 14 Mar 2024 in Art&History&Religion
• 6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871, 13 Mar 2024 in History&Maps
• Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Cutlery Set from 1957, 12 Mar 2024 in Art&Food & Drink
• How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa, 11 Mar 2024 in Architecture&History
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Alexei Navalny’s Final Letter: “Victory Is Inevitable. We Must Not Give Up”, 08 Mar 2024 in Current Affairs
• Behold Soviet Animations of Ray Bradbury Stories, 07 Mar 2024 in Animation&Film&Literature
• Almost 500 Etchings by Rembrandt Now Free Online, Courtesy of the Morgan Library & Museum, 06 Mar 2024 in Art
• The Decimal Point Is 150 Years Older Than We Thought, Emerging in Renaissance Italy, 05 Mar 2024 in History&Math
• Keith Richards Performs “I’m Waiting For The Man”: A New Tribute to Lou Reed, 04 Mar 2024 in Life&Music
• The US Postal Service to Release Stamp Collection Featuring the Photography of Ansel Adams, 01 Mar 2024 in Art
• Learn to Become a Digital Marketing Analyst with Unilever’s New Certificate Program, 29 Feb 2024 in Business
• Kino Lorber Lets You Stream 146 Films on YouTube: Tilda Swinton, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi, Buster Keaton & More, 29 Feb 2024 in Film
• When the Berlin Philharmonic Performed John Cage’s Iconic Piece 4′33″, Capturing the Solitude of the Pandemic (2020), 28 Feb 2024 in Music
• How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned What Life Would Look Like in the Year 2000, 27 Feb 2024 in Art&Life
• “Hello Vincent”: A Generative AI Project Brings Vincent Van Gogh to Life at the Musée D’Orsay, 23 Feb 2024 in Art&Technology
• Hear Grace Slick’s Hair-Raising Vocals in the Isolated Track for “White Rabbit” (1967), 22 Feb 2024 in Music
• The Jazz Classic “Take Five” Played Beautifully on a 1959 Classical Guitar, 21 Feb 2024 in Music
• A Web Site That Lets You Find Your Home Address on Pangea, 19 Feb 2024 in History&Maps
• The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Californication” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument That Emerged 1,400 Years Ago, 19 Feb 2024 in Music
• Punk Dulcimer: Hear The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” Played on the Dulcimer, 15 Feb 2024 in Music
• The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear & Tear, 14 Feb 2024 in Design
• 10 Biggest Threats to the World in 2024, Ranked by Ian Bremmer, 13 Feb 2024 in Current Affairs
• Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time, 08 Feb 2024 in Animation&Film
• Beethoven’s 5th: Watch an Animated Graphical Score, 08 Feb 2024 in Animation&Music
• Watch Dziga Vertov’s Soviet Toys: The First Soviet Animated Movie Ever (1924), 07 Feb 2024 in Animation&History
• Gillian Anderson Reads Anaïs Nin’s Passionate Letter about Sex and Poetry, 02 Feb 2024 in Life&Poetry
• Explore the Surface of Mars in Spectacular 4K Resolution, 31 Jan 2024 in Art&Science
• Amazon Offers Free AI Courses, Aiming to Help 2 Million People Build AI Skills by 2025, 26 Jan 2024 in Artificial Intelligence&Online Courses
• Free Download: A Knitting Pattern for a Sweater Depicting an Iconic Cover of George Orwell’s 1984, 23 Jan 2024 in Books&Fashion
• The Roman Author Pliny the Younger Gets Ghosted by a Friend, and Goes on a Rant: Hear It Read by Actor Rob Delaney, 22 Jan 2024 in History&Letters
• Stanford Continuing Studies Offering a Course on the History & Music of the Grateful Dead, Taught by David Gans: Starts on Monday, January 22, 21 Jan 2024 in Music&Online Courses
• Every Political Ideology Explained in 8 Minutes, 19 Jan 2024 in Politics
• 60 Free Film Noir Movies to Get You Through 2024, 18 Jan 2024 in Film
• J.S. Bach’s Opera, “The Coffee Cantata,” Sings the Praises of the Great Stimulating Drink (1735), 17 Jan 2024 in Food & Drink&Music
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Gives Life-Changing Advice to Teens: Watch His Speech, “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?” (1967), 15 Jan 2024 in History&Life
• The Pixies Perform a Hypnotic Version of “Gouge Away” at the BBC, 15 Jan 2024 in Music
• The Cool Science of Snowflakes in 4 Minutes, with Brian Cox, 12 Jan 2024 in Nature&Science
• Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live and Learn More, 11 Jan 2024 in Economics&Life
• How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers & Writers Have Always Known, 05 Jan 2024 in Nature&Psychology
• Dance Like David Byrne! An Easy-to-Follow Instructional Video Shows You How, 04 Jan 2024 in Creativity&Dance&How to Learn for Free&Music
• Watch the Moment When a 13-Year-Old Becomes the First Person to Ever “Beat” Tetris, 03 Jan 2024 in Games
• The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan, 01 Jan 2024 in Life
• When The Who (Literally) Blew Up The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967, 28 Dec 2023 in Life&Television
• David Bowie Sends a Christmas Greeting in the Voice of Elvis Presley (and Sings “I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You”), 22 Dec 2023 in Music&Random
• The Story of The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” the Boozy Ballad That Became a Beloved Christmas Song, 21 Dec 2023 in Music
• How Pantone Became the Global Authority on Color, 21 Dec 2023 in Design
• The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Free Online, 19 Dec 2023 in History&Maps
• The History of the Earth (All 4.5 Billion Years) in 1 Hour: A Million Years Covered Every Second, 19 Dec 2023 in History&Science
• Threads Now Available in Europe & UK (Plus the US): Get Our Daily Culture Posts There at @OpenCulture, 17 Dec 2023 in Random
• Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Nearly Burning His House Down (1990), 15 Dec 2023 in Literature&Random
• Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink Unlimited Alcohol While Visiting the U.S. During Prohibition (1932), 11 Dec 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• The Beatles Versus the Stones: An Animated Battle of the Bands, 11 Dec 2023 in Animation&Music
• Glen Hansard & Lisa O’Neill Perform a Stirring Version of “Fairytale of New York” at Shane MacGowan’s Funeral: Watch Their Send-Off, 10 Dec 2023 in Life&Music
• College Presidents Lampooned on Saturday Night Live’s Cold Open, 10 Dec 2023 in Comedy&Current Affairs
• Why Violins Have F‑Holes: The Science & History of the Renaissance Design, 08 Dec 2023 in Music
• A Busy Person’s Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs), 07 Dec 2023 in Online Courses&Technology
• Shane MacGowan & Sinéad O’Connor Duet Together, Performing a Moving Rendition of “Haunted” (RIP), 04 Dec 2023 in Life&Music
• Juilliard Jazz Drummer Hears & Plays Nirvana For The First Time, Figuring Out the Drum Parts in Real Time, 30 Nov 2023 in Music
• Napoleon’s Kindle: Discover the Miniaturized Traveling Library That the Emperor Took on Military Campaigns, 29 Nov 2023 in Books&History
• Generative AI for Everyone: A Free Course from AI Pioneer Andrew Ng, 29 Nov 2023 in Artificial Intelligence&Online Courses&Stanford&Technology
• Watch Prince Bust Some Eye-Popping Moves in Rehearsal Footage from 1984, 24 Nov 2023 in Dance&Music
• MasterClass Lets You Get Two Memberships for the Price of One (for a Limited Time), 23 Nov 2023 in Deals
• Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899), 22 Nov 2023 in Food & Drink
• The Evolution of Bugs Bunny’s Appearance Over His Eight Decade Career, 17 Nov 2023 in Animation&Comedy&Comics/Cartoons
• Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later, 15 Nov 2023 in Science
• Bertrand Russell: The Everyday Benefit of Philosophy Is That It Helps You Live with Uncertainty, 15 Nov 2023 in Life&Philosophy
• A Researcher Identifies the Old Man on the Iconic Cover of Led Zeppelin IV, 52 Years After the Album’s Release, 10 Nov 2023 in Art&Music
• Political Scientist Ian Bremmer Breaks Down the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 09 Nov 2023 in Current Affairs
• Renaissance Knives Had Music Engraved on the Blades & Now You Can Hear the Songs Performed by Modern Singers, 09 Nov 2023 in History&Music
• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Historical Primers That Help Explain the Century-Long Conflict, 06 Nov 2023 in History
• Alain de Botton Presents an ASMR Reading of Proust’s Swann’s Way, 03 Nov 2023 in Health&Literature
• The Making of the Last Beatles Song, “Now and Then”: A Short Film, 02 Nov 2023 in Music&Technology
• Hear Classic Readings of Poe’s “The Raven” by Vincent Price, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Neil Gaiman & More, 31 Oct 2023 in Audio Books&Literature
• Stephen King’s 22 Favorite Movies, Packed with Horror & Suspense, 29 Oct 2023 in Film
• The Talking Heads Reunite on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and Revisit Their Early Days as a Band, 27 Oct 2023 in Music
• David Lynch Teaches You to Cook His Quinoa Recipe in a Strange, Surrealist Video, 24 Oct 2023 in Film&Food & Drink