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• Hear Ornette Coleman Collaborate with Lou Reed, Which Lou Called “One of My Greatest Moments”, 12 Jun 2015 in Music
• Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art, 11 Jun 2015 in Art
• David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Queen & Elvis Presley Star in Delightfully Absurd Musicless Music Videos, 10 Jun 2015 in Comedy&Music&Random
• Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Brought to Life in Sand Animations by the Hungarian Artist Ferenc Cakó, 09 Jun 2015 in Animation
• The Mystical Poetry of Rumi Read By Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks, 08 Jun 2015 in Poetry
• Hear the Enchanting Jorge Luis Borges Read “The Art of Poetry”, 05 Jun 2015 in Literature&Poetry
• 10 Million Years of Evolution Visualized in an Elegant, 5‑Foot Long Infographic from 1931, 04 Jun 2015 in Education&Science
• 13-Year-Old Jimmy Page Plays Guitar on TV in 1957, an Early Moment in His Spectacular Career, 03 Jun 2015 in Music
• Hear Toni Morrison’s Poetic Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993), 02 Jun 2015 in Literature
• High School Teacher Reads Allen Ginsberg’s Explicit Poem “Please Master” and Loses His Job, 01 Jun 2015 in Current Affairs&Education&Poetry
• Watch Alfred Hitchcock Make Cameo Appearances in 37 of His Films, 29 May 2015 in Film
• The Absurd Philosophy of Albert Camus Presented in a Short Animated Film by Alain De Botton, 28 May 2015 in Philosophy
• Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters, 27 May 2015 in Letters&Literature
• Albert Einstein Tells His Son The Key to Learning & Happiness is Losing Yourself in Creativity (or “Finding Flow”), 26 May 2015 in Creativity&Health&Physics
• Robert De Niro Tells Graduating NYU Arts Grads, “You Made It… And You’re F*cked”, 25 May 2015 in Art&Creativity&Education&Graduation Speech&Life
• Norman Rockwell Illustrates Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (1936–1940), 22 May 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• Watch the Hardcore Original Ending to Kevin Smith’s 1994 Cult Hit Clerks, 21 May 2015 in Film
• Peter Sellers Covers the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night,” “She Loves You” & “Help!”, 20 May 2015 in Comedy&Music
• 6 Political Theorists Introduced in Animated “School of Life” Videos: Marx, Smith, Rawls & More, 18 May 2015 in Philosophy&Politics
• The Thrill is Gone: See B.B. King Play in Two Electric Live Performances, 15 May 2015 in Music
• Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane Mallarmé (1875), 15 May 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• The Letter Between Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke That Sparked the Greatest SciFi Film Ever Made (1964), 14 May 2015 in Film&Letters
• Mark Twain & Helen Keller’s Special Friendship: He Treated Me Not as a Freak, But as a Person Dealing with Great Difficulties, 13 May 2015 in History&Letters&Literature
• Watch Miles Davis Improvise Music for Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle’s New Wave Thriller (1958), 11 May 2015 in Film&Jazz&Music
• Learn to Play Guitar for Free: Intro Courses Take You From The Very Basics to Playing Songs In No Time, 08 May 2015 in Education&How to Learn for Free&Music
• Michael Moore’s 13 Rules for Making Documentaries — Really Powerful & Entertaining Documentaries, 07 May 2015 in Film&Politics
• Maurice Sendak’s Bawdy Illustrations For Herman Melville’s Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, 06 May 2015 in Art&Books&Literature
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter Alan Turing Wrote in “Distress” Before His Conviction For “Gross Indecency”, 05 May 2015 in History&Letters
• 96 Drawings of David Bowie by the “World’s Best Comic Artists”: Michel Gondry, Kate Beaton & More, 04 May 2015 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Music
• Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970), 01 May 2015 in Music
• George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens’ Ironclad Rules for Making a Good Cup of Tea, 30 Apr 2015 in Food & Drink
• Hear Dziga Vertov’s Revolutionary Experiments in Sound: From His Radio Broadcasts to His First Sound Film, 28 Apr 2015 in Art&Film
• Kickstart the Theatrical Release of the First Comprehensive Black Panther Party Documentary, 28 Apr 2015 in Film&History
