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

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1st

12:00p	syn_openculture	What Are the Most Effective Strategies for Learning a Foreign Language?: Six TED Talks Provide the Answers
3:00p	syn_openculture	The “Humans of New York” Photo Project Becomes a 13-Part Video Documentary Series: Watch It Free Online
6:01p	syn_openculture	1500+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in December: Enroll Today
10:00p	syn_openculture	Andy Warhol’s Seven Hand-Illustrated Books: Charming, Little-Known, and Now Available for the World to See (1952-1959)

4th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Hear The Rite of Spring Conducted by Igor Stravinsky Himself: A Vintage Recording from 1929
3:00p	syn_openculture	Hear a Complete Reading of the Newly-Discovered Kurt Vonnegut Story, “The Drone King”
6:26p	syn_openculture	George Orwell’s Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea: A Short Animation
8:00p	syn_openculture	Neil Young Offers His Entire Catalog of Music Free Online (Until June), at the Highest Digital Audio Quality Possible

5th

12:00p	syn_openculture	How Technicolor Revolutionized Cinema with Surreal, Electric Colors & Changed How We See Our World
3:00p	syn_openculture	A Salute to Every Frame a Painting: Watch All 28 Episodes of the Now Concluded Video Essay Series on Cinema
6:22p	syn_openculture	New App, Litlong, Lets You Take a Literary Tour of Edinburgh: Features 50,000 Book Excerpts
7:00p	syn_openculture	The Case for Why Kraftwerk May Be the Most Influential Band Since the Beatles

6th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665-1810)
3:00p	syn_openculture	How Scientology Works: A Primer Based on a Reading of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Film, The Master
6:12p	syn_openculture	The Van Gogh of Microsoft Excel: How a Japanese Retiree Makes Intricate Landscape Paintings with Spreadsheet Software
7:00p	syn_openculture	Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”)

7th

9:00a	syn_openculture	What Did Ancient Greek Music Sound Like?: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s ‘100% Accurate’
12:00p	syn_openculture	The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements: Visualizing the Chemical Elements That Could Vanish Before You Know It
3:00p	syn_openculture	“Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better”: How Samuel Beckett Created the Unlikely Mantra That Inspires Entrepreneurs Today
5:57p	syn_openculture	How Josephine Baker Went From Homeless Street Performer to International Superstar, French Resistance Fighter & Civil Rights Hero

8th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Meet the Characters Immortalized in Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”: The Stars and Gay Rights Icons from Andy Warhol’s Factory Scene
3:00p	syn_openculture	Meet Mandy Harvey, the Deaf Singer Songwriter Who Performs Barefoot & Feels the Music Through Vibrations in the Ground
5:45p	syn_openculture	Why People So Many People Adore The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made? A Video Explainer
7:00p	syn_openculture	The “True Size” Maps Shows You the Real Size of Every Country (and Will Change Your Mental Picture of the World)

10th

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Giant Clown Sings a Creepy Cover of Radiohead’s “Creep”

11th

12:00p	syn_openculture	The Map of Biology: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Biology Fit Together
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Proof That Mel Blanc–the Voice Behind Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck & Porky Pig–Was a Genius
6:07p	syn_openculture	Watch “The “Art of Flying,” a Short Film Capturing the Wondrous Murmurations of the Common Starling
7:00p	syn_openculture	Depression & Melancholy: Animated Videos Explain the Crucial Difference Between Everyday Sadness and Clinical Depression

12th

12:00p	syn_openculture	Stream 74 Sun Ra Albums Free Online: Decades of “Space Jazz” and Other Forms of Intergalactic, Afrofuturistic Musical Creativity
3:00p	syn_openculture	Brian Eno Presents a Crash Course on How the Recording Studio Radically Changed Music: Hear His Influential Lecture “The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool” (1979)
5:59p	syn_openculture	The Future of Blues Is in Good Hands: Watch 12-Year-Old Toby Lee Trade Riffs with Chicago Blues Guitarist Ronnie Baker Brooks
8:00p	syn_openculture	Academic Journal Devotes an Entire Issue to Prince’s Life & Music: Read and Download It for Free

13th

8:32a	syn_openculture	10 Reasons Why Hannibal’s Military Genius Still Captures Our Imagination Today
9:00a	syn_openculture	New Iranian Video Game, Engare, Explores the Elegant Geometry of Islamic Art
12:00p	syn_openculture	New Gabriel García Márquez Digital Archive Features More Than 27,000 Digitized Letters, Manuscript Pages, Photos & More
3:00p	syn_openculture	Hear Paul McCartney’s Experimental Christmas Mixtape: A Rare & Forgotten Recording from 1965
5:46p	syn_openculture	What Happens When a Musician Plays Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” on a $25 Kids’ Guitar at Walmart

14th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Underground Cartoonist Robert Crumb Creates an Illustrated Introduction to Franz Kafka’s Life and Work
3:00p	syn_openculture	See Ridley Scott’s 1973 Bread Commercial—Voted England’s Favorite Advertisement of All Time
5:57p	syn_openculture	Watch “Man,” a Short, Thought-Provoking Animation About the Excesses of Modern Civilization
9:00p	syn_openculture	The Tree of Modern Art: Elegant Drawing Visualizes the Development of Modern Art from Delacroix to Dalí (1940)

