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- July 2021 (61)
- 27: How ABBA Won Eurovision and Became International Pop Stars (1974) (0)
- 27: The Making of a Violin from Start to Finish: Watch a French Luthier Practice a Time-Honored Craft (0)
- 27: Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings Collects the Painter’s Entire Body of Work in a 600-Page, Large-Format Book (0)
- 26: What Makes Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks a Great Painting?: A Video Essay (1)
- 25: Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600: A Free Online Course from Yale University (0)
- 23: Sylvia Plath’s Tarot Cards (Which Influenced the Poems in Ariel) Were Just Sold for $207,000 (1)
- 23: How The Pink Panther Painted The Mona Lisa’s Smile: Watch the 1975 Animation, “Pink Da Vinci” (0)
- 22: The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Oldest-Known Work of Literature in World History (0)
- 22: Discover The Grammar of Ornament, One of the Great Color Books & Design Masterpieces of the 19th Century (0)
- 22: When David Bowie Played Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s Film, Basquiat (1)
- 22: What’s the Role of a Director in Constructing Comedy? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #100 (0)
- 21: The Aesthetic of Evil: A Video Essay Explores Evil in the Films of Bergman, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese & Beyond (0)
- 21: Explore Divine Comedy Digital, a New Digital Database That Collects Seven Centuries of Art Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy (0)
- 21: Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Artist (0)
- 20: They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell Releases an EP of Songs in Latin (0)
- 20: The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s Spellbinding Triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights (0)
- 20: When Rage Against the Machine Interviewed Noam Chomsky (1999) (1)
- 19: Neil Young Plays “Hey, Hey, My, My” with Devo: Watch a Classic Scene from the Improvised Movie Human Highway (1980) (2)
- 19: Watch 15 Hours of The Pink Panther for Free (0)
- 19: An Introduction to Japanese Kabuki Theatre, Featuring 20th-Century Masters of the Form (1964) (1)
- 16: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: A Deluxe New Art Book Presents Hokusai’s Masterpiece, Including “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” (1)
- 16: A Dancer Pays a Gravity-Defying Tribute to Claude Debussy (1)
- 16: How American Bandstand Changed American Culture: Revisit Scenes from the Iconic Music Show (0)
- 15: Hear Isabella Rossellini Sing “Blue Velvet” in Its Entirety (0)
- 15: Discover Japan’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook Ryori Monogatari (1643) (0)
- 15: B.F. Skinner Demonstrates His “Teaching Machine,” the 1950s Automated Learning Device (1)
- 15: Do We Outgrow the Music of Our Youth? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #99 (2)
- 14: Carl Sagan Tells Johnny Carson What’s Wrong with Star Wars: “They’re All White” & There’s a “Large Amount of Human Chauvinism in It” (1978) (13)
- 14: Andy Warhol’s Art Explained: What Makes His Iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans & Marilyn Monroe Diptych Art? (0)
- 14: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Super Creepy Version of “Creep” (0)
- 13: What the Eagles’ “Hotel California” Really Means (4)
- 13: An Introduction to Nicolas Bourbaki, One of the Most Influential Mathematicians of All Time … Who Never Actually Lived (0)
- 13: Watch Blondie Perform a Classic Concert During The Breakout Year: “Dreamin,” “One Way Or Another,” “Heart of Glass” & More (1979) (0)
- 12: A Billion Years of Tectonic-Plate Movement in 40 Seconds: A Quick Glimpse of How Our World Took Shape (1)
- 12: Hear Louis Armstrong’s Last Reel-to-Reel Tape, Made Hours Before His Death (1971) (3)
- 12: The Life & Art of Hilma Af Klint: A Short Art History Lesson on the Pioneering Abstract Artist (1)
- 09: Taschen Art Books on Sale Until July 11th: Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali & More (Up to 75% Off) (0)
- 09: Hunter Thompson Explains What Gonzo Journalism Is, and How He Writes It (1975) (0)
- 09: Leon Theremin Advertises the First Commercial Production Run of His Revolutionary Electronic Instrument (1930) (0)
- 09: Eastern Philosophy Explained: From the Buddha to Confucius and Haiku to the Tea Ceremony (1)
- 08: Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Finest Adaptation of Dante’s Classic (0)
- 08: Watch Footage of the Allies Rolling Through a Defeated German Town in April, 1945: Restored & Colorized with AI (2)
- 08: Watch the Tate Modern Restore Mark Rothko’s Vandalized Painting, Black on Maroon: 18 Months of Work Condensed Into 17 Minutes (0)
- 07: How Caravaggio Painted: A Re-Creation of the Great Master’s Process (0)
- 07: Hear Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Played on Original Baroque Instruments (0)
- 07: Watch Artisans Make Hand-Carved Championship Chess Sets: Each Knight Takes Two Hours (0)
- 06: Hiroshige, Master of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Creates a Guide to Making Shadow Puppets for Children (1842) (0)
- 06: Why Finland & Denmark Are Happier Than the United States (0)
- 06: The Intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portraits: A Video Essay (0)
- 06: Storytelling and Race in Captain America — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #98 (0)
- 05: How Ramen Became the Currency of Choice in Prison, Beating Out Cigarettes (1)
- 05: Quentin Tarantino Releases His First Novel: A Pulpy Novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (0)
- 05: Discover the 1820’s Color-Coded System for Memorizing Historical Events, Which Resembled Modern Art (1820) (0)
- 05: Moralities of Everyday Life: A Free Online Course from Yale University (0)
- 02: The Conspiracy Behind the Iconic Statue, the Venus de Milo (0)
- 02: Haruki Murakami’s Daily Routine: Up at 4:00 a.m., 5-6 Hours of Writing, Then a 10K Run (2)
- 01: Alfred Hitchcock Explains the Difference Between Suspense & Surprise: Give the Audience Some Information & Leave the Rest to Their Imagination (0)
- 01: Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”: Why It’s a Great Painting in 15 Minutes (0)
- 01: Klaus Kinski Has a Tantrum on the Set of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (0)
- 01: Flash Sale: Get 75% Off Udacity’s Online Courses and Nanodegree Programs (Through July 13) (0)
- 01: Considering Mare of Easttown — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #97 (0)
- June 2021 (77)
- 30: A First Look at How Tony Soprano Became Tony Soprano: Watch the New Trailer for The Many Saints of Newark (0)
- 30: How Jaco Pastorius Invented the Electric Bass Solo & Changed Musical History (1976) (2)
- 30: Watch 194 Films by Georges Méliès, the Filmmaker Who “Invented Everything” (All in Chronological Order) (1)
- 29: The Pulp Tarot: A New Tarot Deck Inspired by Midcentury Pulp Illustrations (7)
- 29: The Making of a Marble Sculpture: See Every Stage of the Process, from the Quarry to the Studio (0)
- 29: Take 193 Free Tech and Business Courses Online at Udacity: Product Design, Programming, A.I., Marketing & More (0)
- 28: Michelangelo’s David: The Fascinating Story Behind the Renaissance Marble Creation (0)
- 28: The Acoustics of Stonehenge: Researchers Build a Model to Understand How Sound Reverberated within the Ancient Structure (0)
- 28: This Is “The End”: A Video Exploration of The Doors’ Existential Epic (6)
- 25: The Long-Lost Pieces of Rembrandt’s Night Watch Get Reconstructed with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 25: How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City (0)
- 25: Tom Jones Covers Talking Heads “Burning Down the House”–and Burns Down the House (1999) (3)
- 24: The Artistic & Mystical World of Tarot: See Decks by Salvador Dalí, Aleister Crowley, H.R. Giger & More (0)
- 24: 1540 Monet Paintings in a Two Hour Video (0)
- 24: Every Roman Emperor: A Video Timeline Moving from Augustus to the Byzantine Empire’s Last Ruler, Constantine XI (2)
- 23: Hear Demos & Outtakes of Joni Mitchell’s Blue on the 50th Anniversary of the Classic Album (0)
- 23: The Story of the MiniDisc, Sony’s 1990s Audio Format That’s Gone But Not Forgotten (7)
- 23: The Captivating Art of Restoring Vintage Guitars (0)
- 22: David Bowie on Why It’s Crazy to Make Art–and We Do It Anyway (1998) (2)
- 22: AI & X-Rays Recover Lost Artworks Underneath Paintings by Picasso & Modigliani (0)
- 22: British Actor Bob Hoskins Helped Thousands Learn to Read in On the Move, a 1970s “Sesame Street for Adults” (0)
- 22: Google’s UX Design Professional Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students for an Entry-Level Job in 6 Months (0)
- 21: Discover Ikaria, the Greek Island With the Oldest Life Expectancy in the World (0)
- 21: Buddhist Monk Sings The Ramones: “Rock ’n’ Roll High School,” “Teenage Lobotomy” & “Beat on the Brat” (1)
- 21: Igor Stravinsky Appears on American Network TV & Tells Stories About His Unconventional Musical Life (1957) (0)
- 21: Modernizing Table-Top Role-Playing Games — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #96 (0)
- 18: Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (in English or Italian) (3)
- 18: The Horrors of Bull Island, “the Worst Music Festival of All Time” (1972) (4)
- 17: Brian Eno Launches His Own Radio Station with Hundreds of Unreleased Tracks: Hear Two Programs (6)
- 17: What Makes Leonardo’s Mona Lisa a Great Painting?: An Explanation in 15 Minutes (3)
- 17: Hear an Excerpt from the Newly-Released, First Unabridged Audiobook of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (0)
- 16: Download Great Works of Art from 40+ Museums Worldwide: Explore Artvee, the New Art Search Engine (3)
- 16: Watch Franz Liszt’s “Un Sospiro” Played with the Mesmerizing “Three-Hand Technique” (2)
- 15: A History of Punk from 1976-78: A Free Online Course from the University of Reading (0)
- 15: The Rashomon Effect: The Phenomenon, Named After Akira Kurosawa’s Classic Film, Where Each of Us Remembers the Same Event Differently (5)
- 15: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs The Clash’s “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” (0)
- 15: Hear The Velvet Underground’s “Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes,” Which Showcases the Brilliance & Innovation of Lou Reed’s Guitar Playing (1969) (2)
- 15: Stream 160 In-Depth Radio Interviews with Clive James, Pico Iyer, Greil Marcus & Other Luminaries from the Marketplace of Ideas Archive (2)
- 14: Watch a Never-Aired TV Profile of James Baldwin (1979) (0)
- 14: Watch an Accurate Reconstruction of the World’s Oldest Computer, the 2,200 Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, from Start to Finish (3)
- 14: Wikipedia’s Surprising Power in Shaping Science: A New MIT Shows How Wikipedia Shapes Scientific Research (1)
- 13: The Age of Cathedrals: A Free Online Course from Yale University (0)
- 13: Blockchain and Money: A Free Online Course from MIT (0)
- 11: Hear the Amati “King” Cello, the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (c. 1560) (0)
- 11: A Beautiful, High-Resolution Map of the Internet (2021) (1)
- 11: A Side Splitting Medieval TikTok Account: Get a Laugh at Medieval Yoga Poses & Much More (0)
- 11: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe: A Free Online Course from the University of Colorado (0)
- 10: Ethan Hawke Explains How to Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative (0)
- 10: Scientists Create an Interactive Map of the 13 Emotions Evoked by Music: Joy, Sadness, Desire, Annoyance, and More (0)
- 10: A Data Visualization of Every Italian City & Town Founded in the BC Era (0)
- 10: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #95 Considers Joss Whedon’s The Nevers (0)
- 09: Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue (23)
- 09: Sci-Fi “Portal” Connects Citizens of Lublin & Vilnius, Allowing Passersby Separated by 376 Miles to Interact in Real Time (0)
- 09: How Egyptian Papyrus Is Made: Watch Artisans Keep a 5,000-Year-Old Art Alive (1)
- 08: An Illustrated History of Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn (0)
- 08: Discover the Ghost Towns of Japan–Where Scarecrows Replace People, and a Man Lives in an Abandoned Elementary School Gym (0)
- 08: A Duck Gets a Prosthetic Leg & Waddles Along (0)
- 08: Søren Kierkegaard – Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity: A Free Online Course from the University of Copenhagen (1)
- 07: The Bob Ross Virtual Art Gallery: A New Site Presents 403 Paintings from The Joy of Painting Series (3)
- 07: Yes’ Rick Wakeman Explores Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and Why It Was the First Concept Album (1)
- 07: Tasting History: A Hit YouTube Series Shows How to Cook the Foods of Ancient Greece & Rome, Medieval Europe, and Other Places & Periods (0)
- 07: What Happened During the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, One of the Worst Episodes of Racial Violence in U.S. History (0)
- 04: The Art of Creating a Bonsai: One Year Condensed Condensed Into 22 Mesmerizing Minutes (1)
- 04: The Mistake Waltz: Watch the Hilarious Ballet by Legendary Choreographer Jerome Robbins (0)
- 04: When Was the Pinnacle of Saturday Night Live? A YouTuber Watches One Episode from Each Season & Reports Back (4)
- 04: The Psychology of Video Game Engagement — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #94 with Jamie Madigan (0)
- 03: What Is Contemporary Art?: A Free Online Course from The Museum of Modern Art (1)
- 03: When Neil Young & Rick “Super Freak” James Formed the 60’s Motown Band, The Mynah Birds (3)
- 03: The Origin of the Rooftop Concert: Before the Beatles Came Jefferson Airplane, and Before Them, Brazilian Singer Roberto Carlos (1967) (1)
- 03: Download 1,000+ Beautiful Woodblock Prints by Hiroshige, the Last Great Master of the Japanese Woodblock Print Tradition (0)
- 02: Who Designed the 1980s Aesthetic?: Meet the Memphis Group, the Designers Who Created the 80s Iconic Look (0)
- 02: When Salvador Dalí Created a Surrealist Funhouse at New York World’s Fair (1939) (0)
- 02: Martin Scorsese Introduces Classic Movies: From Citizen Kane and Vertigo to Lawrence of Arabia and Gone with the Wind (0)
- 01: Design Thinking for the Greater Good: A Free Online Course from the University of Virginia (0)
- 01: Meet the Inventor of Karaoke, Daisuke Inoue, Who Wanted to “Teach the World to Sing” (0)
- 01: Keith Richards Shows Us How to Play the Blues, Inspired by Robert Johnson, on the Acoustic Guitar (3)
- 01: The Airline Toilets Theatre Company: Watch One Man Stage Comical Shows in Airplane Bathrooms (0)
- May 2021 (79)
- 31: The World’s First Bass Guitar (1936) (3)
- 31: Flash Sale: Get 75% Off Udacity’s Online Courses (Extended Through June 8) (0)
- 31: That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles–A Free Online Documentary (1)
- 31: Art Historian Provides Hilarious & Surprisingly Efficient Art History Lessons on TikTok (0)
- 31: The Art of Balancing Stones: How Artists Use Simple Materials to Make Impossible Sculptures in Nature (2)
- 31: Why Do Tech Billionaires Make for Good TV Villains? Pretty Much Pop #93 Considers “Made for Love,” et al. (0)
- 28: Leonardo da Vinci Designs the Ideal City: See 3D Models of His Radical Design (0)
- 28: Hear the Earliest Recorded Customer Complaint Letter: From Ancient Sumeria 1750 BC (2)
- 28: Bass Sounds: One Song Highlights the Many Different Sounds Made by Different Bass Guitars (1)
- 27: Behold the Astronomicum Caesareum, “Perhaps the Most Beautiful Scientific Book Ever Printed” (1540) (0)
- 27: Meet the Linda Lindas, the Tween Punk Band Who Called Out Racism & Misogyny and Scored a Record Deal (0)
- 27: What Makes the Art of Bonsai So Expensive?: $1 Million for a Bonsai Tree, and $32,000 for Bonsai Scissors (1)
- 27: De-Mystifying Mindfulness: A Free Online Course by Leiden University (0)
- 26: The Creation & Restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Animated (0)
- 26: Real D-Day Landing Footage, Enhanced & Colorized with Artificial Intelligence (June 6, 1944) (3)
- 26: Who Decides What Words Get Into the Dictionary? (0)
- 25: Creative Thinking: A Free Online Course from Imperial College London (3)
- 25: Learn to Play Senet, the 5,000-Year Old Ancient Egyptian Game Beloved by Queens & Pharaohs (0)
- 25: Watch 1,000 Musicians Play the Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly,” Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel,” and The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1)
- 25: How the Survivors of Pompeii Escaped Mount Vesuvius’ Deadly Eruption: A TED-Ed Animation Tells the Story (0)
- 24: The Incredible Engineering of Antonio Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia, the World’s Oldest Construction Project (1)
- 24: Revisiting Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On,” and the Album That Opened R&B to Resistance: Revisited 50 Years Later (1)
- 24: John Steinbeck Wrote a Werewolf Novel, and His Estate Won’t Let the World Read It: The Story of Murder at Full Moon (1)
- 23: Ancient Philosophy: Free Online Course from the University of Pennsylvania (16)
- 21: Watch the Building of the Eiffel Tower in Timelapse Animation (1)
- 21: The Story of Elizebeth Friedman, the Pioneering Cryptologist Who Thwarted the Nazis & Got Burned by J. Edgar Hoover (0)
- 21: 167 Pieces of Life & Work Advice from Kevin Kelly, Founding Editor of Wired Magazine & The Whole Earth Review (1)
- 20: A Young Janis Joplin Plays a Passionate Set at One of Her First Gigs in San Francisco (1963) (6)
- 20: The First Cellphone: Discover Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, a 2-Pound Brick Priced at $3,995 (1984) (0)
- 20: The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai: An Introduction to the Iconic Japanese Woodblock Print in 17 Minutes (0)
- 20: Why Collect? A Conversation about Collectibles from Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#92) (0)
- 19: An Interactive Visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (0)
- 19: The Surprising Reason Why Chinatowns Worldwide Share the Same Aesthetic, and How It All Started with the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (0)
- 19: The Largest Free Kitchen in the World: Discover India’s Golden Temple Which Serves 100,000 Free Meals Per Day (2)
- 19: What Karl Marx Meant by “Alienation”: Two Animated Videos Explain (1)
- 18: Flash Sale: Get 75% Off Udacity’s Online Courses (0)
- 18: How to Shop Online & Check Your E-Mail on the Go: A 1980s British TV Show Demonstrates (0)
- 18: How to Take the Perfect Nap, According to Cognitive Scientist Sara Mednick (0)
- 18: One Man’s Quest to Build the Best Stereo System in the World (0)
- 17: Introduction to Philosophy: A Free Online Course from the University of Edinburgh (3)
- 17: Wildlife Is Now Thriving Again in Chernobyl–Even If Humans Won’t for Another 24,000 Years (0)
- 17: Watch Accurate Recreations of Medieval Italian Longsword Fighting Techniques, All Based on a Manuscript from 1404 (0)
- 17: The Cicadas Return After 17 Years: Stunning Footage of the Brood X Cicadas (0)
- 16: Startup School: Take YCombinator’s Free Online Course for Current & Aspiring Entrepreneurs (0)
- 14: Rick Steves Tells the Story of Fascism’s Rise & Fall in Germany (0)
- 14: Watch a Masterpiece Emerge from a Solid Block of Stone (0)
- 14: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s Headbanging Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (0)
- 14: Discover Ibn Sina (Avicenna), a Missing Pixel in Your Image of Philosophy: Partially Examined Life Episode #267 Featuring Peter Adamson (0)
- 13: Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks Get Digitized: Where to Read the Renaissance Man’s Manuscripts Online (3)
- 13: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Composes a Soundtrack to Arthur C. Clarke’s Documentary Fractals: The Colors of Infinity (1)
- 13: The Utopian, Socialist Designs of Soviet Cities (9)
- 13: A 5-Hour Walking Tour of Paris and Its Famous Streets, Monuments & Parks (0)
- 12: In 1926, Nikola Tesla Predicts the World of 2026 (4)
- 12: David Lynch Directs a New Music Video for Donovan (2)
- 11: Pink Floyd’s First Masterpiece: An Audio/Video Exploration of the 23-Minute Track, “Echoes” (1971) (5)
- 11: The History of the Guitar: See the Evolution of the Guitar in 7 Instruments (0)
- 11: Sonic Explorations of Japanese Jazz: Stream 8 Mixes of Japan’s Jazz Tradition Free Online (0)
- 10: David Hockney Shows Us His Sketch Book, Page by Page (1)
- 10: Watch the Most Expensive Scene in Silent Film History: The Train Wreck From Buster Keaton “The General” (1926) (0)
- 10: Who Invented Heavy Metal Music?: A Search for Origins (7)
- 10: Foo Fighters Perform “Back in Black” with AC/DC’s Brian Johnson: When Live Music Returns (1)
- 07: Japanese Carpenters Unearth 100-Year-Old Wood Joineries While Taking Apart a Traditional House (0)
- 07: An Immersive Pink Floyd Museum Exhibition Is Coming to the U.S.: Get Tickets Online (0)
- 06: Wendy Carlos Demonstrates the Moog Synthesizer on the BBC (1970) (1)
- 06: Watch “Colette,” the Oscar-Winning Short Documentary (2021) (0)
- 06: Beautiful 19th-Century Indian Drawings Show Hatha Yoga Poses Before They Reached the West (1)
- 05: Watch a New Director’s Cut of Prince’s Blistering “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Guitar Solo (2004) (10)
- 05: Watch Online Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History, a Documentary Exploring the Life & Work of the Influential Historian (0)
- 05: Watch “Degrees of Uncertainty,” an Animated Documentary about Climate Science, Uncertainty & Knowing When to Trust the Experts (0)
- 05: Muhammad Ali Explains Why He Refused to Fight in Vietnam: “My Conscience Won’t Let Me Go Shoot My Brother… for Big Powerful America” (1970) (3)
- 05: Diagnosing America’s Relationship with Pets — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #91 w/ Trainer Hannah Branigan (0)
- 04: Keith Richards Demonstrates His Famous 5-String Technique (Used on Classic Stones Songs Like “Start Me Up,” “Honky Tonk Women” & More) (1)
- 04: Kermit the Frog Gives a TED Talk About Creativity & the Power of “Ridiculous Optimism” (0)
- 04: How the Internet Archive Has Digitized More than 250,000 78 R.P.M. Records: See the Painstaking Process Up-Close (2)
- 04: Hear the First Japanese Visitor to the United States & Europe Describe Life in the West (1860-1862) (1)
- 03: The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) (1)
- 03: The Story of the Rolling Stones: A Selection of Documentaries on the Quintessential Rock-and-Roll Band (0)
- 03: Magnus Carlsen’s Mind-Blowing Memory of Historic Chess Matches (0)
- 03: Get 30-Day Free Access to a Udacity Nanodegree Program & Start Learning for Free (Until May 23) (0)
- April 2021 (80)
- 30: Great Art Explained: Watch 15 Minute Introductions to Great Works by Warhol, Rothko, Kahlo, Picasso & More (0)
- 30: Harrison Ford Gets Delightfully Dumbfounded by David Blaine’s Card Trick (0)
- 30: Invisible People: Watch Poignant Mini-Documentaries Where Homeless People Tell Their Stories (1)
- 30: Nerves of Steel!: Watch People Climb Tall Buildings During the 1920s. (1)
- 30: A Short Animation Explores the Nature of Creativity & Invention, with Characters That Look Like Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Eisenstein (0)
- 29: What Makes Citizen Kane a Great Film: 4 Video Essays Revisit Orson Welles’ Masterpiece on the 80th Anniversary of Its Premiere (0)
- 29: Affinities, a Book of Images to Celebrate 10 Years of The Public Domain Review (0)
- 29: How the Clash Embraced New York’s Hip Hop Scene and Released the Dance Track, “The Magnificent Dance” (1981) (0)
- 29: Has TV Rotted Our Minds? On Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death (A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast/Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast Crossover) (1)
- 28: Watch 400+ Documentaries from German Broadcaster Deutsche Welle: Art Forgery, Fashion Photography, the Mona Lisa, and More (1)
- 28: What Makes Ringo Starr a Great Drummer: Demonstrations from a German Teenager & Ringo Himself (7)
- 28: Watch Colorized 1940s Footage of London after the Blitz: Scenes from Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace & More (0)
- 27: A Relaxing 3-Hour Tour of Venice’s Canals (0)
- 27: Behold the 1940s Typewriter That Could Type in English, Chinese & Japanese: Watch More Than a Thousand Different Characters in Action (0)
- 27: The Rolling Stones Jam with Muddy Waters for the First and Only Time at Chicago’s Legendary Checkerboard Lounge (1981) (0)
- 27: Scientists at Purdue University Create the “Whitest White” Paint Ever Seen: It Reflects 98% of the Sun’s Light (0)
- 26: The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Explained (8)
- 26: Quarantined Dancer Creates Shot-for-Shot Remake of the Final Dirty Dancing Scene with a Lamp as a Dance Partner (1)
- 26: Ray Dalio & Adam Grant Launch Free Online Personality Assessment to Help You Understand Yourself (and Others Understand You) (1)
- 25: Parrot Sings AC/DCs “Whole Lotta Rosie” (0)
- 23: Freddie Mercury & Rami Malek’s Live Aid Performance: A Side-By-Side Comparison (1)
- 23: 3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More (1)
- 23: 30,000 People Line Up for the First McDonald’s in Moscow, While Grocery Store Shelves Run Empty (1990) (0)
- 23: Critics Celebrate Two-Lane Blacktop, the 1971 Existential Road-Movie Masterpiece by Monte Hellman (RIP), Starring James Taylor & Dennis Wilson (2)
- 22: Watch a Newly-Restored Peter Gabriel-Era Genesis Concert Film From 1973 in Stunning 4K Quality (4)
- 22: Watch “Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum,” a Short Satirical Film About the Invention of the Audiophile (1959) (2)
- 22: Hear Joni Mitchell’s Earliest Recording, Rediscovered After More than 50 Years (0)
- 22: Godzilla, Kong, et al: Stupid Fun or Channeling Deep Fears? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #90 (0)
- 21: Watch Metallica Play “Enter Sandman” Before a Crowd of 1.6 Million in Moscow, During the Final Days of the Soviet Union (1991) (1)
- 21: Watch the “Greatest Juggler of the Ages,” Frances Brunn, Perform His “Painfully Exciting” Juggling Routine (1969) (0)
- 21: How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Son Invented Lincoln Logs, “America’s National Toy” (1916) (1)
- 20: Amazon Is Giving Away 10 Free Kindle eBooks for World Book Day (Until April 24) (1)
- 20: The Beautiful, Innovative & Sometimes Dark World of Animated Soviet Propaganda (1925-1984) (1)
- 20: Watch 4 Music Videos That Bring to Life Songs from Leonard Cohen’s Final Album, Thanks for the Dance (1)
- 20: How Pixar’s Movement Animation Became So Realistic: The Technological Breakthroughs Behind the Animation (0)
- 19: Watch Blondie’s Debbie Harry Perform “Rainbow Connection” with Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show (1981) (1)
- 19: Time-Lapse Video Reveals Humanity’s Impact on the Earth Since 1984 (0)
- 19: Watch Radiohead Perform In Rainbows & The King of Limbs in Intimate Live Settings, with No Host or Audience (2)
- 19: The Digital Lomax Archive Provides Free Access to the Pioneering Recordings of John & Alan Lomax, Compiled Across 7 Decades (0)
- 16: Exquisite Watercolors of Demons, Magic & Signs: Behold the Compendium Of Demonology and Magic from 1775 (1)
- 16: Grateful Dead Fan Creates a Faithful Mini Replica of the Band’s Famous “Wall of Sound” During Lockdown (7)
- 16: Listen to ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” Played on a 1914 Fairground Organ (0)
- 15: Experience Footage of Roaring 1920s Berlin, Restored & Colorized with Artificial Intelligence (2)
- 15: Stream a Massive Archive of Grateful Dead Concerts from 1965-1995 (6)
- 15: Is “Rain” the Perfect Beatles Song?: A New Video Explores the Radical Innovations of the 1966 B-Side (7)
- 15: The Trial of the Chicago 7 and the Oeuvre of Aaron Sorkin: An Assessment by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#89) (0)
- 14: The Strangest Books in the World: Discover The Madman’s Library, a Captivating Compendium of Peculiar Books & Manuscripts (0)
- 14: Free Software Lets You Create Traditional Japanese Wood Joints & Furniture: Download Tsugite (0)
- 13: Mick Jagger Takes Shots at Conspiracy Theorists & Anti-Vaxxers in a New Song, “Eazy Sleazy” (with Dave Grohl on Drums, Bass & Guitar) (4)
- 13: Harvard’s Digital Giza Project Lets You Access the Largest Online Archive on the Egyptian Pyramids (Including a 3D Giza Tour) (0)
- 13: The Decay of Cinema: Susan Sontag, Martin Scorsese & Their Lamentations on the Decline of Cinema Explored in a New Video Essay (2)
- 13: Buckminster Fuller, Isaac Asimov & Other Futurists Make Predictions About the 21st Century in 1967: What They Got Right & Wrong (5)
- 12: The Evolution of Dance from 1950 to 2019: A 7-Decade Joy Ride in 6 Minutes (1)
- 12: The Ingenious Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci Recreated with 3D Animation (0)
- 12: Hear the First Song Recorded on the Yazh, a 2,000 Year-Old Indian Instrument (0)
- 09: A 4,000-Year-Old Student ‘Writing Board’ from Ancient Egypt (with Teacher’s Corrections in Red) (2)
- 09: Watch Preciously Rare Footage of Paul McCartney Recording “Blackbird” at Abbey Road Studios (1968) (1)
- 09: Watch a Master Japanese Printmaker at Work: Two Unintentionally Relaxing ASMR Videos (0)
- 09: Indie Animation in a Corporate World: A Conversation with Animator Benjamin Goldman on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #88 (0)
- 08: The Story of Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Troubled (and Even Deadly) Sci-Fi Masterpiece (0)
- 08: Dave Grohl Tells the Story of How He Wrote “Everlong” (0)
- 08: The Letterform Archive Launches a New Online Archive of Graphic Design, Featuring 9,000 Hi-Fi Images (2)
- 07: How The Wrecking Crew Secretly Recorded Some of the Biggest Hits of the 1960s & 70s (1)
- 07: A Long-Lost Soviet Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings Resurfaces on YouTube–and Tolkien Fans Rejoice (1991) (0)
- 07: AI Software Creates “New” Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Doors & Amy Winehouse Songs: Hear Tracks from the “Lost Tapes of the 27 Club” (1)
- 06: How Filippo Brunelleschi, Untrained in Architecture or Engineering, Built the World’s Largest Dome at the Dawn of the Renaissance (1)
- 06: The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge: Part 3 (0)
- 06: Artist Makes Micro-Miniature Sculptures So Small They Fit on the Head of a Pin (1)
- 06: A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan (1)
- 05: The World of Wong Kar-Wai: How the Films of Hong Kong’s Most Acclaimed Auteur Have Stayed Thrilling (1)
- 05: Tina Turner Delivers a Blistering Live Performance of “Proud Mary” on Italian TV (1971) (7)
- 05: The Rules of 100 Sports Clearly Explained in Short Videos: Baseball, Football, Jai Alai, Sumo Wrestling, Cricket, Pétanque & Much More (1)
- 02: The Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’ Sung in the Indigenous Mi’kmaq Language (37)
- 02: 5 Free Online Courses on Marx’s Capital from Prof. David Harvey (4)
- 02: Discover the First Modern Kitchen–the Frankfurt Kitchen–Pioneered by the Architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1926) (0)
- 02: Why Do Wes Anderson Movies Look Like That? (1)
- 02: On “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar” and the Female Buddy Comedy–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #87 (0)
- 01: When the Indiana Bell Building Was Rotated 90° While Everyone Worked Inside in 1930 (by Kurt Vonnegut’s Architect Dad) (1)
- 01: Meet Les Rallizes Dénudés, the Mysterious Japanese Psych-Rock Band Whose Influence Is Everywhere (0)
- 01: The Archive of Healing Is Now Online: UCLA’s Digital Database Provides Access to Thousands of Traditional & Alternative Healing Methods (0)
- March 2021 (83)
- 31: What Andrei Tarkovsky’s Most Notorious Scene Tells Us About Time During the Pandemic: A Video Essay (0)
- 31: Don’t Die Curious: An Animated Lyric Video (0)
- 31: Behold the Elaborate Writing Desks of 18th Century Aristocrats (2)
- 31: Why Every World Map Is Wrong (0)
- 30: The History of Tattoos Gets Beautifully Documented in a New Book by Legendary Tattoo Artist Henk Schiffmacher (1730-1970) (2)
- 30: Hear J.S. Bach’s Music Performed on the Lautenwerck, Bach’s Favorite Lost Baroque Instrument (0)
- 30: Watch the Classic Silent Film The Ten Commandments (1923) with a New Score by Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips) & Scott Amendola (1)
- 30: How Bob Marley Came to Make Exodus, His Transcendent Album, After Surviving an Assassination Attempt in 1976 (1)
- 29: The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,00 Works of Art (1)
- 29: Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless: How World War II Changed Cinema & Helped Create the French New Wave (0)
- 29: Hear the Beautiful Isolated Vocal Harmonies from the Beatles’ “Something” (0)
- 28: Udacity Running a 60% Off Sale on Online Courses Through April 13 (0)
- 28: Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine Is Streaming Free on YouTube (0)
- 26: Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909) (14)
- 26: BirdCast: You Can Now Forecast the Migration of Birds Across the U.S. Just Like the Weather (2)
- 26: Hear Marianne Faithfull’s Three Versions of “As Tears Go By,” Each Recorded at a Different Stage of Life (1965, 1987 & 2018) (0)
- 25: How Leonardo da Vinci Made His Magnificent Drawings Using Only a Metal Stylus, Pen & Ink, and Chalk (0)
- 25: Street Artist Creates an Optical Illusion That Lets People See the Art Inside a Shuttered Museum in Florence (0)
- 25: How Sounds Are Faked For Nature Documentaries: Meet the Artists Who Create the Sounds of Fish, Spiders, Orangutans, Mushrooms & More (1)
- 24: Four Cellists Play Ravel’s “Bolero” on One Cello (1)
- 24: Women Street Photographers: The Web Site, Instragram Account & Book That Amplify the Work of Women Artists Worldwide (0)
- 24: Explore a New Archive of 2,200 Historical Wildlife Illustrations (1916-1965): Courtesy of The Wildlife Conservation Society (0)
- 24: The Irish Aristocratic Woman Who Almost Assassinated Mussolini in 1926: An Introduction to Violet Gibson (0)
- 24: What “Irish” Means: A Discussion with Author and Black 47 Front Man Larry Kirwan (Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #86) (1)
- 23: The Growth of London, from the Romans to the 21st Century, Visualized in a Time-Lapse Animated Map (0)
- 23: The Mathematics Behind Origami, the Ancient Japanese Art of Paper Folding (0)
- 23: How Edward Munch Signaled His Bohemian Rebellion with Cigarettes (1895): A Video Essay (0)
- 22: The Aesthetic of Anime: A New Video Essay Explores a Rich Tradition of Japanese Animation (0)
- 22: Three Leonard Cohen Animations (0)
- 22: A Finnish Astrophotographer Spent 12 Years Creating a 1.7 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo of the Entire Milky Way (0)
- 19: How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Inspired the Creepy Suspense of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1)
- 19: A Celebration of Typewriters in Film & Television: A Supercut (0)
- 18: Michael Winslow, the “Man of 10,000 Sound Effects”, Impersonates the Sounds of Jimi Hendrix’s and Led Zeppelin’s Electric Guitars with His Voice (0)
- 18: A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from World-Class Museums (1)
- 18: Researchers Develop a Digital Model of the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, “the World’s First Computer” (3)
- 17: The Bayeux Tapestry Gets Digitized: View the Medieval Tapestry in High Resolution, Down to the Individual Thread (1)
- 17: 17-Year-Old Adeline Harris Created a Quilt Collecting 360 Signatures of the Most Famous People of the 19th Century: Lincoln, Dickens, Emerson & More (1863) (1)
- 17: Archeologists Reconstruct the Faces of 10-Century Medieval Dukes, Using DNA Analysis & 3-D Models of Skulls (0)
- 16: Listen to Wikipedia: A Web Site That Turns Every Wikipedia Edit Into Ambient Music in Real Time (0)
- 16: Udacity Running a Flash Sale (75% Off) Through the End of March 16 (0)
- 16: Watch the Trippy 1970s Animated Film Quasi at the Quackadero: Voted One of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (0)
- 16: What are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)? And How Can a Work of Digital Art Sell for $69 Million (0)
- 15: The Story Behind the Iconic Bass-Smashing Photo on the Clash’s London Calling (1)
- 15: Brian Eno Explains the Origins of Ambient Music (4)
- 15: The Letters of Mozart’s Sister Maria Anna Get Transformed into Music (0)
- 14: Yo-Yo Ma Plays an Impromptu Performance in Vaccine Clinic After Receiving 2nd Dose (0)
- 12: All Praise Lou Ottens: The Inventor of the Cassette Tape Dies at Age 94 (2)
- 12: The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge: Part 2 (1)
- 12: Google & Coursera Launch Career Certificates That Prepare Students for Jobs in 6 Months: Data Analytics, Project Management and UX Design (0)
- 12: Watch Cartoonist Lynda Barry’s Two-Hour Drawing Workshop (0)
- 11: How Museum Gift Shops Shape the Way We Look at Art (0)
- 11: Rare Vincent van Gogh Painting Goes on Public Display for the First Time: Explore the 1887 Painting Online (0)
- 11: Intimate Live Performances of Radiohead, Sonic Youth, the White Stripes, PJ Harvey & More: No Host, No Audience, Just Pure Live Music (0)
- 10: Saturday Night Live’s Very First Sketch: Watch John Belushi Launch SNL in October, 1975 (1)
- 10: A Spellbinding Drone Journey Through a Bowling Alley (0)
- 10: Guitarist Gary Clark, Jr. Plays Searing Acoustic Blues in a Spontaneous Jam Session (1)
- 10: The Iconic Dance Scene from Hellzapoppin’ Presented in Living Color with Artificial Intelligence (1941) (0)
- 10: Why Is the Debut Disney+ Marvel TV Show a Tribute to Classic Sitcoms? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #85 on WandaVision (0)
- 09: How Looney Tunes & Other Classic Cartoons Helped Americans Become Musically Literate (1)
- 09: John Cleese’s Very Favorite Comedy Sketches (0)
- 09: A Starling Murmuration Magically Makes the Shape of a Bird (1)
- 09: Compare the Original Trailers of Classic Films with Their Modern Updates: Casablanca, Dog Day Afternoon & The Exorcist (1)
- 08: Alexander Calder’s Archive Goes Online: Explore 1400 Works of Art by the Modernist Sculptor (0)
- 08: B.B. King Plays “The Thrill is Gone” with Slash, Ron Wood & Other Legends (0)
- 08: Metallica Plays Antarctica, Setting a World Record as the First Band to Play All 7 Continents: Watch the Full Concert Online (2)
- 08: A Short Biography of Keith Haring Told with Comic Book Illustrations & Music (0)
- 05: The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross & Banksy: Watch Banksy Paint a Mural on the Jail That Once Housed Oscar Wilde (4)
- 05: “The Cinematic Universe”: A Video Essay on How Films Cinematize Cities & Places, from Manhattan to Nashville, Rome Open City to Taipei Story (0)
- 05: Watch 12 Seasons of the Dick Cavett Show, 18 Seasons of Johnny Carson & Many Other Classic Shows on Shout! Factory (1)
- 04: Haruki Murakami Has Created New T-Shirts Featuring Words & Imagery from Norwegian Wood, 1Q84 and More (1)
- 04: Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids & How Did They Do It?: New Archeological Evidence Busts Ancient Myths (103)
- 04: The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge: Part 1 (2)
- 03: When Sci-Fi Legend Ursula K. Le Guin Translated the Chinese Classic, the Tao Te Ching (5)
- 03: The Last Interview Book Series Features the Final Words of Cultural Icons: Borges to Bowie, Philip K. Dick to Frida Kahlo (0)
- 03: Where Did the Metal Scream Come From? And How Do Metal Vocalists Avoid Destroying Their Vocal Cords? (5)
- 03: Why the Flood of Musician Memoirs? An Exploration by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #84 (0)
- 02: The Little-Known Female Scientists Who Mapped 400,000 Stars Over a Century Ago: An Introduction to the “Harvard Computers” (1)
- 02: A List of 132 Radical, Mind-Expanding Books from Rage Against the Machine (9)
- 02: What Are the Real Causes of Zoom Fatigue? And What Are the Possible Solutions?: New Research from Stanford Offers Answers (3)
- 01: Why Putin Wants Alexei Navalny Dead (2)
- 01: The Exquisite, Ephemeral Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen (1)
- 01: Hear Brian Eno Reinvent Pachelbel’s Canon (1975) (0)
- 01: When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910) (0)
- February 2021 (76)
- 26: Radiohead Ballets: Watch Ballets Choreographed Creatively to the Music of Radiohead (4)
- 26: Watch The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys, a Free Film Documenting the Making of the 1980s Super Group (8)
- 26: Download 280 Pictographs That Put Japanese Culture Into a New Visual Language: They’re Free for the Public to Use (0)
- 25: Flim: a New AI-Powered Movie-Screenshot Search Engine (1)
- 25: Journey’s Road Crew Performs a Pretty Flawless Version of “Separate Ways” (6)
- 25: René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Posters (1924-1927) (0)
- 24: RIP Radical Poet and Revolutionary Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) (1)
- 24: The Complete Works of Hilma af Klint Are Getting Published for the First Time in a Beautiful, Seven-Volume Collection (0)
- 24: Watch Badiou, the First Feature-Length Film on France’s Most Famous Living Philosopher (1)
- 24: Watch Orson Welles’ Intoxicating Wine Commercials That Became an 80s Cultural Phenomenon (2)
- 24: Increasing Disabled/Other-Abled Representation in Media — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #83 (0)
- 23: The Roman Roads of Gaul Visualized as a Modern Subway Map (0)
- 23: The 69 Pages of Writing Advice Denis Johnson Collected from Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Werner Herzog & Many Others (0)
- 23: Anthony Bourdain Talks About the Big Break That Changed His Life–at Age 44 (0)
- 23: The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leondardo da Vinci (1504) (0)
- 23: Bruce Springsteen & Barack Obama Release a New Podcast, “Renegades: Born in the USA” (2)
- 22: The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion (1)
- 22: Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly Gives 36 Lectures on Our Future World: Education, Movies, Robots, Autonomous Cars & More (0)
- 22: How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day–the Hard Way, One Page at a Time (0)
- 22: De-Stress with 30 Minutes of Relaxing Visuals from Director Hayao Miyazaki (1)
- 19: Witness the Birth of Kermit the Frog in Jim Henson’s Live TV Show, Sam and Friends (1955) (1)
- 19: Paul Simon Deconstructs “Mrs. Robinson” (1970) (1)
- 18: 4,000 Priceless Scrolls, Texts & Papers From the University of Tokyo Have Been Digitized & Put Online (0)
- 18: The Surface of Mars Shown in Stunning 4K Resolution (7)
- 18: Watch Chick Corea (RIP) Perform Intimate Acoustic Performances with Bobby McFerrin, Gary Burton, Hiromi Uehara & Others (0)
- 18: The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses (1)
- 18: Why Does The Karate Kid Persist as the New Cobra Kai? A Critical Consideration by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#82) (0)
- 17: Peter Gabriel Re-Records “Biko,” His Anti-Apartheid Protest Song, with Musicians Around the World (0)
- 17: The Birth of Hip Hop: How DJ Kool Herc Used Turntables to Change the Musical World (1973) (0)
- 17: Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme (1)
- 16: Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970) (9)
- 16: Alfred Hitchcock Meets Jorge Luis Borges Borges in Cold War America: Watch Double Take (2009) Free Online (0)
- 16: Archaeologists Find the Earliest Work of “Abstract Art,” Dating Back 73,000 Years (1)
- 16: Travel from Rotterdam to Amsterdam in 10 Minutes by Boat: A 4k Timelapse (0)
- 15: The Color That May Have Killed Napoleon: Scheele’s Green (0)
- 15: Akira Kurosawa Appears in a Rare Television & Tells Dick Cavett about His Love of Old Tokyo & His Samurai Lineage (1981) (1)
- 15: Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time in 18,000 Years (0)
- 14: Watch the Food for Love Benefit Concert: David Byrne, The Chicks & Many More Raise Money for New Mexico Food Banks (0)
- 12: Take a Road Trip Across America with Cartoonist Lynda Barry in the 90s Documentary, Grandma’s Way Out Party (2)
- 12: Watch “The Stroke,” a Hand-Animated Music Video Where the Visuals Came First & the Improvised Music Second (1)
- 12: Why Public Transit Sucks in the United States: Four Videos Tell the Story (4)
- 11: Watch Prince Perform “Purple Rain” in the Rain in His Transcendent Super Bowl Half-Time Show (2007) (2)
- 11: A Tour of U.S. Accents: Bostonian, Philadelphese, Gullah Creole & Other Intriguing Dialects (0)
- 11: Behold All 42 Maps from Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages, the Author’s 54-Volume Collection of “Geographical Fictions” (0)
