~openculture | Bookmarks (179)
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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...
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When a Medieval Monk Crowdsourced the Most Accurate Map of the World, Creating “the Google Earth of the 1450s”
If we want to know the precise geographical location of, say, a particular church in Madrid,...
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17 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts
Anyone can learn to draw the cast of Peanuts, but few can do it every day...
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Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist Daniel Kahneman (RIP) Explains the Key Question Every Investor Must Ask, and Why It’s a Fool’s Errand to Pick Stocks
This past week, the influential psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman passed away at age 90. The...
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How to Rewire Your Brain in 6 Weeks: A BBC Reporter Explores How Everyday Life Changes Can Alter Our Brains
If you suspect that your brain isn’t quite suited for modern life, you’re not alone. In...
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What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change
?si=SRzcFjCCIvDbQ1f7 What could our future world look like if we continue to do nothing about climate...
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David Lynch Explains Why Depression Is the Enemy of Creativity–and Why Meditation Is the Solution
David Lynch has a variety of notions about what it takes to make art, but suffering...
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Sun Ra Plays a Music Therapy Gig at a Psychiatric Hospital & Inspires a Patient to Talk for the First Time in Years
For some time now it has been fashionable to diagnose dead famous people with mental illnesses...
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Download 9,200+ Free Films from the Prelinger Archives: Documentaries, Cartoons & More
Depending on how you reckon it, the “American century” has already ended, is now drawing to...
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Is America Declining Like Ancient Rome?
Pursued to any depth, the question of whether the United States of America counts as an...
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Goethe’s Theory of Colors: The 1810 Treatise That Inspired Kandinsky & Early Abstract Painting
I doubt I need to list for you the many titles of the 18th century German...
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Learn the Korean Language with Hundreds of Episodes of Let’s Speak Korean Free Online
What with the rise of Korean pop culture over the past decade or so — the...
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Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from a Publisher (1912)
Gertrude Stein considered herself an experimental writer and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls “dense poems...
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The Song From the 1500’s That Blows Rick Beato Away: An Introduction to John Dowland’s Entrancing Music
In 2006, Sting released an album called Songs from the Labyrinth, a collaboration with Bosnian lutenist...
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The Beautiful Art of Making Japanese Calligraphy Ink Out of Soot & Glue
Founded in 1577, Kobaien remains Japan’s oldest manufacturer of sumi ink sticks. Made of soot and...