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• “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” Michael Stipe Proclaims Again, and He Still Feels Fine, 06 Apr 2020 in Current Affairs&Music
• Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Turns 50: Celebrate the Funk-Jazz-Psych-Rock Masterpiece, 03 Apr 2020 in Jazz&Music
• This is What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction, 02 Apr 2020 in Physics
• Simulating an Epidemic: Using Data to Show How Diseases Like COVID-19 Spread, 01 Apr 2020 in Current Affairs&Data&Health&Science
• The Band’s Classic Song, “The Weight,” Sung by Musicians Around the World: With Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr & Other Special Guests, 31 Mar 2020 in Current Affairs&Music
• Download Classic Works of Plague Fiction: From Daniel Defoe & Mary Shelley, to Edgar Allan Poe, 31 Mar 2020 in Books&History&Literature
• The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran, 30 Mar 2020 in Books&Religion
• Bob Dylan Releases a Cryptic 17-Minute Song about the JFK Assassination: Hear a “Murder Most Foul”, 30 Mar 2020 in Music
• Patrick Stewart Is Reading Every Shakespeare Sonnet on Instagram: One a Day “to Keep the Doctor Away”, 26 Mar 2020 in Current Affairs&Literature
• Take a Virtual Tour of the Paris Catacombs, 25 Mar 2020 in History&Life&Travel
• What Happened to U.S. Cities That Practiced–and Didn’t Practice–Social Distancing During 1918’s “Spanish Flu”, 25 Mar 2020 in Current Affairs&Health&History
• Meet the World’s First Known Author: Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, 25 Mar 2020 in Literature&Poetry
• Digital Archives Give You Free Access to Thousands of Historical Children’s Books, 23 Mar 2020 in Books
• When Orson Welles Crossed Paths With Hitler (and Churchill): “He Had No Personality.… I Think There Was Nothing There.”, 23 Mar 2020 in History&Television
• A Short, Animated Film Shows How a Scientific Article Gets Published: “Excitement, Baby Steps and Reams of Rejections”, 20 Mar 2020 in Science
• Linked Jazz: A Huge Data Visualization Maps the Relationships Between Countless Jazz Musicians & Restores Forgotten Women to Jazz History, 19 Mar 2020 in Data&Jazz&Music
• David Bowie’s Rise as Ziggy Stardust Documented in a New 300-Page Photo Book, 18 Mar 2020 in Music&Photography
• While Away the Hours with a Free H.P. Lovecraft Call of Cthulhu Coloring Book, 17 Mar 2020 in Coloring Books&Comics/Cartoons
• Isaac Newton Conceived of His Most Groundbreaking Ideas During the Great Plague of 1665, 17 Mar 2020 in History&Physics
• How Patti Smith “Saved” Rock and Roll: A New Video Makes the Case, 16 Mar 2020 in Music
• Covering Robert Johnson’s Blues Became a Rite of Rock ‘n’ Roll Passage: Hear Covers by The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Howlin’ Wolf, Lucinda Williams & More, 13 Mar 2020 in Music
• The Meaning of Life According to Simone de Beauvoir, 12 Mar 2020 in Philosophy
• Bill Gates Describes His Biggest Fear: “I Rate the Chance of a Widespread Epidemic Far Worse Than Ebola at Well Over 50 Percent” (2015), 11 Mar 2020 in Current Affairs
• Watch 85,000 Historic Newsreel Films from British Pathé Free Online (1910–2008), 11 Mar 2020 in Film&History
• Watch Scenes from Czarist Moscow Vividly Restored with Artificial Intelligence (May 1896), 10 Mar 2020 in Film&History
• Hear the Sound of the Hagia Sophia Recreated in Authentic Byzantine Chant, 09 Mar 2020 in Architecture&History&Music
• The Summerhill School, the Radical Educational Experiment That Let Students Learn What, When, and How They Want (1966), 09 Mar 2020 in Education&K-12
• Jeremy Bentham’s Mummified Body Is Still on Display–Much Like Other Aging British Rock Stars, 09 Mar 2020 in Philosophy&Random
