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2019In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (openculture.com)
627 points | 1 year ago with 149 comments
2015Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (openculture.com)
349 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2015Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (openculture.com)
287 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2010Tarkovsky Films Free Online (openculture.com)
231 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
2019Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (openculture.com)
221 points | 1 year ago with 49 comments
2014Terry Gilliam on his techniques for Monty Python animations (openculture.com)
199 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2014Why Your Best Thinking Is in the Shower (openculture.com)
173 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments
1968Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music (openculture.com)
132 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments
1938Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher Asking for Proof of His “Aryan Descent” (openculture.com)
128 points | 10 years ago with 49 comments
2012Thelonious Monk Creates a List of Tips for Playing a Gig (openculture.com)
117 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2013Mark Twain playing with electricity in Nikola Tesla's lab in 1894 (openculture.com)
117 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2013What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Hear a Reconstruction (openculture.com)
117 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2016Umberto Eco on common features of fascism (openculture.com)
116 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments
2016Paul Klee's personal notebooks on his Bauhaus teachings (openculture.com)
114 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2014The Feynman Lectures on Physics Now Completely Online (openculture.com)
113 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
2018Google app analyzes selfies and finds doppelgangers in museum portraits (openculture.com)
91 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2019William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (openculture.com)
88 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2016Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (openculture.com)
79 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments
1959FBI Files on Ray Bradbury (openculture.com)
66 points | 9 years ago with 61 comments
1941Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ (openculture.com)
63 points | 11 years ago with 10 comments
2013David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (openculture.com)
62 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
1968The Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (openculture.com)
58 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2015Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would not end before 2060 (openculture.com)
55 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
1982When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (openculture.com)
53 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2015Postage Stamps from Bhutan That Double as Playable Vinyl Records (openculture.com)
51 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2017Franz Kafka Agonized over Writer’s Block (openculture.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2018A Medieval Book That Opens Six Different Ways (openculture.com)
31 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2016When Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick Went to High School Together (openculture.com)
16 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments
1981A Student Writes a Rejection Letter Rejecting Harvard’s Rejection Letter (openculture.com)
10 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments

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