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≡ Category: History | ≅ 1 Comment
A good find over at Metafilter. Here you’ll find 22 inauguration speeches, starting with McKinley’s 1901 address. There’s some great footage in this series of videos. Along similar lines, The New York Times has posted an interactive feature that covers every inaugural address. You can read the full text of each speech, and see which [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
In 2008, our attention was mostly focused on the long American presidential campaign and the dramatic crash of the global financial system. These two stories overshadowed many other important ones. And so Foreign Policy has put together a collection of the most overlooked foreign affairs stories of ’08. Russia’s move into Africa, the beginning of [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, History, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ Leave a Comment
The full “I Have a Dream” speech. The place: The Lincoln Memorial. The Date: Â August 28, 1963. The Why: To bring about many small changes in American society, which eventually and collectively bring us to Tuesday. Take it away Martin: Subscribe to Our Feed
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 6 Comments
Slacker was shot in Austin, Texas in 1991. Its budget? A mere $23,000. But that didn’t stop it from becoming a cult hit and an overall important indie film. Here you have it free on YouTube, all 100 minutes of it… Update: it appears that YouTube has placed some geographical restrictions on who can see [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular | ≅ 5 Comments
Every now and then, we like to remind those who subscribe to Open Culture via rss feed or email that our site hosts large collections of cultural and educational media. In total, these collections offer thousands of hours of enriching audio and video, and it’s all free. You can download most all of it straight [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Physics, Science, Stanford, Video - Science | ≅ 6 Comments
This week, Stanford has started to roll out a new course, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Taught by Leonard Susskind, one of America’s leading physics minds, this course is the fourth of a six-part sequence –Â Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum –Â that traces the development of modern physics, moving from Newton to Black Holes. As the [...]
≡ Category: Art, Google, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 8 Comments
Thankfully, it’s not all bad news here in Silicon Valley. Yesterday, Google and the Prado (the major art museum in Madrid) announced that you can launch Google Earth from wherever you live, travel virtually to Spain, and then take a close look at fourteen of the museum’s finest paintings. And, by “close,” I mean close. [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
Imagine you’re surfing YouTube and come across a clip of Leonard Bernstein conducting Shostakovich’s Fifth. It looks and sounds great. Now imagine that you layer on top a series of YouTube comments that accompany the video. Suddenly things get a little different and bizarre. This piece comes from the YouTube Commentary Project developed by Artists Space, which [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 8 Comments
What happens when you take Ben King’s 1961 hit, Stand By Me, and then travel around the world, having different international artists offer their own interpretations, and finally you stitch them all together in one seamless tune? Â The clip below starts in California, moves to New Orleans, then heads off to Amsterdam, France, Brazil, Moscow, [...]
≡ Category: History, Online Courses | ≅ 13 Comments
For lifelong learners, courses on Ancient Greece and Rome always remain in steady demand. While these courses are poorly represented in undergraduate programs (at least in the States), they seem be to making a comeback in continuing education programs designed for older students. Eventually, it seems, many come to the conclusion that you can’t skip [...]
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