Gregory's ServerHelen Keller Writes a Letter to Nazi Students Before They Burn Her Book: “History Has Taught You Nothing If You Think You Can Kill Ideas” (1933)
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6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871  @openculture Interesting, but I find it a bit disconcerting that this is presented as ”history” on the openculture site, instead of an “imagined history”, “fantasy history”, or maybe “timeline according to an interpretation of the chistian bible”. Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry & More
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The World’s First Medieval Electronic Instrument: The EP-1320 Lets You Play the Sounds of Hurdy-Gurdies, Lutes, Gregorian Chants & More https://www.openculture.com/2024/08/the-worlds-first-medieval-electronic-instrument.html The World’s First Medieval Electronic Instrument: The EP-1320 Lets You Play the Sounds of Hurdy-Gurdies, Lutes, Gregorian Chants & More https://www.openculture.com/2024/08/the-worlds-first-medieval-electronic-instrument.html The Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery: A Kyoto Woodworker Shows How Japanese Carpenters Created Wood Structures Without Nails or Glue https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/the-art-of-traditional-japanese-wood-joinery.html  A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness @openculture There's a mention of Beethoven in this piece on lead, alongside some other notable people that may have suffered its ill effects: https://bl.ag/why-lead-paint-makes-signs-last-a-toxic-legacy/  @openculture That headline is bollocks. Of course DNA analysis did not reveal possible lead poisoning. It helped identify genuine hair of the composer and several risk factors for diseases. The high lead levels found in the hair have nothing to do with his DNA. Studio Ghibli Lets You Download Free Images from Hayao Miyazaki’s “Final” Film, The Boy and the Heron Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink Unlimited Alcohol While Visiting the U.S. During Prohibition (1932)
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@openculture @openculture My GP is checking me over and says, "You need to drink more." My first thought was, "Hey, I like the sound of THAT!" But then it hit me, he meant water. @openculture These drawings of plant root systems are extraordinarily detailed. #AltText A fine detailed cross section drawing of plant above ground and it’s root system below ground with a scale showing the depth in cm of the roots. The sheer volume of soil covered by the combination of plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi is staggering. 75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2023 Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Franz Kafka’s Amerika & More https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/whats-entering-the-public-domain-in-2023.html The Very First Webcam Was Invented to Keep an Eye on a Coffee Pot at Cambridge University
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 The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Books Getting Censored by American Schools
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@openculture Please give access to all, not just teenagers, I would love that! |
