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Here are the subjects of all posts in the syn_openculture journal in July, 2017.

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3rd

11:00a	syn_openculture	209 Beatles Songs in 209 Days: Memphis Musician Covers The Beatles’ Songbook (After Getting a Special Job Offer from Steve Jobs)
2:00p	syn_openculture	An Animated Introduction to the Life & Work of Marie Curie, the First Female Nobel Laureate
7:00p	syn_openculture	The Music from Jack Kerouac’s Classic Beat Novel On the Road: Stream Tracks by Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon & Other Jazz Legends
8:54p	syn_openculture	Dog Crashes a Performance of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, in the Ancient City of Ephesus: The “Cutest Moment in Classical Music”

4th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Black Cat,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Cask of Amontillado,” (1979)
11:00a	syn_openculture	Hear Chris Cornell’s Masterful Vocals in the Isolated Track for Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun”
4:54p	syn_openculture	John Wayne Recites and Explains the Pledge of Allegiance (1972)
8:14p	syn_openculture	Frederick Douglass’s Fiery 1852 Speech, “The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro,” Read by James Earl Jones

5th

2:00p	syn_openculture	When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)
4:50p	syn_openculture	An Animated Introduction to Economist John Maynard Keynes
6:00p	syn_openculture	A Digital Archive of Soviet Children’s Books Goes Online: Browse the Artistic, Ideological Collection (1917-1953)
7:00p	syn_openculture	Women of Jazz: Stream a Playlist of 91 Recordings by Great Female Jazz Musicians

6th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Does Quentin Tarantino’s First Film, Reservoir Dogs, Hold Up 25 Years Later?: A Video Essay
11:00a	syn_openculture	Behold Lewis Carroll’s Original Handwritten & Illustrated Manuscript for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1864)
2:00p	syn_openculture	New Archive Is Digitizing the Entirety of Phenomenology: Browse Works by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and More
4:45p	syn_openculture	The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

7th

8:00a	syn_openculture	65,000 Fans Break Into a Singalong of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” at a Green Day Concert in London’s Hyde Park
2:00p	syn_openculture	An 8-Hour Marathon Reading of 500 Emily Dickinson Poems
4:30p	syn_openculture	Meet Clara Rockmore, the Pioneering Electronic Musician Who First Rocked the Theremin in the Early 1920s
7:00p	syn_openculture	Watch 12-Year-Old Joe Bonamassa Shred the Blues as He Opens for B.B. King in 1989

10th

2:30p	syn_openculture	Are Stanley Kubrick Films Like Immersive Video Games? The Case of Eyes Wide Shut
5:37p	syn_openculture	Stephen Fry Identifies the Cognitive Biases That Makes Trump Tick
5:51p	syn_openculture	Stephen Fry Identifies the Cognitive Biases That Make Trump Tick
7:00p	syn_openculture	11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix
8:00p	syn_openculture	Miles Davis Dishes Dirt on His Fellow Jazz Musicians: “The Trombone Player Should be Shot”; That Ornette is “F-ing Up the Trumpet”

11th

2:06p	syn_openculture	Watch the Making of a Hand-Crafted Violin, from Start to Finish, in a Beautiful, Wordless Documentary
5:00p	syn_openculture	How Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Boyhood) Tells Stories with Time: Six Video Essays
5:30p	syn_openculture	Hand-Colored Photographs from 19th Century Japan: 110 Images Capture the Waning Days of Traditional Japanese Society
6:03p	syn_openculture	How Did the Romans Make Concrete That Lasts Longer Than Modern Concrete? The Mystery Finally Solved

12th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Discover Dr. Seuss’s Audacious Advertisements from the 1930s & 40s: All on Display in a Digital Archive
5:00p	syn_openculture	100 Years of Cinema: New Documentary Series Explores the History of Cinema by Analyzing One Film Per Year, Starting in 1915
6:00p	syn_openculture	Send a Text Message to SFMOMA, and They’ll Send Works of Art to Your Mobile Phone
7:00p	syn_openculture	John Steinbeck Has a Crisis in Confidence While Writing The Grapes of Wrath: “I am Not a Writer. I’ve Been Fooling Myself and Other People”

13th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Take an Online Course on Design & Architecture with Frank Gehry, and Get Prepared by Watching a Documentary on His Creative Process
2:00p	syn_openculture	Free: 355 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine
5:17p	syn_openculture	Syd Barrett’s “Effervescing Elephant” Comes to Life in a New Retro-Style Animation
8:00p	syn_openculture	Renaissance Knives Had Music Engraved on the Blades; Now Hear the Songs Performed by Modern Singers

14th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Watch the World’s Oldest Violin in Action: Marco Rizzi Performs Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 on a 1566 Amati Violin
3:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Randy Newman’s Tour of Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard, and You’ll Love L.A. Too
5:09p	syn_openculture	New World Record for Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Frida Kahlo in One Place
7:00p	syn_openculture	Mark Knopfler Gives a Short Masterclass on His Favorite Guitars & Guitar Sounds

17th

7:30a	syn_openculture	George Eliot’s Middlemarch Gets Reborn as a 21st Century Web Series: Watch It Online
11:00a	syn_openculture	Stream a 24 Hour Playlist of Charles Dickens Stories, Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More
5:01p	syn_openculture	Watch A Single Life: An Oscar-Nominated Short About How Vinyl Records Can Take Us Magically Through Time
7:30p	syn_openculture	Download 200+ Belle Époque Art Posters: An Archive of Masterpieces from the “Golden Age of the Poster” (1880-1918)

