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• Immanuel Kant’s Life & Philosophy Introduced in a Short Monty Python-Style Animation, 02 Dec 2015 in Philosophy
• Prince (RIP) Performs Early Hits in a 1982 Concert: “Controversy,” “I Wanna Be Your Lover” & More, 01 Dec 2015 in Music
• Classic Blues Songs By John Lee Hooker, B.B. King & Muddy Waters Played on the Gayageum, a Traditional Korean Instrument, 30 Nov 2015 in Music
• Albert Einstein On God: “Nothing More Than the Expression and Product of Human Weakness”, 27 Nov 2015 in Physics&Religion
• Terry Gilliam on the Difference Between Kubrick & Spielberg: Kubrick Makes You Think, Spielberg Wraps Everything Up with Neat Little Bows, 26 Nov 2015 in Film
• Monty Python’s John Cleese Creates Ads for the American Philosophical Association, 25 Nov 2015 in Comedy&Education&Philosophy
• Jimi Hendrix Plays the Delta Blues on a 12-String Acoustic Guitar in 1968, and Jams with His Blues Idols, Buddy Guy & B.B. King, 25 Nov 2015 in Music
• Free Speech Bites: Nigel Warburton, Host of Philosophy Bites, Creates a Spin Off Podcast Dedicated to Freedom of Expression, 25 Nov 2015 in Philosophy&Podcasts&Politics&Religion
• Mark Twain’s Patented Inventions for Bra Straps and Other Everyday Items, 24 Nov 2015 in History&Literature
• New Wave Music–DEVO, Talking Heads, Blondie, Elvis Costello–Gets Introduced to America by ABC’s TV Show, 20/20 (1979), 24 Nov 2015 in Music&Television
• One Man-Band Plays Amazing Covers, Note-for-Note, of Yes, CSNY, Zeppelin & More, 24 Nov 2015 in Music
• Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken 100 Years Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque, 20 Nov 2015 in History&Photography
• Hear Ray Bradbury’s Classic Sci-Fi Story Fahrenheit 451 as a Radio Drama, 19 Nov 2015 in Audio Books&Books&Literature&Radio
• Get to Know Socrates, Camus, Kierkegaard & Other Great Philosophers with the BBC’s Intelligent Radio Show, In Our Time, 19 Nov 2015 in Philosophy&Podcasts&Radio
• The Lord of the Rings Mythology Explained in 10 Minutes, in Two Illustrated Videos, 18 Nov 2015 in Education&Literature
• Charles Dickens (Channeling Jorge Luis Borges) Created a Fake Library, with 37 Witty Invented Book Titles, 17 Nov 2015 in Books&Letters&Literature
• The Making of The Beatles’ Abbey Road: Alternate Album Cover Photos, Recording Session Outtakes & Interviews, 17 Nov 2015 in Music
• Three Historic Performances at Paris’ Le Bataclan: The Velvet Underground (1972), Genesis with Peter Gabriel (1973) & Jeff Buckley (1995), 16 Nov 2015 in Music
• Punk & Heavy Metal Music Makes Listeners Happy and Calm, Not Aggressive, According to New Australian Study, 13 Nov 2015 in Music&Psychology
• 100 Novels All Kids Should Read Before Leaving High School, 12 Nov 2015 in Books&Education&K-12&Literature
• Freed Slave Writes Letter to Former Master: You Owe Us $11,680 for 52 Years of Unpaid Labor (1865), 11 Nov 2015 in History&Letters
• Michio Kaku & Brian Green Explain String Theory in a Nutshell: Elegant Explanations of an Elegant Theory, 11 Nov 2015 in Physics
• Dostoevsky Draws Doodles of Raskolnikov and Other Characters in the Manuscript of Crime and Punishment, 10 Nov 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• Hear the Writing of French Theorists Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard & Roland Barthes Sung by Poet Kenneth Goldsmith, 10 Nov 2015 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Two Guitar Effects That Revolutionized Rock: The Invention of the Wah-Wah & Fuzz Pedals, 09 Nov 2015 in Music&Technology
• Horror Legend Christopher Lee Reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 06 Nov 2015 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Film&Literature
