Flash Sale: Get 75% Off Udacity’s Online Courses (Through June 8)
A quick FYI: Udacity is running a 75% off flash sale, and it has been extended to June 8. Founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Sebastian...
Category: Culture
That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles–A Free Online Documentary
From KCET (the public broadcaster serving SoCal) comes the documentary, That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles. “During his time spent in Southern California...
Art Historian Provides Hilarious & Surprisingly Efficient Art History Lessons on TikTok
@_theiconoclassIf youse come at me again for my Australian pronunciation I swear 😂 #arthistory #arthistorytiktok #baroque♬ original sound – AyseDeniz Art Historian Mary McGillivray believes art appreciation is...
The Art of Balancing Stones: How Artists Use Simple Materials to Make Impossible Sculptures in Nature
Not so long ago, a wave of long-form entreaties rolled through social media insisting that we stop building rock cairns. Like many who scrolled past them,...
The World’s First Bass Guitar (1936)
Image via Ebay The big, stand-up double bass or “bull fiddle,” as it’s been called, dates to the 15th century. The design has evolved, but its...
Why Do Tech Billionaires Make for Good TV Villains? Pretty Much Pop #93 Considers “Made for Love,” et al.
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_93_4-30-21.mp3 The tech genius has become the go-to bad guy in recent films: They’re our modern mad scientists with all imaginable resources and science at their...
Leonardo da Vinci Designs the Ideal City: See 3D Models of His Radical Design
Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ray Bradbury: they and other 20th-century notables all gave serious thought to the ideal city, what it would include and what it...
Hear the Earliest Recorded Customer Complaint Letter: From Ancient Sumeria 1750 BC
Three-thousand, seven-hundred, and seventy-one years ago, in the city of Dilmun, near Ur in Mesopotamia, there was a merchant named Ea-nasir. His business was in selling...
Bass Sounds: One Song Highlights the Many Different Sounds Made by Different Bass Guitars
If you’re a seasoned bass player, the diversity of bass sounds in the “Bass Sounds” videos here will hardly surprise you. Most other people — including...
Behold the Astronomicum Caesareum, “Perhaps the Most Beautiful Scientific Book Ever Printed” (1540)
Art, science, and magic seem to have been rarely far apart during the Renaissance, as evidenced by the elaborate 1540 Astronomicum Caesareum — or “Emperor’s Astronomy”...
