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• Salvador Dalí’s Body Gets Exhumed, Revealing That, 28 Years After His Death, His Moustache Remains Perfectly Intact, 21 Jul 2017 in Art&Life
• Google’s DeepMind AI Teaches Itself to Walk, and the Results Are Kooky, No Wait, Chilling, 21 Jul 2017 in Technology
• Director Michel Gondry Makes a Charming Film on His iPhone, Proving That We Could Be Making Movies, Not Taking Selfies, 20 Jul 2017 in Apple&Film&Technology
• Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Actually Get Used in Making Everyday Things, 19 Jul 2017 in Chemistry
• Eadweard Muybridge’s 1870s Photographs of Galloping Horses Get Encoded on the DNA of Living Bacteria Cells, 18 Jul 2017 in Photography&Science
• Watch A Single Life: An Oscar-Nominated Short About How Vinyl Records Can Take Us Magically Through Time, 17 Jul 2017 in Animation
• Attempting to Set the World Record for Most Frida Kahlo Lookalikes in One Place: It Happened in Dallas, 14 Jul 2017 in Art&Random
• Syd Barrett’s “Effervescing Elephant” Comes to Life in a New Retro-Style Animation, 13 Jul 2017 in Animation&Music
• Send a Text Message to SFMOMA, and They’ll Send Works of Art to Your Mobile Phone, 12 Jul 2017 in Art
• Watch the Making of a Hand-Crafted Violin, from Start to Finish, in a Beautifully-Shot Documentary, 11 Jul 2017 in Music
• 65,000 Fans Break Into a Singalong of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” at a Green Day Concert in London’s Hyde Park, 07 Jul 2017 in Music
• The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 06 Jul 2017 in Books&Design
• When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975), 05 Jul 2017 in Physics&Random
• John Wayne Recites and Explains the Pledge of Allegiance (1972), 04 Jul 2017 in Politics
• Dog Crashes a Performance of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, in the Ancient City of Ephesus: The “Cutest Moment in Classical Music”, 03 Jul 2017 in Random
• Garry Kasparov Now Teaching an Online Course on Chess, 30 Jun 2017 in Games
• All the Rivers & Streams in the U.S. Shown in Rainbow Colors: A Data Visualization to Behold, 29 Jun 2017 in Maps
• A Lecture About the History of the Scots Language … in Scots: How Much Can You Comprehend?, 27 Jun 2017 in Language Lessons
• Google Uses Artificial Intelligence to Map Thousands of Bird Sounds Into an Interactive Visualization, 26 Jun 2017 in Computer Science&Nature
• A Light Show on The Empire State Building Gets Synced to the Dead’s Live Performance of “Touch of Grey” (6/24/2017), 25 Jun 2017 in Art&Music
• Herbie Hancock to Teach His First Online Course on Jazz, 23 Jun 2017 in Music&Online Courses
• Sigourney Weaver Stars in a New Experimental Sci-Fi Film: Watch “Rakka” Free Online, 22 Jun 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• Bill Gates Recommends Five Books for Summer 2017, 22 Jun 2017 in Books
• Free eBooks with Modern Typography & Nice Formatting, All “Carefully Produced for the True Book Lover”, 21 Jun 2017 in e-books&Literature
• The Illustrated Guide to a PhD: 12 Simple Pictures That Will Put the Daunting Degree into Perspective, 20 Jun 2017 in Education
• Watch a Star Get Devoured by a Supermassive Black Hole, 19 Jun 2017 in Astronomy
• Sci-Fi Radio: Hear Radio Dramas of Sci-Fi Stories by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. LeGuin & More (1989), 16 Jun 2017 in Audio Books&Radio&Sci Fi
• Talking Heads Perform The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” Live in 1977 (and How the Bands Got Their Start Together), 15 Jun 2017 in Music
• See New York City in the 1930s and Now: A Side-by-Side Comparison of the Same Streets & Landmarks, 15 Jun 2017 in Uncategorized
• Take Free Philosophy Courses from The Institute of Art and Ideas: From “The Meaning of Life” to “Heidegger Meets Van Gogh”, 14 Jun 2017 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• American Archive of Public Broadcasting Lets You Stream 7,000 Hours of Historic Public TV & Radio Programs, 13 Jun 2017 in Radio&Television
• Introduction to Python, Data Science & Computational Thinking: Free Online Courses from MIT, 12 Jun 2017 in Computer Science&MIT&Online Courses
• Batman Goes Surfing: Remembering Adam West (RIP) with Perhaps the Campiest Batman Episode Ever, 12 Jun 2017 in Television
• Radiohead’s “Creep” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument Dating Back to the 6th Century, 10 Jun 2017 in Music
