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• Tom Waits Releases a Timely Cover of the Italian Anti-Fascist Anthem “Bella Ciao,” His First New Song in Two Years, 14 Sep 2018 in Music&Politics
• Behold Mystical Photographs Taken Inside a Cello, Double Bass & Other Instruments, 13 Sep 2018 in Art&Music&Photography
• Wikipedia Leads Effort to Create a Digital Archive of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in the Brazilian Museum Fire, 12 Sep 2018 in Museums
• David Gilmour Talks About the Mysteries of His Famous Guitar Tone, 12 Sep 2018 in Music
• Hunter S. Thompson Hated Getting Caricatured as “Uncle Duke” in Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury: ‘If I Ever Catch That Little Bastard, I’ll Tear His Lungs Out’, 11 Sep 2018 in Comics/Cartoons
• See a Full Jimi Hendrix Experience Concert on Restored Footage Thought Lost for 35 Years, 10 Sep 2018 in Music
• Enter an Archive of William Blake’s Fantastical “Illuminated Books”: The Images Are Sublime, and in High Resolution, 07 Sep 2018 in Art&Literature
• To Make Great Films, You Must Read, Read, Read and Write, Write, Write, Say Akira Kurosawa and Werner Herzog, 06 Sep 2018 in Film
• Why You Should Read One Hundred Years of Solitude: An Animated Video Makes the Case, 05 Sep 2018 in Animation&Books&Literature
• Hear Langston Hughes Read His Poetry Over Original Compositions by Charles Mingus & Leonard Feather: A Classic Collaboration from 1958, 05 Sep 2018 in Jazz&Music&Poetry
• Nirvana Refuses to Fake It on Top of the Pops, Gives a Big “Middle Finger” to the Tradition of Bands Miming on TV (1991), 04 Sep 2018 in Music&Television
• Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Love Letters to Diego Rivera, 04 Sep 2018 in Art&Letters
• R.E.M. Reveals the Secrets Behind Their Emotionally-Charged Songs: “Losing My Religion” and “Try Not to Breathe”, 03 Sep 2018 in Music
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Earliest Notebooks Now Digitized and Made Free Online: Explore His Ingenious Drawings, Diagrams, Mirror Writing & More, 31 Aug 2018 in Art&History&Science
• The Last Great Moment of Elvis Presley’s Musical Career: Watch His Extraordinary Performance of “Unchained Melody” (1977), 30 Aug 2018 in Music
• Hear the Original, Never-Heard Demo of John Lennon’s “Imagine”, 29 Aug 2018 in Music
• Japanese Musicians Turn Obsolete Machines Into Musical Instruments: Cathode Ray Tube TVs, Overhead Projectors, Reel-to-Reel Tape Machines & More, 29 Aug 2018 in Music&Technology
• Conserve the Sound, an Online Museum Preserves the Sounds of Past Technologies–from Typewriters, Electric Shavers and Cassette Recorders, to Cameras & Classic Nintendo, 28 Aug 2018 in Archives&History&Libraries&Technology
• V.S. Naipaul Writes an Enraged Letter to His Publisher After a Copy-Editor Revises His Book, A Turn in the South, 24 Aug 2018 in Literature&Writing
• Pablo Picasso’s Masterful Childhood Paintings: Precocious Works Painted Between the Ages of 8 and 15, 23 Aug 2018 in Art
• The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online, 22 Aug 2018 in History&Maps
• This Is Your Kids’ Brains on Internet Algorithms: A Chilling Case Study Shows What’s Wrong with the Internet Today, 22 Aug 2018 in Software&Technology&TED Talks
• Tom Waits’ Many Appearances on David Letterman, From 1983 to 2015, 21 Aug 2018 in Music
• Charles Bukowski Explains How to Beat Depression: Spend 3–4 Days in Bed and You’ll Get the Juices Flowing Again (NSFW), 21 Aug 2018 in Health&Life&Literature
• How Aretha Franklin Turned Otis Redding’s “Respect” Into a Civil Rights and Feminist Anthem, 20 Aug 2018 in Music
• Aretha Franklin’s Pitch-Perfect Performance in The Blues Brothers, the Film That Reinvigorated Her Career (1980), 17 Aug 2018 in Film&Music
• How Aleister Crowley, the Infamous Occultist, Led the First Attempt to Reach the Summit of K2 (1902), 16 Aug 2018 in History&Nature
• What English Would Sound Like If It Was Pronounced Phonetically, 15 Aug 2018 in English Language
