Month View
Here are the subjects of all posts in the syn_openculture journal in May, 2017.

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1st

2:30p	syn_openculture	The Career of Paul Thomas Anderson: A 5-Part Video Essay on the Auteur of Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, and More
5:39p	syn_openculture	Montblanc Unveils a New Line of Miles Davis Pens … and (Kind of) Blue Ink
6:54p	syn_openculture	700 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in May: Enroll Free Today
8:00p	syn_openculture	An Aging Louis Armstrong Sings “What a the Wonderful World” in 1967, During the Vietnam War & The Civil Rights Struggle
8:30p	syn_openculture	Why Should We Read Tolstoy’s War and Peace (and Finish It)? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case

2nd

11:15a	syn_openculture	John F. Kennedy Explains Why Artists & Poets Are Indispensable to American Democracy (October 26th, 1963)
2:35p	syn_openculture	How the Soviets Imagined in 1960 What the World Would Look in 2017: A Gallery of Retro-Futuristic Drawings
5:14p	syn_openculture	Trump Provides Another Teachable Moment: Here’s a Free Course from Yale on the American Civil War
6:00p	syn_openculture	A Hypnotic Look at How Japanese Samurai Swords Are Made

3rd

5:30p	syn_openculture	Watch a Reading of Steve Bannon’s Screenplay Which Attempted to Turn Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Into a Rap Musical
6:00p	syn_openculture	A Three-Minute Introduction to Buckminster Fuller, One of the 20th Century’s Most Productive Design Visionaries
6:16p	syn_openculture	Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains Why If We Have True Meaning in Our Lives, We Can Make It Through the Darkest of Times
11:36p	syn_openculture	Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign

4th

11:15a	syn_openculture	Hear James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Set to Music: Features 100+ Musicians, Including Pioneering Punk Bassist Mike Watt
5:00p	syn_openculture	Watch “A Family Tree,” Jonathan Demme’s 1980s Sitcom Episode with David Byrne & Rosanna Arquette
5:31p	syn_openculture	The Museum of Failure: A New Swedish Museum Showcases Harley-Davidson Perfume, Colgate Beef Lasagne, Google Glass & Other Failed Products
9:30p	syn_openculture	Watch Queen’s Stunning Live Aid Performance: 20 Minutes Guaranteed to Give You Goose Bumps (July 15, 1985)

5th

7:30a	syn_openculture	“Play Without Bitching About the Key,” and Other Humorous, Blunt Annotations Added to Musical Scores
2:30p	syn_openculture	“If Life Were Only Like This”: Woody Allen Gets Marshall McLuhan to Put a Pontificating Professor in His Place
4:45p	syn_openculture	Watch Coda, a Prize-Winning, Thought-Provoking Animation About a Lost Soul’s Encounter with Death
8:00p	syn_openculture	A History of Alternative Music Brilliantly Mapped Out on a Transistor Radio Circuit Board: 300 Punk, Alt & Indie Artists

8th

7:41a	syn_openculture	The Pioneering Physics TV Show, The Mechanical Universe, Is Now on YouTube: 52 Complete Episodes from Caltech
11:00a	syn_openculture	30 Hours of Doctor Who Audio Dramas Now Streaming on Spotify
2:15p	syn_openculture	The MoMA Teaches You How to Paint Like Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning & Other Abstract Painters: Free Course Begins on May 22
5:24p	syn_openculture	Every Poem in Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” Set to Music, Illustrated and Performed Live

9th

12:04a	syn_openculture	The Official Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Long-Awaited Blade Runner Sequel Is Finally Out
7:50a	syn_openculture	Stevie Nicks “Shows Us How to Kick Ass in High-Heeled Boots” in a 1983 Women’s Self Defense Manual
5:03p	syn_openculture	Dan Rather Introduces Rastafarianism to the U.S. in a 60 Minutes Segment Featuring Bob Marley (1979)
6:15p	syn_openculture	The History of Electronic Music Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Theremin: 200 Inventors, Composers & Musicians
6:31p	syn_openculture	How Hunter S. Thompson Gave Birth to Gonzo Journalism: Short Film Revisits Thompson’s Seminal 1970 Piece on the Kentucky Derby

10th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Watch the 1917 Ballet “Parade”: Created by Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau, It Provoked a Riot and Inspired the Word “Surrealism”
11:17a	syn_openculture	A Complete Digitization of Eros Magazine: The Controversial 1960s Magazine on the Sexual Revolution
2:15p	syn_openculture	The Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
5:00p	syn_openculture	How Good Are Your Headphones? This 150-Song Playlist, Featuring Steely Dan, Pink Floyd & More, Will Test Them Out

