Alain de Botton Tweets Short Course in Political Philosophy

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Alain de Botton has mastered the art of popularizing great philosophy. His books, lectures, televised programs and the London-based School of Life – they all help de Botton get great ideas “out there.” And now he turns to Twitter. On Friday, @AlaindeBotton tweeted a short course in political philosophy in seven parts. The course, with each lesson [...]

Follow us on Twitter & Facebook

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A quick reminder: we’re always adding more good cultural content to our Twitter stream. Give us a follow at @openculture, and we’ll keep sending curated culture (in the form of tweets and retweets) your way. So far 6,200+ readers have joined us there. If you appreciate what Open Culture is all about, it’s a must. You [...]

Writing the U.S. Constitution (in Tweets)

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223 years ago today, the Constitutional Convention started meeting secretly in Philadelphia. Several months later, the meetings ended with the signing of the US Constitution. Starting today, the National Constitution Center will use Twitter to reenact the events of the Convention. You can follow @SecretDelegate, a mysterious insider, who will show you what happened inside the [...]

Culture Tweets of the Week – March 13

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Guaranteed to make you smarter, or your money back. You can follow us on Twitter here. (Or become a Facebook fan.) Here they go: RT @BoingBoing: Most beautiful bookstore – Buenos Aires’s Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid http://bit.ly/c5iapa RT @Alyssa_Milano: Two new MIT classes focus on helping #Haiti: http://is.gd/aa43H (via @brainpicker) RT @guardianculture: “Solar” by Ian McEwan [...]

Tweets of the Week – February 20

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A quick wrap up of the cultural items we tweeted and re-tweeted this week via our Twitter stream. You can start following us here: @openculture RT @jonathanlandman: Insufferably brilliant: Bernstein on the Blues – Video Library – The New York Times -http://nyti.ms/dCkoqH Deep Thinking Alive and Well on the Web http://bit.ly/dfAJtL RT @TEDchris: Clever BBC video: #TED attendees on what [...]

Tweets of the Week (2/13)

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Why let good tweets (and re-tweets) go to waste? Each week, we’re going to list some of the cultural goodies that appeared in our Twitter stream. You can start following Open Culture on Twitter here. Fun video. Notre Dame Marching Band Doing Things Differently RT @mwesch: OK Go – This Too Shall Pass http://bit.ly/9DZ8h7 Ira Glass on [...]

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