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Library of Alexandria: An Animated Introduction, 15 Aug 2018 in History
• Did Lennon or McCartney Write the Beatles 1965 Song “In My Life”? A Math Professor, Using Statistics, Solves the Decades-Old Mystery, 14 Aug 2018 in Math&Music
• Aretha Franklin’s Most Powerful Early Performances: “Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” “Say a Little Prayer” & More, 14 Aug 2018 in Music
• The Surreal Paintings of the Occult Magician, Writer & Mountaineer, Aleister Crowley, 13 Aug 2018 in Art
• See Ancient Greek Music Accurately Reconstructed for the First Time, 10 Aug 2018 in History&Literature&Music
• Native Lands: An Interactive Map Reveals the Indigenous Lands on Which Modern Nations Were Built, 09 Aug 2018 in History&Maps
• Frank Zappa’s 1980s Appearances on The David Letterman Show, 08 Aug 2018 in Music&Television
• A Modern Drummer Plays a Rock Gong, a Percussion Instrument from Prehistoric Times, 08 Aug 2018 in History&Music
• Italian Street Musician Plays Amazing Covers of Pink Floyd Songs, Right in Front of the Pantheon in Rome, 07 Aug 2018 in Music
• How Zildjian Cymbals Were Created by an Alchemist in the Ottoman Empire, Circa 1618, 07 Aug 2018 in Music
• Meet Grace Hopper, the Pioneering Computer Scientist Who Helped Invent COBOL and Build the Historic Mark I Computer (1906–1992), 06 Aug 2018 in Computer Science
• How Steely Dan Went Through Seven Guitarists and Dozens of Hours of Tape to Get the Perfect Guitar Solo on “Peg”, 03 Aug 2018 in Music
• “The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Denied Recognition and Written Out of Science History, 02 Aug 2018 in Gender&History&Science
• How Marcel Marceau Used His Mime Skills to Save Children’s Lives During the Holocaust, 01 Aug 2018 in History
• How Carol Kaye Became the Most Prolific Session Musician in History, 01 Aug 2018 in Music
• Discover Hilma af Klint: Pioneering Mystical Painter and Perhaps the First Abstract Artist, 31 Jul 2018 in Art
• An Asbestos-Bound, Fireproof Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953), 31 Jul 2018 in Books&Literature&Sci Fi
• How to Build a Custom Handcrafted Acoustic Guitar from Start to Finish: The Process Revealed in a Fascinating Documentary, 30 Jul 2018 in Design&Music
• The Genius of Tina Weymouth: Breaking Down the Style of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club’s Basslines, 27 Jul 2018 in Music
• Merry Clayton Tells the Story of Her Amazing Backing Vocal on The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter”, 26 Jul 2018 in Music
• The Doors’ Ray Manzarek Walks You Through the Writing of the Band’s Iconic Song, “Riders on the Storm”, 25 Jul 2018 in Music
• What Is ASMR? Watch the The New Yorker’s Introduction to the Whispering & Crinkling Sounds That Help Calm Anxiety and Induce Euphoria, 25 Jul 2018 in Life&Psychology
• Hunter S. Thompson’s Many Strange, Unpredictable Appearances on The David Letterman Show, 24 Jul 2018 in Literature&Television
• Watch the Original TV Coverage of the Historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Recorded on July 20, 1969, 24 Jul 2018 in History&Science&Television
• What Is Stoicism? A Short Introduction to the Ancient Philosophy That Can Help You Cope with Our Hard Modern Times, 23 Jul 2018 in Life&Philosophy
• Stream Online the Complete “Lost” John Coltrane Album, Both Directions at Once, 20 Jul 2018 in Jazz&Music
• Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s 1897 Love Letter De Profundis: See the Full Three-Hour Performance, 19 Jul 2018 in Literature
• Peter Jackson’s New Film on World War I Features Incredible Digitally-Restored Footage From the Front Lines: Get a Glimpse, 18 Jul 2018 in Education&Film&History
• Noam Chomsky Defines The Real Responsibility of Intellectuals: “To Speak the Truth and to Expose Lies” (1967), 18 Jul 2018 in Politics
• George Orwell Identifies the Main Enemy of the Free Press: It’s the “Intellectual Cowardice” of the Press Itself, 17 Jul 2018 in Media&Politics
