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George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (openculture.com)
82 points by doener 4 days ago | past | 59 comments
How the CIA Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War (openculture.com)
4 points by carlosjobim 10 days ago | past | 1 comment
How to Read Books That Challenge Your Mind: Advice from Robert Greene (openculture.com)
3 points by speckx 33 days ago | past
Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955. End of a 500-Year Tradition (openculture.com)
10 points by speckx 35 days ago | past
The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects (openculture.com)
336 points by coloneltcb 39 days ago | past | 76 comments
Were the Egyptian Pyramids Not Built Up, but Carved Down? (openculture.com)
3 points by _kidlike 56 days ago | past
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published (openculture.com)
109 points by vinhnx 56 days ago | past | 25 comments
How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction In (openculture.com)
1 point by nomagicbullet 59 days ago | past
Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (openculture.com)
85 points by tesserato 67 days ago | past | 42 comments
Choose wisely what you read (2020) (openculture.com)
4 points by andsoitis 68 days ago | past
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025) (openculture.com)
260 points by nobody9999 68 days ago | past | 120 comments
Scott Galloway Explains How You Can Stop Government Overreach (openculture.com)
5 points by nomagicbullet 84 days ago | past | 1 comment
MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40k Music Videos and Commercials (openculture.com)
23 points by doener 86 days ago | past | 1 comment
Faulkner's 1,288 word sentence (openculture.com)
1 point by Insanity 89 days ago | past
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
372 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | past | 172 comments
JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) (openculture.com)
322 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | past | 132 comments
Open Culture – Free Cultural and Educational Media (openculture.com)
2 points by suioir 3 months ago | past
How the “Marvelization” of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking (openculture.com)
23 points by PaulHoule 3 months ago | past | 8 comments
The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (2017) (openculture.com)
91 points by _____k 4 months ago | past | 18 comments
George Orwell's Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose (openculture.com)
5 points by coloneltcb 4 months ago | past
Where to Read Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks Online (openculture.com)
2 points by tesserato 4 months ago | past
Hear Bach's Pieces Played on Original Baroque Instruments (openculture.com)
6 points by tesserato 4 months ago | past
“The Matilda Effect”: Pioneering Women Scientists Written Out of Science History (openculture.com)
106 points by binning 4 months ago | past | 47 comments
A 400-Year-Old Ring That Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens (openculture.com)
4 points by PaulHoule 4 months ago | past
"The Matilda Effect": How Pioneering Women Are Written Out of Science History (openculture.com)
9 points by coloneltcb 4 months ago | past | 4 comments
How to Improve Your Attention Span: Daniel Pink's Strategies for the Digital Age (openculture.com)
3 points by frenzcan 4 months ago | past
Why Movies Don't Feel Real Anymore: A Close Look at Changing Filmmaking (openculture.com)
3 points by speckx 5 months ago | past | 1 comment
Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard (openculture.com)
96 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | past | 82 comments
Paris Became Paris: Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments and Boulevards (openculture.com)
3 points by gslin 5 months ago | past
Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago (openculture.com)
6 points by vinhnx 5 months ago | past

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