Tag: Open Culture

An Animated John Coltrane Explains His True Reason for Being: “I Want to Be a Force for Real Good”

Read the wonderful article at Openculture.com.

Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation Featuring Grace Slick

There’s fascinating info at Open Culture.

1969 was the year of “Sesame Street’s” debut, and even for the ’60s it’s hard to believe this was kids’ programming. But excellent. (The Dark Matters peeps were late ’60s babies, so we only saw Jazzy Spies in reruns. Very memorable, though.)

Download 22,000+ Golden & Silver Age Comic Books from the Comic Book Plus Archive

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Professor Ronald Mallett Wants to Build a Time Machine in this Century

… and He’s Not Kidding

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74 Essential Books for Your Personal Library: A List Curated by Female Creatives

Click here to read at OpenCulture.com.

Not all white! And genre lit included!

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Author Louise Erdrich signs a book for a fan at the reception following the 2012 Barbara Ballinger Lecture.

(Sources: Flickr, http://www.historylink.org/)

600+ Covers of Philip K. Dick Novels from Around the World: Greece, Japan, Poland & Beyond

Open Culture article here…

See entire collection of Philip K. Dick covers here…

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7 Short Stories by Junot Díaz Free Online, In Text and Audio

Openculture.com tells us all about it.

Download Over 22,000 Golden & Silver Age Comic Books

Free from the Comic Book Plus Archive

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Ponders the Big Question “Does the Universe Have a Purpose?” in a Simple Animation

Read about it at Openculture.com.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read

Some Fine Additions to Your ‘Must Read’ List

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