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A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts. Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
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Dr. Weil’s 60-Second Technique for Falling Asleep
Dr. Weil’s 60-Second Technique for Falling Asleep
Give Dr. Andrew Weil three minutes, and he can teach you a 60-second technique for falling asleep.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 23h
The Most Banned Book of the 2024–25 School Year: A Clockwork Orange
The Most Banned Book of the 2024–25 School Year: A Clockwork Orange
If you happen to be a high school student in Florida who's eager to read A Clockwork Orange, that urge may turn out to be harder to satisfy than you imagine.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 23h
Einstein’s Divorce Letters and the Cruel List of Marital Demands He Imposed on His First Wife
Einstein’s Divorce Letters and the Cruel List of Marital Demands He Imposed on His First Wife
Albert Einstein is the rare figure who's universally known, but almost entirely for his professional achievements. Few of us who can explain the theory of relativity can also say much about the person...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 10h
A firsthand account of how Trump tanked American farmers through tariffs and killing off USAID.

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Soybean farmer on Trump's tariff war: 'I mean, where do they want me to market this stuff?'
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 11h
How Art Conservators Restore Old Paintings & Revive Their Original Colors
How Art Conservators Restore Old Paintings & Revive Their Original Colors
We tend to imagine old paintings as having a muted, yellow-brown cast, and not without reason. Many of the examples we've seen in life really do look that way, though usually not because the artist in...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 17h
The Evolution of Music: 40,000 Years of Music History Covered in 8 Minutes
The Evolution of Music: 40,000 Years of Music History Covered in 8 Minutes
We shouldn't take music, or running water, for granted, and the comparison should give us pause: do we need music –- for example, nearly any recording of any Beethoven symphony we can think of -– to f...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 20h
Alan Watts On Why Our Minds And Technology Can’t Grasp Reality
Alan Watts On Why Our Minds And Technology Can’t Grasp Reality
Alan Watts in a series of lectures I keep on my iPod at all times. He means that the world, as it really exists, does not comprise all the lines, angles, and hard edges that our various systems of wor...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 23h
The Most Banned Book of the 2024–25 School Year: A Clockwork Orange
The Most Banned Book of the 2024–25 School Year: A Clockwork Orange
If you happen to be a high school student in Florida who's eager to read A Clockwork Orange, that urge may turn out to be harder to satisfy than you imagine.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 23h
Einstein’s Divorce Letters and the Cruel List of Marital Demands He Imposed on His First Wife
Einstein’s Divorce Letters and the Cruel List of Marital Demands He Imposed on His First Wife
Albert Einstein is the rare figure who's universally known, but almost entirely for his professional achievements. Few of us who can explain the theory of relativity can also say much about the person...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
The Fascinating Story of How the Electric Music Pioneer Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (1963)
The Fascinating Story of How the Electric Music Pioneer Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (1963)
Delia Derbyshire, pioneering electronic composer of the mid-twentieth century---featuring two documentaries on her and discussing her role in almost creating an electronic backing track for Paul McCar...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings
A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings
No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958)
Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958)
Overpopulation, manipulative politics, imbalances of societal power, addictive drugs, even more addictive technologies: these and other developments have pushed not just democracy but civilization its...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
What People Named Their Cats in the Middle Ages: Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán & More
What People Named Their Cats in the Middle Ages: Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán & More
'The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,' declares the opening poem in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. But the possibilities are many and varied:
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
Hundreds of Wonderful Japanese Firework Designs from the Early-1900s: Digitized and Free to Download
Hundreds of Wonderful Japanese Firework Designs from the Early-1900s: Digitized and Free to Download
The Japanese term for fireworks, hanabi (花火), combines the words for fire, bi (火), and flower, hana (火). If you've seen fireworks anywhere, that derivation may seem at least vaguely apt, but if you've...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
Watch an Enthusiast Drive the First Car Ever Made, the 1885 Mercedes Benz
Watch an Enthusiast Drive the First Car Ever Made, the 1885 Mercedes Benz
In 1885, Karl Benz built what's now considered the first modern automobile. According to the Mercedes Benz website, the car featured a 'compact high-speed single-cylinder four-stroke engine installed ...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
The Fascinating Story of How the Electric Music Pioneer Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (1963)
The Fascinating Story of How the Electric Music Pioneer Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (1963)
Delia Derbyshire, pioneering electronic composer of the mid-twentieth century---featuring two documentaries on her and discussing her role in almost creating an electronic backing track for Paul McCar...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings
A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings
No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d
Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984)
Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984)
Listen to Bob Dylan's studio albums all you like; you don't know his music until you hear the live versions. That, at least, is the conclusion at which I've arrived after spending the better part of t...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d
In 1926, Nikola Tesla Predicts the World of 2026
In 1926, Nikola Tesla Predicts the World of 2026
Not long after Nikola Tesla died in 1943, the world seemed to forget him. The first public tribute paid to his considerable research and development in the realm of electricity thereafter came in 1960...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d
Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)
Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)
In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying t...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d
How Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldinger
How Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldinger
In 1966, Paul McCartney famously sang of 'all the lonely people,' wondering aloud where they come from. Nearly six decades later, their numbers seem only to have increased; as for their origin, psychi...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d
Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984)
Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984)
Listen to Bob Dylan's studio albums all you like; you don't know his music until you hear the live versions. That, at least, is the conclusion at which I've arrived after spending the better part of t...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d
In 1926, Nikola Tesla Predicts the World of 2026
In 1926, Nikola Tesla Predicts the World of 2026
Not long after Nikola Tesla died in 1943, the world seemed to forget him. The first public tribute paid to his considerable research and development in the realm of electricity thereafter came in 1960...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 3d
How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System
How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System
Contrary to somewhat popular belief, Chinese characters aren't just little pictures. In fact, most of them aren't pictures at all.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 3d
How Some of the World’s Most Famous Cheeses Are Made: Camembert, Brie, Gorgonzola & More
How Some of the World’s Most Famous Cheeses Are Made: Camembert, Brie, Gorgonzola & More
Attention cheese lovers! Do you salivate at the thought of a Cheese Channel? Careful what you wish for. Food photographers employ all manner of disgusting tricks to make junky pancakes and fast foo...
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