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Behold the Glass Armonica, the Unbelievably Fragile Instrument Invented by Benjamin Franklin

We're all familiar with keyboard instruments. Many of us have also heard (or indeed made) music, of a kind, with the rims of wine glasses. But to u...

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Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

How to Enter Flow State, Increase Your Ability to Concentrate, and Let Your Ego Fall Away : An Animated Primer

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How to Enter Flow State, Increase Your Ability to Concentrate, and Let Your Ego Fall Away : An Animated Primer

One needs hardly state that human beings desire things like wealth, power, and love. But it does bear repeating that, on a deeper level, we all des...

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Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

The Band’s Classic Song, "The Weight," Sung by Robbie Robertson (RIP) and Musicians Around the World

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The Band’s Classic Song, “The Weight,” Sung by Robbie Robertson (RIP) and Musicians Around the World

Yesterday Robbie Robertson, the Canadian songwriter and guitarist for The Band, passed away at age 80 after a long illness.

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Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Watch Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with a Modern, New Electronic Soundtrack (1927)

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Watch Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with a Modern, New Electronic Soundtrack (1927)

From sound artist Tomer Baruch and drummer Alex Brajković comes a new electronic soundtrack for Fritz Lang's century-old classic film, Metropolis....

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

The Oldest Known Photographs of Rome (1841-1871)

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The Oldest Known Photographs of Rome (1841–1871)

The ravages of COVID-19 have been followed by the ravages of the post-pandemic tourism boom. If you've been reading recent coverage of aggressive t...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Concerns over sex content leads Florida schools to pull Shakespeare

Tampa Bay Times

Concerns over sex content leads Florida schools to pull Shakespeare

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

How to Enter Flow State, Increase Your Ability to Concentrate, and Let Your Ego Fall Away : An Animated Primer

Open Culture

How to Enter Flow State, Increase Your Ability to Concentrate, and Let Your Ego Fall Away : An Animated Primer

One needs hardly state that human beings desire things like wealth, power, and love. But it does bear repeating that, on a deeper level, we all des...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

The First Masterpieces to Depict Regular People: An Introduction to the Reformation Painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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The First Masterpieces to Depict Regular People: An Introduction to the Reformation Painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The skating scene that opens A Charlie Brown Christmas is such an evocative, archetypical winter vision, it's likely to stir nostalgia even in thos...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

The Scariest Film of All Time?: Revisiting the Hysteria in 1973 Around The Exorcist by William Friedkin (RIP)

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The Scariest Film of All Time?: Revisiting the Hysteria in 1973 Around The Exorcist by William Friedkin (RIP)

William Friedkin’s 1973 The Exorcist might feel wrapped in the historical glow of “elevated horror” now--serious filmmaking for discerning fa...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

How to Enter Flow State, Increase Your Ability to Concentrate, and Let Your Ego Fall Away : An Animated Primer

Open Culture

How to Enter Flow State, Increase Your Ability to Concentrate, and Let Your Ego Fall Away : An Animated Primer

One needs hardly state that human beings desire things like wealth, power, and love. But it does bear repeating that, on a deeper level, we all des...

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Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

When the Mississippi Tried to Ban Sesame Street for Showing a "Highly Integrated Cast" (1970)

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When Mississippi Tried to Ban Sesame Street for Showing a “Highly Integrated Cast” (1970)

On November 10, 1969, Sesame Street made its broadcast debut. The very first lines were spoken by Gordon (Matt Robinson), a Black schoolteacher ...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count

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Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count

When asked for their favorite Sesame Street segment, many children of the 70s and 80s point to Pinball Number Count. Psychedelic animation, the Po...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Finest Adaptation of Dante’s Classic

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Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Finest Adaptation of Dante’s Classic

In its second decade, cinema struggled to evolve. The first films by the Lumière Brothers and Thomas Edison were short and gimmicky - shots of tra...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Hundreds of Wonderful Japanese Firework Designs from the Early-1900s: Digitized and Free to Download

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Hundreds of Wonderful Japanese Firework Designs from the Early-1900s: Digitized and Free to Download

The Japanese term for fireworks, hanabi (花火), combines the words for fire, bi (火), and flower, hana (火). If you've seen fireworks anywhere,...

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Ron DeSantis Bans AP Psychology Out Of Fear People Will Figure Out What’s Wrong With Him

The Onion

DeSantis Bans AP Psychology Out Of Fear People Will Figure Out What’s Wrong With Him

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Explaining that the course would teach thousands of high schoolers harmful information about identifying psychological disorders,...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Watch Oppenheimer: The Decision to Drop the Bomb, a 1965 Documentary Featuring J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Watch Oppenheimer: The Decision to Drop the Bomb, a 1965 Documentary Featuring J. Robert Oppenheimer

If you've seen Christopher Nolan's new Oppenheimer film, you may want to turn your attention to another film, the 1965 documentary called Oppenheim...

Open Culture (Official) 2 years ago

Novelist Michael Chabon Digitally Re-Creates the Science Fiction & Fantasy Section of His Favorite 1970s Bookstore

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Novelist Michael Chabon Digitally Re-Creates the Science Fiction & Fantasy Section of His Favorite 1970s Bookstore

Michael Chabon was born in 1963, which placed him well to be influenced by the unpredictable, indiscriminate, and often lurid cultural cross-curren...