Podcasts:
- WNYC Radiolab – the perfect mix of science, sound, humor, and philosophy
- NPR All Songs Considered Live Concerts
- NPR Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me – the oddly informative news quiz
- The Moth Podcast – one free story per week, there is now a new one hour radio show produced for NPR. These personal narratives are often bitingly funny, enjoyably eccentric, and always unique.
- CBC Wiretap – Snarky, witty frequent NPR/This American Life contributor Jonathan Goldstein is responsible
Music/Media:
- We Are Hunted – an interactive music chart, listen to all the songs on the list
- Large Hearted Boy – daily free and legal music downloads, lots of indy and music festival recordings, also good book reviews
- Live Music Archive – mostly indy
- Beck /Record Club – collaboration of various musicians who re-envision/record a classic album in one day w/ no prior practice (a risky venture…)
- The Moth – storytellers – there is a podcast, as well as a new radio hour produced for NPR. This link will bring you to streaming, online stories. These personal narratives are often bitingly funny, enjoyably eccentric, and always unique
- Babelgum – video channel sporting unique content in 5 channels: film, music, comedy, our earth, and metropolis
- Tourfilter – Customize your list of favorite bands and receive e-mail updates when your picks tour locally
Art:
- Wooster Collective – street art that is beyond clever
- Web Urbanist – Architecture and alternative art – there are always mind-blowing things on here – be sure to check it out
- Sketch Theatre – watch artists sketch out their art set to really good music
- A Curious Bestiary – artist Kaitlin Beckett, very cool stuff
- Society 6 – another cool art collective
- Enormous tiny art – They had this show at a little gallery in Portsmouth, I just loved it all, lots of talent gracing the walls
Poetry:
- Mimesis: International Journal of Poetry, Artwork, and Opinion
- Poem Hunter Blog – filled to the brim with excellent poems from excellent poets
- The Allen Ginsburg Project – Wonderful In-depth Resource on the Beat Poets, that will lead you further down the rabbit hole
- Poetry Foundation – an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture
- Cell Poems – Say it in 160 characters or less. Challenge yourself.
- Electric Literature – Submit your short stories for review
- 32 Poems – Keep is short and sweet with a cap of 32 lines
Science News and Content:
Environmental and Green Resources:
- Web Ecoist
- The Daily Green: The Consumer’s Guide to the Green Revolution
- Renatured: animals, people, and those in between
- TreeHugger
Marine/Ocean Links:
- MarineBio
- Deep Sea Photos – Explore The Abyss Photo Galleries
- Bioluminescence – “Living light”
- Center for Ocean Solutions
- Census of Marine Life
Fun Links:
- TED: ideas worth spreading – riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
- XKCD – A Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language
- Science Made Stupid
- F U Penguin – a bitingly sarcastic take on all those blogs featuring an inundation of cuteness (as illustrated here)
- Cute Overload – one of the aforementioned blogs featuring an inundation of cuteness… if you’re into that kind of thing
- Smoont – the amazing, bizarre, and cool
- Not Martha – the blog about making things the “not martha” way
- BoingBoing.net – postings blog style about science, gadgets, tech, and the bizarre in general. Hard to describe…
- It Made My Day (IMMD) – Little moments of WIN
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