Interactive Web Site Tracks the Global Spread of the Coronavirus: Created and Supported by Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins has created an interactive website that tracks the spread of the coronavirus around the...
How Nina Simone Became Hip Hop’s “Secret Weapon”: From Lauryn Hill to Jay Z and Kanye West
In 1996, the Fugees burst on the scene with “Ready or Not,” and most listeners were...
Peanuts Rock: Watch the Peanuts Gang Play Classic Rock Songs by Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey & More
In a very crowded field, Garren Lazar's comical take on Queen’s "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a stand-out. Comical in the...
Hunter Thompson Died 15 Years Ago: Hear Him Remembered by Tom Wolfe, Johnny Depp, Ralph Steadman, and Others
Hunter S. Thompson died on February 20, 2005, fifteen years ago, and ever since we've been...
How William S. Burroughs Influenced Rock and Roll, from the 1960s to Today
It can be difficult to know what to do sometimes with adding machine heir and Naked...
Electronic Musician Shows How He Uses His Prosthetic Arm to Control a Music Synthesizer with His Thoughts
The techno-futurist prophets of the late 20th century, from J.G. Ballard to William Gibson to Donna...
Salvador Dalí Strolls onto The Dick Cavett Show with an Anteater, Then Talks About Dreams & Surrealism, the Golden Ratio & More (1970)
There was a time when you could flip on the TV in the evening, tune in...
Moral Philosophy on TV? Pretty Much Pop #32 Judges The Good Place
Mark Linsenmayer, Erica Spyres, and Brian Hirt discuss Michael Schur's NBC TV show. Is it good?...
Use the “Eisenhower Matrix” to Manage Your Time & Increase Your Productivity: The System Designed by the 34th President of the United States
"What is important is seldom urgent," said Dwight D. Eisenhower, "and what is urgent is seldom...
The City of Nashville Built a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in 1897, and It’s Still Standing Today
Photo by Mayur Phadtare, via Wikimedia Commons A recent executive order stating that “the classical architectural...
New Digital Archive Will Bring Medieval Chants Back to Life: Project Amra Will Feature 300 Digitized Manuscripts and Many Audio Recordings
Among historians of European Christianity, it long seemed a settled question that Irish Catholicism, the so-called...
Watch More Than 400 Classic Korean Films Free Online Thanks to the Korean Film Archive
Even if you don't know much about Korea, or indeed about film, it's safe to say...
Bob Marley’s Redemption Song Finally Gets an Official Video: Watch the Animated Video Made Up of 2747 Drawings
Whoever Bob Marley was singing for, it could sound like he’s singing for all of us....
Bertrand Russell’s Prison Letters Are Now Digitized & Put Online (1918 – 1961)
Boethius, Henry David Thoreau, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Luther King, Jr…. It’s possible, if one tried, to...
Scientist Creates a Working Rotary Cellphone
In popular histories of the mobile phone, and of the smartphone in particular, you will rarely...
Watch the Grateful Dead Slip Past Security & Play a Gig at Columbia University’s Anti-Vietnam Protest (1968)
In 1968, the Vietnam War was not a catalyst for protests but a sort of nexus...
Explore Ancient Athens 3D, a Digital Reconstruction of the Greek City-State at the Height of Its Influence
Today any of us can go Athens, a city with flavorful food, pleasant weather, a picturesque...
The New York Public Library Creates a List of 125 Books That They Love
The New York Public Library sure knows how to celebrate a quasquicentennial. In honor of its...