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The Mystery Finally Solved: Why Has Roman Concrete Been So Durable? (openculture.com)
4 points by ynac on Jan 20, 2023 | past | 1 comment
Napoleon’s Kindle: Miniaturized Traveling Library He Took on Military Campaigns (openculture.com)
3 points by samwillis on Jan 19, 2023 | past
Thelonious Monk’s Tips for Musicians (1960) (openculture.com)
174 points by jynxxx on Dec 22, 2022 | past | 68 comments
Aleister Crowley's Occult Duel with WB Yeats (openculture.com)
3 points by serverlessmom on Dec 19, 2022 | past | 2 comments
The 30 Greatest Films Ever Made (openculture.com)
1 point by colinprince on Dec 14, 2022 | past | 1 comment
A Guide to Color from 1692 (openculture.com)
43 points by taubek on Nov 16, 2022 | past | 3 comments
“When we all have pocket telephones” (openculture.com)
334 points by mayiplease on Nov 14, 2022 | past | 202 comments
How writing has spread across the world (openculture.com)
138 points by hackernj on Oct 1, 2022 | past | 76 comments
Medieval Wound Man Illustrated Injuries Likely from War, Accident or Disease (openculture.com)
1 point by samizdis on Sept 29, 2022 | past
How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command [video] (openculture.com)
2 points by BerislavLopac on Sept 27, 2022 | past | 1 comment
Two Women in Their 90s Recall Their Teenage Years in Victorian 1890s London (openculture.com)
2 points by mooreds on Sept 8, 2022 | past
Seven Tools for Critical Thinking (openculture.com)
3 points by nickt on Sept 2, 2022 | past
Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3400 Years Ago (openculture.com)
273 points by thund on Aug 26, 2022 | past | 102 comments
Joni Mitchell learned to play guitar again after a 2015 brain aneurysm (openculture.com)
189 points by revorad on July 29, 2022 | past | 74 comments
Free online courses from top universities (openculture.com)
157 points by Tomte on July 24, 2022 | past | 7 comments
The Birdsong Project Features 220 Musicians Paying Tribute to Birds (openculture.com)
1 point by axiomdata316 on July 21, 2022 | past
Free Documentaries Online (openculture.com)
2 points by thorin on July 11, 2022 | past
8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina Is Free Online (openculture.com)
195 points by georgecmu on July 11, 2022 | past | 182 comments
Artist Kenichi Kanazawa makes geometric designs using sound waves (2020) (openculture.com)
45 points by hrl on July 1, 2022 | past | 4 comments
World Map Origin – How Did Cartographers Create Before Airplanes and Satellites (openculture.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar on June 28, 2022 | past
In 1997, Wired Predicts Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century (2021) (openculture.com)
105 points by kpennell on June 5, 2022 | past | 119 comments
Dystopian Surrealist Art of Polish Painter and Photographer Zdzisław Beksiński (openculture.com)
3 points by Zaplanincan on June 2, 2022 | past
Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map (openculture.com)
78 points by simonebrunozzi on May 30, 2022 | past | 31 comments
The Variophone: Early Soviet film-based synthesizer (openculture.com)
2 points by ciocarlia on May 19, 2022 | past
How France Invented a Popular, Profitable Internet of Its Own in the 80s (openculture.com)
3 points by revolucien on May 12, 2022 | past
Horror Legend Christopher Lee Reads Bram Stoker's Dracula (openculture.com)
21 points by ColinWright on April 30, 2022 | past | 4 comments
3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work (openculture.com)
560 points by bryanrasmussen on April 26, 2022 | past | 400 comments
Umberto Eco on common features of fascism (2016) (openculture.com)
116 points by Anon84 on April 23, 2022 | past | 155 comments
[dupe] Simple Sabotage Field Manual (openculture.com)
20 points by jbajic on April 18, 2022 | past | 8 comments
A 1970s boardgame takes about 1,500 hours to complete (openculture.com)
103 points by gaws on Feb 12, 2022 | past | 73 comments

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