- 11: Radio vs. Podcasting: A Discussion with Jason Bentley (KCRW, The Backstory) on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #81 (0)
- 10: Monkey Sees A Magic Trick (3)
- 10: How the Food We Eat Affects Our Brain: Learn About the “MIND Diet” (1)
- 10: Hear an Ancient Chinese Historian Describe The Roman Empire (and Other Voices of the Past) (3)
- 10: The “Academic Tarot”: 22 Major Arcana Cards Representing Life in the Academic Humanities Under COVID-19 (0)
- 10: The Animations That Changed Cinema: The Groundbreaking Legacies of Prince Achmed, Akira, The Iron Giant & More (1)
- 09: How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop” (3)
- 09: Alan Watts Reads “One of the Greatest Things Carl Jung Ever Wrote” (2)
- 09: A New Database Will Document Every Slave House in the U.S.: Discover the “Saving Slave Houses Project” (1)
- 09: How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons (8)
- 08: The Magic of the Beach Boys’ Harmonies: Hear Isolated Vocals from “Sloop John B.,” “God Only Knows,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” & Other Pet Sounds Classics (6)
- 08: A New Yorker Cartoonist Explains How to Draw Literary Cartoons (1)
- 08: The Breathtaking Courage of Harriet Tubman: An Animated History Lesson Speaks to Her Place on the $20 Bill (0)
- 08: Watch a Korean Master Craftsman Make a Kimchi Pot by Hand, All According to Ancient Tradition (0)
- 07: Little Kid Merrily Grooves to ZZ Top While Waiting for the Bus (1)
- 05: David Gilmour, David Crosby & Graham Nash Perform the Pink Floyd Classic, “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (2006) (2)
- 05: The History of American Newspapers Has Been Digitized: Explore 114 Years of Editor & Publisher, “the Bible of the Newspaper Industry” (0)
- 05: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki Celebrated in a Glorious Concert Arranged by Film Composer Joe Hisaishi (1)
- 04: All 80 Issues of the Influential Zine Punk Planet Are Now Online & Ready for Download at the Internet Archive (0)
- 04: How Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” Created the “Blueprint for All Electronic Dance Music Today” (1977) (5)
- 04: Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds: Timeless Advice in a Short Film (1)
- 03: The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson & Beatles Producer George Martin Break Down “God Only Knows,” the “Greatest Song Ever Written” (8)
- 03: How Vaccines Improved Our World In One Graphic (1)
- 03: The Bauhaus Chess Set Where the Form of the Pieces Artfully Show Their Function (1922) (6)
- 02: Do We Need Yet More Films About Time Loops? A Pretty Much Pop Discussion (#80) of Groundhog Day and its Descendents (1)
- 02: Tony Bennett Duets with Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse & Other Musicians, Passing on the Great American Songbook (0)
- 02: Watch 36 Short Animations That Tell the Origin Stories of Mexico’s Indigenous Peoples in Their Own Languages (0)
- 02: Japanese Violinist Covers Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”: Metal Meets Classical Again (0)
- 02: Listen to the Never-Heard Song Written for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (2)
- 01: Werner Herzog Discovers the Ecstasy of Skateboarding: “That’s Kind of My People” (0)
- 01: The Internet Archive Now Digitizing 1,000,000+ Objects from a Massive Cinema History Library (0)
- 01: When the Frequency for Tuning Instruments Became a Grand Conspiracy Theory (1)
- January 2021 (75)
- 29: Taschen Running a Sale on Art Books: Dali, Basquiat, Klimt, Kubrick, Warhol & More (1)
- 29: YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists (3)
- 29: The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796) (4)
- 29: The Great Gatsby Is Now in the Public Domain and There’s a New Graphic Novel (1)
- 28: PBS American Masters Archive Releases 1,000+ Hours of Uncut, Never-Before-Seen Interviews: Patti Smith, David Bowie, Neil Young & More (0)
- 28: The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee: The Journey from Coffee Bean, to Coffee Cup (0)
- 28: Watch the Pilot of Breaking Bad with a Chemistry Professor: How Sound Was the Science? (0)
- 28: The Formula for The Coen Brothers/Noah Hawley’s Fargo – Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #79 (0)
- 27: Watch John Cage Play His “Silent” 4’33” in Harvard Square, Presented by Nam June Paik (1973) (0)
- 27: Watch Amanda Gorman Read “The Hill We Climb,” “Making Mountains As We Run,” “Fury and Faith,” and More (3)
- 27: Algerian Cave Paintings Suggest Humans Did Magic Mushrooms 9,000 Years Ago (2)
- 26: How Richard Feynman’s Diagrams Revolutionized Physics (0)
- 26: Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Tells Protestors What to Do–and Not Do–If Arrested by Authoritarian Police (1)
- 26: Rick Steves’ Europe: Binge Watch 9 Seasons of America’s Favorite Traveler Free Online (0)
- 25: A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens (4)
- 25: Resilience Skills in a Time of Uncertainty: A Free Course from the University of Pennsylvania (0)
- 25: Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Pairs Weekly Art History Lectures with Cocktail Recipes (0)
- 25: Jimi Hendrix Revisits His Searing Performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner”: The Dick Cavett Show (September 9, 1969) (1)
- 22: A 10 Billion Pixel Scan of Vermeer’s Masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring: Explore It Online (1)
- 22: How Quentin Tarantino Shoots a Film at 3 Different Budget Levels: Reservoir Dogs ($1 Million), Pulp Fiction ($8 Million), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ($95 Million) (0)
- 22: When the Grateful Dead Performed on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy After Dark & Secretly Dosed Everyone With LSD (1969) (1)
- 21: “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More (3)
- 21: How to Make a Savile Row Suit: A Short Documentary from the Museum of Modern Art (0)
- 21: Innovative Pinscreen Animations of Kafka’s “Before the Law”, Gogol’s “The Nose” & Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” (1932-1972) (0)
- 21: The Renewed Popularity of Chess and The Queen’s Gambit: Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion #78 with Chess Expert J.J. Lang (0)
- 20: Prince’s First Television Interview (1985) (0)
- 20: Rarely-Seen Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy Are Now Free Online, Courtesy of the Uffizi Gallery (0)
- 20: Brâncuși Captures His Sculpture & Life on Film: Watch Rare Footage Shot Between 1923-1939 (0)
- 19: Ursula K. Le Guin Stamp Getting Released by the US Postal Service (1)
- 19: How Levi’s 501 Jeans Became Iconic: A Short Documentary Featuring John Baldessari, Henry Rollins, Lee Ranaldo & More (0)
- 19: The Deadliest Garden in the World: Visit Alnwick’s Poison Garden in Northumberland, England (3)
- 19: Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Energy Accumulator Was Beloved by William S. Burroughs and Banned by the FDA: Find Plans to Build the Controversial Device Online (2)
- 18: A Magical Look Inside the Painting Process of Studio Ghibli Artist Kazuo Oga (0)
- 18: A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It (2)
- 18: What Can You Do About QAnon?: A Short Take from Documentary Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson (7)
- 18: An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting (0)
- 16: MIT’s Introduction to Economics: A Free Online Course (0)
- 15: Take a New Virtual Reality Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2)
- 15: The Anti-Gluttony Door in Portugal’s Alcobaça Monastery Shamed Plump Monks to Start Fasting (2)
- 15: David Lynch’s Projection Instructions for Mulholland Drive (2001) (0)
- 14: Why Should You Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved? An Animated Video Makes the Case (0)
- 14: The CIA Has Declassified 2,780 Pages of UFO-Related Documents, and They’re Now Free to Download (5)
- 14: How the Bicycle Accelerated the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890) (1)
- 14: Should You Race Back to Theaters When It’s Safe? Pretty Much Pop: Culture Podcast (#77) on the Big Screen Experience (0)
- 13: How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist: What the Experts Recommend (5)
- 13: A 16th-Century Astronomy Book Featured “Analog Computers” to Calculate the Shape of the Moon, the Position of the Sun, and More (0)
- 13: Social Psychologist Erich Fromm Diagnoses Why People Wear a Mask of Happiness in Modern Society (1977) (0)
- 12: Peanuts Plays Yes’ “Roundabout” (0)
- 12: A Look Inside William S. Burroughs’ Bunker (0)
- 12: How Lava Lamps Help Secure the Internet (1)
- 12: Discover the First Illustrated Book Printed in English, William Caxton’s Mirror of the World (1481) (0)
- 11: New Documentary Sisters with Transistors Tells the Story of Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers (0)
- 11: Coursera Offers $100 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 20), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates (0)
- 11: See Devo Perform Live for the Very First Time (Kent State University, 1973) (2)
- 11: 300 Rarely-Seen, Risqué Drawings by Andy Warhol Published in the New Book, Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings (1950–1962) (0)
- 09: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism: A Timely List from Yale Historian Timothy Snyder (0)
- 08: Behold an Interactive Online Edition of Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants (1868) (1)
- 08: Flair Magazine: The Short-Lived, Highly-Influential Magazine That Still Inspires Designers Today (1950) (0)
- 08: Fonts in Use: Enter a Giant Archive of Typography, Featuring 12,618 Typefaces (0)
- 07: Thelonious Monk’s List of 25 Tips for Musicians (4)
- 07: An Animated Introduction to Baruch Spinoza: The “Philosopher’s Philosopher” (0)
- 07: How to Draw the Buddha: Explore an Elegant Tibetan Manual from the 18th-Century (0)
- 07: Wonder Woman 1984 in Context – Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #76 (0)
- 06: The 25th Amendment: An Introduction (1)
- 06: The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 709,000 Works of Art, Including Famous Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer (0)
- 06: How Tibetan Monks Use Meditation to Raise Their Peripheral Body Temperature 16-17 Degrees (4)
- 06: Animation Pioneer Lotte Reiniger Adapts Mozart’s The Magic Flute into an All-Silhouette Short Film (1935) (0)
- 05: When Iggy Pop Published an Essay, “Caesar Lives,” in an Academic Journal about His Love for Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1995) (1)
- 05: Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known and Hand-Illustrated Children’s Book, Mr. Bliss (0)
- 05: Rome’s Colosseum Will Get a New Retractable Floor by 2023 — Just as It Had in Ancient Times (25)
- 04: Discover Tokyo’s Museum Dedicated to Parasites: A Unique and Disturbing Institution (1)
- 04: Dial-a-Poem: The Groundbreaking Phone Service That Let People Hear Poems Read by Patti Smith, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & More (1968) (3)
- 04: Did Beethoven Use a Broken Metronome When Composing His String Quartets? Scientists & Musicians Try to Solve the Centuries-Old Mystery (1)
- 01: What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby & Mrs. Dalloway, Music by Irving Berlin & Duke Ellington, Comedies by Buster Keaton, and More (1)
- 01: Antonio Gramsci Writes a Column, “I Hate New Year’s Day” (January 1, 1916) (0)
- December 2020 (91)
- 31: Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated Films (1)
- 31: Technology Arbitrage: Amazon is Selling Airpods Pro Headphones for $50 Less Than Apple (1)
- 31: When Queen’s Freddie Mercury Teamed Up with Opera Superstar Montserrat Caballé in 1988: A Meeting of Two Powerful Voices (9)
- 31: The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes (2)
- 30: The Essential Bradbury: The 25 Finest Stories by the Beloved Writer (0)
- 30: Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Snack Bar in the Ruins of Pompeii (1)
- 30: How Martin Luther King Jr. Got C’s in Public Speaking–Before Becoming a Straight-A Student & a World Class Orator (3)
- 30: Your 15 Favorite Posts on Open Culture This Year–and What a Year It Has Been (0)
- 30: Why Has The Great British Baking Show Conquered America? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #75 w/ Stephen Carlile (from Broadway’s The Lion King) (0)
- 29: Coursera Offers $100 Off of Coursera Plus, Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates (0)
- 29: Listen to James Baldwin’s Record Collection in a 478-track, 32-Hour Spotify Playlist (0)
- 29: When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930) (2)
- 29: The Power of Pulp Fiction’s Dance Scene, Explained by Choreographers and Even John Travolta Himself (3)
- 28: The David Bowie Monopoly Game Is Here: Advance to GO and Collect 200 Hunky Dorys! (1)
- 28: The Ultimate 80s Medley: A Nostalgia-Inducing Performance of A-Ha, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Van Halen & More (1)
- 28: In 1896, a French Cartoonist Predicted Our Socially-Distanced Zoom Holiday Gatherings (1)
- 25: Revisit Kate Bush’s Peculiar Christmas Special, Featuring Peter Gabriel (1979) (1)
- 25: Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950 (0)
- 25: Stream 48 Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Broadcasts Featuring Orson Welles, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Ida Lupino & More (1930-1959) (1)
- 24: When Our World Became a de Chirico Painting: How the Avant-Garde Painter Foresaw the Empty City Streets of 2020 (0)
- 24: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”: To Help Lift You Out of the COVID Gloom (3)
- 24: How Jan van Eyck’s Masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, Became the Most Stolen Work of Art in History (0)
- 23: David Chase Talks Sopranos for 90 Minutes on the Talking Sopranos Podcast (0)
- 23: Carl Sagan on the Importance of Choosing Wisely What You Read (Even If You Read a Book a Week) (1)
- 23: Octavia Butler’s Four Rules for Predicting the Future (0)
- 23: Tune Into Tree.fm: An Online Radio Station That Streams the Soothing Sounds of Forests from Around the World (2)
- 23: What Has the Internet Done to Comedy? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#74) (1)
- 22: Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Sing the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the UK” While Dressed as Santa and Elf (6)
- 22: Bill Gates Picks 5 Good Books for a Lousy Year (10)
- 22: Peter Jackson Gives Us an Enticing Glimpse of His Upcoming Beatles Documentary The Beatles: Get Back (1)
- 22: Why David Sedaris Hates “The Santaland Diaries,” the NPR Piece that Made Him Famous (1)
- 22: The UN’s World Happiness Report Ranks “Socialist Friendly” Countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Sweden as Among the Happiest in the World (7)
- 21: Why Is Napoleon’s Hand Always in His Waistcoat?: The Origins of This Distinctive Pose Explained (2)
- 21: How Joni Mitchell’s Song of Heartbreak, “River,” Became a Christmas Classic (1)
- 21: The Blob Opera Lets You Create Festive Music with Ease: An Interactive Experiment Powered by Machine Learning (0)
- 21: Brian Cullman, Veteran NY Music Scenester/Journalist/Producer, Shares His Tunes and Musings About Death: Nakedly Examined Music Podcast #137 (0)
- 18: Hokusai’s Iconic Print, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” Recreated with 50,000 LEGO Bricks (0)
- 18: How Do Vaccines (Including the COVID-19 Vaccines) Work?: Watch Animated Introductions (1)
- 18: When Martin Scorsese Directed Michael Jackson in the 18-Minute “Bad” Music Video & Paid Cinematic Tribute to West Side Story (1986) (0)
- 18: Three Amateur Cryptographers Finally Decrypted the Zodiac Killer’s Letters: A Look Inside How They Solved a Half Century-Old Mystery (3)
- 17: 160,000+ Medieval Manuscripts Online: Where to Find Them (0)
- 17: Discover the Ambient Music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, the Pioneering Japanese Composer (3)
- 17: Jeff Koons and Salman Rushdie Teach New Courses on Art, Creativity & Storytelling for MasterClass (0)
- 17: A Free Online Course from Yale University Explains How the World Lapsed into the Politics of Fear & Resentment (1)
- 17: What Makes for a Beloved Bad Film? Jackey Neyman Jones (Manos: The Hands of Fate) Talks to Pretty Much Pop (ep. 73) (1)
- 16: The Dune Graphic Novel: Experience Frank Herbert’s Epic Sci-Fi Saga as You’ve Never Seen It Before (3)
- 16: Get Inside the Head of a New York City Christmas Tree: A Gonzo Short Film from Artist Nina Katchadourian (0)
- 16: Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover 8 Songs by Famous Jewish Artists for Hanukkah: Bob Dylan, Beastie Boys, Velvet Underground & More (0)
- 16: A Brief History of Talking Heads: How the Band Went from Scrappy CBGB’s Punks to New Wave Superstars (1)
- 15: David Byrne Turns His Acclaimed Musical American Utopia into a Picture Book for Grown-Ups, with Vivid Illustrations by Maira Kalman (1)
- 15: The Art of Movie Posters: View Online 40,000+ Movie Posters & Learn How They’re Made (1)
- 15: Isaac Newton Theorized That the Egyptian Pyramids Revealed the Timing of the Apocalypse: See His Burnt Manuscript from the 1680s (14)
- 15: How the Garage-Rock Anthem “Louie Louie” Became the Subject of a Lengthy FBI Investigation (1964) (1)
- 14: MIT’s Introduction to Deep Learning: A Free Online Course (2)
- 14: A Visual History of The Rolling Stones Documented in a Beautiful, 450-Page Photo Book by Taschen (0)
- 14: Watch 26 Free Episodes of Jacques Pépin’s TV Show, More Fast Food My Way (1)
- 14: A Detailed, Track-by-Track Analysis of the Doctor Who Theme Music (0)
- 11: Study Less, Study Smart: A Longtime Psych Professor Explains How to Study (or Do Any Intellectual Work) Effectively (2)
- 11: Watch the Oscar-Winning “Gerald McBoing-Boing” (1950): It’s Ranked as the 9th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (2)
- 11: When Italian Futurists Declared War on Pasta (1930) (1)
- 10: The Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery: A Kyoto Woodworker Shows How Japanese Carpenters Created Wood Structures Without Nails or Glue (4)
- 10: Buddhist Monk Covers Metallica’s ”Enter Sandman,” Then Meditates (3)
- 10: Jimi Hendrix’s Home Audio System & Record Collection Gets Recreated in His London Flat (1)
- 10: Comic Book Writer Fred Van Lente Touts “Comic Supremacy” on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #72 (0)
- 09: Are You Happy, David Lynch? (0)
- 09: Don’t Think Twice: A Poignant Film Documents How Bob Dylan & The Beatles Bring Joy to a Dementia Patient (0)
- 09: A Biostatistician Uses Crochet to Visualize the Frightening Infection Rates of the Coronavirus (0)
- 09: The Map of Doom: A Data-Driven Visualization of the Biggest Threats to Humanity, Ranked from Likely to Unlikely (5)
- 08: The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made (0)
- 08: Marina Abramović’s Method for Overcoming Trauma: Go to a Park, Hug a Tree Tight, and Tell It Your Complaints for 15 Minutes (5)
- 08: The Sistine Chapel of the Ancients: Archaeologists Discover 8 Miles of Art Painted on Rock Walls in the Amazon (2)
- 08: Why Butt Trumpets & Other Bizarre Images Appeared in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts (5)
- 07: Why Japan Has the Oldest Businesses in the World?: Hōshi, a 1300-Year-Old Hotel, Offers Clues (2)
- 07: Behold the Steampunk Home Exercise Machines from the Victorian Age (2)
- 07: How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound in the Groundbreaking Recording of “My Favorite Things” (2)
- 06: For Dave Brubeck’s 100th Birthday, Watch Pakistani Musicians Play an Enchanting Version of “Take Five” (10)
- 05: Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf (2)
- 04: Why Humans Are Obsessed with Cats (4)
- 04: Watch “Jackson Pollock 51,” a Historic Short Film That Captures Pollock Creating Abstract Expressionist Art on a Sheet of Glass (1)
- 04: One of the Greatest Dances Sequences Ever Captured on Film Gets Restored in Color by AI: Watch the Classic Scene from Stormy Weather (4)
- 03: A Look into the Wondrous Life & Expansive Work of the Late Jan Morris, Who Wrote the Entire World (0)
- 03: The Power of Empathy: A Quick Animated Lesson from Brené Brown (2)
- 03: A 1913 Children’s Book Lampoons Duchamp, Picasso & Other Avant-Garde Artists: Read The Cubies’ ABC Online (0)
- 03: When Sun Ra Went to Egypt in 1971: See Film & Hear Recordings from the Legendary Afrofuturist’s First Visit to Cairo (3)
- 03: An Introduction to Rap Battles: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #71 (0)
- 02: The Internet Archive is Saving Classic Flash Animations & Games from Extinction: Explore Them Online (0)
- 02: What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like & How We Know It (1)
- 02: Japanese Art Installation Lets People Play Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” As They Walk on Socially-Distanced Notes on the Floor (1)
- 01: Quentin Tarantino’s Copycat Cinema: How the Postmodern Filmmaker Perfected the Art of the Steal (2)
- 01: Salvador Dalí Gets Surreal with 1950s America: Watch His Appearances on What’s My Line? (1952) and The Mike Wallace Interview (1958) (0)
- 01: 88 Philosophy Podcasts to Help You Answer the Big Questions in Life (1)
- November 2020 (84)
- 30: Learn How to Play Chess Online: Free Chess Lessons for Beginners, Intermediate Players & Beyond (3)
- 30: The Great Courses Offers Every Course on Sale for $60 or Less (Until December 1) (0)
- 30: Watch Digital Dancers Electrify the Streets of Istanbul (0)
- 30: An Animated Stan Lee Explains Why the F-Word Is “the Most Useful Word in the English Language” (NSFW) (0)
- 28: Hear 11-Year-Old Björk Sing “I Love to Love”: Her First Recorded Song (1976) (0)
- 27: The Great Courses Offers Every Course for $40 Until Midnight Tonight (0)
- 27: With 9,036 Pieces, the Roman Colosseum Is the Largest Lego Set Ever (1)
- 27: Toni Morrison’s 1,200 Volume Personal Library is Going on Sale: Get a Glimpse of the Books on Her Tribeca Condo Shelves (0)
- 27: A Free 700-Page Chess Manual Explains 1,000 Chess Tactics in Straightforward English (14)
- 27: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal (Until November 30) (1)
- 27: Famed New Orleans Music Producer Mark Bingham Discusses His Songs and Collaborations: A Nakedly Examined Music Conversation (#136) (0)
- 26: The Story Behind “Alice’s Restaurant,” Arlo Guthrie’s Song That’s Now a Thanksgiving Tradition (4)
- 26: A Flying Car Took to the Skies Back in 1949: See the Taylor Aerocar in Action (0)
- 26: The Beatles Create an Abstract Collaborative Painting, Images of a Woman, During Three Days of Lockdown in Japan (1966) (0)
- 25: Nikon Offers Free Online Photography Courses During the Holidays (0)
- 25: Stevie Ray Vaughan Gives a Blistering Demonstration of His Guitar Technique (12)
- 25: A Mysterious Monolith Appears in the Utah Desert, Channeling Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (5)
- 25: The Uncanny Children’s Book Illustrations of Sigmund’s Freud’s Niece, Tom Seidmann-Freud (1)
- 25: Kevin Allison (The State, RISK!) Discusses Confessional Comedy on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #70 (0)
- 24: The Polygraph: The Proto-Photocopy Machine Machine Invented in 1803 That Changed Thomas Jefferson’s Life (0)
- 24: Hear Legendary BBC Composer Delia Derbyshire’s Electronic Version of Bach’s “Air on a G String” (1)
- 24: The Eden Project Built a Rainforest Ecosystem Inside Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Geodesic Domes (0)
- 23: The Geometry of Sound: Watch Artist Kenichi Kanazawa Make Amazing Geometric Designs Out of Sand, Using Sound Waves Alone (0)
- 23: A Curious Herbal: 500 Beautiful Illustrations of Medicinal Plants Drawn by Elizabeth Blackwell in 1737 (to Save Her Family from Financial Ruin) (0)
- 23: Watch How to Be at Home, a Beautiful Short Animation on the Realities of Social Isolation in 2020 (4)
- 20: David Lynch Explains How Simple Daily Habits Enhance His Creativity (2)
- 20: Lou Reed Concert Film Berlin Streaming Free Online for the Next Week (6)
- 20: Behold One of the Earliest Known Color Charts: The Table of Physiological Colors (1686) (0)
- 19: How Errol Morris Became Obsessed with — and Figured Out — the Truth of a Famous War Photograph (2)
- 19: Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man (0)
- 19: The Beautiful Video for David Gilmour’s “The Girl in the Yellow Dress,” Featuring 9,000 Hand-Drawn Frames of Animation (2)
- 18: Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80 (1)
- 18: Discover the Cyanometer, the Device Invented in 1789 Just to Measure the Blueness of the Sky (1)
- 18: Experience Blade Runner Like You Never Have Before Through a Feature-Length Remastered Soundtrack (6)
- 18: Pop Songs with Narrative: Pretty Much Pop (#69) Discusses Tunes Ranging from Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” to “The Pina Colada Song” with Songwriter/Author Rod Picott (0)
- 17: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Designed for Middle & High School Teachers (88)
- 17: What Happens When You Spend Weeks, Months, or Years in Solitary Confinement (6)
- 17: How Soy Sauce Has Been Made in Japan for Over 220 Years: An Inside View (0)
- 17: Rubens’ Cupid Escapes His Painting & Flies Around Brussels Airport, Thanks to Projection Mapping Technology (2)
- 16: Watch Sassy Justice, the New Deepfake Satire Show Created by the Makers of South Park (3)
- 16: Dr. Fauci’s Lecture from MIT’s Free Course on COVID-19: It’s Now Online (3)
- 16: Constantly Wrong: Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson Makes the Case Against Conspiracy Theories (0)
- 16: John Waters Gives Art Collection to The Baltimore Museum Of Art in Exchange for Getting Its Bathrooms Named After Him (1)
- 16: The Biblical Sci-Fi of “Raised by Wolves”–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #68 (0)
- 13: Experience a Video Painting of Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon That Has Soothed & Relaxed Millions of People (1)
- 13: The Five Minute Museum: A Stop Motion Animation Shows the History of Civilization at Breakneck Speed (3)
- 13: How Akira Kurosawa Used Movement to Tell His Stories: A Video Essay (0)
- 13: Peter Milton Walsh of The Apartments Rejects Assembly-Line Recording: A Nakedly Examined Music Conversation (#135) (0)
- 12: 1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums: Enter Van Gogh Worldwide (0)
- 12: Eno: A 1973 Mini-Doc Shows Brian Eno at the Beginning of His Solo Career (0)
- 12: Futurist from 1901 Describes the World of 2001: Opera by Telephone, Free College & Pneumatic Tubes Aplenty (0)
- 12: The History of Rock Mapped Out on the Circuit Board of a Guitar Amplifier: 1400 Musicians, Songwriters & Producers (2)
- 11: Former Ballerina with Dementia Gracefully Comes Alive to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (0)
- 11: How the Beach Boys Created Their Pop Masterpieces: “Good Vibrations,” Pet Sounds, and More (4)
- 11: The Last Video Store: A Short Documentary on How the World’s Oldest Video Store Still Survives Today (0)
- 11: Experience the Bob Ross Experience: A New Museum Open in the TV Painter’s Former Studio Home (1)
- 10: Watch the Making of Japanese Woodblock Prints, from Start to Finish, by a Longtime Tokyo Printmaker (1)
- 10: Hear a Rare First Recording of Janis Joplin’s Hit “Me and Bobby McGee,” Written by Kris Kristofferson (10)
- 10: When ABBA Wrote Music for the Cold War-Themed Musical, Chess: “One of the Best Rock Scores Ever Produced for the Theatre” (1984) (1)
- 10: Powell’s Books Unveils a New Perfume That Smells Like Old Books (0)
- 09: Trips on the World’s Oldest Electric Suspension Railway in 1902 & 2015 Show How a City Changes Over a Century (0)
- 09: Watch Link Wray Play a Downright Dirty Version of “Rumble,” the Only Instrumental to Be Banned on Radio (1974) (2)
- 09: The Plastic Bag Store: A Pop Art Installation with a Whimsical But Deadly Serious Environmental Message (1)
- 09: Was Winston Churchill “The Greatest Briton”? A Short Claymation Looks at the Darker Side of the Prime Minister’s Life (6)
- 08: The Spinal Tap Stonehenge Debacle (1)
- 07: Patti Smith & Fred “Sonic” Smith Perform a Stripped-Down, Beautiful Version of “People Have the Power” (3)
- 06: The Cinematography That Changed Cinema: Exploring Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway & Other Auteurs (1)
- 06: Terry Gilliam Reveals the Secrets of Monty Python Animations: A 1974 How-To Guide (1)
- 06: Neil Young Releases a Never-Before-Heard Version of His 1979 Classic, “Powderfinger”: Stream It Online (2)
- 05: How Charlie Chaplin Used Groundbreaking Visual Effects to Shoot the Death-Defying Roller Skate Scene in Modern Times (1936) (1)
- 05: The Meticulous, Elegant Illustrations of the Nature Observed in England’s Countryside (1)
- 05: A Dictionary of Symbols: Juan Eduardo Cirlot’s Classic Study of Symbols Gets Republished in a Beautiful, Expanded Edition (0)
- 05: “Borat” on Politics and Embarrassment–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast Discussion #67 (0)
- 04: 40,000 Early Modern Maps Are Now Freely Available Online (Courtesy of the British Library) (1)
- 04: A Digital Library for Bartenders: Vintage Cocktail Books with Recipes Dating Back to 1753 (1)
- 04: How the Iconic Colors of the New York City Subway System Were Invented: See the 1930 Color Chart Created by Architect Squire J. Vickers (0)
- 03: 10 Hours of Nick Offerman Quietly Drinking Single Malt Scotch by the Fire (2)
- 03: Three Days in Twin Peaks: An In-Depth Journey Through the Evocative Locations of David Lynch’s TV Series (4)
- 03: Martin Luther King: “You Know Who to Vote For. I’m Just Asking You to Vote!” (1964) (2)
- 03: The Iconic Photography of Gordon Parks: An Introduction to the Renaissance American Artist (0)
- 02: A Quay Brothers Animation Explains Anamorphosis, the Renaissance Illusion That Hides Pictures within Pictures (0)
- 02: When Louis Armstrong Stopped a Civil War in The Congo (1960) (0)
- 02: Before Creating the Moomins, Tove Jansson Drew Satirical Art Mocking Hitler & Stalin (0)
- 01: Why Masks Work: A Slow Motion Demonstration (Plus a Guest Appearance by Dr. Fauci) (0)
- October 2020 (82)
- 31: Sean Connery (RIP) Reads C.P. Cavafy’s Epic Poem “Ithaca,” Set to the Music of Vangelis (9)
- 30: The Official Trailer for the New Frank Zappa Documentary Is Now Online (1)
- 30: The Legend of How Bluesman Robert Johnson Sold His Soul to the Devil at the Crossroads (4)
- 30: The Sublime Alice in Wonderland Illustrations of Tove Jansson, Creator of the Globally-Beloved Moomins (1966) (2)
- 30: The Gruesome Dollhouse Death Scenes That Reinvented Murder Investigations (1)
- 30: What Scares Us, and How Does this Manifest in Film? A Halloween Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#66) (0)
- 29: When Edward Gorey Created Set Designs & Tony Award-Winning Costumes for a Broadway Production of Dracula (1977) (0)
- 29: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment: Psychologist Daniel Goleman Explains the Power of Focus (1)
- 29: Watch a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (4)
- 28: Karen O & Willie Nelson Release a New Cover Bowie & Queen’s “Under Pressure” (4)
- 28: The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s (0)
- 28: John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” & Bach’s “Prelude in C Major” Get Turned into Dazzling Musical Animations by an Artist with Synesthesia (2)
- 28: A Glass Floor in a Dublin Grocery Store Lets Shoppers Look Down & Explore Medieval Ruins (0)
- 27: Janis Joplin & Tom Jones Bring the House Down in an Unlikely Duet of “Raise Your Hand” (1969) (12)
- 27: When Billy Idol Went Cyberpunk: See His Tribute to Neuromancer, His Recording Session with Timothy Leary, and His Limited-Edition Floppy Disk (1993) (0)
- 27: The Time When National Lampoon Parodied Mad Magazine: A Satire of Satire (1971) (3)
- 27: The Craft of Writing Effectively: Essential Lessons from the Longtime Director of UChicago’s Writing Program (2)
- 26: The Japanese Traditions of Sashiko & Boro: The Centuries-Old Craft That Mends Clothes in a Sustainable, Artistic Way (1)
- 26: How to Speak: Watch the Lecture on Effective Communication That Became an MIT Tradition for Over 40 Years (1)
- 26: When Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick, the First Couple of Pop Art, Made an Odd Appearance on the Merv Griffin Show (1965) (0)
- 26: Jazz-Zither-Piano-Man Laraaji Discusses His Decades of Meditative Improvisations: A Nakedly Examined Music Podcast Conversation (#134) (0)
- 23: Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber (4)
- 23: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O’Keeffe (1)
- 22: Glenn Gould Explains Why Mozart Was a Bad Composer in a Controversial Public TV Show (1968) (12)
- 22: “The Dark Side of the Moon” and Other Pink Floyd Songs Gloriously Performed by Irish & German Orchestras (12)
- 22: An Animated Video Shows the Building of a Medieval Bridge: 45 Years of Construction in 3 Minutes (1)
- 22: Chris Matheson, “Bill & Ted” Writer, Talks Cosmic Satire with Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #65 (0)
- 21: Tom Lehrer Releases His All of Catchy and Savage Musical Satire Into the Public Domain (13)
- 21: How the Doors Got Banned from The Ed Sullivan Show (1967) (0)
- 21: Watch Cornel West’s Free Online Course on W.E.B. Du Bois, the Great 20th Century Public Intellectual (1)
- 20: How to De-Stress with Niksen, the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing (2)
- 20: Phone Relief: The Ultimate Hands-Free Headset (1993) (0)
- 20: Take a Digital Drive Along Ed Ruscha’s Sunset Boulevard, the Famous Strip That the Artist Photographed from 1965 to 2007 (1)
- 20: The Dorothea Lange Digital Archive: Explore 600+ Photographs by the Influential Photographer (Plus Negatives, Contact Sheets & More) (1)
- 19: Watch Ridley Scott’s Controversial Nissan Sports Car Ad That Aired Only Once, During the Super Bowl (1990) (1)
- 19: The 100 Most Influential Photographs: Watch TIME’s Video Essays on Photos That Changed the World (0)
- 19: How Some of the World’s Most Famous Cheeses Are Made: Camembert, Brie, Gorgonzola & More (0)
- 18: A Master List of 1,500 Free Courses From Top Universities: 50,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures to Enrich Your Mind (5)
- 16: Mapping the Differences in How Americans Speak English: A Geographic Look at Words, Accents & Dialects (1)
- 16: Edward Hopper’s Creative Process: The Drawing & Careful Preparation Behind Nighthawks & Other Iconic Paintings (0)
- 16: The Dance Theatre of Harlem Dances Through the Streets of NYC: A Sight to Behold (0)
- 15: 11 Hypnotic, Close-Up Minutes Watching Tool’s Legendary Drummer Danny Carey in Action (17)
- 15: The Scariest Film of All Time? A Vintage Look at the Hysteria Around The Exorcist in 1973 (0)
- 15: Denmark’s Utopian Garden City Built Entirely in Circles: See Astounding Aerial Views of Brøndby Haveby (1)
- 15: “The Last of Us” Franchise: Can Video Games Be Cinema? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#64) (0)
- 14: Werner Herzog Lists All the Languages He Knows–and Why He Only Speaks French If (Literally) a Gun’s Pointed at His Head (0)
- 14: Marionette Freddie Mercury Performs on the Streets of Madrid (1)
- 14: Explore the Roman Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, the Oldest Known Cookbook in Existence (2)
- 14: How to Win an Argument (at the U.S. Supreme Court, or Anywhere Else): A Primer by Litigator Neal Katyal (0)
- 13: 10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection (5)
- 13: A Creepy 19th Century Re-Creation of the Famous Ancient Roman Statue, Laocoön and His Sons (0)
- 13: The Incredible Six-Octave Vocal Range of Opera-Singing Punk Diva Nina Hagen (8)
- 12: How Science Fiction Formed Jimi Hendrix (9)
- 12: The Great Illustration That Accompanied Eddie Van Halen’s Application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1987) (1)
- 12: The David Lynch Retrospective: A Two Hour Video Essay on Lynch’s Complete Filmography, from Eraserhead to Inland Empire (0)
- 12: A Virtual Table Read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Featuring Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Shia LaBeouf, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, John Legend & More (0)
- 11: Requiem for a Dream: The Cast & Crew Reunite 20 Years Later (1)
- 09: Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Go Toe to Toe (Almost) in a Hilarious Boxing Scene Mash Up from Their Classic Silent Films (1)
- 09: The Story of the SynthAxe, the Astonishing 1980s Guitar Synthesizer: Only 100 Were Ever Made (0)
- 08: A Live Studio Cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Played from Start to Finish (10)
- 08: Restored Footage of 1896 Snowball Fight Makes It Seem Like the Fun Happened Yesterday (1)
- 08: Learn the Stories Behind Iconic Songs: The Rolling Stones’ “Miss You,” REM’s “Losing My Religion,” Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” & More (0)
- 08: Foreign Exchange Students Debate Whether American Teenagers Have Too Much Freedom (1954) (1)
- 07: The 1937 Experiment in Distance Learning: When Chicago Schools Went Remote, Over Radio, During a Polio Outbreak (0)
- 07: Why Do People Join Cults? An Animated Primer Explains (3)
- 07: Watch Some of Eddie Van Halen’s (RIP) Greatest Performances: “Shredding Was Eddie’s Very Essence” (3)
- 07: What Caused the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe?: A Brief Investigation into the Poet’s Demise 171 Years Ago Today (1)
- 07: What Can Superhero Media Teach Us About Ethics: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#63) Discussion with Philosophy Professor Travis Smith (0)
- 06: Ted Turner Asks Carl Sagan “Are You a Socialist?;” Sagan Responds Thoughtfully (1989) (5)
- 06: How Vividly Colorized Photos Helped Introduce Japan to the World in the 19th Century (0)
- 06: The Only Time Prince & Miles Davis Jammed Together Onstage: Watch the New Year’s Eve, 1987 Concert (2)
- 05: Watch the Dadaist Masterpiece Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928): Hans Richter’s Film Was So Avant Garde It Was Desecrated by the Nazis (0)
- 05: Jazz Typefaces Capture the Essence of 100 Iconic Jazz Musicians (1)
- 05: Dear Facebook, This is How You’re Breaking Democracy: A Former Facebook Insider Explains How the Platform’s Algorithms Polarize Our Society (0)
- 05: Watch a Young Carl Sagan Appear in His First TV Documentary, The Violent Universe (1969) (0)
- 04: The Grateful Dead Movie: Watch It Free Online (1)
- 02: GPS Tracking Reveals the Secret Lives of Outdoor Cats (1)
- 02: When Shostakovich Adapted Gogol’s “The Nose” Into an Opera: Watch Giant Noses Tap Dancing on the Stage (0)
- 02: An Animated Reading of “The Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense Poem That Somehow Manages to Make Sense (0)
- 01: Hear Readings of Albert Einstein’s Love Letters (and Chilly Divorce Letters) to His First Wife Mileva (0)
- 01: Explore a Digital Archive of Student Notebooks from Around the World (1773-Present) (0)
- 01: Chris Frantz Breaks Down How He Crafted Songs for Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club: A Nakedly Examined Music Interview (0)
- September 2020 (80)
- 30: What Would the World of Charlie Chaplin Look Like in Color?: Watch a Colorfully Restored Version of A Night at the Show (1915) (0)
- 30: Ella Fitzgerald Imitates Louis Armstrong’s Gravelly Voice While Singing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby” (0)
- 30: When R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe Created the Lyrics for “The Voice of Harold” by Riffing on the Liner Notes of an Old Gospel Album (1983) (3)
- 30: Mulan Re-Disneyfied: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#62) Discussion with Actor Michael Tow (0)
- 29: Explore the Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript (0)
- 29: How Storyboarding Works: A Brief Introduction to How Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson & Other Directors Storyboard Their Films (0)
- 28: The Story Behind the Iconic Photograph of 11 Construction Workers Lunching 840 Feet Above New York City (1932) (1)
- 28: Hand-Colored Maps of Wealth & Poverty in Victorian London: Explore a New Interactive Edition of Charles Booth’s Historic Work of Social Cartography (1889) (0)
- 28: Why James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano Is “the Greatest Acting Achievement Ever Committed to the Screen”: A Video Essay (3)
- 28: Discovered: The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (0)
- 26: The Beastie Boys’ Final Concert Streaming Free Online This Weekend (0)
- 25: Frida Kahlo’s Venomous Love Letter to Diego Rivera: “I’m Amputating You. Be Happy and Never Seek Me Again” (0)
- 25: Understanding Chris Marker’s Radical Sci-Fi Film La Jetée: A Study Guide Distributed to High Schools in the 1970s (1)
- 24: Studio Ghibli Puts Online 400 Images from Eight Classic Films, and Lets You Download Them for Free (0)
- 24: What Voltaire Meant When He Said That “We Must Cultivate Our Garden”: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 24: Watch Chilling Footage of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings in Restored Color (13)
- 24: The Philosophy of Photography with Amir Zaki on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #61 (0)
- 23: An Animated Introduction to Albert Camus’ Existentialism, a Philosophy Making a Comeback in Our Dysfunctional Times (8)
- 23: The Liberal Arts Can Make People Less Susceptible to Authoritarianism, a New Study Finds (3)
- 23: Is Mail-In Voting New in the United States?: It Actually Goes Back to the Civil War (2)
- 22: 31 Buster Keaton Films: “The Greatest of All Comic Actors,” “One of the Greatest Filmmakers of All Time” (3)
- 22: How Bong Joon-ho’s Storyboards for Parasite (Now Published as a Graphic Novel) Meticulously Shaped the Acclaimed Film (1)
- 22: The Internet Archive Will Digitize & Preserve Millions of Academic Articles with Its New Database, “Internet Archive Scholar” (0)
- 21: Why The Wire is One of the Most Brilliant TV Shows Ever (8)
- 21: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Opera Recordings (and Her First Appearance in an Opera) (0)
- 21: Blockbuster Courses on the U.S. Presidential Election Getting Started at Stanford Continuing Studies This Week (0)
- 21: If Werner Herzog Reviewed Trader Joe’s on Yelp: “Madness Reigns. The First Challenge Your Soul Must Endure Is the Parking Lot” (2)
- 21: The Life, Work & Philosophy of Bill Murray: Happy 70th Birthday to an American Comedy Icon (2)
- 18: A Long, Guided Tour of New York City Captured in Original Color Film (1937) (1)
- 18: Free Jazz Musicians Intentionally Play Terrible Music to Drown Out the Noise of a Danish Far-Right Politician (8)
- 18: High-Resolution Walking Tours of Italy’s Most Historic Places: The Colosseum, Pompeii, St. Peter’s Basilica & More (0)
- 17: Watch Rare Footage of Jimi Hendrix Performing “Voodoo Child” in Maui, Plus a Trailer for a New Documentary on Jimi Hendrix’s Legendary Maui Performances (1970) (1)
- 17: A Side-by-Side, Shot-by-Shot Comparison of Denis Villeneuve’s 2020 Dune and David Lynch’s 1984 Dune (10)
- 17: Good Movies as Old Books: 100 Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers (0)
- 17: A Short Introduction to Manga by Pretty Much Pop #60 with Professor Deborah Shamoon from the National University of Singapore (1)
- 16: Debbie Harry Demonstrates the Punk Pogo Dance for a U.S. Audience (1978) (5)
- 16: The Pentagon Created a Plan to Defend the US Against a Zombie Apocalypse: Read It Online (3)
- 16: Steal Like Wes Anderson: A New Video Essay Explores How Wes Anderson Pays Artful Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman & Other Directors in His Films (0)
- 16: In a Brilliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles–A Free Documentary (1)
- 15: David Byrne’s American Utopia: A Sneak Preview of Spike Lee’s New Concert Film (1)
- 15: The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh (2)
- 15: The Joy of Watching Old, Damaged Things Get Restored: Why the World is Captivated by Restoration Videos (1)
- 15: Explore Dozens of Drawings by Charles Darwin’s Creative Children (0)
- 14: David Lynch Tries to Make a List of the Good Things Happening in the World … and Comes Up Blank (10)
- 14: Monty Python’s Michael Palin Is Also an Art Critic: Watch Him Explore His Favorite Paintings by Andrew Wyeth & Other Artists (0)
- 14: Four Classic Prince Songs Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Covers: When Doves Cry, Little Red Corvette & More (0)
- 14: Behold the First Underwater Portrait in the History of Photography (Circa 1899) (0)
- 11: 19th-Century Japanese Woodblocks Illustrate the Lives of Western Inventors, Artists, and Scholars (1873) (1)
- 11: Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Studies of the Human Heart Were 500 Years Ahead of Their Time (1)
- 11: Sounds of the Forest: A Free Audio Archive Gathers the Sounds of Forests from All Over the World (3)
