openculture

openculture, 3 days ago to random

Is Reality Real?: 8 Scientists Explain Whether We Can Ever Know What Objectively Exists

https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/is-reality-real.html

openculture, 4 days ago to random

Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí in Classic 1968 Braniff Commercials: ‘When You Got It, Flaunt It!’

https://www.openculture.com/2012/07/andy_warhol_and_salvador_dali_in_classic_1968_braniff_commercials_when_you_got_it_flaunt_it.html

openculture, 4 days ago to random

Patti Smith Reads Her Final Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Beautiful Work of All”

https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/patti-smith-reads-her-final-letter-to-robert-mapplethorpe.html

openculture, 5 days ago to random

How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets You See

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/how-well-does-medieval-armor-actually-stand-up-to-medieval-arrows.html

openculture, 6 days ago to random

Stephen King Names His Five Favorite Works by Stephen King

https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/stephen-king-names-his-five-favorite-works-by-stephen-king.html

openculture, 9 days ago to random

How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets You See

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/how-well-does-medieval-armor-actually-stand-up-to-medieval-arrows.html

openculture, 9 days ago to random

Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/ray-bradbury-wrote-the-first-draft-of-fahrenheit-451-on-coin-operated-typewriters.html

openculture, 10 days ago to random

Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/sci-fi-author-j-g-ballard-predicts-the-rise-of-social-media.html

openculture, 10 days ago to random

How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets You See

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/how-well-does-medieval-armor-actually-stand-up-to-medieval-arrows.html

openculture, 10 days ago to random

How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets You See

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/how-well-does-medieval-armor-actually-stand-up-to-medieval-arrows.html

openculture, 11 days ago to random

Carl Sagan Warns Congress about Climate Change (1985)

https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/carl-sagan-warns-congress-about-climate-change-1985.html

openculture, 11 days ago to random

This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/this-392-year-old-bonsai-tree-survived-the-hiroshima-atomic-blast.html

openculture, 12 days ago to random

Ancient Greek Armor Gets Tested in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation Inspired by the Iliad

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/ancient-greek-armor-gets-tested-in-an-11-hour-battle-simulation-inspired-by-the-iliad.html

openculture, 13 days ago to random

Watch the Hugely-Ambitious Soviet Film Adaptation of War and Peace Free Online (1966–67)

https://www.openculture.com/2022/07/watch-the-hugely-ambitious-four-part-soviet-adaptation-of-war-and-peace-free-online-1966-67.html

openculture, 13 days ago to random

Glass: The Oscar-Winning “Perfect Short Documentary” on Dutch Glassmaking (1958)

https://www.openculture.com/2016/03/glass-1958.html

openculture, 13 days ago to random

The Great Leonard Nimoy Reads H.G. Wells’ Seminal Sci-Fi Novel The War of the Worlds

https://www.openculture.com/2015/10/the-great-leonard-nimoy-reads-h-g-wells-seminal-sci-fi-novel-the-war-of-the-worlds-1976.html

openculture, 13 days ago to random

Hunter S. Thompson’s Harrowing, Chemical-Filled Daily Routine

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/hunter-s-thompsons-harrowing-chemical-filled-daily-routine.html

openculture, 13 days ago to random

Watch Philosophy Lectures That Became a Hit During COVID by Professor Michael Sugrue (RIP): From Plato and Marcus Aurelius to Critical Theory

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/watch-philosophy-lectures-that-became-a-hit-during-covid-by-professor-michael-sugrue-rip.html

openculture, 14 days ago to random

Free: Watch Battleship Potemkin and Other Films by Sergei Eisenstein, the Revolutionary Soviet Filmmaker

https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/free-watch-battleship-potemkin-and-other-films-by-sergei-eisenstein-the-revolutionary-soviet-filmmaker.html

openculture, 14 days ago to random

Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World

https://www.openculture.com/2022/03/hear-aldous-huxley-narrate-his-dystopian-masterpiece-brave-new-world.html

openculture, 14 days ago to random

Tolstoy and Gandhi Exchange Letters: Two Thinkers’ Quest for Gentleness, Humility & Love (1909)

https://www.openculture.com/2015/09/tolstoy-and-gandhi-exchange-letters.html

openculture, 14 days ago to random

Patti Smith’s 40 Favorite Books

https://www.openculture.com/2018/04/patti-smiths-40-favorite-books.html

openculture, 14 days ago to random

Eight Free Films by Dziga Vertov, Creator of Soviet Avant-Garde Documentaries

https://www.openculture.com/2014/09/eight-free-films-by-dziga-vertov.html

openculture, 14 days ago to random

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Composes a Soundtrack to Arthur C. Clarke’s Documentary Fractals: The Colors of Infinity

https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/david-gilmour-composes-a-soundtrack-to-arthur-c-clarkes-documentary-on-mind-bending-fractals.html

openculture, 14 days ago to random

Blade Runner is a “Waste of Time”: Siskel & Ebert in 1982

https://www.openculture.com/2011/08/blade_runner_is_a_waste_of_time.html