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• Watch the Serpentine Dance, Created by the Pioneering Dancer Loie Fuller, Performed in an 1897 Film by the Lumière Brothers, 13 Nov 2019 in Dance&Film
• Watch the Buddhism-Inspired Video for Leonard Cohen’s Newly-Released Song, “Happens to the Heart”, 12 Nov 2019 in Music
• A Schoolhouse Rock-Inspired Guide to Impeachment, 12 Nov 2019 in Current Affairs&Politics
• Watch Nirvana Go Through Rehearsals for Their Famous MTV Unplugged Sessions: “Polly,” “The Man Who Sold the World” & More (1993), 12 Nov 2019 in Music&Television
• The Internet Archive Is Digitizing & Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now, 11 Nov 2019 in Archives&History&Libraries&Music
• The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Movement Online, 07 Nov 2019 in Art
• When White Supremacists Overthrew a Government (1898): The Hidden History of an American Coup, 07 Nov 2019 in History
• Martin Scorsese Explains the Difference Between Cinema and Movies, 06 Nov 2019 in Film
• The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England: A (Pre-Brexit) Video Explains, 06 Nov 2019 in History&Maps&Politics
• Behold Félix Nadar’s Pioneering Photographs of the Paris Catacombs (1861), 06 Nov 2019 in History&Photography
• Women Scientists Launch a Database Featuring the Work of 9,000 Women Working in the Sciences, 05 Nov 2019 in Gender&Science
• Oscar-Nominated Composer Danny Elfman Teaches an Online Course on Writing Music for Film: A Look Inside His Creative Process, 04 Nov 2019 in Film&Music
• How to Find Silence in a Noisy World, 01 Nov 2019 in Life&Nature
• An Animated Introduction to Medieval Taverns: Learn the History of These Rough-and-Tumble Ancestors of the Modern Pub, 31 Oct 2019 in Food & Drink&History
• What Guitars Were Like 400 Years Ago: An Introduction to the 9 String Baroque Guitar, 30 Oct 2019 in History&Music
• Frank Zappa’s Surreal Movie 200 Motels: The First Feature Film Ever Shot on Videotape (1971), 29 Oct 2019 in Film&Music
• How Monument Valley Became the Most Iconic Landscape of the American West, 29 Oct 2019 in Film&History
• Peruvian Scholar Writes & Defends the First Thesis Written in Quechua, the Main Language of the Incan Empire, 29 Oct 2019 in Literature
• The Paintings of Miles Davis: Discover Visual Art Inspired by Kandinsky, Basquiat, Picasso, and Joni Mitchell, 28 Oct 2019 in Art&Music
• Joni Mitchell Publishes a Book of Her Rarely Seen Paintings & Poetry, 26 Oct 2019 in Art&Books&Music&Poetry
• Beautiful New Photo Book Documents Patti Smith’s Breakthrough Years in Music: Features Hundreds of Unseen Photographs, 25 Oct 2019 in Music&Photography
• Discover the Persian 11th Century Canon of Medicine, “The Most Famous Medical Textbook Ever Written”, 24 Oct 2019 in History&Science
• Behold the New York City Street Tree Map: An Interactive Map That Catalogues the 700,000 Trees Shading the Streets of New York City, 23 Oct 2019 in Data&Environment&Maps&Nature
• The Night When John Coltrane Soloed in a Bathroom and David Crosby, High as a Kite, Nearly Lost His Mind, 23 Oct 2019 in Film&Music
• Found: A Long Lost Chapter from the World’s Oldest Novel, the 11th-Century Japanese Classic, The Tale of Genji, 22 Oct 2019 in Literature
• The Story of Ziggy Stardust Gets Chronicled in a New Graphic Novel, Featuring a Foreword by Neil Gaiman, 22 Oct 2019 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Music
• Meet Viola Smith, the World’s Oldest Drummer: Her Career Started in the 1930s, and She Played Until She Was 107, 21 Oct 2019 in History&Music
• Martin Luther King Jr. Explains the Importance of Jazz: Hear the Speech He Gave at the First Berlin Jazz Festival (1964), 21 Oct 2019 in History&Music
• How to Paint Like Willem De Kooning: Watch Visual Primers from the Museum of Modern Art, 17 Oct 2019 in Art
• Stream Dozens of Classic & Contemporary Horror Movies Free Online in October, 16 Oct 2019 in Film
• Watch a Newly-Created “Epilogue” For Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 16 Oct 2019 in Film
• Watching Nature Documentaries Can Produce “Real Happiness,” Finds a Study from the BBC and UC-Berkeley, 15 Oct 2019 in Environment&Nature&Science&Television
• Why Should We Read Dante’s Divine Comedy? An Animated Video Makes the Case, 14 Oct 2019 in Literature
• How Grace Slick Wrote “White Rabbit”: The 1960s Classic Inspired by LSD, Lewis Carroll, Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain, and Hypocritical Parents, 11 Oct 2019 in Music
• Free: Download the Sublime Sights & Sounds of Yellowstone National Park, 10 Oct 2019 in Biology&Life&Nature
• The Women of Rock: Discover an Oral History Project That Features Pioneering Women in Rock Music, 10 Oct 2019 in Music
• The Simulation Theory Explained In Three Animated Videos, 09 Oct 2019 in Philosophy
• Download Full Issues of MAVO, the Japanese Avant-Garde Magazine That Announced a New Modernist Movement (1923–1925), 09 Oct 2019 in Art
• Hear a Radio Opera Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut, Based on His Adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s 1918 L’Histoire du Soldat, 08 Oct 2019 in Literature&Music
• Lost Depeche Mode Documentary Is Now Online: Watch Our Hobby is Depeche Mode, 07 Oct 2019 in Music
• See Why Ginger Baker (RIP) Was One of the Greatest Drummers in Rock & World Music, 07 Oct 2019 in Music
• The Morals That Determine Whether We’re Liberal, Conservative, or Libertarian, 03 Oct 2019 in Politics&Psychology
• Novelist Cormac McCarthy Gives Writing Advice to Scientists … and Anyone Who Wants to Write Clear, Compelling Prose, 03 Oct 2019 in Literature&Science&Writing
• The First Music Streaming Service Was Invented in 1881: Discover the Théâtrophone, 02 Oct 2019 in History&Technology
• 19th-Century Skeleton Alarm Clock Reminded People Daily of the Shortness of Life: An Introduction to the Memento Mori, 02 Oct 2019 in Art&History&Life
• Watch Queen Rehearse & Meticulously Prepare for Their Legendary 1985 Live Aid Performance, 01 Oct 2019 in Music
• A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete Digital Scan, 01 Oct 2019 in Art&Books
• Robert Johnson Finally Gets an Obituary in The New York Times 81 Years After His Death, 30 Sep 2019 in Music
• Human All Too Human: A Roman Woman Visits the Great Pyramid in 120 AD, and Carves a Poem in Memory of Her Deceased Brother, 26 Sep 2019 in History&Twitter
• Watch 15 Films by Designers Charles & Ray Eames, 25 Sep 2019 in Architecture&Art&Design&Film
• Watch Robert Hunter (RIP), Grateful Dead Lyricist, Perform His Legendary Songs “Bertha,” “Sugaree,” “Box of Rain,” “Friend of the Devil” & More, 25 Sep 2019 in Music
• An Animated Michael Sandel Explains How Meritocracy Degrades Our Democracy, 24 Sep 2019 in Economics&Philosophy&Politics
• The Sex Pistols Riotous 1978 Tour Through the U.S. South: Watch/Hear Concerts in Dallas, Memphis, Tulsa & More, 23 Sep 2019 in Music
• How Bicycles Can Revolutionize Our Lives: Case Studies from the United States, Netherlands, China & Britain, 23 Sep 2019 in Current Affairs&Design&Health&Life
• Why Time Seems to Fly By As You Get Older, and How to Slow It Down: A Scientific Explanation by Neuroscientist David Eagleman, 20 Sep 2019 in Neuroscience&Psychology
• The Creepy 13th-Century Melody That Shows Up in Movies Again & Again: An Introduction to “Dies Irae”, 19 Sep 2019 in Film&Music
• What Did People Eat in Medieval Times? A Video Series and New Cookbook Explain, 18 Sep 2019 in History
