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• Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961), 13 Feb 2020 in Psychology
• Discover Friedrich Nietzsche’s Curious Typewriter, the “Malling-Hansen Writing Ball” (Circa 1881), 09 May 2019 in Philosophy&Technology
• Oxford’s Free Course Critical Reasoning For Beginners Teaches You to Think Like a Philosopher, 21 Mar 2019 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• Download Over 325 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum, 04 Dec 2018 in Art&Books
• Harvard’s Free Computer Science Course Teaches You to Code in 12 Weeks, 27 Mar 2014 in Harvard&How to Learn for Free&MOOCs&Technology
• The World Concert Hall: Listen To The Best Live Classical Music Concerts for Free, 26 Mar 2014 in Music
• Thomas Edison & His Trusty Kinetoscope Create the First Movie Filmed In The US (c. 1889), 25 Mar 2014 in Film&History
• Revered Poet Alexander Pushkin Draws Sketches of Nikolai Gogol and Other Russian Artists, 24 Mar 2014 in Literature
• A Glimpse Into How Wes Anderson Creatively Remixes/Recycles Scenes in His Different Films, 23 Mar 2014 in Film
• A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind: A Free Online Course from Oxford, 21 Mar 2014 in Philosophy
• Free Audio: Alice In Wonderland Read by Cory Doctorow, 19 Mar 2014 in Audio Books&K-12&Literature
• Watch The Touching Moment When Physicist Andrei Linde Learns That His Theories on the Big Bang Were Finally Validated, 18 Mar 2014 in Astronomy&Physics
• Hunter S. Thompson’s Edgy 1990s Commercial for Apple’s Macintosh Computer: A Meditation on Power, 18 Mar 2014 in Television
• See The Guidonian Hand, the Medieval System for Reading Music, Get Brought Back to Life, 17 Mar 2014 in Music
• World Science U Starts to Offer Innovative, Free Courses in the Sciences, 13 Mar 2014 in Online Courses&Physics&Science
• Soviet-Era Illustrations Of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976), 11 Mar 2014 in Art&Literature
• Download Over 22,000 Golden & Silver Age Comic Books from the Comic Book Plus Archive, 10 Mar 2014 in Archives&Comics/Cartoons
• Explosive Cats Imagined in a Strange, 16th Century Military Manual, 07 Mar 2014 in History
• Listen to Tree Rings Getting Played on a Turntable and Turned into Music, 06 Mar 2014 in Art&Music
• Get Ancient Advice on Losing Weight, Sobering Up, Removing a Tattoo & More at Ask The Past, 05 Mar 2014 in History
• Oxford’s Free Course A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners Will Teach You Right from Wrong, 04 Mar 2014 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• Sketches by Guillermo del Toro Take You Inside the Director’s Wildly Creative Imagination, 03 Mar 2014 in Art&Film
• Free App Lets You Play Chess With 23-Year-Old Norwegian World Champion Magnus Carlsen, 28 Feb 2014 in iPad&iPhone&Video Games
• Oxford’s Free Course Critical Reasoning For Beginners Will Teach You to Think Like a Philosopher, 27 Feb 2014 in Online Courses&Philosophy
• Rare Audio: William Faulkner Names His Best Novel, And the First Faulkner Novel You Should Read, 27 Feb 2014 in Literature
• How To Think Like a Psychologist: A Free Online Course from Stanford, 26 Feb 2014 in Online Courses&Psychology
• Watch a Witty, Gritty, Hardboiled Retelling of the Famous Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton Duel, 24 Feb 2014 in History
• The Postcards That Picasso Illustrated and Sent to Jean Cocteau, Apollinaire & Gertrude Stein, 20 Feb 2014 in Art
• Scenes from Star Wars, The Godfather, Scarface and Other Classic Movies Adapted Into Ottoman-Style Paintings, 19 Feb 2014 in Art&Film
• 15-Year-Old Jane Austen Writes a Satirical History Of England: Read the Handwritten Manuscript Online (1791), 18 Feb 2014 in History&Literature
