~openculture | Bookmarks (56)
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Why Perpetual Motion Machines Never Work, Despite Centuries of Experiments
According to the laws of physics — at least in simplified form — an object in...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Gives Life-Changing Advice to Teens: Watch His Speech, “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?” (1967)
Six months before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to students at Barratt Junior High...
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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...
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Watch a 106-Year-Old Wizard of Oz Book Get Magically Restored … By Cutting the Book’s Spine, Washing Pages & Recoloring Illustrations
Author, educator and book restoration expert Sophia Bogle is in a constant race against time. Her...
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Why Caspar David Friedrich’s Painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) Is a Romantic Masterpiece, Evoking the Power of the Sublime
When Caspar David Friedrich completed Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, or Wanderer Above the Sea of...
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Hortus Eystettensis: The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613)
If you made it big in seventeenth-century Bavaria, you showed it by creating a garden with...
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My Neighbor Totoro Inspires a Line of Traditional Japanese Handicrafts
We suppose it’s conceivable that a gift of a wooden Totoro figurine, hand-carved from a single...
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How Londinium Became London, Lutetia Became Paris, and Other Roman Cities Got Their Modern Names
They Might Be Giants achieved pop-cultural immortality when they covered Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat...