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Here are the subjects of all posts in the syn_openculture journal in January, 2024.

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1st

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan
10:00a	syn_openculture	An Early Version of Mickey Mouse Enters the Public Domain on January 1, 2024

2nd

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Great Gatsby Explained: How F. Scott Fitzgerald Indicted & Endorsed the American Dream (1925)
10:00a	syn_openculture	What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2024: Enjoy Classic Works by Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, D. H. Lawrence, Bertolt Brecht & More

3rd

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Surprising Map of Plants: A New Animation Shows How All the Different Plants Relate to Each Other
10:00a	syn_openculture	How Londinium Became London, Lutetia Became Paris, and Other Roman Cities Got Their Modern Names
11:00a	syn_openculture	Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 11), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates
11:01p	syn_openculture	Watch the Moment When a 13-Year-Old Becomes the First Person to Ever “Beat” Tetris

4th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Dance Like David Byrne! An Easy-to-Follow Instructional Video Shows You How
10:00a	syn_openculture	My Neighbor Totoro Inspires a Line of Traditional Japanese Handicrafts

5th

9:00a	syn_openculture	How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers & Writers Have Always Known
10:00a	syn_openculture	Hortus Eystettensis: The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613)

8th

9:00a	syn_openculture	How This Chicago Skyscraper Barely Touches the Ground
10:00a	syn_openculture	Why Caspar David Friedrich’s Painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) Is a Romantic Masterpiece, Evoking the Power of the Sublime

9th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Hear the Dying Whistled Language of Laos, Featured in a New Short Film, “Birdsong”
10:00a	syn_openculture	Watch a 106-Year-Old Wizard of Oz Book Get Magically Restored … By Cutting the Book’s Spine, Washing Pages & Recoloring Illustrations

10th

9:00a	syn_openculture	51 Propaganda Techniques Explained in 11 Minutes: From Cognitive Dissonance to Appeal to Fear
10:00a	syn_openculture	The Incubator Babies of Coney Island: How an Early 1900s Boardwalk Attraction Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Lives

11th

8:01a	syn_openculture	How to Learn Data Analytics in 2024: Earn a Professional Certificate That Will Help Prepare You for a Job in 6 Months
9:00a	syn_openculture	Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live and Learn More
10:00a	syn_openculture	Ten Magnificent Historical Libraries (That You Can Still Visit Today)

12th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Cool Science of Snowflakes in 4 Minutes, with Brian Cox
10:00a	syn_openculture	AI “Completes” Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting and Controversy Erupts

15th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Pixies Perform a Hypnotic Version of “Gouge Away” at the BBC
10:00a	syn_openculture	Martin Luther King, Jr. Gives Life-Changing Advice to Teens: Watch His Speech, “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?” (1967)

16th

9:00a	syn_openculture	Why Perpetual Motion Machines Never Work, Despite Centuries of Experiments
10:00a	syn_openculture	How George Washington Became President of the United States: It Was Weirder Than You Think

17th

8:01a	syn_openculture	Coursera Extends Deal: Get $200 Off of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates (Until February 1)
9:00a	syn_openculture	Can You Crack the Uncrackable Code in Kryptos, the CIA’s Work of Public Art?
10:00a	syn_openculture	J.S. Bach’s Opera, “The Coffee Cantata,” Sings the Praises of the Great Stimulating Drink (1735)

18th

9:00a	syn_openculture	60 Free Film Noir Movies to Get You Through 2024
10:00a	syn_openculture	A Beautiful Visual Tour of Tirranna, One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Remarkable, Final Creations

19th

8:01a	syn_openculture	Jewish Comedy with Daniel Lobell (“Reconquistador”) — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #165
9:00a	syn_openculture	Every Political Ideology Explained in 8 Minutes
10:00a	syn_openculture	How Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldinger

21st

6:44p

syn_openculture

Stanford Continuing Studies Offering a Course on the History & Music of the Grateful Dead, Taught by David Gans: Starts on Monday, January 22

22nd

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Roman Author Pliny the Younger Gets Ghosted by a Friend, and Goes on a Rant: Hear It Read by Actor Rob Delaney
10:00a	syn_openculture	Before ChatGPT, There Was ELIZA: Watch the 1960s Chatbot in Action

23rd

9:00a	syn_openculture	Music Producer Steve Albini, Director Godfrey Reggio & Actor Fred Armisen Explain Why Creating Is Crucial to Human Existence
10:00a	syn_openculture	Free Download: A Knitting Pattern for a Sweater Depicting an Iconic Cover of George Orwell’s 1984

24th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Cardboard Bernini: An Artist Spends 4 Years Building a Giant Cardboard Fountain Inspired by the Baroque Sculptor Bernini, Only to Let It Dissolve in the Rain
10:00a	syn_openculture	Read Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)

25th

9:00a	syn_openculture	A Fan-Made Film Reconstructs an Entire Tom Waits Concert from His “Glitter and Doom Tour” (2008)
10:00a	syn_openculture	The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi & Beyond

26th

8:01a	syn_openculture	Bruce Hornsby Discusses His Adventurous Compositions and Collaborations on Nakedly Examined Music
10:00a	syn_openculture	How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking: Advice from Tim Ferriss
11:00a	syn_openculture	Amazon Offers Free AI Courses, Aiming to Help 2 Million People Build AI Skills by 2025

29th

9:00a	syn_openculture	The Codex Seraphinianus: How Italian Artist Luigi Serafini Came to Write & Illustrate “the Strangest Book Ever Published” (1981)
10:00a	syn_openculture	Pangea to the Present to the Future: Watch Animations Showing 500 Million Years of Continental Drift

30th

9:00a	syn_openculture	How Being Bilingual Helps Your Brain (Even If You Learn a New Language in Adulthood)
10:00a	syn_openculture	Meet Alma Deutscher, the Classical Music Prodigy: Watch Her Performances from Age 6 to 14

31st

5:21a	syn_openculture	2 Days Left: Get $200 Off of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates
9:00a	syn_openculture	Plato’s Dialogue Gorgias Gets Adapted into a Short Avant-Garde Film
10:00a	syn_openculture	Explore the Surface of Mars in Spectacular 4K Resolution