• Animated Philosophers Presents a Rocking Introduction to Socrates, the Father of Greek Philosophy, 27 Apr 2015 in Philosophy
• Baudelaire, Balzac, Dumas, Delacroix & Hugo Get a Little Baked at Their Hash Club (1844–1849), 24 Apr 2015 in Literature&Poetry
• The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826), 23 Apr 2015 in Photography
• Slavoj Žižek Calls Political Correctness a Form of “Modern Totalitarianism”, 22 Apr 2015 in Philosophy&Politics
• 200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II, 21 Apr 2015 in History&Photography
• Henry Miller Makes a List of “The 100 Books That Influenced Me Most”, 20 Apr 2015 in Books&Literature
• Martin Scorsese Makes a List of 85 Films Every Aspiring Filmmaker Needs to See, 17 Apr 2015 in Film
• Interactive Music Video Lets You Explore the Apartments on the Cover of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, 17 Apr 2015 in Animation&Creativity&Music
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Has a Strange Dinner with James Joyce & Draws a Cute Sketch of It (1928), 16 Apr 2015 in Literature
• Günter Grass Takes On Facebook: “Someone Who Has 500 Friends, Has No Friends.”, 15 Apr 2015 in Current Affairs&Literature&Politics
• Brian May Shows You How to Play Licks & Solos from 18 Queen Songs, and Reveals the Joy of the Guitar Riff, 14 Apr 2015 in Music
• Teacher Calls Jacques Derrida’s College Admission Essay on Shakespeare “Quite Incomprehensible” (1951), 13 Apr 2015 in Philosophy
• The Rolling Stones Release a Soulful, Never-Heard Acoustic Version of “Wild Horses”, 12 Apr 2015 in Music
• Edgar Allan Poe Animated: Watch Four Animations of Classic Poe Stories, 09 Apr 2015 in Animation&Literature
• Artists Illustrate Dante’s Divine Comedy Through the Ages: Doré, Blake, Botticelli, Mœbius & More, 08 Apr 2015 in Art&Literature
• Watch Four Iconic Live Performances by Billie Holiday, 07 Apr 2015 in Music
• Read An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: A Fun Primer on How to Strengthen, Not Weaken, Your Arguments, 06 Apr 2015 in Books&Philosophy&Politics
• Watch Stars Read Classic Children’s Books: Betty White, James Earl Jones, Rita Moreno & Many More, 03 Apr 2015 in Books&Education&English Language&K-12
• Listen to Nick Cave’s Lecture on the Art of Writing Sublime Love Songs (1999), 02 Apr 2015 in Music
• Download the Major Works of Jane Austen as Free eBooks & Audio Books, 01 Apr 2015 in Audio Books&e-books&Literature
• Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children’s Book (1955), 31 Mar 2015 in K-12&Music
• How Can I Know Right From Wrong? Watch Philosophy Animations on Ethics Narrated by Harry Shearer, 30 Mar 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• An Online Gallery of Over 900,000 Wonderful Photos of Historic New York City, 27 Mar 2015 in History&Photography
• William Faulkner Resigns From His Post Office Job With a Spectacular Letter (1924), 26 Mar 2015 in Literature
• Puppets of Dostoevsky, Dickens & Poe Star in 1950s Frank Capra Educational Film, 25 Mar 2015 in Education&Film&Science
• The (Urban) Legend of Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Story: “For sale, Baby shoes, Never worn.”, 24 Mar 2015 in Literature
• Umberto Eco’s How To Write a Thesis: A Witty, Irreverent & Highly Practical Guide Now Out in English, 23 Mar 2015 in Books&Education&Writing
• Watch Rock Pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe Wow Audiences With Her Gospel Guitar, 20 Mar 2015 in Music
• Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Drawings Show How He First Visualized the Ego, Superego, Id & More, 19 Mar 2015 in History&Psychology&Science
• The Story of Lorem Ipsum: How Scrambled Text by Cicero Became the Standard For Typesetters Everywhere, 18 Mar 2015 in Books&Design
• Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche: 43 Original Tracks, 17 Mar 2015 in Music&Philosophy
• 1933 Article on Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”, 16 Mar 2015 in Art
• Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” Suggest He Was a Serious Anti-Semite, Not Just a Naive Nazi, 13 Mar 2015 in Philosophy
• Hear John Lennon’s Final Interview, Taped on the Last Day of His Life (December 8, 1980), 12 Mar 2015 in Music
• Hear the Never Released Jimi Hendrix Track, “Station Break,” Which Shows Us the Guitar Legend as an R&B Sideman, 11 Mar 2015 in Music
