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Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact
about 11 hours ago
Image by Ironie, via Wikimedia Commons The average Open Culture reader may...
Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980)
about 12 hours ago
In 1980, Newsweek published a cantankerous and sadly on-the-nose diagnosis of the...
See What the Original Mona Lisa Likely Looked Like
1 day ago
If you want to see the Mona Lisa in real life, your...
Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911)
1 day ago
Marie Curie’s 1911 Nobel Prize win, her second, for the discovery of...
How Frank Gehry (RIP) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Changed Architecture
2 days ago
It felt, for quite some time there, like the age of Frank...
“The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History
3 days ago
Photo via Wikimedia Commons The history of science, like most every history...
The Gnostic Gospels: An Introduction to the Forbidden Teachings of Jesus
6 days ago
It would be impossible to understand Western civilization without understanding the history...
Did Tintin Creator Hergé Collaborate with the Nazis? A Historical Investigation
6 days ago
The Adventures of Tintin may be a children’s comic series from mid-twentieth-century...
George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose
7 days ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons Most everyone who knows the work of George...
Why Do Filmmakers Call The Battle of Algiers the Greatest War Movie Ever?: Watch It Free Online
7 days ago
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, the loose Thomas Pynchon adaptation One Battle...
The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)
8 days ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons With the old joke about every generation thinking...
The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
8 days ago
Mark Twain was, in the estimation of many, the United States of...