• Stephen Hawking Wonders Whether Capitalism or Artificial Intelligence Will Doom the Human Race, 05 Nov 2015 in Economics&Life&Science&Technology
• The Night John Lennon & Yoko Ono Jammed with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore East (1971), 04 Nov 2015 in Music
• Listen to Ira Glass’ 10 Favorite Episodes of This American Life, 03 Nov 2015 in Radio
• Hear All of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia Novels as Free Audio Books, 02 Nov 2015 in Audio Books&Books&K-12&Literature&Religion
• Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” Read by the Great Bela Lugosi (1946), 30 Oct 2015 in Film&Literature
• Stephen King Creates a List of 82 Books for Aspiring Writers (to Supplement an Earlier List of 96 Recommend Books), 29 Oct 2015 in Books&Literature&Writing
• Fly Through 17th-Century London’s Gritty Streets with Prize-Winning Animations, 29 Oct 2015 in Animation&History
• Stream the Complete Works of Bach & Beethoven: 250 Free Hours of Music, 28 Oct 2015 in Music
• New Film Extraordinary Tales Animates Edgar Poe Stories, with Narrations by Guillermo Del Toro, Christopher Lee & More, 28 Oct 2015 in Animation&Film&Literature
• See Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment Performed in the World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber, and on the Moon, 27 Oct 2015 in Physics&Science
• The First Horror Film, Georges Méliès’ The Haunted Castle (1896), 27 Oct 2015 in Film
• Watch Behind-the-Scenes Footage From Freddie Mercury’s Final Video Performance, 26 Oct 2015 in Music
• The Neuroscience of Bass: New Study Explains Why Bass Instruments Are Fundamental to Music, 23 Oct 2015 in Music&Neuroscience&Science
• Hear the World’s Oldest Surviving Written Song (200 BC), Originally Composed by Euripides, the Ancient Greek Playwright, 22 Oct 2015 in History&Music
• The Maligned Impressionist Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Illustrates Emile Zola’s Gritty Novel L’Assommoir (1878), 21 Oct 2015 in Art&Books
• Hear a Playlist of 300 Songs That Influenced Elvis Costello, Drawn From His New Memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, 20 Oct 2015 in Books&Music
• How Cultured Are You? Test Your Knowledge With Cultural Quizzes from 1958, 20 Oct 2015 in Art&Education&History&Literature
• Watch All 18,225 Lines of The Iliad Read by 66 Actors in a Marathon Event For an Audience of 50,000, 19 Oct 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• William Faulkner Draws Maps of Yoknapatawpha County, the Fictional Home of His Great Novels, 16 Oct 2015 in Art&Literature
• How to Sing Two Notes At Once (aka Polyphonic Overtone Singing): Lessons from Singer Anna-Maria Hefele, 15 Oct 2015 in How to Learn for Free&Music
• Music That Helps You Sleep: Minimalist Composer Max Richter, Pop Phenom Ed Sheeran & Your Favorites, 14 Oct 2015 in Music
• Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live & Learn More, 13 Oct 2015 in Economics&Life&Philosophy
• The History of the Blues in 50 Riffs: From Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928) to Joe Bonamassa (2009), 13 Oct 2015 in Music
• Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in its Original Ancient Language, Akkadian, 12 Oct 2015 in History&Literature
• NBC University Theater Adapted Great Novels to Radio & Gives Listeners College Credit : Hear 110 Episodes from a 1940s eLearning Experiment, 09 Oct 2015 in Education&Literature&Radio
• 226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online, 08 Oct 2015 in Photography
• The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death: 19 Theories on What Caused the Poet’s Demise, 07 Oct 2015 in History&Literature
• 1902 French Trading Cards Imagine “Women of the Future”, 07 Oct 2015 in History&Photography