• The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche Explained with 8‑Bit Video Games, 11 Mar 2015 in Philosophy
• The Visual Art of William S. Burroughs: Book Covers, Portraits, Collage, Shotgun Art & More, 10 Mar 2015 in Art&Literature
• Chuck Jones’ 9 Rules For Drawing Road Runner Cartoons, or How to Create a Minimalist Masterpiece, 09 Mar 2015 in Animation&Comics/Cartoons
• The First Customer Service Complaint in Recorded History (1750 B.C.), 07 Mar 2015 in History
• Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh & Other Arists Tell Their Musical Stories in the Animated Video Series, “California Inspires Me”, 06 Mar 2015 in Animation&Creativity&Literature&Music
• Read Chez Foucault, the 1978 Fanzine That Introduced Students to the Radical French Philosopher, 05 Mar 2015 in Philosophy&Politics
• Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to Young People: “Learn to Be Alone,” Enjoy Solitude, 04 Mar 2015 in Film&Life
• Discover the Oldest Beer Recipe in History From Ancient Sumeria, 1800 B.C., 03 Mar 2015 in Food & Drink&History
• Miles Davis’ Entire Discography Presented in a Stylish Interactive Visualization, 02 Mar 2015 in Music
• Leonard Nimoy Recites Famous Soliloquy from Hamlet in Yiddish: “To Be or Not To Be”, 28 Feb 2015 in Life&Sci Fi&Television
• Guidelines for Handling William Faulkner’s Drinking During Foreign Trips From the US State Department (1955), 27 Feb 2015 in History&Literature
• George Orwell Creates a Who’s Who List of “Crypto” Communists for British Intelligence Forces (1949), 26 Feb 2015 in History&Politics
• The Story of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Released 50 Years Ago This Month, 25 Feb 2015 in Jazz&Music
• Download Pink Floyd’s 1975 Comic Book Program for The Dark Side of the Moon Tour, 24 Feb 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
• Hear The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” With a Re-Discovered George Harrison Solo, 23 Feb 2015 in Music
• What Makes Us Human?: Chomsky, Locke & Marx Introduced by New Animated Videos from the BBC, 20 Feb 2015 in Animation&Philosophy
• Charles Mingus’ Instructions For Toilet Training Your Cat, Read by The Wire’s Reg E. Cathey, 20 Feb 2015 in Life&Music&Random
• A Gallery of Mad Magazine’s Rollicking Fake Advertisements from the 1960s, 20 Feb 2015 in Comedy&Magazines
• 7 Rock Album Covers Designed by Iconic Artists: Warhol, Rauschenberg, Dalí, Richter, Mapplethorpe & More, 19 Feb 2015 in Art&Music
• What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?: Lists by Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly & Other Forward-Thinking Minds, 18 Feb 2015 in Books&Life
• 7 Short Stories by Junot Díaz Free Online, In Text and Audio, 16 Feb 2015 in Literature
• Illustrations for a Chinese Lord of the Rings in a Stunning “Glass Painting Style”, 13 Feb 2015 in Art&Literature
• Gun Nut William S. Burroughs & Gonzo Illustrator Ralph Steadman Make Polaroid Portraits Together, 12 Feb 2015 in Art&Literature
• William Faulkner Outlines on His Office Wall the Plot of His Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel, A Fable (1954), 12 Feb 2015 in Literature
• Harper Lee on the Joy of Reading Real Books: “Some Things Should Happen On Soft Pages, Not Cold Metal”, 12 Feb 2015 in Books&Letters&Literature
• How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America, 11 Feb 2015 in Philosophy
• Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years, 10 Feb 2015 in History&Music
• Listen to 90 Famous Authors & Celebrities Read Great Stories & Poems, 09 Feb 2015 in Literature
• Watch a Young Bob Marley and The Wailers Perform Live in England (1973): For His 70th Birthday Today, 06 Feb 2015 in Music
• Invisible Cities Illustrated: Three Artists Paint Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel, 05 Feb 2015 in Art&Literature
• Romantic Poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey Write About Their Experiments with Laughing Gas (1799), 05 Feb 2015 in History&Literature&Science
• How David Bowie, Kurt Cobain & Thom Yorke Write Songs With William Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique, 04 Feb 2015 in Literature&Music
• Junot Díaz’s Syllabi for His MIT Writing Classes, and the Novels on His Reading List, 03 Feb 2015 in Education&Literature
• The Clash Play Their Final Show (San Bernardino, 1983), 02 Feb 2015 in Music
