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Here are the subjects of all posts in the syn_openculture journal in December, 2019.

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2nd

2:28a	syn_openculture	Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal on Cyber Monday: It Gives You & Family Member/Friend Access to Their Complete Course Catalog
10:00a	syn_openculture	Twin Peaks Actually Explained: A Four-Hour Video Essay Demystifies It All
12:00p	syn_openculture	You Can Sleep in an Edward Hopper Painting at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Is This the Next New Museum Trend?
3:00p	syn_openculture	Watch a Hand-Drawn Animation of Neil Gaiman’s Poem “The Mushroom Hunters,” Narrated by Amanda Palmer

3rd

9:00a	syn_openculture	How Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Helps Us Understand the Meaning of Life
12:00p	syn_openculture	160,000 Pages of Glorious Medieval Manuscripts Digitized: Visit the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis
3:00p	syn_openculture	Punk Dulcimer: The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” Played on the Dulcimer
5:30p	syn_openculture	Clive James & Jonathan Miller (Both RIP) Talk Together About How the Brain Works

4th

8:01a	syn_openculture	Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #21 Considers Role-Playing Video Games
3:00p	syn_openculture	A New Digitized Menu Collection Lets You Revisit the Cuisine from the “Golden Age of Railroad Dining”
7:00p	syn_openculture	Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Get Used in Making Everyday Things
8:00p	syn_openculture	Kabuki Star Wars: Watch The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi Reinterpreted by Japan’s Most Famous Kabuki Actor

5th

9:00a	syn_openculture	For the First Time, Studio Ghibli’s Entire Catalog Will Soon Be Available for Digital Purchase
12:00p	syn_openculture	What the Great Pyramid of Giza Would’ve Looked Like When First Built: It Was Gleaming, Reflective White
3:09p	syn_openculture	The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure

6th

9:00a	syn_openculture	David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling & Humor His New Masterclass
12:00p	syn_openculture	Music Is Truly a Universal Language: New Research Shows That Music Worldwide Has Important Commonalities
3:00p	syn_openculture	Radical Tea Towels Offer a Graphic Crash Course in Progressive American History

7th

8:07a

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How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant.

9th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Trick That Made Animation Realistic: Watch a Short History of Rotoscoping
7:14p	syn_openculture	Revisit the Infamous Rolling Stones Free Festival at Altamont: The Ill-Fated Concert Took Place 50 Years Ago
7:30p	syn_openculture	How to Improve Your Memory: Four TED Talks Explain the Techniques to Remember Anything
8:00p	syn_openculture	Watch an Incredible Performance of “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1964)

10th

9:00a	syn_openculture	How Martin Scorsese Directs a Movie: The Techniques Behind Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and More
3:00p	syn_openculture	82 Vintage Cookbooks, Free to Download, Offer a Fascinating Illustrated Look at Culinary and Cultural History
8:00p	syn_openculture	Plants Emit High-Pitched Sounds When They Get Cut, or Stressed by Drought, a New Study Shows

11th

8:01a	syn_openculture	Pretty Much Pop #22 Untangles Time-Travel Scenarios in the Terminator Franchise and Other Media
9:00a	syn_openculture	Author Imagines in 1893 the Fashions That Would Appear Over the Next 100 Years
12:00p	syn_openculture	Meditation for Artists: Learn Moebius’ Meditative Technique Called “Automatic Drawing”
3:00p	syn_openculture	David Lynch Turns Twin Peaks into a Virtual Reality Game: Watch the Official Trailer

12th

2:07a	syn_openculture	Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal
9:00a	syn_openculture	Malcolm Gladwell Admits His Insatiable Love for Thriller Novels and Recommends His Favorites
12:00p	syn_openculture	Bill Gates Recommends Books for the Holidays
3:00p	syn_openculture	Why Should We Read William Shakespeare? Four Animated Videos Make the Case
5:58p	syn_openculture	Steve Martin on How to Look at Abstract Art

13th

9:00a	syn_openculture	“Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski
12:00p	syn_openculture	Traditional Inuit Thoat Singing and the Modern World Collide in This Astonishing Video
3:00p	syn_openculture	Meet the Americans Who Speak with Elizabethan English Accents: An Introduction to the “Hoi Toiders” from Ocracoke, North Carolina

15th

7:33p

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Neil Gaiman Talks Dreamily About Fountain Pens, Notebooks & His Writing Process in His Long Interview with Tim Ferriss

16th

8:29a	syn_openculture	Blues Musician Plays a Soul-Stirring Version of “Amazing Grace” at His Mother’s Funeral
9:00a	syn_openculture	The Prado Museum Digitally Alters Four Masterpieces to Strikingly Illustrate the Impact of Climate Change
3:00p	syn_openculture	How Andrew Wyeth Made a Painting: A Journey Into His Best-Known Work Christina’s World
8:00p	syn_openculture	Jimi Hendrix Hosts a Jam Session Where Jim Morrison Sings Drunkenly; Jimi Records the Moment for Posterity (1968)