- 11: Watch Lime Kiln Club Field Day, One of the Earliest Surviving Feature Films with an All Black Cast (1913) (0)
- 11: Central Park Bird Watcher Christian Cooper Writes DC Comics Graphic Novel: It’s Now Free Online (2)
- 10: Drone Footage of San Francisco Set to the Music of Bladerunner 2049 (1)
- 10: Watch the First Trailer for Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s Adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Classic Sci-Fi Novel (1)
- 10: Watch Dan Aykroyd & Bill Murray Goof Off in a Newly Unearthed Ghostbusters Promotional Film (1984) (0)
- 09: Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)” (1)
- 09: In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own Cats (1)
- 09: Scorsese’s Taxi Driver Reimagined as the 1970s Sitcom, Taxi (0)
- 09: David Lynch’s Popular Surrealism Considered on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #59 (1)
- 08: The Fall of Civilizations Podcast Engagingly Explores the Collapse of Civilizations & Empires Throughout History (3)
- 08: How Charlie Parker Changed Jazz Forever (0)
- 08: IKEA Digitizes & Puts Online 70 Years of Its Catalogs: Explore the Designs of the Swedish Furniture Giant (5)
- 08: MIT Presents a Free Course on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Featuring Anthony Fauci & Other Experts (2)
- 07: A Medieval Metropolis Existed In What’s Now St. Louis, Then Mysteriously Disappeared in the 14th Century (10)
- 07: Paul Schrader Creates a Diagram Mapping the Progression of Arthouse Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Tarkovsky & Other Auteurs (0)
- 07: Watch an Epic Drum Battle, Pitting a 9-Year-Old Girl Against Foo Fighter Dave Grohl (3)
- 05: Google Introduces 6-Month Career Certificates, Threatening to Disrupt Higher Education with “the Equivalent of a Four-Year Degree” (65)
- 05: The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Hard Lessons of the 20th Century (10)
- 04: William Blake’s Paintings Come to Life in Two Animations (0)
- 04: J. Robert Oppenheimer Explains How He Recited a Line from Bhagavad Gita–“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”–Upon Witnessing the First Nuclear Explosion (0)
- 03: John Waters Designs a Witty Poster for the New York Film Festival (0)
- 03: David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds (0)
- 03: A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks–Covering 1,000 Years of Food History–Is Now Online (0)
- 03: A Short Introduction to Caravaggio, the Master Of Light (2)
- 02: Behold a Beautiful 400-Year-Old ‘Friendship Book’ Featuring the Signatures of Historic Figures (0)
- 02: Take Immersive Virtual Tours of the World’s Great Museums: The Louvre, Hermitage, Van Gogh Museum & Much More (0)
- 02: Bronze Age Britons Turned Bones of Dead Relatives into Musical Instruments & Ornaments (0)
- 01: Hear Patti Smith’s First Poetry Reading, Accompanied by Her Longtime Guitarist Lenny Kaye (St. Mark’s Church, 1971) (0)
- 01: How to Manage Your Time More Effectively: The Science of Applying Computer Algorithms to Our Everyday Lives (0)
- 01: Watch Home Movies Starring Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, Colette & Other Early 20th Century Luminaries (0)
- August 2020 (74)
- 31: Banksy Funds a Boat to Rescue Refugees at Sea–and Soon It Finds Itself in Distress in the Mediterranean (0)
- 31: Watch Bob Dylan Perform “Only A Pawn In Their Game,” His Damning Song About the Murder of Medgar Evers, at the 1963 March on Washington (1)
- 28: Composer John Philip Sousa Warns of the Threat Posed by Recorded Music (1906) (0)
- 28: A Beautiful 1897 Illustrated Book Shows How Flowers Become Art Nouveau Designs (0)
- 28: The Top 20 Russian Films, According to Russians (1)
- 27: What Did the Roman Emperors Look Like?: See Photorealistic Portraits Created with Machine Learning (10)
- 27: Billie Eilish Performs an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, with a Little Bit of Technology & Magic (0)
- 27: JamBase Launches a New Video Archive of 100,000 Streaming Concerts: Phish, Wilco, the Avett Brothers, Grateful Dead & Much More (0)
- 27: Conversation with a Swiftie: Pretty Much Pop #58 Addresses the Taylor Swift Phenomenon (1)
- 26: The Massive Harrods Catalogue from 1912 Gets Digitized: Before Amazon, Harrods Offered “Everything for Everyone, Everywhere” (0)
- 26: Take a Virtual Tour of Frida Kahlo’s Blue House Free Online (0)
- 26: Sylvia Beach Tells the Story of Founding Shakespeare and Company, Publishing Joyce’s Ulysses, Selling Copies of Hemingway’s First Book & More (1962) (1)
- 26: How Stevie Nicks Wrote “Rhiannon” & Embodied the Medieval Witch Character Onstage (2)
- 25: Documentaries on the Groundbreaking Work & Life of Ursula K. Le Guin & Four Other Trailblazing Artists, Streaming Free this Week (11)
- 25: Hear 10 of Bach’s Pieces Played on Original Baroque Instruments (0)
- 25: Hear Musicians Play the Only Playable Stradivarius Guitar in the World: The “Sabionari” (1)
- 25: A New Digital Archive Preserves Black Lives Matter & COVID-19 Street Art (0)
- 24: The Japanese Sculptor Who Dedicated His Life to Finishing Gaudí’s Magnum Opus, the Sagrada Família (0)
- 24: Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show That Stars Samuel Beckett (0)
- 24: Nina Simone Writes an Admiring Letter to Langston Hughes: “Brother, You’ve Got a Fan Now!” (1966) (0)
- 22: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: A Free Reading by Featuring Neil Gaiman, William Shatner, Susan Orlean & More (2)
- 21: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock & Other Jazz Musicians Sell Whisky & Spirits in Classic Japanese TV Commercials (1)
- 21: The Face of Bill Murray Adds Some Joy to Classic Paintings (0)
- 21: The British Museum is Full of Looted Artifacts (14)
- 20: There Are Only 37 Possible Stories, According to This 1919 Manual for Screenwriters (6)
- 20: The Story of “Wipe Out,” the Classic Surf Rock Instrumental (5)
- 20: Free Courses to Maintain Mental & Physical Health During a Pandemic (1)
- 19: Essential Reads on Feminism: The New York Public Library Creates a Reading List to Honor the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment (1)
- 19: Graphic Novels Tell the Story of David Bowie, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Jean-Michel Basquiat & Other Artists and Thinkers (3)
- 19: A New Interactive Map Shows All Four Million Buildings That Existed in New York City from 1939 to 1941 (0)
- 19: Back to the Arena: Battling the Hunger Games Prequel with Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#57) (0)
- 18: Vincent Van Gogh’s Self Portraits: Explore & Download a Collection of 17 Paintings Free Online (0)
- 18: A Record Store Designed for Mice in Sweden, Featuring Albums by Mouse Davis, Destiny’s Cheese, Dolly Parsley & More (4)
- 18: Every Possible Kind of Science Fiction Story: An Exhaustive List Created by Pioneering 1920s SciFi Writer Clare Winger Harris (1931) (4)
- 17: An Introduction to Postmodernist Thinkers & Themes: Watch Primers on Foucault, Nietzsche, Derrida, Deleuze & More (0)
- 17: 2020: An Isolation Odyssey–A Short Film Reenacts the Finale of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, with a COVID-19 Twist (2)
- 17: What Made Richard Feynman One of the Most Admired Educators in the World (4)
- 17: The Recipes of Famous Artists: Dinners & Cocktails From Tolstoy, Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch & Many More (1)
- 14: Gilda Radner Does a Comic Impersonation of Patti Smith: Watch the Classic SNL Skit, “Rock Against Yeast” (1979) (3)
- 14: When Salvador Dalí Met Alice Cooper & Turned Him into a Hologram: The Meeting of Two Kings of Camp (1973) (0)
- 14: Errol Morris Makes His Groundbreaking Series, First Person, Free to Watch Online: Binge Watch His Interviews with Geniuses, Eccentrics, Obsessives & Other Unusual Types (0)
- 13: Explore an Interactive, Online Version of the Beautifully Illustrated, 200-Year-Old British & Exotic Mineralogy (0)
- 13: One of the Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Explore the Gandhara Scroll (0)
- 13: The Flying Train: A 1902 Film Captures a Futuristic Ride on a Suspended Railway in Germany (4)
- 12: Milton Glaser’s Stylish Album Covers for The Band, Nina Simone, John Cage & Many More (1)
- 12: Ballerina Misty Copeland Recreates the Poses of Edgar Degas’ Ballet Dancers (1)
- 12: When Edward Gorey Designed Book Covers for Classic Novels: See His Ironic-Gothic Take on Dickens, Conrad, Poe & More (0)
- 12: What Is a “Blerd?” Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #56 Discusses Nerd Culture and Race with The Second City’s Anthony LeBlanc (0)
- 11: The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague (1)
- 11: How John Woo Makes His Intense Action Scenes: A Video Essay (0)
- 11: Dessert Recipes of Iconic Thinkers: Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake, George Orwell’s Christmas Pudding, Alice B. Toklas’ Hashish Fudge & More (0)
- 11: When We All Have Pocket Telephones (1923) (1)
- 10: The Wine Windows of Renaissance Florence Dispense Wine Safely Again During COVID-19 (0)
- 10: Classic Punk Rock Sketches from Saturday Night Live, Courtesy of Fred Armisen (1)
- 10: The Golden Age of Berlin Comes to Life in the Classic, Avant-Garde Film, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927) (0)
- 10: Winston Churchill Praises the Virtue of “Brevity” in Memos to His Staff: Concise Writing Leads to Clearer Thinking (0)
- 07: Divine Decks: A Visual History of Tarot: The First Comprehensive Survey of Tarot Gets Published by Taschen (2)
- 07: View 250,000 British Paintings & Sculptures Free Online (0)
- 07: Get the Ancient Roman Look: A Hair & Makeup Video Tutorial (0)
- 06: Professor Who Picked Every Election Winner Since Ronald Reagan Reveals His Prediction for the 2020 Election (32)
- 06: Roald Dahl Gives a Tour of the Small Backyard Hut Where He Wrote All of His Beloved Children’s Books (0)
- 06: A Physicist Examines the Scientific Accuracy of Physics Shown in Major Movies: Batman, Gravity, Contact, Interstellar, Star Trek & More (0)
- 06: Seriously Awesome Ukulele Covers of “Sultans of Swing,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Thunderstruck,” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (4)
- 06: Food As Pop with Prof. C. Thi Nguyen (Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #55) (1)
- 05: A Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 CE: Explore Stunning Recreations of The Forum, Colosseum and Other Monuments (2)
- 05: How Scholars Finally Deciphered Linear B, the Oldest Preserved Form of Ancient Greek Writing (0)
- 05: Istanbul Captured in Beautiful Color Images from 1890: The Hagia Sophia, Topkaki Palace’s Imperial Gate & More (0)
- 04: Explore the Ruins of Timgad, the “African Pompeii” Excavated from the Sands of Algeria (0)
- 04: The Iconic Album Covers of Hipgnosis: Meet “The Beatles of Album Cover Art” Who Created Unforgettable Designs for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel & Many More (0)
- 04: James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America & Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969) (0)
- 03: What Does the United States’ Coronavirus Response Look Like Abroad?: Watch the Rest of the World Stare Aghast at Our Handling of COVID-19 (1)
- 03: The Map of Quantum Physics: A Colorful Animation Explains the Often Misunderstood Branch of Science (2)
- 03: Revisit Scenes of Daily Life in Amsterdam in 1922, with Historic Footage Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (2)
- 03: Zamrock: An Introduction to Zambia’s 1970s Rich & Psychedelic Rock Scene (3)
- July 2020 (85)
- 31: Why “The Girl from Ipanema”‘ Is a Richer & Weirder Song Than You Ever Realized (26)
- 31: Take an 360° Interactive Tour Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza (1)
- 30: Watch Metropolis’ Cinematically Innovative Dance Scene, Restored as Fritz Lang Intended It to Be Seen (1927) (0)
- 30: The Story Behind the Iconic Black Power Salute Photo at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City (0)
- 30: Historic Mexican Recipes Are Now Available as Free Digital Cookbooks: Get Started With Dessert (49)
- 30: Rick and Morty as Absurdist Humor, Yet Legitimate Sci-Fi with Family Drama (Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #54) (0)
- 29: The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity (3)
- 29: Tony Hawk & Architectural Historian Iain Borden Tell the Story of How Skateboarding Found a New Use for Cities & Architecture (0)
- 29: New Digital Archive Opens Access to Thousands of Digitized African American Funeral Programs (1886-2019) (0)
- 28: Behold 19th-Century Japanese Firemen’s Coats, Richly Decorated with Mythical Heroes & Symbols (2)
- 28: Édith Piaf’s Moving Performance of ‘La Vie en Rose’ on French Television (1954) (0)
- 28: Comedians Speaking Truth to Power: Lenny Bruce, George Carlin & Richard Pryor (NSFW) (0)
- 27: Hear the Cristal Baschet, an Enchanting Organ Made of Wood, Metal & Glass, and Played with Wet Hands (1)
- 27: Hear the Sound Of Endangered Birds Get Turned Into Electronic Music (0)
- 27: Why Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green (RIP) Was the Most Underrated Guitarist in British Blues (6)
- 26: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Watch the Lectures Online (5)
- 24: Watch Manhatta, the First American Avant-Garde Film (1921) (0)
- 24: Watch the Last, Transcendent Performance of “Echoes” by Pink Floyd Keyboardist Richard Wright & David Gilmour (2006) (12)
- 24: Revisit Six of Elton John’s Most Iconic Concerts, Streaming in Their Entirety for 72 Hours (2)
- 23: W.E.B. Du Bois Devastates Apologists for Confederate Monuments and Robert E. Lee (1931) (8)
- 23: Raymond Chandler’s 36 Great Unused Titles: From “The Man With the Shredded Ear,” to “Quick, Hide the Body” (1)
- 23: How Ornette Coleman Freed Jazz with His Theory of Harmolodics (0)
- 23: Devo De-Evolves the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”: See Their Groundbreaking Music Video and Saturday Night Live Performance (1978) (0)
- 23: The Rolling Stones Release a Long Lost Track Featuring Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page (0)
- 23: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #53 Explores the Hamilton Phenomenon (0)
- 22: H.R. Giger’s Dark, Surrealist Album Covers: Debbie Harry, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Celtic Frost, Danzig & More (3)
- 22: The Moment When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 (4)
- 22: Lin-Manuel Miranda Breaks Down How He Wrote Hamilton‘s Big Hit, “My Shot” (0)
- 22: Artists Give Advice to the Young: Words of Wisdom from Andrei Tarkovsky, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, John Cleese & Many More (0)
- 21: When Astronomer Johannes Kepler Wrote the First Work of Science Fiction, The Dream (1609) (0)
- 21: How Vladimir Nabokov Wrote Lolita, “My Most Difficult Book”: A 1989 Documentary (1)
- 21: A Beatboxing Buddhist Monk Creates Music for Meditation (0)
- 20: Icons of Art Wearing Masks: Frida Kahlo, Mona Lisa, Girl with the Pearl Earring & More (0)
- 20: Dr. Fauci Reads an Undergrad’s Entire Thesis, Then Follows Up with an Encouraging Letter (8)
- 20: Dr. Wise on Influenza: Rare Silent Film Shows How They Tried to Educate the Public About the Spanish Flu a Century Ago (1919) (1)
- 19: 29 Free Short Stories from Some of Today’s Most Acclaimed Writers: Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell & More (0)
- 18: Modern English Performs Their 1982 Hit, “I Melt With You,” in Quarantine (19)
- 17: Everything You Need To Know About Viruses: A Quick Visual Explanation of Viruses in 9 Images (0)
- 17: Sunken Films: Watch a Cinematic Meditation on Films Found on the Ocean’s Floor (3)
- 17: You Can Play the New Samurai Video Game Ghost of Tsushima in “Kurosawa Mode:” An Homage to the Japanese Master (0)
- 16: Make Your Own Krispy Kreme Face Shield: A Primer for Making Your Own Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (0)
- 16: Hear an Enchanted Medieval Cover of Dolly Parton’s Classic Ode to Jealousy, “Jolene” (0)
- 16: Banksy Strikes Again in London & Urges Everyone to Wear Masks (0)
- 16: Michel Gondry Creates a Burger King Ad That Touts New Research on Reducing Cow Flatulence & Climate Change (2)
- 15: A Short Documentary on the Courageous Tuskegee Airmen, Narrated by Morgan Freeman (0)
- 15: What Happened When Americans Had to Wear Masks During the 1918 Flu Pandemic (14)
- 15: How Cannonball Adderley Shared the Joy of Jazz (1)
- 15: Explore Flowcharts That Japanese Aquariums Use to Document the Romantic Lives of Penguins (0)
- 15: Twilight Zone Morality Tales: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#52) (1)
- 14: Orson Welles Narrates Animations of Plato’s Cave and Kafka’s “Before the Law,” Two Parables of the Human Condition (1)
- 14: The Only Surviving Script Written by Shakespeare Is Now Online (0)
- 14: Nursing Home Residents Replace Famous Rock Stars on Iconic Album Covers (0)
- 13: Cambridge University Professor Cooks 4000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient Mesopotamia, and Lets You See How They Turned Out (3)
- 13: An Introduction to Hagia Sophia: After 85 Years as a Museum, It’s Set to Become a Mosque Again (3)
- 13: Emma Willard, the First Woman Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851) (0)
- 13: A Bear Shows Off Its Nunchuck Skills (0)
- 12: The Muppets Sing the First & Second Acts of Hamilton (3)
- 10: Bill Nye Shows How Face Masks Actually Protect You–and Why You Should Wear Them (9)
- 10: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Designed for Middle & High School Teachers (July 13 – 17) (31)
- 10: Bisa Butler’s Beautiful Quilted Portraits of Frederick Douglass, Nina Simone, Jean-Michel Basquiat & More (2)
- 09: An Introduction to Jean Baudrillard, Who Predicted the Simulation-Like Reality in Which We Live (3)
- 09: Watch the Famous James Baldwin-William F. Buckley Debate in Full, With Restored Audio (1965) (3)
- 09: Buddhist Monk Covers Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law,” Then Breaks Into Meditation (2)
- 09: Does Every Picture Tell a Story? A Conversation with Artist Joseph Watson for Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #51 (0)
- 08: Explore the Beautiful Pages of the 1902 Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai: European Modernism Meets Traditional Japanese Design (1)
- 08: A Chilling Time-Lapse Video Documents Every COVID-19 Death on a Global Map: From January to June 2020 (4)
- 08: Salvador Dalí Explains Why He Was a “Bad Painter” and Contributed “Nothing” to Art (1986) (1)
- 07: Ennio Morricone (RIP) and Sergio Leone Pose Together in Their Primary School Year Book, 1937 (0)
- 07: The Film Music of Ennio Morricone (RIP) Beautifully Performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra Play: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” & Much More (1)
- 07: Vintage Science Face Masks: Conquer the Pandemic with Science, Courtesy of Maria Popova’s BrainPickings (0)
- 07: The Ayn Rand Institute Takes a Loan from Paycheck Protection Program: Like Rand Herself, Her Followers Don’t Walk the Talk (9)
- 07: Ella Fitzgerald’s Lost Interview about Racism & Segregation: Recorded in 1963, It’s Never Been Heard Until Now (0)
- 06: Watch Vintage Footage of Tokyo, Circa 1910, Get Brought to Life with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 06: Did the CIA Write the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change,” One of the Bestselling Songs of All Time? (3)
- 06: Thomas Jefferson’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandson Poses for a Presidential Portrait (5)
- 03: Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks’ Timeless Comedy Sketch: The 2000-Year-Old-Man (0)
- 03: 16th Century Bookwheels, the E-Readers of the Renaissance, Get Brought to Life by 21st Century Designers (0)
- 03: When Debbie Harry Combined Artistic Forces with H.R. Giger (0)
- 02: An Animated Introduction to the Pioneering Anthropologist Margaret Mead (0)
- 02: An Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Groundbreaking Linguistic Theories (3)
- 02: John Prine’s Last Song Was Also His First to Go No. 1: Watch Him Perform “I Remember Everything” (5)
- 02: Michael Jordan’s “The Last Dance” and Hero Worship: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#50) (0)
- 01: How Ornette Coleman Shaped the Jazz World: An Introduction to His Irreverent Sound (2)
- 01: A 1947 French Film Accurately Predicted Our 21st-Century Addiction to Smartphones (0)
- 01: How Two Teenage Dutch Sisters Ended Up Joining the Resistance and Assassinating Nazis During World War II (4)
- June 2020 (84)
- 30: When the Beatles Refused to Play Before Segregated Audiences on Their First U.S. Tour (1964) (2)
- 30: An Immaculate Copy of Leonardo’s The Last Supper Digitized by Google: View It in High Resolution Online (3)
- 30: Rewatch Every Episode of The Sopranos with the Talking Sopranos Podcast, Hosted by Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa (0)
- 29: The Beastie Boys & Rick Rubin Reunite and Revisit Their Formative Time Together in 1980s NYC (0)
- 29: Milton Glaser (RIP) Explains Why We Must Overcome the Fear of Failure, Take Risks & Discover Our True Potential (0)
- 29: Behold Octavia Butler’s Motivational Notes to Self (3)
- 28: Milton Glaser (RIP) Presents 10 Rules for Life & Work: Wisdom from the Celebrated Designer (0)
- 26: Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Now Digitized and Free to View Online (6)
- 26: Saxophonist Plays into Large Gas Pipes & Then Uses the Echo to Accompany Himself (0)
- 26: Nile Rodgers Tells the Story of How He Turned David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” from Folk to New Wave Funk (3)
- 25: Get a First Glimpse of Foundation, the New TV Series Being Adapted from Isaac Asimov’s Iconic Series of Novels (6)
- 25: Hear Brian Eno’s Rarely-Heard Cover of the Johnny Cash Classic, “Ring of Fire” (3)
- 25: Hear the Voices of Americans Born in Slavery: The Library of Congress Features 23 Audio Interviews with Formerly Enslaved People (1932-75) (5)
- 25: The End of an Era: A Short Film About The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at The New York Times (1978) (2)
- 24: How Georgia O’Keeffe Became Georgia O’Keeffe: An Animated Video Tells the Story (1)
- 24: Martin Amis Explains His Method for Writing Great Sentences (1)
- 24: Neil Armstrong Sets Straight an Internet Truther Who Accused Him of Faking the Moon Landing (2000) (4)
- 24: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #49 Considers Conspiracy Theories as Pop (0)
- 23: The World According to Le Corbusier: An Animated Introduction to the Most Modern of All Architects (0)
- 23: Watch Hundreds of Free Films from Around the World: Explore Film Archives from Japan, France, and the U.S. (0)
- 23: John Trumbull’s Famous 1818 Painting Declaration of Independence Virtually Defaced to Show Which Founding Fathers Owned Slaves (11)
- 22: Miles Davis is Attacked, Beaten & Arrested by the NYPD Outside Birdland, Eight Days After the Release of Kind of Blue (1959) (1)
- 22: Exquisite 2300-Year-Old Scythian Woman’s Boot Preserved in the Frozen Ground of the Altai Mountains (30)
- 22: Barcelona Opera Re-Opens with a Performance for 2,300 Potted Plants: Watch It Online (0)
- 22: In 1968, a Teenager Convinced Thelonious Monk to Play a Gig at His High School to Promote Racial Unity; Now the Concert Recording Is Getting Released (3)
- 22: How One Simple Cut Reveals the Cinematic Genius of Yasujirō Ozu (0)
- 19: Rick Astley Sings an Unexpectedly Enchanting Cover of the Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” (1)
- 19: Construct Your Own Bayeux Tapestry with This Free Online App (3)
- 19: How Fast Can a Vaccine Be Made?: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 19: Why This Font Is Everywhere: How Cooper Black Became Pop Culture’s Favorite Font (1)
- 18: Take Free Online Courses on African-American History from Yale and Stanford: From Emancipation, to the Civil Rights Movement, and Beyond (69)
- 18: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris Shot by Shot: A 22-Minute Breakdown of the Director’s Filmmaking (1)
- 18: The Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” Played By Musicians Around the World (with Cameos by David Crosby, Jimmy Buffett & Bill Kreutzmann) (9)
- 17: Artificial Intelligence Brings to Life Figures from 7 Famous Paintings: The Mona Lisa, Birth of Venus & More (5)
- 17: Tom Jones Performs “Long Time Gone” with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young–and Blows the Band & Audience Away (1969) (5)
- 17: John Cleese’s Comedically Explains the Psychological Advantages of Extremism: “It Makes You Feel Good Because It Provides You with Enemies” (2)
- 17: When Punk & Reggae Fans Launched the “Rock Against Racism” Movement and Pushed Back Against Britain’s Racist Right (1976) (2)
- 17: Can Reality TV Save the Fine Arts? Body Painter Robin Slonina (Skin Wars) on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #47 (0)
- 16: When John Maynard Keynes Predicted a 15-Hour Workweek “in a Hundred Year’s Time” (1930) (0)
- 16: A Collection of 500 Free Textbooks from Springer (6)
- 16: The Bird Library: A Library Built Especially for Our Fine Feathered Friends (0)
- 15: Listen to Medieval Covers of “Creep,” “Pumped Up Kicks,” “Bad Romance” & More by Hildegard von Blingin’ (7)
- 15: An Introduction to Thought Forms, the Pioneering 1905 Theosophist Book That Inspired Abstract Art: It Has Returned to Print (1)
- 15: Take a Virtual Drive through London, Tokyo, Los Angeles & 45 Other World Cities (0)
- 12: Hear Enchanting Mixes of Japanese Pop, Jazz, Funk, Disco, Soul, and R&B from the 70s and 80s (0)
- 12: After MLK’s Assassination, a Schoolteacher Conducted a Famous Experiment–“Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes”–to Teach Kids About Discrimination (6)
- 12: Revisiting The Wire During 2020’s Black Lives Matter Movement (1)
- 12: Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self: A Dark, Comedic Reflection on the Last Few Months (0)
- 11: Tom Morello Responds to Angry Fans Who Suddenly Realize That Rage Against the Machine’s Music Is Political: “What Music of Mine DIDN’T Contain Political BS?” (26)
- 11: A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph (3)
- 11: Why James Baldwin’s Writing Stays Powerful: An Artfully Animated Introduction to the Author of Notes of a Native Son (1)
- 10: David Lynch Posts His Nightmarish Sitcom Rabbits Online–the Show That Psychologists Use to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects (1)
- 10: Daniel Radcliffe Writes a Thoughtful Response to J.K. Rowling’s Statements about Trans Women (24)
- 10: Is This the Most Accurate Fan Cover of the Beatles Ever? Hear a Faithful Recreation of the Abbey Road Medley (4)
- 10: Are There Limits for a Sitcom Premise? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#47) Discussion and Quiz (0)
- 09: Al Jaffee, Iconic Mad Magazine Cartoonist, Retires at Age 99 … and Leaves Behind Advice About Living the Creative Life (1)
- 09: How the “First Photojournalist,” Mathew Brady, Shocked the Nation with Photos from the Civil War (1)
- 09: Imagining the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate That Never Happened (0)
- 08: An Anti-Racist Reading List: 20 Books Recommended by Open Culture Readers (5)
- 08: Watch a Mesmerizing Stream of Unwatched YouTube Videos: Astronaut.io Lets You Discover the Hidden Dimensions of the World’s Largest Video Platform (0)
- 08: David Lynch Recounts His Surreal Dream of Being a German Solider Dying on D-Day (0)
- 08: Sir Isaac Newton’s Cure for the Plague: Powdered Toad Vomit Lozenges (1669) (0)
- 07: Noam Chomsky Explains the Best Way for Ordinary People to Make Change in the World, Even When It Seems Daunting (1)
- 06: Ava DuVernay’s Selma Is Now Free to Stream Online: Watch the Award-Winning Director’s Film About Martin Luther King’s 1965 Voting-Rights March (0)
- 05: Watch Ava DuVernay’s 13th Free Online: An Award-Winning Documentary Revealing the Inequalities in the US Criminal Justice System (1)
- 05: Documentary Portraits of Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, William Carlos Williams, Anne Sexton & Other American Poets (1965) (1)
- 05: Watch Free Films by African American Filmmakers in the Criterion Collection … and the New Civil Rights Film, Just Mercy (0)
- 05: When Lucy Lawless Impersonated Stevie Nicks & Imagined Her as the Owner of a Bad Tex-Mex Restaurant: A Cult Classic SNL Skit (6)
- 04: How Jazz Helped Fuel the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (6)
- 04: How David Chase Breathed Life into the The Sopranos (0)
- 04: The History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, “The Deadliest Epidemic of All Time”: Three Free Lectures from The Great Courses (0)
- 04: An Introduction to the Sublime, Entrepreneurial Art of Christo & Jeanne-Claude (Courtesy of Alain de Botton’s School of Life) (0)
- 03: Watch Martin Scorsese’s Brand New Short Film, Made Entirely in His Office Under Quarantine (0)
- 03: Spike Lee Debuts the Short Film “3 Brothers”: A Remake of Do the Right Thing for Our Dark Times (6)
- 03: Why Should We Read Melville’s Moby-Dick? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case (2)
- 03: What Is a “Casual Game?” Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #46 Talks to Nick Fortugno, Creator of “Diner Dash” (0)
- 02: When Al Capone Opened a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression: Another Side of the Legendary Mobster’s Operation (0)
- 02: Gil Scott-Heron Spells Out Why “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (5)
- 02: When Afrobeat Legend Fela Kuti Collaborated with Cream Drummer Ginger Baker (0)
- 01: The History of the Batmobile: A Free Documentary (0)
- 01: Saul Alinsky’s 13 Tried-and-True Rules for Creating Meaningful Social Change (2)
- 01: What Makes a Cover Song Great?: Our Favorites & Yours (8)
- 01: Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy (1)
- 01: How the Visionary Artist Christo (RIP) Changed the Way We See the World (1)
- May 2020 (78)
- 31: The Best Campaign Slogan of 2020 (So Far)
- 31: Led Zeppelin’s 2007 Reunion Concert Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 29: An Analysis of Quentin Tarantino’s Films Narrated (Mostly) by Quentin Tarantino (0)
- 29: An Emotional Journey into the Heart of August Sander’s Iconic Photograph, “Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance” (1)
- 29: This Is What The Matrix Looks Like Without CGI: A Special Effects Breakdown (0)
- 28: 50 Songs from a Single Year, Mixed Together Into One 3-Minute Song (1979-89) (0)
- 28: How Humphrey Bogart Became an Icon: A Video Essay (1)
- 28: Albert Einstein Explains Why We Need to Read the Classics (0)
- 28: Is It Rude to Talk Over a Film? MST3K’s Mary Jo Pehl on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #45 (0)
- 27: The Expansive Vocal Range of Joni Mitchell: From the Early to Later Years (3)
- 27: J.K. Rowling Is Publishing Her New Children’s Novel Free Online, One Chapter Per Day (14)
- 27: This Is What an 1869 MIT Entrance Exam Looks Like: Could You Have Passed the Test? (0)
- 26: The 135 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind: An Introduction to Our New List (8)
- 26: Clare Torry’s Rare Live Performances of “Great Gig in the Sky” with Pink Floyd (5)
- 26: A Nearly Impossible Sudoku Puzzle Solved in a Mesmerizing 25-Minute Video (3)
- 25: This Huge Crashing Wave in a Seoul Aquarium Is Actually a Gigantic Optical Illusion (0)
- 25: Stream 15 Audio Drama Podcasts & Get Through COVID-19: Features Rami Malek, Catherine Keener, Tim Robbins & More (1)
- 25: Iggy Pop, David Byrne, and More Come Together with Bedtime Stories (For Grownups) (0)
- 22: Watch Joni Mitchell Sing an Immaculate Version of Her Song “Coyote,” with Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn & Gordon Lightfoot (1975) (22)
- 22: Bill Gates Recommends 5 Thought-Provoking Books to Read This Summer (3)
- 22: The Evocativeness of Decomposing Film: Watch the 1926 Hollywood Movie The Bells Become the Experimental 2004 Short Film, Light Is Calling (1)
- 22: How “Strawberry Fields Forever” Contains “the Craziest Edit” in Beatles History (5)
- 22: Studio Ghibli Producer Toshio Suzuki Teaches You How to Draw Totoro in Two Minutes (0)
- 21: Watch 36 Beastie Boys Videos Now Remastered in HD (0)
- 21: David Lynch Releases an Animated Film Online: Watch Fire (Pozar) (1)
- 21: A Soul Train-Style Detroit Dance Show Gets Down to Kraftwerk’s “Numbers” in the Late 80s (1)
- 20: The Original Star Wars Trilogy Adapted into a 14-Hour Radio Drama by NPR (1981-1996) (7)
- 20: “Prince and the Revolution: Live,” the Historic 1985 Concert Is Streaming Online (0)
- 20: Robert Fripp & King Crimson Perform a Stirring Cover of “Heroes,” Shortly after David Bowie’s Death (2016) (1)
- 20: Does Local News Deserve More of Your Attention? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #44 w/ Deion Broxton of Bison Meme Fame (0)
- 19: 1930s Phonograph Doubled as an Alarm Clock, Letting People Start Their Day with Their Favorite Record (1)
- 19: Haruki Murakami Will Host a Radio Show & Help Listeners “Blow Away Some of the Corona-Related Blues” (0)
- 19: Write Only 500 Words Per Day and Publish 50+ Books: Graham Greene’s Writing Method (2)
- 18: Nikola Tesla’s Grades from High School & University: A Fascinating Glimpse (0)
- 18: DEVO Is Now Selling COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Energy Dome Face Shields (3)
- 18: An Archive of 1,000 “Peel Sessions” Available Online: Hear David Bowie, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello & Others Play in the Studio of Legendary BBC DJ John Peel (1)
- 17: Roger Waters Performs a Socially-Distanced Version of Pink Floyd’s “Mother” (3)
- 15: Japanese Health Manual Created During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Offers Timeless Wisdom: Stay Away from Others, Cover Your Mouth & Nose, and More (2)
- 15: Breathtakingly-Detailed Tibetan Book Printed 40 Years Before the Gutenberg Bible (5)
- 15: John Mayer Teaches Guitarists How to Play the Blues in a 45-Minute Masterclass (5)
- 14: The Largest & Most Detailed Photograph of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Is Now Online: Zoom In & See Every Brush Stroke (1)
- 14: The Shakespeare and Company Project Digitizes the Records of the Famous Bookstore, Showing the Reading Habits of the Lost Generation (2)
- 14: Hyperland: The “Fantasy Documentary” in Which Douglas Adams and Doctor Who‘s Tom Baker Imagine the World Wide Web (1990) (2)
- 13: David Lynch Creates Daily Weather Reports for Los Angeles: How the Filmmaker Passes Time in Quarantine (0)
- 13: Nina Simone Song “Color Is a Beautiful Thing” Animated in a Gorgeous Video (0)
- 13: William Blake Illustrates Mary Wollstonecraft’s Work of Children’s Literature, Original Stories from Real Life (1791) (1)
- 13: Decoding Korean Cinema: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (ep. 43) (0)
- 12: 16 Ways the World Is Getting Remarkably Better: Visuals by Statistician Hans Rosling (2)
- 12: Radiohead’s “Spectre” Played Against the Title Sequence of the 2015 James Bond Film, Spectre (4)
- 12: How Music Unites Us All: Herbie Hancock & Kamasi Washington in Conversation (0)
- 11: Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards, Cookbook & Wine Guide Re-Issued as Beautiful Art Books (5)
- 11: Little Richard Burst Into the “Then-Macho World of Rock” and “Changed it Forever” (0)
- 11: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in the Time of COVID-19 (3)
- 11: Take a Virtual Tour of the Mütter Museum and Its Many Anatomically Peculiar Exhibits (1)
- 08: Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity–Take a Free & Timely Course Online (1)
- 08: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Share One Free” Deal (Until the End of the Weekend) (1)
- 08: Robert Fripp Releases Free Ambient Music to Get You Through the Lockdown: Enjoy “Music for Quiet Moments” (2)
- 08: A Virtual Tour Inside the Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Museum (0)
- 08: Download Free Doctor Who Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings (Plus Many Other BBC TV Shows) (0)
- 07: The Earliest Known Motion Picture, 1888’s Roundhay Garden Scene, Restored with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 07: Watch Florian Schneider (RIP) in Classic Early Kraftwerk Performances (2)
- 07: Patti Smith’s Self Portraits: Another Side of the Prolific Artist (0)
- 07: Star Trek: World-Building Over Generations—Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #42 (0)
- 06: Juilliard Students & the New York Philharmonic Perform Ravel’s Bolero While Social Distancing in Quarantine (1)
- 06: 3D Interactive Globes Now Online: Spin Through an Archive of Globes from the 17th and 18th Century (0)
- 06: Drive-In Concerts and Even Raves Are Becoming the Rage in Europe (0)
- 05: ‘Never Be Afraid’: William Faulkner’s Speech to His Daughter’s Graduating Class in 1951 (6)
- 05: Quarantined Family Re-Creates Journey’s “Separate Ways” Video Shot-by-Shot (4)
- 05: Take Hannah Arendt’s Final Exam for Her 1961 Course “On Revolution” (1)
- 05: Watch a Screen Test of 21-Year-Old Orson Welles (1937) (0)
- 04: Peruvian Singer & Rapper, Renata Flores, Helps Preserve Quechua with Viral Hits on YouTube (0)
- 04: Watch Jean-Luc Godard’s Filmmaking Masterclass on Instagram (0)
- 04: The Art of the New Deal: Why the Federal Government Funded the Arts During the Great Depression (0)
- 04: Take a Virtual Tour of the World’s Only Sourdough Library (0)
- 01: The Doobie Brothers Sing Their 1974 Classic, “Black Water,” Live, in Isolation (19)
- 01: The Stay At Home Museum: Your Private, Guided Tours of Rubens, Bruegel & Other Flemish Masters (1)
- 01: 500+ Beautiful Manuscripts from the Islamic World Now Digitized & Free to Download (2)
- 01: The Library of Congress Makes Its Archives Free for DJs to Remix: Introducing the “Citizen DJ” Project (2)
- April 2020 (86)
- 30: The British Museum Puts 1.9 Million Works of Art Online (5)
- 30: Bertrand Russell Remembers His Face-to-Face Encounter with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (3)
- 30: A Michigan Family Makes Everyone Passing Their House Do Monty Python Silly Walks, and Then Puts Recordings on Instagram (2)
- 30: Soundtrack Composer Craig Wedren (Zoey’s Playlist, Glow, Shrill) Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #41 on TV Musicals (0)
- 29: When David Bowie Launched His Own Internet Service Provider: The Rise and Fall of BowieNet (1998) (1)
- 29: Scenes of Ezra Pound Wandering Through Venice and Reading from His Famous Pisan Cantos (1967) (0)
- 29: An Unbelievably Detailed, Hand-Drawn Map Lets You Explore the Rich Collections of the Met Museum (1)
- 29: Metallica Is Putting Free Concerts Online: 6 Now Streaming, with More to Come (0)
- 28: Radiohead Covers The Smiths & New Order (2007) (2)
- 28: When IBM Created a Typewriter to Record Dance Movements (1973) (0)
- 28: Watch Free Plays from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & More (1)
- 28: Watch Picasso Create a Masterpiece in Just Five Minutes (1955) (2)
- 27: Hear Classic Rock Songs Played on a Baroque Lute: “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “White Room” & More (1)
- 27: Watch 12 Classic Chinese Films Online, Complete with English Subtitles (1920s-1940s) (1)
- 26: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Launch a 24/7 Livestream on YouTube, Featuring Rare Footage from the Band’s Archives (1)
- 24: New Hilma af Klint Documentary Explores the Life & Art of the Trailblazing Abstract Artist (1)
- 24: The Rolling Stones Release a Timely Track, “Living in a Ghost Town”: Their First New Music in Eight Years (2)
- 24: Experience New York City’s Fabled Mid-Century Nightclubs in an Interactive, COVID-19-Era, Student-Designed Exhibit (1)
- 24: Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii Streaming Free on YouTube Today Only (3)
- 23: Albert Einstein’s Grades: A Fascinating Look at His Report Cards (3)
- 23: How to Find Emotional Strength & Resilience During COVID-19: Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Jack Kornfield, Susan David & Other Experts (5)
- 23: David Hockney on Vincent van Gogh & the Importance of Knowing How to Truly See the World (0)
- 23: Benedict Cumberbatch, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry & Others Read Letters of Hope, Love & Support During COVID-19 (2)
- 22: Vintage Book & Record Covers Brought to Life in a Mesmerizing Animated Video (1)
- 22: Japanese Designer Creates Free Template for an Anti-Virus Face Shield: Download, and Then Use a Printer, Paper & Scissors (1)
- 22: 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More (1)
- 22: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #40 on #MeToo Depictions in TV and Film (1)
- 21: Take a Virtual Tour of the Andy Warhol Exhibition at the Tate Modern (0)
- 21: Watch 270+ Short Documentaries of Artists at Work, and Let Them Inspire Your Creative Process (0)
- 21: Museum Curators Create a Contest to See Who Has the Creepiest Object: Ancient Body Parts, Cursed Toys, and More (1)
- 21: Mark Knopfler Plays a Poignant, Overdriven Version of “The Last Post,” Remembering the Many Lives Lost in World War I (2)
- 20: Pink Floyd Streaming Free Classic Concert Films, Starting with 1994’s Pulse, the First Live Performance of Dark Side of the Moon in Full (2)
- 20: Netflix Makes Documentaries Free to Stream: Design, Politics, Sports, Sir David Attenborough & More (0)
- 20: Quarantine Cooking: 13 Professional Chefs Cook Pasta at Home with the Most Basic Ingredients Available (0)
- 20: Banksy Debuts His COVID-19 Art Project: Good to See That He Has TP at Home (0)
- 18: Watch the Rolling Stones Play “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” While Social Distancing in Quarantine (31)
- 18: Neil Finn Sings a Lovely Version of David Bowie’s “Heroes,” Live from Home (5)
- 17: Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Releases Free Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away & More (6)
- 17: Watch Samuel Beckett Walk the Streets of Berlin Like a Boss, 1969 (0)
- 17: How to Paint Water Lilies Like Monet in 14 Minutes (0)
- 16: Experience the Van Gogh Museum in 4K Resolution: A Video Tour in Seven Parts (2)
- 16: See Web Cams of Surreally Empty City Streets in Venice, New York, London & Beyond (1)
- 16: Take a Long Virtual Tour of the Louvre in Three High-Definition Videos (2)
- 15: Louis Armstrong Remembers How He Survived the 1918 Flu Epidemic in New Orleans (2)
- 15: A Playlist of Songs to Get You Through Hard Times: Stream 20 Tracks from the Alan Lomax Collection (0)
- 15: A Vintage Advertising Film Intelligently Satirizes the Selling of the American Dream: Watch The Your Name Here Story (1960) (0)
- 14: Rare Grooves on Vinyl from Around the World: Hear Curated Playlists of Arabic, Brazilian, Bollywood, Soviet & Turkish Music (0)
- 14: Why is Vermeer’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring” Considered a Masterpiece?: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 14: Free Books About Pandemic & Contagion from Duke University Press (3)
- 13: 12 Famous Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Offer Virtual Tours: Hollyhock House, Taliesin West, Fallingwater & More (0)
- 13: Watch Full Productions of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musicals, Streaming Free for 48 Hours Every Weekend (0)
- 13: Radiohead Will Stream Concerts Free Online Until the Pandemic Comes to an End (1)
- 13: Japanese Buddhist Monk Covers Ramones’ “Teenage Lobotomy,” “Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” & More (1)
- 12: Stream Andrea Bocelli’s Easter Concert from Milan (2)
- 12: Nikon Offers Free Online Photography Courses in April (2)
- 10: A 30-Minute Introduction to Japanese Jazz from the 1970s: Like Japanese Whisky, It’s Underrated, But Very High Quality (6)
- 10: Coursera Makes Courses & Certificates Free During Coronavirus Quarantine: Take Courses in Psychology, Music, Wellness, Professional Development & More Online (5)
- 10: An Art Gallery for Gerbils: Two Quarantined Londoners Create a Mini Museum Complete with Gerbil-Themed Art (1)
- 09: Musicians Around the World Play “Lean on Me,” the Uplifting Song by Bill Withers (RIP) (5)
- 09: 365 Free Movies Streaming on YouTube (9)
- 08: How Can Boccaccio’s 14th Century Decameron Help Us Live Through COVID-19? (1)
- 08: A Free Shakespeare Coloring Book: While Away the Hours Coloring in Illustrations of 35 Classic Plays (2)
- 08: Remembering American Songwriting Legend John Prine (RIP): “A True Folk Singer in the Best Folk Tradition” (0)
- 08: One of the Earliest Known Uses of the “F-word” Discovered: It Appears in a 1568 Anthology Compiled During a Plague (5)
- 08: The Power of Costuming in Film: Pretty Much Pop #38 with Whitney Anne Adams (Happy Death Day, Great Gatsby) (0)
- 07: Bill Murray Explains How He Was Saved by John Prine (3)
- 07: Dyson Creates 44 Free Engineering & Science Challenges for Kids Quarantined During COVID-19 (8)
