Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
We’ve long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn’t sound as...
New AI Tools Bring Interactive Diagrams and Targeted Practice Thanks to Khan Academy’s Partnership with Google.org
New Khanmigo features help students visualize challenging concepts and give teachers more ways to create targeted practice Khan Academy and...
The Art of Splendor Solis, the Most Glorious Illuminated Alchemical Manuscript of Them All
When it was published in the United States in 1998, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s...
Isaac Asimov Explains His Three Laws of Robots: Do No Harm, Follow Orders, Survive, in That Order
A number of futurists, philosophers, and technophiles believe we are approaching what they call the “singularity”: a point in time when...
A Computer History Time Capsule
Once upon a time, before the Internet, computer hobbyists went to great lengths to learn about their new technology. Many of these learning...
Book Scanning Goes Viral…Again
Five years after Eliza Zhang’s book-scanning video reached millions of people, the Internet Archive’s page-by-page approach to digitization is...
Why Reading Egyptian Hieroglyphics Is Easier Than You Think
We’ve featured Egyptologist Ilona Regulski here on Open Culture a few times before. Once, she explained how to read ancient Egyptian...
Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)
Note: We were sad to see the news that Dolly Parton passed away. Today we are bringing back one of our favorite Dolly Parton posts. She will be...
The Wisdom of David Bowie: On Art, Religion, Technology and More
It doesn’t quite ring true to call David Bowie a rock star. Ziggy Stardust, the neon synthetic-clad alien alter ego he both created and...
The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)
The story of humans creating monstrous beings in their image may have perennial relevance, even if it seems specific to our...
Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites
Artists today use their websites as more than a business card– they are an online portfolio, CV, document of artistic evolution, and works of art in...
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