17th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Seven Videos Explain How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Expressed American Loneliness and Alienation
12:00p	syn_openculture	Discover the Stendhal Syndrome: The Condition Where People Faint, or Feel Totally Overwhelmed, in the Presence of Great Art
3:00p	syn_openculture	“The Philosophy of “Flow”: A Brief Introduction to Taoism

18th

8:01a	syn_openculture	The Singer or the Song? Ken Stringfellow (Posies, R.E.M., Big Star) and Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #23 Discuss
9:00a	syn_openculture	How Yoga Changes the Brain and May Guard Against Alzheimer’s and Dementia
12:00p	syn_openculture	Why the University of Chicago Rejected Kurt Vonnegut’s Master’s Thesis (and How a Novel Got Him His Degree 27 Years Later)
3:00p	syn_openculture	An Introduction to Surrealism: The Big Aesthetic Ideas Presented in Three Videos

19th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Phenomena of Physics Illustrated with Psychedelic Art in an Influential 19th-Century Textbook
3:00p	syn_openculture	Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill Podcast: Stream a Gripping ‘Audio Companion’ to His Bestselling Book
8:00p	syn_openculture	The Zen of Bill Murray: I Want to Be “Really Here, Really in It, Really Alive in the Moment”

20th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Malcolm Gladwell Rebuts the Terrible Advice Given to Students: Don’t Go to “the Best College You Can,” Go to Where You Can Have “Deeply Interesting Conversations with People” at Night
3:00p	syn_openculture	Neil deDrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication in a New Online Course
4:00p	syn_openculture	20+ Knitters and Crochet Artists Stitch an Astonishing 3-D Recreation of Picasso’s Guernica

21st

6:55p

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Radiohead Puts Every Official Album on YouTube, Making Them All Free to Stream

23rd

9:00a	syn_openculture	A Beautiful New Book of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Visual History of 200 Japanese Masterpieces Created Between 1680 and 1938
12:00p	syn_openculture	Richard Feynman’s “Lost Lecture:” An Animated Retelling
3:00p	syn_openculture	Hear the Trippy Mystical Sounds of Giant Gongs

24th

8:01a	syn_openculture	Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #24 Considers Holiday Viewing: What’s Canon?
9:00a	syn_openculture	Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Most Troubling Christmas Film Ever Made
12:00p	syn_openculture	Ram Dass (RIP) Offers Wisdom on Confronting Aging and Dying
2:06p	syn_openculture	Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal for the Holidays
3:00p	syn_openculture	Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs

25th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Revisiting Band Aid’s Cringe-Inducing 1984 Single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
12:00p	syn_openculture	When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960)
6:25p	syn_openculture	Bob Ross’ Christmas Special: Celebrate, Relax, Nod Off
8:33p	syn_openculture	Hear Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas Carol Just as Dickens Read It
10:56p	syn_openculture	A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)

26th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Hear Every Sample on the Beastie Boys’ Acclaimed Album, Paul’s Boutique–and Discover Where They Came From
12:00p	syn_openculture	Watch Annie Leibovitz Photograph and Get Scolded by Queen Elizabeth: “What Do You Think This Is?”

27th

3:00p	syn_openculture	Download Beautiful Free Posters Celebrating the Achievements of Living Female STEM Leaders
7:36p	syn_openculture	Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted In Bright Colors: Vox Explores Why History Has Overlooked This

28th

7:00a	syn_openculture	An Animated Introduction to Cynicism, the Anti Conformist Philosophy That Originated in Ancient Greece
7:30a	syn_openculture	Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book Your Name? Robot, Created by Tarkovsky Art Director Mikhail Romadin (1979)

30th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Itzhak Perlman Appears on Sesame Street and Poignantly Shows Kids How to Play the Violin and Push Through Life’s Limits (1981)
12:00p	syn_openculture	A Visual Introduction to Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Broken Pottery and Finding Beauty in Imperfection
3:00p	syn_openculture	Why You Should Read Dune: An Animated Introduction to Frank Herbert’s Ecological, Psychological Sci-Fi Epic
5:51p	syn_openculture	John Coltrane Talks About the Sacred Meaning of Music in the Human Experience: Listen to One of His Final Interviews (1966)

31st

9:00a	syn_openculture	Steve Martin Performs Stand-Up Comedy for Dogs (1973)
12:00p	syn_openculture	A Recently-Discovered 44,000-Year-Old Cave Painting Tells the Oldest Known Story
4:01p	syn_openculture	The History of the Fisheye Photo Album Cover