• Watch Noam Chomsky & Lawrence Krauss Talk About Education, Political Activism, Technology & More Before a Sold-Out Crowd, 06 Oct 2015 in Education&Philosophy&Science&Technology
• Watch Gandhi Talk in His First Filmed Interview (1947), 06 Oct 2015 in Film&History&Politics
• 8,400 Stunning High-Res Photos From the Apollo Moon Missions Are Now Online, 05 Oct 2015 in Photography&Science
• The Guggenheim Puts Online 1700 Great Works of Modern Art from 625 Artists, 02 Oct 2015 in Art
• The Complete Star Wars “Filmumentary”: A 6‑Hour, Fan-Made Star Wars Documentary, with Behind-the-Scenes Footage & Commentary, 02 Oct 2015 in Film
• It’s Banned Books Week: Listen to Allen Ginsberg Read His Famously Banned Poem, “Howl,” in San Francisco, 1956, 30 Sep 2015 in Books&Literature&Poetry
• Hear Ray Bradbury’s Beloved Sci-Fi Stories as Classic Radio Dramas, 30 Sep 2015 in Literature&Radio
• Nikola Tesla’s Predictions for the 21st Century: The Rise of Smart Phones & Wireless, The Demise of Coffee, The Rule of Eugenics (1926/35), 29 Sep 2015 in Life&Magazines&Science
• An Animated Tom Waits Talks About Laughing at Funerals & the Moles Under Stonehenge (1988), 29 Sep 2015 in Music
• Gabriel García Márquez Describes the Cultural Merits of Soap Operas, and Even Wrote a Script for One, 28 Sep 2015 in Film&Literature
• John Lennon’s “Imagine” & Paul McCartney’s “Yesterday” Adapted into Smart, Moving Webcomics, 28 Sep 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
• Revel in The William Faulkner Audio Archive on the Author’s 118th Birthday, 25 Sep 2015 in Literature
• Stream 82 Hours of Frank Zappa Music: Free Playlists of Songs He Composed & Performed, 24 Sep 2015 in Music
• Young Orson Welles Directs “Voodoo Macbeth,” the First Shakespeare Production With An All-Black Cast: Footage from 1936, 23 Sep 2015 in Theatre
• Hear Radio Dramas of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Asimov Stories, 22 Sep 2015 in Radio&Sci Fi
• A Great Compilation of “The Lick” Found in Music Everywhere: From Coltrane & Stravinsky, to Christina Aguilera, 21 Sep 2015 in Music
• 18-Year-Old James Joyce Writes a Fan Letter to His Hero Henrik Ibsen (1901), 20 Sep 2015 in Literature
• Mark Twain Skewers Great Works of Art: The Mona Lisa (“a Smoked Haddock!”), The Last Supper (“a Mournful Wreck”) & More, 17 Sep 2015 in Art&Literature
• Hear Pablo Neruda Read His Poetry In English For the First Time, Days Before His Nobel Prize Acceptance (1971), 16 Sep 2015 in Poetry
• Hunter S. Thompson’s Advice for Aspiring Photographers: Skip the Fancy Equipment & Just Shoot, 15 Sep 2015 in Photography
• Harry Clarke’s 1926 Illustrations of Goethe’s Faust: Art That Inspired the Psychedelic 60s, 14 Sep 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• Sun Ra Plays a Music Therapy Gig at a Psychiatric Hospital; Inspires Patient to Talk for the First Time in Years, 11 Sep 2015 in Health&Jazz&Music
• The Drawings & Paintings of Richard Feynman: Art Expresses a Dramatic “Feeling of Awe”, 10 Sep 2015 in Art&Physics&Science
• The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection, 08 Sep 2015 in Architecture&Archives&Books
• Tolstoy and Gandhi Exchange Letters: Two Thinkers’ Quest for Gentleness, Humility & Love (1909), 07 Sep 2015 in Letters&Philosophy&Politics&Religion
• New Research Shows How Music Lessons During Childhood Benefit the Brain for a Lifetime, 04 Sep 2015 in Education&K-12&Music&Science
• Albert Einstein​ & Sigmund Freud​ Exchange Letters and Debate How to Make the World Free from War (1932), 03 Sep 2015 in Letters&Philosophy&Politics&Psychology
• Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa, 02 Sep 2015 in Art&Books
• Bernie Sanders Sings “This Land is Your Land” on the Endearingly Bad Spoken Word Album, We Shall Overcome, 02 Sep 2015 in Music&Politics
