177 Pieces of Life Advice from Kevin Kelly, Founding Editor of Wired Magazine & The Whole Earth Review
Image by Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons I am a big admirer of Kevin Kelly for the same reason I am of Brian Eno—he is constantly...
Category: Culture
Janis Joplin Plays a Passionate Folk Blues Set at One of Her First Gigs in San Francisco (1963)
From her early, unhappy teen years in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Joplin seemed to know she wanted to be a blues singer. She once said she...
The First Cellphone: Discover Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, a 2-Pound Brick Priced at $3,995 (1984)
We get the culture our technology permits, and in the 21st century no technological development has changed culture like that of the smartphone. As with every...
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai: An Introduction to the Iconic Japanese Woodblock Print in 17 Minutes
When woodcut artist Katsushika Hokusai made his famous print The Great Wave off Kanagawa in 1830 — part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji...
Why Collect? A Conversation about Collectibles from Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#92)
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_92_4-24-21.mp3 What drives someone to collect Star Wars figures or Transformers or LEGOs or whatever else? Your Pretty Much Pop hosts Mark Linsenmayer, Erica Spyres, and...
An Interactive Visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2020 was “a year for the (record) books in publishing,” wrote Jim Milliot in Publisher’s Weekly this past January, a surge continuing into 2021. Yet some...
The Surprising Reason Why Chinatowns Worldwide Share the Same Aesthetic, and How It All Started with the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Anti-Chinese racism runs deep in American culture and law, beginning in the 19th century as competition intensified in California gold and land rushes. Chinese immigrants were...
The Largest Free Kitchen in the World: Discover India’s Golden Temple Which Serves 100,000 Free Meals Per Day
If you find yourself hungry in Amritsar, a major city in the Indian state of Punjab, you could do worse than stopping into the Golden Temple,...
What Karl Marx Meant by “Alienation”: Two Animated Videos Explain
A common political distortion claims that socialists are lazy and want to live off other people’s labor. Never mind that this description best applies to those...
Flash Sale: Get 75% Off Udacity’s Online Courses
A quick FYI: Udacity is running a 75% off flash sale through May 25. Founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun, Udacity partners with leading tech...
