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Here are the subjects of all posts in the syn_openculture journal in February, 2021.

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1st

12:00p	syn_openculture	When the Frequency for Tuning Instruments Became a Grand Conspiracy Theory
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Internet Archive Now Digitizing 1,000,000+ Objects from a Massive Cinema History Library
8:00p	syn_openculture	Werner Herzog Discovers the Ecstasy of Skateboarding: “That’s Kind of My People”

2nd

9:00a	syn_openculture	Listen to the Never-Heard Song Written for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
12:00p	syn_openculture	Japanese Violinist Covers Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”: Metal Meets Classical Again
3:00p	syn_openculture	Watch 36 Short Animations That Tell the Origin Stories of Mexico’s Indigenous Peoples in Their Own Languages
10:13p	syn_openculture	Tony Bennett Duets with Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse & Other Musicians, Passing on the Great American Songbook

3rd

4:29a	syn_openculture	Do We Need Yet More Films About Time Loops? A Pretty Much Pop Discussion (#80) of Groundhog Day and its Descendents
9:00a	syn_openculture	The Bauhaus Chess Set Where the Form of the Pieces Artfully Show Their Function (1922)
12:00p	syn_openculture	How Vaccines Improved Our World In One Graphic
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson & Beatles Producer George Martin Break Down “God Only Knows,” the “Greatest Song Ever Written”

4th

12:00p	syn_openculture	Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds: Timeless Advice in a Short Film
3:00p	syn_openculture	How Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” Created the “Blueprint for All Electronic Dance Music Today” (1977)
8:00p	syn_openculture	All 80 Issues of the Influential Zine Punk Planet Are Now Online & Ready for Download at the Internet Archive

5th

9:00a	syn_openculture	A Glorious Concert Celebrating the Films of Hayao Miyazaki, Arranged by Film Composer Joe Hisaishi
3:00p	syn_openculture	The History of American Newspapers Has Been Digitized: Explore 114 Years of Editor & Publisher, “the Bible of the Newspaper Industry”
8:00p	syn_openculture	David Gilmour, David Crosby & Graham Nash Perform the Pink Floyd Classic, “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (2006)

7th

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Little Kid Merrily Grooves to ZZ Top While Waiting for the Bus

8th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch a Korean Master Craftsman Make a Kimchi Pot by Hand, All According to Ancient Tradition
3:00p	syn_openculture	A Brief Animated History Lesson on Harriet Tubman Speaks to Her Place on the $20 Bill
7:26p	syn_openculture	A New Yorker Cartoonist Explains How to Draw Literary Cartoons
11:29p	syn_openculture	The Magic of the Beach Boys’ Harmonies: Hear Isolated Vocals from “Sloop John B.,” “God Only Knows,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” & Other Pet Sounds Classics

9th

9:00a	syn_openculture	How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons
12:00p	syn_openculture	A New Database Will Document Every Slave House in the U.S.: Discover the “Saving Slave Houses Project”
3:00p	syn_openculture	Alan Watts Reads “One of the Greatest Things Carl Jung Ever Wrote”
9:09p	syn_openculture	How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop”

10th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Animations That Changed Cinema: The Groundbreaking Legacies of Prince Achmed, Akira, The Iron Giant & More
7:09p	syn_openculture	The “Academic Tarot”: 22 Major Arcana Cards Representing Life in the Academic Humanities Under COVID-19
8:00p	syn_openculture	Hear an Ancient Chinese Historian Describe The Roman Empire (and Other Voices of the Past)
9:00p	syn_openculture	How the Food We Eat Affects Our Brain: Learn About the “MIND Diet”

11th

2:53a	syn_openculture	Monkey Sees A Magic Trick
8:01a	syn_openculture	Radio vs. Podcasting: A Discussion with Jason Bentley (KCRW, The Backstory) on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #81
9:00a	syn_openculture	Behold All 42 Maps from Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages, the Author’s 54-Volume Collection of “Geographical Fictions”
12:00p	syn_openculture	A Tour of U.S. Accents: Bostonian, Philadelphese, Gullah Creole & Other Intriguing Dialects
6:29p	syn_openculture	Watch Prince Perform “Purple Rain” in the Rain in His Transcendent Super Bowl Half-Time Show (2007)

