<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Culture & Media - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Culture & Media news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even among the most acclaimed albums ever recorded, not a single one is perfect. That goes more so for the releases of what I call the &ldquo;heroic age of the album,&rdquo; which enjoyed its zenith around the late seventies. Not coincidentally, 1979 was the year that Pink Floyd put out The Wall, a rock opera whose sprawl across two discs deals with themes ranging from the bombings of the Second World War to drug dependency to fascist impulses to the isolation of superstardom. This ambition was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-conflict-helped-create-pink-floyds-comfortably-numb-and-its-legendary-guitar-solos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-conflict-helped-create-pink-floyds-comfortably-numb-and-its-legendary-guitar-solos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?&rdquo; asked Kurt Vonnegut in his autobiography Palm Sunday. His answer? His master&rsquo;s thesis in anthropology for the University of Chicago, &ldquo;which was rejected because it was so simple and looked like too much fun.&rdquo; The elegant simplicity and playfulness of Vonnegut&rsquo;s idea is exactly its enduring appeal. The idea is so simple, in fact, that Vonnegut sums the whole thing up in one elegant sentence: &ldquo;The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/kurt-vonnegut-diagrams-the-shape-of-all-stories-in-a-masters-thesis-rejected-by-u-chicago/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/kurt-vonnegut-diagrams-the-shape-of-all-stories-in-a-masters-thesis-rejected-by-u-chicago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes]]></title><description><![CDATA[References to Islam in major media can make it sound monolithic and eternal. But it&rsquo;s actually a much younger and less unified phenomenon than many of us imagine, especially if we happen to live outside the Middle East. As a religion, it dates back &ldquo;only&rdquo; to the seventh century, when it was founded by the Prophet Muhammad. As an engine of large-scale civilization, Islam took a bit longer to come into its own, and it hasn&rsquo;t stopped undergoing divisions, transformations, de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/an-introduction-to-the-islamic-world-1000-years-of-history-in-19-minutes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/an-introduction-to-the-islamic-world-1000-years-of-history-in-19-minutes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s almost 35 years ago now that Nirvana&rsquo;s video for &ldquo;Smells Like Teen Spirit&rdquo; debuted on MTV&rsquo;s 120 Minutes and, for better or worse, inaugurated the grunge era. The video (below) arrived as a shock and a thrill to a generation too young to remember punk and sick of the steady stream of cheesy corporate dance music and hair metal that characterized the late-80s. For everyone outside the small Seattle scene that nurtured them and the tape-trading kids in the know, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-first-live-performance-of-nirvanas-smells-like-teen-spirit-1991/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-first-live-performance-of-nirvanas-smells-like-teen-spirit-1991/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you grew up in the last few generations, chances are you didn&rsquo;t get much of an education, if any, in Latin or ancient Greek. One long-made argument for phasing them out of curricula in English-speaking countries holds that room must be made for Spanish, Mandarin, and other&nbsp;languages actually used at scale in the modern world. Nowadays, when even those classes face the pressure of extinction,&nbsp;advocacy for classical languages exudes an ever stronger contrarian appeal. &ldquo;Dea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-largest-bookshelf-tour-ever-filmed-inside-a-classicists-20000-volume-library/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-largest-bookshelf-tour-ever-filmed-inside-a-classicists-20000-volume-library/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since it was first built as a Mycenaean fortress in the thirteenth century BC, what we now know as the Acropolis has been used to worship not just Greek gods, but also, in later periods, the Virgin Mary and Allah. Now, of course, with its days of military and religious functions long behind it, it stands as a set of ruins. Still, they&rsquo;re very popular ruins, as evidenced by the crowds captured in the video above from Manuel Bravo. Though most tourists at the Acropolis come with the idea tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/a-tour-of-athens-acropolis-explained-with-3d-reconstructions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/a-tour-of-athens-acropolis-explained-with-3d-reconstructions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officially, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Demolition would take more than four years, and a few sections remain for memorial purposes, but it was on that date that passage between East and West Berlin &mdash; and thus East and West Germany &mdash; opened to all citizens of both countries. To say that it came as a surprise would be a serious understatement. Earlier that year, even the best informed observers were predicting that the wall would stand for at least a few more decades. Ea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/take-a-random-walk-around-the-berlin-wall-just-months-before-its-sudden-fall-summer-1989/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 13:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/take-a-random-walk-around-the-berlin-wall-just-months-before-its-sudden-fall-summer-1989/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1704, Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world sometime