• Sarah Bernhardt Becomes the First Woman to Play Hamlet (1899), 17 Jul 2018 in Gender&Theatre
• Hear the First Recorded Blues Song by an African American Singer: Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” (1920), 16 Jul 2018 in Music
• Archaeologists Think They’ve Discovered the Oldest Greek Copy of Homer’s Odyssey: 13 Verses on a Clay Tablet, 13 Jul 2018 in History&Literature
• Margaret Atwood Teaching an Online Class on Creative Writing, 12 Jul 2018 in Education&Literature&Writing
• Steven Van Zandt Creates a Free School of Rock: 100+ Free Lesson Plans That Educate Kids Through Music, 11 Jul 2018 in Education&K-12&Music
• Why Med Schools Are Requiring Students to Take Art Classes, and How It Makes Med Students Better Doctors, 11 Jul 2018 in Art&Health&Psychology&Science
• Jimmy Page Visits Oxford University & Tells Students How He Went from Guitar Apprentice to Creating Led Zeppelin, 10 Jul 2018 in Music
• Learn the History of Indian Philosophy in a 62 Episode Series from The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: The Buddha, Bhagavad-Gita, Non Violence & More, 10 Jul 2018 in Philosophy
• Nearly 1,000 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Now Digitized and Put Online: View/Download the Collection, 09 Jul 2018 in Art
• How Warner Brothers Resisted a Hollywood Ban on Anti-Nazi Films in the 1930s and Warned Americans of the Dangers of Fascism, 06 Jul 2018 in Film&History
• The Iconic Urinal & Work of Art, “Fountain,” Wasn’t Created by Marcel Duchamp But by the Pioneering Dada Artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, 05 Jul 2018 in Art&Gender&History
• When Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip and Then Hallucinated That He Was Being Followed by Crabs, 04 Jul 2018 in Philosophy
• A Big Digital Archive of Independent & Alternative Publications: Browse/Download Radical Periodicals Printed from 1951 to 2016, 04 Jul 2018 in Archives&History&Literature&Magazines&Politics
• Cheap Trick’s Bassist Tom Petersson Helps Kids With Autism Learn Language With Rock ‘n’ Roll: Discover “Rock Your Speech”, 03 Jul 2018 in Education&K-12&Music&Neuroscience
• Meet “Founding Mother” Mary Katharine Goddard, First Female Postmaster in the U.S. and Printer of the Declaration of Independence, 03 Jul 2018 in Gender&History
• Read George Washington’s “110 Rules of Civility”: The Code of Decency That Guided America’s First President, 02 Jul 2018 in History&Politics
• The History of Rock Musically Told in 100 Guitar Riffs and 100 Bass Riffs, 29 Jun 2018 in Music
• The Famous Break Up of Sigmund Freud & Carl Jung Explained in a New Animated Video, 28 Jun 2018 in History&Psychology
• Discover an Archive of Taped New York City-Area Punk & Indie Concerts from the 80s and 90s: The Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Replacements & Many More, 27 Jun 2018 in Archives&Music
• How Innovative Jazz Pianist Vince Guaraldi Became the Composer of Beloved Charlie Brown Music, 27 Jun 2018 in Music&Television
• You Don’t “Find” Your Passion in Life, You Actively Develop It, Explains Psychologist Carol Dweck, Theorist of the “Growth Mindset”, 26 Jun 2018 in Psychology
• How the Uptight Today Show Introduced the Sex Pistols & British Punk to American TV Viewers (1978), 26 Jun 2018 in Music&Television
• The Simpsons Take on Ayn Rand: See the Show’s Satire of The Fountainhead and Objectivist Philosophy, 25 Jun 2018 in Comedy&Economics&Philosophy&Politics&Television
• A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched: Take a Digital Look at Her Photos, Letters, Speeches, Political Writings & More, 22 Jun 2018 in Archives&History&Letters&Politics
• The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern, 21 Jun 2018 in Gender&Philosophy
• Hear Meryl Streep Read Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song,” a Poem Written After the Birth of Her Daughter, 20 Jun 2018 in Life&Poetry
