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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Physics | ≅ 12 Comments
There’s something compelling about physics. Almost every major open courseware collection features a well-crafted physics course, and these courses consistently rank high on iTunesU and YouTube Edu. Let’s give a quick overview of the favorites.
At Stanford, we’re putting together a six course sequence called Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum. Taught by Leonard Susskind, one of America’s [...]
≡ Category: Random | ≅ 1 Comment
Here’s a quick announcement, and please take note. Starting today, you can find Open Culture at www.openculture.com. Our old domain (oculture.com) will still work, as will old links. But they’ll forward (hopefully) seamlessly to the new domain. Why the change? Because it seemed time to have the url actually match the site’s name.
If you encounter [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books | ≅ 1 Comment
Seth Harwood is bringing crime writing into the new world of Web 2.0. Since 2006, Harwood has been podcasting his own crime fiction, including a book called Jack Wakes Up, which you can download (for free) via iTunes, RSS Feed, or MP3. (Random House will be releasing Jack Wakes Up in print next month for [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Not long ago, I flagged a piece by Leon Wieseltier called “The Tolstoy Bailout,” and it makes a great case for why great books matter, especially in these hard times. As he put it, “In tough times, of all times, the worth of the humanities needs no justifying. The reason is that it will take many kinds of [...]
This week, ArtBabble, a new video website for the museum & art world, opened its virtual doors. Created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, ArtBabble brings together videos from various arts institutions (MoMA, SFMOMA, PBS, the New Public Library, etc) and presents them to users in a clean, organized way. The footage, often produced in high definition, features interviews [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
From The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Wired Campus” Blog:
“Cole W. Camplese, director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, prefers to teach in classrooms with two screens — one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students. He knows he is inviting distraction — after [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Stanford, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick heads up: Stanford has just launched a free software development course for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The lectures will be rolled out on iTunes first, and eventually they will be posted on YouTube as well. You can get the first lecture on iTunes here. This 10 week computer science course is officially [...]
≡ Category: Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
A light (and, for me, nostalgic) way to ease into the weekend…
Over at Marvel.com, they’re streaming episodes from the original Spider-Man TV series that hit the airwaves back in 1967. A new episode will be posted every Thursday. Above, you’ll find Episode 1, and see where it all began.
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 3 Comments
This really caught my eye…
If you didn’t make it to the Mark Rothko exhibition at the Tate Modern (and chances are you didn’t), then you can still see it virtually. As you’ll see, the Tate Modern has created a fantastic web site that lets you take a panoramic tour of the Rothko collection. Once you [...]
≡ Category: History, Literature | ≅ 3 Comments
“Over the centuries a number of images have been put forward as life portraits of our greatest writer, but at present none of them is generally accepted as such. Up until now… With the emergence of the Cobbe portrait, we are presented with a contemporary portrait that has strong claims to represent the dramatist as [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
On the Oscar Channel on YouTube, you can flip through some classic prize-winning moments. Above, we feature Roberto Benigni’s speech upon receiving The Academy Award for best actor (Life is Beautiful) in 1998. You can also see vintage speeches by Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Federico Fellini, and others. Perhaps a questionable call, The Oscar Channel has been added [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 3 Comments
Let me bring this to your attention. Erwan Bomstein-Erb, the founder and director of Canal Educatif in Paris, has released a documentary (in English) about The Gates of Hell, a monumental project that Auguste Rodin worked on, not necessarily consistently, for 37 years. On its own, this video is worth your time. But you [...]
Let me bring this to your attention. Erwan Bomstein-Erb, the founder and director of Canal Educatif in Paris, has released a documentary (in English) about The Gates of Hell, a monumental project that Auguste Rodin worked on, not necessarily consistently, for 37 years. On its own, this video is worth your time. But you should also know that this [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Philosophy, Television | ≅ 1 Comment
I’m no fan of Ayn Rand, but I found this footage intriguing. Back before 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace had his own TV interview show, The Mike Wallace Interview, which aired from 1957 to 1960. And what you get is Mike Wallace asking probing questions to celebrities of the day (and peddling cigarettes). An archive of [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
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Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. We sift through all the media, highlight the good and jettison the bad, and centralize it in one place. Trust us, you’ll find engaging content [...]
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April 30, 2007
10 Unexpected Uses of the iPod
New technologies often have unintended uses. Take the Ipod as a case in point. It was developed with the intention of playing music (and later videos), but its applications now go well beyond that. Here are 10 rather unforeseen, even surprising, uses:
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