around (or after, &ldquo;but not before&rdquo;) the year 2060, using a strange series of mathematical calculations. Rather than study what he called the &ldquo;book of nature,&rdquo; he took as his source the supposed prophecies of the Book of Revelation. While such predictions have always been central to Christianity, it is startling for modern people to look back and see the famed astronomer and physicist indulging them. For Newton,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/mit-computer-program-predicts-in-1973-that-civilization-will-end-by-2040/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/mit-computer-program-predicts-in-1973-that-civilization-will-end-by-2040/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen” in Remarkably Restored Audio, Taken from a Rare Test Pressing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Johnson died at just 27 years old, some say as a consequence of selling his soul to the devil at a crossroads. But before his time came, he managed to record 29 songs, a scant body of work that nevertheless secured his artistic immortality as one of the most influential blues musicians of all time. It&rsquo;s unfortunate that his recordings, all of them made between 1936 and 1937 in less-than-ideal studio conditions even for the time, leave something to be desired in the audio quality dep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/hear-robert-johnsons-come-on-in-my-kitchen-in-remarkably-restored-audio-taken-from-a-rare-test-pressing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 11:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/hear-robert-johnsons-come-on-in-my-kitchen-in-remarkably-restored-audio-taken-from-a-rare-test-pressing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revisit Daily Life in China in 1917 Through Footage Enhanced and Colorized by AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even for Americans, keeping up with the geopolitical entanglements of the United States has never been an easy task. More than a century ago, just a few months after their country got involved in what&rsquo;s now known as World War I, they got word that the military of a distant nation had joined their side: China, whose image would have been both opaque and forbiddingly vast. A dozen years before&nbsp;they&rsquo;d even heard the name Pearl S. Buck,&nbsp;what impressions of that country they had]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/revisit-daily-life-in-china-in-1917-through-footage-enhanced-and-colorized-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/revisit-daily-life-in-china-in-1917-through-footage-enhanced-and-colorized-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Would Be King of the United States If George Washington Had Become a Monarch?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The young George Washington may never have hacked up his father&rsquo;s cherry tree and refused to lie about it, but his life nevertheless offers plenty of deeds both virtuous and adequately documented. It was no small thing, for instance, to refuse to seek a third term as the first President of the United States of America &mdash; much less to exchange that title for &ldquo;King of the United States of America.&rdquo; As every enthusiast of American history knows, this set the precedent, only o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/who-would-be-king-of-the-united-states-if-george-washington-had-become-a-monarch/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/who-would-be-king-of-the-united-states-if-george-washington-had-become-a-monarch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy Three Hours of Free Nature Videos Narrated by David Attenborough]]></title><description><![CDATA[For your weekend viewing pleasure, enjoy three hours of David Attenborough narrating free nature videos from the BBC. Attenborough just turned 100 this month, and he&rsquo;s still going strong!<br />
via Kottke<br />
If you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making&nbsp;a donation to our site. It&rsquo;s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your contributions will help us continue providing the best free cultural and educational materials to learners everywhere. You can contribute through]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/enjoy-three-hours-of-free-nature-videos-narrated-by-david-attenborough/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/enjoy-three-hours-of-free-nature-videos-narrated-by-david-attenborough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lost Scenes of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons Are Being Controversially Restored with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[When television mogul Ted Turner died earlier this month, it gave cinephiles occasion to remember his&nbsp;brief but high-profile foray into colorization. In the mid-nineteen-eighties, he commissioned for broadcast colorized versions of more than 100 classic movies, from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre to It&rsquo;s a Wonderful Life to Casablanca. It was only thanks to a clause specifying a black-and-white picture&nbsp;in Orson Welles&rsquo; contract with RKO&nbsp;that&nbsp;Citizen Kane&nbsp;ne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-lost-scenes-of-orson-welles-the-magnificent-ambersons-are-being-controversially-restored-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-lost-scenes-of-orson-welles-the-magnificent-ambersons-are-being-controversially-restored-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Book of the Bible Explained in One Video]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether we&rsquo;re religious or not, we can all agree that the Bible isn&rsquo;t just a book. In fact, it&rsquo;s at least 66 of them, 39 Old Testament and 27 in the New, and that&rsquo;s just in the Protestant tradition. Even if you&rsquo;ve never read a single page