• Barack Obama Shares a List of Enlightening Books Worth Reading, 20 Jun 2018 in Books&Current Affairs
• The French Village Designed to Promote the Well-Being of Alzheimer’s Patients: A Visual Introduction to the Pioneering Experiment, 19 Jun 2018 in Health&Neuroscience
• An Introduction to Ivan Ilyin, the Philosopher Behind the Authoritarianism of Putin’s Russia & Western Far Right Movements, 19 Jun 2018 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• Visit the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled: 800 Artifacts from 33 Museums, All Free Online, 18 Jun 2018 in Art&Google
• Experience the Mystical Music of Hildegard Von Bingen: The First Known Composer in History (1098 – 1179), 15 Jun 2018 in History&Music&Religion
• Hear the First Track From John Coltrane’s Lost Album: The Newly-Discovered 1963 Collection Will Get Officially Released Later This Month, 14 Jun 2018 in Music
• Enter a Digitized Collection of 38,000 Pamphlets & Periodicals From the French Revolution, 13 Jun 2018 in History
• The Causes & Prevalence of Suicide Explained by Two Videos from Alain de Botton’s School of Life, 13 Jun 2018 in Life&Philosophy
• Optical Scanning Technology Lets Researchers Recover Lost Indigenous Languages from Old Wax Cylinder Recordings, 12 Jun 2018 in History&Science&Technology
• Visualizing Dante’s Hell: See Maps & Drawings of Dante’s Inferno from the Renaissance Through Today, 12 Jun 2018 in Art&Literature&Maps
• Nirvana Refuses to Play ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ After the Crowd Hurls Sexist Insults at the Opening Act (Buenos Aires, 1992), 11 Jun 2018 in Music
• Ozzy Osbourne’s Guitarist Zakk Wylde Plays Black Sabbath on a Hello Kitty Guitar, 08 Jun 2018 in Comedy&Music
• Discover the BlipBlox, a Kids’ Toy and Fully-Functional Synthesizer That Will Teach Toddlers to Play Electronic Music, 07 Jun 2018 in K-12&Music
• George Orwell Reveals the Role & Responsibility of the Writer “In an Age of State Control”, 06 Jun 2018 in Literature&Politics
• Chilling and Surreal Propaganda Posters from the NSA Are Now Declassified and Put Online, 06 Jun 2018 in History&Politics
• Learn How to Play the Theremin: A Free Short Video Course, 05 Jun 2018 in Music&Online Courses
• How William S. Burroughs Embraced, Then Rejected Scientology, Forcing L. Ron Hubbard to Come to Its Defense (1959–1970), 05 Jun 2018 in Literature&Religion
• Download 50,000 Art Books & Catalogs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Digital Collections, 04 Jun 2018 in Art&Books
• Henrietta Lacks Gets Immortalized in a Portrait: It’s Now on Display at the National Portrait Gallery, 01 Jun 2018 in Art&History&Science
• The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time: A Playlist Curated by Pitchfork, 31 May 2018 in Music
• Explore 7,600 Works of Art by Edvard Munch: They’re Now Digitized and Free Online, 30 May 2018 in Archives&Art
• Watch the Rise and Fall of the British Empire in an Animated Time-Lapse Map ( 519 A.D. to 2014 A.D.), 30 May 2018 in History&Maps
• Hip Hop Fan Freaks Out When He Hears Rage Against the Machine’s Debut Album for the Very First Time, 29 May 2018 in Music
• How to Use Psychedelic Drugs to Improve Mental Health: Michael Pollan’s New Book, How to Change Your Mind, Makes the Case, 29 May 2018 in Books&Health&Psychology
• Take a Virtual Tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, 28 May 2018 in History&iPad&Theatre
• The Map of Philosophy: See All of the Disciplines, Areas & Subdivisions of Philosophy Mapped in a Comprehensive Video, 25 May 2018 in Philosophy
• All of the Rulers of Europe Over the Past 2,400 Years Presented in a Timelapse Map (400 B.C. to 2017 A.D.), 24 May 2018 in History
• Philip Roth (RIP) Creates a List of the 15 Books That Influenced Him Most, 23 May 2018 in Books&Literature
• Robert Rauschenberg’s 34 Illustrations of Dante’s Inferno (1958–60), 23 May 2018 in Art&Literature
• View and Download Nearly 60,000 Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 22 May 2018 in Maps&Science