- 07: Meet Notorious Art Forger Han Van Meegeren, Who Fooled the Nazis with His Counterfeit Vermeers (0)
- 07: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animated Short “Hair Love” (1)
- 07: A 1665 Advertisement Promises a “Famous and Effectual” Cure for the Great Plague (2)
- 07: Classic Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers During Our Troubled Times: “Under Pressure,” “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” “Shelter from the Storm” & More (0)
- 06: What is Albert Camus’ The Plague About? An Introduction (0)
- 06: Ingenious Improvised Recreations of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Using Materials Found Around the House (1)
- 06: “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” Michael Stipe Proclaims Again, and He Still Feels Fine (1)
- 06: Customize Your Zoom Virtual Background with Free Works of Art (1)
- 03: HBO Is Streaming 500 Hours of Shows for Free: The Sopranos, The Wire, and More (12)
- 03: Join Choir! Choir! Choir! for a Community Singalong in Isolation (0)
- 03: Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Turns 50: Celebrate the Funk-Jazz-Psych-Rock Masterpiece (0)
- 02: Pandemic Literature: A Meta-List of the Books You Should Read in Coronavirus Quarantine (10)
- 02: Dolly Parton Will Read Bedtime Stories to You Every Week (0)
- 02: This is What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (1)
- 02: Why Did LEGO Become a Media Empire? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #37 (0)
- 01: Samuel L. Jackson Reads “Stay the F**k at Home” (0)
- 01: Watch Online 75 Short Films from 2020’s South by Southwest Festival (1)
- 01: Pachelbel’s Canon Played by Train Horns (0)
- 01: Simulating an Epidemic: Using Data to Show How Diseases Like COVID-19 Spread (0)
- March 2020 (89)
- 31: The Band’s Classic Song, “The Weight,” Sung by Musicians Around the World: With Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr & Other Special Guests (7)
- 31: Explore the Entire World–from the Comfort of Quarantine–with 4K Walking Tours (2)
- 31: Download Classic Works of Plague Fiction: From Daniel Defoe & Mary Shelley, to Edgar Allan Poe (2)
- 31: Take a 3D Tour Through Ancient Giza, Including the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx & More (4)
- 30: The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran (4)
- 30: Bob Dylan Releases a Cryptic 17-Minute Song about the JFK Assassination: Hear a “Murder Most Foul” (1)
- 30: What the Iconic Painting, “The Two Fridas,” Actually Tells Us About Frida Kahlo (0)
- 30: The Cork-Lined Bedroom & Writing Room of Marcel Proust, the Original Master of Social Distancing (1)
- 29: Watch 3,000+ Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada (0)
- 27: The National Emergency Library Makes 1.5 Million Books Free to Read Right Now (10)
- 27: Spring Break vs. COVID-19: Mapping the Real Impact of Ignoring Social Distancing (15)
- 27: Watch a Sweet Film Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Story, “Long Walk to Forever” (0)
- 26: Nine Inch Nails Releases 2 Free Albums: They’re Now Ready to Download (0)
- 26: Patrick Stewart Is Reading Every Shakespeare Sonnet on Instagram: One a Day “to Keep the Doctor Away” (4)
- 26: How to Teach and Learn Philosophy During the Pandemic: A Collection of 450+ Philosophy Videos Free Online (4)
- 26: Stream All 18 Hours of Ken Burns’ Baseball for Free on What Would Have Been Opening Day (1)
- 26: What’s the Function of Criticism? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #36 with Critic Noah Berlatsky (0)
- 25: Free: Austin City Limits Opens Up Video Archives During COVID-19 Pandemic (0)
- 25: Take a Virtual Tour of the Paris Catacombs (0)
- 25: What Happened to U.S. Cities That Practiced–and Didn’t Practice–Social Distancing During 1918’s “Spanish Flu” (0)
- 25: Watch Curated Playlists of Experimental Videos & Films to Get You Through COVID-19: Miranda July, Jan Švankmajer, Guy Maddin & More (0)
- 25: Meet the World’s First Known Author: Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (2)
- 24: The “Feynman Technique” for Studying Effectively: An Animated Primer (0)
- 24: Japanese Artist Has Drawn Every Meal He’s Eaten for 32 Years: Behold the Delicious Illustrations of Itsuo Kobayashi (3)
- 24: Watch “Coronavirus Outbreak: What You Need to Know,” and the 24-Lecture Course “An Introduction to Infectious Diseases,” Both Free from The Great Courses (0)
- 23: Digital Archives Give You Free Access to Thousands of Historical Children’s Books (0)
- 23: Free Online Drawing Lessons for Kids, Led by Favorite Artists & Illustrators (37)
- 23: When Orson Welles Crossed Paths With Hitler (and Churchill): “He Had No Personality…. I Think There Was Nothing There.” (4)
- 21: Take a Virtual Tour of 30 World-Class Museums & Safely Visit 2 Million Works of Fine Art (2)
- 21: Dead & Company Announces Couch Tour, Letting You Stream Free Concerts at Home (1)
- 20: Soothing, Uplifting Resources for Parents & Caregivers Stressed by the COVID-19 Crisis (2)
- 20: A Short, Animated Film Shows How a Scientific Article Gets Published: “Excitement, Baby Steps and Reams of Rejections” (0)
- 20: How a Virus Spreads, and How to Avoid It: A Former NASA Engineer Demonstrates with a Blacklight in a Classroom (2)
- 20: Watch AI-Restored Film of Laborers Going Through Life in Victorian England (1901) (0)
- 19: Audible Providing Free Audio Books to Kids & Teens: Introducing the New Service, Audible Stories (0)
- 19: Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks: The 2020 Edition (0)
- 19: The Books We Can Use to Rebuild Civilization, Selected by Neal Stephenson, Brian Eno, Tim O’Reilly & More (5)
- 19: 6 Minute Reprieve From the World’s Troubles, Courtesy of Tilda Swinton, Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Five Springer Spaniels (1)
- 19: Linked Jazz: A Huge Data Visualization Maps the Relationships Between Countless Jazz Musicians & Restores Forgotten Women to Jazz History (0)
- 18: Bruce Springsteen Releases Live Concert Film Online: Watch “London Calling: Live In Hyde Park” and Practice Self Distancing (0)
- 18: “I Will Survive,” the Coronavirus Version for Teachers Going Online (7)
- 18: Live Performers Now Streaming Shows, from their Homes to Yours: Neil Young, Coldplay, Broadway Stars, Metropolitan Operas & More (0)
- 18: David Bowie’s Rise as Ziggy Stardust Documented in a New 300-Page Photo Book (1)
- 18: Are Video Games an Effective Vehicle for Storytelling? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #35 Featuring Don Marshall (0)
- 17: Why Fighting the Coronavirus Depends on You (0)
- 17: While Away the Hours with a Free H.P. Lovecraft Call of Cthulhu Coloring Book (0)
- 17: The Met Opera Streaming Free Operas Online to Get You Through COVID-19 (7)
- 17: Isaac Newton Conceived of His Most Groundbreaking Ideas During the Great Plague of 1665 (0)
- 17: A 5-Hour, One-Take Cinematic Tour of Russia’s Hermitage Museum, Shot Entirely on an iPhone (2)
- 16: Use Your Time in Isolation to Learn Everything You’ve Always Wanted To: Free Online Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Coloring Books & More (14)
- 16: How Patti Smith “Saved” Rock and Roll: A New Video Makes the Case (8)
- 16: Italians’ Nightly Singalongs Prove That Music Soothes the Savage Beast of Coronavirus Quarantine & Self-Isolation (0)
- 15: Quarantined Italians Send a Message to Themselves 10 Days Ago: What They Wish They Knew Then (76)
- 13: Zoom Providing K-12 Schools Free Access to Videoconferencing Tools During COVID-19 Crisis: They’ll Power Your Online Courses (5)
- 13: Why You Should Read The Plague, the Albert Camus Novel the Coronavirus Has Made a Bestseller Again (2)
- 13: 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 (3)
- 12: Coursera Providing Free Access to Its Course Catalog to Universities Impacted by COVID-19 (0)
- 12: Spanish Flu: A Warning from History (2)
- 12: The Meaning of Life According to Simone de Beauvoir (0)
- 12: The History of the Plague: Every Major Epidemic in an Animated Map (3)
- 12: How Schools Can Start Teaching Online in a Short Period of Time: Free Tutorials from the Stanford Online High School (3)
- 11: Bill Gates Describes His Biggest Fear: “I Rate the Chance of a Widespread Epidemic Far Worse Than Ebola at Well Over 50 Percent” (2015) (5)
- 11: Take a Drive Through 1940s, 50s & 60s Los Angeles with Vintage Through-the-Car-Window Films (1)
- 11: Watch 85,000 Historic Newsreel Films from British Pathé Free Online (1910-2008) (0)
- 11: Why New Diseases Like COVID-19 Keep Appearing in China (6)
- 11: The Allure of Puzzlement: Pretty Much Pop #34 w/ Adal Rifai on Escape Rooms and Other Puzzling Pastimes (0)
- 10: See How Traditional Japanese Carpenters Can Build a Whole Building Using No Nails or Screws (8)
- 10: Meet the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female (and Now Forgotten) Rock Band (0)
- 10: Watch Scenes from Czarist Moscow Vividly Restored with Artificial Intelligence (May 1896) (4)
- 09: Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison Film Captured It in Action (0)
- 09: Hear the Sound of the Hagia Sophia Recreated in Authentic Byzantine Chant (1)
- 09: The Summerhill School, the Radical Educational Experiment That Let Students Learn What, When, and How They Want (1966) (5)
- 09: Jeremy Bentham’s Mummified Body Is Still on Display–Much Like Other Aging British Rock Stars (1)
- 06: Watch Scenes from Belle Époque Paris Vividly Restored with Artificial Intelligence (Circa 1890) (1)
- 06: Hear H.P. Lovecraft Horror Stories Read by Roddy McDowall (0)
- 05: The Internet Archive Hosts 20,000 VHS Recordings of Pop Culture from the 1980s & 1990s: Enter the VHS Vault (2)
- 05: How African-American Explorer Matthew Henson Became the First Person to Reach the North Pole, Then Was Forgotten for Almost 30 Years (1)
- 05: The Earth Archive Will 3D-Scan the Entire World & Create an “Open-Source” Record of Our Planet (0)
- 05: Updating Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” to Cover Female Action Heroes–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #33 (1)
- 04: Every Possible Melody Has Been Copyrighted, and They’re Now Released into the Public Domain (2)
- 04: Meet ‘The Afronauts’: An Introduction to Zambia’s Forgotten 1960s Space Program (1)
- 04: Mister Rogers Makes a List of His 10 Favorite Books (0)
- 03: Americans Visited Libraries Almost Twice as Often as They Went to the Movies Last Year, a New Survey Shows (0)
- 03: What Happened Hazel Scott? Meet the Brilliant Jazz Musician & Activist Who Disappeared into Obscurity When She Was Blacklisted During the McCarthy Era (0)
- 03: An Interactive Social Network of Abstract Artists: Kandinsky, Picasso, Brancusi & Many More (0)
- 03: How to Protect Yourself Against COVID-19/Coronavirus (1)
- 02: The Library of Congress Wants You to Help Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Poems & Letters: Almost 4000 Unpublished Documents Are Waiting (3)
- 02: 10 Rules of Self Discipline from the 1930 Self Help/Business Guru Napoleon Hill (0)
- 02: Chinese Museums, Closed by the Coronavirus, Put Their Exhibitions Online (0)
- February 2020 (74)
- 29: The Documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Is Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 28: Free: Read the Original 23,000-Word Essay That Became Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) (0)
- 28: The Story of Physics Animated in 4 Minutes: From Galileo and Newton, to Einstein (3)
- 28: The Photos That Ended Child Labor in the US: See the “Social Photography” of Lewis Hine (1911) (2)
- 27: The Smithsonian Puts 2.8 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain (1)
- 27: A Trip Through New York City in 1911: Vintage Video of NYC Gets Colorized & Revived with Artificial Intelligence (3)
- 27: The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences (3)
- 27: Bernie Sanders Time as an Educational Filmmaker: Watch His Documentary on Socialist Activist Eugene V. Debs (1979) (0)
- 26: Janis Joplin’s Last TV Performance & Interview: The Dick Cavett Show (1970) (4)
- 26: How France Invented a Popular, Profitable Internet of Its Own in the 80s: The Rise and Fall of Minitel (0)
- 26: The Size of Asteroids Compared to New York City (0)
- 26: The Peanuts Gang Performs Pink Floyd’s Classic Rock Opera in the Mashup “Charlie Brown vs. The Wall“ (2)
- 26: Judith Butler on Nonviolence and Gender: Hear Conversation with The Partially Examined Life (0)
- 25: The Opera Database: Find Scores, Libretti & Synopses for Thousands of Operas Free Online (0)
- 25: Watch the Spectacular Hieronymus Bosch Parade, Which Floats Through the Garden of Earthly Delights Painter’s Hometown Every Year (0)
- 25: A Tribute to NASA’s Katherine Johnson (RIP): Learn About the Extraordinary Mathematician Who Broke Through America’s Race & Gender Barriers (1)
- 24: Free Courses on the Coronavirus: What You Need to Know About the Emerging Pandemic (1)
- 24: Conquer Your Vertigo and Watch this Dazzling Footage of Construction Workers Atop the Chrysler Building in 1929 (0)
- 24: Wes Anderson’s Shorts Films & Commercials: A Playlist of 8 Short Andersonian Works (0)
- 24: Military Vet Floored (Literally) by Discovery That Rolex Purchased for $341 Is Now Worth $500,000-$700,000 (0)
- 24: Why We Should Read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 23: Interactive Web Site Tracks the Global Spread of the Coronavirus: Created and Supported by Johns Hopkins (2)
- 21: How Nina Simone Became Hip Hop’s “Secret Weapon”: From Lauryn Hill to Jay Z and Kanye West (0)
- 21: Peanuts Rock: Watch the Peanuts Gang Play Classic Rock Songs by Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey & More (3)
- 21: Hunter Thompson Died 15 Years Ago: Hear Him Remembered by Tom Wolfe, Johnny Depp, Ralph Steadman, and Others (4)
- 20: How William S. Burroughs Influenced Rock and Roll, from the 1960s to Today (1)
- 20: Electronic Musician Shows How He Uses His Prosthetic Arm to Control a Music Synthesizer with His Thoughts (0)
- 20: Salvador Dalí Strolls onto The Dick Cavett Show with an Anteater, Then Talks About Dreams & Surrealism, the Golden Ratio & More (1970) (1)
- 20: Moral Philosophy on TV? Pretty Much Pop #32 Judges The Good Place (0)
- 19: Use the “Eisenhower Matrix” to Manage Your Time & Increase Your Productivity: The System Designed by the 34th President of the United States (0)
- 19: The City of Nashville Built a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in 1897, and It’s Still Standing Today (1)
- 19: New Digital Archive Will Bring Medieval Chants Back to Life: Project Amra Will Feature 300 Digitized Manuscripts and Many Audio Recordings (1)
- 18: Watch More Than 400 Classic Korean Films Free Online Thanks to the Korean Film Archive (5)
- 18: Bob Marley’s Redemption Song Finally Gets an Official Video: Watch the Animated Video Made Up of 2747 Drawings (9)
- 18: Bertrand Russell’s Prison Letters Are Now Digitized & Put Online (1918 – 1961) (0)
- 17: Scientist Creates a Working Rotary Cellphone (0)
- 17: Watch the Grateful Dead Slip Past Security & Play a Gig at Columbia University’s Anti-Vietnam Protest (1968) (1)
- 17: Explore Ancient Athens 3D, a Digital Reconstruction of the Greek City-State at the Height of Its Influence (8)
- 17: The New York Public Library Creates a List of 125 Books That They Love (11)
- 14: Discover the Artist Who Mentored Edward Hopper & Inspired “Nighthawks” (0)
- 14: America’s First Drag Queen Was Also America’s First LGBTQ Activist and a Former Slave (0)
- 14: Watch This Year’s Oscar-Winning Short The Neighbor’s Window, a Surprising Tale of Urban Voyeurism (0)
- 13: Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961) (2)
- 13: Wes Anderson Releases the Official Trailer for His New Film, The French Dispatch: Watch It Online (0)
- 13: How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built: The Story of One of the Greatest Engineering Feats in History (0)
- 13: Robin Williams’ Celebrity Struggles: A Discussion with Dave Itzkoff by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (ep. 31) (0)
- 12: David Bowie Became Ziggy Stardust 48 Years Ago This Week: Watch Original Footage (0)
- 12: An Archive of Handwritten Traditional Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online (4)
- 12: The Experimental Abstract Films of Pioneering American Animator Mary Ellen Bute (1930s-1950s) (1)
- 11: Old Book Illustrations: An Online Database Lets You Download Thousands of Illustrations from the 19th & 20th Centuries (0)
- 11: When Miles Davis Discovered and Then Channeled the Musical Spirit of Jimi Hendrix (1)
- 11: The Biodiversity Heritage Library Makes 150,000 High-Res Illustrations of the Natural World Free to Download (0)
- 10: Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece, Featuring 4,000 Illustrations: See Them Online (6)
- 10: Chick Corea (RIP) Offers 16 Pieces of “Cheap But Good Advice for Playing Music in a Group” (1985) (0)
- 10: The Woman Who Invented Rock n’ Roll: An Introduction to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (0)
- 07: Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download & Color Hundreds of Free Images (3)
- 07: Daphne Oram Created the BBC’s First-Ever Piece of Electronic Music (1957) (4)
- 07: Iconic Film from 1896 Restored with Artificial Intelligence: Watch an AI-Upscaled Version of the Lumière Brothers’ The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (1)
- 07: An Artist Tricks Google Maps Into Creating a Virtual Traffic Jam, Using a Little Red Wagon & 99 Smartphones (0)
- 06: The Graphic Novel Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Coming Out This Year (0)
- 06: 42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor Who Will Help You Relax & Sleep (3)
- 06: Why Every Nominated Film Will Win the 2020 Oscar: A Pretty Much Pop Podcast Debate (ep. 30) (0)
- 05: The Most Complete Collection of Salvador Dalí’s Paintings Published in a Beautiful New Book by Taschen: Includes Never-Seen-Before Works (0)
- 05: Terry Jones, the Late Monty Python Actor, Helped Turn Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Into a Free App: Explore It Online (1)
- 05: The Met Puts 650+ Japanese Illustrated Books Online: Marvel at Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji and More (4)
- 04: Free for Audible Subscribers: James Taylor Releases a New Audio Memoir, and Michael Pollan a New Audio Book on Caffeine (0)
- 04: What is a Blade Runner? How Ridley Scott’s Movie Has Origins in William S. Burroughs’ Novella, Blade Runner: A Movie (1)
- 04: 36,000 Flash Games Have Been Archived and Saved Before Flash Goes Extinct: Play Them Offline (1)
- 04: 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) (0)
- 04: The Dark Side of the Moon Project: Watch an 8-Part Video Essay on Pink Floyd’s Classic Album (10)
- 03: Deconstructing Bach’s Famous Cello Prelude–the One You’ve Heard in Hundreds of TV Shows & Films (4)
- 03: How Walter Murch Revolutionized the Sound of Modern Cinema: A New Video Essay Explores His Innovations in American Graffiti, The Godfather & More (0)
- 03: Radical Women: Stream the Getty’s Podcast That Features Six Major 20th-Century Artists, All Female (0)
- 03: These Boots Are Made for Walkin’: The Story Behind Nancy Sinatra’s Enduring #1 Hit (1966) (0)
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- 31: Monty Python Pays Tribute to Terry Jones: Watch Their Montage of Jones’ Beloved Characters in Action (0)
- 31: Take an Aerial Tour of Medieval Paris (3)
- 30: Beautiful Taschen Art Books on Sale Through Sunday: 25%-75% Off (0)
- 30: Crowd Breaks into Singing Bon Jovi in the Park: The Power of Music in 46 Seconds (2)
- 30: Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (1)
- 30: Evelyn Waugh’s “Victorian Blood Book”: A Most Strange & Macabre Illustrated Book (0)
- 30: Why the Soviets Doctored Their Most Iconic World War II Victory Photo, “Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag” (17)
- 30: Scorsese’s The Irishman in the Context of his Oeuvre–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #29 Featuring Colin Marshall (0)
- 29: How the Psychedelic Mellotron Works: An In-Depth Demonstration (0)
- 29: 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 (0)
- 29: The e-Book Imagined in 1935 (0)
- 28: Discover the Disappearing Turkish Language That is Whistled, Not Spoken (2)
- 28: The Secret of the “Perfect Montage” at the Heart of Parasite, the Korean Film Now Sweeping World Cinema (0)
- 28: The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book (2)
- 28: What Is the Coronavirus?: Answers to Common Questions About the Mysterious New Virus Spreading Across China (0)
- 27: Jim Lehrer’s 16 Rules for Practicing Journalism with Integrity (6)
- 27: China’s 8,000 Terracotta Warriors: An Animated & Interactive Introduction to a Great Archaeological Discovery (0)
- 27: Iconic Songs Played by Musicians Around the World: “Stand by Me,” “Redemption Song,” “Ripple” & More (2)
- 27: How Humans Domesticated Cats (Twice) (0)
- 24: Monty Python’s Terry Jones (RIP) Was a Comedian, But Also a Medieval Historian: Get to Know His Other Side (1)
- 24: A Concise Breakdown of How Time Travel Works in Popular Movies, Books & TV Shows (4)
- 24: The Lost Neighborhood Buried Under New York City’s Central Park (1)
- 23: Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger, the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler, Dissed by Disney (1)
- 23: The Flute of Shame: Discover the Instrument/Device Used to Publicly Humiliate Bad Musicians During the Medieval Period (5)
- 23: Watch Marcel Duchamp’s Hypnotic Rotoreliefs: Spinning Discs Creating Optical Illusions on a Turntable (1935) (1)
- 23: Actor Margaret Colin (VEEP, Independence Day) Joins Pretty Much Pop #28 to Take On the Trope of the Alpha Female (0)
- 22: How the Female Scientist Who Discovered the Greenhouse Gas Effect Was Forgotten by History (1)
- 22: When Salvador Dali Met Sigmund Freud, and Changed Freud’s Mind About Surrealism (1938) (1)
- 22: The First Real Museum of Philosophy Prepares to Launch: See the Museo della Filosofia in Milan (0)
- 21: Introducing The Radiohead Public Library: Radiohead Makes Their Full Catalogue Available via a Free Online Web Site (0)
- 21: Can You Spot Liars Through Their Body Language? A Former FBI Agent Breaks Down the Clues in Non-Verbal Communication (0)
- 21: The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain (5)
- 21: Drunk History Takes on the Father of Prohibition: The Ban on Alcohol in the U.S. Started 100 Years Ago This Month (0)
- 20: Fellini’s Fantastic TV Commercials for Barilla, Campari & More: The Italian Filmmaker Was Born 100 Years Ago Today (0)
- 20: A Medical Student Creates Intricate Anatomical Embroideries of the Brain, Heart, Lungs & More (0)
- 20: Watch Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman Head to Hollywood in a Revealing 1978 Documentary (4)
- 20: How to Draw Like an Architect: An Introduction in Six Videos (1)
- 17: Hear Christopher Tolkien (RIP) Read the Work of His Father J.R.R. Tolkien, Which He Tirelessly Worked to Preserve (0)
- 17: The Anti-Conformist, Libertarian Philosophy That Shaped Rush’s Classic Albums (1)
- 17: Cooking with Wool: Watch Mouthwatering Tiny Woolen Food Animations (0)
- 16: The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People, Presented in an Interactive Infographic (2)
- 16: When People Gave Anti-Valentine’s Day Cards: Revisit the “Vinegar Valentines” That Spread Ridicule and Contempt (1)
- 16: How Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Incited a Riot? An Animated Introduction (0)
- 16: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #27 Discusses the Impact and Aesthetics of Star Wars (0)
- 15: How Sam Mendes’ WWI Film 1917 Was Made to Look Like One Long, Harrowing Shot (2)
- 15: The Amazing Artistry & Ingenuity of the Furniture Enjoyed by 18th Century Aristocrats (1)
- 15: How a Philip Glass Opera Gets Made: An Inside Look (0)
- 15: Celebrating Women Composers: A New BBC Digital Archive Takes You from Hildegard of Bingen (1098) to Nadia Boulanger (1979) (1)
- 14: The New York Public Library Announces the Top 10 Checked-Out Books of All Time (0)
- 14: Art Record Covers: A Book of Over 500 Album Covers Created by Famous Visual Artists (0)
- 14: What the Earth Would Look Like If We Drained the Water from the Oceans (4)
- 14: Leonardo da Vinci’s Inventions Come to Life as Museum-Quality, Workable Models: A Swing Bridge, Scythed Chariot, Perpetual Motion Machine & More (3)
- 13: Witness Rush Drummer Neil Peart’s (RIP) Finest Moments On Stage and Screen (0)
- 13: Discover the Apprehension Engine: Brian Eno Called It “the Most Terrifying Musical Instrument of All Time” (4)
- 13: Artist Ed Ruscha Reads From Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in a Short Film Celebrating His 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip (0)
- 13: The First & Last Time Mister Rogers Sang “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” (1968-2001) (0)
- 10: 14 Paris Museums Put 300,000 Works of Art Online: Download Classics by Monet, Cézanne & More (6)
- 10: “Mr. Tambourine Man” & Other Bob Dylan Classics, Sung Beautifully by Kids (2)
- 10: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (1)
- 09: How Dick Cavett Brought Sophistication to Late Night Talk Shows: Watch 270 Classic Interviews Online (1)
- 09: The Magic of Chess: Kids Share Their Uninhibited, Philosophical Insights about the Benefits of Chess (1)
- 09: Vincent Van Gogh’s Favorite Books (0)
- 09: The Art & Philosophy of Bonsai (2)
- 09: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #26 Discusses Alan Moore’s Watchmen Comic and the HBO Show with Cornell Psychology Professor David Pizarro (2)
- 08: A Map of the Disney Entertainment Empire Reveals the Deep Connections Between Its Movies, Its Merchandise, Disneyland & More (1967) (0)
- 08: Free Online Writing & Journalism Courses (3)
- 08: The Strange, Spiritual Origins of the Ouija Board (0)
- 08: 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 (1)
- 07: Pink Floyd Films a Concert in an Empty Auditorium, Still Trying to Break Into the U.S. Charts (1970) (1)
- 07: John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme (4)
- 07: Watch Peluca, the Student Film That Became the Cultural Phenomenon Napoleon Dynamite (2002) (0)
- 06: A Brief History of John Baldessari (RIP) Narrated by Tom Waits: A Tribute to the Late “Godfather of Conceptual Art” (1)
- 06: Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save Available as a Free AudioBook and eBook: Features Narrations by Paul Simon, Kristen Bell & Stephen Fry (1)
- 06: A Brief Animated History of Alcohol (1)
- 06: The Vatican Library Goes Online and Digitizes Tens of Thousands of Manuscripts, Books, Coins, and More (6)
- 03: The Names of 1.8 Million Emancipated Slaves Are Now Searchable in the World’s Largest Genealogical Database, Helping African Americans Find Lost Ancestors (35)
- 03: 38 Major Pop Songs Played with the Exact Same Four Chords: Watch a Captivating Medley Performed by the Axis of Awesome (4)
- 03: How Anna Karina (RIP) Became the Mesmerizing Face of the French New Wave (0)
- 03: Love the Art, Hate the Artist: How to Approach the Art of Disgraced Artists (11)
- 02: Watch A-ha’s “Take On Me” Video Newly Remastered in 4K …. and Learn About the Band’s Struggle to Make the Classic Song (1)
- 02: How Cartoons Saved R. Crumb’s Life, and How R. Crumb Turned Cartoons into an Art Form (NSFW) (1)
- 02: The Music, Books & Films Liberated into the Public Domain in 2020: Rhapsody in Blue, The Magic Mountain, Sherlock, Jr., and More (1)
- 02: When Robin Williams & Steve Martin Starred in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot (1988) (2)
- 02: Sportscaster Dave Revsine (Big 10 Network) Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast to Discuss the Role of Sports in Pop Culture (0)
- 01: Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running (0)
- 01: RIP Syd Mead: Revisit the Life and & Art of the Designer Behind Blade Runner, Alien & More (1)
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- 31: The History of the Fisheye Photo Album Cover (1)
- 31: A Recently-Discovered 44,000-Year-Old Cave Painting Tells the Oldest Known Story (0)
- 31: Steve Martin Performs Stand-Up Comedy for Dogs (1973) (2)
- 30: John Coltrane Talks About the Sacred Meaning of Music in the Human Experience: Listen to One of His Final Interviews (1966) (7)
- 30: Why You Should Read Dune: An Animated Introduction to Frank Herbert’s Ecological, Psychological Sci-Fi Epic (3)
- 30: A Visual Introduction to Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Broken Pottery and Finding Beauty in Imperfection (4)
- 30: Itzhak Perlman Appears on Sesame Street and Poignantly Shows Kids How to Play the Violin and Push Through Life’s Limits (1981) (0)
- 27: Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book Your Name? Robot, Created by Tarkovsky Art Director Mikhail Romadin (1979) (0)
- 27: An Animated Introduction to Cynicism, the Anti Conformist Philosophy That Originated in Ancient Greece (1)
- 27: Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors (8)
- 27: Download Beautiful Free Posters Celebrating the Achievements of Living Female STEM Leaders (1)
- 26: Watch Annie Leibovitz Photograph and Get Scolded by Queen Elizabeth: “What Do You Think This Is?” (1)
- 26: Hear Every Sample on the Beastie Boys’ Acclaimed Album, Paul’s Boutique–and Discover Where They Came From (1)
- 25: A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933) (1)
- 25: Hear Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas Carol Just as Dickens Read It (3)
- 25: Bob Ross’ Christmas Special: Celebrate, Relax, Nod Off (0)
- 25: When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960) (4)
- 25: Revisiting Band Aid’s Cringe-Inducing 1984 Single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (24)
- 24: Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs (0)
- 24: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal for the Holidays (0)
- 24: Ram Dass (RIP) Offers Wisdom on Confronting Aging and Dying (0)
- 24: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Most Troubling Christmas Film Ever Made (0)
- 24: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #24 Considers Holiday Viewing: What’s Canon? (1)
- 23: Richard Feynman’s “Lost Lecture:” An Animated Retelling (1)
- 23: A Beautiful New Book of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Visual History of 200 Japanese Masterpieces Created Between 1680 and 1938 (0)
- 23: Hear the Trippy Mystical Sounds of Giant Gongs (0)
- 21: Radiohead Puts Every Official Album on YouTube, Making Them All Free to Stream (5)
- 20: 20+ Knitters and Crochet Artists Stitch an Astonishing 3-D Recreation of Picasso’s Guernica (1)
- 20: Neil deGrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication in a New Online Course (0)
- 20: 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 (1)
- 19: The Zen of Bill Murray: I Want to Be “Really Here, Really in It, Really Alive in the Moment” (0)
- 19: The Phenomena of Physics Illustrated with Psychedelic Art in an Influential 19th-Century Textbook (0)
- 19: Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill Podcast: Stream a Gripping ‘Audio Companion’ to His Bestselling Book (1)
- 18: An Introduction to Surrealism: The Big Aesthetic Ideas Presented in Three Videos (0)
- 18: Why the University of Chicago Rejected Kurt Vonnegut’s Master’s Thesis (and How a Novel Got Him His Degree 27 Years Later) (3)
- 18: How Yoga Changes the Brain and May Guard Against Alzheimer’s and Dementia (0)
- 18: The Singer or the Song? Ken Stringfellow (Posies, R.E.M., Big Star) and Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #23 Discuss (0)
- 17: “The Philosophy of “Flow”: A Brief Introduction to Taoism (2)
- 17: Discover the Stendhal Syndrome: The Condition Where People Faint, or Feel Totally Overwhelmed, in the Presence of Great Art (1)
- 17: Seven Videos Explain How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Expressed American Loneliness and Alienation (1)
- 16: Jimi Hendrix Hosts a Jam Session Where Jim Morrison Sings Drunkenly; Jimi Records the Moment for Posterity (1968) (4)
- 16: How Andrew Wyeth Made a Painting: A Journey Into His Best-Known Work Christina’s World (0)
- 16: The Prado Museum Digitally Alters Four Masterpieces to Strikingly Illustrate the Impact of Climate Change (2)
- 16: Blues Musician Plays a Soul-Stirring Version of “Amazing Grace” at His Mother’s Funeral (47)
- 15: Neil Gaiman Talks Dreamily About Fountain Pens, Notebooks & His Writing Process in His Long Interview with Tim Ferriss (2)
- 13: Meet the Americans Who Speak with Elizabethan English Accents: An Introduction to the “Hoi Toiders” from Ocracoke, North Carolina (1)
- 13: Traditional Inuit Thoat Singing and the Modern World Collide in This Astonishing Video (2)
- 13: “Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski (1)
- 12: Steve Martin on How to Look at Abstract Art (2)
- 12: Why Should We Read William Shakespeare? Four Animated Videos Make the Case (4)
- 12: Bill Gates Recommends Books for the Holidays (1)
- 12: Malcolm Gladwell Admits His Insatiable Love for Thriller Novels and Recommends His Favorites (1)
- 11: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal (0)
- 11: David Lynch Turns Twin Peaks into a Virtual Reality Game: Watch the Official Trailer (1)
- 11: Meditation for Artists: Learn Moebius’ Meditative Technique Called “Automatic Drawing” (1)
- 11: Author Imagines in 1893 the Fashions That Would Appear Over the Next 100 Years (0)
- 11: Pretty Much Pop #22 Untangles Time-Travel Scenarios in the Terminator Franchise and Other Media (0)
- 10: Plants Emit High-Pitched Sounds When They Get Cut, or Stressed by Drought, a New Study Shows (9)
- 10: 82 Vintage Cookbooks, Free to Download, Offer a Fascinating Illustrated Look at Culinary and Cultural History (12)
- 10: How Martin Scorsese Directs a Movie: The Techniques Behind Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and More (0)
- 09: Watch an Incredible Performance of “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1964) (2)
- 09: How to Improve Your Memory: Four TED Talks Explain the Techniques to Remember Anything (2)
- 09: Revisit the Infamous Rolling Stones Free Festival at Altamont: The Ill-Fated Concert Took Place 50 Years Ago (0)
- 09: The Trick That Made Animation Realistic: Watch a Short History of Rotoscoping (0)
- 07: How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant. (4)
- 06: Radical Tea Towels Offer a Graphic Crash Course in Progressive American History (0)
- 06: Music Is Truly a Universal Language: New Research Shows That Music Worldwide Has Important Commonalities (1)
- 06: David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling & Humor His New Masterclass (1)
- 05: The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure (1)
- 05: What the Great Pyramid of Giza Would’ve Looked Like When First Built: It Was Gleaming, Reflective White (12)
- 05: For the First Time, Studio Ghibli’s Entire Catalog Will Soon Be Available for Digital Purchase (0)
- 04: Kabuki Star Wars: Watch The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi Reinterpreted by Japan’s Most Famous Kabuki Actor (0)
- 04: Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Get Used in Making Everyday Things (0)
- 04: A New Digitized Menu Collection Lets You Revisit the Cuisine from the “Golden Age of Railroad Dining” (0)
- 04: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #21 Considers Role-Playing Video Games (1)
- 03: Punk Dulcimer: The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” Played on the Dulcimer (1)
- 03: 160,000 Pages of Glorious Medieval Manuscripts Digitized: Visit the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis (0)
- 03: How Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Helps Us Understand the Meaning of Life (0)
- 03: Clive James & Jonathan Miller (Both RIP) Talk Together About How the Brain Works (0)
- 02: Watch a Hand-Drawn Animation of Neil Gaiman’s Poem “The Mushroom Hunters,” Narrated by Amanda Palmer (1)
- 02: You Can Sleep in an Edward Hopper Painting at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Is This the Next New Museum Trend? (1)
- 02: Twin Peaks Actually Explained: A Four-Hour Video Essay Demystifies It All (4)
- 01: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal: It Gives You and a Family Member/Friend Access to Their Complete Course Catalog (0)
- November 2019 (79)
- 29: A New Online Archive Lets You Listen to 40 Years Worth of Terry Gross’ Fresh Air Interviews: Stream 22,000 Segment Online (5)
- 29: Depeche Mode Before They Were Actually Depeche Mode: Stream Their Early Demo Recordings from 1980 (5)
- 29: The Dream-Driven Filmmaking of Werner Herzog: Watch the Video Essay, “The Inner Chronicle of What We Are: Understanding Werner Herzog” (1)
- 28: The Great Courses (Formerly The Teaching Company) Offers Every Course at $60 or Less Until the End of Black Friday (1)
- 28: The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (3)
- 28: An Illustrated Map of Every Known Object in Space: Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, Black Holes & Much More (1)
- 28: William S. Burroughs Reads His “Thanksgiving Prayer” in a 1988 Film By Gus Van Sant (2)
- 28: The Isamu Noguchi Museum Puts Online an Archive of 60,000 Photographs, Manuscripts & Digitized Drawings by the Japanese Sculptor (0)
- 27: Watch the Hot Guitar Solos of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “America’s First Gospel Rock Star” (0)
- 27: Watch Life-Affirming Performances from David Byrne’s New Broadway Musical American Utopia (0)
- 27: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912): The Truly Weird Origin of Modern Stop-Motion Animation (0)
- 26: Hannah Arendt Explains Why Democracies Need to Safeguard the Free Press & Truth … to Defend Themselves Against Dictators and Their Lies (2)
- 26: Prisons Around the U.S. Are Banning and Restricting Access to Books (1)
- 26: Doris Kearns Goodwin Teaches U.S. Presidential History & Leadership (1)
- 26: Watch 21 Animated Ideas from Big Thinkers: Steven Pinker, Carol Dweck, Philip Zimbardo, David Harvey & More (0)
- 25: London Calling: A New Museum Exhibition Celebrates The Clash’s Iconic Album (0)
- 25: What Is Higher Consciousness?: How We Can Transcend Our Petty, Day-to-Day Desires and Gain a Deeper Wisdom (1)
- 25: Neuroscience & Jazz Improvisation: How Improvisation Shapes Creativity and What Happens Inside Our Brain (1)
- 25: How to Behave in a British Pub: A World War II Training Film from 1943, Featuring Burgess Meredith (2)
- 22: Sacha Baron Cohen Links the Decline of Democracy to the Rise of Social Media, “the Greatest Propaganda Machine in History” (10)
- 22: Neurosymphony: A High-Resolution Look into the Brain, Set to the Music of Brain Waves (0)
- 22: Lynda Barry’s New Book Offers a Master Class in Making Comics (0)
- 22: How Blade Runner Captured the Imagination of a Generation of Electronic Musicians (0)
- 21: Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Explained in Animation (0)
- 21: Dramatic Color Footage Shows a Bombed-Out Berlin a Month After Germany’s WWII Defeat (1945) (14)
- 21: Watch 9 Classic & Lost Punk Films (1976-1981): All Restored and Now Streaming Online (0)
- 20: Every Nuclear Bomb Explosion in History, Animated (0)
- 20: 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 (0)
- 20: 10 Paintings by Edward Hopper, the Most Cinematic American Painter of All, Turned into Animated GIFs (0)
- 20: Alice B. Toklas Reads Her Famous Recipe for Hashish Fudge (1963) (2)
- 20: Improv Comedy (Live and Otherwise) Examined on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #20 (0)
- 19: Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of the Internet & Smart Phone in 1926 (0)
- 19: Quentin Tarantino’s World War II Reading List (0)
- 19: Watch Klaus Nomi Debut His New Wave Vaudeville Show: The Birth of the Opera-Singing Space Alien (1978) (0)
- 19: 82 Animated Interviews with Living, Dead, Celebrated & Sometimes Disgraced Celebrities (1)
- 18: Download Stunning 3D Scans of the Bust of Nefertiti, Now Released by Berlin’s Neues Museum (1)
- 18: David Lynch Visualizes How Transcendental Meditation Works with Sharpie & Big Pad of Paper (2)
- 18: How Art Nouveau Inspired the Psychedelic Designs of the 1960s (1)
- 18: What Ancient Chinese Sounded Like — and How We Know It: An Animated Introduction (2)
- 15: Salvador Dalí’s Iconic Deck of Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: It’s Out Today (0)
- 15: The Seven Road-Tested Habits of Effective Artists (0)
- 15: Download Hellvetica, a Font that Makes the Elegant Spacing of Helvetica Look as Ugly as Possible (0)
- 14: How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look (9)
- 14: Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Best Adaptation of Dante’s Classic (1)
- 14: The Velvet Underground as Peanuts Characters: Snoopy Morphs Into Lou Reed, Charlie Brown Into Andy Warhol (1)
- 14: The First High-Resolution Map of America’s Food Supply Chain: How It All Really Gets from Farm to Table (3)
- 14: Pretty Much Pop #19 Discusses Race and the Target Audience w/ Rodney Ramsey (0)
- 13: John Cleese’s Eulogy for Monty Python’s Graham Chapman: ‘Good Riddance, the Free-Loading Bastard, I Hope He Fries’ (0)
- 13: A Brief History of Chess: An Animated Introduction to the 1,500-Year-Old Game (2)
- 13: Watch the Serpentine Dance, Created by the Pioneering Dancer Loie Fuller, Performed in an 1897 Film by the Lumière Brothers (0)
- 13: The Virtual Choir: Watch a Choir Conductor Digitally Unite 3500 Singers from Around the World (5)
- 12: Watch the Buddhism-Inspired Video for Leonard Cohen’s Newly-Released Song, “Happens to the Heart” (1)
- 12: A Schoolhouse Rock-Inspired Guide to Impeachment (0)
- 12: Watch Nirvana Go Through Rehearsals for Their Famous MTV Unplugged Sessions: “Polly,” “The Man Who Sold the World” & More (1993) (0)
- 12: An MRI Shows How a Singer Sings Two Tones at Once (With the Music of Mozart and Brian Eno) (0)
- 11: The Internet Archive Is Digitizing & Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now (6)
- 11: Why David Sedaris Hates America’s Favorite Word, “Awesome” (11)
- 11: An Animated Leonard Cohen Offers Reflections on Death: Thought-Provoking Excerpts from His Final Interview (8)
- 11: Lou Reed’s Mixtape for Andy Warhol Discovered by Cornell University Professor: Features 12 Previously Unreleased Songs (1)
- 08: A Map of How the Word “Tea” Spread Across the World (6)
- 08: What to Wear to a Successful PhD Thesis Defense? A Skirt’s Worth of Academic Rejection Letters (0)
- 07: The Benefits of Boredom: How to Stop Distracting Yourself and Get Creative Ideas Again (0)
- 07: The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Movement Online (1)
- 07: When White Supremacists Overthrew a Government (1898): The Hidden History of an American Coup (1)
- 06: Martin Scorsese Explains the Difference Between Cinema and Movies (2)
- 06: Comic Sans Turns 25: Graphic Designer Vincent Connare Explains Why He Created the Most Hated Font in the World (1)
- 06: The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England: A (Pre-Brexit) Video Explains (4)
- 06: Behold Félix Nadar’s Pioneering Photographs of the Paris Catacombs (1861) (0)
- 06: Pretty Much Pop #18 Discusses Stephen King’s Media Empire (0)
- 05: Watch J.S. Bach’s “Air on the G String” Played on the Actual Instruments from His Time (6)
- 05: Women Scientists Launch a Database Featuring the Work of 9,000 Women Working in the Sciences (2)
- 05: The Very First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon, Taken 60 Years Ago (0)
- 04: The Time When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place (0)
- 04: Oscar-Nominated Composer Danny Elfman Teaches an Online Course on Writing Music for Film: A Look Inside His Creative Process (0)
- 04: Art Class Instead Of Jail: New Program Lets Young Offenders Take Free Art Classes Rather Than Spend Time in the Criminal System (3)
- 04: 2,600+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in November: Enroll Today (0)
- 01: How to Find Silence in a Noisy World (4)
- 01: The Entire History of the British Isles Animated: 42,000 BCE to Today (3)
- 01: Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Novel Adaptation (1)
- October 2019 (81)
- 31: What Happens to the Clothes We Throw Away?: Watch Unravel, a Short Documentary on the Journey Our Waste Takes (0)
- 31: Bowie’s Bookshelf: A New Essay Collection on The 100 Books That Changed David Bowie’s Life (0)
- 31: An Animated Introduction to Medieval Taverns: Learn the History of These Rough-and-Tumble Ancestors of the Modern Pub (0)
- 30: The Entire Archive of Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music Has Been Digitized and Put Online (0)
- 30: Watch the Opening of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with the Original, Unused Score (6)
- 30: What Guitars Were Like 400 Years Ago: An Introduction to the 9 String Baroque Guitar (0)
- 30: Are Stand-Up Comedians Our Modern Day Philosophers? Pretty Much Pop #17 Considers (0)
- 29: Frank Zappa’s Surreal Movie 200 Motels: The First Feature Film Ever Shot on Videotape (1971) (0)