• How African-American Explorer Matthew Henson Became the First Person to Reach the North Pole, Then Was Forgotten for Almost 30 Years, 05 Mar 2020 in History
• Every Possible Melody Has Been Copyrighted, and They’re Now Released into the Public Domain, 04 Mar 2020 in Law&Music&Technology
• Mister Rogers Makes a List of His 10 Favorite Books, 04 Mar 2020 in Books
• Americans Visited Libraries Almost Twice as Often as They Went to the Movies Last Year, a New Survey Shows, 03 Mar 2020 in Libraries
• What Happened Hazel Scott? Meet the Brilliant Jazz Musician & Activist Who Disappeared into Obscurity When She Was Blacklisted During the McCarthy Era, 03 Mar 2020 in History&Jazz&Music
• The Library of Congress Wants You to Help Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Poems & Letters: Almost 4000 Unpublished Documents Are Waiting, 02 Mar 2020 in Libraries&Literature&Poetry
• Free: Read the Original 23,000-Word Essay That Became Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), 28 Feb 2020 in Books&Literature
• The Smithsonian Puts 2.8 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain, 27 Feb 2020 in Art&Education&History&How to Learn for Free&Libraries&Museums&Photography
• Janis Joplin’s Last TV Performance & Interview: The Dick Cavett Show (1970), 26 Feb 2020 in Music&Television
• The Peanuts Gang Performs Pink Floyd’s Classic Rock Opera in the Mashup “Charlie Brown vs. The Wall”, 26 Feb 2020 in Comics/Cartoons&Music
• The Opera Database: Find Scores, Libretti & Synopses for Thousands of Operas Free Online, 25 Feb 2020 in Music
• A Tribute to NASA’s Katherine Johnson (RIP): Learn About the Extraordinary Mathematician Who Broke Through America’s Race & Gender Barriers, 25 Feb 2020 in Film&History&Science
• How Nina Simone Became Hip Hop’s “Secret Weapon”: From Lauryn Hill to Jay Z and Kanye West, 21 Feb 2020 in Music
• How William S. Burroughs Influenced Rock and Roll, from the 1960s to Today, 20 Feb 2020 in Music
• Electronic Musician Shows How He Uses His Prosthetic Arm to Control a Music Synthesizer with His Thoughts, 20 Feb 2020 in Health&Music&Neuroscience&Technology
• The City of Nashville Built a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in 1897, and It’s Still Standing Today, 19 Feb 2020 in Architecture&History
• New Digital Archive Will Bring Medieval Chants Back to Life: Project Amra Will Feature 300 Digitized Manuscripts and Many Audio Recordings, 19 Feb 2020 in History&Music&Religion
• Bob Marley’s Redemption Song Finally Gets an Official Video: Watch the Animated Video Made Up of 2747 Drawings, 18 Feb 2020 in Music
• Bertrand Russell’s Prison Letters Are Now Digitized & Put Online (1918 — 1961), 18 Feb 2020 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• Scientist Creates a Working Rotary Cellphone, 17 Feb 2020 in Technology
• Discover the Artist Who Mentored Edward Hopper & Inspired “Nighthawks”, 14 Feb 2020 in Art
• How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built: The Story of One of the Greatest Engineering Feats in History, 13 Feb 2020 in History
• An Archive of Handwritten Traditional Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online, 12 Feb 2020 in Books&Food & Drink&History
• The Experimental Abstract Films of Pioneering American Animator Mary Ellen Bute (1930s-1950s), 12 Feb 2020 in Film
• Old Book Illustrations: An Online Database Lets You Download Thousands of Illustrations from the 19th & 20th Centuries, 11 Feb 2020 in Art&Books
• When Miles Davis Discovered and Then Channeled the Musical Spirit of Jimi Hendrix, 11 Feb 2020 in Music
• Chick Corea (RIP) Offers 16 Pieces of “Cheap But Good Advice for Playing Music in a Group” (1985), 10 Feb 2020 in Music
• Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download & Color Hundreds of Free Images, 07 Feb 2020 in Art&Coloring Books&Libraries&Museums
• The Most Complete Collection of Salvador Dalí’s Paintings Published in a Beautiful New Book by Taschen: Includes Never-Seen-Before Works, 05 Feb 2020 in Art&Books
• Terry Jones, the Late Monty Python Actor, Helped Turn Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Into a Free App: Explore It Online, 05 Feb 2020 in Education&Literature&Technology
• What is a Blade Runner? How Ridley Scott’s Movie Has Origins in William S. Burroughs’ Novella, Blade Runner: A Movie, 04 Feb 2020 in Film&Literature
• The Word “Robot” Originated in a Czech Play in 1921: Discover Karel Čapek’s Sci-Fi Play R.U.R. (a.k.a. Rossum’s Universal Robots), 04 Feb 2020 in History&Literature&Science&Technology
• The Dark Side of the Moon Project: Watch an 8‑Part Video Essay on Pink Floyd’s Classic Album, 04 Feb 2020 in Music
• Deconstructing Bach’s Famous Cello Prelude–the One You’ve Heard in Hundreds of TV Shows & Films, 03 Feb 2020 in Music
• Evelyn Waugh’s “Victorian Blood Book”: A Most Strange & Macabre Illustrated Book, 30 Jan 2020 in Books&Libraries&Literature&Religion
• How the Psychedelic Mellotron Works: An In-Depth Demonstration, 29 Jan 2020 in Music
• Hear the Voice of a 3,0000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy: Scientists 3‑D Print His Throat & Mouth and Get Him to Speak … a Little, 29 Jan 2020 in History&Science
• Discover the Disappearing Turkish Language That is Whistled, Not Spoken, 28 Jan 2020 in Language&Life
• The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book, 28 Jan 2020 in Art&Psychology&Religion
• Jim Lehrer’s 16 Rules for Practicing Journalism with Integrity, 27 Jan 2020 in Current Affairs&Media&Television
• Monty Python’s Terry Jones (RIP) Was a Comedian, But Also a Medieval Historian: Get to Know His Other Side, 24 Jan 2020 in Comedy&History&Television
• How the Female Scientist Who Discovered the Greenhouse Gas Effect Was Forgotten by History, 22 Jan 2020 in Gender&Science
• When Salvador Dali Met Sigmund Freud, and Changed Freud’s Mind About Surrealism (1938), 22 Jan 2020 in Art&Psychology
• Introducing The Radiohead Public Library: Radiohead Makes Their Full Catalogue Available via a Free Online Web Site, 21 Jan 2020 in Music
• The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain, 21 Jan 2020 in Music
• Drunk History Takes on the Father of Prohibition: The Ban on Alcohol in the U.S. Started 100 Years Ago This Month, 21 Jan 2020 in Comedy&History
• The Anti-Conformist, Libertarian Philosophy That Shaped Rush’s Classic Albums, 17 Jan 2020 in Music
• When People Gave Anti-Valentine’s Day Cards: Revisit the “Vinegar Valentines” That Spread Ridicule and Contempt, 16 Jan 2020 in History&Life
• The Amazing Artistry & Ingenuity of the Furniture Enjoyed by 18th Century Aristocrats, 15 Jan 2020 in Design&History
• Celebrating Women Composers: A New BBC Digital Archive Takes You from Hildegard of Bingen (1098) to Nadia Boulanger (1979), 15 Jan 2020 in Gender&Music
• The New York Public Library Announces the Top 10 Checked-Out Books of All Time, 14 Jan 2020 in Books&K-12&Libraries
• Art Record Covers: A Book of Over 500 Album Covers Created by Famous Visual Artists, 14 Jan 2020 in Art&Music
• Witness Rush Drummer Neil Peart’s (RIP) Finest Moments On Stage and Screen, 13 Jan 2020 in Music
• Artist Ed Ruscha Reads From Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in a Short Film Celebrating His 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip, 13 Jan 2020 in Art&Books&Film&Literature&Philosophy
• How Dick Cavett Brought Sophistication to Late Night Talk Shows: Watch 270 Classic Interviews Online, 09 Jan 2020 in Television
