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2026-07-01 17:18:15 UTC

Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)
https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/isaac-asimov-laments-the-cult-of-ignorance.html

2026-06-21 20:40:28 UTC

The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/monty-python-philosophy-soccer-match.html

2026-06-09 22:04:18 UTC

The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Text
https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/the-strange-history-of-lorem-ipsum.html

2026-06-08 20:24:19 UTC

How Nick Drake’s “River Man” Has Captivated Generation after Generation of Listeners
https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/how-nick-drakes-river-man-has-captivated-generation-after-generation-of-listeners.html

2026-05-26 16:59:20 UTC

Hear Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen” in Remarkably Restored Audio, Taken from a Rare Test Pressing
https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/hear-robert-johnsons-come-on-in-my-kitchen-in-remarkably-restored-audio.html

2026-05-25 20:39:49 UTC

Revisit Daily Life in China in 1917 Through Footage Enhanced and Colorized by AI
https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/revisit-daily-life-in-china-in-1917-through-footage-enhanced-and-colorized-by-ai.html

2026-05-24 20:58:23 UTC

Enjoy Three Hours of Free Nature Videos Narrated by David Attenborough
https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/enjoy-three-hours-of-free-nature-videos-narrated-by-david-attenborough.html

2026-05-18 17:21:34 UTC

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Through the Afterlife
https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/archaeologists-discover-ancient-egyptian-mummy-buried-with-pages-from-homers-iliad.html

2026-05-12 04:34:37 UTC

The Japanese Traditions of Sashiko & Boro: The Centuries-Old Craft That Mends Clothes in a Sustainable, Artistic Way
https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/the-japanese-traditions-of-sashiko-boro.html

2026-04-28 23:00:26 UTC

Orson Welles Narrates Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner in an Experimental Film Featuring the Art of Gustave Doré
https://www.openculture.com/2024/09/orson-welles-narrates-coleridges-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner.html

2026-04-27 22:53:17 UTC

When Brazil Built Its Capital on Modernist Principles: The Controversial Design of Brasília
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/when-brazil-built-its-capital-on-modernist-principles-the-controversial-design-of-brasilia.html

2026-04-23 00:07:28 UTC

40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-be-the-earliest-written-language.html

2026-04-22 18:41:23 UTC

“The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/most-intelligent-photo-ever-taken.html

2026-04-21 04:58:43 UTC

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-powerful-messages-that-woody-guthrie-pete-seeger-inscribed-on-their-instruments.html

2026-04-20 16:45:39 UTC

Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/try-the-oldest-known-recipe-for-toothpaste-from-ancient-egypt.html

2026-04-17 16:15:07 UTC

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/recording-lets-you-hear-delta-blues-legend-robert-johnson-in-stunning-clarity.html

2026-04-16 05:58:38 UTC

Watch Animations of Two Italo Calvino Stories: “The False Grandmother” and “The Distance from the Moon”
https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/animations-of-two-italo-calvino-stories.html

2026-04-15 19:57:26 UTC

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/10000-chicago-concert-recordings-are-being-uploaded-to-the-internet-archive-nirvana-phish-sonic-youth-they-might-be-giants-more.html

2026-04-09 00:08:34 UTC

New Order’s 1983 Classic “Blue Monday” Played with Obsolete 1930s Instruments
https://www.openculture.com/2023/03/new-orders-1983-classic-blue-monday-played-with-obsolete-1930s-instruments.html

2026-04-08 20:38:56 UTC

A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/a-free-course-on-karl-marxs-capital-volume-1-from-yale-university.html

2026-04-06 16:06:04 UTC

Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/watch-434-avant-garde-and-surreal-short-films-online.html

2026-04-05 18:22:41 UTC

Ray Bradbury Reveals the True Meaning of Fahrenheit 451: It’s Not About Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by TV”
https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-true-meaning-of-fahrenheit-451.html

2026-04-05 01:13:34 UTC

How Women Got Dressed in the 14th & 18th Centuries: Watch the Very Painstaking Process Get Cinematically Recreated
https://www.openculture.com/2018/05/how-women-got-dressed-in-the-14th-18th-centuries.html

2026-04-01 20:44:36 UTC

The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-1957-spaghetti-grows-on-trees-hoax.html

2026-03-31 16:36:49 UTC

How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/how-many-lives-does-god-take-in-the-bible.html

2026-03-24 16:17:52 UTC

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/lynda-barry-how-the-smartphone-is-endangering-three-ingredients-of-creativity.html

2026-03-23 16:14:34 UTC

Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/every-known-work-by-georgia-okeeffe-has-been-digitized-and-made-available-online.html