- 29: How Monument Valley Became the Most Iconic Landscape of the American West (1)
- 29: Peruvian Scholar Writes & Defends the First Thesis Written in Quechua, the Main Language of the Incan Empire (0)
- 29: The Beauty of Degraded Art: Why We Like Scratchy Vinyl, Grainy Film, Wobbly VHS & Other Analog-Media Imperfection (1)
- 28: The Paintings of Miles Davis: Discover Visual Art Inspired by Kandinsky, Basquiat, Picasso, and Joni Mitchell (3)
- 28: A Collection of Vintage Fruit Crate Labels Offers a Voluptuous Vision of the Sunshine State (0)
- 28: Explore 1400 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh–and Much More–at the Van Gogh Museum’s Online Collection (0)
- 28: Watch 700 Videos Nostalgia-Inducing Videos from the Early Days of MTV (0)
- 26: Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: The Occult Meets Surrealism in a Classic Tarot Card Deck (2)
- 26: Joni Mitchell Publishes a Book of Her Rarely Seen Paintings & Poetry (5)
- 25: Beautiful New Photo Book Documents Patti Smith’s Breakthrough Years in Music: Features Hundreds of Unseen Photographs (3)
- 25: A 108-Year-Old Woman Recalls What It Was Like to Be a Woman in Victorian England (2)
- 25: A Flowchart of Philosophical Novels: Reading Recommendations from Haruki Murakami to Don DeLillo (12)
- 25: Pretty Much Pop #16 Considers the Sitcom “Friends” 25 Years Later (0)
- 24: Discover the Persian 11th Century Canon of Medicine, “The Most Famous Medical Textbook Ever Written” (0)
- 24: The Provocative Art of Modern Sketch, the Magazine That Captured the Cultural Explosion of 1930s Shanghai (0)
- 24: Werner Herzog Offers 24 Pieces of Filmmaking and Life Advice (1)
- 24: F. Scott Fitzgerald Creates a List of 22 Essential Books (1936) (0)
- 23: Behold the New York City Street Tree Map: An Interactive Map That Catalogues the 700,000 Trees Shading the Streets of New York City (2)
- 23: The Night When John Coltrane Soloed in a Bathroom and David Crosby, High as a Kite, Nearly Lost His Mind (0)
- 23: Is Opera Part of Pop Culture? Pretty Much Pop #15 with Sean Spyres (1)
- 22: Found: A Long Lost Chapter from the World’s Oldest Novel, the 11th-Century Japanese Classic, The Tale of Genji (0)
- 22: The First Faked Photograph (1840) (1)
- 22: The Story of Ziggy Stardust Gets Chronicled in a New Graphic Novel, Featuring a Foreward by Neil Gaiman (5)
- 21: Meet Viola Smith, the World’s Oldest Drummer: Her Career Started in the 1930s, and She Played Until She Was 107 (0)
- 21: The Best of the Edward Gorey Envelope Art Contest (1)
- 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains the Importance of Jazz: Hear the Speech He Gave at the First Berlin Jazz Festival (1964) (5)
- 21: The Internet Archive Makes 2,500 More Classic MS-DOS Video Games Free to Play Online: Alone in the Dark, Doom, Microsoft Adventure, and Others (0)
- 18: Banksy Launches a New Online Store: Make Purchases Through October 28 (2)
- 18: Watch Teenage Kurt Cobain and Friends’ Horror Movie from 1984 (0)
- 18: Chill Out to 70 Hours of Oceanscape Nature Videos Filmed by BBC Earth (1)
- 17: How to Paint Like Willem De Kooning: Watch Visual Primers from the Museum of Modern Art (1)
- 17: The Politics & Philosophy of the Bauhaus Design Movement: A Short Introduction (0)
- 16: Stream Dozens of Classic & Contemporary Horror Movies Free Online in October (1)
- 16: How Magazine Pages Were Created Before Computers: A Veteran of the London Review of Books Demonstrates the Meticulous, Manual Process (6)
- 16: Watch a Newly-Created “Epilogue” For Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (6)
- 15: Fight Club Came Out 20 Years Ago Today: Watch Five Video Essays on the Film’s Philosophy and Lasting Influence (1)
- 15: Watching Nature Documentaries Can Produce “Real Happiness,” Finds a Study from the BBC and UC-Berkeley (0)
- 15: MIT Researchers 3D Print a Bridge Imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in 1502— and Prove That It Actually Works (1)
- 15: Yo-Yo Ma Performs the First Classical Piece He Ever Learned: Take a 12-Minute Mental Health Break and Watch His Moving “Tiny Desk” Concert (0)
- 14: Why Should We Read Dante’s Divine Comedy? An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 14: Treasures in the Trash: A Secret Museum Inside a New York City Department of Sanitation Garage (0)
- 14: William Burroughs Meets Francis Bacon: See Never-Broadcast Footage (1982) (0)
- 14: H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds Becomes a New BBC Miniseries Set in Edwardian England (3)
- 11: How Grace Slick Wrote “White Rabbit”: The 1960s Classic Inspired by LSD, Lewis Carroll, Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain, and Hypocritical Parents (3)
- 11: Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America (4)
- 10: Free: Download the Sublime Sights & Sounds of Yellowstone National Park (0)
- 10: David Gilmour Makes His Live at Pompeii Concert Film Free to Watch Online (2)
- 10: The Women of Rock: Discover an Oral History Project That Features Pioneering Women in Rock Music (0)
- 10: Where Did Human Beings Come From? 7 Million Years of Human Evolution Visualized in Six Minutes (4)
- 09: The Simulation Theory Explained In Three Animated Videos (0)
- 09: Watch 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki Free Online: A Four Part-Part Documentary on the Unstoppable Japanese Animator (1)
- 09: Download Full Issues of MAVO, the Japanese Avant-Garde Magazine That Announced a New Modernist Movement (1923-1925) (1)
- 09: The Appeal of UFO Narratives: Investigative Journalist Paul Beban Visits Pretty Much Pop #14 (2)
- 08: Hear a Radio Opera Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut, Based on His Adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s 1918 L’Histoire du Soldat (0)
- 08: Talking Heads Songs Become Midcentury Pulp Novels, Magazines & Advertisements: “Burning Down the House,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and More (1)
- 08: 26-Year-Old Steve Jobs Debates the Utopian & Dystopian Promise of the Computer (1981) (0)
- 07: Lost Depeche Mode Documentary Is Now Online: Watch Our Hobby is Depeche Mode (4)
- 07: Hear a Full-Cast Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, the Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale (0)
- 07: See Why Ginger Baker (RIP) Was One of the Greatest Drummers in Rock & World Music (2)
- 07: Do Octopi Dream? An Astonishing Nature Documentary Suggests They Do (0)
- 04: Watch Animated Scores of Beethoven’s 16 String Quartets: An Early Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of His Birth (1)
- 04: Patti Smith Sings “People Have the Power” with a Choir of 250 Fellow Singers (3)
- 04: When Ted Turner Tried to Colorize Citizen Kane: See the Only Surviving Scene from the Great Act of Cinematic Sacrilege (2)
- 03: The Morals That Determine Whether We’re Liberal, Conservative, or Libertarian (1)
- 03: Novelist Cormac McCarthy Gives Writing Advice to Scientists … and Anyone Who Wants to Write Clear, Compelling Prose (1)
- 03: 1,600+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in October: Enroll Today (2)
- 03: Is It Really Ever a Good Idea to Revive an Old TV Show? Pretty Much Pop #13 Considers (0)
- 02: Metropolis Remixed: Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist Sci-Fi Classic Gets Fully Colorized and Dubbed (9)
- 02: The First Music Streaming Service Was Invented in 1881: Discover the Théâtrophone (0)
- 02: 19th-Century Skeleton Alarm Clock Reminded People Daily of the Shortness of Life: An Introduction to the Memento Mori (0)
- 01: Watch Queen Rehearse & Meticulously Prepare for Their Legendary 1985 Live Aid Performance (3)
- 01: A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete Digital Scan (2)
- 01: Quentin Tarantino Explains How to Write & Direct Movies (0)
- September 2019 (75)
- 30: The Japanese Fairy Tale Series: The Illustrated Books That Introduced Western Readers to Japanese Tales (1885-1922) (2)
- 30: Robert Johnson Finally Gets an Obituary in The New York Times 81 Years After His Death (3)
- 30: Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Original Moog Synthesizer (1989) (3)
- 27: The Beatles Release the First Ever Video for “Here Comes the Sun” (0)
- 27: Free: A Professionally-Read Version of the Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint, Released by Penguin Random House Audio (22)
- 27: What’s the Key to American Gothic’s Enduring Fame? An Introduction to the Iconic American Painting (1)
- 27: Libraries & Archivists Are Digitizing 480,000 Books Published in 20th Century That Are Secretly in the Public Domain (0)
- 26: A New Kurt Vonnegut Museum Opens in Indianapolis … Right in Time for Banned Books Week (0)
- 26: Human All Too Human: A Roman Woman Visits the Great Pyramid in 120 AD, and Carves a Poem in Memory of Her Deceased Brother (0)
- 26: 20 Years Before John Cage’s 4’33”, a Man Named Hy Cage Created a Cartoon about a Silent Piano Composition (1932) (0)
- 25: The Proper Way to Eat Ramen: A Meditation from the Classic Japanese Comedy Tampopo (1985) (0)
- 25: Watch 15 Films by Designers Charles & Ray Eames (0)
- 25: Watch Robert Hunter (RIP), Grateful Dead Lyricist, Perform His Legendary Songs “Bertha,” “Sugaree,” “Box of Rain,” “Friend of the Devil” & More (0)
- 25: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood Examined on Pretty Much Pop #12 (0)
- 24: An Animated Michael Sandel Explains How Meritocracy Degrades Our Democracy (4)
- 24: “Thou Shalt Not”: A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Movie Censorship Code (0)
- 24: A Brief History of the Great American Road Trip (1)
- 23: The Sex Pistols Riotous 1978 Tour Through the U.S. South: Watch/Hear Concerts in Dallas, Memphis, Tulsa & More (1)
- 23: How Bicycles Can Revolutionize Our Lives: Case Studies from the United States, Netherlands, China & Britain (0)
- 23: Make an Adorable Crocheted Freddie Mercury; Download a Free Crochet Pattern Online (0)
- 23: Wes Anderson Explains How He Writes and Directs Movies, and What Goes Into His Distinctive Filmmaking Style (0)
- 23: The Coddling of the American Mind: Malcolm Gladwell Leads a Conversation with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff & Lenore Skenazy (1)
- 20: Nine Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971 (16)
- 20: Why Time Seems to Fly By As You Get Older, and How to Slow It Down: A Scientific Explanation by Neuroscientist David Eagleman (3)
- 20: Watch 16 Hours of Historic Live Aid Performances: Queen, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young & Much More (1)
- 19: Musicians Around the World Play The Band’s Classic Song, “The Weight,” with Help from Robbie Robertson and Ringo Starr (2)
- 19: Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour Teaches a Course on Creativity & Leadership (2)
- 19: Martin Scorsese Makes a List of 85 Films Every Aspiring Filmmaker Needs to See (3)
- 19: The Creepy 13th-Century Melody That Shows Up in Movies Again & Again: An Introduction to “Dies Irae” (9)
- 18: What Did People Eat in Medieval Times? A Video Series and New Cookbook Explain (4)
- 18: Jimi Hendrix Wreaks Havoc on the Lulu Show, Gets Banned From the BBC (1969) (4)
- 18: Visit the Homes That Great Architects Designed for Themselves: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius & Frank Gehry (2)
- 18: Is the Live Music Experience Irreplaceable? Pretty Much Pop #11 (0)
- 17: Ric Ocasek and The Cars Perform Live in Concert After Their Groundbreaking Debut Album: Watch the Complete Show (January 13, 1979) (0)
- 17: Learn the Number One Rule of Funk: Bootsy Collins Explains the Importance of “Keeping It on the One” (3)
- 17: Art Trips: Visit the Art of Cities Around the World, from Los Angeles & London, to Venice and New York (0)
- 16: 25 John Lennon Fans Sing His Album, Working Class Hero, Word for Word, and Note for Note (1)
- 16: How Sergio Leone Made Music an Actor in His Spaghetti Westerns, Creating a Perfect Harmony of Sound & Image (1)
- 16: John Milton’s Hand Annotated Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio: A New Discovery by a Cambridge Scholar (6)
- 16: Imagined Medieval Comics Illuminate the Absurdities of Modern Life (1)
- 13: Bob Moog Demonstrates His Revolutionary Moog Model D Synthesizer (1)
- 13: Watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice in Strikingly Restored Footage (1931) (4)
- 13: Discover the Jacobean Traveling Library: The 17th Century Precursor to the Kindle (1)
- 13: How Eric Clapton Created the Classic Song “Layla” (6)
- 12: How E.E. Cummings Writes a Poem (0)
- 12: Charles Bukowski Explains What Good Writing and the Good Life Have in Common (0)
- 12: Expressionist Dance Costumes from the 1920s, and the Tragic Story of Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt (1)
- 11: American Cities Then & Now: See How New York, Los Angeles & Detroit Look Today, Compared to the 1930s and 1940s (1)
- 11: Animated Series Drawn & Recorded Tells “Untold Stories” from Music History: Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, Blind Willie Johnson & More (1)
- 11: Pretty Much Pop #10 Examines Margaret Atwood’s Nightmare Vision: The Handmaid’s Tale (1)
- 10: What Would Michel Foucault Think of Social Media, Fake News & Our Post Truth World? (0)
- 10: Watch an Archaeologist Play the “Lithophone,” a Prehistoric Instrument That Let Ancient Musicians Play Real Classic Rock (1)
- 10: Sun Ra Applies to NASA’s Art Program: When the Inventor of Space Jazz Applied to Make Space Art (0)
- 09: Monty Python’s Eric Idle Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters (2)
- 09: Watch a Short 1967 Film That Imagines How We’d Live in 1999: Online Learning, Electronic Shopping, Flat Screen TVs & Much More (1)
- 09: The Secret Student Group Who Took on the Nazis: An Introduction to “The White Rose” (0)
- 09: 30 Fans Joyously Sing the Entirety of Bob Marley’s Legend Album in Unison (3)
- 06: Medieval Monks Complained About Constant Distractions: Learn How They Worked to Overcome Them (1)
- 06: Orson Welles Trashes Famous Directors: Alfred Hitchcock (“Egotism and Laziness”), Woody Allen (“His Arrogance Is Unlimited”) & More (14)
- 06: Bob Odenkirk & Errol Morris Create Comedic Shorts to Help You Take Action Against Global Warming: Watch Them Online (0)
- 05: Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them” (4)
- 05: Why Learn Latin?: 5 Videos Make a Compelling Case That the “Dead Language” Is an “Eternal Language” (0)
- 05: Yale Presents an Archive of 170,000 Photographs Documenting the Great Depression (0)
- 05: Hear the Very Moment When World War I Came to an End (0)
- 04: The Paul McCartney is Dead Conspiracy Theory, Explained (1)
- 04: The History of Europe from 400 BC to the Present, Animated in 12 Minutes (2)
- 04: The Wisdom of Ram Dass Is Now Online: Stream 150 of His Enlightened Spiritual Talks as Free Podcasts (2)
- 04: Demystifying the Falsetto Obsession in Pop & Rock Music (2)
- 04: Voice Actor Dee Bradley Baker (Clone Wars,American Dad) Defends Cartoons on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #9 (0)
- 03: Meditation for Beginners: Buddhist Monks & Teachers Explain the Basics (3)
- 03: The Greatest Cut in Film History: Watch the “Match Cut” Immortalized by Lawrence of Arabia (2)
- 03: 3,700+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in September: Enroll Today (3)
- 02: What Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War Mural (1)
- 02: Watch I Signed the Petition, a Philosophical Meditation on the Decision to Sign a Petition Asking Radiohead to Boycott Tel Aviv (2)
- 02: Harvard Students Perform Amazing Boomwhacker Covers of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,” Toto’s “Africa” & More (2)
- August 2019 (85)
- 30: 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 (1)
- 30: The Scandalous Painting That Helped Create Modern Art: An Introduction to Édouard Manet’s Olympia (2)
- 30: Lemony Snicket Reveals His Edward Gorey Obsession in an Upcoming Animated Documentary (0)
- 29: Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapers (1)
- 29: Ray Harryhausen’s Creepy War of the Worlds Sketches and Stop-Motion Test Footage (2)
- 29: The Glorious Poster Art of the Soviet Space Program in Its Golden Age (1958-1963) (2)
- 29: A Digital Animation Compares the Size of Trees: From the 3-Inch Bonsai, to the 300-Foot Sequoia (0)
- 28: David Byrne Launches Reasons to Be Cheerful, an Online Magazine Featuring Articles by Byrne, Brian Eno & More (5)
- 28: Public Library Receipt Shows How Much Money You’ve Saved by Borrowing Books, Instead of Buying Them (9)
- 28: Werner Herzog Narrates the Existential Journey of a Plastic Bag: Watch a Short Film by Acclaimed Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (0)
- 28: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #8 Discusses Spider-Man: Far From Home and the Function of Super-Hero Films (0)
- 27: David Gilmour Invites a Street Performer to Play Wine Glasses Onstage With Him In Venice: Hear Them Play “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (0)
- 27: The Timeless Beauty of the Citroën DS, the Car Mythologized by Roland Barthes (1957) (0)
- 27: Why Should You Read Haruki Murakami? An Animated Video on His “Epic Literary Puzzle” Kafka on the Shore Makes the Case (0)
- 27: Klaus Nomi Performs with Kraftwerk on German Television (1982) (0)
- 26: Nigerian Teenagers Are Making Slick Sci Fi Films With Their Smartphones (0)
- 26: Harvard Gives Free Online Access to 40 Million Pages of U.S. Case Law: Explore 6.4 Million Cases Dating Back to 1658 (0)
- 26: Discover the Spelling Dictionary That Ludwig Wittgenstein Created for Elementary School Students (0)
- 25: Stream Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, a BBC Production Featuring Derek Jacobi (Free for a Limited Time) (0)
- 23: How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz Music (5)
- 23: Why Route 66 Became America’s Most Famous Road (0)
- 23: Mister Rogers Demonstrates How to Cut a Record (0)
- 22: What Happens To Your Body & Brain If You Don’t Get Sleep? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains (0)
- 22: Marilyn Monroe Recounts Her Harrowing Experience in a Psychiatric Ward (1961) (0)
- 22: Where Zombies Come From: A Video Essay on the Origin of the Horrifying, Satirical Monsters (1)
- 21: The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders: A Tokyo Restaurant Where All the Servers Are People Living with Dementia (14)
- 21: See How Zildjian Cymbals Are Made In a Fascinating 10-Minute Short Film (0)
- 21: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue at 60: A New Video Essay Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Iconic Album (2)
- 21: Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music: An Interactive, Encyclopedic Data Visualization of 120 Years of Electronic Music (0)
- 21: Actor Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks & Rec, Magnificent Seven) Discusses Indigenous American Representation on Pretty Much Pop Podcast #7 (0)
- 20: Miles Davis Iconic 1959 Album Kind of Blue Turns 60: Revisit the Album That Changed American Music (1)
- 20: Watch Some of the Most Powerful Bass Guitar Solos Ever: Geddy Lee, Flea, Bootsy Collins, John Deacon & More (5)
- 20: The Importance of Film Editing Demonstrated by the Bad Editing of Major Films: Bohemian Rhapsody, Suicide Squad & More (0)
- 20: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (0)
- 19: Newly-Discovered John Coltrane Album, Blue World, To Be Released in September: Hear the Title Track Now (0)
- 19: Cy Kuckenbaker’s Time Collapse Videos Let You See Daily Life As You’ve Never Seen It Before (0)
- 19: Aldous Huxley Trips on Acid; Talks About Cats & the Secret of Life (1962) (0)
- 19: The Books on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List (2019) (2)
- 16: How Joni Mitchell Wrote “Woodstock,” the Song that Defined the Legendary Music Festival, Even Though She Wasn’t There (1969) (1)
- 16: Hear Laurie Anderson Read from The Tibetan Book of the Dead on New Album Songs from the Bardo (1)
- 16: Science Shows That Snowball the Cockatoo Has 14 Different Dance Moves: The Vogue, Headbang & More (1)
- 15: Listen Online to Every Minute of the Original Woodstock Festival (0)
- 15: A Short Animated Introduction to Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria’s Great Female Philosopher (2)
- 15: Watch John Entwistle’s Bass-Playing Genius on Display in Isolated Tracks for “Won’t Be Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Reilly” (2)
- 15: People Pose in Uncanny Alignment with Iconic Album Covers: Discover The Sleeveface Project (0)
- 15: Philosopher Portraits: Famous Philosophers Painted in the Style of Influential Artists (0)
- 14: Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine (13)
- 14: Philip K. Dick Tarot Cards: A Tarot Deck Modeled After the Visionary Sci-Fi Writer’s Inner World (0)
- 14: 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 (0)
- 14: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #6: Why Adults Might Play Video Games (0)
- 13: Watch Animated Scores of Eric Satie’s Most Famous Pieces: “Gymnopedie No. 1” and “Gnossienne No. 1” (0)
- 13: Enjoy Dazzling & Dizzying 360° Virtual Tours of Los Angeles Landmarks (0)
- 13: View/Download the Highest Resolution MRI Scan of a Human Brain, Revealing It as We’ve Never Seen It Before (0)
- 13: An Hour-Long Collection of Live Footage Documents the Early Days of Pink Floyd (1967-1972) (4)
- 12: Manuscript Reveals How Medieval Nun, Joan of Leeds, Faked Her Own Death to Escape the Convent (2)
- 12: Take a Virtual Tour of Jane Austen’s Library (1)
- 12: Hear Glenn Gould Celebrate the Moog Synthesizer & Wendy Carlos’ Pioneering Album Switched-On Bach (1968) (4)
- 12: Johnny Knoxville Breaks Down Every Injury of His Career (0)
- 09: NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Program (1)
- 09: How to Focus: Five Talks Reveal the Secrets of Concentration (1)
- 09: Watch the Talking Heads Play Material From Their Groundbreaking Album Remain in Light in an Incredible Concert from 1980 (2)
- 08: Who Are the Best Drum Soloists in Rock? See Legendary Performances by Neil Peart (RIP), John Bonham, Keith Moon, Terry Bozzio & More (59)
- 08: How Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Computer Code That Helped Save the Apollo Moon Landing Mission (1)
- 08: How Scientists Colorize Those Beautiful Space Photos Taken By the Hubble Space Telescope (1)
- 08: Lucy Lawless Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #5 on True Crime (0)
- 07: Leonard Cohen’s Cocktail Recipe: Learn How to Make “The Red Needle” (0)
- 07: Toni Morrison Deconstructs White Supremacy in America (4)
- 07: Joyce Carol Oates Teaches a New Online Course on the Art of the Short Story (0)
- 06: Hear Toni Morrison (RIP) Present Her Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993) (0)
- 06: What the First Movies Really Looked Like: Discover the IMAX Films of the 1890s (0)
- 06: Discover Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Collection of Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online (1)
- 06: Why Is Jackie Chan the King of Action Comedy? A Video Essay Masterfully Makes the Case (0)
- 05: 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 (4)
- 05: RIP D.A. Pennebaker: Watch Scenes from His Groundbreaking Bob Dylan Documentary Dont Look Back (0)
- 05: The Authentic Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Watch a Performance Based on Original Manuscripts & Played with 18th-Century Instruments (0)
- 05: An Artist Crochets a Life-Size, Anatomically-Correct Skeleton, Complete with Organs (0)
- 04: 3,500+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in August: Enroll Today (1)
- 02: Why a Cat Always Lands on Its Feet: How a French Scientist Used Photography to Solve the Problem in 1894 (0)
- 02: The Library of Congress Digitizes Over 16,000 Pages of Letters & Speeches from the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and You Can Help Transcribe Them (2)
- 02: The Unexpected Ways Eastern Philosophy Can Make Us Wiser, More Compassionate & Better Able to Appreciate Our Lives (2)
- 02: Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” Sung in the Style of David Bowie (0)
- 02: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #4 – HBO’s “Chernobyl”: Why Do We Enjoy Watching Suffering? (1)
- 01: The Authentic Pachelbel’s Canon: Watch a Performance Based on the Original Manuscript & Played with Original 17th-Century Instruments (10)
- 01: Mont Saint-Michel Beautifully Viewed from a Drone (0)
- 01: How the Yamaha DX7 Digital Synthesizer Defined the Sound of 1980s Music (2)
- July 2019 (81)
- 31: How Quentin Tarantino Steals from Other Movies: A Video Essay (3)
- 31: An Introduction to Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda: Romantic, Radical & Revolutionary (0)
- 31: David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs: Listen to Them Online (5)
- 30: Watch Pink Floyd Play Live Amidst the Ruins of Pompeii in 1971 … and David Gilmour Does It Again in 2016 (2)
- 30: How Ladies & Gentlemen Got Dressed in the 18th Century: It Was a Pretty Involved Process (0)
- 30: The Therapeutic Benefits of Ambient Music: Science Shows How It Eases Chronic Anxiety, Physical Pain, and ICU-Related Trauma (1)
- 29: Behold Color Photographs Taken During the Aftermath of San Francisco’s Devastating 1906 Earthquake (2)
- 29: Sir Ian McKellen Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter to High School Students: Make Art and “Make Your Soul Grow” (0)
- 29: How B.B. King & Stevie Ray Vaughan Dealt With Breaking Strings Onstage Mid-Song: A Masterclass in Handling Onstage Mishaps (1)
- 29: Pretty Much Pop #3: CONFORM with Yakov Smirnoff (0)
- 28: Moonlight Strikes 107,000 Solar Mirrors & Creates a Portrait of Apollo 11 Computer Programmer Margaret Hamilton (0)
- 26: Martin Amis Explains How to Use a Thesaurus to Actually Improve Your Writing (1)
- 26: Bryan Magee (RIP) Presents In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers (7)
- 26: How Kurt Cobain Confronted Violence Against Women in His “Darkest Song”: Nevermind‘s “Polly” (0)
- 26: Watch an Animated Documentary About the Pioneering Journalist & Feminist Icon Nellie Bly (1)
- 25: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins Go Through Customs and Sign Immigration Form After the First Moon Landing (1969) (1)
- 24: “I Saw the Future”: Rutger Hauer (RIP) Remembers His Most Memorable Role in Blade Runner (1)
- 24: Why Should We Read Virgil’s Aeneid? An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 24: Deconstructing Brian Eno’s Music for Airports: Explore the Tape Loops That Make Up His Groundbreaking Ambient Music (0)
- 24: The Jane Austen Fiction Manuscript Archive Is Online: Explore Handwritten Drafts of Persuasion, The Watsons & More (0)
- 24: Why 1999 Was the Year of Dystopian Office Movies: What The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space & Being John Malkovich Shared in Common (0)
- 23: Can Artificial Intelligence Decipher Lost Languages? Researchers Attempt to Decode 3500-Year-Old Ancient Languages (1)
- 23: A 9th Century Manuscript Teaches Astronomy by Making Sublime Pictures Out of Words (0)
- 23: The Velvet Underground Captured in Color Concert Footage by Andy Warhol (1967) (0)
- 23: Pretty Much Pop #2: Binge Watching (0)
- 22: A New Interactive Visualization of the 165,000 Most-Frequently Assigned Texts in College Courses (1)
- 22: Mister Rogers Creates a Prime Time TV Special to Help Parents Talk to Their Children About the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968) (1)
- 22: What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Listens to John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space & Starts to Create Its Own Free Jazz (3)
- 19: Every Harrowing Second of the Apollo 11 Landing Revisited in a New NASA Video: It Took Place 50 Years Ago Today (July 20, 1969) (1)
- 19: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Prediction of How American Democracy Could Lapse Into Despotism, Read by Michel Houellebecq (5)
- 19: Songs by Joni Mitchell Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers & Vintage Movie Posters (2)
- 18: Richard Feynman’s Technique for Learning Something New: An Animated Introduction (3)
- 18: Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975) (2)
- 18: Introducing Pretty Much Pop (A Culture Podcast): Episode 1 – Pop Culture vs. High Culture (0)
- 18: An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges (0)
- 18: There’s a Tiny Art Museum on the Moon That Features the Art of Andy Warhol & Robert Rauschenberg (0)
- 17: The Romanovs’ Last Spectacular Ball Brought to Life in Color Photographs (1903) (22)
- 17: When Neil Young & Devo Jammed Together: Watch Them Play “Hey Hey, My My” in a Clip from the 1982 Film Human Highway (0)
- 17: Beatles Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers and Magazine Pages: “Drive My Car,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” & More (0)
- 16: Alan Turing Will Be Featured on England’s New £50 Banknote (0)
- 16: Behold Fantastical Illustrations from the 13th Century Arabic Manuscript Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (0)
- 16: The Piano Played with 16 Increasing Levels of Complexity: From Easy to Very Complex (0)
- 16: The Principles for Success by Entrepreneur & Investor Ray Dalio: A 30-Minute Animated Primer (0)
- 15: What Happened to the 1200 Paintings Painted by Bob Ross? The Mystery Has Finally Been Solved (9)
- 15: The 1855 Map That Revolutionized Disease Prevention & Data Visualization: Discover John Snow’s Broad Street Pump Map (0)
- 15: Why Should We Read Pioneering Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler? An Animated Video Makes the Case (0)
- 15: George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Praised as the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, Gets Digitized as Early Installments Enter the Public Domain (3)
- 14: An Illustrated Version of The Mueller Report: Read Online an Edition Created by the Author of Black Hawk Down and an Illustrator from Archer (2)
- 12: A Beautiful 1870 Visualization of the Hallucinations That Come Before a Migraine (10)
- 12: Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860) (3)
- 12: The New David Bowie Barbie Doll Released to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of “Space Oddity” (2)
- 11: 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 (6)
- 11: The Evolution of the World Map: An Inventive Infographic Shows How Our Picture of the World Changed Over 1,800 Years (2)
- 11: Napoleon’s Disastrous Invasion of Russia Detailed in an 1869 Data Visualization: It’s Been Called “the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn” (0)
- 10: The Restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Begins: Watch the Painstaking Process On-Site and Online (0)
- 10: Arnold Schoenberg, Avant-Garde Composer, Creates a System of Symbols for Notating Tennis Matches (0)
- 10: 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 (3)
- 10: Lennon or McCartney? Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence to Figure Out Who Wrote Iconic Beatles Songs (2)
- 09: The Simpsons Reimagined as a Russian Art Film (5)
- 09: When MAD Magazine Ruffled the Feathers of the FBI, Not Once But Three Times (0)
- 09: The Most Disturbing Painting: A Close Look at Francisco Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” (7)
- 08: Deconstructing Stevie Wonder’s Ode to Jazz and His Hero Duke Ellington: A Great Breakdown of “Sir Duke” (3)
- 08: Download Beautiful Panoramic Paintings of U.S. National Parks by H.C. Berann: Maps That Look Even More Vivid Than the Real Thing (0)
- 08: Remembering the “Father of Bossa Nova” João Gilberto (RIP) with Four Classic Live Performances: “The Girl From Ipanema,” “Corcovado” & More (1)
- 05: The Secret Language of Trees: A Charming Animated Lesson Explains How Trees Share Information with Each Other (4)
- 05: The End of an Era: MAD Magazine Will Publish Its Last Issue With Original Content This Fall (10)
- 05: The Walkman Turns 40: See Every Generation of Sony’s the Iconic Personal Stereo in One Minute (0)
- 04: How Intellectual Humility Can Boost Our Curiosity & Ability to Learn: Read the Findings of a New Study (0)
- 04: Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944) (3)
- 04: When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place (1)
- 03: A Documentary Introduction to Nick Drake, Whose Haunting & Influential Songs Came Into the World 50 Years Ago Today (0)
- 03: Anton Chekhov’s Six Rules For Writing Fiction (1)
- 03: Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition (0)
- 03: A Witty Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909) (0)
- 03: How Sleep Can Become Your “Superpower:” Scientist Matt Walker Explains Why Sleep Helps You Learn More and Live Longer (0)
- 02: How to Read Many More Books in a Year: Watch a Short Documentary Featuring Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores (2)
- 02: Segregated By Design: An Animated Look at How African-American Enclaves in U.S. Cities Is Hardly an Accident (0)
- 02: Watch The Velvet Underground Perform in Rare Color Footage: Scenes from a Vietnam War Protest Concert (1969) (0)
- 01: The First Museum Dedicated Exclusively to Poster Art Opens Its Doors in the U.S.: Enter the Poster House (1)
- 01: Watch a Star-Studded Cast Read The Mueller Report: John Lithgow, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Annette Bening & More (2)
- 01: Queen Guitarist Brian May Is Also an Astrophysicist: Read His PhD Thesis Online (6)
- June 2019 (69)
- 28: A Quick Six Minute Journey Through Modern Art: How You Get from Manet’s 1862 Painting, “The Luncheon on the Grass,” to Jackson Pollock 1950s Drip Paintings (0)
- 28: How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats (1)
- 28: 3 Iconic Paintings by Frida Kahlo Get Reborn as Vans Skate Shoes (0)
- 27: Meet Emma Willard, the First Female Map Maker in the U.S., and Her Brilliantly Inventive Maps (Circa 1826) (0)
- 27: 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body (1)
- 27: How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer (4)
- 27: Deliberate Practice: A Mindful & Methodical Way to Master Any Skill (3)
- 26: Arab Photography Archive Puts 22,000 Historic Images Online: Get a Rare Glimpse into Life and Art in the Arab World (1)
- 26: Joy Harjo, Newly-Appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, Reads Her Poems, “Remember,” “A Poem to Get Rid of Fear,” “An American Sunrise” and More (2)
- 26: Watch Battered & Bruised Vintage Toys Get Mesmerizingly Restored to Near Mint Condition (1)
- 25: In 1886, the US Government Commissioned 7,500 Watercolor Paintings of Every Known Fruit in the World: Download Them in High Resolution (13)
- 25: Two Animated Maps Show the Expansion of the U.S. from the Different Perspectives of Settlers & Native Peoples (1)
- 25: The Meandering Mississippi River and How It Evolved Over Thousands of Years Visualized in Brilliant Maps from 1944 (2)
- 25: Cartoonist Lynda Barry Teaches You How to Draw (0)
- 24: Elvis Costello’s List of 500 Albums That Will Improve Your Life (0)
- 24: An Introduction to the Life & Music of Fela Kuti: Radical Nigerian Bandleader, Political Hero, and Creator of Afrobeat (5)
- 24: Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink “Unlimited” Alcohol in Prohibition America (1932) (1)
- 21: Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason Presents the History of Music & Technology in a Nine-Part BBC Podcast (0)
- 21: What the Textbooks Don’t Tell Us About The Atlantic Slave Trade: An Animated Video Fills In Historical Gaps (2)
- 21: What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self?: What Research Shows, and What You Have to Say (3)
- 21: Hear a Previously Unheard Freddie Mercury Song, “Time Waits for No One,” Unearthed After 33 Years (0)
- 20: The Atlas of Space: Behold Brilliant Maps of Constellations, Asteroids, Planets & “Everything in the Solar System Bigger Than 10km” (0)
- 20: Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky Demystifies Depression, Which, Like Diabetes, Is Rooted in Biology (0)
- 20: Apollo 11 in Real Time: A New Web Site Lets You Take a Real-Time Journey Through First Landing on the Moon (0)
- 19: How to Argue With Kindness and Care: 4 Rules from Philosopher Daniel Dennett (1)
- 19: How Blondie’s Debbie Harry Learned to Deal With Superficial, Demeaning Interviewers (1)
- 19: When Stanley Kubrick Banned His Own Film, A Clockwork Orange: It Was the “Most Effective Censorship of a Film in British History” (0)
- 18: Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV (1971) (1)
- 18: How the Universe Will Come to Its Explosive End: Trillions of Years Covered in 29 Timelapse Minutes (1)
- 18: The Ruins of Chernobyl Captured in Three Haunting, Drone-Shot Videos (2)
- 17: Lost Miles Davis Album, Rubberband, Will Finally Be Released This Fall: Hear the Title Track, “Rubberband,” in Five Different Versions (0)
- 17: Women Who Draw: Explore an Open Directory That Showcases the Work of 5,000+ Female Illustrators (1)
- 17: Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Opens in China 18 Years After Its Original Release: See Beautiful New Posters for the Film (0)
- 16: A Wild 40-Minute Race Down Alpe D’Huez (0)
- 14: Scenes from HBO’s Chernobyl v. Real Footage Shot in 1986: A Side-By-Side Comparison (1)
- 14: Hear What’s Likely the Only Known Recording of Frida Kahlo’s Voice (1954) (4)
- 14: The Brilliant Colors of the Great Barrier Revealed in a Historic Illustrated Book from 1893 (0)
- 13: An Interactive Map of Odysseus’ 10-Year Journey in Homer’s Odyssey (8)
- 13: New Interactive “Murder Map” Reveals the Meanest Streets of Medieval London (2)
- 13: Atheists & Agnostics Also Frequently Believe in the Supernatural, a New Study Shows (3)
- 13: A Subway Map of Human Anatomy: All the Systems of Our Body Visualized in the Style of the London Underground (0)
- 12: Radiohead Releases 18 Hours of Demos from OK Computer for a Limited Time–After Hackers Try to Hold Them for Ransom (0)
- 12: The Recorder Played Like You’ve Never Heard it Before: Hear a Stunning Solo from Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C Major (1)
- 12: Leonardo da Vinci’s Huge Notebook Collections, the Codex Forster, Now Digitized in High-Resolution: Explore Them Online (2)
- 11: Meet Gerda Taro, the First Female Photojournalist to Die on the Front Lines (3)
- 11: Oliver Sacks Promotes the Healing Power of Gardens: They’re “More Powerful Than Any Medication” (0)
- 11: Watch The Meaning of Life: One of the Best Animated Short Films Ever Made Traces the Evolution of Life, the Universe & Beyond (0)
- 10: Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac (0)
- 10: Andy Warhol Explains Why He Decided to Give Up Painting & Manage the Velvet Underground Instead (1966) (5)
- 10: Jeff Tweedy Explains How to Learn to Love Music You Hate: Watch a Video Animated by R. Sikoryak (1)
- 07: How David Bowie Delivered His Two Most Famous Farewells: As Ziggy Stardust in 1973, and at the End of His Life in 2016 (2)
- 07: What Did Old English Sound Like? Hear Reconstructions of Beowulf, The Bible, and Casual Conversations (4)
- 07: A New Photo Book Documents the Wonderful Homemade Cat Ladders of Switzerland (1)
- 07: The Longest of the Grateful Dead’s Epic Long Jams: “Dark Star” (1972), “The Other One” (1972) and “Playing in The Band” (1974) (1)
- 06: Bryan Cranston Narrates the Landing on Omaha Beach on the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion (0)
- 06: Download Iconic National Park Fonts: They’re Now Digitized & Free to Use (0)
- 06: The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps (0)
- 06: When Kraftwerk Issued Their Own Pocket Calculator Synthesizer — to Play Their Song “Pocket Calculator” (1981) (3)
- 05: See the Very First Solar Eclipse Captured on Film: A Magical Moment in Science and Filmmaking (1900) (0)
- 05: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jared Diamond Describes How the U.S. Could Become a Dictatorship in 10 Years (13)
- 05: 136 Maps Reveal Where Tourists & Locals Take Photos in Major Cities Across the Globe (0)
- 04: Marie Curie Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize, the First Person to Win Twice, and the Only Person in History to Win in Two Different Sciences (1)
- 04: Watch the First Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s New Film, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (3)
- 04: Exercise May Prove an Effective Natural Treatment for Depression & Anxiety, New Study Shows (0)
- 04: The Giger Bar: Discover the 1980s Tokyo Bar Designed by H. R. Giger, the Same Artist Who Created the Nightmarish Monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1)
- 03: What If We’re Wrong?: An Animated Video Challenges Our Most Deeply Held Beliefs–With the Help of a Ludwig Wittgenstein Thought Experiment (8)
- 03: Watch John Bonham’s Blistering 13-Minute Drum Solo on “Moby Dick,” One of His Finest Moments Live Onstage (1970) (2)
- 03: Why You Should Read The Master and Margarita: An Animated Introduction to Bulgakov’s Rollicking Soviet Satire (1)
- 03: Elton John Takes Us Through the Creative Process of His Early Hit “Tiny Dancer” (1970) (1)
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- 31: The Cure Performed the Entire “Disintegration” Album on the 30th Anniversary of Its Release: Watch The Complete Concert Online (2)
- 31: The First Museum Dedicated to Japanese Folklore Monsters Is Now Open (0)
- 31: The Art & Cooking of Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali, Georgia O’Keeffe, Vincent Van Gogh & More (0)
- 31: Metallica, REM, Led Zeppelin & Queen Sung in the Style of Gregorian Chant (1)
- 30: 1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults (14)
- 30: Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838-2019) (1)
- 30: When Boris Pasternak Won–and Then the Soviets Forced Him to Decline–the Nobel Prize (1958) (1)
- 29: The Story of Pure Hell, the “First Black Punk Band” That Emerged in the 70s, Then Disappeared for Decades (2)
- 29: How Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Recreates the Epic Hero’s Journey Described by Joseph Campbell (1)
- 29: The Psychological Dimensions of Game of Thrones: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast Explores the Fantasy Spectacle (0)
- 29: McDonald’s Opens a Tiny Restaurant — and It’s Only for Bees (0)
- 28: Download 91,000 Historic Maps from the Massive David Rumsey Map Collection (5)
- 28: Bill Gates Recommends Five Books to Read This Summer (0)
- 28: Hear the Song That Two Teenage Musicians, Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, Recorded Together in 1958 (0)
- 28: Andy Warhol Demystified: Four Videos Explain His Groundbreaking Art and Its Cultural Impact (0)
- 27: How Carl Jung Inspired the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous (8)
- 27: Watch Patti Smith’s New Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud (0)
- 27: Why You Should Read Crime and Punishment: An Animated Introduction to Dostoevsky’s Moral Thriller (5)
- 25: Todd Rundgren’s Advice to Young Artists: Be Free and Fearless, Make Art That Expresses Your True Self, and Never Mind the Critics (2)
- 25: The Mueller Report Released as a Free Well-Formatted eBook (by The Digital Public Library of America) (3)
- 24: How Computers Ruined Rock Music (3)
- 24: Johannes Kepler Theorized That Each Planet Sings a Song, Each in a Different Voice: Mars is a Tenor; Mercury, a Soprano; and Earth, an Alto (1)
- 23: New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s (18)
- 23: The Creative Life of Jim Henson Explored in a Six-Part Documentary Series (0)
- 23: When John Waters Appeared on The Simpsons and Changed America’s LGBTQ Views (1997) (5)
- 22: Banksy Strikes Again in Venice (2)
- 22: Fleetwood Mac Unveils Their New Singer Stevie Nicks, and The World Takes Notice: Watch Bewitching Performances of “Rhiannon” (1975-1976) (2)
- 22: The Strikingly Beautiful Maps & Charts That Fired the Imagination of Students in the 1880s (0)
- 22: The Lives of John Coltrane & Billie Holiday Are Now Told in Two Graphic Novels (2)
- 21: The Bauhaus Bookshelf: Download Original Bauhaus Books, Journals, Manifestos & Ads That Still Inspire Designers Worldwide (1)
- 21: James Taylor Gives Guitar Lessons, Teaching You How to Play Classic Songs Like “Fire and Rain,” “Country Road” & “Carolina in My Mind” (2)
- 21: The Story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Rise in the 1980s Art World Gets Told in a New Graphic Novel (1)
- 20: MIT Robot Breaks Rubik’s Cube World Record, Solving It in 0.38 Seconds (1)
- 20: Who Is Neil Young?: A Video Essay Explores the Two Sides of the Versatile Musician–Folk Icon and Father of Grunge (4)
- 20: Keith Moon Plays Drums Onstage with Led Zeppelin in What Would Be His Last Live Performance (1977) (4)
- 20: Discover Kōlams, the Traditional Indian Patterns That Combine Art, Mathematics & Magic (0)
- 19: Graduation Highlight: Billionaire Robert F. Smith Announces That He’ll Pay Off the Student Loans of Morehouse’s Class of 2019 (2)