11th

7:30a	syn_openculture	Hear Aerobic Exercise: When Soviet Musicians Recorded Electronic Music for a Subversive Home Fitness Record (1984)
11:00a	syn_openculture	Watch a Timelapse Film Showing How the British Library Digitized the World’s Largest Atlas, the 6-Foot Tall “Klencke Atlas” from 1660
2:30p	syn_openculture	How Filmmakers Tell Their Stories: Three Insightful Video Essays Demystify the Craft of Editing, Composition & Color
4:51p	syn_openculture	Alfred Hitchcock Recalls Working with Salvador Dali on Spellbound: “No, You Can’t Pour Live Ants All Over Ingrid Bergman!”
5:45p	syn_openculture	The Frida Kahlo Action Figure

12th

5:22a	syn_openculture	The History of the World in 20 Odd Minutes
7:26a	syn_openculture	A Free Course on Machine Learning & Data Science from Caltech
10:00a	syn_openculture	How Baking, Cooking & Other Daily Activities Help Promote Happiness and Alleviate Depression and Anxiety
2:00p	syn_openculture	Sigmund Freud, Father of Psychoanalysis, Introduced in a Monty Python-Style Animation
4:30p	syn_openculture	Japanese Computer Artist Makes “Digital Mondrians” in 1964: When Giant Mainframe Computers Were First Used to Create Art

15th

6:11a	syn_openculture	All 886 episodes of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood Streaming Online (for a Limited Time)
2:30p	syn_openculture	Discover “The Ghost Club,” the Historic Paranormal Society Whose Members Included Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle & W.B. Yeats
5:23p	syn_openculture	Franz Kafka’s Unfinished Novel, The Castle, Gets Turned Into an Album by Czech Musicians: Watch a Music Video for the Song, “The Grave”
7:00p	syn_openculture	Hear the 10 Best Albums of the 1960s as Selected by Hunter S. Thompson
7:10p	syn_openculture	“Calling Bullshit”: Watch Lectures for the College Course Designed to Combat the BS in our Information Age

16th

5:06p	syn_openculture	Meet the Iconic Figures on the Cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
6:35p	syn_openculture	The MC5 Performs at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, Right Before All Hell Breaks Loose
7:00p	syn_openculture	Edward Gorey Illustrates H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds in His Inimitable Gothic Style (1960)
7:15p	syn_openculture	Helen Keller Writes a Letter to Nazi Students Before They Burn Her Book: “History Has Taught You Nothing If You Think You Can Kill Ideas” (1933)

17th

7:41a	syn_openculture	Huge Hands Rise Out of Venice’s Waters to Support the City Threatened by Climate Change: A Poignant New Sculpture
2:30p	syn_openculture	An Animated Introduction to Samuel Beckett, Absurdist Playwright, Novelist & Poet
4:15p	syn_openculture	Stephen Wolfram’s Bestseller, A New Kind of Science, Now Free to Read/Download Online
5:30p	syn_openculture	Noel Coward’s “Alice (Is At It Again)” Gets Reimagined as a Very Modern Fairy Tale: A Short Film Starring Sarah Snook
7:15p	syn_openculture	Hear 2,000 Recordings of the Most Essential Jazz Songs: A Huge Playlist for Your Jazz Education

18th

2:30p	syn_openculture	Everything Thing You Ever Wanted to Know About the Synthesizer: A Vintage Three-Hour Crash Course
5:29p	syn_openculture	Learn Python with a Free Online Course from MIT
6:15p	syn_openculture	The Map of Chemistry: New Animation Summarizes the Entire Field of Chemistry in 12 Minutes.
8:15p	syn_openculture	Guillermo del Toro Creates a List of His 20 Favorite Art House/Criterion Films

19th

8:00a	syn_openculture	An Animated Alan Watts Waxes Philosophical About Time in The Fine Art of Goofing Off, the 1970s “Sesame Street for Grown-Ups”
10:30a	syn_openculture	Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell Sings Haunting Acoustic Covers of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” & Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”
2:00p	syn_openculture	Twin Peaks Essentials to Get You Ready for the Debut of Season 3: Video Essays, Maps, Commercials & Behind-the-Scenes Footage

