The best free cultural & educational media on the web
The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Education, Google, Technology | ≅ 6 Comments
Yesterday, Google launched TeachParentsTech.org, a little spin-off web site that features 50 how-to videos, all designed to answer your parents’ basic tech questions. Your father wants to know how to share a big file? Your mother is trying to figure out how to bookmark a web page? Simply head to TeachParentsTech.org, find the appropriate how-to video, send it via [...]
≡ Category: Math | ≅ 8 Comments
What would 873 x 982 look like? Lots of lines. But still intriguing. Thanks Allison for sending this our way. Feel free to suggest a good link here…
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 4 Comments
Netflix jolted its competitors last month when it announced a new plan. Instead of receiving DVDs by mail, customers can now opt for a $7.99 plan that lets them watch an unlimited number of movies online, using their television, computer, iPad, or smartphone. Not so long ago, Netflix’s catalogue of streamable films was rather thin. But [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Next year, NASA plans to put an end to its 30 year old space shuttle program. Since 1981, the program has launched five space shuttles (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavor) into orbit, or 132 flights in total. Here, Matt Melis, a NASA engineer, has compiled what he calls the “best of the best, state of [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ Leave a Comment
We have a little special for Open Culture readers. If you’re not familiar with them, The Teaching Company provides an amazing service. The company travels across the US, recording great professors lecturing on great topics that will appeal to any lifelong learner. The courses are very polished, and can be quite reasonably priced, especially when they’re on [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
They had a big falling out in 1962. But that was all over Brahms. When it came to Bach, things were more harmonious. So let’s rewind the videotape to 1960. Glenn Gould performs with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, playing (if I have this right) J. S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in d minor [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 3 Comments
Lance Lund, a professor at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, prepared this promotional video for cable TV. It never aired. via @courosa
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 5 Comments
This was too good to pass up. This week’s celebration of John Lennon’s life unearthed a priceless picture of The Beatles preparing to take their iconic walk across Abbey Road. One detail worth pointing out: Sir Paul has yet to kick off his shoes. Although taken back in 1969, tourists still flock to the same [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 3 Comments
In early 1920, Robert Wiene premiered in Berlin his silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Ever since, critics have lavished praise upon Caligari, calling it a model of German expressionist film, the greatest horror film of early cinema, and an important influence on directors later working in the film noir tradition. And, what’s more [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy, UC Berkeley | ≅ 4 Comments
You can’t dabble in the world of philosophy very long without encountering John Searle. One of America’s most respected philosophers, Searle did important work on “speech act” theory during the 1960s, then later turned to consciousness and artificial intelligence, out of which came his famous “Chinese room” thought experiment. Searle has taught philosophy at UC-Berkeley [...]
Get updates as soon as they go live, via RSS feed, email and now Twitter!
Get the latest from our Twitter Stream.
Why can't we be friends?
Got a link we should post? Send it our way!
©2006-2012 Open Culture. All rights reserved.