• 15 Minute History: Quick History Lessons from a New, Chart-Topping Podcast, 17 Feb 2014 in History
• An Online Gallery of 30,000 Items from The British Library, Including Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks And Mozart’s Diary, 13 Feb 2014 in Art&History
• Free Guided Meditations From UCLA: Boost Your Awareness & Ease Your Stress, 11 Feb 2014 in Creativity&Health&How to Learn for Free&Psychology
• Learn To Pick Locks, With The MIT Guide To Lock Picking (1991), 07 Feb 2014 in Education
• How Vinyl Records Are Made: A Primer from 1956, 04 Feb 2014 in Music
• New Carl Sagan Archive Features His Digitized Home Movies, Student Journalism, Draft of His Pale Blue Dot & More, 03 Feb 2014 in Archives&Astronomy&History&Science
• The President of Northwestern University Predicts Online Learning … in 1934!, 31 Jan 2014 in History&MOOCs
• Read Ezra Pound’s List of 23 “Don’ts” For Writing Poetry (1913), 30 Jan 2014 in Poetry
• Learn Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Classical Greek & Other Ancient Languages in 10 Lessons, 29 Jan 2014 in Books&Language Lessons
• David Foster Wallace Talks About Literature (and More) in an Internet Chatroom: Read the 1996 Transcript, 28 Jan 2014 in Books&Technology
• Lewis Carroll’s 8 Still-Relevant Rules For Letter-Writing, 27 Jan 2014 in Letters&Literature
• See Carl Sagan’s Childhood Sketches of The Future of Space Travel, 24 Jan 2014 in Art&Astronomy&History
• A List of Nelson Mandela’s Possessions Upon Leaving Prison: Surfboard, Exercise Bike & White Cardboard Hat, 23 Jan 2014 in History
• Download Over 300+ Free Art Books From the Getty Museum, 22 Jan 2014 in Art&e-books&Museums
• Google’s Music Timeline: A Visualization of 60 Years of Changing Musical Tastes, 21 Jan 2014 in Google&Music
• Hunter S. Thompson’s Personal Hangover Cure (and the Real Science of Hangovers), 18 Jan 2014 in Food & Drink&Letters
• View the Passport Photos of F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & Other Cultural Icons, 16 Jan 2014 in Travel
• Read David Foster Wallace’s Notes From a Tax Accounting Class, Taken to Help Him Write The Pale King, 15 Jan 2014 in Literature
• Discover Cy Endfield’s “Microwriter,” The World’s First Portable Word Processor (Circa 1980), 14 Jan 2014 in History&Technology
• The Curious Story of London’s First Coffeehouses (1650–1675), 12 Jan 2014 in Food & Drink&History
• Read Dictator Kim Jong-il’s Writings on Cinema, Art & Opera: Courtesy of North Korea’s Free E‑Library, 08 Jan 2014 in e-books&Film&Literature
• Heavy Metal: BBC Film Explores the Music, Personalities & Great Clothing That Hit the Stage in the 1980s, 07 Jan 2014 in Film&Music
• The Ten-Year Lunch: Watch the Award-Winning Documentary About the Great Writers Who Sat at the Algonquin Round Table, 06 Jan 2014 in Film&History
• Vintage Films Revisits Literary Scene of 1920s New York, with Clips of Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken & Other Icons, 04 Jan 2014 in History&Video - Arts & Culture
• Five Hardcore Deaths Suffered By Roman Emperors, 03 Jan 2014 in History
• Watch Dinner for One, the Short Film That Has Become a Baffling New Year’s Tradition in Europe, 01 Jan 2014 in Comedy&History
• Free Fun: Play Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Frogger & Other Golden Age Video Games In Your Web Browser, 31 Dec 2013 in Video Games
• Norman Rockwell’s Typewritten Recipe for His Favorite Oatmeal Cookies, 30 Dec 2013 in Art&Food & Drink
• Every Time “Making Love” Was Uttered in a Woody Allen Film: A Four Minute Montage, 27 Dec 2013 in Comedy&Film
• Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children, 26 Dec 2013 in Letters&Literature
• Hear Kevin Smith’s Three Tips For Aspiring Filmmakers (NSFW), 24 Dec 2013 in Film
