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- Miles Davis Dishes Dirt on His Fellow Jazz Musicians: “The Trombone Player Should be Shot”; That Ornette is “F‑ing Up the Trumpet”, 10 Jul 2017 in Music
- Watch 12-Year-Old Joe Bonamassa Shred the Blues as He Opens for B.B. King in 1989, 07 Jul 2017 in Music
- New Archive Is Digitizing the Entirety of Phenomenology: Browse Works by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and More, 06 Jul 2017 in Philosophy
- Women of Jazz: Stream a Playlist of 91 Recordings by Great Female Jazz Musicians, 05 Jul 2017 in Gender&Music
- An Animated Introduction to Economist John Maynard Keynes, 05 Jul 2017 in Economics
- Hear Chris Cornell’s Masterful Vocals in the Isolated Track for Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun”, 04 Jul 2017 in Music
- 209 Beatles Songs in 209 Days: Memphis Musician Covers The Beatles’ Songbook, 03 Jul 2017 in Music
- How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer, 30 Jun 2017 in Computer Science&History&Science&Technology
- Watch Johnny Cash’s Poignant Final Interview & His Last Performance: “Death, Where Is Thy Sting?” (2003), 29 Jun 2017 in Music
- George Orwell Reviews We, the Russian Dystopian Novel That Noam Chomsky Considers “More Perceptive” Than Brave New World & 1984, 28 Jun 2017 in Literature&Politics
- An Animated Introduction to Stoicism, the Ancient Greek Philosophy That Lets You Lead a Happy, Fulfilling Life, 28 Jun 2017 in Philosophy
- Albert Einstein Writes the 1949 Essay “Why Socialism?” and Attempts to Find a Solution to the “Grave Evils of Capitalism”, 27 Jun 2017 in Economics&Politics&Science
- The Sound of Avant Garde Jazz: Stream 35 Hours of Experimental Jazz by Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane & More, 27 Jun 2017 in Jazz&Music
- Going to Concerts and Experiencing Live Music Can Make Us Healthier & Happier, a New Psychology Study Confirms, 26 Jun 2017 in Music&Psychology
- Langston Hughes Creates a List of His 100 Favorite Jazz Recordings: Hear 80+ of Them in a Big Playlist, 23 Jun 2017 in Literature&Music
- 24,000 Vintage Cartoons from the Library of Congress Illustrate the History of This Modern Art Form (1780–1977), 22 Jun 2017 in Comics/Cartoons
- 2,000-Year-Old Manuscript of the Ten Commandments Gets Digitized: See/Download “Nash Papyrus” in High Resolution, 21 Jun 2017 in History&Religion
- Carl Sagan Sent Music & Photos Into Space So That Aliens Could Understand Human Civilization (Even After We’re Gone), 21 Jun 2017 in Astronomy&History&Music&Science&Technology
- The 10 Most Depressing Radiohead Songs According to Data Science: Hear the Songs That Ranked Highest in a Researcher’s “Gloom Index”, 20 Jun 2017 in Music
- When Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman Joined the Grateful Dead Onstage for Some Epic Improvisational Jams: Hear a 1993 Recording, 20 Jun 2017 in Music
- The CIA Assesses the Power of French Post-Modern Philosophers: Read a Newly Declassified CIA Report from 1985, 16 Jun 2017 in History&Philosophy&Politics
- How Arabic Translators Helped Preserve Greek Philosophy … and the Classical Tradition, 15 Jun 2017 in History
- How Russian Artists Imagined in 1914 What Moscow Would Look Like in 2259, 14 Jun 2017 in History&Sci Fi
- The Art of the Marbler: An Enchanting Film on the Centuries-Old Craft of Making Handmade Marbled Paper, 14 Jun 2017 in Art&Books
- Google Creates a Digital Archive of World Fashion: Features 30,000 Images, Covering 3,000 Years of Fashion History, 13 Jun 2017 in Archives&Art&Fashion&Google&History
- A Short, Animated Introduction to Emil Cioran, the “Philosopher of Despair”, 13 Jun 2017 in Philosophy
- Rare Footage Shows US and British Soldiers Getting Dosed with LSD in Government-Sponsored Tests (1958 + 1964), 12 Jun 2017 in History&Psychology&Science
- 150 Songs from 100+ Rappers Get Artfully Woven into One Great Mashup: Watch the “40 Years of Hip Hop”, 09 Jun 2017 in Music
- The History of Classical Music in 1200 Tracks: From Gregorian Chant to Górecki (100 Hours of Audio), 08 Jun 2017 in Music
- Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Take Our Jobs: From Writing Essays, Books & Songs, to Performing Surgery and Driving Trucks, 07 Jun 2017 in Economics&Life&Science&Technology
- Everything You Need to Know About Modern Russian Art in 25 Minutes: A Visual Introduction to Futurism, Socialist Realism & More, 07 Jun 2017 in Art
- Lou Reed Curates an Eclectic Playlist of His Favorite Songs During His Final Days: Stream 27 Tracks Lou Was Listening To, 06 Jun 2017 in Music
- Hear Bob Dylan’s Newly-Released Nobel Lecture: A Meditation on Music, Literature & Lyrics, 06 Jun 2017 in Literature&Music
- Hunter S. Thompson Typed Out The Great Gatsby & A Farewell to Arms Word for Word: A Method for Learning How to Write Like the Masters, 05 Jun 2017 in Literature&Writing
- The History of Punk Rock in 300 Tracks: A 13-Hour Playlist Takes You From 1965 to Present, 02 Jun 2017 in Music
- Artists May Have Different Brains (More Grey Matter) Than the Rest of Us, According to a Recent Scientific Study, 02 Jun 2017 in Neuroscience&Science
- Watch Simon & Garfunkel Sing “The Sound of Silence” 45 Years After Its Release, and Just Get Hauntingly Better with Time, 31 May 2017 in Music
- Stevie Ray Vaughan Plays the Acoustic Guitar in Rare Footage, Letting Us See His Guitar Virtuosity in Its Purest Form, 31 May 2017 in Music
- Relax with 8 Hours of Classical Space Music: From Richard Strauss & Haydn, to Brian Eno, Philip Glass & Beyond, 30 May 2017 in Film&Music
- Why Catchy Songs Get Stuck in Our Brains: New Study Explains the Science of Earworms, 30 May 2017 in Music&Psychology
- Watch The Cure’s First TV Appearance in 1979 … Before The Band Acquired Its Signature Goth Look, 29 May 2017 in Music
- How Finland Created One of the Best Educational Systems in the World (by Doing the Opposite of U.S.), 26 May 2017 in Education&Politics
- Kurt Vonnegut Ponders Why “Poor Americans Are Taught to Hate Themselves” in a Timely Passage from Slaughterhouse-Five, 25 May 2017 in Literature&Politics
- Stanford Researchers Discover a Smarter Way to Prepare for Exams: Introducing MetaCognition, the Art of Thinking About Your Thinking, 24 May 2017 in Education&Psychology
- “A Brief History of Goths”: From the Goths, to Gothic Literature, to Goth Music, 24 May 2017 in Architecture&Art&History&Literature&Music
- A Big List of Free Art Lessons on YouTube, 23 May 2017 in Art&How to Learn for Free
- Visit a New Digital Archive of 2.2 Million Images from the First Hundred Years of Photography, 23 May 2017 in Photography
- Lou Reed Creates a List of the 10 Best Records of All Time, 22 May 2017 in Music
- Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell Sings Haunting Acoustic Covers of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” & Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”, 19 May 2017 in Music
- The Map of Chemistry: New Animation Summarizes the Entire Field of Chemistry in 12 Minutes, 18 May 2017 in Chemistry&Education&K-12&Science
- Hear 2,000 Recordings of the Most Essential Jazz Songs: A Huge Playlist for Your Jazz Education, 17 May 2017 in Music
- An Animated Introduction to Samuel Beckett, Absurdist Playwright, Novelist & Poet, 17 May 2017 in Literature
- The MC5 Performs at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, Right Before All Hell Breaks Loose, 16 May 2017 in Music&Politics
- Discover “The Ghost Club,” the Historic Paranormal Society Whose Members Included Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle & W.B. Yeats, 15 May 2017 in History&Literature
- How Baking, Cooking & Other Daily Activities Help Promote Happiness and Alleviate Depression and Anxiety, 12 May 2017 in Food & Drink&Life&Psychology
- Hear Aerobic Exercise: When Soviet Musicians Recorded Electronic Music for a Subversive Home Fitness Record (1984), 11 May 2017 in Music
- The Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, 10 May 2017 in History&Philosophy
