Month View
Here are the subjects of all posts in the syn_openculture journal in March, 2019.

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1st

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Elaborate Pictogram Ernest Hemingway Received in the Hospital During WWI: Can You Decode Its Meaning?
3:00p	syn_openculture	Jim Morrison Declares That “Fat is Beautiful” …. And Means It
7:00p	syn_openculture	40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

4th

9:00a	syn_openculture	An Animated Introduction to the Chaotic Brilliance of Jean-Michel Basquiat: From Homeless Graffiti Artist to Internationally Renowned Painter
3:00p	syn_openculture	A Tactile Map of the Roman Empire: An Innovative Map That Allowed Blind & Sighted Students to Experience Geography by Touch (1888)
7:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Perform the Earliest Version of Hamilton at the White House, Six Years Before the Play Hit the Broadway Stage (2009)

5th

9:03a	syn_openculture	60 Free-to-Stream Movies for Women’s History Month: Classic Agnès Varda, a Portrait of Susan Sontag, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, and More
3:00p	syn_openculture	2,000 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in March: Enroll Today
5:37p	syn_openculture	A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010)
7:00p	syn_openculture	97-Year-Old Philosopher Ponders the Meaning of Life: “What Is the Point of It All?”

6th

9:00a	syn_openculture	John Cleese Revisits His 20 Years as an Ivy League Professor in His New Book, Professor at Large: The Cornell Years
12:00p	syn_openculture	100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Her Letter About How Books Save Lives
6:07p	syn_openculture	Download the ModulAir, a Free Polyphonic Synthesizer, and Make Your Own Electronic Sounds
6:59p	syn_openculture	The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized & Put Online

7th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Van Gogh’s Ugliest Masterpiece: A Break Down of His Late, Great Painting, The Night Café (1888)
12:00p	syn_openculture	Sleep or Die: Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains How Sleep Can Restore or Imperil Our Health
3:00p	syn_openculture	“Stay Free: The Story of the Clash” Narrated by Public Enemy’s Chuck D: A New Spotify Podcast
5:23p	syn_openculture	Hear Patti Smith’s New Work With The Soundwalk Collective, a Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud

8th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Cringe-Inducing Humor of The Office Explained with Philosophical Theories of Mind
3:00p	syn_openculture	Here’s John Steinbeck Asking Marilyn Monroe for Her Autograph (1955)
7:00p	syn_openculture	Artificial Intelligence Identifies the Six Main Arcs in Storytelling: Welcome to the Brave New World of Literary Criticism

11th

4:34a	syn_openculture	The Big Pond: Stream 50 Audio Stories from the Goethe-Institut, Available Free Online
8:00a	syn_openculture	Alan Watts Presents a 15-Minute Guided Meditation: A Time-Tested Way to Stop Thinking About Thinking
11:00a	syn_openculture	The Amazing Franz Kafka Workout!: Discover the 15-Minute Exercise Routine That Swept the World in 1904
2:00p	syn_openculture	Bill Murray Explains How a 19th-Century Painting Saved His Life

12th

8:00a	syn_openculture	The Roman Roads of Spain & Portugal Visualized as a Subway Map: Ancient History Meets Modern Graphic Design
2:00p	syn_openculture	Why Should We Read Sylvia Plath? An Animated Video Makes the Case
5:20p	syn_openculture	Discover the Great Medieval Manuscript, the Book of Kells, in a Free Online Course
6:00p	syn_openculture	A Stunning Live Concert Film of Queen Performing in Montreal, Digitally Restored to Perfection (1981)

13th

8:00a	syn_openculture	An Animated Introduction to the Famous Thought Experiment, the “Trolley Problem,” Narrated by Harry Shearer
11:00a	syn_openculture	Buckminster Fuller Rails Against the “Nonsense of Earning a Living”: Why Work Useless Jobs When Technology & Automation Can Let Us Live More Meaningful Lives
2:00p	syn_openculture	William Faulkner’s Review of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
5:32p	syn_openculture	The Band Everyone Thought Was The Beatles: Revisit the Klaatu Conspiracy of 1976

14th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Jack Kerouac’s “Beat Paintings:” Now Gathered in One Book and Exhibition for the First Time
4:42p	syn_openculture	Watch an Animated Score for Steve Reich’s Minimalist Piece “Clapping Music“–and Try Your Hardest to Follow Along
6:00p	syn_openculture	When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from Absalom, Absalom!

