A sprawling home near Zion National Park asks $12 million
Five low-slung buildings step across a rocky hillside near Zion National Park in southern Utah , forming a desert residence designed by Los Angeles architectur…
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harry houdini died 100 years ago this halloween: was he really killed…
This Halloween marks the 100th anniversary of the death of famed escape artist Harry Houdini. Today, most of us know more about the manner of that death than we do about any of the feats of escape artistry that made him famous in the first place.
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leaked mass effect 5 trailer is being "re-scored" by one of the…
The leaked Mass Effect Universe trailer is being "re-scored" by Sam Hulick, one of the original trilogy's composers.
rockpapershotgun.com
Nike Promo Codes and Discounts: 30% for October 2026
Check out our deals for Nike this October 2026, including 15% off select purchases.
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awkwafina had zero culinary skills, but her new show changed that
How a comedian with no culinary skills—and a legendary restaurant lineage—learned to hold her own in the kitchen
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why cleopatra, lawrence of arabia, ben-hur & other hollywood classics still look so good
Cleopatra cost Twentieth Century Fox $44 million, by the studio's own estimate. That may sound like the budget of one of those genre pictures that winds up going straight to streaming, but if we convert those 1963 dollars into current ones, it comes out to $480 million.
openculture.com
english words with the most repeated letters
Patrick Foote of Name Explain explores the fascinating world of unusual English words that repeat individual letters an extraordinary number of times.
laughingsquid.com
a fascinating 3d timelapse showing the evolution of rome from 1000 bce to 2026
Christian Ivan of City 3D Timelapse created a fascinating 3D timelapse showing Rome's evolution from 1000 BCE to 2026.
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stunning choreographed performance on a rotating staircase bathed in pink in front…
Yoann Bourgeois and his dance company performed on a rotating staircase-trampoline before the pink-lit Eiffel Tower for the 2026 Pink October campaign.
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seven storytelling techniques steve jobs used in his captivating apple presentations
Filmmaker Andrew Muir examines seven storytelling techniques Steve Jobs used in his Apple presentations, from the 1980s through the 2007 iPhone launch.
laughingsquid.com
researchers find two bird species with calls as loud as jackhammers
UMass Amherst researchers measured calls from 123 bird species and found that bare-throated bellbirds and red-legged seriemas can rival jackhammers.
laughingsquid.com
3d printed concrete sculptures blend classical fragments with sci-fi forms at frieze sculpture
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Tudor Watch Feels At Home In San Diego As We Visit The…
If there were a city in the United States that could best be compared to the Swiss watch brand Tudor, it would probably be San Diego, California. If sister brand Rolex feels most at home in Manhattan, then Tudor is most certainly the monarch of the West Coast’s dynamic yet chill beachside metropolis. San Diego […]
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molly sugar’s “dear public lands” mini-zine
Molly Sugar's latest zine, in collaboration with The Wilderness Society, invites readers to reflect on public lands and why they matter...
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how alan turing and his fellow codebreakers broke the nazis’ “unbreakable” enigma code
There was a time when you could just go out and buy an Enigma machine.
openculture.com
the stooge mk-moto is coming this fall
Instead of ordering another run of Speedbombs, Stooge Cycles dreamed up another klunker-inspired rigid mountain bike: the MK-Moto...
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watch interplanetary revolution (1924): the most bizarre soviet animated propaganda film you’ll ever see
In 1924, Zenon Komissarenko, Youry Merkulov and Nikolai Khodataev produced Interplanetary Revolution, which might just be one of the strangest Soviet propaganda films ever produced.
openculture.com
deep-sea crab carries anemone like a spiky backpack
An ROV launched from the E/V Nautilus captured footage of a deep-sea carrier crab holding an anemone over its back like a spiky backpack.
laughingsquid.com
The Enshittification Resistant Software
A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.
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the radical ideas of plato’s republic: an in-depth introduction
We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked by much of the reading material assigned to them.
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danny macaskill rides norway’s rugged granite slabs beneath the midnight sun on an e-bike
Professional street trials rider Danny MacAskill rides the granite slabs of Narvik, Norway, on an e-bike beneath the midnight sun.
laughingsquid.com
figure-eight knot casts into a glass light sculpture projecting shifting shadows
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how leonardo da vinci’s procrastination contributed to his creativity
At the height of their productivity as Beatles, neither Paul McCartney nor John Lennon could read or write music notation. Clearly it didn't keep them from making a cultural impact, and as with so much else in life, they regarded it humorously.
openculture.com
‘weird al’ yankovic sings a catchy song about how the human brain works
"Weird Al" Yankovic answers a question from Paul McCartney about how the human brain works in a humorous 3D short that culminates in a catchy song.
laughingsquid.com
rocket-mounted dji osmo action 6 cameras capture spectacular footage of orbital launch and re-entry
DJI mounted 12 Osmo Action 6 cameras on LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 reusable rocket, capturing continuous POV footage from liftoff through re-entry and landing.
laughingsquid.com
why reading egyptian hieroglyphics is easier than you think
We've featured Egyptologist Ilona Regulski here on Open Culture a few times before. Once, she explained how to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs; another time, she told us what the Rosetta Stone actually says.
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cosplayer dressed as darth vader satirically defends the use of flock cameras…
An unidentified Darth Vader cosplayer satirically defended Flock cameras at a San Diego City Council Public Safety Committee meeting.
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amusing puppets made from paper towel rolls
Artist Troy Picou created amusing puppets from paper towel roll cores, including characters from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
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compassionate man incubates six abandoned emu eggs and repairs a hatched shell…
Alwyn Wils of "A Chick Called Albert" incubated six abandoned emu eggs, found two viable, and later repaired a hatched shell with gold leaf.
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