~openculture | Bookmarks (177)
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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....
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Plato’s Dialogue Gorgias Gets Adapted into a Short Avant-Garde Film
The word sophisticated may sound like praise today, but it originated as more of an accusation....
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Deal Ends Today: Get $200 Off of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates
A quick final heads up: Coursera’s deal, which offers $200 off of Coursera Plus, ends in...
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Meet Alma Deutscher, the Classical Music Prodigy: Watch Her Performances from Age 6 to 14
One needn’t think too hard to come up with a list of celebrated children who seem...
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How Being Bilingual Helps Your Brain (Even If You Learn a New Language in Adulthood)
There was a time in America, not so very long ago, when conventional wisdom discouraged immigrants...
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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...
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The Codex Seraphinianus: How Italian Artist Luigi Serafini Came to Write & Illustrate “the Strangest Book Ever Published” (1981)
The Codex Seraphinianus is not a medieval book; nor does it date from the Renaissance along...
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How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking: Advice from Tim Ferriss
With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, which can generate essay after essay near-instantaneously from...
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Amazon Offers Free AI Courses, Aiming to Help 2 Million People Build AI Skills by 2025
Late last year, Amazon announced AI Ready, a new initiative “designed to provide free AI skills...
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Bruce Hornsby Discusses His Adventurous Compositions and Collaborations on Nakedly Examined Music
Bruce Hornsby is best known for his first album The Way It Is (1986), but has come...
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The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi & Beyond
Oliver Hermanus’ latest film Living transplants the story of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru to postwar London. Apart...
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A Fan-Made Film Reconstructs an Entire Tom Waits Concert from His “Glitter and Doom Tour” (2008)
Everybody who’s been to a Tom Waits concert has stories to tell about it — no...
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Read Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)
For a variety of reasons, science fiction has long been regarded as a mostly male-oriented realm...
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The Cardboard Bernini: An Artist Spends 4 Years Building a Giant Cardboard Fountain Inspired by the Baroque Sculptor Bernini, Only to Let It Dissolve in the Rain
From the Triton Fountain in the Piazza Barberini to the Fountain of the Four Rivers in...
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Free Download: A Knitting Pattern for a Sweater Depicting an Iconic Cover of George Orwell’s 1984
It’s winter, and we still have a ways to go. So maybe we could interest you...
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Music Producer Steve Albini, Director Godfrey Reggio & Actor Fred Armisen Explain Why Creating Is Crucial to Human Existence
Imagine, if you will, an evening’s entertainment consisting of an episode of Portlandia, a spin of...
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Before ChatGPT, There Was ELIZA: Watch the 1960s Chatbot in Action
In 1966, the sociologist and critic Philip Rieff published The Triumph of the Therapeutic, which diagnosed...
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The Roman Author Pliny the Younger Gets Ghosted by a Friend, and Goes on a Rant: Hear It Read by Actor Rob Delaney
Pliny the Younger may be best remembered for writing the only eye-witness account of the destruction...
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Stanford Continuing Studies Offering a Course on the History & Music of the Grateful Dead, Taught by David Gans: Starts on Monday, January 22
Image via Wikimedia Commons A quick heads up: On Monday, Stanford Continuing Studies will kick off...
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How Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldinger
In 1966, Paul McCartney famously sang of “all the lonely people,” wondering aloud where they come...
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Every Political Ideology Explained in 8 Minutes
?si=1D5y5yGeIhAfGnvh From the guy who brought you 51 Propaganda Techniques Explained in 11 Minutes comes this:...
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Jewish Comedy with Daniel Lobell (“Reconquistador”) — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #165
Your hosts Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al explore the characteristics of Jewish comedy with stand-up/graphic novelist Daniel,...
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A Beautiful Visual Tour of Tirranna, One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Remarkable, Final Creations
“When I first encountered Wright’s work as an eight-year-old boy, it was the space and the...
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60 Free Film Noir Movies to Get You Through 2024
During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on hard-boiled...