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You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes
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1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About Their Lost Ancestors
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Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury imagines a Trump candidacy back in 1999. And nails it. You're sheep!”
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Word of the day: Kakistocracy: a state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
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Maria Anna Mozart Was a Musical Prodigy Like Her Brother Wolfgang, So Why Did She Get Erased from History?
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An Interactive Map Shows Just How Many Roads Actually Lead to Rome
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You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Big Day Comes
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“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves. Best word ever?
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Make Orwell Fiction Again
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Two greats now gone. Bowie and Freddie Sing “Under Pressure.” The Isolated Vocal Track
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Dr. Weil’s 60-Second Technique for Falling Asleep
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A-ha Performs a Beautiful Acoustic Version of Their 1980s Hit, "Take on Me": Recorded Live in Norway
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Harry Dean Stanton (RIP) Reads Poems by Charles Bukowski
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The president doesn’t look happy.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Because of Pink Floyd, I’ve Spent Decades Undoing the Idea That There’s a Dark Side of the Moon”
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The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic
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This is pretty masterful.
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Oh my god. This is just sensational. Please watch and retweet.
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Carl Sagan Explains How the Ancient Greeks, Using Reason and Math, Figured Out the Earth Isn’t Flat, Over 2,000 Years Ago
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1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About Their Lost Ancestors
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Meditation is Replacing Detention in Baltimore’s Public Schools, and the Students Are Thriving
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The Met Digitally Restores the Colors of an Ancient Egyptian Temple, Using Projection Mapping Technology
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Designer Creates a 3D-Printed Stamp That Replaces Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill. And he made it free to download.
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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The only thing on the Rolling Stones web site right now:
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Parler was co-founded by Rebekah Mercer—from the Mercer family that bankrolled Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and Donald Trump. And had close ties to Steve Bannon etc.
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You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes
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The COVID-19-infected president who flew to NJ, to attend a fundraising event, is a very SELFISH man-should have known!
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The Ebola doctor who just flew to N.Y. from West Africa and went on the subway, bowling and dining is a very SELFISH man-should have known!
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An Interactive Map Shows Just How Many Roads Actually Lead to Rome
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Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink “Unlimited” Alcohol in Prohibition America (1932)
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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
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Andrei Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online. http://t.co/y0FgX8rWaa http://t.co/55yHgpcbs0
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Look very carefully at the image...
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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
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"Tsundoku," the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
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Tom Petty and Prince Playing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
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Yale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies 3 Essential Features of Fascism: Invoking a Mythic Past, Sowing Division & Attacking Truth
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The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear
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Introducing The Radiohead Public Library. Radiohead Makes Their Full Catalogue Available via a Free Online Web Site
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The New York Public Library Lets You Download 180,000 Historic Images in High Resolution:
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Margaret Hamilton, Lead Software Engineer of the Apollo Project, Stands Next to Her Code That Took Us to the Moon (1969)
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1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized and Put Online
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1,300 Free Online Courses from Top Universities. Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Oxford, etc. Pick a topic, any topic.
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1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents to Be Digitized. Lets African Americans Find Ancestors
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Neil Young Offers His Entire Catalog of Music Free Online (Until June), at the Highest Digital Audio Quality Possible
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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
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Introducing The Radiohead Public Library. Radiohead Makes Their Full Catalogue Available via a Free Online Web Site.
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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
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John Waters’ Graduation Speech: Real Wealth is Never Having to Spend Time with Assholes
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Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online: Stalker, Solaris & More: http://t.co/y0FgX8rWaa http://t.co/hYSCTJiIoa
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George Harrison Wrote His Last Letter to Austin Powers Creator Mike Myers, Asking for a Mini Me Doll (2001)
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Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online: Stalker, Solaris, The Mirror, Andrei Rublev:
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Travel in 2020
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Man experiences irony, 1966. via @Reddit
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You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes
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Dolly Parton’s "Jolene" Slowed Down to 33RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings
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An Interactive Map of Odysseus’ 10-Year Journey in Homer’s Odyssey
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Steve Bannon to campaign with alleged pedophile Roy Moore on eve of election. And @SIRIUSXM just gave Bannon a show on its platform. Here's the number where you can cancel your Sirius subscription: 1-888-539-7474
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9-Year-Old Edward Hopper Draws a Picture on the Back of His 3rd Grade Report Card
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This is pretty magnificent.
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Luke Messac
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13 years ago, I emailed Dr. Fauci out of the blue to ask if I might interview him for my undergrad thesis. He invited me to his office, where he answered all my questions. When I sent him the thesis, HE READ THE WHOLE THING (see his overly effusive review below). Who does that?!
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Hear a Great 4-Hour Radio Documentary on the Life & Music of Jimi Hendrix: Features Rare Recordings & Interviews
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Japanese Artist Has Drawn Every Meal He’s Eaten for 32 Years. Behold the Delicious Illustrations of Itsuo Kobayashi
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400 Americans have more wealth than the 150 million adults in the bottom 60 percent. If you're worried about socialism, fix the broken capitalist system. PS Finland, Norway & Denmark (all social democracies) are the 3 happiest countries on the planet.
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2020 was the year socialism went mainstream. The dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere it has been tried & ruined countless lives, is on its way to becoming the default economic policy of the Democratic Party.This terrifying trend threatens the future of every American
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
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A stupid sitcom makes more sense than our current reality.
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The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online View and Download 480,00 Works of Art
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1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents to Be Digitized. Lets African Americans Find Ancestors
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Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD)
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Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Releases Free Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings. Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away & More
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Eddie Vedder’s wife wears “Yes We All Care. Y Don’t U?” jacket at Pearl Jam concert
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Free: Watch 92 Episodes of the Surrealist Cartoon, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Featuring Björk, Thom Yorke & More
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The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic
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When Kraftwerk Issued Their Own Pocket Calculator Synthesizer — to Play Their Song "Pocket Calculator" (1981)
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Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining
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1950s Batman Cartoon Tells Kids: "Don’t Believe Those Crackpot Lies About People Who Worship Differently”
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The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic
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1980s Metalhead Kids Are All Right: New Study Suggests They Became Well-Adjusted Adults
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Just 45 Straight Minutes of Nick Offerman Quietly Drinking Single Malt Scotch by the Fire
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1950s Batman Cartoon Tells Kids: “Don’t Believe Those Crackpot Lies About People Who Worship Differently”
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The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic
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Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism -- #4 . Disagreement is treason.
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The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!”
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Miles Davis is Attacked, Beaten & Arrested by the NYPD Outside Birdland, Eight Days After the Release of Kind of Blue (1959)
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All 886 episodes of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood Streaming Online (for a Limited Time). Starts at noon PST today
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Bette Davis Divorced: "She Read Too Much," Says Husband (1938)
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Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection
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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
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Download 200+ Modern Art Books from the Guggenheim Museum. Expensive art books, now free.
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Introducing The Radiohead Public Library Radiohead Makes Their Full Catalogue Available via a Free Online Web Site
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Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection
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The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
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Pixar & Khan Academy Offer a Free Online Course on Storytelling
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Watch Björk, Age 11, Read a Christmas Nativity Story on a 1976 Icelandic TV Special
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A Virtual Tour Inside the Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Museum
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George Orwell’s "1984" Is Now the #1 Bestselling Book on Amazon. Anyone got an inkling why?
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The Edvard Munch Scream Action Figure.
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