2026-03-21 18:10:39 UTC

Fritz Lang First Depicted Artificial Intelligence on Film in Metropolis (1927), and It Frightened People Even Then
https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/fritz-lang-first-depicted-artificial-intelligence-on-film-in-metropolis-1927.html

2026-03-19 17:39:39 UTC

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/alan-lomaxs-massive-music-archive-is-online-20000-recordings.html

2026-03-19 16:10:17 UTC

Jim Jarmusch Picks His Favorite Films from the The Criterion Collection
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/jim-jarmusch-picks-his-favorite-films-from-the-the-criterion-collection.html

2026-03-18 16:33:20 UTC

In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: “Without Hope, We Fall Into Apathy”
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/in-her-final-reflections-jane-goodall-issues-a-warning-without-hope-we-fall-into-apathy.html

2026-03-14 16:41:44 UTC

An Animated Introduction to Albert Camus’ Existentialism, a Philosophy Making a Comeback in Our Dysfunctional Times
https://www.openculture.com/2020/09/an-animated-introduction-to-albert-camus-existentialism.html

2026-03-13 16:02:00 UTC

The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/monty-python-philosophy-soccer-match.html

2026-03-12 16:54:08 UTC

How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/how-to-rescue-a-wet-damaged-book-a-handy-visual-primer.html

2026-03-09 23:27:34 UTC

Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber
https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html

2026-03-07 21:28:55 UTC

Monet’s Water Lilies: How World War I Inspired Monet to Paint His Final Masterpieces & Create “the World’s First Art Installation”
https://www.openculture.com/2021/10/monets-water-lilies.html

2026-03-05 17:40:15 UTC

Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/bertrand-russell-advice-for-how-not-to-grow-old.html

2026-03-04 17:31:23 UTC

The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-first-robot-movie-georges-melies.html

2026-03-03 03:02:57 UTC

The Photo That Triggered China’s Disastrous Cultural Revolution (1966)
https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/the-photo-that-triggered-chinas-disastrous-cultural-revolution-1966.html

2026-03-01 17:02:23 UTC

A 13th-Century Cookbook Featuring 475 Recipes from Moorish Spain Gets Published in a New Translated Edition
https://www.openculture.com/2021/10/a-13th-century-cookbook-featuring-475-recipes-from-moorish-spain.html

2026-02-28 17:14:41 UTC

Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/free-356-issues-of-galaxy-the-groundbreaking-1950s-science-fiction-magazine.html

2026-02-27 17:46:54 UTC

How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/how-metropolis-created-the-blueprint-for-modern-science-fiction.html

2026-02-26 21:05:39 UTC

1540 Monet Paintings in a Two Hour Video
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/1540-monet-paintings-in-a-two-hour-video.html

2026-02-25 23:34:46 UTC

A Collection of Hokusai’s Drawings Are Being Carved Onto Woodblocks & Printed for the First Time Ever
https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/a-collection-of-hokusais-drawings-are-being-carved-onto-woodblocks-printed-for-the-first-time-ever.html

2026-02-25 16:58:27 UTC

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump.
They're now going to have to cover up the cover up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/trump-epstein-files.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O1A.5RmW.4-NV61Qy4Ubi&smid=tw-share

2026-02-22 20:49:05 UTC

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
https://www.openculture.com/2024/04/emily-dickinsons-herbarium.html

2026-02-21 21:53:43 UTC

Honoré de Balzac Writes About “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee,” and His Epic Coffee Addiction
https://www.openculture.com/2024/07/honore-de-balzac-writes-about-the-pleasures-and-pains-of-coffee-and-his-epic-coffee-addiction.html

2026-02-20 22:43:50 UTC

A Visual Introduction to Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Broken Pottery and Finding Beauty in Imperfection
https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/a-visual-introduction-to-kintsugi.html

2026-02-18 17:39:12 UTC

An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/an-introduction-to-outsider-artist-henry-darger.html

2026-02-18 00:21:46 UTC

The Art of Hand-Drawn Japanese Anime: A Deep Study of How Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira Uses Light
https://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-art-of-hand-drawn-japanese-anime.html

2026-02-17 17:11:31 UTC

James Talarico in his censored CBS interview: "This is the party that ran against cancel culture and now they’re trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture."
The censorship of the interview just proves his point. Watch the interview in full here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A

2026-02-16 17:45:30 UTC

David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/david-lynch-being-a-madman-for-8-minutes.html

2026-02-12 00:13:09 UTC

132 Years of Global Warming Visualized in 26 Dramatically Animated Seconds
https://www.openculture.com/2013/08/132-years-of-global-warming-visualized-in-26-dramatically-animated-seconds.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/116/054/765/520/247/110/original/845731b360fe465e.jpg

