~openculture | Bookmarks (180)
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A Guided Tour of the Largest Handmade Model of Imperial Rome: Discover the 20x20 Meter Model Created During the 1930s
At the moment, you can’t see the largest, most detailed handmade model of Imperial Rome for...
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Watch Iconic Artists at Work: Rare Videos of Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, Monet, Pollock & More
Claude Monet, 1915: We’ve all seen their works in fixed form, enshrined in museums and printed...
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Humans First Started Enjoying Cannabis in China Circa 2800 BC
Judging by how certain American cities smell these days, you’d think cannabis was invented last week....
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Daniel Dennett Presents the 4 Biggest Ideas in Philosophy in One of His Final Videos (RIP)
A week ago, Big Think released this video featuring philosopher Daniel Dennett talking about the four...
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Discover the Singing Nuns Who Have Turned Medieval Latin Hymns into Modern Hits
We now live, as one often hears, in an age of few musical superstars, but towering...
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Watch Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mind-Bending Masterpiece Free Online
“I feel like every single frame of the film is burned into my retina,” said Oscar-winning...
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Beautifully-Preserved Frescoes with Figures from the Trojan War Discovered in a Lavish Pompeii Home
Image via Pompeii Archaeological Park Imagine visiting the home of a prominent, wealthy figure, and at...
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Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants Using OpenAI GPTs: A Free Course from Vanderbilt University
Last fall, OpenAI started letting users create custom versions of ChatGPT–ones that would let people create...
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An Archive of Vividly Illustrated Japanese Schoolbooks, from the 1800s to World War II
If you want to appreciate Japanese books, it helps to be able to read Japanese books....
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Free: Download the The Anarchist’s Tool Chest, The Anarchist’s Design Book, The Anarchist’s Workbench & Other Woodworking Texts
For Christopher Schwarz, American anarchism isn’t “about bombs and leather jackets; it’s about being an independent...
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How the Berlin Wall Worked: The Engineering & Structural Design of the Wall That Formidably Divided East & West
More than thirty years after the formal dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, few...
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Google & MIT Offer a Free Course on Generative AI for Teachers and Educators
FYI. Google and MIT RAISE have partnered to create a free course for teachers and educators,...
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How the Year 2440 Was Imagined in a 1771 French Sci-Fi Novel
Many Americans might think of Rip Van Winkle as the first man to nod off and...
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Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips
If you know more than a few millennials, you probably know someone who reveres Calvin and...
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Beavis and Butt-Head on SNL
If you need six minutes of comic relief, this might do the trick. For those who...
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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...
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Who’s Behind These Scammy Text Messages We’ve All Been Getting?: The Search Engine Podcast Demystifies the Global Scam
You have received those odd text messages from a stranger. (“Hi, This is Anita. Have you...
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Studio Ghibli Lets You Download Free Images from Hayao Miyazaki’s “Final” Film, The Boy and the Heron
Studio Ghibli fans are still pondering the meaning of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron,...
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The Fictional Brand Archives: Explore a Growing Collection of Iconic But Fake Brands Found in Movies & TV
Los Pollos Hermanos, Madrigal Electromotive, Mesa Verde Bank and Trust, Davis & Main: Attorneys at Law—all...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring, Young Writers (1935)
Here in the twenty-twenties, a hopeful young novelist might choose to enroll in one of a...
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67 Logical Fallacies Explained in 11 Minutes
Fallacies—notes Purdue’s Writing Lab—“are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument....
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How Photos Were Transmitted by Wire in 1937: The Innovative Technology of a Century Ago
When did you last send someone a photo? That question may sound odd, owing to the...
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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...
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How Was the Great Pyramid Built?; What Did the Ancient Egyptian Language Sound Like?; Were There Bars in Ancient Egypt?: An Egyptologist Answers These Questions & More from Internet Users
What did ancient Egyptians sound like? What did they eat and drink? What ancient Egyptian medicine...