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Here are the subjects of all posts in the syn_openculture journal in January, 2018.

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1st

8:24p	syn_openculture	How to “Hijack” Amazon Prime for Good: Short Video Shows How Prime & Other Instant Delivery Services Can Easily Help the Homeless
8:25p	syn_openculture	Ian McKellen Recites Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20, Backed by Garage Rock Band, the Fleshtones, on Andy Warhol’s MTV Variety Show (1987)
8:30p	syn_openculture	The David Bowie Book Club Gets Launched by His Son: Read One of Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books Every Month
9:00p	syn_openculture	Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running

2nd

9:00a	syn_openculture	1,600 Rare Color Photographs Depict Life in the U.S During the Great Depression & World War II
3:00p	syn_openculture	5,000+ Photographs by Minor White, One of the 20th Century’s Most Important Photographers, Now Digitized and Available Online
6:34p	syn_openculture	The 10 Most Popular Courses on Coursera in 2017 (and 2,000 Courses You Can Take for Free in January, 2018)
8:00p	syn_openculture	The Health Benefits of Drumming: Less Stress, Lower Blood Pressure, Pain Relief, and Altered States of Consciousness

3rd

9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch Every Episode of Bob Ross’ The Joy Of Painting Free Online: 403 Episodes Spanning 31 Seasons
12:00p	syn_openculture	What Actually Is Bitcoin? Princeton’s Free Course “Bitcoin and Currency Technologies” Provides Much-Needed Answers
3:00p	syn_openculture	How Isaac Newton Lost $3 Million Dollars in the “South Sea Bubble” of 1720: Even Geniuses Can’t Prevail Against the Machinations of the Markets
6:26p	syn_openculture	Free, Open Source Modular Synth Software Lets You Create 70s & 80s Electronic Music—Without Having to Pay Thousands for a Real-World Synthesizer

4th

9:34a	syn_openculture	Introducing the Librarian Action Figure: The Caped Crusader Who Fights Against Anti-Intellectualism, Ignorance & Censorship Everywhere
3:00p	syn_openculture	A Majestic 44-Hour Chronological Playlist of Rolling Stones Songs: Stream 613 Tracks
6:04p	syn_openculture	The Story of How Beethoven Helped Make It So That CDs Could Play 74 Minutes of Music
8:00p	syn_openculture	Hear the Hagia Sophia’s Awe-Inspiring Acoustics Get Recreated with Computer Simulations, and Let Yourself Get Transported Back to the Middle Ages

5th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Hear Glenn Gould Channel Marshall McLuhan and Create an Experimental Radio Documentary Analyzing the Pop Music of Petula Clark (1967)
12:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Prince Play Jazz Piano & Coach His Band Through George Gershwin’s “Summertime” in a Candid, Behind-the-Scenes Moment (1990)
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Movements of a Symphony Conductor Get Artistically Visualized in an Avant-Garde Motion Capture Animation
6:08p	syn_openculture	Hear a Dramatization of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys: Free for a Limited Time

6th

3:31a

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How to Download Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Now as a Free Audiobook?: Check Out Audible’s 30-Day Free Trial

8th

6:06p	syn_openculture	Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Reworked in Major Key, Becomes a Cheerful Pop Song
7:01p	syn_openculture	A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Most Amazing Stunts–and Keaton’s 5 Rules of Comic Storytelling
8:00p	syn_openculture	A Map Shows What Every Country in the World Calls Itself in its Own Language: Explore the “Endonyms of the World” Map
9:00p	syn_openculture	Hear the 50 Best Post-Punk Albums of All Time: A Nostalgia-Inducing Playlist Curated by Paste Magazine

9th

9:00a	syn_openculture	A Map of George Orwell’s 1984
3:00p	syn_openculture	A Short Animated Introduction to Karl Marx
6:31p	syn_openculture	Spheres Dance to the Music of Bach, Performed by Glenn Gould: An Animation from 1969
8:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Gyorgy Ligeti’s Electronic Masterpiece Artikulation Get Brought to Life by Rainer Wehinger’s Brilliant Visual Score