20th

6:42a

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36 eBooks on Computer Programming from O’Reilly Media: Free to Download and Read

22nd

7:30a	syn_openculture	Take a Trip Through the History of Modern Art with the Oscar-Winning Animation Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase
2:15p	syn_openculture	Meet Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai Warrior
5:04p	syn_openculture	Sgt. Pepper’s Album Cover Gets Reworked to Remember Icons Lost in 2016
8:15p	syn_openculture	Lou Reed Creates a List of the 10 Best Records of All Time

23rd

7:31a	syn_openculture	How Famous Paintings Inspired Cinematic Shots in the Films of Tarantino, Gilliam, Hitchcock & More: A Big Supercut
11:00a	syn_openculture	Visit a New Digital Archive of 2.2 Million Images from the First Hundred Years of Photography
2:30p	syn_openculture	A Big List of Free Art Lessons on YouTube
5:09p	syn_openculture	The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download

24th

7:30a	syn_openculture	Hear 4+ Hours of Jazz Noir: A Soundtrack for Strolling Under Street Lights on Foggy Nights
11:00a	syn_openculture	Stanford Researchers Discover a Smarter Way to Prepare for Exams: Introducing MetaCognition, the Art of Thinking About Your Thinking
5:36p	syn_openculture	“A Brief History of Goths”: From the Goths, to Gothic Literature, to Goth Music
7:00p	syn_openculture	Animations Show the Melting Arctic Sea Ice, and What the Earth Would Look Like When All of the Ice Melts

25th

1:20p	syn_openculture	Slavoj Žižek Names His 5 Favorite Films
3:34p	syn_openculture	Beat Club, the 1960s TV Show That Brought Rock Music to 70 Million Kids in Germany, Hungary, Thailand, Tanzania & Beyond
8:00p	syn_openculture	Kurt Vonnegut Ponders Why “Poor Americans Are Taught to Hate Themselves” in a Timely Passage from Slaughterhouse-Five
8:13p	syn_openculture	Large Choir Sings “Black Hole Sun”: A Moving Tribute to Chris Cornell

26th

8:00a	syn_openculture	An Animated History of Tea
1:30p	syn_openculture	Watch a Mesmerizing Hourglass Filled with 1,250,000 “Nanoballs” (Created by the Designer of the Apple Watch)
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Story of Habitat, the Very First Large-Scale Online Role-Playing Game (1986)
5:10p	syn_openculture	Timelapse Animation Lets You See the Rise of Cities Across the Globe, from 3700 BC to 2000 AD
8:00p	syn_openculture	How Finland Created One of the Best Educational Systems in the World (by Doing the Opposite of U.S.)

28th

7:16p

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Watch Clouds Roil Through the Grand Canyon: A Beautiful Timelapse Film Captures a Rare Full Cloud Inversion

29th

2:15p	syn_openculture	The Sounds of Blade Runner: How Music & Sound Effects Became Part of the DNA of Ridley Scott’s Futuristic World
5:06p	syn_openculture	Artificial Intelligence: A Free Online Course from MIT
8:15p	syn_openculture	Hayao Miyazaki Picks His 50 Favorite Children’s Books
8:37p	syn_openculture	Watch The Cure’s First TV Appearance in 1979 … Before The Band Acquired Its Signature Goth Look

30th

7:31a	syn_openculture	Watch Matthew McConaughey’s Audition Tape for Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, the Indie Comedy That Made Him a Star
11:15a	syn_openculture	Research Reveals How Certain Catchy Songs Get Stuck in Our Brains: What Earworms Can’t You Escape?
2:30p	syn_openculture	Relax with 8 Hours of Classical Space Music: From Richard Strauss & Haydn, to Brian Eno, Philip Glass & Beyond
4:57p	syn_openculture	When Bowie & Jagger’s “Dancing in the Street” Music Video Becomes a Silent Film: Can the Worst Music Video Ever Get Even Worse?

31st

5:09a	syn_openculture	LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Creates a New Podcast Offering Wisdom on Nurturing & Scaling New Businesses
4:13p	syn_openculture	Stevie Ray Vaughan Plays the Acoustic Guitar in Rare Footage, Letting Us See His Guitar Virtuosity in Its Purest Form
4:57p	syn_openculture	265 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in June: Enroll Free Today
7:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Simon & Garfunkel Sing “The Sound of Silence” 45 Years After Its Release, and Just Get Hauntingly Better with Time
9:15p	syn_openculture	The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!”