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A 400-Year-Old Ring That Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens (openculture.com)
1 point by MaysonL 1 day ago | past | discuss
Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020) (openculture.com)
408 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | past | 206 comments
Complete Digitization of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus (openculture.com)
146 points by emmelaich 12 days ago | past | 46 comments
Noam Chomsky Slams ŽIžek and Lacan: Empty 'Posturing' (2013) (openculture.com)
9 points by appreciatorBus 14 days ago | past | 2 comments
Greatest Novels of All Time, According to 750K Readers in the UK (2003) (openculture.com)
3 points by nomagicbullet 14 days ago | past
Leonardo da Vinci's To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man (openculture.com)
8 points by vinhnx 20 days ago | past
Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written with a Typewriter (openculture.com)
2 points by bookofjoe 25 days ago | past
How to write in Cuneiform (openculture.com)
116 points by PaulHoule 30 days ago | past | 78 comments
Explore a new digital edition of "Printing Types" from 1922 (openculture.com)
35 points by bryanrasmussen 42 days ago | past | 3 comments
40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language (openculture.com)
189 points by mdp2021 51 days ago | past | 131 comments
Leonardo da Vinci's To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man (openculture.com)
1 point by mdp2021 54 days ago | past | 1 comment
Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees (2020) (openculture.com)
6 points by coloneltcb 55 days ago | past
The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries (openculture.com)
4 points by PaulHoule 58 days ago | past | 1 comment
An Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist (openculture.com)
18 points by mdp2021 65 days ago | past
The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world (openculture.com)
62 points by bookofjoe 79 days ago | past | 43 comments
Isaac Newton's Recipe for the Mythical 'Philosopher's Stone' Is Digitized (openculture.com)
2 points by agnosticmantis 85 days ago | past
Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library (openculture.com)
504 points by Anon84 85 days ago | past | 204 comments
A man read 3599 books over 60 years (openculture.com)
3 points by SanjayMehta 3 months ago | past | 2 comments
The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826) (openculture.com)
36 points by anyonecancode 3 months ago | past | 7 comments
How Ancient Greeks Built Their Magnificent Temples: Art of Ancient Engineering (openculture.com)
1 point by bookofjoe 3 months ago | past
When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres (openculture.com)
2 points by PaulHoule 4 months ago | past
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001) (openculture.com)
125 points by bookofjoe 4 months ago | past | 44 comments
Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful (openculture.com)
5 points by bookofjoe 4 months ago | past
George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth (openculture.com)
67 points by colinprince 4 months ago | past | 86 comments
How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous (openculture.com)
70 points by janandonly 4 months ago | past | 131 comments
An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s Train-Hoppers (openculture.com)
47 points by squircle 4 months ago | past | 7 comments
An Introduction to George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth (openculture.com)
3 points by gslin 5 months ago | past
Arthur C. Clarke predicted a computer-dominated future in the ’70s (2024) (openculture.com)
52 points by ohjeez 5 months ago | past | 46 comments
Leonardo da Vinci's Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine (openculture.com)
1 point by geox 5 months ago | past
John Nash's Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages and Two Citations (openculture.com)
3 points by gslin 5 months ago | past

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