~openculture | Bookmarks (179)
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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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When François Truffaut Made a Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
The protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a “fireman” tasked with incinerating what few books...
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How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa
?si=WxyK2XAukThVTpa7 Construction on the Tower of Pisa first began in the year 1173. By 1178, the...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Alexei Navalny’s Final Letter: “Victory Is Inevitable. We Must Not Give Up”
Above, actor Benedict Cumberbatch reads the final letter written by Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader...
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The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like
Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we’ve been...
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Behold Soviet Animations of Ray Bradbury Stories
Sergei Bondarchuk directed an 8‑hour film adaptation of War and Peace (1966–67), which ended up winning...
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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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Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969)
Dune: Part Two has been playing in theaters for less than a week, but that’s more...
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Almost 500 Etchings by Rembrandt Now Free Online, Courtesy of the Morgan Library & Museum
Seventeenth-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn may have more name recognition than nearly any other European...
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Hear Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Performed in Classical Latin
By the early nineteen-nineties, at least in the United States, Latin instruction in schools wasn’t what...
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The Decimal Point Is 150 Years Older Than We Thought, Emerging in Renaissance Italy
Historians have long thought that the decimal point first came into use in 1593, when the...
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The Puzzle of Docudramas — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #167
When we’ve already heard about someone’s personal scandal in the news, do we need to...
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The Most Beautiful Shots in Cinema History: Scenes from 100+ Films
If you’re an even mildly enthusiastic filmgoer, these two short compilations from The Solomon Society will...
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Keith Richards Performs “I’m Waiting For The Man”: A New Tribute to Lou Reed
“To me, Lou stood out. The real deal! Something important to American music and to ALL...
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How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever
Though Jane Austen hasn’t published a novel since 1817 — with her death that same year...
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The US Postal Service to Release Stamp Collection Featuring the Photography of Ansel Adams
The US Postal Service will be classing up the joint, with the planned release of 16...
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Watch the Film That Invented Cinema: Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895)
The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière are often referred to as pioneers of cinema, and their...
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Kino Lorber Lets You Stream 146 Films on YouTube: Tilda Swinton, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi, Buster Keaton & More
The film distribution company Kino Lorber now allows you to stream complete films on YouTube for...
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Learn to Become a Digital Marketing Analyst with Unilever’s New Certificate Program
Unilever, the consumer goods company headquartered in London, owns over 400 brands. Dove, Lipton, Ben &...
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The Armored-Knight “Robot” Designed by Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495)
Image by Erik Möller, via Wikimedia Commons Those of us who were playing video games in...
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When the Berlin Philharmonic Performed John Cage’s Iconic Piece 4′33″, Capturing the Solitude of the Pandemic (2020)
In late October 2020, amidst another surge of the COVID-19 virus, the German government asked the...
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The Life & Work of Richard Feynman Explored in a Three-Part Freakonomics Radio Miniseries
Here at Open Culture, Richard Feynman is never far from our minds. Though he distinguished himself...
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How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned What Life Would Look Like in the Year 2000
Atomic physicist Niels Bohr is famously quoted as saying, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s...
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A Preview of Sora, the New OpenAI Tool That Creates Remarkable AI-Generated Videos
A little over four years ago, we featured here on Open Culture a set of realistic...