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Last week we played for you the only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice (1938). Now it’s time to revive the voice of another intellectual giant, Albert Einstein. In this recording, the physicist offers the briefest explanation of the world’s most famous equation, E=mc2. When was this recorded? We’re unfortunately not sure. Let’s [...]
Einstein Explains His Famous Formula, E=mc², in Original Audio (Plus More Cultural Curiosities) is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
As Michael Palin once put it, “there’s no getting away from the wit, wonder and wizardry of the man Cahiers du Cinéma once described as Terry Gilliam.”
Those qualities are clearly visible in this very funny early film by Gilliam called The Miracle of Flight. The film was made in 1971 for the American-British TV [...]
The Miracle of Flight, the Classic Early Animation by Terry Gilliam is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Scholars of ancient history and IT experts at Stanford University have collaborated to create a novel way to study Ancient Rome. ORBIS, a geospatial network model, allows visitors to experience the strategy behind travel in antiquity. (Find a handy tutorial for using the system on the Web and YouTube). The ORBIS map includes about 750 [...]
Play Caesar: Travel Ancient Rome with Stanford’s Interactive Map is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Bryan Magee comes from a tradition that produced some of the twentieth century’s most impressive media personalities: that of the scholarship-educated, Oxbridge-refined, intellectually omnivorous, occasionally office-holding, radio- and television-savvy man of letters. Students and professors of philosophy probably know him from his large print oeuvre, which includes volumes on Popper and Schopenhauer as [...]
Bryan Magee’s In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers (1978-87) is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Every actor has to start somewhere, and Morgan Freeman (Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption, and Million Dollar Baby) could have done worse than joining the cast of The Electric Company, the PBS children’s television series that aired from 1971 to 1977. The original cast included Bill Cosby and Rita Moreno (not bad [...]
Morgan Freeman Teaches Kids to Read in Vintage Electric Company Footage from 1971 is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Tom Waits narrates this whimsical, fast-moving introduction to the life and work of West-Coast conceptual artist John Baldessari. The film was directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the creative team behind Catfish and Paranormal Activity 3. It was made for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s inaugural Art & Film [...]
A Brief History of John Baldessari, Narrated by Tom Waits is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
The Belgians take their cycling seriously. After all, it’s the birthplace of Eddy Merckx, the five time champion of the Tour de France. And it’s a country that plays host to some of the great short races in the sport: La Flèche Wallonne, E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. If you’re familiar with these races, you know they’re not [...]
Brussels Express: The Perils of Cycling in Europe’s Most Congested City is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
If you’ve never watched a documentary by Ken Burns, maybe you just haven’t had the time. Ten hours for The Civil War, eighteen and a half for Baseball, nearly nineteen for Jazz; such blocks can be difficult to carve out, even when you’re carving them out for the master audiovisual storyteller [...]
Ken Burns on the Art of Storytelling: “It’s Lying Twenty-Four Times a Second” is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Studs Terkel would have turned 100 years old today. A legendary broadcaster and the author of ground-breaking oral histories of the American experience in the 20th century–including his Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of World War II, The Good War–Terkel was a beloved cultural figure in his native Chicago up until his death in October, 2008. The [...]
Studs Terkel Reads Poem ‘Blessed be the Nation’ is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.