- Watch the 1917 Ballet “Parade”: Created by Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau, It Provoked a Riot and Inspired the Word “Surrealism”, 10 May 2017 in Art&Dance&Music
- The History of Electronic Music Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Theremin: 200 Inventors, Composers & Musicians, 09 May 2017 in Music&Technology
- Dan Rather Introduces Rastafarianism to the U.S. in a 60 Minutes Segment Featuring Bob Marley (1979), 09 May 2017 in Music&Religion&Television
- The MoMA Teaches You How to Paint Like Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning & Other Abstract Painters, 08 May 2017 in Art&MOOCs
- A History of Alternative Music Brilliantly Mapped Out on a Transistor Radio Circuit Diagram: 300 Punk, Alt & Indie Artists, 05 May 2017 in Music
- Hear a Reading of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Set to Music: Features 100+ Musicians and Readers from Across the World, 04 May 2017 in Literature&Music
- Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains Why If We Have True Meaning in Our Lives, We Can Make It Through the Darkest of Times, 03 May 2017 in Philosophy&Psychology
- How the Soviets Imagined in 1960 What the World Would Look in 2017: A Gallery of Retro-Futuristic Drawings, 02 May 2017 in Sci Fi
- John F. Kennedy Explains Why Artists & Poets Are Indispensable to American Democracy (October 26th, 1963), 02 May 2017 in Poetry&Politics
- Why Should We Read Tolstoy’s War and Peace (and Finish It)? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case, 01 May 2017 in Literature
- Rick Wakeman’s Prog-Rock Opera Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, 28 Apr 2017 in Music
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Says This Short Film on Science in America Contains Perhaps the Most Important Words He’s Ever Spoken, 26 Apr 2017 in Politics&Science
- Robert Pirsig Reveals the Personal Journey That Led Him to Write His Counterculture Classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), 26 Apr 2017 in Literature&Philosophy
- New Film Project Features Citizens of Alabama Reading Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” a Poetic Embodiment of Democratic Ideals, 25 Apr 2017 in Poetry&Travel
- Buckminster Fuller Creates an Animated Visualization of Human Population Growth from 1000 B.C.E. to 1965, 25 Apr 2017 in Design&Environment
- The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art, 24 Apr 2017 in Art&Food & Drink
- NASA Releases a Massive Online Archive: 140,000 Photos, Videos & Audio Files Free to Search and Download, 21 Apr 2017 in Astronomy&Photography&Science
- 5 Animations Introduce the Media Theory of Noam Chomsky, Roland Barthes, Marshall McLuhan, Edward Said & Stuart Hall, 20 Apr 2017 in Animation&Media&Philosophy&Television
- Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language, 19 Apr 2017 in History
- New, Interactive Web Site Puts Online Thousands of International Folk Songs Recorded by the Great Folklorist Alan Lomax, 19 Apr 2017 in Archives&History&Maps&Music
- Hear the Only Instrumental Ever Banned from the Radio: Link Wray’s Seductive, Raunchy Song, “Rumble” (1958), 18 Apr 2017 in Music
- Read Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Children’s Book Whom Should I Be?: A Classic from the “Golden Age” in Soviet Children’s Literature, 18 Apr 2017 in Art&Books&History&K-12
- Behold the Masterpiece by Japan’s Last Great Woodblock Artist: View Online Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885), 17 Apr 2017 in Art
- Watch Frank Sinatra Record “It Was a Very Good Year” in the Studio in 1965, and You’ll Know Why They Called Him “The Voice”, 15 Apr 2017 in Music
- Ancient Maps that Changed the World: See World Maps from Ancient Greece, Babylon, Rome, and the Islamic World, 13 Apr 2017 in History&Maps
- John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music, 12 Apr 2017 in Jazz&Math&Music
- A 3,350-Song Playlist of Music from Haruki Murakami’s Personal Record Collection, 12 Apr 2017 in Literature&Music