10th

8:00a	syn_openculture	David Bowie: The Last Five Years Is Now Airing/Streaming on HBO
9:00a	syn_openculture	Notations: John Cage Publishes a Book of Graphic Musical Scores, Featuring Visualizations of Works by Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, The Beatles & More (1969)
12:00p	syn_openculture	Speaking in Whistles: The Whistled Language of Oaxaca, Mexico
3:00p	syn_openculture	Watch an Episode of TV-CBGB, the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Sitcom Ever Aired on Cable TV (1981)
6:17p	syn_openculture	Take a Virtual Tour of The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the World-Famous Collection of Renaissance Art

11th

7:00a	syn_openculture	The “True” Story Of How Brian Eno Invented Ambient Music
9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch the History of the World Unfold on an Animated Map: From 200,000 BCE to Today
12:00p	syn_openculture	How Reading Increases Your Emotional Intelligence & Brain Function: The Findings of Recent Scientific Studies
3:00p	syn_openculture	A Brief History of Making Deals with the Devil: Niccolò Paganini, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Page & More
6:00p	syn_openculture	The Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde

12th

9:00a	syn_openculture	19-Year-Old Student Uses Early Spy Camera to Take Candid Street Photos (Circa 1895)
3:00p	syn_openculture	Google’s Free App Analyzes Your Selfie and Then Finds Your Doppelganger in Museum Portraits

13th

8:57p

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Binge-Watch Carl Sagan’s Original Cosmos Series Free Online (Available for a Limited Time)

15th

8:12a	syn_openculture	170+ Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies This Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses
9:00a	syn_openculture	Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, the New Series Starring Bryan Cranston, Anna Paquin & Steve Buscemi, Now Streaming Free on Amazon Prime
3:00p	syn_openculture	Smartify, a Shazam for Art, Lets You Use Your Phone to Scan, Identify & Learn About Major Works of Art
7:19p	syn_openculture	A Teaser Trailer for Fahrenheit 451: A New Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Ever-Relevant Novel
8:00p	syn_openculture	Omoshiroi Blocks: Japanese Memo Pads Reveal Intricate Buildings As The Pages Get Used

16th

9:10a	syn_openculture	Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Free Course from Princeton
11:30a	syn_openculture	Hear Dolores O’Riordan’s Beautifully-Pained Vocals in The Cranberries’ 1994 Hit “Zombie”
3:00p	syn_openculture	An Animated Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophical Recipe for Getting Over the Sources of Regret, Disappointment and Suffering in Our Lives
5:39p	syn_openculture	David Byrne Launches the “Reasons to Be Cheerful” Web Site: A Compendium of News Meant to Remind Us That the World Isn’t Actually Falling Apart

17th

9:00a	syn_openculture	What Shakespeare’s English Sounded Like, and How We Know It
12:00p	syn_openculture	What is the Secret to Living a Long, Happy & Creatively Fulfilling Life?: Discover the Japanese Concept of Ikigai
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Psychological & Neurological Disorders Experienced by Characters in Alice in Wonderland: A Neuroscience Reading of Lewis Carroll’s Classic Tale
5:49p	syn_openculture	Watch the Bayeux Tapestry Come to Life in a Short Animated Film

18th

12:00p	syn_openculture	Western Music Moves in Three and Even Four (!) Dimensional Spaces: How the Pioneering Research of Princeton Theorist Dmitri Tymoczko Helps Us Visualize Music in Radical, New Ways
3:00p	syn_openculture	Coursera and Google Launch an Online Certificate Program to Help Students Become IT Professionals & Get Attractive Jobs
5:55p	syn_openculture	Filmmaker Michel Gondry Brings Classic Album Covers to Life in a Visually-Packed Commercial: Purple Rain, Beggars Banquet, Nevermind & More
8:00p	syn_openculture	Watch David Byrne Lead a Massive Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes”

19th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Ian McKellen Chokes Up While Reading a Poignant Coming-Out Letter
3:00p	syn_openculture	Celebrate the Women’s March with 24 Goddess GIFs Created by Animator Nina Paley: They’re Free to Download and Remix
7:47p	syn_openculture	How a Virtual Reality Model of Auschwitz Helped Convict an SS Concentration Camp Guard: A Short Documentary on a High Tech Prosecution

20th

8:15a

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10,000 Classic Movie Posters Getting Digitized & Put Online by the Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin: Free to Browse & Download

