<?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>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[When Galileo Calculated the Precise Dimensions of Hell in Dante’s Inferno]]></title><description><![CDATA[We venerate Galileo Galilei for daring to speak the scientific truth in the face of severe institutional opposition. He publicly acknowledged that the Earth revolves around the Sun in a time when the Church would rather he didn&rsquo;t, displaying a bloody-mindedness that he seems to have acquired with age. Decades earlier, in the first stage of his career, he found himself (circa 1588) tasked by the Florentine Academy with calculating the precise dimensions of hell as described in Dante&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/when-galileo-calculated-the-precise-dimensions-of-hell-in-dantes-inferno/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/when-galileo-calculated-the-precise-dimensions-of-hell-in-dantes-inferno/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to 4+ Hours of Jazz &amp; Classical Music from Haruki Murakami&rsquo;s Novels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before he became a novelist, Haruki Murakami ran a jazz bar in Tokyo, and music has filled his novels ever since. For your listening pleasure, NTS Radio has created two playlists of the jazz and classical music referenced in his fiction. Together, they run nearly five hours and feature everyone from John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk to Schubert, Liszt, and Mozart. Our suggestion: Pick up a Murakami novel, press play, and let the music become the soundtrack to your reading. Enjoy!<br />
vi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/listen-to-4-hours-of-jazz-amp-classical-music-from-haruki-murakamirsquos-novels/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/listen-to-4-hours-of-jazz-amp-classical-music-from-haruki-murakamirsquos-novels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rage Against the Machines: From the Luddites to the AI Data Center Backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[One often-repeated anecdote about Milton Friedman has the famous economist visiting a canal under construction in nineteen-sixties China. Noticing the sheer number of human laborers digging away with shovels, he asked the official in charge why they weren&rsquo;t getting the work done faster with excavators and other modern machines. The bureaucrat explained to him that doing it by hand created more jobs. Friedman&rsquo;s reply: &ldquo;If it&rsquo;s jobs you want, you should give those men spoon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/rage-against-the-machines-from-the-luddites-to-the-ai-data-center-backlash/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/rage-against-the-machines-from-the-luddites-to-the-ai-data-center-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Reading Changes the Way Your Brain Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading is unnatural. This will hardly come as a surprise to any child trying to put off his homework for just one more hour of watching other kids play Minecraft. Yet there really are implications worth considering if we accept that our cognitive systems didn&rsquo;t evolve to process text in the same way as they evolved to handle vision and speech. Speaking on an evolutionary historical scale, &ldquo;we haven&rsquo;t had enough time to develop a dedicated reading brain,&rdquo; says UCLA neuros]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-reading-changes-the-way-your-brain-works/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-reading-changes-the-way-your-brain-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An In-Depth, Immersive Journey Through the Bayeux Tapestry]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the Bayeux Tapestry now on display at the British Museum, Deep Down History presents a deep dive into the embroidery&rsquo;s full story:<br />
&ldquo;The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most remarkable survivals of the Middle Ages &mdash; a 70 metre embroidered account of the events leading to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, culminating in the Battle of Hastings. This video tells the Tapestry&rsquo;s story in full, using Charles Stothard&rsquo;s early colour reproduction, presented here as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/an-in-depth-immersive-journey-through-the-bayeux-tapestry/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/an-in-depth-immersive-journey-through-the-bayeux-tapestry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Genius Logic of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet: How It Was Created &amp; How It Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of us can rattle off the first few words-that-stand-for-letters of the NATO phonetic alphabet. Alfa, Bravo, and Charlie no doubt come right to mind, and depending on how many war movies you&rsquo;ve seen, so may Delta, Echo, and Foxtrot. But how many of us would recognize Kilo, Mike, and Sierra? For that matter, how much do any of us know about how these particular words came to be used to spell out other words when communicating over walkie-talkies or other low-fidelity communication syste]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-genius-logic-of-the-nato-phonetic-alphabet-how-it-was-created-amp-how-it-works/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-genius-logic-of-the-nato-phonetic-alphabet-how-it-was-created-amp-how-it-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Radical Ideas of Plato’s Republic: An In-Depth Introduction]]></title><description><![CDATA[We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked by much of the reading material assigned to them. Counterintuitively, the texts that do retain their power to disturb young minds (presuming