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• The Full Rotation of the Moon: A Beautiful, High Resolution Time Lapse Film, 06 Dec 2018 in Astronomy
• Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” Movingly Performed by the Six-String Soldiers, of The United States Army Field Band, 03 Dec 2018 in Music
• The Thoughtful Note That George H.W. Bush Left on Bill Clinton’s Desk Before Leaving the White House (1993), 01 Dec 2018 in Life&Politics
• Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin Launch a New Music Podcast, Broken Record: Listen Online, 26 Nov 2018 in Music&Podcasts
• The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic, 22 Nov 2018 in Music&Random
• An Animated Introduction to the Forgotten Pioneer in Quantum Theory, Grete Hermann, 19 Nov 2018 in Gender&Physics
• David Lynch Releases a Disturbing, New Short Film: Watch “Ant Head” Online, 15 Nov 2018 in Film
• Stan Lee (RIP) Gets an Exuberant Fan Letter from 15-Year-Old George R.R. Martin, 1963, 13 Nov 2018 in Comics/Cartoons&Letters
• The First House Powered by Coffee, 08 Nov 2018 in Food & Drink&Technology
• Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Gets Released on Instagram as a Digital “Insta Novel”: It’s Free from The New York Public Library, 31 Oct 2018 in e-books&Libraries&Literature
• The World’s Largest Collection of Tibetan Buddhist Literature Now Online, 30 Oct 2018 in Archives&Religion
• Take a Free Animation Course from a Renowned French Animation School, 23 Oct 2018 in Animation
• Twerking, Moonwalking AI Robots–They’re Now Here, 18 Oct 2018 in Dance&Technology
• A Giant Mural of Robin Williams Goes Up in Chicago, 02 Oct 2018 in Art
• A Book about Women in Philosophy by Women in Philosophy: Help Crowdfund It, 24 Sep 2018 in Philosophy
• This Man Flew to Japan to Sing ABBA’s “Mamma Mia” in a Big Cold River, 18 Sep 2018 in Random
• Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Played by 28 Trombone Players, 14 Sep 2018 in Music
• 94-Year-Old Stroke Survivor Plays Jazz Piano for the First Time in Years, 14 Sep 2018 in Life&Music
• Acclaimed Ruth Bader Ginsburg Documentary, RBG, Airing Tonight on CNN, 09 Sep 2018 in Film&Law
• Margaret Atwood Offers a New Online Class on Creative Writing, 04 Sep 2018 in Online Courses&Writing
• Don’t Call 911 If You See a Coyote, Unless It’s Carrying ACME-Branded Products: The Office of Sheriff, Monroe County, New York, 31 Aug 2018 in Random
• NASA Captures the World on Fire, 28 Aug 2018 in Environment
• A Karlheinz Stockhausen Branded Car: A Playful Tribute to the Groundbreaking Electronic Composer, 22 Aug 2018 in Music
• The Books on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List: Naipaul, Ondaatje & More, 20 Aug 2018 in Books
• Bauhaus Ballet: A Dance of Geometry, 16 Aug 2018 in Dance
• NASA Creates a Visualization That Sets Breathtaking Footage of the Moon to Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” (Moonlight), 15 Aug 2018 in Astronomy&Music
• A Free Course from MIT Teaches You How to Speak Italian & Cook Italian Food All at Once, 13 Aug 2018 in Food & Drink&MIT&Online Courses
• Hunter S. Thompson Sends a Letter to the Indianapolis Colts, Urging Them to Pick Ryan Leaf Over That “Peyton Manning Kid” (1998), 07 Aug 2018 in Literature&Sports
• Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well, 03 Aug 2018 in Fashion&History
• Prince Plays Guitar for Maria Bartiromo: It’s Awkward (2004), 01 Aug 2018 in Music&Television
• The Believer Magazine Has Put Its Entire Archive Online for Free, 31 Jul 2018 in Magazines&Media
• New York Public Library Card Now Gives You Free Access to 33 NYC Museums, 30 Jul 2018 in Libraries&Museums
• The Encyclopedia Of Alternate Guitar Tunings, 26 Jul 2018 in Music
• Watch Kraftwerk Perform a Real-Time Duet with a German Astronaut Living on the International Space Station, 23 Jul 2018 in Music&Technology
• Penguin Classic’s Back Cover Blurb for Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 Novel It Can’t Happen Here, 19 Jul 2018 in Books&Current Affairs
• The Monty Python Philosophy Football Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans, 15 Jul 2018 in Comedy&Sports
• John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & 2 Citations, 09 Jul 2018 in Math