15th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Will You Really Achieve Happiness If You Finally Win the Rat Race? Don’t Answer the Question Until You’ve Watched Steve Cutts’ New Animation
3:00p	syn_openculture	Why Coffee Naps Will Perk You Up More Than Either Coffee, or Naps, Alone
5:30p	syn_openculture	350 Animated Videos That Will Teach You Philosophy, from Ancient to Post-Modern
8:00p	syn_openculture	Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography in Her First Online Course

18th

12:00p	syn_openculture	The Doodles in Leonardo da Vinci’s Manuscripts Contain His Groundbreaking Theories on the Laws of Friction, Scientists Discover
3:00p	syn_openculture	Thelonious Monk’s 25 Tips for Musicians (1960)
6:17p	syn_openculture	The Not Yorker: A Collection of Rejected & Late Cover Submissions to The New Yorker
8:00p	syn_openculture	Read the “Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down” Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911)

19th

9:00a	syn_openculture	How to Draw in the Style of Japanese Manga: A Series of Free & Wildly Popular Video Tutorials from Artist Mark Crilley
3:00p	syn_openculture	A 17-Hour Chronological Playlist of Beatles Songs: 338 Tracks Let You Hear the Musical Evolution of the Iconic Band
5:58p	syn_openculture	Dr. Demento’s New Punk Album Features William Shatner Singing The Cramps, Weird Al Yankovic Singing The Ramones & Much More
7:00p	syn_openculture	How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease

20th

3:00p	syn_openculture	The Vincent Van Gogh Action Figure, Complete with Detachable Ear
6:00p	syn_openculture	What the Entire Internet Looked Like in 1973: An Old Map Gets Found in a Pile of Research Papers
7:00p	syn_openculture	The 1883 Krakatoa Explosion Made the Loudest Sound in History–So Loud It Traveled Around the World Four Times
8:00p	syn_openculture	3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online, Thanks to Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

21st

9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Children–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK (1977)
12:00p	syn_openculture	“Inemuri,” the Japanese Art of Taking Power Naps at Work, on the Subway, and Other Public Places
3:00p	syn_openculture	The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1885)
6:05p	syn_openculture	How the Russian Theatre Director Constantin Stanislavski Revolutionized the Craft of Acting: A New Video Essay

22nd

4:29a	syn_openculture	Algorithms for Big Data: A Free Course from Harvard
9:00a	syn_openculture	Eudora Welty’s Handwritten Eggnog Recipe, and Charles Dickens’ Recipe for Holiday Punch
12:00p	syn_openculture	The Christmas Carols Made by Alan Turing’s Computer: Hear Cutting-Edge Versions of “Jingle Bells” and “Good King Wenceslas” (1951)
3:00p	syn_openculture	Hear Kurt Cobain’s 50 Favorite Albums: A 38 Hour Playlist Featuring Lead Belly, David Bowie, Public Enemy, The Breeders & More
6:54p	syn_openculture	Need a Last Minute Gift? Give Online Courses Created by Cultural Icons Like Annie Leibovitz, Herbie Hancock, Werner Herzog and Many More
7:48p	syn_openculture	David Bowie & Bing Crosby Sing “The Little Drummer Boy”: A Wonderful Christmas Chestnut from 1977

25th

9:26a	syn_openculture	Did Santa Claus & His Reindeers Begin with a Mushroom Trip?: Discover the Psychedelic, Shamanistic Side of Christmas
12:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Santa Claus, the Earliest Movie About St. Nick in Existence (1898)
3:00p	syn_openculture	An Innocent Christmas Typo Causes Sir Patrick Stewart to Star as Satan In This Animated Holiday Short
6:00p	syn_openculture	Stream a Playlist of 68 Punk Rock Christmas Songs: The Ramones, The Damned, Bad Religion & More

26th

6:52a	syn_openculture	Advanced Algorithms: A Free Course from Harvard University
3:00p	syn_openculture	How Fleetwood Mac Makes A Song: A Video Essay Exploring the “Sonic Paintings” on the Classic Album, Rumours
6:00p	syn_openculture	Photographer Nan Goldin Now on Instagram
6:30p	syn_openculture	Why Should We Read Charles Dickens? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case
7:00p	syn_openculture	Mark Twain on Why “Travel is Fatal to Prejudice, Bigotry and Narrow-Mindedness, and Many of Our People Need It Sorely on These Accounts” (1869)

27th

9:00a	syn_openculture	What Is a Life-Changing Realization You Wish You’d Had Sooner in Life?
12:00p	syn_openculture	Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes: Discover the Postmodern MTV Variety Show That Made Warhol a Star in the Television Age (1985-87)
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Improbable Time When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982)
6:00p	syn_openculture	Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand (1960)

28th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The American Revolution: A Free Course from Yale University
12:00p	syn_openculture	Invisible Cities Illustrated: Artist Illustrates Each and Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel
2:30p	syn_openculture	Hear Lou Reed’s The Raven, a Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe Featuring David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, Willem Dafoe & More
4:30p	syn_openculture	The Favorite Literary Work of Every Country Visualized on a World Map

29th

12:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Russian Dancers Appear to Float Magically Across the Stage: A Mesmerizing Introduction to The Berezka Ensemble
3:00p	syn_openculture	Where Are They Now? An Animated Mockumentary Reveals What Happened to Your Favorite 1980s Cartoon Characters After Their Heyday
5:30p	syn_openculture	What Is Procrastination & How Can We Solve It? An Introduction by One of the World’s Leading Procrastination Experts

30th

7:24p	syn_openculture	What Happens When a Cat Watches Hitchcock’s Psycho
11:00p	syn_openculture	Listen to Glenn Gould’s Shockingly Experimental Radio Documentary, The Idea of North (1967)