- Watch Animated Introductions to 13 Classic Authors: Kafka, Austen, Dostoevsky, Dickens & Many More, 12 Apr 2017 in Animation&Literature
- Photos of 19th-Century Black Women Activists Digitized and Put Online by The Library of Congress, 11 Apr 2017 in History&Photography
- How Ingenious Sign Language Interpreters Are Bringing Music to Life for the Deaf: Visualizing the Sound of Rhythm, Harmony & Melody, 10 Apr 2017 in English Language&Life&Music
- Pink Floyd Adapts George Orwell’s Animal Farm into Their 1977 Concept Album, Animals (a Critique of Late Capitalism, Not Stalin), 07 Apr 2017 in Music&Politics
- Edgar Allan Poe Published a “CliffsNotes” Version of a Science Textbook & It Became His Only Bestseller (1839), 06 Apr 2017 in Literature&Science
- Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great, 05 Apr 2017 in Music
- Harvard Students Launch a Free Course on How to Resist: Now You Can Watch the Lectures, 05 Apr 2017 in Current Affairs&Politics
- An Animated Introduction to Roland Barthes’s Mythologies and How He Used Semiotics to Decode Popular Culture, 04 Apr 2017 in Current Affairs&Philosophy&Politics
- Creating Saturday Night Live: Behind-the Scenes Videos Reveal How the Iconic Comedy Show Gets Made, 04 Apr 2017 in Comedy&Television
- Wynton Marsalis Gives 12 Tips on How to Practice: For Musicians, Athletes, or Anyone Who Wants to Learn Something New, 03 Apr 2017 in Creativity&Education&Life&Music&Productivity&Psychology
- Animated Introductions to Edward Said’s Groundbreaking Book Orientalism, 31 Mar 2017 in Current Affairs&Literature&Philosophy&Politics
- Hear the Prog-Rock Adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: The 1978 Rock Opera That Sold 15 Million Copies Worldwide, 30 Mar 2017 in Literature&Music&Sci Fi
- Discover Ray Bradbury & Kurt Vonnegut’s 1990s TV Shows: The Ray Bradbury Theater and Welcome to the Monkey House, 29 Mar 2017 in Literature&Sci Fi&Television
- Great Filmmakers Offer Advice to Young Directors: Tarantino, Herzog, Coppola, Scorsese, Anderson, Fellini & More, 29 Mar 2017 in Film
- Download 437 Issues of Soviet Photo Magazine, the Soviet Union’s Historic Photography Journal (1926–1991), 28 Mar 2017 in Archives&Magazines&Photography
- Watch 450 NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: Intimate Performances from The Pixies, Adele, Wilco, Yo-Yo Ma & Many More, 28 Mar 2017 in Music&Radio
- Hear Jimi Hendrix’s Virtuoso Guitar Performances in Isolated Tracks: “Fire,” “Purple Haze,” “Third Stone from the Sun” & More, 27 Mar 2017 in Music
- Albert Camus Explains Why Happiness Is Like Committing a Crime—“You Should Never Admit to it” (1959), 22 Mar 2017 in Life&Philosophy
- Download Russian Futurist Book Art (1910–1915): The Aesthetic Revolution Before the Political Revolution, 22 Mar 2017 in Art&Books&Poetry
- Hear Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Shifted from Minor to Major Key, and Radiohead’s “Creep” Moved from Major to Minor, 21 Mar 2017 in Music&Psychology
- Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt “Vigorous” and “Alert”, 21 Mar 2017 in Biology&Life&Science
- Chuck Berry Jams Out “Johnny B. Goode” with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, John Lennon & Bruce Springsteen, 20 Mar 2017 in Music
- Hear Prince’s Personal Playlist of Party Music: 22 Tracks That Will Bring Any Party to Life, 17 Mar 2017 in Music
- New Interactive Map Visualizes the Chilling History of Lynching in the U.S. (1835–1964), 16 Mar 2017 in History&Maps
- An Animated Introduction to Arthur Schopenhauer and How We Can Achieve Happiness Through Art & Philosophy, 15 Mar 2017 in Philosophy
- Matt Damon Reads Howard Zinn’s “The Problem is Civil Obedience,” a Call for Americans to Take Action, 15 Mar 2017 in History&Politics
- How Did Beethoven Compose His 9th Symphony After He Went Completely Deaf?, 14 Mar 2017 in Biology&Math&Music&Science
- Download 1,500+ Episodes of the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, Where Famous Guests Name the Songs They Can’t Live Without (1942 to the Present), 14 Mar 2017 in Music&Radio