• Read 100 Entries From America’s Most Unique Dictionary, Now Available Online For The First Time, 21 Dec 2013 in English Language&History
• Quentin Tarantino Tells You About The Actors & Directors Who Provided the Inspiration for “Reservoir Dogs”, 19 Dec 2013 in Film
• Morgan Freeman Masterfully Recites Nelson Mandela’s Favorite Poem, “Invictus”, 18 Dec 2013 in History&Literature
• Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson Explains How Apple’s iPhone Was A Remixed Creation, 17 Dec 2013 in Creativity&Technology
• Illustrated Etiquette Guide Explains How to Ride the Paris Metro in a Civilized Way, 16 Dec 2013 in e-books&Life
• Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in Spectacular, High-Res Detail, 12 Dec 2013 in History&Religion
• Behold Friedrich Nietzsche’s Curious Typewriter, the “Malling-Hansen Writing Ball”, 11 Dec 2013 in History&Poetry&Technology
• Hear King Edward VIII Explain Why He Abdicated The Crown For Love, 77 Years Ago Today, 10 Dec 2013 in History&Radio
• View Bill Gates’ Mobile Library: The Books & Courses That Help Him Change The World, 09 Dec 2013 in Books&Education
• The Pulp Fiction Archive: The Cheap, Thrilling Stories That Entertained a Generation of Readers (1896–1946), 08 Dec 2013 in Archives&Art&Books&Comics/Cartoons&History
• Virginia Woolf Loved Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde Sometimes Despised Dickens & Other Gossip from The Reading Experience Database, 05 Dec 2013 in History&Literature
• See the Original Magazine Publication of Heart of Darkness and Other Great Works by Joseph Conrad, 04 Dec 2013 in History&Literature
• In Touching Video, Artist Marina Abramović & Former Lover Ulay Reunite After 22 Years Apart, 02 Dec 2013 in Art&Life
• William Shatner Raps About How to Not Kill Yourself Deep Frying a Turkey, 28 Nov 2013 in Food & Drink&Music
• Discover the “Brazen Bull,” the Ancient Greek Torture Machine That Doubled as a Musical Instrument, 27 Nov 2013 in History
• Legendary Japanese Author Yukio Mishima Muses About the Samurai Code (Which Inspired His Hapless 1970 Coup Attempt), 25 Nov 2013 in History&Literature&Politics
• A Young Björk Deconstructs (Physically & Theoretically) a Television in a Delightful Retro Video, 21 Nov 2013 in Media&Music&Television
• Mark Twain’s Viciously Funny Marginalia Took Aim at Some Literary Greats, 20 Nov 2013 in Comedy&Literature
• Stephen Colbert & Louis CK Recite The Gettysburg Address, With Some Help from Jerry Seinfeld, 19 Nov 2013 in Comedy&History&Politics
• Christopher Hitchens, Who Mixed Drinking & Writing, Names the “Best Scotch in the History of the World”, 18 Nov 2013 in Food & Drink&Life&Literature
• Listen to a New Album Featuring Tom Waits Songs in Hebrew (2013), 15 Nov 2013 in Music
• The 100 Best Novels: A Literary Critic Creates a List in 1898, 14 Nov 2013 in History&Literature
• Timothy Leary Plans a Neuromancer Video Game, with Art by Keith Haring, Music by Devo & Cameos by David Byrne, 13 Nov 2013 in Video Games
• Joseph Brodsky’s List of 83 Books You Should Read to Have an Intelligent Conversation, 12 Nov 2013 in Literature
• Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test: What Do You See? (1921), 08 Nov 2013 in Psychology&Science
• Watch a 44-Minute Supercut of Every Woody Allen Stammer, From Every Woody Allen Film, 07 Nov 2013 in Comedy&Film
• Cook Real Recipes from Ancient Rome: Ostrich Ragoût, Roast Wild Boar, Nut Tarts & More, 06 Nov 2013 in Food & Drink&History
• Prickly Ernest Hemingway Returns Letter to Critic: “Wipe Your Royal Irish Ass On It. You Are Stupid” (1931), 05 Nov 2013 in Literature&Writing
• Dissident Poet Joseph Brodsky Gives Six Life Tips to College Grads (1988), 04 Nov 2013 in Life&Poetry