22nd

9:00a	syn_openculture	Enroll in Seven Free Courses From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): “Modern Art & Ideas,” “Seeing Through Photographs” & “Fashion as Design” Start Today
12:00p	syn_openculture	See the Handwritten Syllabus & Final Exam from the Philosophy Course That Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught at Morehouse College (1962)
6:04p	syn_openculture	The London Time Machine: Interactive Map Lets You Compare Modern London, to the London Shortly After the Great Fire of 1666
8:00p	syn_openculture	A YouTube Channel Completely Devoted to Medieval Sacred Music: Hear Gregorian Chant, Byzantine Chant & More

23rd

9:10a	syn_openculture	Massive New Database Will Finally Allow Us to Identify Enslaved Peoples and Their Descendants in the Americas
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Largest Early Map of the World Gets Assembled for the First Time: See the Huge, Detailed & Fantastical World Map from 1587
6:17p	syn_openculture	A Map Shows Where Today’s Countries Would Be Located on Pangea
8:00p	syn_openculture	George Orwell Reviews Salvador Dali’s Autobiography: “Dali is a Good Draughtsman and a Disgusting Human Being” (1944)

24th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Artificial Intelligence Writes a Piece in the Style of Bach: Can You Tell the Difference Between JS Bach and AI Bach?
3:00p	syn_openculture	Watch “Bells of Atlantis,” an Experimental Film with Early Electronic Music Featuring Anaïs Nin (1952)
5:52p	syn_openculture	Carl Sagan’s “The Pale Blue Dot” Animated
7:00p	syn_openculture	Celebrate the Life & Writing of Ursula K. Le Guin (R.I.P.) with Classic Radio Dramatizations of Her Stories

25th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch Animated Scores to Music by Radiohead, Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Photek & Other Electronic/Post-Punk/Avant-Garde Musicians
12:00p	syn_openculture	Read the Shortest Academic Article Ever Written: “The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of ‘Writer’s Block'”
3:00p	syn_openculture	Robert Reich Makes His UC Berkeley Course on Wealth and Inequality in America Available on Facebook

26th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Hear Ursula K. Le Guin’s Space Rock Opera Rigel 9: A Rare Recording from 1985
3:00p	syn_openculture	When Japan’s Top Animators Made a Thrilling Cyberpunk Commercial for Irish Beer: Watch Last Orders (1997)
6:13p	syn_openculture	Harry Potter Finally Gets Translated Into Scots: Hear & Read Passages from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane
6:48p	syn_openculture	How the Fences & Railings Adorning London’s Buildings Doubled (by Design) as Civilian Stretchers in World War II
7:48p	syn_openculture	MIT’s New Master’s Program Admits Students Without College and High School Degrees … and Helps Solve the World’s Most Pressing Problems
8:00p	syn_openculture	How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military

28th

7:11p

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29th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Carl Sagan’s Syllabus & Final Exam for His Course on Critical Thinking (Cornell, 1986)
3:00p	syn_openculture	Virginia Woolf’s Personal Photo Album Digitized & Put Online by Harvard: See Candid Snapshots of Woolf, Her Family, and Friends from the Bloomsbury Group
6:33p	syn_openculture	H.P. Lovecraft’s Poem “Nemesis” Gets Unexpectedly Sung to the Tune of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”
8:00p	syn_openculture	Free: Download 10,000+ Master Drawings from The Morgan Library & Museum’s Online Collection

30th

3:00p	syn_openculture	Boston Public Library Launches a Crowdsourced Project to Transcribe 40,000 Documents from Its Anti-Slavery Collection: You Can Now Help
6:05p	syn_openculture	Literary Theorist Stanley Fish Offers a Free Course on Rhetoric, or the Power of Arguments
7:00p	syn_openculture	Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked the Code of the Voynich Manuscript: Has Modern Technology Finally Solved a Medieval Mystery?
8:00p	syn_openculture	Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983

31st

6:54p	syn_openculture	Watch the Making of the Dymaxion Globe: A 3-D Rendering of Buckminster Fuller’s Revolutionary Map
7:00p	syn_openculture	What Makes Flea Such an Amazing Bass Player? A Video Essay Breaks Down His Style
8:00p	syn_openculture	Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified Version of Bach’s “Little Fugue in G”