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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier...
Aldous Huxley, Dying of Cancer, Left This World Tripping on LSD (1963)
Aldous Huxley put himself forever on the intellectual map when he wrote the dystopian sci-fi novel...
The Life & Work of Richard Feynman Explored in a Three-Part Freakonomics Radio Miniseries
Here at Open Culture, Richard Feynman is never far from our minds. Though he distinguished himself...
Explore the Surface of Mars in Spectacular 4K Resolution
?si=RFbzFSzSNWzua3‑7 Could you use a mental escape? Maybe a trip to Mars will do the trick....
Pangea to the Present to the Future: Watch Animations Showing 500 Million Years of Continental Drift
Things change… Especially when you’re tracking the continental movement from Pangea to the present day in...
The Cool Science of Snowflakes in 4 Minutes, with Brian Cox
?si=pnmakCdYBQ6dTM0T From the Royal Society comes a short primer on snowflakes. Narrated by physicist Brian Cox,...
The Incubator Babies of Coney Island: How an Early 1900s Boardwalk Attraction Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Lives
Step right up, folks! Shoot the Chutes! Thrill to the Fire and Flames show! Ride an...