- 17: Pink Floyd Songs Played Splendidly on a Harp Guitar: “Comfortably Numb,” “Wish You Were Here” & More (0)
- 17: A New Archive Transcribes and Puts Online the Diaries & Notebooks of Women Artists, Art Historians, Critics and Dealers (0)
- 17: What Did Etruscan Sound Like? An Animated Video Pronounces the Ancient Language That We Still Don’t Fully Understand (1)
- 16: The Who and Jimmy Fallon Sing “Won’t Get Fooled Again” with Classroom Instruments (0)
- 16: When The New York Times Got Duped into Publishing “The Lexicon of Grunge” in 1992–Words Like “Lamestain,” “Wack Slacks,” “Harsh Realm” & More (2)
- 16: Critical Thinking: A Free Course (2)
- 16: Hunter S. Thompson’s Ballsy Job Application Letter (1958) (0)
- 16: The Writing System of the Cryptic Voynich Manuscript Explained: British Researcher May Have Finally Cracked the Code (2)
- 15: A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Existing Collection of His Drawings & Writings (1)
- 15: When Dracula Author Bram Stoker Wrote a Gushing Fan Letter to Walt Whitman (1870) (0)
- 15: Creative Commons Officially Launches a Search Engine That Indexes 300+ Million Public Domain Images (1)
- 15: Paris, New York & Havana Come to Life in Colorized Films Shot Between 1890 and 1931 (0)
- 14: Free: Play the Original “Minecraft” in Your Browser (28)
- 14: Learn Philosophy with a Wealth of Free Courses, Podcasts and YouTube Videos (1)
- 14: Watch “Critical Living,” a Stop-Motion Film Inspired by the 1960s Movement That Rejected Modern Ideas About Mental Illness (0)
- 14: Would You Go Back to 1889 and Take Out Baby Hitler?: Time-Travel Expert James Gleick Answers the Philosophical Question (9)
- 13: Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of 46 Books: From Plants and Neuroscience, to Poetry and the Prose of Nabokov (2)
- 13: An Animated Introduction to the World’s Five Major Religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity & Islam (2)
- 13: Watch the World’s First Animated Cartoon, 1908’s Trippy, Funny Fantasmagorie (1)
- 10: The Artistry of the Mentally Ill: The 1922 Book That Published the Fascinating Work of Schizophrenic Patients, and Influenced Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky & Other Avant Garde Artists (3)
- 10: Why Knights Fought Snails in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts (12)
- 10: Star Trek‘s Nichelle Nichols Creates a Short Film for NASA to Recruit New Astronauts (1977) (0)
- 09: “Gonzo” Defined by Hunter S. Thompson’s Personal Copy of the Random House Dictionary (0)
- 09: Tangled Up in Blue: Deciphering a Bob Dylan Masterpiece (0)
- 09: A Mesmerizing Trip Across the Brooklyn Bridge: Watch Footage from 1899 (0)
- 09: Discover Friedrich Nietzsche’s Curious Typewriter, the “Malling-Hansen Writing Ball” (Circa 1881) (1)
- 09: What is Camp? When the “Good Taste of Bad Taste” Becomes an Aesthetic (0)
- 08: Discover Frida Kahlo’s Wildly-Illustrated Diary: It Chronicled the Last 10 Years of Her Life, and Then Got Locked Away for Decades (0)
- 08: Mapping Emotions in the Body: A Finnish Neuroscience Study Reveals Where We Feel Emotions in Our Bodies (4)
- 08: Is the Leonardo da Vinci Painting “Salvator Mundi” (Which Sold for $450 Million in 2017) Actually Authentic?: Michael Lewis Explores the Question in His New Podcast (2)
- 08: What the Theory?: Watch Short Introductions to Postmodernism, Semiotics, Phenomenology, Marxist Literary Criticism and More (0)
- 07: How David Bowie Used William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method to Write His Unforgettable Lyrics (3)
- 07: Mr. Rogers’ Nine Rules for Speaking to Children (1977) (0)
- 07: Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Japanese Chalk (2)
- 07: Pioneering Computer Scientist Grace Hopper Shows Us How to Visualize a Nanosecond (1983) (0)
- 06: Venerable Female Artists, Musicians & Authors Give Advice to the Young: Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson & More (0)
- 06: What Is Performance Art?: We Explain It with Video Introductions and Classic Performances (0)
- 06: The Shifting Power of the World’s Largest Cities Visualized Over 4,000 Years (2050 BC-2050 AD) (0)
- 06: The Rise and Fall of Western Empires Visualized Through the Artful Metaphor of Cell Division (0)
- 03: How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from “Moby Dick”: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (1)
- 03: How to Make a Medieval Manuscript: An Introduction in 7 Videos (0)
- 03: 2,500+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in May: Enroll Today (3)
- 02: The Last Duel Took Place in France in 1967, and It’s Caught on Film (10)
- 02: 53 Years of Nuclear Testing in 14 Minutes: A Time Lapse Film by Japanese Artist Isao Hashimoto (0)
- 02: When American Financiers and Business Leaders Plotted to Overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and Install a Fascist Government in the U.S. (1933) (6)
- 02: Behold the Ingenious Musical Marble Machine (0)
- 01: Meanwhile, Inside the Box, Schrodinger’s Cat Plans Its Revenge… (3)
- 01: Elizabeth Cotten Wrote “Freight Train” at 11, Won a Grammy at 90, and Changed American Music In-Between (0)
- 01: Classic Children’s Books Now Digitized and Put Online: Revisit Vintage Works from the 19th & 20th Centuries (0)
- 01: Watch Six New Short Alien Films: Created to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Film (0)
- April 2019 (91)
- 30: A Dictionary of Words Invented to Name Emotions We All Feel, But Don’t Yet Have a Name For: Vemödalen, Sonder, Chrysalism & Much More (6)
- 30: High School Kids Stage Alien: The Play and You Can Now Watch It Online (0)
- 30: Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the Original Fat Albert TV Special (1969) (1)
- 30: The Cast of Avengers: Endgame Rendered in Traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e Style (0)
- 29: Hear Debbie Harry’s Stunning Ethereal Vocal Tracks from “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “Rapture,” and “One Way or Another” (4)
- 29: Roald Dahl, Who Lost His Daughter to Measles, Writes a Heartbreaking Letter about Vaccinations: “It Is Almost a Crime to Allow Your Child to Go Unimmunised” (5)
- 29: Is Modern Society Stealing What Makes Us Human?: A Glimpse Into Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra by The Partially Examined Life (4)
- 29: Meet Freddie Mercury and His Faithful Feline Friends (1)
- 29: Watch the Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack Released Only in Japan: A New Way to Experience David Lynch’s Classic Show (0)
- 28: How to Take 70+ MasterClass Courses For Less Than a Cup of Good Coffee (3)
- 26: Why Do Sad People Like to Listen to Sad Music? Psychologists Answer the Question in Two Studies (15)
- 26: Steven Pinker & Rebecca Goldstein Debate the Value of Reason in an Animated Socratic Dialogue (0)
- 26: Steve Jobs Shares a Secret for Success: Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help (0)
- 26: Trivial Pursuit: The Shakespeare Edition Has Just Been Released: Answer 600 Questions Based on the Life & Works of William Shakespeare (0)
- 25: David Bowie’s Mystical Appearances in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (4)
- 25: Listen to Last Seen, a True-Crime Podcast That Takes You Inside an Unsolved, $500 Million Art Heist (0)
- 25: Animated Maps Reveal the True Size of Countries (and Show How Traditional Maps Distort Our World) (2)
- 25: The Ten Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers (54)
- 24: An Animated Introduction to H.P. Lovecraft and How He Invented a New Gothic Horror (1)
- 24: A Short Animated Film Explores the Fluidity of Gender in the Thought of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler (1)
- 24: Stream Free Online 200 Films from Tribeca Film Festivals (0)
- 24: Freddie Mercury Reimagined as Comic Book Heroes (1)
- 23: Hear J.R.R. Tolkien Read from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in Vintage Recordings from the Early 1950s (4)
- 23: Hear Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig in the Sky” Played on the Theremin (0)
- 23: The Medieval City Plan Generator: A Fun Way to Create Your Own Imaginary Medieval Cities (0)
- 23: The Daily Rituals of 143 Famous Female Creators: Octavia Butler, Edith Wharton, Coco Chanel & More (0)
- 22: Here’s What Ancient Dogs Looked Like: A Forensic Reconstruction of a Dog That Lived 4,500 Years Ago (3)
- 22: Enter, Explore, and Learn About Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson with a New Augmented-Reality App (0)
- 22: What Is a Zen Koan? An Animated Introduction to Eastern Philosophical Thought Experiments (0)
- 22: Paris in Beautiful Color Images from 1890: The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, The Panthéon, and More (1890) (0)
- 20: Experience the Majesty of Notre Dame by Getting a Free Download of the Video Game Assassin’s Creed Unity (Free for a Limited Time) (0)
- 20: Climate Change Gets Strikingly Visualized by a Scottish Art Installation (10)
- 19: Billy Collins Teaches Poetry in a New Online Course (1)
- 19: Street Art for Book Lovers: Dutch Artists Paint Massive Bookcase Mural on the Side of a Building (1)
- 19: The Mueller Report Is #1, #2 and #3 on the Amazon Bestseller List: You Can Get It Free Online (2)
- 18: 9 Science-Fiction Authors Predict the Future: How Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick & More Imagined the World Ahead (1)
- 18: How the Vietnam War Shaped Classic Rock–And How Classic Rock Shaped the War (5)
- 18: 150 Renowned Secular Academics & 20 Christian Thinkers Talking About the Existence of God (0)
- 18: How Venice Works: 124 Islands, 183 Canals & 438 Bridges (1)
- 17: How Digital Scans of Notre Dame Can Help Architects Rebuild the Burned Cathedral (0)
- 17: A 16th Century “Database” of Every Book in the World Gets Unearthed: Discover the Libro de los Epítomes Assembled by Christopher Columbus’ Son (2)
- 17: Animations Visualize the Evolution of London and New York: From Their Creation to the Present Day (2)
- 16: A Virtual Time-Lapse Recreation of the Building of Notre Dame (1160) (0)
- 16: How Andy Warhol and Tintin Creator Hergé Mutually Admired and Influenced One Another (0)
- 16: “Kubrick/Tarkovsky”: A Video Essay Explores the Visual Similarities Between the Two “Cinematic Giants” (1)
- 16: How Leonardo da Vinci Drew an Accurate Satellite Map of an Italian City (1502) (0)
- 15: Notre Dame Captured in an Early Photograph, 1838 (2)
- 15: The Charlie Chaplin Archive Opens, Putting Online 30,000 Photos & Documents from the Life of the Iconic Film Star (1)
- 15: Should Literature Be Political? A Glimpse into Sartre by The Partially Examined Life (0)
- 15: Salvador Dalí’s Illustrations for The Bible (1963) (0)
- 15: Fashion Designers in 1939 Predict How People Would Dress in the Year 2000 (0)
- 15: How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole: Watch the 2017 Ted Talk by Katie Bouman, the MIT Grad Student Who Helped Take the Groundbreaking Photo (0)
- 14: Google Celebrates the Bauhaus School’s 100th Anniversary with an Animated Doodle (0)
- 12: Nick Cave Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Songs–His Favorite “Hiding Songs” (2)
- 12: Jorge Luis Borges Draws a Self-Portrait After Going Blind (0)
- 12: Thomas Mann Explains the Nazis’ Ulterior Motive for Spreading Anti-Semitism in Rare 1940 Audio (1)
- 11: See the Oldest Printed Advertisement in English: An Ad for a Book from 1476 (0)
- 11: The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics Collided with the Religious Right (2)
- 11: Economics 101: Hedge Fund Investor Ray Dalio Explains How the Economy Works in a 30-Minute Animated Video (0)
- 10: Nick Cave Creates a List of His Top 10 Love Songs (6)
- 10: A Brief History of IDEO: A Short Documentary Takes You Inside the Design Firm That Changed the Way We Think about Design (0)
- 10: New Augmented Reality App Celebrates Stories of Women Typically Omitted from U.S. History Textbooks (3)
- 09: When the Nazis Declared War on Expressionist Art (1937) (2)
- 09: 550 Million Years of Human Evolution in an Illustrated Flipbook (0)
- 09: What Does “Machiavellian” Really Mean?: An Animated Lesson (0)
- 09: Behold the Sola-Busca Tarot Deck, the Earliest Complete Set of Tarot Cards (1490) (2)
- 08: Watch the Trailer for Echo in the Canyon, the New Documentary on the 1960s Laurel Canyon Music Scene (1)
- 08: Neurons as Art: See Beautiful Anatomy Drawings by the Father of Neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (0)
- 08: Cinema Lovers Rejoice, the New Criterion Channel Launches Today: Get a 14-Day Free Trial (2)
- 08: Deconstructing Steely Dan: The Band That Was More Than Just a Band (14)
- 08: Watch Great Directors, a Documentary That Explores the Minds of 10 Great Auteurs: David Lynch, Agnès Varda, Richard Linklater & More (0)
- 05: 700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized and Available Online (13)
- 05: Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape in the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back (10)
- 05: The Fantastical Sketchbook of a Medieval Inventor: See Designs for Flamethrowers, Mechanical Camels & More (Circa 1415) (0)
- 05: An Animated History of Dogs, Inspired by Keith Haring (0)
- 04: Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful (0)
- 04: Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings (10)
- 04: 800+ Treasured Medieval Manuscripts to Be Digitized by Cambridge & Heidelberg Universities (0)
- 04: NASA Captures First Air-to-Air Images of Supersonic Shockwaves Interacting in Flight (1)
- 03: A Brief Animated Introduction to the Life and Work of Frida Kahlo (0)
- 03: 2,400+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in April: Enroll Today (0)
- 03: High School Kids Stage Alien: The Play, Get Kudos from Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver (1)
- 03: It’s Official: The “Nones”– People Who Profess No Religion–Are Now as Big as Catholics & Evangelicals in the United States (3)
- 02: Noam Chomsky Makes His First Power Point Presentation (6)
- 02: The First American Picture Book, Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928) (2)
- 02: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Beauty of Brutalist Architecture: An Introduction in Six Videos (7)
- 02: See Classic Performances of Joni Mitchell from the Very Early Years–Before She Was Even Named Joni Mitchell (1965/66) (1)
- 01: The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: A New Documentary (0)
- 01: David Bowie Songs Reimagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers: Space Oddity, Heroes, Life on Mars & More (4)
- 01: Do Ethicists Behave Any Better Than the Rest of Us?: Here’s What the Research Shows (0)
- 01: Modern Corporate Logos Reimagined in a Classic Bauhaus Style: Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Bauhaus Movement Today (0)
- March 2019 (78)
- 29: Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist (10)
- 29: Does Democracy Demand the Tolerance of the Intolerant? Karl Popper’s Paradox (13)
- 29: Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts: Why So Many Drawings in the Margins Depict Bunnies Going Bad (19)
- 28: 140 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (0)
- 28: Isaac Asimov’s Guide to the Bible: A Witty, Erudite Atheist’s Guide to the World’s Most Famous Book (7)
- 28: Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: A Digital Celebration of the Founding of the Bauhaus School 100 Years Ago (0)
- 28: The Amazing Isolated Drums of Dennis Davis, David Bowie’s Master Drummer, Revisited by Producer Tony Visconti (2)
- 28: Newly Discovered Shipwreck Proves Herodotus, the “Father of History,” Correct 2500 Years Later (1)
- 27: The Venice Time Machine: 1,000 Years of Venice’s History Gets Digitally Preserved with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (2)
- 27: Steven Pinker’s 13 Rules for Good Writing (1)
- 27: Salvador Dalí & the Marx Brothers’ 1930s Film Script Gets Released as a Graphic Novel (0)
- 26: New Archive Digitizes 80,000 Historic Watercolor Paintings, the Medium Through Which We Documented the World Before Photography (5)
- 26: A Visual Map of the World’s Major Religions (and Non-Religions) (1)
- 26: Why Nobody Smiles in Old Photos: The Technological & Cultural Reasons Behind All those Black-and-White Frowns (0)
- 25: William S. Burroughs’ Manifesto for Overthrowing a Corrupt Government with Fake News and Other Prophetic Methods: It’s Now Published for the First Time (1)
- 25: Does Playing Music for Cheese During the Aging Process Change Its Flavor? Researchers Find That Hip Hop Makes It Smellier, and Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Makes It Milder (2)
- 25: The Sax Solo on Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” on a 10 Hour, Endless Loop (6)
- 25: Journalism Under Siege: A Free Online Course from Stanford Explores the Imperiled Freedom of the Press (5)
- 25: Watch Seder-Masochism, Nina Paley’s Animated, Feminist Take on the Passover Holiday: The Animated Feature Film Is Free and in the Public Domain (1)
- 24: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100: Hear the Great San Francisco Poet Read “Trump’s Trojan Horse,” “Pity the Nation” & Many Other Poems (4)
- 22: 24 Common Cognitive Biases: A Visual List of the Psychological Systems Errors That Keep Us From Thinking Rationally (4)
- 22: Beautiful Hand-Colored Japanese Flowers Created by the Pioneering Photographer Ogawa Kazumasa (1896) (0)
- 22: An Archive of Animations/Cartoons of Ancient Greece & Rome: From the 1920s Through Today (1)
- 21: The Case for Why Captain Beefheart’s Awful Sounding Album, Trout Mask Replica, Is a True Masterpiece (5)
- 21: Why We Dance: An Animated Video Explains the Science Behind Why We Bust a Move (1)
- 21: Oxford’s Free Course Critical Reasoning For Beginners Teaches You to Think Like a Philosopher (8)
- 20: Mythos: An Animation Retells Timeless Greek Myths with Abstract Modern Designs (1)
- 20: David Lynch Teaches an Online Course on Film & Creativity (1)
- 20: Christopher Hitches Makes the Case for Paying Reparations for Slavery in the United States (7)
- 20: Behold the Anciente Mappe of Fairyland, a Fantastical 1917 Mashup of Tales from Homer’s Odyssey, King Arthur, the Brothers Grimm & More (1)
- 19: Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Civilization–and Recommends Ways to Ensure That It Survives (1978) (0)
- 19: Virginia Woolf & Friends Name Their Favorite and Least Favorite Writers in a Newly Unearthed 1923 Survey (0)
- 19: Artificial Intelligence for Everyone: An Introductory Course from Andrew Ng, the Co-Founder of Coursera (2)
- 19: The Gnarly Surf Rock of Dick Dale (RIP): Watch the Legend Play “Misirlou,” Surfin’ the Wedge,” and “Pipeline” (with Stevie Ray Vaughan) (1)
- 18: Take a Journey Inside Vincent Van Gogh’s Paintings with a New Digital Exhibition (1)
- 18: How Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?: An Animated Primer (1)
- 18: The Lou Reed Archive Opens at the New York Public Library: Get Your Own Lou Reed Library Card and Check It Out (0)
- 18: Bohemian Rhapsody’s Bad Editing: A Breakdown (0)
- 15: An Animated Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Life & Thought (1)
- 15: The CIA’s Rectal Tool Kit for Spies–Created for Truly Desperate Situations During The Cold War (2)
- 15: Leonard Bernstein Awkwardly Turns the Screws on Tenor Jose Carreras While Recording West Side Story (1984) (4)
- 14: Natalie Portman Teaches a MasterClass in Acting (3)
- 14: When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from Absalom, Absalom! (24)
- 14: Watch an Animated Score for Steve Reich’s Minimalist Piece “Clapping Music“–and Try Your Hardest to Follow Along (0)
- 14: Jack Kerouac’s “Beat Paintings:” Now Gathered in One Book and Exhibition for the First Time (1)
- 13: The Band Everyone Thought Was The Beatles: Revisit the Klaatu Conspiracy of 1976 (3)
- 13: William Faulkner’s Review of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952) (3)
- 13: Buckminster Fuller Rails Against the “Nonsense of Earning a Living”: Why Work Useless Jobs When Technology & Automation Can Let Us Live More Meaningful Lives (11)
- 13: An Animated Introduction to the Famous Thought Experiment, the “Trolley Problem,” Narrated by Harry Shearer (0)
- 12: A Stunning Live Concert Film of Queen Performing in Montreal, Digitally Restored to Perfection (1981) (2)
- 12: Take a Free Online Course on the Great Medieval Manuscript, the Book of Kells (0)
- 12: Why Should We Read Sylvia Plath? An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 12: The Roman Roads of Spain & Portugal Visualized as a Subway Map: Ancient History Meets Modern Graphic Design (2)
- 11: The Amazing Franz Kafka Workout!: Discover the 15-Minute Exercise Routine That Swept the World in 1904 (3)
- 11: Alan Watts Presents a 15-Minute Guided Meditation: A Time-Tested Way to Stop Thinking About Thinking (1)
- 11: Bill Murray Explains How a 19th-Century Painting Saved His Life (1)
- 10: The Big Pond: Stream 50 Audio Stories from the Goethe-Institut, Available Free Online (0)
- 08: Artificial Intelligence Identifies the Six Main Arcs in Storytelling: Welcome to the Brave New World of Literary Criticism (5)
- 08: Here’s John Steinbeck Asking Marilyn Monroe for Her Autograph (1955) (1)
- 08: The Cringe-Inducing Humor of The Office Explained with Philosophical Theories of Mind (1)
- 07: Hear Patti Smith’s New Work With The Soundwalk Collective, a Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud (1)
- 07: “Stay Free: The Story of the Clash” Narrated by Public Enemy’s Chuck D: A New 8-Episode Podcast (3)
- 07: Sleep or Die: Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains How Sleep Can Restore or Imperil Our Health (1)
- 07: Van Gogh’s Ugliest Masterpiece: A Break Down of His Late, Great Painting, The Night Café (1888) (1)
- 06: The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized & Put Online (17)
- 06: Download the ModulAir, a Free Polyphonic Synthesizer, and Make Your Own Electronic Sounds (1)
- 06: 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Her Letter About How Books Save Lives (1)
- 06: John Cleese Revisits His 20 Years as an Ivy League Professor in His New Book, Professor at Large: The Cornell Years (3)
- 05: 97-Year-Old Philosopher Ponders the Meaning of Life: “What Is the Point of It All?” (10)
- 05: A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) (2)
- 05: 2,000 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in March: Enroll Today (0)
- 05: 60 Free-to-Stream Movies for Women’s History Month: Classic Agnès Varda, a Portrait of Susan Sontag, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, and More (1)
- 04: Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Perform the Earliest Version of Hamilton at the White House, Six Years Before the Play Hit the Broadway Stage (2009) (0)
- 04: A Tactile Map of the Roman Empire: An Innovative Map That Allowed Blind & Sighted Students to Experience Geography by Touch (1888) (0)
- 04: An Animated Introduction to the Chaotic Brilliance of Jean-Michel Basquiat: From Homeless Graffiti Artist to Internationally Renowned Painter (0)
- 01: 40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language (23)
- 01: Jim Morrison Declares That “Fat is Beautiful” …. And Means It (0)
- 01: The Elaborate Pictogram Ernest Hemingway Received in the Hospital During WWI: Can You Decode Its Meaning? (0)
- February 2019 (71)
- 28: Download 10,000+ Books in Arabic, All Completely Free, Digitized and Put Online (23)
- 28: The British Library Digitizes Its Collection of Obscene Books (1658-1940) (0)
- 28: Behold The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907-1917) (0)
- 28: Hear Underground 12, the Earliest Known Case of Musicians Recording While Under the Influence of LSD (1966) (2)
- 27: The 100 Top Punk Songs of All Time, Curated by Readers of the UK’s Sounds Magazine in 1981 (28)
- 27: All the Rembrandts: The Rijksmuseum Puts All 400 Rembrandts It Owns on Display for the First Time (0)
- 27: Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, and A Christmas Carol Written in Shorthand (Circa 1919) (1)
- 26: A Brief Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Linguistic Theory, Narrated by The X-Files‘ Gillian Anderson (2)
- 26: Watch Marc Martel, Who Supplied Vocals for the Award-Winning Queen Film, Sing Just Like Freddie Mercury: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are The Champions” & More (6)
- 26: The New Normal: Spike Jonze Creates a Very Short Film About America’s Complex History with Cannabis (3)
- 26: The Life & Work of Edvard Munch, Explored by Patti Smith and Charlotte Gainsbourg (0)
- 25: The Lifespan of Ancient Civilizations Detailed in a Handy Infographic: Are We Headed Towards Our Own Collapse? (5)
- 25: To Save Civilization, the Rich Need to Pay Their Taxes: Historian Rutger Bregman Speaks Truth to Power at Davos and to Fox’s Tucker Carlson (4)
- 25: Discover the KattenKabinet: Amsterdam’s Museum Devoted to Works of Art Featuring Cats (1)
- 22: Hear a Six-Hour Mix Tape of Hunter S. Thompson’s Favorite Music & the Songs Name-Checked in His Gonzo Journalism (1)
- 22: 18 Classic Myths Explained with Animation: Pandora’s Box, Sisyphus & More (0)
- 22: Watch the Last Time Peter Tork (RIP) & The Monkees Played Together During Their 1960s Heyday: It’s a Psychedelic Freakout (1)
- 21: Has the Voynich Manuscript Finally Been Decoded?: Researchers Claim That the Mysterious Text Was Written in Phonetic Old Turkish (31)
- 21: Hear the First Musical Composition Created by a Computer: The Illiac Suite (1956) (0)
- 21: 23 Million Patrons of California’s Public Libraries Can Now Read The New York Times for Free Online (1)
- 21: The History of Ancient Greece in 18 Minutes: A Brisk Primer Narrated by Brian Cox (0)
- 20: The History of Ancient Rome in 20 Quick Minutes: A Primer Narrated by Brian Cox (0)
- 20: How the Mona Lisa Went From Being Barely Known, to Suddenly the Most Famous Painting in the World (1911) (0)
- 20: Haruki Murakami Announces an Archive That Will House His Manuscripts, Letters & Collection of 10,000+ Vinyl Records (0)
- 19: Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy (0)
- 19: Watch Bauhaus World, a Free Documentary That Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Germany’s Legendary Art, Architecture & Design School (0)
- 19: How Obsessive Artists Colorize Old Photographs & Restore the True Colors of the Past (0)
- 19: An Interactive Map of the 2,000+ Sounds Humans Use to Communicate Without Words: Grunts, Sobs, Sighs, Laughs & More (1)
- 18: Jimi Hendrix Arrives in London in 1966, Asks to Get Onstage with Cream, and Blows Eric Clapton Away: “You Never Told Me He Was That F-ing Good” (44)
- 18: A New Collection of Official, Authorized Prince GIFs! (0)
- 18: Famous Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci Celebrated in a New Series of Stamps (0)
- 18: A Telecaster Made Out of 1200 Colored Pencils (0)
- 15: 800 Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts Are Now Online: Browse & Download Them Courtesy of the British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale de France (5)
- 15: When Fred Rogers and Francois Clemmons Broke Down Race Barriers on a Historic Episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1969) (1)
- 15: Lucille Ball Demos a Precursor to Peter Frampton’s “Talk Box” (1939) (2)
- 15: Watch the Trailers for Tolkien and Catch-22, Two New Literary Films (0)
- 14: A Six-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study (6)
- 14: 10 Tips on How to Write a Great Screenplay from Billy Wilder: Pearls of Wisdom from the Director of Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity & More (0)
- 14: Hear Neil Gaiman Read Aloud 15 of His Own Works, and Works by 6 Other Great Writers: From The Graveyard Book & Coraline, to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven & Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (2)
- 14: Women’s Hidden Contributions to Modern Genetics Get Revealed by New Study: No Longer Will They Be Buried in the Footnotes (0)
- 13: Hear Siouxsie Sioux’s Powerful Isolated Vocals on “The Killing Jar,” “Hong Kong Garden,” “Cities In Dust” & “Kiss Them for Me” (0)
- 13: “Odyssey of the Ear”: A Beautiful Animation Shows How Sounds Travel Into Our Ears and Become Thoughts in Our Brain (1)
- 13: An Animated Reconstruction of Ancient Rome: Take A 30-Minute Stroll Through the City’s Virtually-Recreated Streets (6)
- 12: How Talking Heads and Brian Eno Wrote “Once in a Lifetime”: Cutting Edge, Strange & Utterly Brilliant (3)
- 12: Michel Foucault Offers a Clear, Compelling Introduction to His Philosophical Project (1966) (0)
- 12: Why Should We Read Flannery O’Connor? An Animated Video Makes the Case (0)
- 12: Becoming: A Short Timelapse Film Shows a Single Cell Morphing Into a Complete, Complex Living Organism (2)
- 11: Dieter Rams Lists the 10 Timeless Principles of Good Design–Backed by Music by Brian Eno (0)
- 11: Neil Gaiman Reads His Manifesto on Making Art: Features the 10 Things He Wish He Knew As a Young Artist (0)
- 11: Historic Manuscript Filled with Beautiful Illustrations of Cuban Flowers & Plants Is Now Online (1826 ) (0)
- 08: George Orwell’s Essay “British Cookery” is Officially Published 70 Years After It Was Rejected by the British Council (1946) (1)
- 08: Download Free Coloring Books from 113 Museums (39)
- 08: The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: A Free Online Atlas That Helps Preserve Writing Systems That May Soon Disappear (4)
- 07: In the 1920s America, Jazz Music Was Considered Harmful to Human Health, the Cause of “Neurasthenia,” “Perpetually Jerking Jaws” & More (0)
- 07: The East German Secret Police’s Illustrated Guide for Identifying Youth Subcultures: Punks, Goths, Teds & More (1985) (0)
- 07: The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious Sings Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”: Is Nothing Sacred? (1)
- 06: A Short History of How Punk Became Punk: From Late 50s Rockabilly and Garage Rock to The Ramones & Sex Pistols (11)
- 06: Watch The Journey, the New Ridley Scott Short Film Teased During the Super Bowl (0)
- 06: The Origins of the “Amen Break,” The Most Sampled Piece of Recorded Music Ever (0)
- 06: A Vintage Grand Piano Gets Reengineered to Play 20 Different Instruments with a Push of Its Keys (2)
- 05: Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada (3)
- 05: The Mastermind of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, Presents His Personal Synthesizer Collection (0)
- 05: Watch a Towering Orchestral Tribute to Kate Bush: A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Her First Single, “Wuthering Heights” (2)
- 05: Pioneering Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (1)
- 04: The Case for Why Ringo Starr Is One of Rock’s Greatest Drummers (30)
- 04: The “Slave Bible” Removed Key Biblical Passages In Order to Legitimize Slavery & Discourage a Slave Rebellion (1807) (5)
- 04: Explore an Interactive Version of The Wall of Birds, a 2,500 Square-Foot Mural That Documents the Evolution of Birds Over 375 Million Years (0)
- 04: How Dorothea Lange Shot, Migrant Mother, Perhaps the Most Iconic Photo in American History (5)
- 01: Monty Python’s Best Philosophy Sketches: “The Philosophers’ Football Match,” “Philosopher’s Drinking Song” & More (1)
- 01: How the Clavichord & Harpsichord Became the Modern Piano: The Evolution of Keyboard Instruments, Explained (2)
- 01: A History of the Entire World in Less Than 20 Minutes (0)
- January 2019 (88)
- 31: The Evolution of the Alphabet: A Colorful Flowchart, Covering 3,800 Years, Takes You From Ancient Egypt to Today (6)
- 31: CBGB’s Heyday: Watch The Ramones, The Dead Boys, Bad Brains, Talking Heads & Blondie Perform Live (1974-1982) (2)
- 31: The Real Locations of Ukiyo-e, Historic Japanese Woodblock Prints, Plotted on a Google Map (0)
- 31: 2,400 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in February: Enroll Today (4)
- 30: Watch The Beatles Perform Their Famous Rooftop Concert: It Happened 50 Years Ago Today (January 30, 1969) (2)
- 30: Artificial Intelligence Brings Salvador Dalí Back to Life: “Greetings, I Am Back” (4)
- 30: Watch Black Panther For Free in Theaters, Starting This Friday (0)
- 30: Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling in His New Online Course (3)
- 30: Enter an Online Interactive Documentary on Rembrandt’s The Night Watch and Learn About the Painting’s Many Hidden Secrets (0)
- 29: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Daily Routine: The Discipline That Fueled Her Imagination (3)
- 29: The Cleveland Museum of Art Digitizes Its Collection, Putting 30,000 Works Online and Into the Public Domain (1)
- 29: Watch a New Virtual Reality Production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Modern Take on a Classic Play (0)
- 28: Nick Cave Answers the Hotly Debated Question: Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Be Able to Write a Great Song? (0)
- 28: Scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody Compared to Real Life: A 21-Minute Compilation (0)
- 28: How Michel Legrand (RIP) Gave the French New Wave a Sound: Revisit the Influential Music He Composed for Jean-Luc Godard & Jacques Demy’s Films (0)
- 28: Hear Neil Gaiman Read a Beautiful, Profound Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin to His Cousin on Her 100th Birthday (0)
- 25: Watch Oscar-Nominated Documentary Universe, the Film that Inspired the Visual Effects of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and Gave the HAL 9000 Computer Its Voice (1960) (0)
- 25: Why Should We Read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451? A New TED-Ed Animation Explains (0)
- 25: Watch the Meditative Cinepoem “H20”: A Landmark Avant-Garde Art Film from 1929 (1)
- 24: Visualizing the Bass Playing Style of Motown’s Iconic Bassist James Jamerson: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “For Once in My Life” & More (3)
- 24: Watch 110 Lectures by Donald Knuth, “the Yoda of Silicon Valley,” on Programming, Mathematical Writing, and More (0)
- 24: Moebius Draws Adventurous Ads for Maxwell House Coffee (1989) (0)
- 24: Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera, the 8th Best Film Ever Made (2)
- 23: Nutritional Psychiatry: Why Diet May Play an Essential Role in Treating Mental Health Conditions, Including Depression, Anxiety & Beyond (1)
- 23: Mountain Monks: A Vivid Short Documentary on the Monks Who Practice an Ancient, Once-Forbidden Religion in Japan (0)
- 23: The 1959 Project: A New Photoblog Takes a Day-By-Day Look at 1959, the Great Watershed Year in Jazz (0)
- 22: A Virtual Tour of Every Place Referenced in The Beatles’ Lyrics: In 12 Minutes, Travel 25,000 Miles Across England, France, Russia, India & the US (0)
- 22: The Only Surviving Text Written in Arabic by an American Slave Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Read the Autobiography of Enslaved Islamic Scholar, Omar Ibn Said (1831) (8)
- 22: The Ancient Romans First Committed the Sartorial Crime of Wearing Socks with Sandals, Archaeological Evidence Suggests (2)
- 22: Discover the Ingenious Typewriter That Prints Musical Notation: The Keaton Music Typewriter Patented in 1936 (0)
- 21: Jodie Foster Teaches Filmmaking in Her First Online Course (0)
- 21: Librarian Honors a Dying Tree by Turning It Into a Little Free Library (2)
- 21: How Zora Neale Hurston & Eleanor Roosevelt Helped Create the First Realistic African American Baby Doll (1951) (1)
- 21: To Help Digitize and Preserve the Sound of Stradivarius Violins, a City in Italy Has Gone Silent (1)
- 18: Oodles of Classic Doctor Who Episodes Streaming Free Online This Month (0)
- 18: Hear Mary Oliver (RIP) Read Five of Her Poems: “The Summer Day,” “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night,” “Many Miles” and “Night and the River” (2)
- 18: Vintage Geological Maps Get Turned Into 3D Topographical Wonders (0)
- 18: Hear the Sounds of the Actual Instruments for Which Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and Handel Originally Composed Their Music (0)
- 17: Behold Moebius’ Many Psychedelic Illustrations of Jimi Hendrix (3)
- 17: A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926) (1)
- 17: An Animated History of Cheese: 10,000 Years in Under Six Minutes (1)
- 16: An Ancient Egyptian Homework Assignment from 1800 Years Ago: Some Things Are Truly Timeless (1)
- 16: America at War: Infographic Reveals How the U.S. Military Is Operating in 40% of the World’s Nations (6)
- 16: Stephen Fry Narrates Two Animated Videos Explaining How Fear, Loathing & Misinformation Drove the Brexit Campaign (7)
- 15: Download Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of 500 Japanese Prints, Which Inspired Him to Create “the Art of the Future” (2)
- 15: Complex Math Made Simple With Engaging Animations: Fourier Transform, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Neural Networks & More (1)
- 15: Making Sense of White Paintings: A Short Art History Lesson on Minimalism and the All-White Painting (4)
- 14: The Strange Dancing Plague of 1518: When Hundreds of People in France Could Not Stop Dancing for Months (1)
- 14: The Musical Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Get Brought to Life, and It Turns Out That They Sound “Painful” and “Horrible” (5)
- 14: A Fender Stratocaster Made Out of 1200 Colored Pencils (0)
- 14: A New Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 That’s Only Readable When You Apply Heat to Its Pages: Pre-Order It Today (2)
- 13: 150 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (0)
- 11: Philip Glass Finishes His David Bowie Trilogy, Debuting His Lodger Symphony (0)
- 11: Marie Kondo v. Tsundoku: Competing Japanese Philosophies on Whether to Keep or Discard Unread Books (13)
- 11: The Books That Samuel Beckett Read and Really Liked (1941-1956) (1)
- 11: An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick (3)
- 10: The Getty Digital Archive Expands to 135,000 Free Images: Download High Resolution Scans of Paintings, Sculptures, Photographs & Much Much More (0)
- 10: Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy (3)
- 10: Artist Hand-Cuts an Intricate Octopus From a Single Piece of Paper: Discover the Japanese Art of Kirie (0)
- 10: The Art of Creating Special Effects in Silent Movies: Ingenuity Before the Age of CGI (1)
- 09: The Hu, a New Breakthrough Band from Mongolia, Plays Heavy Metal with Traditional Folk Instruments and Throat Singing (29)
- 09: Actress Lucy Lawless Performs the Proto-Feminist Comedy “Lysistrata” for The Partially Examined Life Podcast (1)
- 09: When Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire Were Accused of Stealing the Mona Lisa (1911) (2)
- 09: Classic Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories by Gustave Doré, Édouard Manet, Harry Clarke, Aubrey Beardsley & Arthur Rackham (1)
- 08: The “David Bowie Is” Exhibition Is Now Available as an Augmented Reality Mobile App That’s Narrated by Gary Oldman: For David Bowie’s Birthday Today (1)
- 08: 1,700 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in January: Enroll Today (0)
- 08: Watch Four Daring Films by Lois Weber, “the Most Important Female Director the American Film Industry Has Known” (1913-1921) (2)
- 08: The Bustling Streets of Mumbai, India in 1929: Vintage Footage Captured with Very Early Sound Cameras (2)
- 07: The Largest J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit in Generations Is Coming to the U.S.: Original Drawings, Manuscripts, Maps & More (18)
- 07: Free: Download Thousands of Ottoman-Era Photographs That Have Been Digitized and Put Online (2)
- 07: Bill Gates, Book Critic, Names His Top 5 Books of 2018 (0)
- 07: How a Word Enters the Dictionary: A Quick Primer (0)
- 04: 11,000 Digitized Books From 1923 Are Now Available Online at the Internet Archive (0)
- 04: Watch the Painstaking and Nerve-Racking Process of Restoring a Drawing by Michelangelo (0)
- 04: The King and the Mockingbird: The Surreal French Animated Film That Took 30 Years to Complete, and Profoundly Influenced Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (2)
- 03: An Animated History of Versailles: Six Minutes of Animation Show the Construction of the Grand Palace Over 400 Years (0)
- 03: An Illustrated and Interactive Dante’s Inferno: Explore a New Digital Companion to the Great 14th-Century Epic Poem (0)
- 03: Safety Last, the 1923 Movie Featuring the Most Iconic Scene from Silent Film Era, Just Went Into the Public Domain (0)
- 03: Look How Young They Are!: The Beastie Boys Performing Live Their Very First Hit, “Cooky Puss” (1983) (0)
- 02: A 3D Animated History of Paris: Take a Visual Journey from Ancient Times to 1900 (1)
- 02: How the Inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Nobel, Read an Obituary That Called Him “The Merchant of Death” and Made Amends by Creating the Nobel Prize (0)
- 02: 450+ Movie Scenes Where Actors Break the Fourth Wall, Presented in Two Big Supercuts (2)
- 02: Why Is English So Hard to Learn?: The Ingenious Poem, “The Chaos,” Documents 800 Irregularities in English Spelling and Pronunciation (1)
- 01: Public Domain Day Is Finally Here!: Copyrighted Works Have Entered the Public Domain Today for the First Time in 21 Years (4)
- 01: Watch an Art Conservator Bring Classic Paintings Back to Life in Intriguingly Narrated Videos (4)
- 01: The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan (0)
- 01: How Nirvana’s Iconic “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Came to Be: An Animated Video Narrated by T-Bone Burnett Tells the True Story (0)
- 01: Make Orwell Fiction Again (19)
- December 2018 (78)
- 31: Haruki Murakami Day: Stream Seven Hours of Mixes Collecting All the Jazz, Classical & Classic American Pop Music from His Novels (1)
- 31: Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1983 What the World Will Look Like in 2019: Computerization, Global Co-operation, Leisure Time & Moon Mining (1)
- 31: 10 Rules for Appreciating Art by Sister Wendy Beckett (RIP), the Nun Who Unexpectedly Popularized Art History on TV (3)
- 28: President Obama Names His Favorite Books, Movies & Songs of 2018 (16)
- 28: Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War (1)
- 28: Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure (3)
- 28: Earthrise, Apollo 8’s Photo of Earth from Space, Turns 50: Download the Iconic Photograph from NASA (3)
- 27: Guillermo del Toro Names Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can the Most Underrated Great Movie of All Time (1)
- 27: NASA Creates Movie Parody Posters for Its Expedition Flights: Download Parodies of Metropolis, The Matrix, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and More (2)
- 26: Napoleon’s English Lessons: How the Military Leader Studied English to Escape the Boredom of Life in Exile (1)
- 26: Buckminster Fuller Documented His Life Every 15 Minutes, from 1920 Until 1983 (2)
- 26: Jazz Musician Plays Acoustic Guitar While Undergoing Brain Surgery, Helping Doctors Monitor Their Progress (0)
- 25: David Bowie and Bing Crosby’s “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy” Gets Psychedelically Covered by The Flaming Lips (0)
- 25: When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts (3)
- 25: Watch The Smiths Play Their Last Live Show (December 12th, 1986) (1)
- 25: What Makes Music Sound Like Christmas Music? Hear the Single Most Christmassy Chord of All Explained (0)
- 24: How David Lynch Stole Christmas (0)
- 24: New Digital Archive Will Feature the Complete Works of Egon Schiele: Start with 419 Paintings, Drawings & Sculptures (0)
- 24: Banksy Paints a Grim Holiday Mural: Season’s Greetings to All (0)
- 24: Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Photos of People, None of Whom Actually Exist (5)
- 24: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Emily Blunt Take You Through 22 Classic Musicals in 12 Minutes (3)
- 21: Researchers Recreate the Sounds Worshippers Heard in the Mosque of Cordoba Over 1,200 Years Ago (4)
- 21: The Moonlight Sonata But the Bass Is a Bar Late, and the Melody Is a Bar Early (4)
- 21: Discover Isotype, the 1920s Attempt to Create a Universal Language with Stylish Icons & Graphic Design (1)
- 21: Listen to a Heartfelt Musical Retelling of O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” with Hanky in Hand (1)
- 20: Masterclass Is Running a Special “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal: It Gives You & Family Member/Friend Access to Their Complete Course Catalog (0)
- 20: Watch a Playthrough of the Oldest Board Game in the World, the Sumerian Royal Game of Ur, Circa 2500 BC (6)
- 20: Take a Virtual Tour of Brazil’s National Museum & Its Artifacts: Google Digitized the Museum’s Collection Before the Fateful Fire (0)
- 20: Every Spider-Man Movie and TV Show Explained By Kevin Smith (0)
- 19: The Beastie Boys Release a New Freewheeling Memoir, and a Star-Studded 13-Hour Audiobook Featuring Snoop Dogg, Elvis Costello, Bette Midler, John Stewart & Dozens More (0)
- 19: Meet the Hurdy Gurdy, the Hand-Cranked Medieval Instrument with 80 Moving Parts (5)
- 19: Watch the First-Ever Kiss on Film Between Two Black Actors, Just Honored by the Library of Congress (1898) (0)