• Oscar Wilde’s Play Salome Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley in a Striking Modern Aesthetic (1894), 01 Sep 2015 in Art&Literature
• How Drums & Bass Make the Song: Isolated Tracks from Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Pixies, The Beatles to Royal Blood, 31 Aug 2015 in Music
• Carl Jung’s Hand-Drawn, Rarely-Seen Manuscript The Red Book, 28 Aug 2015 in Art&Literature&Psychology
• Very Early Concert Footage of the B‑52s, When New Wave Music Was Actually New (1978), 27 Aug 2015 in Music
• Watch the Behind-the-Scenes Blade Runner Promo Film … Created to Prevent a Box Office Flop (1982), 26 Aug 2015 in Film
• Hear Demos of Keith Richards Singing Lead Vocals on Rolling Stones Classics: “Gimme Shelter,” “Wild Horses” & More, 25 Aug 2015 in Music
• Philosophy Explained With Donuts, 24 Aug 2015 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Meet America & Britain’s First Female Tattoo Artists: Maud Wagner (1877–1961) & Jessie Knight (1904–1994), 21 Aug 2015 in Art&History&Life
• Judy!: 1993 Judith Butler Fanzine Gives Us An Irreverent Punk-Rock Take on the Post-Structuralist Gender Theorist, 20 Aug 2015 in Gender&Philosophy
• Hear Dramatizations of H.P. Lovecraft’s Stories On His Birthday: “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dunwich Horror,” & More, 20 Aug 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Fascinating Whistled Languages of the Canary Islands, Turkey & Mexico (and What They Say About the Human Brain), 18 Aug 2015 in Language Lessons&Science
• Stream 58 Hours of Free Classical Music Selected to Help You Study, Work, or Simply Relax, 17 Aug 2015 in Music
• A Look Inside Hannah Arendt’s Personal Library: Download Marginalia from 90 Books (Heidegger, Kant, Marx & More), 14 Aug 2015 in Archives&Philosophy&Politics
• Hear What Hamlet, Richard III & King Lear Sounded Like in Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation, 13 Aug 2015 in English Language&Literature&Theatre
• Theodor Adorno’s Critical Theory Text Minima Moralia Sung as Hardcore Punk Songs, 12 Aug 2015 in Music&Philosophy
• The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain, 11 Aug 2015 in Health&Music&Neuroscience&Psychology
• New Study: Immersing Yourself in Art, Music & Nature Might Reduce Inflammation & Increase Life Expectancy, 07 Aug 2015 in Art&Health&Life&Philosophy&Psychology
• R. Crumb’s Vibrant, Over-the-Top Album Covers (1968–2004), 06 Aug 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
• The Women of the Avant-Garde: An Introduction Featuring Audio by Gertrude Stein, Kathy Acker, Patti Smith & More, 05 Aug 2015 in Art&Music&Poetry
• Ralph Steadman’s Evolving Album Cover Designs: From Miles Davis & The Who, to Frank Zappa & Slash (1956–2010), 04 Aug 2015 in Art&Design&Jazz&Music
• Ernest Hemingway & His Sister Dressed as Twin Girls Shown in Newly Digitized Scrapbooks From Hemingway’s Youth, 03 Aug 2015 in Literature
• Patti Smith Plays at CBGB In One of Her First Recorded Concerts, Joined by Seminal Punk Band Television (1975), 31 Jul 2015 in Music
• Vladimir Nabokov’s Hand-Drawn Sketches of Mind-Bending Chess Problems, 30 Jul 2015 in Games&Literature
• An Animated Intro to G.W.F. Hegel, and Everything Else You Wanted to Know About the Daunting German Philosopher, 29 Jul 2015 in Philosophy
• Radiohead’s “Creep” Performed in a Vintage Jazz-Age Style, 28 Jul 2015 in Jazz&Music
• 7 Female Bass Players Who Helped Shape Modern Music: Kim Gordon, Tina Weymouth, Kim Deal & More, 27 Jul 2015 in Music
• 1,000,000 Minutes of Newsreel Footage by AP & British Movietone Released on YouTube, 25 Jul 2015 in Education&History&Television&YouTube