18th

5:18p	syn_openculture	Eadweard Muybridge’s 1870s Photographs of Galloping Horses Get Encoded on the DNA of Living Bacteria Cells
7:00p	syn_openculture	Historical Plaque Memorializes the Time Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs Came to Blows Over the Oxford Comma (Or Not)
8:00p	syn_openculture	Hunter S. Thompson Chillingly Predicts the Future, Telling Studs Terkel About the Coming Revenge of the Economically & Technologically “Obsolete” (1967)
8:31p	syn_openculture	An Archive of Iconic Photos from the Golden Age of Jazz: William Gottlieb’s Portraits of Dizzy, Thelonious, Billie, Satchmo & More

19th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Actually Get Used in Making Everyday Things
11:00a	syn_openculture	How Insomnia Shaped Franz Kafka’s Creative Process and the Writing of The Metamorphosis: A New Study Published in The Lancet
2:00p	syn_openculture	A Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s Oldest & Longest-Running Science Fiction Magazine (Since 1926)
5:04p	syn_openculture	Infinite Escher: A High-Tech Tribute to M.C. Escher, Featuring Sean Lennon, Nam June Paik & Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990)

20th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Wes Anderson Names 12 of His Favorite Art Films
11:00a	syn_openculture	Archaeologists Discover the World’s First “Art Studio” Created in an Ethiopian Cave 43,000 Years Ago
2:00p	syn_openculture	How Aristotle Invented Computer Science
4:55p	syn_openculture	Director Michel Gondry Makes a Charming Film on His iPhone, Proving That We Could Be Making Movies, Not Taking Selfies

21st

8:07a	syn_openculture	Google’s DeepMind AI Teaches Itself to Walk, and the Results Are Kooky, No Wait, Chilling
10:30a	syn_openculture	The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book, a 1633 Chinese Calligraphy & Painting Manual, Now Digitized and Put Online
4:31p	syn_openculture	Russian History & Literature Come to Life in Wonderfully Colorized Portraits: See Photos of Tolstoy, Chekhov, the Romanovs & More
7:00p	syn_openculture	Where Do Ideas Come From? David Lynch, Robert Krulwich, Susan Orlean, Chuck Close & Others Reveal Their Creative Sources
11:28p	syn_openculture	Salvador Dalí’s Body Gets Exhumed, Revealing That, 28 Years After His Death, His Moustache Remains Perfectly Intact

24th

8:24a	syn_openculture	2,000+ Cassettes from the Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection Now Streaming Online
11:00a	syn_openculture	Marshall McLuhan Predicts That Electronic Media Will Displace the Book & Create Sweeping Changes in Our Everyday Lives (1960)
2:00p	syn_openculture	The Strange Story of Wonder Woman’s Creator William Moulton Marston: Polyamorous Feminist, Psychologist & Inventor of the Lie Detector
5:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry Sing a Swelligant Version of Cole Porter’s “Did You Evah,” All to Raise Money for AIDS Research (1990)

25th

8:00a	syn_openculture	H.R. Giger’s Tarot Cards: The Swiss Artist, Famous for His Design Work on Alien, Takes a Journey into the Occult
4:57p	syn_openculture	The British Museum Creates 3D Models of the Rosetta Stone & 200+ Other Historic Artifacts: Download or View in Virtual Reality
8:00p	syn_openculture	Hear the 150 Greatest Albums by Women: NPR Creates a New Canon of Albums That Puts Women at the Center of Music History
8:10p	syn_openculture	Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages

26th

2:00p	syn_openculture	How Did Akira Kurosawa Make Such Powerful & Enduring Films? A Wealth of Video Essays Break Down His Cinematic Genius
4:00p	syn_openculture	When Soviet Artists Turned Textiles (Scarves, Tablecloths & Curtains) into Beautiful Propaganda in the 1920s & 1930s
4:58p	syn_openculture	9-Year-Old Edward Hopper Draws a Picture on the Back of His 3rd Grade Report Card
8:00p	syn_openculture	James Franco Hosts Philosophy Time, a New Videos Series Created to Help Philosophy Reach a Wider Audience

27th

11:00a	syn_openculture	Watch the Earliest Known Footage of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (February, 1967)
5:00p	syn_openculture	People Who Swear Are More Honest Than Those Who Don’t, Finds a New University Study
5:30p	syn_openculture	Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Illustrated by Salvador Dalí in 1969, Finally Gets Reissued
8:00p	syn_openculture	Watch 50 Hours of Nature Soundscapes from the BBC: Scientifically Proven to Ease Stress and Promote Happiness & Awe

28th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Miyazaki Meets Warhol in Campbell’s Soup Cans Reimagined by Designer Hyo Taek Kim
5:56p	syn_openculture	Google Launches Free Course on Deep Learning: The Science of Teaching Computers How to Teach Themselves
8:02p	syn_openculture	The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD)

29th

7:01a

syn_openculture

When J.M. Coetzee Secretly Programmed Computers to Write Poetry in the 1960s

31st

8:00a	syn_openculture	Introducing the New PEN America Digital Archive: 1,500 Hours of Audio & Video Featuring 2,200 Eminent Writers
11:00a	syn_openculture	Accidental Wes Anderson: Every Place in the World with a Wes Anderson Aesthetic Gets Documented by Reddit
2:00p	syn_openculture	Hear Siouxsie and the Banshee’s Raw & Completely Improvised First Show, with Sid Vicious on Drums (1976)
5:14p	syn_openculture	Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, John Waters & Others