• 7‑Foot Tall Clown with a Golden Voice Sings Chris Cornell’s “When I’m Down:” A Tribute Filled with Raw Emotion, 09 Jun 2017 in Life&Music
• 10-Story High Mural of Muddy Waters Goes Up in Chicago, 09 Jun 2017 in Art&Music
• Ancient Rome’s System of Roads Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps, 08 Jun 2017 in History&Maps
• Ennio Morricone’s Iconic Song, “The Ecstasy of Gold,” Spellbindingly Arranged for Theremin & Voice, 06 Jun 2017 in Music
• Dr. Jane Goodall Will Teach an Online Course About Conserving Our Environment, 05 Jun 2017 in Environment&Nature&Online Courses
• Bob Dylan Potato Chips, Anyone?: What They’re Snacking on in China, 05 Jun 2017 in Food & Drink&Music
• Long Strange Trip, the New 4‑Hour Documentary on the Grateful Dead, Is Now Streaming Free on Amazon Prime, 03 Jun 2017 in Film&Music
• 240 Hours of Relaxing, Sleep-Inducing Sounds from Sci-Fi Video Games: From Blade Runner to Star Wars, 02 Jun 2017 in Health&Sci Fi
• Manchester Benefit Concert Is Streaming Live Now, 02 Jun 2017 in Music
• See What Happens When a Camera’s Shutter Speed Gets Perfectly Synced with a Helicopter’s Rotor, 01 Jun 2017 in Photography
• Blitzscaling: A Free Stanford Course on Scaling a Startup, Led by LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, 01 Jun 2017 in Business&Entrepreneurship&Online Courses
• LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Creates a New Podcast Offering Wisdom on Nurturing & Scaling New Businesses, 30 May 2017 in Business&Entrepreneurship
• When Bowie & Jagger’s “Dancing in the Street” Music Video Becomes a Silent Film, 30 May 2017 in Comedy&Music
• Artificial Intelligence: A Free Online Course from MIT, 29 May 2017 in Artificial Intelligence&Computer Science&MIT&Online Courses
• Watch Clouds Roil Through the Grand Canyon: A Beautiful Timelapse Film Captures a Rare Full Cloud Inversion, 28 May 2017 in Uncategorized
• Timelapse Animation Lets You See the Rise of Cities Across the Globe, from 3700 BC to 2000 AD, 26 May 2017 in History&Maps
• Watch a Mesmerizing Hourglass Filled with 1,250,000 “Nanoballs” (Created by the Designer of the Apple Watch), 26 May 2017 in Design
• Large Choir Sings “Black Hole Sun”: A Moving Tribute to Chris Cornell, 25 May 2017 in Life&Music
• Animations Show the Melting Arctic Sea Ice, and What the Earth Would Look Like When All of the Ice Melts, 24 May 2017 in Current Affairs&Science
• The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download, 23 May 2017 in Data
• Sgt. Pepper’s Album Cover Gets Reworked to Remember Icons Lost in 2016, 22 May 2017 in Life&Music
• 36 eBooks on Computer Programming from O’Reilly Media: Free to Download and Read, 19 May 2017 in Computer Science&e-books&Technology
• Learn Python with a Free Online Course from MIT, 18 May 2017 in Online Courses&Software
• Stephen Wolfram’s Bestseller, A New Kind of Science, Now Free to Read/Download Online, 17 May 2017 in Science
• Meet the Iconic Figures on the Cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 16 May 2017 in Art&Music
• “Calling Bullshit”: Watch Lectures for the College Course Designed to Combat the BS in our Information Age, 15 May 2017 in Current Affairs&Online Courses
• All 886 episodes of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood Streaming Online (for a Limited Time), 14 May 2017 in K-12&Television
• A Free Course on Machine Learning & Data Science from Caltech, 12 May 2017 in Computer Science&Data&Online Courses
• The History of the World in 20 Odd Minutes, 11 May 2017 in History
• The Frida Kahlo Action Figure, 11 May 2017 in Art
• A Complete Digitization of Eros Magazine: The Controversial 1960s Magazine on the Sexual Revolution, 10 May 2017 in Media
• Stevie Nicks “Shows Us How to Kick Ass in High-Heeled Boots” in a 1983 Women’s Self Defense Manual, 09 May 2017 in Music&Random
• The Official Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Long-Awaited Blade Runner Sequel Is Finally Out, 08 May 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Pioneering Physics TV Show, The Mechanical Universe, Is Now on YouTube: 52 Complete Episodes from Caltech, 08 May 2017 in Online Courses&Physics
• Watch Coda, a Prize-Winning, Thought-Provoking Animation About a Lost Soul’s Encounter with Death, 05 May 2017 in Animation&Life
• The Museum of Failure: A New Swedish Museum Showcases Harley-Davidson Perfume, Colgate Beef Lasagne, Google Glass & Other Failed Products, 04 May 2017 in Business&Museums&Technology
