Over at The Retronaut they’re featuring a gallery of images of Alice Liddell circa 1862. Who is that you may ask? Well, it’s only the young girl who inspired Lewis Carroll’s classic story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (a text that you can download from our collections of Free eBooks and Free Audio Books). If the mention of the great children’s tale warms your heart, we’d encourage you to re-visit Maria Popova’s guest-authored post, Alice in Openland, which has all kinds of great related material — readings of Alice by Cory Doctorow, film adaptations of the story from 1903 and 1915, and much more.
And now let’s give you some of our favorite culture links on the web, all recently featured on our Twitter stream. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook.
Jerry Seinfeld Sends a Letter to the New York Times
Junot Diaz, Natalia Almada and 21 others named MacArthur Fellows for 2012
Schedule of Stanford’s Upcoming Massive Open Online Courses
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Archive Now Open
Damien Echols Recounts His Time on Death Row & His Journey to the Other Side. Audio.
24/7 Look at What’s Happening at the Famous Abbey Road Street Crossing
This is Your Brain on Jane Austen
The Poetry of the Piano. A Master Class with David Owen Norris
The Best Books on the Beatles, According to The Guardian
Minimalist Posters Celebrating Six Pioneering Women in Science
Pussy Riot’s Lawyers Lecture at NYU Law School
Salman Rushdie Writes in the New Yorker on Living Under a Fatwa
Bill Murray Portrait Made from Articles about Bill Murray
Scholars “Excavate” the Lost Sounds of the Hagia Sophia
Andy Warhol Surf Flick to Debut 44 Years After Filming Started
New Edition of A Farewell to Arms Includes 39 Different Endings Written by Hemingway
A Violin Once Owned by Goebbels Keeps Its Secrets (and the Nazi’s Looting of Precious Instruments
The Filming Locations of Annie Hall Reveal How New York City Has Changed
A Young Bertrand Russell Guards His Time. No Wonder the Marriage Didn’t Last
“Politics in Music” (Emory) added to our list of Free Courses Online
Stephen Colbert’s High School Yearbook Page
Between the Raindrops: The Irish Countryside in Timelapse
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