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≡ Category: Education | ≅ 1 Comment
This weekend, The New York Times is dedicating its Education Life section to Open Education. It all starts with a lengthy article on the state of the “open course” movement. Then, a related article tells you where you can learn something for nothing (always a good thing!), listing several sites – including Open Culture – [...]
≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
Maybe you have noticed. (Or maybe you haven’t.) Almost every YouTube video featured on Open Culture can be accessed through our YouTube Channel. You’ll find about 225 videos overall, and they run the gamut. Intelligent lectures, artistic videos, comic bits, scientific explorations, historical footage – they’re all here. And, if you subscribe to our YouTube [...]
≡ Category: Google | ≅ Leave a Comment
The latest innovation by Google Earth. Get more details at The Google Lat Long Blog.
≡ Category: Media | ≅ 2 Comments
The emergence of “new media” and “social media” — it has all looked fairly revolutionary, the beginning of something entirely new. But, when you step back and consider it, these innovations mark perhaps just an acceleration of a trend that began long ago — one that Marshall McLuhan, the famed communication theorist, first outlined in [...]
Speaking at TED University, Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty Images, shows some of the most iconic images of our times, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful that it can’t look away — and so powerful that people must take action.
≡ Category: Film, Literature | ≅ 3 Comments
Back in 1998, Hunter S. Thompson’s most famous piece of Gonzo journalism, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was brought to the silver screen, with Johnny Depp playing a lead role. From this point forward, Depp and Thompson became fast friends. (Indeed, Depp would end up paying for Thompson’s elaborate funeral, which involved shooting the [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
Samuel Beckett gave us Waiting for Godot, one of the great plays of the 20th century. Today, he would have turned 104 years old. He died back in 1989, and just two years before that, the publicity-shy playwright was captured in some rare footage that appeared in an American documentary called “Waiting for Beckett.” The [...]
≡ Category: Math | ≅ 3 Comments
If math went over your head in high school or college, here’s a great way to rediscover what you missed. In late January, Steven Strogatz, a professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, began blogging mathematics for The New York Times. And his whole goal is to show you, the reader, the joy of math. [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
via The New Yorker
≡ Category: Life, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
What’s the likelihood that we’ll ever find extraterrestrial life? Many scientists would argue that the chances are slim. When you get down to basic essentials, you need water and moderate temperatures for life to take off. And it’s unlikely that these conditions exist beyond our planet. That’s the basic argument. But now Dr Alan Tunnacliffe, an [...]
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