• Vincent Van Gogh’s Favorite Books, 09 Jan 2020 in Art&Books
• The Strange, Spiritual Origins of the Ouija Board, 08 Jan 2020 in History
• An Animated Look at the Charade of the Global Elites: Claiming They Want to “Change the World,” They End Up Preserving the Unjust Status Quo, 08 Jan 2020 in Animation&Current Affairs&Politics
• Pink Floyd Films a Concert in an Empty Auditorium, Still Trying to Break Into the U.S. Charts (1970), 07 Jan 2020 in Music
• A Brief History of John Baldessari (RIP) Narrated by Tom Waits: A Tribute to the Late “Godfather of Conceptual Art”, 06 Jan 2020 in Art
• The Names of 1.8 Million Emancipated Slaves Are Now Searchable in the World’s Largest Genealogical Database, Helping African Americans Find Lost Ancestors, 03 Jan 2020 in Archives&History&Museums
• 38 Major Pop Songs Played with the Exact Same Four Chords: Watch a Captivating Medley Performed by the Axis of Awesome, 03 Jan 2020 in Comedy&Music
• How Cartoons Saved R. Crumb’s Life, and How R. Crumb Turned Cartoons into an Art Form (NSFW), 02 Jan 2020 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• When Robin Williams & Steve Martin Starred in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot (1988), 02 Jan 2020 in Comedy&Theatre
• The Voynich Manuscript: A New Documentary Takes a Deep Dive Into the Mysteries of the Bizarre Manuscript, 01 Jan 2020 in Books&History
• The History of the Fisheye Photo Album Cover, 31 Dec 2019 in Art&Music&Photography
• John Coltrane Talks About the Sacred Meaning of Music in the Human Experience: Listen to One of His Final Interviews (1966), 30 Dec 2019 in Music
• A Visual Introduction to Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Broken Pottery and Finding Beauty in Imperfection, 30 Dec 2019 in Art&Creativity&Psychology
• An Animated Introduction to Cynicism, the Anti Conformist Philosophy That Originated in Ancient Greece, 27 Dec 2019 in Philosophy
• Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors, 27 Dec 2019 in Art&History
• Hear Every Sample on the Beastie Boys’ Acclaimed Album, Paul’s Boutique–and Discover Where They Came From, 26 Dec 2019 in Music
• Revisiting Band Aid’s Cringe-Inducing 1984 Single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, 25 Dec 2019 in Music
• Ram Dass (RIP) Offers Wisdom on Confronting Aging and Dying, 24 Dec 2019 in Health&Life&Philosophy&Psychology&Religion
• Richard Feynman’s “Lost Lecture:” An Animated Retelling, 23 Dec 2019 in Physics&Science
• Radiohead Puts Every Official Album on YouTube, Making Them All Free to Stream, 21 Dec 2019 in Music
• Malcolm Gladwell Rebuts the Terrible Advice Given to Students: Don’t Go to “the Best College You Can,” Go to Where You Can Have “Deeply Interesting Conversations with People” at Night, 20 Dec 2019 in Education&Life
• The Phenomena of Physics Illustrated with Psychedelic Art in an Influential 19th-Century Textbook, 19 Dec 2019 in Art&Physics&Science
• An Introduction to Surrealism: The Big Aesthetic Ideas Presented in Three Videos, 18 Dec 2019 in Art
• How Yoga Changes the Brain and May Guard Against Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 18 Dec 2019 in Health&Neuroscience
• “The Philosophy of “Flow”: A Brief Introduction to Taoism, 17 Dec 2019 in Philosophy&Religion
• Discover the Stendhal Syndrome: The Condition Where People Faint, or Feel Totally Overwhelmed, in the Presence of Great Art, 17 Dec 2019 in Art&History&Literature&Psychology&Travel
• Jimi Hendrix Hosts a Jam Session Where Jim Morrison Sings Drunkenly; Jimi Records the Moment for Posterity (1968), 16 Dec 2019 in Music
• Steve Martin on How to Look at Abstract Art, 12 Dec 2019 in Art
