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≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
On Friday, we gave you this animated piece that shows the genius of Bach. Now, we give you an animated score of Beethoven’s 5th, and here you can find a chart that explains what the colors in the score mean. Essentially each color represents a particular instrument. Get the chart here, and don’t forget that you [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 12 Comments
Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video (now added to our YouTube Favorites) a little time to unfold. via @Slate. Catch @Openculture on Twitter here.
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 4 Comments
Speaking Wednesday night at Harvard, James Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA, was asked by NPR’s Robert Krulwich:Â ”Can a gentle person do well in science?” His response: “Jesus would not have succeeded.” Sad commentary, and it’s the type of comment that you’d expect from Watson. But it’s also somewhat disproved by the career of E.O. Wilson, [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick note: The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, is commemorating the 2009 bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, critic and inventor of the detective story, with the exhibition “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe.” To mark [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPhone | ≅ 4 Comments
During the lazy days of summer, we quietly launched a new, free iPhone app. Now summer is fading, people are getting back to work, students back to school, and it’s time to get the word out. This app takes our intelligent media collections and let’s you listen to them on the go. Once you download [...]
≡ Category: Life | ≅ Leave a Comment
Want to attend the 2010 TED Conference and hang with some of the world’s greatest minds? Here’s your chance. Apply to the TED Fellows program.  Organizers of the TED Conference are looking for 25 promising Fellows from around the world to participate in TED 2010, and they’re accepting applications through September 25, 2009. Fellowships include conference [...]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) just wrapped up an exhibition exploring the relationship between Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams, two important American artists of the past century. Even though the exhibition is now closed, the SFMOMA web site still hosts a series of videos featuring Ansel Adams discussing his work. Here, Adams [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ 3 Comments
Anyone looking for controversy in President Obama’s school speech will be disappointed. No “socialist indoctrination” here. Just a good ol’ red, white & blue pep talk to students. The talk gets started at 2:10 In case you’re wondering what ground school talks covered in 1988, here’s a look back.
≡ Category: TED Talks, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Science | ≅ 2 Comments
If you regularly visit Open Culture, then you’re probably familiar with TED Talks — the series of 15 minute “riveting talks by remarkable people” that TED produces and makes free to the world. We’ve included TED in our collection, Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites, and it’s one of the best sources [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
Speaking of The Beatles, I’m reminded that The Beatles: Rock Band, the new video game honoring The Fab Four, is hitting the streets this week. (See the software on Amazon for the Wii or Xbox.) The clip above shows you the intro to the game, and this Ars Technica piece tells you why The Beatles: Rock Band [...]
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