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- Video● An Introduction to the Astonishing Book of Kells, the Iconic Illuminated ManuscriptWhatever set of religious or cultural traditions you come from, you’ve probably seen a Celtic cross before. Unlike a conventional cross, it has a circular ring, or “nimbus,” where its arms and stem intersect. The sole addition of that element gives it a highly distinctive look, and indeed makes it... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 21, 2024 - 10:00 am
- Video● Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutable and chillingly absurd as the labyrinth the character... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 21, 2024 - 6:23 am
- VideoExplore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AIIn the trailer below for the world’s first 3D replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Yves Ubelmann speaks of using “AI for Good,” which isn’t just an ideal, but also the name of a lab at Microsoft. Microsoft and Ubelman’s digital-preservation company Iconem were two of the participants in that ambitious project, along... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 20, 2024 - 10:00 am
- The Final Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Rare Footage from 1910114 years ago today (November 20, 1910), Leo Tolstoy—the author who gave us two major Russian classics Anna Karenina and War & Peace—died at Astapovo, a small, remote train station in the heart of Russia. Pneumonia was the official cause. His death came just weeks after Tolstoy, then 82 years old,... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 20, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All TimePierre-Joseph Redouté made his name by painting flowers, an achievement impossible without a meticulousness that exceeds all bounds of normality. He published his three-volume collection Les Roses and his eight-volume collection Les Liliacées between 1802 and 1824, and a glance at their pages today vividly suggests the painstaking nature of both his... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 19, 2024 - 10:00 am
- How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983)In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear, straight into thin air. If you’re north of 50, you perhaps remember the spectacle. How did he do it? 40 years later, the YouTube channel Mind Blown Magic Illusion demystifies the large-scale... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 19, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Join Us on Bluesky. We Will Have Fun TogetherThere’s an eXodus taking place, and millions are finding a new home on Bluesky. In recent days, the decentralized social media platform has been gaining 10,000 new users every 10–15 minutes, or about 1 million new users per day. Open Culture is already there, sharing the cultural posts you once... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 18, 2024 - 7:47 pm
- Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930)Image by J. F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons Bertrand Russell may have lived his long life concerned with big topics in logic, mathematics, politics, and society, but that didn’t keep him from thinking seriously about how to handle his own day-to-day relationships. That hardly means he handled every such relationship... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 18, 2024 - 10:00 am
- Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (1969)In 1994, Jerry Beck edited the book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals, which challenged experts to create a ranking of the best short, cel animated cartoons ever made. To no one’s surprise, the experts chose 10 Warner Bros. animations crafted by Chuck Jones. They also gave a nod to Fleischer... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 18, 2024 - 7:34 am
- VideoWhat Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria HerselfMore than 120 years after the end of the Victorian era, we might assume that we retain a more or less accurate cultural memory of the Victorians themselves: of their social mores, their aesthetic sensibilities, their ambitions great and small, their many and varied hang-ups. Some of the most vivid... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 15, 2024 - 9:00 am
- VideoExplore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style CastlesBurj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet. “Sitting near the Black Sea, the town is full of half-finished, fully abandoned mini castles — 587 of them to be exact,” write Architectural Digest’s Katherine McLaughlin and Jessica Cherner. Originally “planned as a luxurious,... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 14, 2024 - 10:00 am
- Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction MagazineAlong with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine was one of the most important science fiction digests in 1950s America. Ray Bradbury wrote for it–including an early version of his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451–as did Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon,... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 13, 2024 - 7:00 pm
- Get Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates: Coursera Is Offering 40% (or $159) Off of Coursera Plus Until December 2A heads-up on a deal: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one all-inclusive subscription price. This includes Professional Certificates from... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 13, 2024 - 6:45 pm
- VideoA New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved Wreck of Shackleton’s EndurancePhotos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Few who hear the story of the Endurance could avoid reflecting on the aptness of the ship’s name. A year after setting out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, it got stuck in a mass of drifting ice off Antarctica. There... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 13, 2024 - 10:00 am
- The Mushroom Color Atlas: An Interactive Web Site Lets You Explore the Incredible Spectrum of Colors Created from FungiEnter the Mushroom Color Atlas, and you can discover the “beautiful and subtle colors derived from dyeing with mushrooms.” Featuring 825 colors, each associated with different types of mushrooms, the interactive atlas lets you appreciate the broad spectrum of colors latent in the fungi kingdom. The shades, tints, and hues... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: November 13, 2024 - 9:04 am