• Watch a Reading of Steve Bannon’s Screenplay Which Attempted to Turn Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Into a Rap Musical, 03 May 2017 in Media
• A Free Course from Yale on the U.S. Civil War, 02 May 2017 in History
• Montblanc Unveils a New Line of Miles Davis Pens … and (Kind of) Blue Ink, 01 May 2017 in Business&Music
• An Animation of The Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” … for Your Sunday Morning, 30 Apr 2017 in Animation&Music
• Animated Stories Written by Tom Waits, Nick Cave & Other Artists, Read by Danny Devito, Zach Galifianakis & More, 28 Apr 2017 in Art&Audio Books&Music
• George Saunders Tries to Order One Mousetrap Over The Phone, 27 Apr 2017 in Random
• The News Is Broken, and Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Plans to Fix It With His New Site, Wikitribune, 27 Apr 2017 in Media
• Jonathan Demme Narrates I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!,” a Short Film About the Counterculture Cartoon Reid Fleming, 26 Apr 2017 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
• If You Could Spend Eternity with Your Ashes Pressed Into a Vinyl Record, What Album Would It Be?, 26 Apr 2017 in Life&Music
• David Mamet Teaches Dramatic Writing in a New Online Course, 25 Apr 2017 in Online Courses&Writing
• Discover the Creative, New Philosophy Podcast Hi-Phi Nation: The First Story-Driven Show About Philosophy, 24 Apr 2017 in Philosophy&Podcasts
• How to Make the World’s Smallest Cup of Coffee, from Just One Coffee Bean, 24 Apr 2017 in Food & Drink
• Alec Baldwin Has a Podcast: Hear His Intimate Interviews with Patti Smith, Thom Yorke, Jerry Seinfeld, Ira Glass, Amy Schumer & More, 21 Apr 2017 in Podcasts
• An Interactive Visualization of Hegel’s Science of Logic (Available on Github), 21 Apr 2017 in Philosophy
• Peter Singer’s Course on Effective Altruism Puts Philosophy Into Worldly Action, 20 Apr 2017 in Online Courses
• The Day When Chivalry Officially Came to an End in 1363 AD: A Short Comedy Film, 19 Apr 2017 in Comedy
• Oscar-Winning Actress Viola Davis Reads the Children’s Story, Rent Party Jazz, for Jazz Appreciation Month, 18 Apr 2017 in Film&K-12&Music
• 200 Haunting Videos of U.S. Nuclear Tests Now Declassified and Put Online, 18 Apr 2017 in History&Technology
• Discover “Unpaywall,” a New (and Legal) Browser Extension That Lets You Read Millions of Science Articles Normally Locked Up Behind Paywalls, 17 Apr 2017 in Education&Magazines&Science
• David Bowie/Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold The World” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument from the 6th Century, 16 Apr 2017 in Music
• Live Stream the Concerts at Coachella This Weekend: Radiohead, Lady Gaga, Lorde, New Order & Much More, 14 Apr 2017 in Music
• “Primitive Potter” Travels into the Backcountry for 10 Days with Only a Knife & Buckskin and Makes Anasazi Pottery, 13 Apr 2017 in Art
• A Free 700-Page Chess Manual Explains 1,000 Chess Tactics in Plain English, 13 Apr 2017 in Games
• Artificial Neural Network Reveals What It Would Look Like to Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting on LSD, 12 Apr 2017 in Art
• Richard Dawkins on Why We Should Believe in Science: “It Works … Bitches”, 11 Apr 2017 in Science
• BritBox Now Streaming Now Streaming 550 Episodes Doctor Who and Many Other British TV Shows, 10 Apr 2017 in Sci Fi&Television
• New Jim Jarmusch Documentary on Iggy Pop & The Stooges Now Streaming Free on Amazon Prime, 08 Apr 2017 in Film&Music
• An Epic Retelling of the Great Chinese Novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms: 110 Free Episodes and Counting, 08 Apr 2017 in Literature&Podcasts
• An Introduction to Game Theory & Strategic Thinking: A Free Course from Yale University, 07 Apr 2017 in Economics&Online Courses
• How Henry David Thoreau Revolutionized the Pencil, 06 Apr 2017 in Random
• 10-Week Online Seminar Will Teach You to Be a Great Los Pollos Hermanos Employee: A Teaser for the New Season of Better Call Saul, 06 Apr 2017 in Television
• Take a 360 Degree Tour of Miniature Models of Famous Landmarks: From the Taj Mahal to The Great Wall of China, 05 Apr 2017 in Random
• Behold the Ingenious “Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion” (and Then Find Out How It Works), 04 Apr 2017 in Math
• Neural Networks for Machine Learning: A Free Online Course, 04 Apr 2017 in Computer Science&Online Courses
