The 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…
Category: Culture
How 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…
Pianists 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…
How 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…
If 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…
How 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…
An 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…
When 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…
The 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…
The 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…
Holy 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…
How 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…
Sex, 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…
How 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…
Watch 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,…