- 19: A Beautifully-Designed Edition of Euclid’s Elements from 1847 Gets Digitized: Explore the New Online, Interactive Reproduction (0)
- 18: Meet Henry Darger, the Most Famous of Outsider Artists, Who Died in Obscurity, Leaving Behind Hundreds of Unseen Fantasy Illustrations and a 15,000-Page Novel (3)
- 18: Apple Lets You Download Six Free Audio Books Read by Celebrity Narrators: Start with Kate Beckinsale Reading Pride & Prejudice (6)
- 18: See Classic Japanese Woodblocks Brought Surreally to Life as Animated GIFs (1)
- 17: Pristine Footage Lets You Revisit Life in Paris in the 1890s: Watch Footage Shot by the Lumière Brothers (5)
- 17: A Short Video Introduction to Hilma af Klint, the Mystical Female Painter Who Helped Invent Abstract Art (1)
- 17: How Emily Dickinson Writes A Poem: A Short Video Introduction (1)
- 17: The Revolutionary Title Sequences and Trailers Created by Pablo Ferro: Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Stop Making Sense, Bullitt & Other Films (0)
- 14: How the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing Scene in America (4)
- 14: A Beautiful Short Documentary Takes You Inside New York City’s Last Great Chess Store (2)
- 14: How the Astonishing Sushi Scene in Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Was Animated: A Time-Lapse of the Month-Long Shoot (0)
- 14: Carlos Santana & Tom Morello Launch Online Courses on How to Play the Guitar (0)
- 13: The Evolution of The Great Wave off Kanazawa: See Four Versions That Hokusai Painted Over Nearly 40 Years (2)
- 13: David Byrne Curates a Playlist of Great Protest Songs Written Over the Past 60 Years: Stream Them Online (21)
- 13: Take a Close Look at Basquiat’s Revolutionary Art in a New 500-Page, 14-Pound, Large Format Book by Taschen (0)
- 12: Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal” (19)
- 12: Watch Andy Warhol Eat an Entire Burger King Whopper–While Wishing the Burger Came from McDonald’s (1981) (6)
- 12: The Story of The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” the Boozy Ballad That Has Become One of the Most Beloved Christmas Songs of All Time (2)
- 11: In Bill Gates Office, There’s a Wall with the Entire Periodic Table with Samples of Each Element (2)
- 11: Wes Anderson’s Breakthrough Film, Rushmore, Revisited in Five Video Essays: It Came Out 20 Years Ago Today (1)
- 11: Take Animated Virtual Reality Tours of Ancient Rome at Its Architectural Peak (Circa 320 AD) (0)
- 11: Historic Console Used to Record “Stairway to Heaven” and Other Rock Classics Goes Up for Auction Today (0)
- 10: How Music Can Awaken Patients with Alzheimer’s and Dementia (2)
- 10: John Lennon’s Report Card at Age 15: “He Has Too Many Wrong Ambitions and His Energy Is Too Often Misplaced” (0)
- 10: Celebrate Emily Dickinson’s 188th Birthday with Her Own Cake Recipes: Coconut Cake, Gingerbread, Doughnuts & More (1)
- 10: Hear the Very First Sounds Ever Recorded on Mars, Courtesy of NASA (0)
- 07: How J.R.R. Tolkien Influenced Classic Rock & Metal: A Video Introduction (5)
- 07: The Strange History of Smooth Jazz: The Music We All Know and Love … to Hate (22)
- 07: Movie Accent Expert Analyzes 31 Actors Playing Other Famous People: Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy, Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan, and More (0)
- 07: 2,000 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in December: Enroll Today (0)
- 06: In 1964, Isaac Asimov Predicts What the World Will Look Like Today: Self-Driving Cars, Video Calls, Fake Meats & More (1)
- 06: Stream 48 Classic & Contemporary German Films Free Online: From Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (1)
- 06: Andy Kaufman Reads Earnestly from The Great Gatsby and Enrages His Audience (1)
- 06: Hunter S. Thompson, Existentialist Life Coach, Presents Tips for Finding Meaning in Life (0)
- 06: The Full Rotation of the Moon: A Beautiful, High Resolution Time Lapse Film (0)
- 05: Introducing the Mellotron: A Groovy 1965 Demonstration of the “Musical Computer” Used by The Beatles, Moody Blues & Other Psychedelic Pop Artists (0)
- 05: David Byrne Creates a Playlist of Eclectic Music for the Holidays: Stream It Free Online (0)
- 04: See the Complete Works of Vermeer in Augmented Reality: Google Makes Them Available on Your Smartphone (0)
- 04: Download Over 325 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum (1)
- 04: How Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” Video Changed Pop Culture Forever: Revisit the 13-Minute Short Film Directed by John Landis (0)
- 04: Why Should We Read Kurt Vonnegut? An Animated Video Makes the Case (6)
- 03: Watch Classic Performances by Peter Green (RIP), Founder of Fleetwood Mac & the Only British Blues Guitarist Who Gave B.B. King “the Cold Sweats” (3)
- 03: Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” Movingly Performed by the Six-String Soldiers, of The United States Army Field Band (11)
- 03: Behold the Original Deck of Oblique Strategies Cards, Handwritten by Brian Eno Himself (0)
- 03: Anatomy of a Fake: Forgery Experts Reveal 5 Ways To Spot a Fake Painting by Jackson Pollock (or Any Other Artist) (0)
- 01: The Thoughtful Note That George H.W. Bush Left on Bill Clinton’s Desk Before Leaving the White House (1993) (6)
- November 2018 (81)
- 30: When South Africa Banned Pink Floyd’s The Wall After Students Chanted “We Don’t Need No Education” to Protest the Apartheid School System (1980) (3)
- 30: Mira Nair, Director of Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, Teaches an Online Course on Indie Filmmaking (0)
- 30: Blade Runner Getting Adapted into a New Anime Series, Produced by Cowboy Bebop Animator Shinichiro Watanabe (1)
- 30: Andy Kaufman Creates Mayhem on Late Night TV: When Comedy Becomes Performance Art (1981) (0)
- 29: Watch Queen’s Dragtastic “I Want to Break Free” Video: It Was More Than America & MTV Could Handle (1984) (5)
- 29: How David Lynch Manipulates You: A Close Reading of Mulholland Drive (2)
- 29: How Peter Jackson Made His State-of-the-Art World War I Documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old: An Inside Look (0)
- 28: Watch 99 Movies Free Online Courtesy of YouTube & MGM: Rocky, The Terminator, Four Weddings and a Funeral & More (2)
- 28: “More Barn!” The Story of How Neil Young First Played Harvest for Graham Nash (1972) (4)
- 28: How the Inca Used Intricately-Knotted Cords, Called Khipu, to Write Their Histories, Send Messages & Keep Records (2)
- 27: Alan Watts Dispenses Wit & Wisdom on the Meaning of Life in Three Animated Videos (3)
- 27: Watch Jeff Beck Smash His Guitar While Jimmy Page & the Yardbirds Jam By His Side: A Classic Scene from Antonioni’s Blowup (1966) (5)
- 27: How Nicolas Roeg (RIP) Used David Bowie, Mick Jagger & Art Garfunkel in His Mind-Bending Films (0)
- 26: Watch David Bowie Take MTV to Task for Failing to Play Music Videos by Black Artists (1983) (3)
- 26: Two Cats Keep Trying to Get Into a Japanese Art Museum … and Keep Getting Turned Away: Meet the Thwarted Felines, Ken-chan and Go-chan (1)
- 26: Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin Launch a New Music Podcast, Broken Record: Listen Online (0)
- 26: In 17th-Century Japan, Creaking Floors Functioned as Security Systems That Warned Palaces & Temples of Approaching Intruders and Assassins (0)
- 23: Japanese Artist Creates Bookshelf Dioramas That Magically Transport You Into Tokyo’s Back Alleys (4)
- 23: The Solar System Quilt: In 1876, a Teacher Creates a Handcrafted Quilt to Use as a Teaching Aid in Her Astronomy Class (0)
- 23: Masterclass Is Running a Special “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal: It Gives You & Family Member/Friend Access to Their Complete Course Catalog (0)
- 23: Psilocybin Could Soon Be a Legal Treatment for Depression: Johns Hopkins Professor, Roland Griffiths, Explains How Psilocybin Can Relieve Suffering (0)
- 22: The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (3)
- 22: The Impossibly Cool Album Covers of Blue Note Records: Meet the Creative Team Behind These Iconic Designs (2)
- 22: The Making of “Bohemian Rhapsody”: Take a Deep Dive Into the Iconic Song with Queen’s 2002 Mini Documentary (3)
- 22: How to Write a Bestselling Page Turner: Learn from The Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown’s New Masterclass (0)
- 21: Free: Download 15,000+ Free Golden Age Comics from the Digital Comic Museum (3)
- 21: The Psychedelic 1970s Animations of Keiichi Tanaami: A Music Video for John Lennon’s “Oh Yoko!,” Surreal Tributes to Elvis & Marilyn Monroe, and More (1)
- 21: These Four Manuscripts Contain All of the Literature Written in Old English–and Beyond That, There’s Nothing More (3)
- 21: Classic Radiohead Songs Re-Imagined as a Sci-Fi Book, Pulp Fiction Magazine & Other Nostalgic Artifacts (1)
- 20: Download 586 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (7)
- 20: Hear the Sounds of World War I: A Gas Attack Recorded on the Front Line, and the Moment the Armistice Ended the War (1)
- 20: Watch “The Midnight Parasites,” a Surreal Japanese Animation Set in the World of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1972) (0)
- 20: Glenn Gould’s Heavily Marked-Up Score for the Goldberg Variations Surfaces, Letting Us Look Inside His Creative Process (3)
- 19: An Animated Introduction to the Forgotten Pioneer in Quantum Theory, Grete Hermann (0)
- 19: The Captivating Story Behind the Making of Ansel Adams’ Most Famous Photograph, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1)
- 19: Watch the First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1910): It’s Newly Restored by the Library of Congress (0)
- 19: A New Christmas Commercial Takes You on a Sentimental Journey Through Elton John’s Rich Musical Life (0)
- 17: An Archive of 800+ Imaginative Propaganda Maps Designed to Shape Opinions & Beliefs: Enter Cornell’s Persuasive Maps Collection (1)
- 16: Criterion Announces New Streaming Service To Replace FilmStruck: Become a Charter Subscriber Today (0)
- 16: A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861): Features George Washington Punching Tigers, John Adams Slaying Snakes & Other Fantastic Scenes (0)
- 16: Pachelbel’s Chicken: Your Favorite Classical Pieces Played Masterfully on a Rubber Chicken (1)
- 15: At Folsom Prison: A Mini-Doc on Johnny Cash’s Historic & Career-Changing Concert (1)
- 15: Leonard Cohen’s Last Work, The Flame Gets Published: Discover His Final Poems, Drawings, Lyrics & More (1)
- 15: NASA Digitizes 20,000 Hours of Audio from the Historic Apollo 11 Mission: Stream Them Free Online (0)
- 15: David Lynch Releases a Disturbing, New Short Film: Watch “Ant Head” Online (2)
- 14: 7 Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction (8)
- 14: The Art of Letterlocking: The Elaborate Folding Techniques That Ensured the Privacy of Handwritten Letters Centuries Ago (0)
- 14: How Glenn Gould’s Eccentricities Became Essential to His Playing & Personal Style: From Humming Aloud While Playing to Performing with His Childhood Piano Chair (3)
- 14: The Journal of Controversial Ideas, Co-Founded by Philosopher Peter Singer, Will Publish & Defend Pseudonymous Articles, Regardless of the Backlash (4)
- 13: A Map of the U.S. Created Out of 1,000 Song Titles That Reference Cities, States, Landmarks & More (0)
- 13: Jazz Deconstructed: What Makes John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” So Groundbreaking and Radical? (3)
- 13: R.I.P. Stan Lee: Take His Free Online Course “The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture” (0)
- 13: Stan Lee (RIP) Gets an Exuberant Fan Letter from 15-Year-Old George R.R. Martin, 1963 (1)
- 12: British Doctors To Prescribe Arts & Culture to Patients: “The Arts Are Essential to our Health and Wellbeing” (2)
- 12: Hundreds of Wonderful Japanese Firework Designs from the Early-1900s: Digitized and Free to Download (2)
- 12: Living Paintings: 13 Caravaggio Works of Art Performed by Real-Life Actors (2)
- 12: “A Great Day in Harlem,” Art Kane’s Iconic Photo of 57 Jazz Legends (with a Detailed Listing of Who Appears in the Photo) (1)
- 09: A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries (30)
- 09: Download Digitized Copies of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, the Pre-Civil Rights Guide to Traveling Safely in the U.S. (1936-66) (3)
- 08: A Database of Paper Airplane Designs: Hours of Fun for Kids & Adults Alike (0)
- 08: The First House Powered by Coffee (2)
- 08: Freddie Mercury’s Final Days: Watch a Poignant Montage That Documents the Last Chapter of the Singer’s Life (0)
- 08: The Disgusting Food Museum Curates 80 of the World’s Most Repulsive Dishes: Maggot-Infested Cheese, Putrid Shark & More (0)
- 07: An Atlas of Literary Maps Created by Great Authors: J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island & More (0)
- 07: Behind the Banksy Stunt: An In-Depth Breakdown of the Artist’s Self-Shredding Painting (3)
- 07: What Are the Most Influential Books Written by Scholars in the Last 20 Years?: Leading Academics Pick “The New Canon” (4)
- 06: The Top 100 Foreign-Language Films of All-Time, According to 209 Critics from 43 Countries (0)
- 06: The Exhilarating Filmmaking of Robert Bresson Explored in Eight Video Essays (0)
- 06: Edward Gorey Talks About His Love Cats & More in the Animated Series, “Goreytelling” (0)
- 05: The “Most Secretive Library in the World”: The Future Library Will Collect 100 Original Manuscripts by Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell & More, to Be Read for the First Time in 2114 (1)
- 05: Bette Davis Divorced: “She Read Too Much,” Says Husband (1938) (2)
- 05: How to Make and Wear Medieval Armor: An In-Depth Primer (1)
- 05: 157 Animated Minimalist Mid-Century Book Covers (1)
- 04: 2,000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in November: Enroll Today (0)
- 02: The Library of Congress Makes Thousands of Fabulous Photos, Posters & Images Free to Use & Reuse (2)
- 02: The Philosophy of Hayao Miyazaki: A Video Essay on How the Traditional Japanese Religion Shinto Suffuses Miyazaki’s Films (1)
- 02: Growing Up Surrounded by Books Has a Lasting Positive Effect on the Brain, Says a New Scientific Study (12)
- 02: Hear How Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Would Sound If Sung by Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra & 38 Other Artists (1)
- 01: George Washington Writes to the First Jewish Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island: “The Government… Gives to Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance” (1790) (10)
- 01: The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596): A Stunningly Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Created over Three Decades (0)
- 01: Watch/Hear Led Zeppelin’s Earliest Performances from 1968-69 & Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Band’s Birth (2)
- October 2018 (79)
- 31: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Gets Released on Instagram as a Digital “Insta Novel”: It’s Free from The New York Public Library (0)
- 31: 36 Artists Give Advice to Young Creators: Wim Wenders, Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis, Patti Smith, David Byrne, Umberto Eco & More (0)
- 31: Martin Scorsese Creates a List of the 11 Scariest Horror Films (4)
- 31: Patti Smith’s Award-Winning Memoir, Just Kids, Now Available in a New Illustrated Edition (0)
- 30: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Performs Songs from His New Soundtrack for the Horror Film, Suspiria (0)
- 30: Wagashi: Peruse a Digitized, Centuries-Old Catalogue of Traditional Japanese Candies (2)
- 30: The World’s Largest Collection of Tibetan Buddhist Literature Now Online (2)
- 30: The Evolution of Bob Dylan: Early Recordings Let You Hear an Unknown Singer Turn Into a 60s Superstar (1958-1965) (1)
- 29: A Data Visualization of Modern Philosophy, 1950-2018 (1)
- 29: How to Practice Effectively: Lessons from Neuroscience Can Help Us Master Skills in Music, Sports & Beyond (0)
- 29: RIP Todd Bol, Founder of the Little Free Library Movement: He Leaves Behind 75,000 Small Libraries That Promote Reading Worldwide (1)
- 29: Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life (3)
- 26: Akira Kurosawa’s 100 Favorite Movies (2)
- 26: The Ancient Egyptians Wore Fashionable Striped Socks, New Pioneering Imaging Technology Imaging Reveals (3)
- 26: The CIA’s Former Chief of Disguise Show How Spies Use Costumes in Undercover Operations (1)
- 25: David Lynch Is Creating a Virtual Reality Experience for Twin Peaks (1)
- 25: Yale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies 3 Essential Features of Fascism: Invoking a Mythic Past, Sowing Division & Attacking Truth (17)
- 25: The Art Institute of Chicago Puts 44,000+ Works of Art Online: View Them in High Resolution (8)
- 25: The Golden Age of Ancient Greece Gets Faithfully Recreated in the New Video Game Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (1)
- 24: Leonardo da Vinci Saw the World Differently… Thanks to an Eye Disorder, Says a New Scientific Study (0)
- 24: The Lenny Bruce Archive: Brandeis Digitally Preserves the Legacy of the Pathbreaking Comedian (0)
- 24: Early Japanese Animations: The Origins of Anime (1917 to 1931) (0)
- 24: Laurie Anderson Creates a Virtual Reality Installation That Takes Viewers on an Unconventional Tour of the Moon (0)
- 23: How an 18th-Century Monk Invented the First Electronic Instrument (1)
- 23: Take a Free Animation Course from a Renowned French Animation School (0)
- 23: Free Guided Imagery Recordings Help Kids Cope with Pain, Stress & Anxiety (0)
- 22: Roger Waters Adapts and Narrates Igor Stravinsky’s Theatrical Piece, The Soldier’s Story (5)
- 22: Why Read Waiting For Godot?: An Animated Case for Samuel Beckett’s Classic Absurdist Play (1)
- 22: The Big Lebowski at 20: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman & Steve Buscemi Reunite to Discuss the Coen Brothers’ Beloved Film (2)
- 19: Rembrandt’s Masterpiece, The Night Watch, Will Get Restored and You Can Watch It Happen Live, Online (0)
- 19: Behold Kurt Vonnegut’s Drawings: Writing is Hard. Art is Pure Pleasure. (0)
- 19: Iggy Pop’s Totally Bonkers Contract Rider for Concerts (0)
- 18: How the Sears Catalog Disrupted the Jim Crow South and Helped Give Birth to the Delta Blues & Rock and Roll (0)
- 18: Stephen Hawking’s Final Book and Scientific Paper Just Got Published: Brief Answers to the Big Questions and “Information Paradox” (0)
- 18: The Serial Killer Who Loved Jazz: The Infamous Story of the Axeman of New Orleans (1919) (4)
- 18: Twerking, Moonwalking AI Robots–They’re Now Here (0)
- 17: Philosophers Name the Best Philosophy Books: From Stoicism and Existentialism, to Metaphysics & Ethics for Artificial Intelligence (12)
- 17: Watch Richard Linklater’s Anti-Ted Cruz Political Ads: The Texas Director Versus the Texas Senator (5)
- 17: Meet Berea College, the Innovative College That Charges No Tuition & Gives Students a Chance to Graduate Debt-Free (2)
- 16: A Medieval Book That Opens Six Different Ways, Revealing Six Different Books in One (0)
- 16: The Library of Congress Launches the National Screening Room, Putting Online Hundreds of Historic Films (2)
- 16: A 26-Hour Playlist Featuring Music from Haruki Murakami’s Latest Novel, Killing Commendatore (0)
- 16: How Do You Help a Grieving Friend? Acknowledge Their Pain and Skip the Platitudes & Facile Advice (0)
- 15: 130,000 Photographs by Andy Warhol Are Now Available Online, Courtesy of Stanford University (0)
- 15: Haruki Murakami Became a DJ on a Japanese Radio Station for One Night: Hear the Music He Played for Delighted Listeners (0)
- 15: Learn Anatomy Through a Pictorial History of James Bond 007 (0)
- 15: Why Should You Read Don Quixote?: An Animated Video Makes the Case (3)
- 12: Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers (25)
- 12: Buckminster Fuller Creates Striking Posters of His Own Inventions (0)
- 12: Noam Chomsky Talks About How Kids Acquire Language and Ideas in an Animated Video by Michel Gondry (1)
- 11: The 10 Commandments of Chindōgu, the Japanese Art of Creating Unusually Useless Inventions (0)
- 11: A New Academic Hoax–Complete with Fake Articles Published in Academic Journals–Ventures to Show the “Corruption” of Cultural Studies (6)
- 11: The Origins of the Death Growl in Metal Music (0)
- 10: The Cornell Note-Taking System: Learn the Method Students Have Used to Enhance Their Learning Since the 1940s (10)
- 10: The History of Philosophy Visualized in an Interactive Timeline (2)
- 10: Museum Discovers Math Notebook of an 18th-Century English Farm Boy, Adorned with Doodles of Chickens Wearing Pants (0)
- 09: Wendy Carlos’ Switched on Bach Turns 50 This Month: Learn How the Classical Synth Record Introduced the World to the Moog (0)
- 09: A Radical Map Puts the Oceans–Not Land–at the Center of Planet Earth (1942) (0)
- 09: Aphex Twin’s Massive Catalog, Including Rare Unreleased Tracks, Is Now Free to Stream Online (2)
- 08: How the Ancient Mayans Used Chocolate as Money (0)
- 08: You’re Only As Old As You Feel: Harvard Psychologist Ellen Langer Shows How Mental Attitude Can Potentially Reverse the Effects of Aging (1)
- 08: Banksy Shreds His $1.4 Million Painting at Auction, Taking a Tradition of Artists Destroying Art to New Heights (0)
- 05: The Emperor of Japan, Akihito, Is Still Publishing Scientific Papers in His 80s (2)
- 05: “Lynchian,” “Kubrickian,” “Tarantinoesque” and 100+ Film Words Have Been Added to the Oxford English Dictionary (1)
- 05: Was Jackson Pollock Overrated? Behind Every Artist There’s an Art Critic, and Behind Pollock There Was Clement Greenberg (2)
- 04: Hear Brian Eno’s Ringtones Composed for Mobile Phones (0)
- 04: When Andy Warhol Made a Batman Superhero Movie (1964) (0)
- 04: Designer Creates a 3D-Printed Stamp That Replaces Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill (5)
- 03: How Joan Jett Started the Runaways at 15 and Faced Down Every Barrier for Women in Rock and Roll (3)
- 03: Blondie Drummer Clem Burke and Scientific Researchers Show That Drumming Can Help Kids with Autism Learn More Effectively in School (0)
- 03: Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists (2)
- 03: How Youtube’s Algorithm Turned an Obscure 1980s Japanese Song Into an Enormously Popular Hit: Discover Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love” (11)
- 02: The Deeply Meditative Electronic Music of Avant-Garde Composer Eliane Radigue (2)
- 02: A Giant Mural of Robin Williams Goes Up in Chicago (0)
- 02: The Outsiders: Lou Reed, Hunter S. Thompson, and Frank Zappa Reveal Themselves in Captivatingly Animated Interviews (1)
- 02: Punking Out, a Short 1978 Documentary Records the Beginning of the Punk Scene at CBGB’s (0)
- 01: How Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” Was Born From an Argument Between Roger Waters & David Gilmour (22)
- 01: The Joy of Experiencing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody for the Very First Time: Watch Three Reaction Videos (2)
- 01: What Makes The Night Watch Rembrandt’s Masterpiece (1)
- September 2018 (70)
- 28: Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint (9)
- 28: Hear Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Pioneering Compositions for Music Boxes (0)
- 28: Jurassic Park Without Dinosaurs: Watch Humans Stare in Amazement at a World Stripped of CGI Creations (0)
- 27: Brian Eno Reveals His Favorite Film Soundtracks (1)
- 27: Explore an Interactive, Online Version of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, a 200-Year-Old Guide to the Colors of the Natural World (1)
- 27: 1,100 Classic Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade: Play Them Free Online (1)
- 26: Flannery O’Connor Renders Her Verdict on Ayn Rand’s Fiction: It’s As “Low As You Can Get” (5)
- 26: The Talmud Is Finally Now Available Online (0)
- 26: Hear the Last Time the Jimi Hendrix Experience Ever Played Together: The Riotous Denver Pop Festival of 1969 (3)
- 25: The Brains of Jazz and Classical Musicians Work Differently, New Research Shows (4)
- 25: How Ancient Scrolls, Charred by the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Are Now Being Read by Particle Accelerators, 3D Modeling & Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 25: A Brief History of Guitar Distortion: From Early Experiments to Happy Accidents to Classic Effects Pedals (3)
- 24: A Book about Women in Philosophy by Women in Philosophy: Help Crowdfund It (8)
- 24: Long-Lost Letter Shows How Galileo Tried to Fool the Inquisition & Escape Censure for Putting Scientific Truth Ahead of Church Dogma (1613) (0)
- 24: In 1900, a Photographer Had to Create an Enormous 1,400-Pound Camera to Take a Picture of an Entire Train (2)
- 24: Watch Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests of Three Female Muses: Nico, Edie Sedgwick & Mary Woronov (0)
- 21: The Hieronymus Bosch Demon Bird Was Spotted Riding the New York City Subway the Other Day… (1)
- 21: When Led Zeppelin Reunited and Crashed and Burned at Live Aid (1985) (1)
- 21: William Shatner Is Releasing a Christmas Album with Iggy Pop & Henry Rollins : Get a First Listen to “Jingle Bells” (1)
- 20: Discover Rare 1980s CDs by Lou Reed, Devo & Talking Heads That Combined Music with Computer Graphics (1)
- 20: Why Should You Read Edgar Allan Poe? An Animated Video Explains (3)
- 20: Hear Nico’s Pre-Velvets Recording, “I’m Not Sayin,” Backed by the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones & Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page (1965) (0)
- 19: How Meditation Can Change Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Buddhist Practice (1)
- 19: Hear Dylan Thomas Recite His Classic Poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (0)
- 19: The History of the Guitar & Guitar Legends: From 1929 to 1979 (15)
- 19: Get a First Listen to David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti’s Long-Lost Album, Thought Gang (0)
- 18: Download Classic Japanese Wave and Ripple Designs: A Go-to Guide for Japanese Artists from 1903 (2)
- 18: R. Crumb Illustrates Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea: Existentialism Meets Underground Comics (0)
- 18: Paul McCartney Breaks Down His Most Famous Songs and Answers Most-Asked Fan Questions in Two New Videos (0)
- 18: This Man Flew to Japan to Sing ABBA’s “Mamma Mia” in a Big Cold River (2)
- 17: Umberto Eco Explains Why We Make Lists (1)
- 17: A Massive, Knitted Tapestry of the Galaxy: Software Engineer Hacks a Knitting Machine & Creates a Star Map Featuring 88 Constellations (1)
- 17: How the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound”–a Monster, 600-Speaker Sound System–Changed Rock Concerts & Live Music Forever (0)
- 14: Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Played by 28 Trombone Players (8)
- 14: Tom Waits Releases a Timely Cover of the Italian Anti-Fascist Anthem “Bella Ciao,” His First New Song in Two Years (5)
- 14: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovered Radio Pulsars in 1974, But the Credit Went to Her Advisor; In 2018, She Gets Her Due, Winning a $3 Million Physics Prize (0)
- 14: Why We Say “OK”: The History of the Most Widely Spoken Word in the World (3)
- 14: 94-Year-Old Stroke Survivor Plays Jazz Piano for the First Time in Years (2)
- 13: Behold Mystical Photographs Taken Inside a Cello, Double Bass & Other Instruments (12)
- 13: One Second from Each Episode of Twin Peaks: Experience David Lynch’s Groundbreaking TV Drama in Less than a Minute (1)
- 13: Watch the Sex Pistols Play a Gig on a Thames River Barge During the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and Get Shut Down by the Cops (1977) (0)
- 12: Wikipedia Leads Effort to Create a Digital Archive of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in the Brazilian Museum Fire (0)
- 12: David Gilmour Talks About the Mysteries of His Famous Guitar Tone (1)
- 12: Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscript of Frankenstein: This Is “Ground Zero of Science Fiction,” Says William Gibson (0)
- 11: When Aldous Huxley, Dying of Cancer, Left This World Tripping on LSD, Experiencing “the Most Serene, the Most Beautiful Death” (1963) (0)
- 11: Stephen Fry Voices a New Dystopian Short Film About Artificial Intelligence & Simulation Theory: Watch Escape (0)
- 11: Hunter S. Thompson Hated Getting Caricatured as “Uncle Duke” in Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury: ‘If I Ever Catch That Little Bastard, I’ll Tear His Lungs Out’ (0)
- 10: See the Expansive Ruins of Pompeii Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before: Through the Eyes of a Drone (1)
- 10: Sigmund Freud Speaks: Hear the Only Known Recording of His Voice, 1938 (3)
- 10: The New York Public Library Lets Patrons Check Out Ties, Briefcases & Handbags for Job Interviews (0)
- 10: See a Full Jimi Hendrix Experience Concert on Restored Footage Thought Lost for 35 Years (8)
- 09: Acclaimed Ruth Bader Ginsburg Documentary, RBG, Airing Tonight on CNN (1)
- 07: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (7)
- 07: When Steve Jobs Taught Andy Warhol to Make Art on the Very First Macintosh (1984) (0)
- 07: Enter an Archive of William Blake’s Fantastical “Illuminated Books”: The Images Are Sublime, and in High Resolution (2)
- 06: Watch Willem Dafoe Become Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s New Film, At Eternity’s Gate (1)
- 06: To Make Great Films, You Must Read, Read, Read and Write, Write, Write, Say Akira Kurosawa and Werner Herzog (1)
- 06: How Breaking Bad Crafted the Perfect TV Pilot: A Video Essay (0)
- 06: How Michael Jackson Wrote a Song: A Close Look at How the King of Pop Crafted “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” (0)
- 05: Why You Should Read One Hundred Years of Solitude: An Animated Video Makes the Case (3)
- 05: Discover “Journey of the Universe,” a Multimedia Project That Explores Humanity’s Place in the Epic History of the Cosmos (0)
- 05: Hear Langston Hughes Read His Poetry Over Original Compositions by Charles Mingus & Leonard Feather: A Classic Collaboration from 1958 (0)
- 05: A First Look at The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks, a Feature-Length Journey Into the Mind of the Famed Neurologist (0)
- 04: “The Long Tomorrow”: Discover Mœbius’ Hard-Boiled Detective Comic That Inspired Blade Runner (1975) (0)
- 04: Margaret Atwood Offers a New Online Class on Creative Writing (0)
- 04: Nirvana Refuses to Fake It on Top of the Pops, Gives a Big “Middle Finger” to the Tradition of Bands Miming on TV (1991) (2)
- 04: Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Love Letters to Diego Rivera (0)
- 03: Classic Songs by Bob Dylan Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers: “Like a Rolling Stone,” “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” & More (7)
- 03: R.E.M. Reveals the Secrets Behind Their Emotionally-Charged Songs: “Losing My Religion” and “Try Not to Breathe” (2)
- 03: MIT Students Solve the Spaghetti Breaking Mystery That Stumped Richard Feynman (3)
- August 2018 (83)
- 31: Leonardo da Vinci’s Earliest Notebooks Now Digitized and Made Free Online: Explore His Ingenious Drawings, Diagrams, Mirror Writing & More (0)
- 31: A Classic Video of Pablo Picasso Marking Art, Set to the Song, “Pablo Picasso,” by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (1)
- 31: Don’t Call 911 If You See a Coyote, Unless It’s Carrying ACME-Branded Products: The Office of Sheriff, Monroe County, New York (2)
- 31: Watch the New Trailer for Orson Welles’ Lost Film, The Other Side of the Wind: A Glimpse of Footage from the Finally Completed Film (0)
- 30: The Last Great Moment of Elvis Presley’s Musical Career: Watch His Extraordinary Performance of “Unchained Melody” (1977) (25)
- 30: John Turturro Introduces America to the World Wide Web in 1999: Watch A Beginner’s Guide To The Internet (1)
- 30: David Lynch Muses About the Magic of Cinema & Meditation in a New Abstract Short Film (0)
- 29: Hear the Original, Never-Heard Demo of John Lennon’s “Imagine” (0)
- 29: How Jim Jarmusch Gets Creative Ideas from William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies (0)
- 29: Japanese Musicians Turn Obsolete Machines Into Musical Instruments: Cathode Ray Tube TVs, Overhead Projectors, Reel-to-Reel Tape Machines & More (1)
- 28: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Online (1)
- 28: Conserve the Sound, an Online Museum Preserves the Sounds of Past Technologies–from Typewriters, Electric Shavers and Cassette Recorders, to Cameras & Classic Nintendo (0)
- 28: NASA Captures the World on Fire (0)
- 28: Legendary Studio Musician Carol Kaye Presents 150 Free Tips for Practicing & Playing the Bass (0)
- 27: M.I.T. Computer Program Alarmingly Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040 (4)
- 27: V.S. Naipaul Creates a List of 7 Rules for Beginning Writers (2)
- 27: The New York Public Library Puts Classic Stories on Instagram: Start with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Read Kafka’s The Metamorphosis Soon (1)
- 24: Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd (29)
- 24: Songs by David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads & More Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers (6)
- 24: V.S. Naipaul Writes an Enraged Letter to His Publisher After a Copy-Editor Revises His Book, A Turn in the South (0)
- 23: 10 Great German Expressionist Films: From Nosferatu to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1)
- 23: The Beach Party Film: A Short Appreciation of One of the Oddest Subgenres in Film History (0)
- 23: Pablo Picasso’s Masterful Childhood Paintings: Precocious Works Painted Between the Ages of 8 and 15 (2)
- 23: The Assassin’s Cabinet: A Hollowed Out Book, Containing Secret Cabinets Full of Poison Plants, Made in 1682 (4)
- 22: The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online (1)
- 22: The Hobo Code: An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s Train-Hoppers (1)
- 22: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Branded Car: A Playful Tribute to the Groundbreaking Electronic Composer (0)
- 22: This Is Your Kids’ Brains on Internet Algorithms: A Chilling Case Study Shows What’s Wrong with the Internet Today (2)
- 21: Tom Waits’ Many Appearances on David Letterman, From 1983 to 2015 (0)
- 21: Charles Bukowski Explains How to Beat Depression: Spend 3-4 Days in Bed and You’ll Get the Juices Flowing Again (NSFW) (3)
- 21: Free: Download 70,000+ High-Resolution Images of Chinese Art from Taipei’s National Palace Museum (0)
- 20: French Illustrator Revives the Byzantine Empire with Magnificently Detailed Drawings of Its Monuments & Buildings: Hagia Sophia, Great Palace & More (4)
- 20: How Aretha Franklin Turned Otis Redding’s “Respect” Into a Civil Rights and Feminist Anthem (0)
- 20: How an Art Conservator Completely Restores a Damaged Painting: A Short, Meditative Documentary (1)
- 20: The Books on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List: Naipaul, Ondaatje & More (0)
- 17: Hundreds of Classical Sculptures from the Uffizi Gallery Now Digitized & Put Online: Explore a Collection of 3D Interactive Scans (1)
- 17: Aretha Franklin’s Pitch-Perfect Performance in The Blues Brothers, the Film That Reinvigorated Her Career (1980) (2)
- 17: David Bowie’s “Heroes” Delightfully Performed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (1)
- 16: See the First Ever Video of Elvis Costello Performing, Summer 1974 (2)
- 16: Bauhaus Ballet: A Dance of Geometry (0)
- 16: How Aleister Crowley, the Infamous Occultist, Led the First Attempt to Reach the Summit of K2 (1902) (0)
- 16: How David Lynch Got Creative Inspiration? By Drinking a Milkshake at Bob’s Big Boy, Every Single Day, for Seven Straight Years (1)
- 15: What English Would Sound Like If It Was Pronounced Phonetically (2)
- 15: NASA Creates a Visualization That Sets Breathtaking Footage of the Moon to Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” (Moonlight) (1)
- 15: How Jean-Luc Godard Liberated Cinema: A Video Essay on How the Greatest Rule-Breaker in Film Made His Name (0)
- 15: The Rise and Fall of the Great Library of Alexandria: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 14: Did Lennon or McCartney Write the Beatles 1965 Song “In My Life”? A Math Professor, Using Statistics, Solves the Decades-Old Mystery (4)
- 14: How Leonard Cohen Wrote a Love Song (0)
- 14: Aretha Franklin’s Most Powerful Early Performances: “Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” “Say a Little Prayer” & More (1)
- 13: The Surreal Paintings of the Occult Magician, Writer & Mountaineer, Aleister Crowley (2)
- 13: Ken Burns Teaches Documentary Filmmaking with His New Online Masterclass (0)
- 13: Watch 13 Comedians Take “The Bob Ross Challenge” & Help Raise Money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (0)
- 13: A Free Course from MIT Teaches You How to Speak Italian & Cook Italian Food All at Once (1)
- 10: Hear Singers from the Metropolitan Opera Record Their Voices on Traditional Wax Cylinders (0)
- 10: See Ancient Greek Music Accurately Reconstructed for the First Time (1)
- 10: What Made Robin Williams a Uniquely Expressive Actor: A Video Essay Explores a Subtle Dimension of His Comic Genius (0)
- 09: See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen (3)
- 09: Native Lands: An Interactive Map Reveals the Indigenous Lands on Which Modern Nations Were Built (4)
- 09: Leonard Bernstein: The Greatest 5 Minutes in Music Education (1)
- 09: The “Weird Objects” in the New York Public Library’s Collections: Virginia Woolf’s Cane, Charles Dickens’ Letter Opener, Walt Whitman’s Hair & More (0)
- 08: Frank Zappa’s 1980s Appearances on The David Letterman Show (0)
- 08: A Modern Drummer Plays a Rock Gong, a Percussion Instrument from Prehistoric Times (0)
- 08: A Visionary 115-Year-Old Color Theory Manual Returns to Print: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Color Problems (0)
- 08: Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949) (4)
- 07: Italian Street Musician Plays Amazing Covers of Pink Floyd Songs, Right in Front of the Pantheon in Rome (3)
- 07: Hunter S. Thompson Sends a Letter to the Indianapolis Colts, Urging Them to Pick Ryan Leaf Over That “Peyton Manning Kid” (1998) (0)
- 07: How Zildjian Cymbals Were Created by an Alchemist in the Ottoman Empire, Circa 1618 (6)
- 07: Filmmaker Wim Wenders Explains How Mobile Phones Have Killed Photography (27)
- 06: The Surprising Pattern Behind the Names of Colors Around the World (3)
- 06: Hear Freddie Mercury & Queen’s Isolated Vocals on Their Enduring Classic Song, “We Are The Champions” (2)
- 06: Meet Grace Hopper, the Pioneering Computer Scientist Who Helped Invent COBOL and Build the Historic Mark I Computer (1906-1992) (0)
- 03: How Steely Dan Went Through Seven Guitarists and Dozens of Hours of Tape to Get the Perfect Guitar Solo on “Peg” (4)
- 03: Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well (3)
- 03: Andrei Tarkovsky Reveals His Favorite Filmmakers: Bresson, Antonioni, Fellini, and Others (1)
- 02: Meet Ellen Rubin (aka The Popuplady) and Her Collection of 9,000 Pop-Up Books (0)
- 02: “The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Denied Recognition and Written Out of Science History (5)
- 02: Van Gogh’s Art Now Adorns Vans Shoes (4)
- 02: 1,900+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in August: Enroll Today (0)
- 02: Watch the First “Interactive” TV Show: Winky Dink and You Encouraged Kids to Draw on the Screen (1953) (5)
- 01: How Marcel Marceau Used His Mime Skills to Save Children’s Lives During the Holocaust (0)
- 01: How Carol Kaye Became the Most Prolific Session Musician in History (6)
- 01: How Charlie Kaufman Goes Deep into the Human Condition in Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Other Movies (0)
- 01: Prince Plays Guitar for Maria Bartiromo: It’s Awkward (2004) (0)
- July 2018 (78)
- 31: Discover Hilma af Klint: Pioneering Mystical Painter and Perhaps the First Abstract Artist (1)
- 31: The Believer Magazine Has Put Its Entire Archive Online for Free (0)
- 31: An Asbestos-Bound, Fireproof Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) (1)
- 31: Meet Sergei Parajanov, the Filmmaker Persecuted & Imprisoned by the Soviets, and Championed by Tarkovsky, Fellini, Godard, Buñuel, and Others (2)
- 30: How to Build a Custom Handcrafted Acoustic Guitar from Start to Finish: The Process Revealed in a Fascinating Documentary (2)
- 30: Every Cover of MAD Magazine, from 1952 to the Present: Behold 553 Covers from the Satirical Publication (7)
- 30: New York Public Library Card Now Gives You Free Access to 33 NYC Museums (1)
- 30: A New Series About A Young Crime-Fighting Sigmund Freud Is Coming to Netflix (0)
- 27: Pianist Plays Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Ravel & Debussy for Blind Elephants in Thailand (2)
- 27: Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (Circa 1490) (15)
- 27: The Genius of Tina Weymouth: Breaking Down the Style of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club’s Basslines (0)
- 26: 96-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Fronts a Death Metal Band (5)
- 26: The Encyclopedia Of Alternate Guitar Tunings (1)
- 26: Merry Clayton Tells the Story of Her Amazing Backing Vocal on The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” (1)
- 26: Who Was Joan Vollmer, the Wife William Burroughs Allegedly Shot While Playing William Tell? (1)
- 25: The Doors’ Ray Manzarek Walks You Through the Writing of the Band’s Iconic Song, “Riders on the Storm” (8)
- 25: Watch Jean Cocteau’s Short Film About the Elegant House He Painted/”Tattooed” on the French Riviera (1952) (0)
- 25: What Is ASMR? Watch the The New Yorker’s Introduction to the Whispering & Crinkling Sounds That Help Calm Anxiety and Induce Euphoria (1)
- 24: Hunter S. Thompson’s Many Strange, Unpredictable Appearances on The David Letterman Show (2)
- 24: Watch the Original TV Coverage of the Historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Recorded on July 20, 1969 (4)
- 24: The Discipline of D.E.: Gus Van Sant Adapts a Story by William S. Burroughs (1978) (0)
- 23: What Is Stoicism? A Short Introduction to the Ancient Philosophy That Can Help You Cope with Our Hard Modern Times (1)
- 23: Rare Photos of Frida Kahlo, Age 13-23 (0)
- 23: Watch Kraftwerk Perform a Real-Time Duet with a German Astronaut Living on the International Space Station (0)
- 23: What a Conductor Actually Does on Stage: Two Short Videos Explain the Little-Understood Art (1)
- 20: Stream Online the Complete “Lost” John Coltrane Album, Both Directions at Once (1)
- 20: The 10 Rules for Students and Teachers Popularized by John Cage: “Nothing Is a Mistake,” “Consider Everything an Experiment” & More (3)
- 20: How to Paint Like Kandinsky, Picasso, Warhol & More: A Video Series from the Tate (0)
- 19: Hear Miles Davis & John Coltrane Battle It Out on Their Final Tour Together, 1960 (0)
- 19: David Foster Wallace Explains How David Lynch’s Blue Velvet Taught Him the True Meaning of Avant Garde Art (2)
- 19: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s 1897 Love Letter De Profundis: See the Full Three-Hour Performance (0)
- 19: Penguin Classic’s Back Cover Blurb for Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 Novel It Can’t Happen Here (5)
- 18: Peter Jackson’s New Film on World War I Features Incredible Digitally-Restored Footage From the Front Lines: Get a Glimpse (0)
- 18: Noam Chomsky Defines The Real Responsibility of Intellectuals: “To Speak the Truth and to Expose Lies” (1967) (10)
- 18: Stanley Kubrick’s “Lost” Script Burning Secret Surfaces, Complete Enough to Make into a Film (0)
- 17: George Orwell Identifies the Main Enemy of the Free Press: It’s the “Intellectual Cowardice” of the Press Itself (1)
- 17: Kurt Vonnegut Offers 8 Tips on How to Write Good Short Stories (and Amusingly Graphs the Shapes Those Stories Can Take) (5)
- 17: Sarah Bernhardt Becomes the First Woman to Play Hamlet (1899) (2)
- 16: Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation (0)
- 16: Hear the First Recorded Blues Song by an African American Singer: Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” (1920) (1)
- 16: What It Would Look Like If Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino & Other Directors Filmed Cooking Videos (7)
- 15: The Monty Python Philosophy Football Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans (4)
- 13: Watch “The Hangman,” a Classic Animated Film That Explores What Happens When No One Dares to Stand Up to Evil (4)
- 13: French Bookstore Blends Real People’s Faces with Book Cover Art (0)
- 13: Archaeologists Think They’ve Discovered the Oldest Greek Copy of Homer’s Odyssey: 13 Verses on a Clay Tablet (0)
- 13: How the Radical Buildings of the Bauhaus Revolutionized Architecture: A Short Introduction (0)
- 12: “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language (5)
- 12: Margaret Atwood Teaching an Online Class on Creative Writing (1)
- 12: New Web Site Showcases 700,000 Artifacts Dug Up from the Canals of Amsterdam, Some Dating Back to 4300 BC (0)
