Watch an Auroratone, a Psychedelic 1940s Film, Featuring Bing Crosby, That Helped WWII Vets Overcome PTSD & Other Mental Health Conditions (www.openculture.com)
Renaissance Knives Had Music Engraved on the Blades and Now You Can Hear the Songs Performed by Modern Singers | Open Culture (www.openculture.com)
The Beatles Release Their Final Song, "Now and Then": Hear the Song and Watch the Music Video Directed by Peter Jackson | Open Culture (www.openculture.com)
Hear Classic Readings of Poe’s “The Raven” by Vincent Price, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Neil Gaiman & More (www.openculture.com)
Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber (www.openculture.com)
We’ve all admired the elegance of Japan’s traditional styles of architecture. Their development required the kind of dedicated craftsmanship that takes generations to cultivate — but also, more practically speaking, no small amount of wood. By the 15th century, Japan already faced a shortage of seedlings, as well as land...
Isabella de’ Medici by Bronzino (www.openculture.com)
Isabella had been waiting a long time for such tender attention, concealed beneath a 19th-century overpainting depicting a daintier featured woman reputed to be Eleanor of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the second Duke of Florence.
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The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary” (www.openculture.com)
[…] Eco separated his visitors into two categories: “those who react with ‘Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have. How many of these books have you read’ and the others — a very small minority — who get the point is that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendages but a research tool.”
