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Guar­an­teed to make you smarter, or your mon­ey back. You can fol­low us on Twit­ter here. (Or become a Face­book fan.) Here they go:

• RT @Boing­Bo­ing: Most beau­ti­ful book­store — Buenos Aires’s Libr­ería El Ate­neo Grand Splen­did http://bit.ly/c5iapa
• RT @Alyssa_Milano: Two new MIT class­es focus on help­ing #Haiti: http://is.gd/aa43H (via @brain­pick­er)
• RT @guardian­cul­ture: “Solar” by Ian McE­wan http://bit.ly/dpqBAq
• RT @kirstin­but­ler: View human his­to­ry’s great­est hits in 3‑D http://humanorigins.si.edu/ The Smith­so­ni­an’s Human Ori­gins Ini­tia­tive
• RT @courosa: McLuhan inter­view from 1967 — http://bit.ly/HvVuv — much of this wis­dom from 1967, while repeat­ed , has yet to catch on.
• French bread spiked with LSD in CIA exper­i­ment in 1951: http://bit.ly/cEDEV5
• RT @Guardian­Books: Google part­ners with Italy for ground­break­ing book scan­ning deal http://bit.ly/dxVwE7
• Look­ing for avant-garde film & video? Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, Allen Gins­berg, Jean Genet, etc. Vis­it @ubuweb http://bit.ly/amomfw
• RT @phi­los­o­phy­bites: Notes and links from the Tate Mod­ern Clas­sic Aes­thet­ics course (Pla­to, then Hume) on www.artandallusion.com
• RT @dylan­schenker: Watch The Acad­e­my Award Win­ning Ani­mat­ed Short ‘Logo­ra­ma’ Online http://bit.ly/9yUvQw
• RT @freemu­si­carchiv: http://freemusicarchive.org now hosts over 18,000 free & legal mp3s curat­ed by @wfmu @cbcradio3 @cre­ativecom­mons & more
• Chopin’s 1848 piano played for his 200th birth­day: http://bit.ly/9zyhZR Thanks Leisha
• His­to­ri­an Tony Judt’s strug­gle with ALS (and his recent intel­lec­tu­al life) chron­i­cled in New York Mag­a­zine. http://bit.ly/a8hT1W
• Why Ancient Wis­dom Mat­ters in the Mod­ern World: http://bit.ly/bgyZay Pre­sent­ed orig­i­nal­ly via @Long­now
• @ScottSigler “Who Needs You, Big Pub­lish­ing? How Authors Can Own All Rights and Make More Mon­ey” http://bit.ly/diR2xV (via @seth­har­wood
• RT @Elise­Black­well: Don DeLil­lo on Samuel Beck­ett: http://bit.ly/9GuwMg (via @Rhys­Tran­ter)
• RT @heoj: i love this arti­cle! Alge­bra in Won­der­land http://nyti.ms/aaPH9w
• Spo­ken Verse YouTube Chan­nel — http://bit.ly/aRTRkn — added to our Smart YouTube col­lec­tion: http://bit.ly/SouTb Thanks Ryan for the tip.

A quick wrap up of the cul­tur­al items we tweet­ed and re-tweet­ed this week via our Twit­ter stream. You can start fol­low­ing us here: @openculture

• RT @jonathanlandman: Insuf­fer­ably bril­liant: Bern­stein on the Blues — Video Library — The New York Times -http://nyti.ms/dCkoqH
• Deep Think­ing Alive and Well on the Web http://bit.ly/dfAJtL
• RT @TEDchris: Clever BBC video: #TED atten­dees on what the world needs in 18-sec­onds http://bit.ly/dCUdvq
• Dig­i­tal Books and Your Rights: A Check­list for Read­ershttp://bit.ly/bfFCnc (via Boing­Bo­ing)
• RT @GuardianBooks: Har­ry Pot­ter author JK Rowl­ing faces pla­gia­rism alle­ga­tions http://bit.ly/b3gI2v
• RT @artsbeat: Rowl­ing Denies Pla­gia­rism Charge http://nyti.ms/daPewI
• Hunter S. Thomp­son calls cus­tomer ser­vice. (Con­tains, as expect­ed, some NSFW lan­guage): http://bit.ly/cSeNcG via Metafil­ter
• RT @Richard_Florida: “Orders of mag­ni­tude greater” than the print­ing press — the future of dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing @nybooks  http://bit.ly/cWtWBo
• How can you trav­el through nov­els with Google Earth? Google Lit Trips! Details here: http://bit.ly/9dHXSf
• Kin­dle for Black­ber­ry, any­one? New app is out …http://bit.ly/9dCv3b
• RT @nybooks: David Levine: An Audio Por­trait. The late artist talks about his car­i­ca­tures in a nar­rat­ed slide show.http://bit.ly/cLcAKU
• RT @creativecommons: Peer 2 Peer Uni­ver­si­ty launch­es sec­ond round of cours­es and new site via BY-SA. Apply by Feb 28 http://is.gd/8EO9D
• Descartes was appar­ent­ly ‘poi­soned by Catholic priest’http://bit.ly/9Cw1jt
• RT @guardianculture: JD Salinger let­ters reveal he was writ­ing reg­u­lar­ly long after 1965 http://bit.ly/aqDyQM

Why let good tweets (and re-tweets) go to waste? Each week, we’re going to list some of the cul­tur­al good­ies that appeared in our Twit­ter stream. You can start fol­low­ing Open Cul­ture on Twit­ter here.

• Fun video. Notre Dame March­ing Band Doing Things Dif­fer­ent­ly RT @mwesch: OK Go — This Too Shall Pass http://bit.ly/9DZ8h7
• Ira Glass on the Art of Sto­ry Telling http://bit.ly/U9cRm
• Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mix­ing,’ Not Pla­gia­rism:http://nyti.ms/94tpIK
• What info do peo­ple (like you) tend to share on Twit­ter? A uni­ver­si­ty research team gets inter­est­ing results:http://bit.ly/b1PjnX
• RT @kirstin­but­ler: An ancient lan­guage thought to have exist­ed for 65,000 years goes extinct http://is.gd/7Wvth
• RT @nytime­sarts: Unsealed Let­ters Offer Glimpse of Salinger http://nyti.ms/c0i3It
• Odd arti­cle on the dan­gers of singing Sina­tra’s “My Way” in Fil­ipino karaoke bars. http://nyti.ms/cnYX1z
• @brain­pick­er: NPR’s This Amer­i­can Life launch­es iPhone app, just $2.99 to stream any episode from the last 15 yearshttp://ow.ly/16SeB
• RT @Harvard_Law: Lessig in The New Repub­lic: Google, copy­right and our future: http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2010/02/05_lessig.html
• RT @phi­los­o­phy­bites: Who is Oba­ma’s favourite ‘philoso­pher’? Answer here: http://tinyurl.com/yfr2jqf
• Haber­mas on Twit­ter? Not the real deal: http://bit.ly/bi84s1