• The Ups & Downs of Ancient Rome’s Economy–All 1,900 Years of It–Get Documented by Pollution Traces Found in Greenland’s Ice, 22 May 2018 in History&Science
• It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Apocalypse Gets Visualized in an Inventive Map from 1486, 21 May 2018 in History&Maps
• Muhammad Ali & Sly Stone Get Into a Heated Debate on Racism & Reparations on The Mike Douglas Show (1974), 18 May 2018 in Politics&Television
• How David Bowie Turned His “Adequate” Voice into a Powerful Instrument: Hear Isolated Vocal Tracks from “Life on Mars,” “Starman,” “Modern Love” “Under Pressure” & More, 17 May 2018 in Music
• 19th Century Atlas Creatively Visualizes the Expansion of Geographical Knowledge Over 4000 Years of World History: From the Biblical flood to the Industrial Revolution, 16 May 2018 in History&Maps
• Hear a 12-Hour Playlist of Experimental Symphonic Noise Rock by Avant-Garde Guitarist and Composer Glenn Branca (RIP), 16 May 2018 in Music
• Hear the Recently Discovered, Earliest Known Recording of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1894), 15 May 2018 in Music
• Extremely Rare Technicolor Film Footage from the 1920s Discovered: Features Louise Brooks Dancing in Her First Feature Film, 15 May 2018 in Film
• National Geographic Has Digitized Its Collection of 6,000+ Vintage Maps: See a Curated Selection of Maps Published Between 1888 and Today, 14 May 2018 in History&Magazines&Maps
• Interactive Map Shows the Seizure of Over 1.5 Billion Acres of Native American Land Between 1776 and 1887, 11 May 2018 in History&Maps
• The Muggletonians, an Obscure Religious Sect, Made Beautiful Maps That Put the Earth at the Center of the Solar System (1846), 10 May 2018 in History&Science
• Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Now Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library, 09 May 2018 in Art&Libraries
• A New Scientific Study Supports Putting Two Spaces After a Period … and a Punctuation War Ensues, 09 May 2018 in Writing
• On Its 25th Anniversary, Hear Liz Phair’s Groundbreaking Exile in Guyville Juxtaposed Song-By-Song With the Album That Inspired It, the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street, 08 May 2018 in Music
• Zora Neal Hurston Wrote a Book About Cudjo Lewis, the Last Survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and It’s Finally Getting Published 87 Years Later, 08 May 2018 in Books&History
• Visit an Online Collection of 64,259 Musical Instruments from Across the World, 07 May 2018 in History&Museums&Music
• Visit a Gallery of 300 Striking Posters from the May 1968 Uprising in Paris, 04 May 2018 in Art&History&Politics
• Pulp Covers for Classic Detective Novels by Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie & Raymond Chandler, 03 May 2018 in Books
• J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work, 02 May 2018 in Animation&Literature
• The Concept of Musical Harmony Explained in Five Levels of Difficulty, Starting with a Child & Ending with Herbie Hancock, 02 May 2018 in Music
• Dramatic Footage of San Francisco Right Before & After the Massively Devastating Earthquake of 1906, 01 May 2018 in Film&History
• The Gig When Miles Davis Jammed with Carlos Santana & Robben Ford (Giants Stadium, 1986), 01 May 2018 in Music
• See The Iliad Performed as a One-Woman Show in a Montreal Bar by McGill University Classics Professor Lynn Kozak, 30 Apr 2018 in Literature&Poetry&Theatre
• The Diderot Effect: Enlightenment Philosopher Denis Diderot Explains the Psychology of Consumerism & Our Wasteful Spending, 26 Apr 2018 in Economics&Philosophy&Psychology
• Igor Stravinsky Remembers the “Riotous” Premiere of His Rite of Spring in 1913: “They Were Very Shocked. They Were Naive and Stupid People.”, 25 Apr 2018 in Dance&Music
• The Science of Beer: A New Free Online Course Promises to Enhance Your Appreciation of the Timeless Beverage, 25 Apr 2018 in Food & Drink&MOOCs&Online Courses