~openculture | Bookmarks (6)
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Discover the Singing Nuns Who Have Turned Medieval Latin Hymns into Modern Hits
We now live, as one often hears, in an age of few musical superstars, but towering...
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180,000 Years of Religion Charted on a “Histomap” in 1943
For many, even most of us moderns, the central religious choice is a simple one: adhere...
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An Architectural Tour of Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s Audacious Cathedral That’s Been Under Construction for 142 Years
In less than a year and a half, the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s death will be...
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The Founder of the Red Cross Creates a Diagram of the Apocalypse (1887)
History remembers Henry Dunant (1828–1910) for two things–being the co-founder of the Red Cross movement and...
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Discover the World’s Oldest University, Which Opened in 427 CE, Housed 9 Million Manuscripts, and Then Educated Students for 800 Years
In the Buddhist Asia of a dozen centuries ago, the equivalent of going off to study...
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Is Consciousness an Illusion?? Five Experts in Science, Religion & Technology Explain
Even among non-neuroscientists, determining the origin and purpose of consciousness is widely known as “the hard...