2026-02-10 05:25:02 UTC

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/stream-4000-public-domain-movies-on-wikiflix.html

2026-02-08 20:44:27 UTC

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Explained in One of the Earliest Science Films Ever Made (1923)
https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/einsteins-theory-of-relativity-explained-in-one-of-the-earliest-science-films-ever-made.html

2026-02-08 05:46:31 UTC

A Brief History of Japanese Art: From Prehistoric Pottery to Yayoi Kusama in Half an Hour
https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/a-brief-history-of-japanese-art-from-prehistoric-pottery-to-yayoi-kusama-in-half-an-hour.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/116/033/426/220/657/614/original/bcf84065b082398a.png

2026-02-06 17:42:11 UTC

Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/discover-khipu-the-ancient-incan-record-writing-system-made-entirely-of-knots.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/116/024/916/582/337/417/original/bcb5ebf5537ae201.png

2026-02-06 17:06:04 UTC

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-largest-historical-dictionary-of-english-slang-free-online.html
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2026-02-04 02:23:38 UTC

Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
https://www.openculture.com/2018/07/watch-commercials-david-lynch-directed-big-30-minute-compilation.html

2026-02-03 17:32:20 UTC

The Samurai Who Became A Roman Citizen
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-samurai-who-became-a-roman-citizen.html
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2026-01-30 21:24:12 UTC

Sea-Serpents, Vampires, Pirates & More: The Public Domain Review’s Second Book of Essays
https://www.openculture.com/2015/11/sea-serpents-vampires-pirates-more-the-public-domain-reviews-second-book-of-essays.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/986/153/478/280/167/original/7beb3e3902ff263a.jpg

2026-01-29 17:18:41 UTC

Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/bruce-springsteen-condemns-ice-violence-in-streets-of-minneapolis.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/979/525/789/353/136/original/659454bc85db26a8.png

2026-01-28 21:47:03 UTC

Alan Lomax’s Music Archive Houses Over 17,400 Folk Recordings From 1946 to the 1990s
https://www.openculture.com/2013/10/alan-lomaxs-music-archive.html
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2026-01-28 18:08:05 UTC

RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/rip-gladys-mae-west-the-pioneering-black-mathematician-who-helped-lay-the-foundation-for-gps.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/974/057/639/003/664/original/febc46066bd3c7fe.png

2026-01-28 17:32:35 UTC

Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/walter-benjamin-explains-how-fascism-uses-mass-media-to-turn-politics-into-spectacle-1935-2.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/973/917/910/332/845/original/81f4ef5ea47b7e9d.png

2026-01-28 00:47:25 UTC

The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century
https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/the-clock-that-changed-the-world.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/969/965/427/557/604/original/b1b0592f2e3d8f7b.jpg

2026-01-27 21:01:10 UTC

A 9th Century Manuscript Teaches Astronomy by Making Sublime Pictures Out of Words
https://www.openculture.com/2019/07/a-9th-century-manuscript-teaches-astronomy-by-making-sublime-pictures-out-of-words.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/969/075/933/006/241/original/131e775099fa7a55.png

2026-01-26 17:01:57 UTC

The World’s Oldest Cave Art, Discovered in Indonesia, Is at Least 67,800 Years Old
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/the-worlds-oldest-cave-art-discovered-in-indonesia-is-at-least-67800-years-old.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/962/472/639/075/458/original/59b47415d15ce467.png

2026-01-22 17:32:15 UTC

Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/luis-bunuel-salvador-dalis-un-chien-andalou-the-short-surrealist-film-that-revolutionized-cinema-1929.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/939/942/815/929/057/original/e50d0ff7a1634761.png

2026-01-22 17:01:45 UTC

Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/brazilian-musician-seu-jorge-performs-15-iconic-bowie-songs-in-portuguese.html
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2026-01-18 22:34:25 UTC

Filming a Sprinting Cheetah at 1,200 Frames Per Second
https://www.openculture.com/2012/11/filming_a_sprinting_cheetah_at_1200_frames_per_second.html
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2026-01-18 19:04:21 UTC

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Online
https://www.openculture.com/2018/08/encyclopedia-science-fiction-17500-entries-things-sci-fi-now-free-online.html

2026-01-18 01:26:22 UTC

Watch 60 Great Noir Films. Directed by Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson.
https://www.openculture.com/free_film_noir_movies

2026-01-16 05:42:58 UTC

Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline (1971)
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/orson-welles-narrates-an-animated-parable-about-how-xenophobia-greed-will-put-america-into-decline.html

2026-01-14 19:06:27 UTC

How to Spot a Communist by Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military
https://www.openculture.com/2023/04/how-to-spot-a-communist-by-using-literary-criticism-a-1955-manual-from-the-u-s-military.html