• Dancing in Movies: A Montage of Dance Moments from Almost 300 Feature Films, 27 Jun 2018 in Dance&Film
• 12-Year-Old Piano Prodigy Takes Four Notes Randomly Picked from a Hat and Instantly Uses Them to Improvise a Sonata, 26 Jun 2018 in Music
• Watch Paul McCartney Sing Through the Streets of Liverpool on the Latest Episode “Carpool Karaoke”, 23 Jun 2018 in Music
• New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000 Digitized Images, 21 Jun 2018 in Archives&History&Photography
• Chris Cornell’s Daughter Pays Tribute to Her Father, Singing an Achingly Pretty Cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”, 20 Jun 2018 in Life&Music
• Eight-Year-Old Drum Prodigy Plays Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times;” Robert Plant Watches in Wonder, 18 Jun 2018 in Music
• How Dr. Martens’ Boots Are Made, 13 Jun 2018 in Fashion
• James Hill Plays Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” on the Ukulele: Watch One Musician Become a Complete Band, 12 Jun 2018 in Music
• The Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Earth Over 500 Million Years: Animated Video Takes You from Pangea, to 250 Million Years in the Future, 11 Jun 2018 in Maps&Science
• A Vinyl Record Spins So Fast That It Shatters Into 50,000 Pieces, 06 Jun 2018 in Random
• Watch the Winners of the 48 Hour Science Fiction Film Challenge: The 2018 Edition, 04 Jun 2018 in Film&Sci Fi
• Watch the New Trailer for Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin, the First Feature Film on the Pioneering Sci-Fi Author, 01 Jun 2018 in Film&Sci Fi
• 19-Year-Old Russian Guitarist Plays an Ingenious Cover of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”, 31 May 2018 in Music
• The Device Invented to Resuscitate Canaries in Coal Mines (Circa 1896), 29 May 2018 in History&Technology
• Short Fascinating Film Shows How Japanese Soy Sauce Has Been Made for the Past 750 years, 24 May 2018 in Food & Drink&History
• Watch The Hedy Lamarr Story, a New Documentary on the 1940s Film Star & Inventor of Wi-Fi Technology (Streaming Free for a Limited Time), 23 May 2018 in Film
• Bill Gates Names 5 Books You Should Read This Summer, 22 May 2018 in Books
• Tom Wolfe’s Groundbreaking Work, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Gets Released as a Limited Collector’s Edition, with Each Copy Signed by the Author , 21 May 2018 in Art&Literature
• Why Sitting Is The New Smoking: An Animated Explanation, 18 May 2018 in Biology&Health
• Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child” Shredded on the Ukulele, 18 May 2018 in Music
• Why Stradivarius Violins Are Worth Millions, 17 May 2018 in Music
• Watch the Brand New Trailer for Bohemian Rhapsody, the Long-Awaited Biopic on Freddie Mercury & Queen, 16 May 2018 in Film&Music
• Get the History of the World in 46 Lectures: A Free Online Course from Columbia University, 15 May 2018 in History
• Newly Unearthed Footage Shows Albert Einstein Driving a Flying Car (1931), 14 May 2018 in History&Physics&Random
• The First 100 Years of the Bicycle: A 1915 Documentary Shows How the Bike Went from Its Clunky Birth in 1818, to Its Enduring Design in 1890, 10 May 2018 in History&Technology
• Yale’s Free Course on The Moral Foundations of Political Philosophy: Do Governments Deserve Our Allegiance, and When Should They Be Denied It?, 07 May 2018 in Online Courses&Politics&Yale
• Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory of the Cosmos Now Published & Available Online, 04 May 2018 in Physics
• Computer Scientists Figure Out What’s the Longest Distance You Could Sail at Sea Without Hitting Land, 02 May 2018 in Computer Science&Maps
• Charlie Chaplin Films a Scene Inside a Lion’s Cage in 200 Takes, 01 May 2018 in Comedy&Film
• A Big Choir Sings Patti Smith’s “Because the Night”, 27 Apr 2018 in Music
• An Archive of 8,000 Benjamin Franklin Papers Now Digitized & Put Online, 26 Apr 2018 in Archives&History
• Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Relives His Four Most Memorable Games, 25 Apr 2018 in Games
• The Salvador Dalí Action Figure, 23 Apr 2018 in Art
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Is Now Completely Online, 19 Apr 2018 in e-books&Physics
• How the Iconic Eames Lounge Chair Is Made, From Start to Finish, 18 Apr 2018 in Art
