~openculture | Bookmarks (15)
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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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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 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 Look Inside David Bowie & Iman’s Beautiful Mountain Home
It’s difficult to imagine Iman and David Bowie inviting Vogue readers to join them on the...
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Gillian Anderson Reads Anaïs Nin’s Passionate Letter about Sex and Poetry
From Letters Live comes a letter read by Gillian Anderson. They preface it with this: “In...
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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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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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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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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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Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live and Learn More
Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only...
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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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The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan
From 2006 to 2009, Bob Dylan hosted the Theme Time Radio Hour on Sirius Satellite Radio. Each show...
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How Toilets Worked in Ancient Rome and Medieval England
However detailed they may be in other respects, many accounts of daily life centuries and centuries...
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When The Who (Literally) Blew Up The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967
From 1967 to 1969, Tom and Dick Smothers hosted The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a politely...
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A Man Hiding from the Nazis Made 95 Issues of a Highly Creative Zine (1943–1945)
Perhaps at some point in the future, the poems in your tongue I composed, will be...