• Why Should We Read William Shakespeare? Four Animated Videos Make the Case, 12 Dec 2019 in Literature&Theatre
• Meditation for Artists: Learn Moebius’ Meditative Technique Called “Automatic Drawing”, 11 Dec 2019 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• Author Imagines in 1893 the Fashions That Would Appear Over the Next 100 Years, 11 Dec 2019 in Fashion&Magazines
• Plants Emit High-Pitched Sounds When They Get Cut, or Stressed by Drought, a New Study Shows, 10 Dec 2019 in Biology&Science
• Watch an Incredible Performance of “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1964), 09 Dec 2019 in Music
• Revisit the Infamous Rolling Stones Free Festival at Altamont: The Ill-Fated Concert Took Place 50 Years Ago, 09 Dec 2019 in History&Music
• Music Is Truly a Universal Language: New Research Shows That Music Worldwide Has Important Commonalities, 06 Dec 2019 in Music&Science
• What the Great Pyramid of Giza Would’ve Looked Like When First Built: It Was Gleaming, Reflective White, 05 Dec 2019 in History
• Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Get Used in Making Everyday Things, 04 Dec 2019 in Chemistry&K-12
• A New Digitized Menu Collection Lets You Revisit the Cuisine from the “Golden Age of Railroad Dining”, 04 Dec 2019 in Archives&Food & Drink&History
• 160,000 Pages of Glorious Medieval Manuscripts Digitized: Visit the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis, 03 Dec 2019 in Archives&Books&History&Libraries&Literature
• How Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Helps Us Understand the Meaning of Life, 03 Dec 2019 in Psychology
• Depeche Mode Before They Were Actually Depeche Mode: Stream Their Early Demo Recordings from 1980, 29 Nov 2019 in Music
• An Illustrated Map of Every Known Object in Space: Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, Black Holes & Much More, 28 Nov 2019 in Astronomy&Science
• Watch the Hot Guitar Solos of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “America’s First Gospel Rock Star”, 27 Nov 2019 in Music
• Watch Life-Affirming Performances from David Byrne’s New Broadway Musical American Utopia, 27 Nov 2019 in Music&Theatre
• Hannah Arendt Explains Why Democracies Need to Safeguard the Free Press & Truth … to Defend Themselves Against Dictators and Their Lies, 26 Nov 2019 in Philosophy&Politics
• Prisons Around the U.S. Are Banning and Restricting Access to Books, 26 Nov 2019 in Books&Current Affairs
• London Calling: A New Museum Exhibition Celebrates The Clash’s Iconic Album, 25 Nov 2019 in Music
• Neuroscience & Jazz Improvisation: How Improvisation Shapes Creativity and What Happens Inside Our Brain, 25 Nov 2019 in Neuroscience
• Watch 9 Classic & Lost Punk Films (1976–1981): All Restored and Now Streaming Online, 21 Nov 2019 in Film&Music
• Every Nuclear Bomb Explosion in History, Animated, 20 Nov 2019 in History
• The 1926 Silent Film The Flying Ace Tells the Alternative Universe Story of a Black Fighter Pilot, Many Years Before African-Americans Were Allowed to Serve as Pilots in the US Army, 20 Nov 2019 in Film
• Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of the Internet & Smart Phone in 1926, 19 Nov 2019 in Science&Technology
• Watch Klaus Nomi Debut His New Wave Vaudeville Show: The Birth of the Opera-Singing Space Alien (1978), 19 Nov 2019 in Art&Music
• Download Stunning 3D Scans of the Bust of Nefertiti, Now Released by Berlin’s Neues Museum, 18 Nov 2019 in Art&Current Affairs&Museums
• How Art Nouveau Inspired the Psychedelic Designs of the 1960s, 18 Nov 2019 in Art&Music
• How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look, 14 Nov 2019 in History&Maps
• A Brief History of Chess: An Animated Introduction to the 1,500-Year-Old Game, 13 Nov 2019 in Games&History