• Stream Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize In Music, 17 Apr 2018 in Music
• A Dazzling Aerial Photograph of Edinburgh (1920), 12 Apr 2018 in Photography
• Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations, 10 Apr 2018 in History
• UC Berkeley Is Offering Data Science, Its Fastest-Growing Course Ever, for Free Online, 09 Apr 2018 in Online Courses&UC Berkeley
• How to Use the Rotary Dial Phone: A Primer from 1927, 05 Apr 2018 in Technology
• How Bill Gates Reads Books, 02 Apr 2018 in Books
• Applause Fills the Air as Stephen Hawking Gets Laid to Rest in Cambridge, England, 31 Mar 2018 in Life&Physics
• A Periodic Table Visualizing the Year & Country in Which Each Element Was Discovered, 28 Mar 2018 in Chemistry
• The Models for “American Gothic” Pose in Front of the Iconic Painting (1942), 27 Mar 2018 in Art&Life
• Come on Down to David Byrne’s Giant Suit Emporium: We’re Burning Down the House with Savings!, 26 Mar 2018 in Music&Random
• Philosophy for Beginners: A Free Introductory Course from Oxford University, 26 Mar 2018 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• The MC5’s Wayne Kramer Demonstrates the Correct & Official Way to Play “Kick Out the Jams” on the Guitar, 23 Mar 2018 in Music
• A Free Oxford Course on Deep Learning: Cutting Edge Lessons in Artificial Intelligence, 22 Mar 2018 in Artificial Intelligence&Computer Science&Online Courses
• Watch a Marathon Streaming of All 856 Episodes of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, and the Moving Trailer for the New Documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 22 Mar 2018 in Film&Television
• A Free Online Course Helps Us Identify Hoaxes, Rumors & Misinformation in the News, 21 Mar 2018 in Online Courses
• Coursera Now Offering Complete Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs–With Tuition Reduced by 70%, 20 Mar 2018 in Online Courses
• Jane Goodall Now Teaching a Free Online Course on Developing Compassionate Leaders: Enroll and Start Today, 19 Mar 2018 in Online Courses
• Watch “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on The 405,” the New Oscar-Winning Portrait of an Artist, 15 Mar 2018 in Film
• Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Thanks to the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive, 14 Mar 2018 in Music&Technology
• IDEO.org’s Free Design Course on Prototyping Starts Today, 13 Mar 2018 in Design&Online Courses
• A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures, 12 Mar 2018 in History&Yale
• A Turing Machine Handmade Out of Wood, 09 Mar 2018 in Computer Science&Technology
• Time Lapse Video Captures Light Illuminating the Stained Glass Windows of Washington National Cathedral, 08 Mar 2018 in Architecture&Art
• Oxford’s Free Introduction to Philosophy: Stream 41 Lectures, 06 Mar 2018 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• Google Launches a Free Course on Artificial Intelligence: Sign Up for Its New “Machine Learning Crash Course”, 05 Mar 2018 in Artificial Intelligence&Computer Science&Google&Online Courses
• Judd Apatow Teaches the Craft of Comedy: A New Online Course from MasterClass, 02 Mar 2018 in Comedy&Online Courses
• New York City Buskers Sound Just Like the Beatles, 01 Mar 2018 in Music
• Pablo Neruda’s Poem, “The Me Bird,” Becomes a Short, Beautifully Animated Film, 01 Mar 2018 in Animation&Poetry
• Tattoos Can Now Start Monitoring Your Medical Conditions: Harvard and MIT Researchers Innovate at the Intersection of Art & Medicine, 28 Feb 2018 in Art&Harvard&MIT&Science&Technology
• HBO Drops a Teaser Trailer for Fahrenheit 451, Its New Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Classic Dystopian Novel, 27 Feb 2018 in Sci Fi&Television
• Free: The Best Books for Learning Modern Statistics, 25 Feb 2018 in e-books&Math
• Leo Tolstoy Makes a List of the 50+ Books That Influenced Him Most (1891), 23 Feb 2018 in Books&Literature
• The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Now Free Online, 22 Feb 2018 in Maps
• Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: A Free Course (2017), 21 Feb 2018 in Computer Science&Online Courses
• Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out, 20 Feb 2018 in Literature
