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One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the "Bankes Homer" Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (355+ words) Many an ancient work comes down to us as the product of “Anonymous.” In the case of the major Greek epics, The Odyssey and The Iliad, we have a name, Homer, that most classics scholars…...
Watch Stewart Brand???s 6???Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (148+ words) Find the first three parts above, and the remaining parts below: You can find How Buildings Learn added to our list of Free Documentaries, a subset of our collection, 4,000+ Free Movies Online:…...
226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (101+ words) You can peruse the collection of Ansel Adams’ National Park photos here. An earlier version of this post appeared on our site in 2015. Ansel Adams Reveals His Creative Process in 1958 Docu…...
Watch a Band Perform the Sound Effects from Pink Floyd???s???Money,??? Using a Money Counter, Torn Sheets of Paper & More
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (87+ words) When Pink Floyd Tried to Make an Album with Household Objects: Hear Two Surviving Tracks Made with Wine Glasses & Rubber Bands A Live Studio Cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the…...
How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842???a Century Before the First Computer
1+ week, 4+ day ago (138+ words) In an episode of the BBC’s In Our Time, above, you can hear former-host Melvyn Bragg discuss Lovelace’s importance with historians and scholars Patricia Fara, Doron Swade, and John Fuegi. And…...
Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music
1+ week, 5+ day ago (237+ words) Typically, polyphonic music is seen as having developed from a set of fixed rules and almost mechanical practice. This changes how we understand that development precise…...
Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing???Under Pressure,??? with Queen (1992)
1+ week, 5+ day ago (152+ words) Vulture has collected some of the best of these online tribute articles and obituaries, and one in particular—Judy Berman’s “We Always Knew Who David Bowie Really Was”—has resonat…...
The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book
2+ week, 3+ day ago (512+ words) One could more accurately say that Jung’s book was dedicated to the mystical unconscious, a much more nebulous and oceanic category. The “oceanic feeling”—a…...
Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek
2+ week, 4+ day ago (141+ words) Image via Wikimedia Commons If you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making a donation to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your…...
What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise
2+ week, 5+ day ago (304+ words) One of my favorite Brian Eno quotes, or rather one that became an Oblique Strategy, is “Honor Your Mistake as a Hidden Intention.” (Or to be pedantic, the original ver…...