• Søren Kierkegaard: A Free Online Course on the “Father of Existentialism”, 03 Apr 2017 in Philosophy
• S‑Town: The Podcast That Will Help You Binge-Listen Your Way Through This Week, 03 Apr 2017 in Podcasts
• Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles: A Radio Drama Starring Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell (Free Audio Book), 31 Mar 2017 in Audio Books&Sci Fi
• The M.C. Escher Mirror Puzzle: Test Your Imagination & Concentration with an Artistic Brain Teaser, 31 Mar 2017 in Art&Games
• A Human Chess Match Gets Played in Leningrad, 1924, 30 Mar 2017 in Games
• School of Visual Arts Presents 99 Hours of Free Photography Lectures, 29 Mar 2017 in Photography
• Stephen Hawking Auditions Celebrities to Provide His New Voice: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Liam Neeson, Anna Kendrick & Michael Caine, 29 Mar 2017 in Comedy
• Free eBook Lets You Read Stories from 75 Up-and-Coming Sci-Fi Authors (Available for a Limited Time), 27 Mar 2017 in Sci Fi
• Rock Scene: Browse a Complete Online Archive of the Irreverent Magazine That Chronicled the 1970s Rock & Punk Scene, 27 Mar 2017 in Magazines&Music
• The Jimi Hendrix of the Bass: Watch a Busker Shred the Bass on the Streets of Newcastle, 26 Mar 2017 in Music
• The Famous Schrodinger’s Cat Thought Experiment Gets Brought to Life in an Off-Kilter Animation, 24 Mar 2017 in Animation&Physics
• Hitler Was ‘Blitzed’ On Cocaine & Opiates During World War II: Hear a Wide-Ranging Interview with Best-Selling Author Norman Ohler, 23 Mar 2017 in History
• Introduction to Philosophy: A Free Online Course, 23 Mar 2017 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” Provides a Soundtrack for the Final Scene of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 22 Mar 2017 in Film&Music
• NASA’s New Online Archive Puts a Wealth of Free Science Articles Online, 21 Mar 2017 in Science
• Download Animals and Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights (Free), 20 Mar 2017 in Books&Philosophy
• An Animated Introduction to McCarthyism: What Is It? And How Did It Happen?, 20 Mar 2017 in History
• Chuck Berry (RIP) Reviews Punk Songs by The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Talking Heads & More (1980), 18 Mar 2017 in Music
• Tears for Fears Sings “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” with Musician Who Created Divine Dulcimer Version of Their Song, 17 Mar 2017 in Music
• David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Theme Song Gets the Seinfeld Treatment, 17 Mar 2017 in Music&Television
• What Did the Voice of Neanderthals, Our Distant Cousins, Sound Like?: Scientists Demonstrate Their “High Pitch” Theory, 16 Mar 2017 in History
• Steve Reich is Calling: A Minimalist Ringtone for the iPhone, 15 Mar 2017 in Apple&Music
• Rock Band: Hear The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” Played with Electromechanical Instruments That Make Music with Rocks, 15 Mar 2017 in Music&Technology
• Sesame Street’s Count Von Count counts Pi to 10,000 Places: A 5 Hour Recording for Pi Day, 14 Mar 2017 in Math
• NASA Puts Its Software Online & Makes It Free to Download, 14 Mar 2017 in Software
• Tony Conrad’s 200-Hour Avant-Garde Piano Composition, “Music & the Mind of the World”: Now Free Online for the First Time, 13 Mar 2017 in Music
• Alfred Hitchcock Reveals The Secret Sauce for Creating Suspense, 10 Mar 2017 in Film
• Free Audio: Hear Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Margaret Atwood & Authors, 09 Mar 2017 in Audio Books&Literature
• Alfred Hitchcock Meditates on Suspense & Dark Humor in a New Animated Video, 08 Mar 2017 in Animation&Film
• Free Download: The Book Lover’s Guide to Coffee, 07 Mar 2017 in Food & Drink&Literature
• Enchanting Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955: The End of a 500-Year Tradition, 07 Mar 2017 in Maps
• 42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor Who Will Help You Relax & Sleep, 03 Mar 2017 in Film&Random
• 10 Hours of Ambient Arctic Sounds Will Help You Relax, Meditate, Study & Sleep, 01 Mar 2017 in Random
• For Sale: The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein’s Creative Mind, 28 Feb 2017 in K-12&Physics
• Stanford University Launches Free Course on Developing Apps with iOS 10, 27 Feb 2017 in Apple&Software&Stanford
• W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem “When You Are Old” Gets Adapted Into a Beautiful Short Film, 27 Feb 2017 in Film&Poetry