• Hear Isolated Guitar Tracks From Some of Rock’s Greatest: Slash, Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton & More, 30 Jan 2015 in Music
• An Illustration of Every Page of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, 29 Jan 2015 in Art&Literature
• Hear Gandhi’s Famous Speech on the Existence of God (1931), 28 Jan 2015 in History
• Bill Hicks’ 12 Principles of Comedy, 27 Jan 2015 in Comedy
• Dostoevsky Draws a Picture of Shakespeare: A New Discovery in an Old Manuscript, 26 Jan 2015 in Literature
• How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson, 23 Jan 2015 in Philosophy&Religion&Science
• How “America’s First Drug Czar” Waged War Against Billie Holiday and Other Jazz Legends, 22 Jan 2015 in Music&Politics
• Jean Cocteau Delivers a Speech to the Year 2000 in 1962: “I Hope You Have Not Become Robots”, 21 Jan 2015 in Art&Film&Life&Poetry
• Visit “Mariobatalivoice,” the Cooking Blog by Steve Albini, Musician & Record Producer, 21 Jan 2015 in Food & Drink&Music
• Ayn Rand Writes a Harsh Letter To Her 17-Year-Old Niece: “I Will Write You Off As a Rotten Person” (1949), 20 Jan 2015 in Literature&Philosophy&Politics
• Nirvana’s Last Concert: Audio/ Video Recorded on March 1, 1994, 19 Jan 2015 in Music
• Edward Said Recalls His Depressing Meeting With Sartre, de Beauvoir & Foucault (1979), 16 Jan 2015 in Philosophy&Politics
• Hear Hemingway Read Hemingway, and Faulkner Read Faulkner (90 Minutes of Classic Audio), 15 Jan 2015 in Audio Books&Literature
• Vladimir Nabokov Names the Greatest (and Most Overrated) Novels of the 20th Century, 14 Jan 2015 in Literature
• Buddhism 101: A Short Introductory Lecture by Jorge Luis Borges, 14 Jan 2015 in Literature&Religion
• Inside the Making of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, Rock’s Great Concept Album, 13 Jan 2015 in Music
• 7 Tips from Edgar Allan Poe on How to Write Vivid Stories and Poems, 12 Jan 2015 in Literature&Writing
• Wonderfully Kitschy Propaganda Posters Champion the Chinese Space Program (1962–2003), 09 Jan 2015 in Art&History&Science
• Three Essential Dadaist Films: Groundbreaking Works by Hans Richter, Man Ray & Marcel Duchamp, 08 Jan 2015 in Art&Film
• Steven Soderbergh Creates a Big List of What He Watched, Read & Listened to in 2014, 08 Jan 2015 in Film&Life&Literature&Television
• Jimmy Page Tells the Story of “Stairway to Heaven”: How the Most Played Rock Song Came To Be, 07 Jan 2015 in Music
• How Famous Writers Deal With Writer’s Block: Their Tips & Tricks, 06 Jan 2015 in Creativity&Writing
• Kurt Cobain’s Home Demos: Early Versions of Nirvana Hits, and Never-Released Songs, 05 Jan 2015 in Music
• Rare Footage of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & Other Beats Hanging Out in the East Village (1959), 02 Jan 2015 in Film&Literature&Photography&Poetry
• Marilyn Monroe’s Go-Getter List of New Year’s Resolutions (1955), 01 Jan 2015 in Film&Life
• Download 140 Free Philosophy Courses: Develop Critical Thinking Skills & Live the Examined Life, 31 Dec 2014 in Education&Online Courses&Philosophy
• Werner Herzog Plays Himself in Cartoon That Satirizes Obama’s 2008 Election & Race in America, 29 Dec 2014 in Comics/Cartoons&Current Affairs&Politics
• How the “Paul McCartney is Dead” Hoax Started at an American College Newspaper and Went Viral (1969), 26 Dec 2014 in Music
• Ayn Rand Helped the FBI Identify It’s A Wonderful Life as Communist Propaganda, 25 Dec 2014 in Film&History&Politics
• Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006), 24 Dec 2014 in Music&Radio
• Young John Belushi Imitates Truman Capote & Performs Live on Second City Stage (1972), 23 Dec 2014 in Comedy
• The Tate Digitizes 70,000 Works of Art: Photos, Sketchbooks, Letters & More, 22 Dec 2014 in Archives&Art
• Joe Cocker Sings “With A Little Help From My Friends,” Live in 2013 and At Woodstock in 1969, 22 Dec 2014 in Music
• How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972), 19 Dec 2014 in Creativity&Film&Literature
• Discover the Church of St. John Coltrane, Founded on the Divine Music of A Love Supreme, 18 Dec 2014 in Jazz&Music&Religion
• Noam Chomsky Almost Appeared on Saturday Night Live During the 90s, 18 Dec 2014 in Comedy&Politics
• Johnny Cash’s Christmas Specials, Featuring June Carter, Steve Martin, Andy Kaufman & More (1976–79), 17 Dec 2014 in Music&Television
• Susan Sontag’s List of 10 Parenting Rules, 16 Dec 2014 in Life&Literature