Culture
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Posted On CultureThe Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Defined
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to disclose “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That seems like a typical examinationple of…
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Posted On CultureHow LGBTQ tales bought actual in 2024
Netflix/ Film4/ A24/ BBC (Credit score: Netflix/ FIlm4/ A24/ BBC) From Queer to Child Reindeer and Will & Harper, LGBTQ illustration took a step ahead…
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Posted On CulturePianists Eloïse Bella Kohn & Min-Jung Kym on how they use music to communicate
This week, Marjorie Hache welcomes Eloïse Bella Kohn, a French pianist based in Vienna, as well as British-French-Korean artist Min-Jung Kym. Both have released new…
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Posted On CultureHow Keith Jarrett Performed on a Damaged Piano & Turned a Doubtlessly Disastrous Live performance Into the Finest-Promoting Piano Album of All Time (1975)
Close toly fifty years in the past, the celebrated younger pianist Keith Jarrett arrived within the West German metropolis of Köln (wagerter identified in English…
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Posted On CultureIf Advent Was a Song From Wicked
Wicked has once again captured the cultural spotlight and woven itself into the fabric of our collective consciousness. It’s the subject of late-night shows and…
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Posted On CultureHow Shirley Temple saved a Hollywood studio from bankruptcy
In December 1933, five-year-old Shirley Temple signed with a nearly-bankrupt Fox Studios. In History looks back at how she revived the studio’s fortunes – and…
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Posted On CultureAn Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large Portable Book
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle…
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Posted On CultureWhen Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we…
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Posted On CultureThe blistering drama exhibiting the US’s racist previous from a brand new, first-person perspective
L Kasimu Harris (Credit score: L Kasimu Harris) The Oscar-tipped movie by RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel about two boys at an abusive “reform”…
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Posted On CultureThe Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship…
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Posted On CultureHoly Night or Pagan Rite? How Christianity Transformed Yuletide
How should we engage with a holiday that feels both sacred and suspect? Every December, the clash of Christmas traditions and their perceived origins seems…
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Posted On CultureHow Shaboozey’s A Bar Song (Tipsy) became the unexpected smash hit of 2024
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) As Shaboozey’s A Bar Song (Tipsy) becomes one of the country’s most celebrated tracks in 2024, what made this tribute…
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Posted On CultureSex, suspense and danger in Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s ‘Motel Destino’
Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz delivers a tropical take on film noir in “Motel Destino”, an erotic thriller set on the sun-bleached shores of Northeastern Brazil.…
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Posted On CultureHow Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to…
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Posted On CultureWatch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical…