of the Bible, you may well have a decent idea of what quite a few of those books contain: the stories of Adam, Eve, Noah, and the creation in Genesis; the plagues and Moses parting the Red Sea in Exodus; the various depictions of J]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/every-book-of-the-bible-explained-in-one-video/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/every-book-of-the-bible-explained-in-one-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Through the Afterlife]]></title><description><![CDATA[Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last case, since the two civilizations&rsquo; periods of existence overlapped. The Greeks made no secret of their regard for Egypt as a far deeper well of knowledge and wisdom (indeed, much of what we know about ancient Egypt today comes from Greek records), but archaeological evidence shows that the Egyptians, in turn, we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/archaeologists-discover-ancient-egyptian-mummy-buried-with-pages-from-homers-iliad-when-literature-guided-souls-through-the-afterlife/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/archaeologists-discover-ancient-egyptian-mummy-buried-with-pages-from-homers-iliad-when-literature-guided-souls-through-the-afterlife/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read Joan Didion’s Lost Interview with the Grateful Dead (1967)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Without wanting to make too broad a generalization, it&rsquo;s safe to say that&nbsp;Saturday Evening Post readers probably didn&rsquo;t understand much about what was going on in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. Or they didn&rsquo;t, at least, until the magazine ran &ldquo;Slouching Towards Bethlehem,&rdquo; Joan Didion&rsquo;s simultaneous report from and obituary for the drug-fueled seeker scene that had formed around Haight-Ashbury. Quite possibly her single most widely known piece]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/read-joan-didions-lost-interview-with-the-grateful-dead-1967/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/read-joan-didions-lost-interview-with-the-grateful-dead-1967/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Moment When Superman Fought Prejudice in America Instead of Villains (1950)]]></title><description><![CDATA[It makes sense that Superman would take a tolerant view of immigrants and other minorities, given that he himself arrived on Earth as a refugee from the planet Krypton.<br />
The Man of Steel may strike you as an unlikely mouthpiece for progressive ideals, but 1950 found him on a book cover,&nbsp;above, engaged in conversation with a small crowd of mostly white boys:<br />
&ldquo;&hellip;and remember, boys and girls, your school &ndash; like our country &ndash; is made up of Americans of many different rac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-forgotten-moment-when-superman-fought-prejudice-in-america-instead-of-villains-1950/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-forgotten-moment-when-superman-fought-prejudice-in-america-instead-of-villains-1950/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Influential Philosophers Explained in 26 Minutes: From Socrates to Wittgenstein]]></title><description><![CDATA[The question of who are the fifteen most influential philosophers of all time may not arise at every conversation down at the pub &mdash; not outside the circle of Open Culture readers, in any case. But even among non-specialists, it could spark a livelier debate than you might imagine. Names like&nbsp;Socrates,&nbsp;Aristotle,&nbsp;Descartes, and&nbsp;Marx&nbsp;are known, after all, even among the general public who&rsquo;ve never read a page of philosophical text. All of them appear in&nbsp;th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-most-influential-philosophers-explained-in-26-minutes-from-socrates-to-wittgenstein/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-most-influential-philosophers-explained-in-26-minutes-from-socrates-to-wittgenstein/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch the Moment When the Wreck of the Titanic Was First Discovered (1985)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The wreck of the RMS Titanic has never ceased to command attention, from pop-cultural fascination to scientific scrutiny and everything in between. That can make it seem, especially to the younger generations, as if humanity has been gazing upon its remains since they first settled at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. In fact, the precise location of the shipwreck went unknown for more than 73 years, between the day of the disaster, April 15th, 1912, and that of the discovery, September 1,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/watch-the-moment-when-the-wreck-of-the-titanic-was-first-discovered-1985/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/watch-the-moment-when-the-wreck-of-the-titanic-was-first-discovered-1985/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happened to Jesus’ Twelve Disciples After the Bible—It Wasn’t Pretty]]></title><description><![CDATA[The stories in the Bible have been told in many ways, not least through film. Among the many cinematic adaptations of Christianity&rsquo;s holy book, none comes to mind that ends with freeze-frame title cards explaining the later fate of each character, in the manner of Animal House,&nbsp;American Graffiti, or&nbsp;Goodfellas. This is surprising, since that device could do much to satisfy our curiosity about so many secondary Biblical figures. Take the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ, whose liv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/what-happened-to-jesus-twelve-disciples-after-the-bibleit-wasnt-pretty/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/what-happened-to-jesus-twelve-disciples-after-the-bibleit-wasnt-pretty/</guid></item></channel></rss>