• Ric Ocasek and The Cars Perform Live in Concert After Their Groundbreaking Debut Album: Watch the Complete Show (January 13, 1979), 17 Sep 2019 in Music
• Learn the Number One Rule of Funk: Bootsy Collins Explains the Importance of “Keeping It on the One”, 17 Sep 2019 in Music
• John Milton’s Hand Annotated Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio: A New Discovery by a Cambridge Scholar, 16 Sep 2019 in Literature
• Bob Moog Demonstrates His Revolutionary Moog Model D Synthesizer, 13 Sep 2019 in Music
• How E.E. Cummings Writes a Poem, 12 Sep 2019 in Poetry
• Charles Bukowski Explains What Good Writing and the Good Life Have in Common, 12 Sep 2019 in Writing
• Animated Series Drawn & Recorded Tells “Untold Stories” from Music History: Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, Blind Willie Johnson & More, 11 Sep 2019 in Animation&Music
• What Would Michel Foucault Think of Social Media, Fake News & Our Post Truth World?, 10 Sep 2019 in Philosophy
• Sun Ra Applies to NASA’s Art Program: When the Inventor of Space Jazz Applied to Make Space Art, 10 Sep 2019 in Jazz&Music
• Monty Python’s Eric Idle Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters, 09 Sep 2019 in Film&Television
• The Secret Student Group Who Took on the Nazis: An Introduction to “The White Rose”, 09 Sep 2019 in History
• Medieval Monks Complained About Constant Distractions: Learn How They Worked to Overcome Them, 06 Sep 2019 in Life&Neuroscience&Psychology&Religion
• Hear the Very Moment When World War I Came to an End, 05 Sep 2019 in History
• The Paul McCartney is Dead Conspiracy Theory, Explained, 04 Sep 2019 in History&Music
• The Wisdom of Ram Dass Is Now Online: Stream 150 of His Enlightened Spiritual Talks as Free Podcasts, 04 Sep 2019 in Podcasts&Religion
• Demystifying the Falsetto Obsession in Pop & Rock Music, 04 Sep 2019 in Music
• Meditation for Beginners: Buddhist Monks & Teachers Explain the Basics, 03 Sep 2019 in Health&Psychology&Religion
• How Marion Stokes, an Activist Librarian, Recorded 30 Years of TV News on 70,000 Video Tapes: It’s All Now Being Digitized and Put Online, 30 Aug 2019 in Archives&Film&Television
• The Glorious Poster Art of the Soviet Space Program in Its Golden Age (1958–1963), 29 Aug 2019 in Design&History&Science
• David Byrne Launches Reasons to Be Cheerful, an Online Magazine Featuring Articles by Byrne, Brian Eno & More, 28 Aug 2019 in Current Affairs&Magazines
• David Gilmour Invites a Street Performer to Play Wine Glasses Onstage With Him In Venice: Hear Them Play “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, 27 Aug 2019 in Music
• Klaus Nomi Performs with Kraftwerk on German Television (1982), 27 Aug 2019 in Music
• Harvard Gives Free Online Access to 40 Million Pages of U.S. Case Law: Explore 6.4 Million Cases Dating Back to 1658, 26 Aug 2019 in Archives&Harvard&Law&Libraries
• Discover the Spelling Dictionary That Ludwig Wittgenstein Created for Elementary School Students, 26 Aug 2019 in Books
• What Happens To Your Body & Brain If You Don’t Get Sleep? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains, 22 Aug 2019 in Health&Neuroscience&Science
• See How Zildjian Cymbals Are Made In a Fascinating 10-Minute Short Film, 21 Aug 2019 in Music
• Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music: An Interactive, Encyclopedic Data Visualization of 120 Years of Electronic Music, 21 Aug 2019 in Music
• Miles Davis Iconic 1959 Album Kind of Blue Turns 60: Revisit the Album That Changed American Music, 20 Aug 2019 in Music
• Watch Some of the Most Powerful Bass Guitar Solos Ever: Geddy Lee, Flea, Bootsy Collins, John Deacon & More, 20 Aug 2019 in Music
