We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it's hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifti...

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CHEYENNE, WY—After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the Cheyenne Fire Department Monday. “Although the commun...

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We appreciate illuminated manuscripts and historical books here on Open Culture, adhere though we do to a much more restrained aesthetic style in our own texts.

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Charlie Chaplin started appearing in his first films in 1914---40 films, to be precise---and, by 1915, the United States had a major case of 'Chaplinitis.' Chaplin mustaches were suddenly popping up e...

As a fiber artist who often makes art quilts, I inhabit both the quilt world and the art world. In recent years, there have been artworks refused or not hung in quilt, and sometimes art, shows. The la...