15th

4:23a	syn_openculture	Natalie Portman Teaches a MasterClass in Acting
8:00a	syn_openculture	Leonard Bernstein Awkwardly Turns the Screws on Tenor Jose Carreras While Recording West Side Story (1984)
11:00a	syn_openculture	The CIA’s Rectal Tool Kit for Spies–Created for Truly Desperate Situations During The Cold War
4:33p	syn_openculture	An Animated Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Life & Thought

18th

2:00p	syn_openculture	The Lou Reed Archive Opens at the New York Public Library: Get Your Own Lou Reed Library Card and Check It Out
5:30p	syn_openculture	How Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?: An Animated Primer
6:00p	syn_openculture	Take a Journey Inside Vincent Van Gogh’s Paintings with a New Digital Exhibition
7:47p	syn_openculture	Bohemian Rhapsody’s Bad Editing: A Breakdown

19th

8:00a	syn_openculture	The Gnarly Surf Rock of Dick Dale (RIP): Watch the Legend Play “Misirlou,” Surfin’ the Wedge,” and “Pipeline” (with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
2:00p	syn_openculture	Artificial Intelligence for Everyone: An Introductory Course from Andrew Ng, the Co-Founder of Coursera
5:34p	syn_openculture	Virginia Woolf & Friends Name Their Favorite and Least Favorite Writers in a Newly Unearthed 1923 Survey
7:00p	syn_openculture	Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Civilization–and Recommends Ways to Ensure That It Survives (1978)

20th

2:00p	syn_openculture	Behold the Anciente Mappe of Fairyland, a Fantastical 1917 Mashup of Tales from Homer’s Odyssey, King Arthur, the Brothers Grimm & More
5:06p	syn_openculture	Christopher Hitches Makes the Case for Paying Reparations for Slavery in the United States
5:37p	syn_openculture	David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film: A New Online Course
6:00p	syn_openculture	Mythos: An Animation Retells Timeless Greek Myths with Abstract Modern Designs

21st

8:00a	syn_openculture	Oxford’s Free Course Critical Reasoning For Beginners Teaches You to Think Like a Philosopher
2:00p	syn_openculture	Why We Dance: An Animated Video Explains the Science Behind Why We Bust a Move
5:00p	syn_openculture	The Case for Why Captain Beefheart’s Awful Sounding Album, Trout Mask Replica, Is a True Masterpiece

22nd

8:00a	syn_openculture	An Archive of Animations/Cartoons of Ancient Greece & Rome: From the 1920s Through Today
11:00a	syn_openculture	Beautiful Hand-Colored Japanese Flowers Created by the Pioneering Photographer Ogawa Kazumasa (1896)
5:02p	syn_openculture	24 Common Cognitive Biases: A Visual List of the Psychological Systems Errors That Keep Us From Thinking Rationally

24th

8:00a

syn_openculture

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100: Hear the Great San Francisco Poet Read “Trump’s Trojan Horse,” “Pity the Nation” & Many Other Poems

25th

2:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Seder-Masochism, Nina Paley’s Animated, Feminist Take on the Passover Holiday: It’s Free and in the Public Domain
5:15p	syn_openculture	Journalism Under Siege: A Free Course from Stanford Explores the Imperiled Freedom of the Press
5:53p	syn_openculture	The Sax Solo on Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” on a 10 Hour, Endless Loop
7:00p	syn_openculture	Does Playing Music for Cheese During the Aging Process Change Its Flavor? Researchers Find That Hip Hop Makes It Smellier, and Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Makes It Milder
8:00p	syn_openculture	William S. Burroughs’ Manifesto for Overthrowing a Corrupt Government with Fake News and Other Prophetic Methods: It’s Now Published for the First Time

26th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Why Nobody Smiles in Old Photos: The Technological & Cultural Reasons Behind All those Black-and-White Frowns
2:00p	syn_openculture	A Visual Map of the World’s Major Religions (and Non-Religions)
7:00p	syn_openculture	New Archive Digitizes 80,000 Historic Watercolor Paintings, the Medium Through Which We Documented the World Before Photography

27th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Salvador Dalí & the Marx Brothers’ 1930s Film Script Gets Released as a Graphic Novel
11:00a	syn_openculture	Steven Pinker’s 13 Rules for Good Writing
2:00p	syn_openculture	The Venice Time Machine: 1,000 Years of Venice’s History Gets Digitally Preserved with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

28th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Newly Discovered Shipwreck Proves Herodotus, the “Father of History,” Correct 2500 Years Later
5:43p	syn_openculture	The Amazing Isolated Drums of Dennis Davis, David Bowie’s Master Drummer, Revisited by Producer Tony Visconti
5:45p	syn_openculture	Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: A Digital Celebration of the Founding of the Bauhaus School 100 Years Ago
6:00p	syn_openculture	Isaac Asimov’s Guide to the Bible: A Witty, Erudite Atheist’s Guide to the World’s Most Famous Book

29th

4:52a	syn_openculture	140 Courses Starting at Stanford Continuing Studies Next Week: Explore the Catalogue of Campus and Online Courses
8:00a	syn_openculture	Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts: Why So Many Drawings in the Margins Depict Bunnies Going Bad
2:33p	syn_openculture	Does Democracy Demand the Tolerance of the Intolerant? Karl Popper’s Paradox
7:00p	syn_openculture	Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist