~openculture | Bookmarks (176)
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Amazon Offers Free AI Courses, Aiming to Help 2 Million People Build AI Skills by 2025
Late last year, Amazon announced AI Ready, a new initiative “designed to provide free AI skills...
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Bruce Hornsby Discusses His Adventurous Compositions and Collaborations on Nakedly Examined Music
Bruce Hornsby is best known for his first album The Way It Is (1986), but has come...
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The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi & Beyond
Oliver Hermanus’ latest film Living transplants the story of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru to postwar London. Apart...
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A Fan-Made Film Reconstructs an Entire Tom Waits Concert from His “Glitter and Doom Tour” (2008)
Everybody who’s been to a Tom Waits concert has stories to tell about it — no...
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Read Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)
For a variety of reasons, science fiction has long been regarded as a mostly male-oriented realm...
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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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Free Download: A Knitting Pattern for a Sweater Depicting an Iconic Cover of George Orwell’s 1984
It’s winter, and we still have a ways to go. So maybe we could interest you...
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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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Before ChatGPT, There Was ELIZA: Watch the 1960s Chatbot in Action
In 1966, the sociologist and critic Philip Rieff published The Triumph of the Therapeutic, which diagnosed...
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The Roman Author Pliny the Younger Gets Ghosted by a Friend, and Goes on a Rant: Hear It Read by Actor Rob Delaney
Pliny the Younger may be best remembered for writing the only eye-witness account of the destruction...
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Stanford Continuing Studies Offering a Course on the History & Music of the Grateful Dead, Taught by David Gans: Starts on Monday, January 22
Image via Wikimedia Commons A quick heads up: On Monday, Stanford Continuing Studies will kick off...
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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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Every Political Ideology Explained in 8 Minutes
?si=1D5y5yGeIhAfGnvh From the guy who brought you 51 Propaganda Techniques Explained in 11 Minutes comes this:...
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Jewish Comedy with Daniel Lobell (“Reconquistador”) — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #165
Your hosts Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al explore the characteristics of Jewish comedy with stand-up/graphic novelist Daniel,...
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A Beautiful Visual Tour of Tirranna, One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Remarkable, Final Creations
“When I first encountered Wright’s work as an eight-year-old boy, it was the space and the...
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60 Free Film Noir Movies to Get You Through 2024
During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on hard-boiled...
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J.S. Bach’s Opera, “The Coffee Cantata,” Sings the Praises of the Great Stimulating Drink (1735)
From the time that a nameless genius in either Ethiopia or Yemen decided to dry, crush...
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Can You Crack the Uncrackable Code in Kryptos, the CIA’s Work of Public Art?
It can be challenging to parse the meaning of many non-narrative artworks. Sometimes the title will...
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Coursera Extends Deal: Get $200 Off of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates (Until February 1)
Here’s some news that you can use… Coursera has announced that it’s extending (until February 1)...
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How George Washington Became President of the United States: It Was Weirder Than You Think
After serving two terms as the first President of the United States of America, George Washington...
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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 Pixies Perform a Hypnotic Version of “Gouge Away” at the BBC
In 2018, the Pixies performed live for BBC Radio 6 Music, playing some new songs (“In...
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AI “Completes” Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting and Controversy Erupts
The story behind this painting is so sad! 😢Now using AI we can complete what he...