• Finding Meaning in Music: A Short Documentary on How a Young Tech Pioneer, Confronting His Mortality, Prepared for His Final Violin Performance, 19 Feb 2018 in Life&Music
• The Strange, Sci-Fi Sounds of Skating on Thin Black Ice, 16 Feb 2018 in Nature&Sci Fi
• “Man as Industrial Palace,” the 1926 Lithograph Depicting the Human Body as a Modern Factory, Comes to Life in a New Animation, 15 Feb 2018 in Art
• How Do Computers Work?: New Video Series Explains the Inner Workings of the Device You Use Every Day, 14 Feb 2018 in Computer Science
• Criterion Collection Films 50% Off for a Limited Time: Get Great Films at Half Price, 13 Feb 2018 in Deals&Film
• Designer Creates Origami Cardboard Tents to Shelter the Homeless from the Winter Cold, 13 Feb 2018 in Design&Life
• One Minute Art History: Centuries of Artistic Styles Get Packed Into a Short Experimental Animation, 09 Feb 2018 in Art
• Download 240+ Free eBooks on Design, Data, Software, Web Development & Business from O’Reilly Media, 09 Feb 2018 in Computer Science&Data&Design&e-books
• A Field Guide to Fake News and Other Information Disorders: A Free Manual to Download, Share & Re-Use, 08 Feb 2018 in Media
• Bill Gates Names His New Favorite Book of All Time: A Quick Introduction to Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, 07 Feb 2018 in Books
• Download 150 Free Coloring Books from Great Libraries, Museums & Cultural Institutions: The British Library, Smithsonian, Carnegie Hall & More, 06 Feb 2018 in Art&Coloring Books&Libraries&Museums
• Slow Burn: An Eight-Episode Podcast Miniseries on the Unfolding of the Watergate Scandal, 05 Feb 2018 in History&Podcasts
• What Do You Want to Do with Your Life?: Reflect with This Short Hand-Drawn Animation by Steve Cutts, 04 Feb 2018 in Life
• “Every Concussion in the NFL This Year” Documented in a Chilling Five Minute Video, 02 Feb 2018 in Health&Sports
• Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Played With 167 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls in Japan, 01 Feb 2018 in Uncategorized
• Watch the Making of the Dymaxion Globe: A 3‑D Rendering of Buckminster Fuller’s Revolutionary Map, 31 Jan 2018 in Maps
• Literary Theorist Stanley Fish Offers a Free Course on Rhetoric, or the Power of Arguments, 30 Jan 2018 in Online Courses
• H.P. Lovecraft’s Poem “Nemesis” Gets Unexpectedly Sung to the Tune of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”, 29 Jan 2018 in Music&Poetry
• Sign Up for Open Culture’s Free Daily Email, 28 Jan 2018 in Deals
• How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military, 26 Jan 2018 in History
• Harry Potter Finally Gets Translated Into Scots: Hear & Read Passages from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane, 26 Jan 2018 in Books
• Robert Reich Makes His UC Berkeley Course on Wealth and Inequality in America Available on Facebook, 25 Jan 2018 in Current Affairs&Economics
• Carl Sagan’s “The Pale Blue Dot” Animated, 24 Jan 2018 in Astronomy&Life
• The London Time Machine: Interactive Map Lets You Compare Modern London, to the London Shortly After the Great Fire of 1666, 22 Jan 2018 in History&Maps
• How a Virtual Reality Model of Auschwitz Helped Convict an SS Concentration Camp Guard: A Short Documentary on a High Tech Prosecution, 19 Jan 2018 in History&Technology
• Watch David Byrne Lead a Massive Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes”, 18 Jan 2018 in Music
• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Free Course from Princeton, 16 Jan 2018 in Online Courses&Technology
• A Teaser Trailer for Fahrenheit 451: A New Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Ever-Relevant Novel, 15 Jan 2018 in Film&Sci Fi
• 170+ Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies This Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses, 15 Jan 2018 in Online Courses&Stanford
• Binge-Watch Carl Sagan’s Original Cosmos Series Free Online (Available for a Limited Time), 13 Jan 2018 in Science&Television
• The “True” Story Of How Brian Eno Invented Ambient Music, 10 Jan 2018 in Music&Random
• Take a Virtual Tour of The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the World-Famous Collection of Renaissance Art, 10 Jan 2018 in Art
• David Bowie: The Last Five Years Is Now Airing/Streaming on HBO, 10 Jan 2018 in Film&Music