- An Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent and How the Media Creates the Illusion of Democracy, 13 Mar 2017 in Media&Politics
- Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?: An Introduction to the Mind-Boggling “Simulation Argument”, 10 Mar 2017 in Computer Science&Games&Philosophy&Technology
- Watch a 5‑Part Animated Primer on Afrofuturism, the Black Sci-Fi Phenomenon Inspired by Sun Ra, 09 Mar 2017 in Music&Sci Fi
- Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music, 08 Mar 2017 in History&Music
- When East Meets West: Hear What Happened When Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass Composed Music Together, 08 Mar 2017 in Music
- A Digital Archive of Modernist Magazines (1890 to 1922): Browse the Literary Magazines Where Modernism Began, 07 Mar 2017 in Art&Literature
- Sinclair Lewis’ Chilling Play, It Can’t Happen Here: A Read-Through by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 07 Mar 2017 in Politics&Theatre
- How Mindfulness Makes Us Happier & Better Able to Meet Life’s Challenges: Two Animated Primers Explain, 06 Mar 2017 in Life&Psychology&Religion
- Download Influential Avant-Garde Magazines from the Early 20th Century: Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism & More, 03 Mar 2017 in Art&Literature&Magazines
- Hear Carl Sagan Artfully Refute a Creationist on a Talk Radio Show: “The Darwinian Concept of Evolution is Profoundly Verified”, 02 Mar 2017 in Religion&Science
- Hear a Rare Poetry Reading by Captain Beefheart (1993), 01 Mar 2017 in Music&Poetry
- How Cormac McCarthy Became a Copy-Editor for Scientific Books and One of the Most Influential Articles in Economics, 01 Mar 2017 in Economics&Literature&Writing
- Yale Presents a Free Online Course on Literary Theory, Covering Structuralism, Deconstruction & More, 28 Feb 2017 in Literature&Online Courses&Philosophy&Yale
- Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math, 28 Feb 2017 in Education&Philosophy
- Cormac McCarthy Explains Why He Worked Hard at Not Working: How 9‑to‑5 Jobs Limit Your Creative Potential, 27 Feb 2017 in Creativity&Literature&Writing
- How James Joyce’s Daughter, Lucia, Was Treated for Schizophrenia by Carl Jung, 24 Feb 2017 in Literature
- How Did Nietzsche Become the Most Misunderstood & Bastardized Philosopher?: A Video from Slate Explains, 23 Feb 2017 in Philosophy
- Rare Recordings of Burroughs, Bukowski, Ginsberg & More Now Available in a Digital Archive Created by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), 22 Feb 2017 in Art&Internet Archive&Poetry
- Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: An Animated Introduction to the Most Insightful Study of American Democracy, 22 Feb 2017 in Philosophy&Politics
- Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda Creates a Playlist of Protest Music for Our Troubled Times, 21 Feb 2017 in Music
- Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation that Revolutionized Map Design (1943), 20 Feb 2017 in Design&Maps
- New Animated Film About Vincent Van Gogh Will Be Made Out of 65,000 Van Gogh-Style Paintings: Watch the Trailer and Making-Of Video, 16 Feb 2017 in Art&Film
- Watch Wagner’s Ring Cycle: A Complete 15-Hour Performance Is Now Free Online Thanks to the BBC, 15 Feb 2017 in Opera
- A Handy, Detailed Map Shows the Hometowns of Characters in the Iliad, 15 Feb 2017 in Literature&Maps
- A 10-Hour Playlist of Music Inspired by Robert Moog’s Iconic Synthesizer: Hear Electronic Works by Kraftwerk, Devo, Stevie Wonder, Rick Wakeman & More, 14 Feb 2017 in Music
- 224 Books About Music in David Byrne’s Personal Library, 14 Feb 2017 in Books&Music
- 375+ Episodes of William F. Buckley’s Firing Line Now Online: Features Talks with Chomsky, Borges, Kerouac, Ginsberg & More, 13 Feb 2017 in Politics&Television
- Hear the First Jazz Record, Which Launched the Jazz Age: “Livery Stable Blues” (1917), 10 Feb 2017 in Music
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