CULTURE
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How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish
We made sand think: this phrase is used from time to time to evoke the particular technological wonders of our…
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The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene
It’s practically guaranteed that we now have more stupid people on the planet than ever before. Of course, we might…
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Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book”
A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic illustrations, its origins remaining to this…
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How Erik Satie’s ‘Furniture Music’ Was Designed to Be Ignored and Paved the Way for Ambient Music
Imagine how many times someone born in the eighteen-sixties could ever expect to hear music. The number would vary, of…
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Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person
There may be no more contentious an issue at the level of local U.S. government than education. All of the…
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The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin Tarantino
For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the Friday that…
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The Wide-Ranging Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials, Paintings, Photography & More
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented, we’ve just lost a…
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Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in Chronological Order
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been…
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In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term that…
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Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image…
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