Open Culture

Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·19h ago

The kids can’t read. Such has been the implication, even the declaration, made by a wave of articles in recent years.

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Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·1d ago

Pitch to friends or family the idea of a trip to Mons, Belgium to visit the Mundaneum, and you may be met with a less-than-enthusiastic reception.

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Open Cultureby OC·1d ago

Harlem’s undergoing another Renaissance, and has been for years now. Crime’s down, real estate prices are up, and throngs of pale-faced hipsters are descending to check the area out.

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Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·2d ago

The world ended in the nineteen-sixties. Or rather, one world ended in the nineteen-sixties and gave way to another, a transition personified by no human beings more clearly than the Beatles.

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Open Cultureby OC·2d ago

It’s hard to imagine that the space-crazed general public needed any help getting worked up about astronauts and NASA in the early ’60s.

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Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·3d ago

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has spoken publicly on a variety of issues from contrarian entrepreneurship to technical stagnation to geopolitical struggle.

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Open Cultureby OC·3d ago

Who hasn’t pinned one of Saul Bass’ elegant film posters on their wall—either with thumbtacks above the dorm room bed or in frame and glass in grown-up environs?

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Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·4d ago

Not every 46-year-old comedy still gets laughs, but Airplane! seems only to get funnier with the decades.

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Open Cultureby OC·4d ago

Art may seem inessential to those who make the big decisions in times of crisis. But it never seemed more necessary to artists working in the time of plague.

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Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·7d ago

You can still type a symbol originally invented for Cicero nearly 21 centuries ago — at least if you configure your keyboard properly.

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Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·8d ago

Twenty years ago, United States senator Ted Stevens drew long-lasting online ridicule by describing the internet as “a series of tubes.” While some commentators noted that the analogy wasn’t quite...

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Open Cultureby OC·8d ago

Each time I sit through the end credits of a film, I think about how weird auteur theory is—that a work of cinema can be primarily thought of as the singular vision of the director.

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Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·9d ago

Over the years, you’ve probably heard at least a few people casually describe themselves as Epicureans.

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Open Cultureby OC·9d ago

Stewart Brand came onto the cultural scene during the 1960s, helping to stage the Acid Tests made famous by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and later launching the influential Whole Earth...

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Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·10d ago

Among Beatles connoisseurs, it’s fair game to claim anything from Rubber Soul to Abbey Road as one’s favorite album.

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