Month View
Here are the subjects of all posts in the syn_openculture journal in May, 2024.

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1st

5:45a	syn_openculture	Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to Increase Your Productivity
9:00a	syn_openculture	A 5‑Hour Journey Through North Korean Entertainment: Propaganda Films, Kids’ Cartoons, Sketch Comedy & More

2nd

8:00a	syn_openculture	Artist Draws 9 Portraits on LSD During 1950s Research Experiment
9:00a	syn_openculture	RIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a Writer

3rd

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High-Tech Analysis of Ancient Scroll Reveals Plato’s Burial Site and Final Hours

6th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified Version of Bach’s “Little Fugue in G”
9:00a	syn_openculture	What Is Religion Actually For?: Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury Weigh In

7th

6:30a	syn_openculture	4 Franz Kafka Animations: Watch Creative Animated Shorts from Poland, Japan, Russia & Canada
9:00a	syn_openculture	Download 131,000 Historic Maps from the Huge David Rumsey Map Collection

8th

4:40a	syn_openculture	A Bicycle Trip: Watch an Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip in 1943
9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch Animations Showing How Humans Migrated Across the World Over the Past 60,000 Years

9th

4:42a	syn_openculture	Read the Uncompromising Letter That Steve Albini (RIP) Wrote to Nirvana Before Producing In Utero (1993)
9:00a	syn_openculture	Watch an Enthusiast Drive the First Car Ever Made, the 1885 Mercedes Benz

10th

6:07a	syn_openculture	The First Recording of Allen Ginsberg Reading “Howl” (1956)
9:00a	syn_openculture	Aldous Huxley Explains How Man Became “the Victim of His Own Technology” (1961)

13th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Jerry Seinfeld Delivers Commencement Address at Duke University: You Will Need Humor to Get Through the Human Experience
9:00a	syn_openculture	A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness

14th

8:00a	syn_openculture	George Orwell’s Political Views, Explained in His Own Words
9:00a	syn_openculture	Hannah Arendt Explains the Rise of Totalitarian Regimes–and the Strategies Needed to Combat Them

15th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Wes Anderson Directs & Stars in an Ad Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Montblanc’s Signature Pen
9:00a	syn_openculture	Read 20 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro (RIP) Free Online

16th

6:23a	syn_openculture	Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them”
9:00a	syn_openculture	A Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock, Kubrick, Errol Morris & Other Auteurs

17th

8:00a	syn_openculture	RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and Others on His TV Show Night Music
9:00a	syn_openculture	“The Virtues of Coffee” Explained in 1690 Ad: The Cure for Lethargy, Scurvy, Dropsy, Gout & More

20th

8:00a	syn_openculture	Hear Leo Tolstoy Read From His Last Major Work in Four Languages, 1909
9:00a	syn_openculture	Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Online Education in 1988–and It’s Now Coming True in the Age of AI & Smartphones

21st

8:00a	syn_openculture	Why Medieval Bologna Was Full of Tall Towers, and What Happened to Them
9:05a	syn_openculture	Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts

22nd

8:00a	syn_openculture	Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed
9:00a	syn_openculture	The First Professional Footage of Pink Floyd Gets Captured in a 1967 Documentary (and the Band Also Provides the Soundtrack)

23rd

4:52a	syn_openculture	9‑Year-Old Edward Hopper Draws a Picture on the Back of His 3rd Grade Report Card
9:00a	syn_openculture	Fritz Lang First Depicted Artificial Intelligence on Film in Metropolis (1927), and It Frightened People Even Then

24th

4:51a	syn_openculture	Hear the Song Written on a Sinner’s Buttock in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights
9:00a	syn_openculture	A 6‑Step Guide to Zen Buddhism, Presented by Psychiatrist-Zen Master Robert Waldinger

27th

5:35a	syn_openculture	Hunter S. Thompson’s Harrowing, Chemical-Filled Daily Routine
5:28p	syn_openculture	Watch Philosophy Lectures That Became a Hit During COVID by Professor Michael Sugrue (RIP): From Plato and Marcus Aurelius to Critical Theory

28th

5:35a	syn_openculture	Philip K. Dick Theorizes The Matrix in 1977, Declares That We Live in “A Computer-Programmed Reality”
9:00a	syn_openculture	Ancient Greek Armor Gets Tested in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation Inspired by the Iliad

29th

6:02a	syn_openculture	This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience
8:00a	syn_openculture	When the CIA Studied Psychic Techniques to Alter Human Consciousness & Unlock Time Travel: Discover “The Gateway Process”

30th

5:19a	syn_openculture	Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)
8:00a	syn_openculture	How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets You See

31st

8:26a

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Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80