- 11: Steven Van Zandt Creates a Free School of Rock: 100+ Free Lesson Plans That Educate Kids Through Music (1)
- 11: Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining (3)
- 11: Why Med Schools Are Requiring Students to Take Art Classes, and How It Makes Med Students Better Doctors (1)
- 11: Frank Lloyd Wright Creates a List of the 10 Traits Every Aspiring Artist Needs (1)
- 10: Jimmy Page Visits Oxford University & Tells Students How He Went from Guitar Apprentice to Creating Led Zeppelin (0)
- 10: Learn the History of Indian Philosophy in a 62 Episode Series from The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: The Buddha, Bhagavad-Gita, Non Violence & More (1)
- 10: Steely Dan Creates the Deadhead/Danfan Conversion Chart: A Witty Guide Explaining How You Can Go From Loving the Dead to Idolizing Steely Dan (2)
- 09: John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & 2 Citations (2)
- 09: Nearly 1,000 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Now Digitized and Put Online: View/Download the Collection (4)
- 09: Stanley Kubrick Explains the Mysterious Ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a Newly Unearthed Interview (3)
- 09: Teaching Tolerance to Activists: A Free Course Syllabus & Anthology (0)
- 06: Behold the Art-o-Mat: Vintage Cigarette Vending Machines Get Repurposed & Dispense Works of Art (2)
- 06: Nick Offerman Explains the Psychological Benefits of Woodworking–and How It Can Help You Achieve Zen in Other Parts of Your Life (0)
- 06: How Warner Brothers Resisted a Hollywood Ban on Anti-Nazi Films in the 1930s and Warned Americans of the Dangers of Fascism (2)
- 05: The Iconic Urinal & Work of Art, “Fountain,” Wasn’t Created by Marcel Duchamp But by the Pioneering Dada Artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (23)
- 05: All the Roman Roads of Italy, Visualized as a Modern Subway Map (0)
- 05: Find the Address of Your Home on Pangaea: Open Source Project Lets You Explore the Ancient Land Masses of Our Planet (2)
- 05: The Thin White Duke: A Close Study of David Bowie’s Darkest Character (2)
- 04: When Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip and Then Hallucinated That He Was Being Followed by Crabs (1)
- 04: A Big Digital Archive of Independent & Alternative Publications: Browse/Download Radical Periodicals Printed from 1951 to 2016 (1)
- 04: An Animated Introduction to Anna Freud: The Psychoanalyst (and Daughter of Sigmund) Who Theorized Denial, Projection & Other Defense Mechanisms for Our Egos (0)
- 03: The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: 2 Succinct Sentences (2)
- 03: Cheap Trick’s Bassist Tom Petersson Helps Kids With Autism Learn Language With Rock ‘n’ Roll: Discover “Rock Your Speech” (0)
- 03: The Rise and Fall of The Simpsons: An In-Depth Video Essay Explores What Made the Show Great, and When It All Came to an End (3)
- 03: Meet “Founding Mother” Mary Katharine Goddard, First Female Postmaster in the U.S. and Printer of the Declaration of Independence (0)
- 02: Read George Washington’s “110 Rules of Civility”: The Code of Decency That Guided America’s First President (2)
- 02: Color Film Was Designed to Take Pictures of White People, Not People of Color: The Unfortunate History of Racial Bias in Photography (1940-1990) (7)
- 02: Take a 360° Virtual Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpieces, Taliesin & Taliesin West (1)
- 02: 2,000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in July: Enroll Today (2)
- June 2018 (81)
- 29: The History of Rock Musically Told in 100 Guitar Riffs and 100 Bass Riffs (2)
- 29: Behold an Incredibly Detailed, Handmade Map Of Medieval Trade Routes (1)
- 29: Do Our Dreams Predict the Future? Vladimir Nabokov Spent Three Months Testing That Theory in 1964 (0)
- 28: The Famous Break Up of Sigmund Freud & Carl Jung Explained in a New Animated Video (5)
- 28: Glenn Gould Plays Bach on His U.S. TV Debut … After Leonard Bernstein Explains What Makes His Playing So Great (1960) (0)
- 28: How to Make the Oldest Recipe in the World: A Recipe for Nettle Pudding Dating Back 6,000 BC (1)
- 27: Joseph Heller’s Handwritten Outline for Catch-22, One of the Great Novels of the 20th Century (2)
- 27: Discover an Archive of Taped New York City-Area Punk & Indie Concerts from the 80s and 90s: The Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Replacements & Many More (1)
- 27: Dancing in Movies: A Montage of Dance Moments from Almost 300 Feature Films (1)
- 27: How Innovative Jazz Pianist Vince Guaraldi Became the Composer of Beloved Charlie Brown Music (1)
- 26: You Don’t “Find” Your Passion in Life, You Actively Develop It, Explains Psychologist Carol Dweck, Theorist of the “Growth Mindset” (1)
- 26: How the Uptight Today Show Introduced the Sex Pistols & British Punk to American TV Viewers (1978) (0)
- 26: 12-Year-Old Piano Prodigy Takes Four Notes Randomly Picked from a Hat and Instantly Uses Them to Improvise a Sonata (0)
- 26: James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (0)
- 25: Watch a 4000-Year Old Babylonian Recipe for Stew, Found on a Cuneiform Tablet, Get Cooked by Researchers from Yale & Harvard (6)
- 25: The Simpsons Take on Ayn Rand: See the Show’s Satire of The Fountainhead and Objectivist Philosophy (6)
- 25: Get a First Glimpse of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the “Cursed” Film 29 Years in the Making (1)
- 23: Watch Paul McCartney Sing Through the Streets of Liverpool on the Latest Episode “Carpool Karaoke” (0)
- 22: Bill Murray Explains How He Pulled Himself Out of a Deep, Lasting Funk: He Took Hunter S. Thompson’s Advice & Listened to the Music of John Prine (6)
- 22: A Brief, Visual Introduction to Surrealism: A Primer by Doctor Who Star Peter Capaldi (1)
- 22: A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched: Take a Digital Look at Her Photos, Letters, Speeches, Political Writings & More (1)
- 21: The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern (9)
- 21: What Makes Taxi Driver So Powerful? An In-Depth Study of Martin Scorsese’s Existential Film on the Human Condition (1)
- 21: Read a Huge Annotated Online Edition of Frankenstein: A Modern Way to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel (0)
- 21: New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000 Digitized Images (0)
- 21: Taschen Running a Big Warehouse Sale with Books Up To 75% Off (June 21-24) (0)
- 20: Hear Meryl Streep Read Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song,” a Poem Written After the Birth of Her Daughter (3)
- 20: Carl Sagan Returns to His Old Sixth-Grade Classroom to Turn a New Generation of Kids On To Science (0)
- 20: Barack Obama Shares a List of Enlightening Books Worth Reading (1)
- 20: Chris Cornell’s Daughter Pays Tribute to Her Father, Singing an Achingly Pretty Cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1)
- 19: A Meditative Look at a Japanese Artisan’s Quest to Save the Brilliant, Forgotten Colors of Japan’s Past (1)
- 19: How Does Language Shape the Way We Think? Cognitive Scientist Lera Boroditsky Explains (5)
- 19: 130 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (2)
- 19: The French Village Designed to Promote the Well-Being of Alzheimer’s Patients: A Visual Introduction to the Pioneering Experiment (0)
- 19: An Introduction to Ivan Ilyin, the Philosopher Behind the Authoritarianism of Putin’s Russia & Western Far Right Movements (3)
- 18: Visit the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled: 800 Artifacts from 33 Museums, All Free Online (0)
- 18: The Isolated Vocal Tracks of the Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime” Turn David Byrne into a Wild-Eyed Holy Preacher (1)
- 18: Eight-Year-Old Drum Prodigy Plays Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times;” Robert Plant Watches in Wonder (2)
- 15: Experience the Mystical Music of Hildegard Von Bingen: The First Known Composer in History (1098 – 1179) (7)
- 15: Hear David Lynch Read from His New Memoir Room to Dream, and Browse His New Online T-Shirt Store (0)
- 15: Rapping, Deconstructed: How Some of the Greatest Rappers Make Their Rhymes (0)
- 14: Hear the First Track From John Coltrane’s Lost Album: The Newly-Discovered 1963 Collection Will Get Officially Released Later This Month (1)
- 14: Hear Eric Clapton’s Isolated Guitar Track From the Beatles’ ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (1968) (9)
- 14: Life Lessons from Anthony Bourdain: How He Developed His Iron Professionalism, Achieved Creative Freedom & Learned from Failure (3)
- 14: Weezer Covers Toto’s “Africa” & Makes a Young Fan’s Dream Come True: The Latest, Greatest Cover of the 1983 Song (1)
- 13: How to Film Thought: A Close Look at the Masterful Editing of Sherlock, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (0)
- 13: Enter a Digitized Collection of 38,000 Pamphlets & Periodicals From the French Revolution (0)
- 13: The Causes & Prevalence of Suicide Explained by Two Videos from Alain de Botton’s School of Life (3)
- 13: How Dr. Martens’ Boots Are Made (2)
- 12: Optical Scanning Technology Lets Researchers Recover Lost Indigenous Languages from Old Wax Cylinder Recordings (1)
- 12: Visualizing Dante’s Hell: See Maps & Drawings of Dante’s Inferno from the Renaissance Through Today (6)
- 12: James Hill Plays Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” on the Ukulele: Watch One Musician Become a Complete Band (0)
- 12: “Back in Black,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “Welcome to the Jungle,” and Other Classic Rock Songs Played on Traditional Japanese Instruments (0)
- 11: Watch Anthony Bourdain’s Free Show, Raw Craft Where He Visits Craftsmen Making Guitars, Tattoos, Motorcycles & More (RIP) (0)
- 11: The Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Earth Over 500 Million Years: Animated Video Takes You from Pangea, to 250 Million Years in the Future (1)
- 11: The Ancient Astronomy of Stonehenge Decoded (2)
- 11: Nirvana Refuses to Play ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ After the Crowd Hurls Sexist Insults at the Opening Act (Buenos Aires, 1992) (0)
- 08: David Bowie Memorialized in Traditional Japanese Woodblock Prints (1)
- 08: Steve Martin & Robin Williams Riff on Math, Physics, Einstein & Picasso in a Smart Comedy Routine (3)
- 08: A Deep Study of Terence Malick’s Filmography (0)
- 08: Ozzy Osbourne’s Guitarist Zakk Wylde Plays Black Sabbath on a Hello Kitty Guitar (0)
- 07: “The Directors Series” Presents Free Immersive Studies of Stanley Kubrick, the Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson & Christopher Nolan (0)
- 07: David Bowie Sings ‘I Got You Babe’ with Marianne Faithfull in His Very Last Performance As Ziggy Stardust (1973) (0)
- 07: The 100 Best One-Hit Wonder Songs: A Streamable Playlist Curated by Consequence of Sound (6)
- 07: Discover the BlipBlox, a Kids’ Toy and Fully-Functional Synthesizer That Will Teach Toddlers to Play Electronic Music (1)
- 06: George Orwell Reveals the Role & Responsibility of the Writer “In an Age of State Control” (2)
- 06: A Vinyl Record Spins So Fast That It Shatters Into 50,000 Pieces (0)
- 06: Chilling and Surreal Propaganda Posters from the NSA Are Now Declassified and Put Online (3)
- 06: Ralph Steadman Creates an Unorthodox Illustrated Biography of Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis (1979) (0)
- 05: Winston Churchill’s List of Tips for Surviving a German Invasion: See the Never-Distributed Document (1940) (0)
- 05: 1,000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in June: Enroll Today (0)
- 05: Learn How to Play the Theremin: A Free Short Video Course (0)
- 05: How William S. Burroughs Embraced, Then Rejected Scientology, Forcing L. Ron Hubbard to Come to Its Defense (1959-1970) (2)
- 04: Modernist Birdhouses Inspired by Bauhaus, Frank Lloyd Wright and Joseph Eichler (2)
- 04: Download 50,000 Art Books & Catalogs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Digital Collections (0)
- 04: The Mother of All Maps of the “Father of Waters”: Behold the 11-Foot Traveler’s Map of the Mississippi River (1866) (0)
- 04: Watch the Winners of the 48 Hour Science Fiction Film Challenge: The 2018 Edition (2)
- 01: Watch the New Trailer for Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin, the First Feature Film on the Pioneering Sci-Fi Author (0)
- 01: Henrietta Lacks Gets Immortalized in a Portrait: It’s Now on Display at the National Portrait Gallery (0)
- 01: A Pakistani Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis Play an Enchanting Version of John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” (0)
- 01: Watch an Animated Visualization of the Bass Line for the Motown Classic, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (2)
- May 2018 (90)
- 31: The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time: A Playlist Curated by Pitchfork (1)
- 31: When Pinball Was Deemed Immoral & Outlawed in Major American Cities (2)
- 31: Hear Philip Roth Read from Five of His Major Novels: Sabbath’s Theater, The Ghost Writer and More (0)
- 31: 19-Year-Old Russian Guitarist Plays an Ingenious Cover of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” (1)
- 30: David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called “Rabbits”: It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects (4)
- 30: Explore 7,600 Works of Art by Edvard Munch: They’re Now Digitized and Free Online (6)
- 30: Watch the Rise and Fall of the British Empire in an Animated Time-Lapse Map ( 519 A.D. to 2014 A.D.) (3)
- 29: Hip Hop Fan Freaks Out When He Hears Rage Against the Machine’s Debut Album for the Very First Time (19)
- 29: How to Use Psychedelic Drugs to Improve Mental Health: Michael Pollan’s New Book, How to Change Your Mind, Makes the Case (1)
- 29: The Device Invented to Resuscitate Canaries in Coal Mines (Circa 1896) (0)
- 29: You Can Now Airbnb the Home of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Where the Author Wrote Tender Is the Night (0)
- 28: Patti Smith, The Godmother of Punk, Is Now Putting Her Pictures on Instagram (0)
- 28: Take a Virtual Tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London (53)
- 28: Buckminster Fuller Appears on the Los Angeles New Age Cable TV Shows, Psychic Phenomena and Quest Four (1979-82) (0)
- 25: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Explained in One of the Earliest Science Films Ever Made (1923) (3)
- 25: The Map of Philosophy: See All of the Disciplines, Areas & Subdivisions of Philosophy Mapped in a Comprehensive Video (1)
- 25: Discover the Lost Early Computer Art of Telidon, Canada’s TV Proto-Internet from the 1970s (0)
- 25: Explore Meticulous 3D Models of Endangered Historical Sites in Google’s “Open Heritage” Project (0)
- 24: When Robert Rauschenberg Asked Willem De Kooning for One of His Paintings … So That He Could Erase It (1)
- 24: All of the Rulers of Europe Over the Past 2,400 Years Presented in a Timelapse Map (400 B.C. to 2017 A.D.) (1)
- 24: An 82-Year-Old Japanese Audiophile Searches for the Best Sound by Installing His Own Electric Utility Pole in His Yard (12)
- 24: Short Fascinating Film Shows How Japanese Soy Sauce Has Been Made for the Past 750 years (1)
- 23: Philip Roth (RIP) Creates a List of the 15 Books That Influenced Him Most (7)
- 23: Watch The Hedy Lamarr Story, a New Documentary on the 1940s Film Star & Inventor of Wi-Fi Technology (Streaming Free for a Limited Time) (3)
- 23: The Art of Europe’s Forgotten Avant-Garde Artists Now Digitized and Put Online (0)
- 23: Robert Rauschenberg’s 34 Illustrations of Dante’s Inferno (1958-60) (0)
- 22: View and Download Nearly 60,000 Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (0)
- 22: Bill Gates Names 5 Books You Should Read This Summer (0)
- 22: Discover David Lynch’s Bizarre & Minimalist Comic Strip, The Angriest Dog in the World (1983-1992) (1)
- 22: The Ups & Downs of Ancient Rome’s Economy–All 1,900 Years of It–Get Documented by Pollution Traces Found in Greenland’s Ice (0)
- 21: It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Apocalypse Gets Visualized in an Inventive Map from 1486 (1)
- 21: How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short, Charming Introduction (7)
- 21: The Art of Sci-Fi Book Covers: From the Fantastical 1920s to the Psychedelic 1960s & Beyond (0)
- 21: Tom Wolfe’s Groundbreaking Work, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Gets Released as a Limited Collector’s Edition, with Each Copy Signed by the Author (0)
- 18: How Women Got Dressed in the 14th & 18th Centuries: Watch the Very Painstaking Process Get Cinematically Recreated (0)
- 18: Why Sitting Is The New Smoking: An Animated Explanation (0)
- 18: Muhammad Ali & Sly Stone Get Into a Heated Debate on Racism & Reparations on The Mike Douglas Show (1974) (1)
- 18: Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child” Shredded on the Ukulele (3)
- 18: Doc Martens Boots Now Come Adorned with Traditional Japanese Art (1)
- 17: How David Bowie Turned His “Adequate” Voice into a Powerful Instrument: Hear Isolated Vocal Tracks from “Life on Mars,” “Starman,” “Modern Love” “Under Pressure” & More (3)
- 17: The New Studs Terkel Radio Archive Will Let You Hear 5,000+ Recordings Featuring the Great American Broadcaster & Interviewer (0)
- 17: How the Sounds You Hear in Movies Are Really Made: Discover the Magic of “Foley Artists” (5)
- 17: Why Stradivarius Violins Are Worth Millions (8)
- 16: 19th Century Atlas Creatively Visualizes the Expansion of Geographical Knowledge Over 4000 Years of World History: From the Biblical flood to the Industrial Revolution (0)
- 16: Hear a 12-Hour Playlist of Experimental Symphonic Noise Rock by Avant-Garde Guitarist and Composer Glenn Branca (RIP) (0)
- 16: Hear Tom Wolfe (RIP) Tell Studs Terkel All About Custom-Car Culture, the Subject of His Seminal Piece of New Journalism (1965) (0)
- 16: Watch the Brand New Trailer for Bohemian Rhapsody, the Long-Awaited Biopic on Freddie Mercury & Queen (0)
- 15: Get the History of the World in 46 Lectures: A Free Online Course from Columbia University (0)
- 15: Hear the Recently Discovered, Earliest Known Recording of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1894) (0)
- 15: Extremely Rare Technicolor Film Footage from the 1920s Discovered: Features Louise Brooks Dancing in Her First Feature Film (0)
- 15: Groundbreaking Map from 1858 Colorfully Visualizes 6,000 Years of World History (0)
- 14: National Geographic Has Digitized Its Collection of 6,000+ Vintage Maps: See a Curated Selection of Maps Published Between 1888 and Today (0)
- 14: The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online (3)
- 14: Mister Rogers Accepts a Lifetime Achievement Award, and Helps You Thank Everyone Who Has Made a Difference in Your Life (0)
- 14: Newly Unearthed Footage Shows Albert Einstein Driving a Flying Car (1931) (3)
- 11: Interactive Map Shows the Seizure of Over 1.5 Billion Acres of Native American Land Between 1776 and 1887 (3)
- 11: Erich Fromm’s Six Rules of Listening: Learn the Keys to Understanding Other People from the Famed Psychologist (0)
- 11: Eleven Rules for Writing from Eight Contemporary Playwrights (1)
- 10: The Muggletonians, an Obscure Religious Sect, Made Beautiful Maps That Put the Earth at the Center of the Solar System (1846) (4)
- 10: The Power of Eddie Vedder’s Voice: Hear Isolated Vocal Tracks from Three Classic Pearl Jam Songs (5)
- 10: The First 100 Years of the Bicycle: A 1915 Documentary Shows How the Bike Went from Its Clunky Birth in 1818, to Its Enduring Design in 1890 (0)
- 10: How the Mysteries of the Vatican Secret Archives Are Being Revealed by Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 09: Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Now Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library (0)
- 09: 3,000-Year-Old Olive Tree on the Island of Crete Still Produces Olives Today (4)
- 09: You Could Soon Be Able to Text with 2,000 Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1)
- 09: A New Scientific Study Supports Putting Two Spaces After a Period … and a Punctuation War Ensues (8)
- 08: Watch 9 Iconic Artists at Work: Vintage Videos of Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, Monet, Escher & More (1)
- 08: On Its 25th Anniversary, Hear Liz Phair’s Groundbreaking Exile in Guyville Juxtaposed Song-By-Song With the Album That Inspired It, the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street (1)
- 08: The Cutting-Edge Science That Can Turn Everyday Objects, Like a Bag of Chips, Into a Listening Device (0)
- 08: Zora Neal Hurston Wrote a Book About Cudjo Lewis, the Last Survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and It’s Finally Getting Published 87 Years Later (0)
- 07: An Interactive Map Shows Just How Many Roads Actually Lead to Rome (6)
- 07: Europe After the Rain: Watch the Vintage Documentary on the Two Great Art Movements, Dada & Surrealism (1978) (0)
- 07: Yale’s Free Course on The Moral Foundations of Political Philosophy: Do Governments Deserve Our Allegiance, and When Should They Be Denied It? (0)
- 07: Visit an Online Collection of 61,761 Musical Instruments from Across the World (3)
- 04: Visit a Gallery of 300 Striking Posters from the May 1968 Uprising in Paris (6)
- 04: How Master Japanese Animator Satoshi Kon Pushed the Boundaries of Making Anime: A Video Essay (1)
- 04: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory of the Cosmos Now Published & Available Online (0)
- 04: Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical Debuted on Broadway 50 Years Ago: Watch Footage of the Cast Performing in 1968 (0)
- 03: Peter Sellers Gives a Quick Demonstration of British Accents (0)
- 03: Pulp Covers for Classic Detective Novels by Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie & Raymond Chandler (0)
- 03: Watch AC/DC Rock a Gymnasium Full of High School Kids in 1976 (0)
- 03: Enter an Archive of Over 95,000 Aerial Photographs Taken Over Britain from 1919 to 2006 (0)
- 02: J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work (10)
- 02: The Concept of Musical Harmony Explained in Five Levels of Difficulty, Starting with a Child & Ending with Herbie Hancock (0)
- 02: Studio Ghibli Releases Tantalizing Concept Art for Its New Theme Park, Opening in Japan in 2022 (1)
- 02: Computer Scientists Figure Out What’s the Longest Distance You Could Sail at Sea Without Hitting Land (0)
- 01: Dramatic Footage of San Francisco Right Before & After the Massively Devastating Earthquake of 1906 (1)
- 01: Charlie Chaplin Films a Scene Inside a Lion’s Cage in 200 Takes (0)
- 01: The Gig When Miles Davis Jammed with Carlos Santana & Robben Ford (Giants Stadium, 1986) (0)
- 01: What Is Blockchain? Three Videos Explain the New Technology That Promises to Change Our World (2)
- April 2018 (84)
- 30: Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer (1934) (0)
- 30: See The Iliad Performed as a One-Woman Show in a Montreal Bar by McGill University Classics Professor Lynn Kozak (0)
- 30: Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today (4)
- 30: Hear the Famously Controversial Concert Where Leonard Bernstein Introduces Glenn Gould & His Idiosyncratic Performance of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto (1962) (2)
- 27: Hear the Very First Pieces of Ambient Music, Erik Satie’s Furniture Music (Circa 1917) (1)
- 27: A Big Choir Sings Patti Smith’s “Because the Night” (2)
- 27: Tsarist Russia Comes to Life in Vivid Color Photographs Taken Circa 1905-1915 (0)
- 27: 100 Years of Drag Queen Fashion in 4 Minutes: An Aesthetic Journey Moving from the 1920s Through Today (0)
- 26: The Diderot Effect: Enlightenment Philosopher Denis Diderot Explains the Psychology of Consumerism & Our Wasteful Spending (0)
- 26: Doc Martens Boots Adorned with Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” (1)
- 26: An Archive of 8,000 Benjamin Franklin Papers Now Digitized & Put Online (0)
- 26: Braille Neue: A New Version of Braille That Can Be Simultaneously Read by the Sighted and the Blind (4)
- 25: A Cinematic Journey Through Paris, As Seen Through the Lens of Legendary Filmmaker Éric Rohmer: Watch Rohmer in Paris (0)
- 25: Igor Stravinsky Remembers the “Riotous” Premiere of His Rite of Spring in 1913: “They Were Very Shocked. They Were Naive and Stupid People.” (0)
- 25: Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Relives His Four Most Memorable Games (1)
- 25: The Science of Beer: A New Free Online Course Promises to Enhance Your Appreciation of the Timeless Beverage (0)
- 24: Dire Straits’ “Sultans Of Swing” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument Dating Back to the 6th Century (1)
- 24: 200+ Films by Indigenous Directors Now Free to View Online: A New Archive Launched by the National Film Board of Canada (1)
- 24: Apply to Become an Archivist Overseeing Prince’s Artifacts & Archival Materials: Applications Are Being Accepted Now (9)
- 24: Watch Life on the Streets of Tokyo in Footage Recorded in 1913: Caught Between the Traditional and the Modern (0)
- 23: Enter an Online Interactive Documentary on M.C. Escher’s Art & Life, Narrated By Peter Greenaway (1)
- 23: Watch the Trailer for a Stunning New 70-Millimeter Print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Released by Christopher Nolan on the Film’s 50th Anniversary (0)
- 23: Special David Bowie MetroCards Get Released in New York City (0)
- 23: The Salvador Dalí Action Figure (0)
- 20: Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911 (101)
- 20: Download an Archive of 16,000 Sound Effects from the BBC: A Fascinating History of the 20th Century in Sound (1)
- 20: Kind of Blue: How Miles Davis Changed Jazz (0)
- 20: Watch Choirs Around the World Simulate the Rainstorm in Toto’s “Africa” Using Only Their Hands (0)
- 19: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Is Now Completely Online (3)
- 19: Cornell Creates a Database of Fugitive Slave Ads, Telling the Story of Those Who Resisted Slavery in 18th & 19th Century America (0)
- 19: Martin Scorsese Teaches His First Online Course on Filmmaking: Features 30 Video Lessons (0)
- 18: How the Iconic Eames Lounge Chair Is Made, From Start to Finish (1)
- 18: Dress Like an Intellectual Icon with Japanese Coats Inspired by the Wardrobes of Camus, Sartre, Duchamp, Le Corbusier & Others (0)
- 18: John Lennon Extols the Virtues of Transcendental Meditation in a Spirited Letter Written to a Beatles Fan (1968) (0)
- 18: Listen to an Archive of Recordings by Delia Derbyshire, the Electronic Music Pioneer & Composer of the Dr. Who Theme Song (0)
- 17: An Avalanche of Novels, Films and Other Works of Art Will Soon Enter the Public Domain: Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, William Carlos Williams, Buster Keaton & More (2)
- 17: Watch Roxy Music Play Live with Brian Eno in Early Groundbreaking Performances (1972) (1)
- 17: What Made Studio Ghibli Animator Isao Takahata (RIP) a Master: Two Video Essays (0)
- 17: Stream Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize In Music (0)
- 16: Behold the Codex Gigas (aka “Devil’s Bible”), the Largest Medieval Manuscript in the World (12)
- 16: Eminent Philosophers Name the 43 Most Important Philosophy Books Written Between 1950-2000: Wittgenstein, Foucault, Rawls & More (39)
- 16: Frank Zappa Debates Whether the Government Should Censor Music in a Heated Episode of Crossfire: Why Are People Afraid of Words? (1986) (3)
- 16: Malcolm Gladwell Explains Where His Ideas Come From (1)
- 13: Radiooooo: Discover the Musical Time Machine That Lets You Hear What Played on the Radio in Different Times & Places (3)
- 13: Coachella Is Streaming Free Online: Watch St. Vincent, Beyoncé, David Byrne & Many Other Live Acts (3)
- 13: The Famous Schrodinger’s Cat Thought Experiment Comes Back to Life in an Off-Kilter Animation (1)
- 13: How Sampling Transformed Music and Created New Tapestries of Sound: An Interactive Demonstration by Producer/DJ Mark Ronson (1)
- 13: Watch Ancient Ruins Get Restored to their Glorious Original State with Animated GIFs: The Temple of Jupiter, Luxor Temple & More (0)
- 12: 10 Great German Expressionist Films: From Nosferatu to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (0)
- 12: What Makes This Song Great?: Producer Rick Beato Breaks Down the Greatness of Classic Rock Songs in His New Video Series (1)
- 12: A Map Showing How the Ancient Romans Envisioned the World in 40 AD (1)
- 12: A Dazzling Aerial Photograph of Edinburgh (1920) (0)
- 11: Artists Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky in Mexico: Vintage Footage from 1938 (0)
- 11: Stream David Bowie’s Complete Discography in a 19-Hour Playlist: From His Very First Recordings to His Last (6)
- 11: Help a Library Transcribe Magical Manuscripts & Recover the Charms, Potions & Witchcraft That Flourished in Early Modern Europe and America (0)
- 11: The Political Thought of Confucius, Plato, John Locke & Adam Smith Introduced in Animations Narrated by Aidan Turner (0)
- 10: Stream 47 Hours of Classic Sci-Fi Novels & Stories: Asimov, Wells, Orwell, Verne, Lovecraft & More (2)
- 10: Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations (4)
- 10: A Young Steve Jobs Teaches a Class at MIT (1992) (1)
- 10: Stephen King Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Novels (3)
- 09: Doc Martens Now Come Adorned with William Blake’s Art, Thanks to a Partnership with Tate Britain (3)
- 09: Behold 3,000 Digitized Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina: The Mother of All Medieval Libraries Is Getting Reconstructed Online (0)
- 09: UC Berkeley Is Offering Data Science, Its Fastest-Growing Course Ever, for Free Online (3)
- 09: The Genius of Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map–and How It Revolutionized Subway Map Design Everywhere (0)
- 06: A Vending Machine Now Distributes Free Short Stories at Francis Ford Coppola’s Café Zoetrope (1)
- 06: Colorful Wood Block Prints from the Chinese Revolution of 1911: A Gallery of Artistic Propaganda Posters (0)
- 06: Gustave Flaubert Tells His Mother Why Serious Writers Shouldn’t Bother with Day Jobs (1850) (0)
- 05: Enter “The Magazine Rack,” the Internet Archive’s Collection of 34,000 Digitized Magazines (3)
- 05: When David Bowie Became Nikola Tesla: Watch His Electric Performance in The Prestige (2006) (0)
- 05: How to Use the Rotary Dial Phone: A Primer from 1927 (0)
- 05: Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity (1)
- 04: Hear Albert Einstein Read “The Common Language of Science” (1941) (1)
- 04: Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958) (1)
- 04: One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.) (0)
- 04: Stream a 144-Hour Discography of Classic Jazz Recordings from Blue Note Records: Miles Davis, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman & More (2)
- 03: The Illustrated Medicinal Plant Map of the United States of America (1932): Download It in High Resolution (4)
- 03: Hidden Ancient Greek Medical Text Read for the First Time in a Thousand Years — with a Particle Accelerator (0)
- 03: 450+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in April: Enroll Today (0)
- 03: Meet Nadia Boulanger, “The Most Influential Teacher Since Socrates,” Who Mentored Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Quincy Jones & Other Legends (10)
- 02: Brian Eno’s Advice for Those Who Want to Do Their Best Creative Work: Don’t Get a Job (9)
- 02: Hear Marvin Gaye Sing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” A Capella: The Haunting Isolated Vocal Track (4)
- 02: Patti Smith’s 40 Favorite Books (5)
- 02: How Bill Gates Reads Books (3)
- 02: The 1,700+ Words Invented by Shakespeare* (3)
- March 2018 (91)
- 31: Applause Fills the Air as Stephen Hawking Gets Laid to Rest in Cambridge, England (6)
- 30: Hear Beowulf and Gawain and the Green Knight Read in Their Original Old and Middle English by an MIT Medievalist (2)
- 30: A Shazam for Nature: A New Free App Helps You Identify Plants, Animals & Other Denizens of the Natural World (2)
- 30: Japanese Designer Creates Incredibly Detailed & Realistic Maps of a City That Doesn’t Exist (0)
- 29: This Is Your Brain on Exercise: Why Physical Exercise (Not Mental Games) Might Be the Best Way to Keep Your Mind Sharp (1)
- 29: The Fall’s Mark E. Smith’s (RIP) Creates a List of His Favorite Books, Films & Music, Circa 1981 (7)
- 29: Martin Scorsese Creates a List of 38 Essential Films About American Democracy (7)
- 29: When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934) (7)
- 28: 150 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses (0)
- 28: Behold the MusicMap: The Ultimate Interactive Genealogy of Music Created Between 1870 and 2016 (0)
- 28: Hear 48 Hours of Lectures by Joseph Campbell on Comparative Mythology and the Hero’s Journey (6)
- 28: A Periodic Table Visualizing the Year & Country in Which Each Element Was Discovered (3)
- 28: Read and Hear Tristan Tzara’s “Dada Manifesto,” the Avant-Garde Document Published 100 Years Ago (March 23, 1918) (0)
- 27: The Museum of Failure: A Living Shrine to New Coke, the Ford Edsel, Google Glass & Other Epic Corporate Fails (0)
- 27: Enter the Pulp Magazine Archive, Featuring Over 11,000 Digitized Issues of Classic Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Detective Fiction (8)
- 27: A 17-Hour Chronological Playlist of Pink Floyd Albums: The Evolution of the Band Revealed in 209 Tracks (1967-2014) (4)
- 27: The Models for “American Gothic” Pose in Front of the Iconic Painting (1942) (1)
- 26: Tom Waits Curates a 76-Song Playlist of His Own Music: An Introduction to Tom Waits by Tom Waits (4)
- 26: Come on Down to David Byrne’s Giant Suit Emporium: We’re Burning Down the House with Savings! (0)
- 26: Philosophy for Beginners: A Free Introductory Course from Oxford University (10)
- 26: The History of the U.S. Civil War Visualized Month by Month and State by State, in an Infographic from 1897 (0)
- 26: What Happened When Stephen Hawking Threw a Cocktail Party for Time Travelers (2009) (1)
- 23: Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC – 2000 AD) (7)
- 23: Spike Lee Teaching an Online Course on Independent Filmmaking: The Course Is Now Officially Live (0)
- 23: The MC5’s Wayne Kramer Demonstrates the Correct & Official Way to Play “Kick Out the Jams” on the Guitar (0)
- 23: Pre-Flight Safety Demonstration Gets Performed as a Modern Dance: A Creative Video from a Taiwanese Airline (0)
- 22: When Ira Aldridge Became the First Black Actor to Perform Shakespeare in England (1824) (1)
- 22: A Free Oxford Course on Deep Learning: Cutting Edge Lessons in Artificial Intelligence (2)
- 22: Watch a Marathon Streaming of All 856 Episodes of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, and the Moving Trailer for the New Documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (0)
- 22: All of the Songs Played on “WKRP in Cincinnati” in One Spotify Playlist: Stream 202 Classic Tracks (1)
- 22: Infographics Show How the Different Fields of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Fit Together (8)
- 21: Bertrand Russell’s Advice to People Living 1,000 Years in the Future: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish” (3)
- 21: A Free Online Course Helps Us Identify Hoaxes, Rumors & Misinformation in the News (0)
- 21: An Artist Visits Stonehenge in 1573 and Paints a Charming Watercolor Painting of the Ancient Ruins (2)
- 21: The Story of How David Jones Became David Bowie Gets Told in a New Graphic Novel (0)
- 20: Bill Murray Reads the Poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Lorine Niedecker, Lucille Clifton & More (0)
- 20: Watch the Original Black Panther Animated Series Online: All Six Episodes Now Available Thanks to Marvel (1)
- 20: Coursera Now Offering Complete Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs–With Tuition Reduced by 70% (0)
- 20: Play a Collection of Classic Handheld Video Games at the Internet Archive: Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Tron and MC Hammer (0)
- 19: Watch Stephen Hawking’s Interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Recorded 10 Days Before His Death: A Last Conversation about Black Holes, Time Travel & More (1)
- 19: A Huge Scale Model Showing Ancient Rome at Its Architectural Peak (Built Between 1933 and 1937) (4)
- 19: Jane Goodall Now Teaching a Free Online Course on Developing Compassionate Leaders: Enroll and Start Today (0)
- 19: Feel Strangely Nostalgic as You Hear Classic Songs Reworked to Sound as If They’re Playing in an Empty Shopping Mall: David Bowie, Toto, Ah-ha & More (0)
- 16: How the Ornate Tapestries from the Age of Louis XIV Were Made (and Are Still Made Today) (0)
- 16: David Byrne Creates a Playlist of Creative Music From Africa & the Caribbean—or What One Nameless President Has Called “Shithole Countries” (0)
- 15: Stephen Hawking Picks the Music (and One Novel) He’d Spend Eternity With: Stream the Playlist Online (1)
- 15: Watch “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on The 405,” the New Oscar-Winning Portrait of an Artist (0)
- 15: H.P. Lovecraft Writes “Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance,” a Devastating Parody of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (1923) (0)
- 15: Enter Digital Archives of the 1960s Fluxus Movement and Explore the Avant-Garde Art of John Cage, Yoko Ono, John Cale, Nam June Paik & More (0)
- 14: Stephen Hawking (RIP) Explains His Revolutionary Theory of Black Holes with the Help of Chalkboard Animations (1)
- 14: The Lighter Side of Stephen Hawking: The Physicist Cracks Jokes and a Smile with John Oliver (0)
- 14: Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Thanks to the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive (1)
- 14: Take a Long, Strange Trip and Stream a 346-Hour Chronological Playlist of Live Grateful Dead Performances (1966-1995) (5)
- 14: An Archive of 20,000 Movie Posters from Czechoslovakia (1930-1989) (0)
- 13: 70,000+ Religious Texts Digitized by Princeton Theological Seminary, Letting You Immerse Yourself in the Curious Works of Great World Religions (5)
- 13: IDEO.org’s Free Design Course on Prototyping Starts Today (0)
- 13: Buckminster Fuller’s Collaboration with The North Face Culminates with a New Geodesic Dome Tent, the Geodome 4 (0)
- 13: Marjorie Eliot Has Held Free Jazz Concerts in Her Harlem Apartment Every Sunday for the Past 25 Years (1)
- 12: The Periodic Table of David Bowie: A Visualization of the Seminal Artist’s Influence and Influences (1)
- 12: A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures (16)
- 12: Watch Ta-Nehisi Coates Speak French Before & After Attending Middlebury’s Immersion Program (2)
- 12: Hear 55 Hours of Shakespeare’s Plays: The Tragedies, Comedies & Histories Performed by Vanessa Redgrave, Sir John Gielgud, Ralph Fiennes & Many More (2)
- 09: The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972-2018) (5)
- 09: A Turing Machine Handmade Out of Wood (0)
- 09: Moog This!: Hear a Playlist Featuring 36 Hours of Music Made with the Legendary Analog Synthesizer (0)
- 09: Professional Scrabble Players Replay Their Greatest Moves: Their Most Improbable, Patient & Strategic Moves of All Time (2)
- 09: Google Launches Three New Artificial Intelligence Experiments That Could Be Godsends for Artists, Museums & Designers (0)
- 08: An Impressive Audio Archive of John Cage Lectures & Interviews: Hear Recordings from 1963-1991 (0)
- 08: Time Lapse Video Captures Light Illuminating the Stained Glass Windows of Washington National Cathedral (0)
- 08: One Man Shows You How to Play Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” with Just One Synthesizer (0)
- 07: How Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts Were Made: A Step-by-Step Look at this Beautiful, Centuries-Old Craft (3)
- 07: When German Performance Artist Ulay Stole Hitler’s Favorite Painting & Hung it in the Living Room of a Turkish Immigrant Family (1976) (0)
- 07: 1000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in March: Enroll Today (0)
- 07: The Original Noise Artist: Hear the Strange Experimental Sounds & Instruments of Italian Futurist, Luigi Russolo (1913) (1)
- 06: Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detection Kit”: A Toolkit That Can Help You Scientifically Separate Sense from Nonsense (6)
- 06: Oxford’s Free Introduction to Philosophy: Stream 41 Lectures (6)
- 06: The Case for Writing in Coffee Shops: Why Malcolm Gladwell Does It, and You Should Too (1)
- 06: A Digital Archive of Heavy Metal, the Influential “Adult Fantasy Magazine” That Featured the Art of Moebius, H.R. Giger & More (3)
- 05: Mozart’s Diary Where He Composed His Final Masterpieces Is Now Digitized and Available Online (4)
- 05: Google Launches a Free Course on Artificial Intelligence: Sign Up for Its New “Machine Learning Crash Course” (28)
- 05: An Animated History of Goth (2)
- 05: Elton John Proves He Can Turn any Text into a Song: Watch Him Improvise with Lines from Henrik Ibsen’s Play, Peer Gynt (1)
- 02: David Lynch Teaches Typing: A New Interactive Comedy Game (1)
- 02: David Sedaris Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Jazz Tracks: Stream Them Online (0)
- 02: How Much Money Do You Need to Be Happy? A New Study Gives Us Some Exact Figures (4)
- 02: Judd Apatow Teaches the Craft of Comedy: A New Online Course from MasterClass (0)
- 01: New York City Buskers Sound Just Like the Beatles (0)
- 01: Get Free Drawing Lessons from Katsushika Hokusai, Who Famously Painted The Great Wave of Kanagawa: Read His How-To Book, Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings (0)
- 01: Watch Jack Nicholson Get Maniacally Into Character for The Shining’s Iconic Axe Scene (0)
- 01: Pablo Neruda’s Poem, “The Me Bird,” Becomes a Short, Beautifully Animated Film (0)
- 01: Harvard Launches a Free Online Course to Promote Religious Tolerance & Understanding (1)
- February 2018 (86)
- 28: Hear Music Played on the Viola Organista, a Piano That Sounds Like a Violin, Which Leonardo da Vinci Invented, But Never Heard (1)
- 28: Tattoos Can Now Start Monitoring Your Medical Conditions: Harvard and MIT Researchers Innovate at the Intersection of Art & Medicine (0)
- 28: Maya Angelou’s Secret to Living Your Best Life (0)
- 28: Malcolm Gladwell Teaching His First Online Course: A Master Class on How to Turn Big Ideas into Powerful Stories (1)
- 27: Enter the Cover Art Archive: A Massive Collection of 800,000 Album Covers from the 1950s through 2018 (12)
- 27: A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) (10)
- 27: Hear Rick Wakeman’s Musical Adaptation of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, “One of Prog Rock’s Crowning Achievements” (0)
- 27: HBO Drops a Teaser Trailer for Fahrenheit 451, Its New Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Classic Dystopian Novel (0)
- 27: Large Archive of Hannah Arendt’s Papers Digitized by the Library of Congress: Read Her Lectures, Drafts of Articles, Notes & Correspondence (4)
- 26: What Ancient Chinese Philosophy Can Teach Us About Living the Good Life Today: Lessons from Harvard’s Popular Professor, Michael Puett (0)
- 26: Hunter S. Thompson’s Decadent Daily Breakfast: The “Psychic Anchor” of His Frenetic Creative Life (5)
- 26: A Demonstration of Perfect Samurai Swordsmanship (0)
- 26: 175+ College Admissions Offices Promise Not to Penalize High School Students Who Get Suspended for Protesting Peacefully Against Gun Violence (3)
- 25: Free: The Best Books for Learning Modern Statistics (0)
- 23: Leo Tolstoy Makes a List of the 50+ Books That Influenced Him Most (1891) (8)
- 23: When Archie Bunker’s Advice on Gun Control Becomes Mainstream GOP Policy (1972) (5)
- 23: The Truth Behind Jane Austen’s Fight Club: Female Prize Fights Were a Thing During the 18th Century (0)
- 23: Underrated Albums That You Want the World to Know About: What’s on Your List? (24)
- 22: The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Now Free Online (1)
- 22: Google Digitizes and Puts Online a Vast Archive of Latino Artworks and Artifacts (1)
- 22: What the Map of the United States Would Look Like If All 50 States Had Equal Populations (2)
- 22: Watch Joan Baez Endearingly Imitate Bob Dylan (1972) (4)
- 21: Massive Archive of 78RPM Records Now Digitized & Put Online: Stream 78,000 Early 20th Century Records from Around the World (4)
- 21: What Made John Entwistle One of the Great Rock Bassists? Hear Isolated Tracks from “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “Baba O’Riley” & “Pinball Wizard” (1)
- 21: Watch 3000 Years of Art, a 1968 Experimental Film That Takes You on a Visual Journey Through 3,000 Years of Fine Art (1)
- 21: Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: A Free Course (2017) (2)
- 20: Hear a 19-Hour Playlist of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Favorite Music: Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and… Yvette Guilbert (0)
- 20: Ditching the Lecture Hall for the Recording Studio: One Historian Is Using the Power of Podcasting to Inspire a Whole New Audience (5)
- 20: Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out (5)
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