~openculture | Bookmarks (4)
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Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Cutlery Set from 1957
In 1957, Salvador Dalí created a tableware set consisting of 1) a four-tooth fork with a...
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How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee: An Animated History
Few of us grow up drinking coffee, but once we start drinking it, even fewer of...
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J.S. Bach’s Opera, “The Coffee Cantata,” Sings the Praises of the Great Stimulating Drink (1735)
From the time that a nameless genius in either Ethiopia or Yemen decided to dry, crush...
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A New Database Captures the Smells of European History, from 16th-Century to the Early 20th-Century
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things...