• How ABC Television Introduced Rap Music to America in 1981: It’s Painfully Awkward, 24 Jul 2015 in Music&Television
• David Bowie Becomes a DJ on BBC Radio in 1979; Introduces Listeners to The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Blondie & More, 22 Jul 2015 in Music&Radio
• The Story of Bluesman Robert Johnson’s Famous Deal With the Devil Retold in Three Animations, 21 Jul 2015 in Music
• A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare’s Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More, 20 Jul 2015 in Literature&Theatre
• The Same Song Sung in 15 Places: A Wonderful Case Study of How Landscape & Architecture Shape the Sounds of Music, 17 Jul 2015 in Music
• How Django Reinhardt, After Losing Two Fingers, Developed An Innovative Style & Inspired Black Sabbath Guitarist Toni Iommi to Do the Same, 16 Jul 2015 in Music
• Allen Ginsberg’s Handwritten Poem For Bernie Sanders, “Burlington Snow” (1986), 15 Jul 2015 in Poetry&Politics
• Hear Dylan Thomas Read Three Poems by W.H. Auden, Including “September 1, 1939”, 15 Jul 2015 in Poetry
• This Is Your Brain on Jane Austen: The Neuroscience of Reading Great Literature, 14 Jul 2015 in Health&Literature&Neuroscience&Science
• Alexander Pushkin’s Poem “The Mermaid” Brought to Life in a Masterfully Hand-Painted Animation, 13 Jul 2015 in Animation&Literature
• With Medieval Instruments, Band Performs Classic Songs by The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica & Deep Purple, 10 Jul 2015 in Music
• A Dreamily Animated Introduction to Haruki Murakami, Japan’s Jazz and Baseball-Loving Postmodern Novelist, 09 Jul 2015 in Animation&Literature
• How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers and Writers Have Always Known, 08 Jul 2015 in Creativity&Life&Literature&Psychology
• The Grateful Dead’s Final Farewell Concerts Now Streaming Online, 07 Jul 2015 in Music
• Every Grateful Dead Song Annotated in Hypertext: Web Project Reveals the Deep Literary Foundations of the Dead’s Lyrics, 06 Jul 2015 in Music&Poetry
• Roberto Bolaño’s 12 Tips on “the Art of Writing Short Stories”, 03 Jul 2015 in Literature&Writing
• 2,200 Radical Political Posters Digitized: A New Archive, 02 Jul 2015 in Archives&History&Politics
• Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music, 01 Jul 2015 in Music
• New Archive Offers Free Access to 22,000 Literary Documents From Great British & American Writers, 30 Jun 2015 in Archives&Letters&Literature
• Free: Listen to John Rawls’ Course on “Modern Political Philosophy” (Recorded at Harvard, 1984), 29 Jun 2015 in Philosophy
• How Leonard Cohen’s Stint As a Buddhist Monk Can Help You Live an Enlightened Life, 26 Jun 2015 in Graduation Speech&Philosophy&Religion
• Watch the First Russian Science Fiction Film, Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924), 25 Jun 2015 in Film
• Animated Introductions to Three Sociologists: Durkheim, Weber & Adorno, 24 Jun 2015 in Economics&Education&Philosophy&Politics&Psychology
• Young T.S. Eliot Writes “The Triumph of Bullsh*t” and Gives the English Language a New Expletive (1910), 23 Jun 2015 in English Language&Poetry
• Tom Waits Reads Two Charles Bukowski Poems, “The Laughing Heart” and “Nirvana”, 22 Jun 2015 in Music&Poetry
• The Psychology of Messiness & Creativity: Research Shows How a Messy Desk and Creative Work Go Hand in Hand, 19 Jun 2015 in Art&Creativity&Life
• The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985), 18 Jun 2015 in Music&Politics
• Alan Watts Explains Why Death is an Art, Adventure and Creative Act, 17 Jun 2015 in Philosophy&Religion
• Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014), 16 Jun 2015 in Music
• An Introduction to the Literary Philosophy of Marcel Proust, Presented in a Monty Python-Style Animation, 15 Jun 2015 in Animation&Literature