May 2013
1 post
Download 90 Free Philosophy Courses and Start...
The Philosophy section of our big Free Online Courses collection just went through another update, and it now features 90 courses. Enough to give you a soup-to-nuts introduction to a timeless discipline. You can start with one of several introductory courses.
Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Web Video – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio –...
December 2012
4 posts
Gary Larson’s The Far Side Comes Alive in Series... →
Free Film Noir Classics →
Kafka’s Nightmare Tale, ‘A Country Doctor,’ Told... →
Paul Krugman’s Favorite Fiction: Isaac Asimov’s... →
A radio adaptation of Asimov’s epic Foundation Trilogy has been added to our Free Audio Books collection: http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
November 2011
34 posts
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Police Pepper Spray Student Protestors at UC Davis →
It’s becoming a trend. Around the country, policemen are pepper spraying peaceful protestors. It started in NYC when Tony Bologna, one of New York’s finest, pepper sprayed a…
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The Clash: Westway to the World →
The Grammy-winning 2000 film, The Clash: Westway to the World, is a fascinating look at the rise and fall of one of history’s greatest rock bands. The Clash didn’t invent punk…
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Stanford Opens Seven New Online Courses for... →
This fall, Stanford launched a highly-publicized experiment in online learning. The university took three of its most popular computer science courses and made them freely available to…
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openculture: Copenhagen Philharmonic Plays Ravel’s... →
How to Potty Train Your Cat: A Handy Manual by... →
Charles Mingus, the innovative jazz musician, was known for having a bad temper. He once got so irritated with a heckler that he ended up trashing his $20,000 bass. Another time, when a…
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Burning Man: A Short, Atmospheric Look Inside the... →
Every year, right before Labor Day, 50,000 people travel to Black Rock City, Nevada to take part in Burning Man — an experimental community dedicated to radical self reliance, radical…
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A Brief, Wondrous Tour of Earth (From Outer Space) →
We have seen several time-lapse views of Earth from the International Space Station, but this may well be the best. Recorded from August to October, 2011, this HD footage has been smoothed,…
openculture: Peter Gabriel and His Big Orchestra... →
The Van Doos in Afghanistan (Free Until Monday) →
A quick fyi: To mark Remembrance Day, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has made Claude Guilmain’s documentary The Van Doos in Afghanistan available online for a limited time. You…
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Steve Jobs Muses on What’s Wrong with American... →
In late October, Computerworld unearthed a lengthy interview with Steve Jobs originally recorded back in 1995, when Jobs was at NeXT Computer, and still two years away from his triumphant…
Peter Gabriel and His Big Orchestra Play Live at... →
On Wednesday night, Peter Gabriel brought his 46-piece orchestra to the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City and treated the audience to a 65-minute concert featuring orchestral…
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Death Masks: From Dante to James Joyce and... →
Death masks — they have been around since the days of King Tut in Ancient Egypt, and (perhaps) Agamemnon and Cassandra in Ancient Greece. A way to remember the character and…
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openculture: William F. Buckley Threatens to... →
Social Media in the Age of Enlightenment and... →
As the French like to say, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Before there was Twitter, Facebook and Google+…
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Open Culture Now on Google + →
Just a very quick fyi: Today, we launched an official Google+ page for Open Culture. It’s another way to get intelligent media delivered to your digital doorstep each day, and to share…
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Christopher Hitchens: No Deathbed Conversion for... →
Atheist Christopher Hitchens was asked earlier this year how his struggle with cancer has affected his views on the question of an afterlife. “I would say it fractionally…
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openculture: Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot Were Pen... →
Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary: a ‘Warped... →
In early 1960, Hunter S. Thompson was just 22 years old and his journalism career was already on the skids. His last two jobs had ended badly. At one place he was fired for…
openculture: Tom Waits Chit Chats with Terry Gross... →
The Wonderful, Wooden Marble Adding Machine →
Canadian software developer Matthias Wandel enjoys spending his spare time creating wooden contraptions that combine a childlike sense of wonder with an engineer’s knowledge of…
October 2011
57 posts
openculture: As the World Burns. NASA data... →
20 Christian Academics Speaking About God →
This summer, Jonathan Pararajasingham created 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God and then Another 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God. If you’re counting, that…
openculture: Time to #OccupytheClassroom!... →
Legendary Folklorist Alan Lomax: ‘The Land Where... →
In 1933, 18-year-old Alan Lomax took a break from college to travel into the American South with his father, John Avery Lomax, on a quest to discover and record traditional…
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Orson Welles Narrates Kafka’s Parable, “Before the... →
In 1962, Orson Welles directed The Trial, a film based on Franz Kafka’s last and perhaps best-known novel. (Read it online here, or find it in our collection of Free…
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Iceland in the Midnight Sun →
For 17 days this past June, timelapse cinematographer Joe Capra traveled across Iceland, capturing its natural beauty during the months when the sun never sets and never rises. Making …
Spike Jonze Presents a Stop Motion Film for Book... →
It all started when filmmaker Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Where the Wild Things Are) met handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan and asked her to create a Catcher in the Rye embroidery for…
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Philip Roth Predicts the Death of the Novel; Paul... →
Novels — they’re in inevitable decline. They can’t compete with the movie screen, the TV screen and now the computer screen. Give things 25 years, and there will be just a small…