• Newly-Discovered John Coltrane Album, Blue World, To Be Released in September: Hear the Title Track Now, 19 Aug 2019 in Film&Music
• How Joni Mitchell Wrote “Woodstock,” the Song that Defined the Legendary Music Festival, Even Though She Wasn’t There (1969), 16 Aug 2019 in Music
• A Short Animated Introduction to Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria’s Great Female Philosopher, 15 Aug 2019 in History&Philosophy
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine, 14 Aug 2019 in History&Science
• Legendary Protest Songs from Woodstock: Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & More Perform Protest Songs During the Music Festival That Launched 50 Years Ago This Week, 14 Aug 2019 in Music
• Watch Animated Scores of Eric Satie’s Most Famous Pieces: “Gymnopedie No. 1” and “Gnossienne No. 1”, 13 Aug 2019 in Music
• An Hour-Long Collection of Live Footage Documents the Early Days of Pink Floyd (1967–1972), 13 Aug 2019 in Music
• Manuscript Reveals How Medieval Nun, Joan of Leeds, Faked Her Own Death to Escape the Convent, 12 Aug 2019 in History&Religion
• Take a Virtual Tour of Jane Austen’s Library, 12 Aug 2019 in Books&Libraries&Literature
• Watch the Talking Heads Play Material From Their Groundbreaking Album Remain in Light in an Incredible Concert from 1980, 09 Aug 2019 in Music
• Who Are the Best Drum Soloists in Rock? See Legendary Performances by Neil Peart (RIP), John Bonham, Keith Moon, Terry Bozzio & More, 08 Aug 2019 in Music
• How Scientists Colorize Those Beautiful Space Photos Taken By the Hubble Space Telescope, 08 Aug 2019 in Photography&Science
• Toni Morrison Deconstructs White Supremacy in America, 07 Aug 2019 in Current Affairs&Literature
• Hear Toni Morrison (RIP) Present Her Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993), 06 Aug 2019 in Literature
• Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin: Stream Online (for a Limited Time) a New Documentary Exploring the Life & Work of the Legendary Sci-Fi Writer, 05 Aug 2019 in Film
• The Library of Congress Digitizes Over 16,000 Pages of Letters & Speeches from the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and You Can Help Transcribe Them, 02 Aug 2019 in Archives&Gender&History&Politics
• The Unexpected Ways Eastern Philosophy Can Make Us Wiser, More Compassionate & Better Able to Appreciate Our Lives, 02 Aug 2019 in Philosophy&Religion
• How the Yamaha DX7 Digital Synthesizer Defined the Sound of 1980s Music, 01 Aug 2019 in Music
• An Introduction to Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda: Romantic, Radical & Revolutionary, 31 Jul 2019 in Literature&Poetry
• David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs: Listen to Them Online, 31 Jul 2019 in Music
• Watch Pink Floyd Play Live Amidst the Ruins of Pompeii in 1971 … and David Gilmour Does It Again in 2016, 30 Jul 2019 in Music
• The Therapeutic Benefits of Ambient Music: Science Shows How It Eases Chronic Anxiety, Physical Pain, and ICU-Related Trauma, 30 Jul 2019 in Health&Music&Neuroscience&Psychology
• How B.B. King & Stevie Ray Vaughan Dealt With Breaking Strings Onstage Mid-Song: A Masterclass in Handling Onstage Mishaps, 29 Jul 2019 in Music
• How Kurt Cobain Confronted Violence Against Women in His “Darkest Song”: Nevermind’s “Polly”, 26 Jul 2019 in Music
• Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins Go Through Customs and Sign Immigration Form After the First Moon Landing (1969), 25 Jul 2019 in Travel
• Why Should We Read Virgil’s Aeneid? An Animated Video Makes the Case, 24 Jul 2019 in Literature
• The Jane Austen Fiction Manuscript Archive Is Online: Explore Handwritten Drafts of Persuasion, The Watsons & More, 24 Jul 2019 in Archives&Literature&Writing
