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≡ Category: Physics, Video - Science | ≅ 7 Comments
We’re beaming you back to 1964. Richard Feynman, our favorite Bongo-playing, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, reduces science to the barest essentials, to its most fundamental truth. If a theory doesn’t square with experiment, it’s wrong. That holds true for clever theories, elegant theories, and all of the rest. This clip is just a small outtake from [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature, Sci Fi | ≅ 1 Comment
Seen by over 20 million Russians when it came out in 1965, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin was a film based on a 1927 novel by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, who is not to be confused with his famous relative Leo Tolstoy. This Tolstoy is generally thought of as the father of Russian science fiction, and The Garin Death [...]
≡ Category: Film, Life, Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 6 Comments
“Foli” is the word used for rhythm by the Malinke tribe in West Africa. But Foli is not only found in Malinke music, but in all parts of their daily lives. Directed by Thomas Roebers, this short film portrays the people of Baro, a small town in eastern-central Guinea, and gives you a glimpse inside their culture of [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 2 Comments
Terlingua was once a mining village in Texas. Now, it’s an old ghost town where Scott Martin and Lance Keimig host The Full Moon Night Photography Workshop, a field seminar that teaches photographers to “see” in the dark. Needless to say, there is an entirely different art to capturing images at night, a bundle of [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs | ≅ 2 Comments
The Onion, the 23-year-old satirical newspaper that has contributed so much to making the past few decades a little less unbearable, has just anounced the launching of the Onion Archive Project. The Editors plan to archive new issues weekly, ultimately making all the print issues published between 1988-96 available online. In the meantime, they’ve posted four issues [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, History | ≅ 4 Comments
3,000,000 tourists move through Venice each year. But when the tourists leave the city, 60,000 year-round residents stay behind, continuing their daily lives, which requires navigating an archipelago made up of 124 islands, 183 canals and 438 bridges. How this complicated city works – how the buildings are defended from water, how the buildings stand [...]
≡ Category: Music, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Physics gets its own little opera. And you’ll never look at quadrocopters, those ball juggling robots, in quite the same way. Nice work “Operamanda“… via @chr1sa
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
Princes of New York punk, kings of CBGB’s (take virtual tour here), and the only Americans, then or now, who could pull off skinny jeans with impunity, The Ramones were masters of the short and sweet.  Here’s a recording of  a live 1978 set at the Palladium in New York City: 26 songs, 54 minutes, all [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 5 Comments
A few years ago, Open Culture readers listed Slaughterhouse Five as one of your top life-changing books. But Kurt Vonnegut was not only a great author. He was also an inspiration for anyone who aspires to write fiction – see for example his 8 rules for writing fiction, which starts with the so-obvious-it’s-often-forgotten reminder never to waste your reader’s [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Art, Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Walt Disney’s 1937 production, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, broke new ground on a number of fronts. It was 1) the first cel-animated feature film ever produced; 2.) the first animated film made in color – technicolor actually; and 3.) Disney’s first animated film, one of many commercial and artistic hits to come. (Catch a [...]
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