12th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Why Public Transit Sucks in the United States: Four Videos Tell the Story
12:00p	syn_openculture	Watch “The Stroke,” a Hand-Animated Music Video Where the Visuals Came First & the Improvised Music Second
3:00p	syn_openculture	Take a Road Trip Across America with Cartoonist Lynda Barry in the 90s Documentary, Grandma’s Way Out Party

15th

5:31a	syn_openculture	Watch the Food for Love Benefit Concert: David Byrne, The Chicks & Many More Raise Money for New Mexico Food Banks
12:00p	syn_openculture	Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time in 18,000 Years
3:00p	syn_openculture	Akira Kurosawa Appears in a Rare Television & Tells Dick Cavett about His Love of Old Tokyo & His Samurai Lineage (1981)
7:00p	syn_openculture	The Color That May Have Killed Napoleon: Scheele’s Green

16th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Travel from Rotterdam to Amsterdam in 10 Minutes by Boat: A 4k Timelapse
12:00p	syn_openculture	Archaeologists Find the Earliest Work of “Abstract Art,” Dating Back 73,000 Years
3:00p	syn_openculture	Alfred Hitchcock Meets Jorge Luis Borges Borges in Cold War America: Watch Double Take (2009) Free Online
6:21p	syn_openculture	Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)

17th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme
3:00p	syn_openculture	The Birth of Hip Hop: How DJ Kool Herc Used Turntables to Change the Musical World (1973)
8:00p	syn_openculture	Peter Gabriel Re-Records “Biko,” His Anti-Apartheid Protest Song, with Musicians Around the World

18th

8:01a	syn_openculture	Why Does The Karate Kid Persist as the New Cobra Kai? A Critical Consideration by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#82)
12:00p	syn_openculture	The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses
3:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Chick Corea (RIP) Perform Intimate Acoustic Performances with Bobby McFerrin, Gary Burton, Hiromi Uehara & Others
8:00p	syn_openculture	The Surface of Mars Shown in Stunning 4K Resolution
8:34p	syn_openculture	4,000 Priceless Scrolls, Texts & Papers From the University of Tokyo Have Been Digitized & Put Online

19th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Paul Simon Deconstructs “Mrs. Robinson” (1970)
12:00p	syn_openculture	Witness the Birth of Kermit the Frog in Jim Henson’s Live TV Show, Sam and Friends (1955)

22nd

9:00a	syn_openculture	De-Stress with 30 Minutes of Relaxing Visuals from Director Hayao Miyazaki
12:00p	syn_openculture	How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day–the Hard Way, One Page at a Time
3:00p	syn_openculture	Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly Gives 36 Lectures on Our Future World: Education, Movies, Robots, Autonomous Cars & More
4:00p	syn_openculture	The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion

23rd

8:18a	syn_openculture	Bruce Springsteen & Barack Obama Release a New Podcast, “Renegades: Born in the USA”
12:00p	syn_openculture	The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leondardo da Vinci (1504)
3:00p	syn_openculture	Anthony Bourdain Talks About the Big Break That Changed His Life–at Age 44
5:00p	syn_openculture	The 69 Pages of Writing Advice Denis Johnson Collected from Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Werner Herzog & Many Others
8:00p	syn_openculture	The Roman Roads of Gaul Visualized as a Modern Subway Map

24th

8:01a	syn_openculture	Increasing Disabled/Other-Abled Representation in Media — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #83
9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch Orson Welles’ Intoxicating Wine Commercials That Became an 80s Cultural Phenomenon
3:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Badiou, the First Feature-Length Film on France’s Most Famous Living Philosopher
7:00p	syn_openculture	The Complete Works of Hilma af Klint Will Get Published for the First Time in a Beautiful, Seven-Volume Collection
9:08p	syn_openculture	RIP Radical Poet and Revolutionary Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)

25th

9:00a	syn_openculture	René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Posters (1924-1927)
6:29p	syn_openculture	Journey’s Road Crew Performs a Pretty Flawless Version of “Separate Ways”
7:00p	syn_openculture	Flim: a New AI-Powered Movie-Screenshot Search Engine

26th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Download 280 Pictographs That Put Japanese Culture Into a New Visual Language: They’re Free for the Public to Use
9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys, a Free Film Documenting the Making of the 1980s Super Group
12:00p	syn_openculture	Radiohead Ballets: Watch Ballets Choreographed Creatively to the Music of Radiohead