2026-01-13 17:56:01 UTC

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/stream-4000-public-domain-movies-on-wikiflix.html
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/889/075/476/772/139/original/9cf00cf1ee0f574b.png

2026-01-12 22:45:33 UTC

The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-roman-empires-entire-road-network-mapped.html

2026-01-11 17:02:07 UTC

The Invisible Horror of The Shining: How Music Makes Stanley Kubrick’s Iconic Film Even More Terrifying
https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/the-invisible-horror-of-the-shining.html
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2026-01-10 22:26:58 UTC

Nice juxtaposition on Wall Street Journal. Iranian government cracking down on their protestors, right next to ICE agents shooting our own citizens.
https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/115/873/153/839/862/648/original/ba4014d61c157edd.png

2026-01-10 22:03:29 UTC

Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad
It's not hard to see right now.
https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/fascism-the-us-army-publishes-a-pamphlet-in-1945.html

2026-01-10 18:48:04 UTC

Nobel Committee announces that "A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred" In other words, we're not bending to Donald Trump, and you can't use our prize to kowtow to him.
https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/a-nobel-prize-cannot-be-revoked-shared-or-transferred

2026-01-09 04:50:49 UTC

When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930)
https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/when-albert-einstein-charlie-chaplin-met-and-became-fast-famous-friends-1930.html

2026-01-07 05:30:15 UTC

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
#3 The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

2026-01-05 17:01:23 UTC

J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/j-r-r-tolkien-reads-from-the-hobbit-for-30-minutes-1952.html
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2026-01-04 01:15:28 UTC

Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink Unlimited Alcohol While Visiting the U.S. During Prohibition (1932)
https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/winston-churchill-gets-a-doctors-note-to-drink-unlimited-alcohol-while-visiting-the-u-s-during-prohibition-1932.html

2026-01-03 19:03:10 UTC

J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/j-r-r-tolkiens-heartfelt-loathing-for-walt-disney.html

2026-01-02 18:01:12 UTC

When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them Is Werner Herzog
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/when-two-filmmakers-make-the-same-movie-and-one-of-them-is-werner-herzog.html
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2026-01-01 20:05:58 UTC

The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan
https://www.openculture.com/2024/01/the-top-10-new-years-resolutions-read-by-bob-dylan.html
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2026-01-01 18:22:08 UTC

Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/woody-guthrie-creates-a-doodle-filled-list-of-33-new-years-resolutions-1943.html
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2026-01-01 17:25:39 UTC

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/whats-entering-the-public-domain-in-2026.html
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2025-12-31 21:07:45 UTC

Medieval Tennis: A Short History and Demonstration
https://www.openculture.com/2021/10/medieval-tennis-a-short-history-and-demonstration.html
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2025-12-31 03:47:10 UTC

How Ancient Greek Statues Really Looked: Research Reveals Their Bold, Bright Colors and Patterns
https://www.openculture.com/2016/09/how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked.html

2025-12-27 18:01:17 UTC

Watch Patti Smith’s New Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud
https://www.openculture.com/2019/05/watch-patti-smiths-new-tribute-to-the-avant-garde-poet-antonin-artaud.html

2025-12-27 17:53:24 UTC

Sir Patrick Stewart Demonstrates How Cows Moo in Different English Accents
https://www.openculture.com/2014/01/sir-patrick-stewart-demonstrates-how-cows-moo-in-different-english-accents.html
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2025-12-26 17:36:40 UTC

Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Jewelry Designs: From Throbbing Heart Necklaces to Medusa Brooches
https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/salvador-dalis-surreal-jewelry-designs.html
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2025-12-26 17:22:41 UTC

What Pompeii Looked Like Hours Before Its Destruction: A Reconstruction
https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/what-pompeii-looked-like-hours-before-its-destruction-a-reconstruction.html

2025-12-24 22:49:14 UTC

When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960)
https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/when-salvador-dali-created-christmas-cards-that-were-too-avant-garde-for-hallmark-1960.html
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2025-12-23 17:55:05 UTC

Top 10 Alternative Christmas Movie Lists: Horror, Action, Comedy & More
https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/top-10-alternative-christmas-movie-lists-horror-action-comedy-more.html
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2025-12-22 23:10:22 UTC

The Pulp Tarot: A New Tarot Deck Inspired by Midcentury Pulp Illustrations
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/the-pulp-tarot.html
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2025-12-13 19:57:58 UTC

Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone
https://www.openculture.com/2015/08/5-hours-of-edgar-allan-poe-stories-read-by-vincent-price-basil-rathbone.html
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