• Can Artificial Intelligence Decipher Lost Languages? Researchers Attempt to Decode 3500-Year-Old Ancient Languages, 23 Jul 2019 in History&Technology
• A 9th Century Manuscript Teaches Astronomy by Making Sublime Pictures Out of Words, 23 Jul 2019 in Art&Books&Poetry
• A New Interactive Visualization of the 165,000 Most-Frequently Assigned Texts in College Courses, 22 Jul 2019 in Education
• Every Harrowing Second of the Apollo 11 Landing Revisited in a New NASA Video: It Took Place 50 Years Ago Today (July 20, 1969), 19 Jul 2019 in History&Science
• Richard Feynman’s Technique for Learning Something New: An Animated Introduction, 18 Jul 2019 in Education&Physics&Science
• The Romanovs’ Last Spectacular Ball Brought to Life in Color Photographs (1903), 17 Jul 2019 in History&Photography
• When Neil Young & Devo Jammed Together: Watch Them Play “Hey Hey, My My” in a Clip from the 1982 Film Human Highway, 17 Jul 2019 in Film&Music
• Behold Fantastical Illustrations from the 13th Century Arabic Manuscript Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, 16 Jul 2019 in Art&Books&History
• The 1855 Map That Revolutionized Disease Prevention & Data Visualization: Discover John Snow’s Broad Street Pump Map, 15 Jul 2019 in Data&Design&Health&History&Science
• Why Should We Read Pioneering Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler? An Animated Video Makes the Case, 15 Jul 2019 in Sci Fi
• The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online, 11 Jul 2019 in Books&History
• Napoleon’s Disastrous Invasion of Russia Detailed in an 1869 Data Visualization: It’s Been Called “the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn”, 11 Jul 2019 in Data&Design&History
• The Restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Begins: Watch the Painstaking Process On-Site and Online, 10 Jul 2019 in Art
• David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Turn 50 This Month: Celebrate Two Giant Leaps That Took Place 9 Days Apart, 10 Jul 2019 in History&Music
• Lennon or McCartney? Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence to Figure Out Who Wrote Iconic Beatles Songs, 10 Jul 2019 in Music
• Remembering the “Father of Bossa Nova” João Gilberto (RIP) with Four Classic Live Performances: “The Girl From Ipanema,” “Corcovado” & More, 08 Jul 2019 in Music
• The End of an Era: MAD Magazine Will Publish Its Last Issue With Original Content This Fall, 05 Jul 2019 in Comics/Cartoons&Magazines
• How Intellectual Humility Can Boost Our Curiosity & Ability to Learn: Read the Findings of a New Study, 04 Jul 2019 in Psychology
• Anton Chekhov’s Six Rules For Writing Fiction, 03 Jul 2019 in Writing
• Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition, 03 Jul 2019 in History&Music
• A Witty Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909), 03 Jul 2019 in Books&English Language
• Watch The Velvet Underground Perform in Rare Color Footage: Scenes from a Vietnam War Protest Concert (1969), 02 Jul 2019 in Music
• Watch a Star-Studded Cast Read The Mueller Report: John Lithgow, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Annette Bening & More, 01 Jul 2019 in Comedy&Current Affairs&Politics
• How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats, 28 Jun 2019 in Film
• Meet Emma Willard, the First Female Map Maker in the U.S., and Her Brilliantly Inventive Maps (Circa 1826), 27 Jun 2019 in History&Maps
• Arab Photography Archive Puts 22,000 Historic Images Online: Get a Rare Glimpse into Life and Art in the Arab World, 26 Jun 2019 in Photography
• Joy Harjo, Newly-Appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, Reads Her Poems, “Remember,” “A Poem to Get Rid of Fear,” “An American Sunrise” and More, 26 Jun 2019 in Poetry