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What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"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 version was “Honor Thy Error…”). As a teenager growing up and trying to make art (at that time music and comics) there was no advice mor...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/what-miles-davis-taught-herbie-hancock-in-music-as-in-life-there-are-no-mistakes.html","date_published":"2026-07-28T09:00:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-28 09:00","date_timestamp":1785229208,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94822940","content_html":"

Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000) \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"At the moment, the answer to the question of why we should read Homer’s Odyssey seems rather straightforward: so we can more intelligently voice our opinions on Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster film adaptation. A quarter-century ago, the matter was somewhat less clear. Still, an occasion had pres...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/christopher-hitchens-explains-why-homers-odyssey-still-matters-to-our-world-2000.html","date_published":"2026-07-28T08:00:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-28 08:00","date_timestamp":1785225642,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94763353","content_html":"

Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Maybe you’ve already seen Christopher Nolan’s new cinematic interpretation of the Odyssey more than once; maybe you don’t know whether you’ll ever get around to it at all. Either way, you’ve got to admit that the man makes films in a way very few living directors do. His combination of blockbuster-s...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/christopher-nolan-picks-15-favorite-films-from-the-criterion-closet.html","date_published":"2026-07-27T09:00:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-27 09:00","date_timestamp":1785142851,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94763352","content_html":"

The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki detests being referred to as the Japanese Walt Disney. The great animator and storyteller admires the gorgeous animation of classic Disney films, but finds them lacking in emotional complexity, the element he prizes above all else. Miyazaki’s films are celebrated for their m...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/essence-of-hayao-miyazaki-films.html","date_published":"2026-07-27T08:00:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-27 08:00","date_timestamp":1785139219,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94613065","content_html":"

Where Did Europe’s Countries—and the United Kingdom—Get Their Names? \"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"The typical student traveling on a Eurail pass will stop in such lands as Österreich, Italia, Česko and Schweiz — also known as Suisse, Svizzera, and Svizra. If that student happens to hail from the English-speaking world, the names Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic (the recent movement for Czechia...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/where-did-europes-countries-and-the-united-kingdom-get-their-names.html","date_published":"2026-07-24T08:05:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-24 08:05","date_timestamp":1784880318,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94613064","content_html":"

19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Folks with a passing knowledge of ukiyo‑e, the Japanese woodblock print art form popular in the 17th through 19th centuries, will be familiar with its landscapes, as well as its portraits of courtesans and kabuki actors. But often these prints were educational, as demonstrated by these very odd anat...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/japanese-woodblock-prints-illustrate-the-human-body.html","date_published":"2026-07-24T08:00:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-24 08:00","date_timestamp":1784880040,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94551539","content_html":"

A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Though it’s traditionally meant “last in a progression or series,” as Merriam-Webster puts it, the word ultimate has been more often used in recent decades to mean “the best or most extreme of its kind.” The name of a recently launched digital archive performs a rare inversion, labeling as last a cr...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/a-free-online-archive-lets-you-explore-5-8-million-works-of-art-spanning-5000-years-of-history.html","date_published":"2026-07-23T09:00:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-23 09:00","date_timestamp":1784797256,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94551538","content_html":"

How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"We previously brought you the BBC series of short animated videos, A History of Ideas. Produced in collaboration with the UK’s Open University and narrated by Harry Shearer, these fun introductions to such philosophers as Simone de Beauvoir and Edmund Burke, and such weighty philosophical topics as ...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/animations-on-the-origins-of-the-universe-narrated-by-gillian-anderson.html","date_published":"2026-07-23T08:00:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-23 08:00","date_timestamp":1784793613,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94489764","content_html":"

Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose sold so well that its English translator William Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the “Eco Chamber.” The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian news clip just above, may...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/umberto-ecos-personal-library-opens-to-the-public.html","date_published":"2026-07-22T16:44:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-22 16:44","date_timestamp":1784738666,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94489763","content_html":"

Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967) \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"There are many ways to celebrate a new album from a band you admire. You can have a listening party alone. You can have a listening party with friends. You can learn the title track in a couple of days and play it onstage while the band you admire sits in the audience. That last […]","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/jimi-hendrix-plays-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-for-the-beatles.html","date_published":"2026-07-22T08:00:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-22 08:00","date_timestamp":1784707259,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94426967","content_html":"

Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again \"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Norfolk is known for its network of rivers and lakes, its stock of medieval churches, and for being the home county of Alan Partridge. Last year, it quite literally unearthed another mark of distinction in the form of an iron age war trumpet. “The bronze trumpet or carnyx is only the third ever foun...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/hear-the-haunting-sound-of-an-ancient-celtic-war-trumpet.html","date_published":"2026-07-21T09:00:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-21 09:00","date_timestamp":1784624444,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94426966","content_html":"

Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Not to diminish the nightmare of mortars and shrapnel, but as evidenced by Crow’s Eye Productions’ period-accurate dressing video above, one of the greatest horrors of WWI was wet wool. Decades before the invention of Gore-Tex, Polar Fleece, and other high-performance, all-weather gear, British sold...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/getting-dressed-during-wwi.html","date_published":"2026-07-21T08:00:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-21 08:00","date_timestamp":1784620829,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94363894","content_html":"

The World’s Greatest Song That Simply Shouldn’t Exist: The Making of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Were we to take bets on the single most widely heard alarm clock, the one included on the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” would surely be a popular choice. It comes, you’ll recall, at the beginning of the song’s middle section, when Paul takes over from John and sings about waking up, combing his […]","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/the-making-of-the-beatles-a-day-in-the-life.html","date_published":"2026-07-20T09:00:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-20 09:00","date_timestamp":1784538005,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94363893","content_html":"

Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"One might assume from a modern viewpoint that the hairstyles worn by monks arose to deal with male pattern baldness anxiety. As in the school uniform approach, you can’t single out one person’s baldness when everyone is bald. But this, again, would be a modern view, full of the vanity the tonsured—t...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/where-did-monks-haircut-come-from.html","date_published":"2026-07-20T08:00:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-20 08:00","date_timestamp":1784534422,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94195156","content_html":"

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints. But we can’t hope to attain even a basic understandin...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/the-radical-unclassifiable-art-of-william-blake.html","date_published":"2026-07-17T09:00:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-17 09:00","date_timestamp":1784278839,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94195155","content_html":"

A Walk Through Homer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Epic Before Seeing Christopher Nolan’s Film \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"You’re gearing up to see Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, but you haven’t read the Homeric work. Or you read it so long ago that it feels like you’ve never read it at all. No worries. Above, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the hosts of The Rest Is History podcast, take you through the major plot line...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/a-walk-through-homers-odyssey.html","date_published":"2026-07-17T07:55:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-17 07:55","date_timestamp":1784274946,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94133423","content_html":"

The Origins of the Monsters in Homer’s Odyssey: The Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla & More \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Despite having been composed about two and a half millennia before the invention of cinema, Homer’s Odyssey has offered tempting material to generation after generation of filmmakers. Part of the appeal is, of course, the work’s age, which obviates the need for potentially frustrating rights negotia...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/the-origins-of-the-monsters-in-homers-odyssey-the-cyclops-sirens-scylla-more.html","date_published":"2026-07-16T09:00:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-16 09:00","date_timestamp":1784192437,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94133420","content_html":"

Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983 \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Tucked in the afterward of the second, 1982 edition of Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow’s Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, we find an important, but little-known essay by Foucault himself titled “The Subject and Power.” Here, the French theorist offers what he construes as a su...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/hours-of-lectures-by-michel-foucault.html","date_published":"2026-07-16T08:00:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-16 08:00","date_timestamp":1784188858,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94070453","content_html":"

Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online. After you get your fill of knowledge, you can decide whether or not you want to venture out into the world and see your object of interest in its natural environment […]","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/explore-1300-beautiful-wildlife-illustrations-from-the-19th-century.html","date_published":"2026-07-15T09:00:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-15 09:00","date_timestamp":1784106053,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94070452","content_html":"

11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Many connoisseurs of architecture are enthralled by the modernist philosophy of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and I M Pei, who shared a belief that form follows function, or, as Wright had it, that form and function are one. Others of us delight in gas stations shaped like teapots and restaurant...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/free-photos-from-john-margolies-archive-of-americana-architecture.html","date_published":"2026-07-15T08:00:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-15 08:00","date_timestamp":1784102443,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94008495","content_html":"

How Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws Unexpectedly Led to a Chinese Restaurant Boom in America \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"This past spring, the oldest continuously operated family-owned Chinese restaurant in the United States served its last plate of chop suey. Pekin Noodle Parlor had been an institution in Butte, Montana’s Chinatown since 1911, long outlasting the town’s gold-rush boom, but according to its final, fif...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/how-anti-chinese-immigration-laws-unexpectedly-led-to-a-chinese-restaurant-boom-in-america.html","date_published":"2026-07-14T09:00:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-14 09:00","date_timestamp":1784019611,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94008494","content_html":"

How Russian Artists Imagined in 1914 What Moscow Would Look Like in 2259 \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"In the days of popular retrofuturism—say, the first half of the twentieth century—people tended to imagine the world of tomorrow looking very much like the world of today, only with a lot more flying cars, monorails, and videophones. This is true whether those doing the imagining were titans of indu...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/russian-artists-imagined-what-moscow-would-look-like-in-2259.html","date_published":"2026-07-14T08:00:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-14 08:00","date_timestamp":1784016047,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93948531","content_html":"

Tatlin’s Tower, One of the Most Ambitious Buildings That Was Never Built \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"It’s no small project to found a new society, especially when you’re doing it on the scale of a place like Russia. Apart from the considerable practical challenges it entails, there’s also the need for symbols bold enough to represent the underlying ideal. The avant-garde artist Vladimir Tatlin took...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/tatlins-tower-one-of-the-most-ambitious-buildings-that-was-never-built.html","date_published":"2026-07-13T09:00:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-13 09:00","date_timestamp":1783933225,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93948529","content_html":"

How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats \"\"\"\"\"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"I admit, I sometimes pay a premium at a certain dinner theater chain with a lobby-slash-bar designed to look like classic indie video stores of yore. It’s not only the padded recliners and half-decent grub that keeps me coming back. Nope, it’s the rules. Printed on the menu are a list of disruptive ...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/how-cinemas-taught-early-movie-goers-the-rules-etiquette-for-watching-films.html","date_published":"2026-07-13T08:00:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-13 08:00","date_timestamp":1783929646,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93791342","content_html":"

The Bayeux Tapestry Explained: Watch an Animated Retelling of the Norman Conquest \"\" : openculture.com

","summary":"Every time the World Cup comes around, or at least since England first and last won it 60 years ago, there’s talk of whether it’ll be brought “back home.” The idea being, of course, that football (or soccer, as it’s called in a couple of the countries hosting this year’s matches) was made in England...","url":"https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/the-bayeux-tapestry-explained-watch-an-animated-retelling-of-the-norman-conquest.html","date_published":"2026-07-10T08:00:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.","url":"http://www.openculture.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fopenculture_v4c%2Fimages%2FOC-newlogo.png","_microblog":{"username":"www.openculture.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-10 08:00","date_timestamp":1783670459,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}