they can read texts in the first place) tend to skew old &mdash; and in one prominent case, about 2,400 years old. Even the most superficial interpretations of Plato&rsquo;s Republic challenge the political assumptions held by almost every student today, at least in the developed West. Many of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-radical-ideas-of-platos-republic-an-in-depth-introduction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-radical-ideas-of-platos-republic-an-in-depth-introduction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Silk Road Actually Worked (and What Could Go Terribly Wrong On It)]]></title><description><![CDATA[You don&rsquo;t have to spend a long time reading up on the Silk Road before you see the term itself (&ldquo;Silk Road&rdquo;) called a misnomer. In fact, what we refer to by that name comprises a whole network of trade routes connecting Asia, Africa, and Europe, whose traffic constantly shifted over a millennium and a half according to climatic, geopolitical, and civilizational conditions. Nor was silk the only, or even the primary type of good carried along those routes. From East to West went]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-the-silk-road-actually-worked-and-what-could-go-terribly-wrong-on-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-the-silk-road-actually-worked-and-what-could-go-terribly-wrong-on-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel &amp; Kant to Overturn Segregation in America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image by Dick DeMarsico, via Wikimedia Commons<br />
The influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the revolutionary philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is well known. Marx wrote a critique of Hegel&rsquo;s Philosophy of Right and claimed to have turned the German idealist philosopher on his head, and the development of Marxist theory among a school of neo-Hegelians, wrote Rebecca Cooper in 1925, occurred in a period &ldquo;peculiarly auspicious for the birth of a revolutionary social ph]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-martin-luther-king-jr-used-nietzsche-hegel-amp-kant-to-overturn-segregation-in-america/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-martin-luther-king-jr-used-nietzsche-hegel-amp-kant-to-overturn-segregation-in-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in 25,000-Year-Old Teeth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image by Fakhri<br />
&ldquo;Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth&rdquo; may sound like odd headline language, at least by the traditional standards of the New York&nbsp;Times. But then, the teeth in question are, indeed, really old. &ldquo;Archaeologists have pushed the timeline of human drug use back further than ever before by studying teeth that belonged to a hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia sometime from 16,000 to 25,000 years ago,&rdquo; writes reporte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/scientists-discover-the-earliest-evidence-of-drug-use-in-25000-year-old-teeth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/scientists-discover-the-earliest-evidence-of-drug-use-in-25000-year-old-teeth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Route 66 Turns 100 This Year: Take a Tour of America’s Most Famous Highway]]></title><description><![CDATA[This past summer, the United States of America celebrated 250 years of independence. But for a great many Americana-lovers around the world, this year also brings another, even more resonant date: the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Route 66. In the months leading up to November 11th, the official birthday of what John Steinbeck dubbed the &ldquo;Mother Road,&rdquo; tourists both foreign and domestic have seized the occasion to make the 2,448-mile drive of which they&rsquo;ve long drea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/route-66-turns-100-this-year-take-a-tour-of-americas-most-famous-highway/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/route-66-turns-100-this-year-take-a-tour-of-americas-most-famous-highway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896–1940)]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s an ungainly word for English speakers, which is maybe why we do not hear it often: Gleichschaltung. Yet the concept remains central for a clear view of what happened to Germany in the 1930s. In 1933, the nation completely transformed, seemingly overnight, through &ldquo;a concerted policy of &lsquo;coordination&rsquo; (Gleichschaltung),&rdquo; the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum writes. &ldquo;Culture, the economy, education, and law all came under Nazi control.&rdquo; Those artists a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/download-hundreds-of-issues-of-jugend-germanys-pioneering-art-nouveau-magazine-18961940/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/download-hundreds-of-issues-of-jugend-germanys-pioneering-art-nouveau-magazine-18961940/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ancient Greek Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, we&rsquo;re surrounded by technologies we could justifiably describe as time thieves. In ancient Greece, those who wanted to know where their time was going consulted a device they called a &ldquo;water thief.&rdquo; The roots of the clepsydra, or water clock, go back as far as the sixteenth century BC, with evidence of such devices found in modern-day Iraq, Iran, and Egypt, and more ambiguous evidence unearthed in places like India and China.&nbsp;The mechanism in the earliest examples t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-ancient-greek-water-clock-that-kept-the-most-accurate-time-for-1800-years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-ancient-greek-water-clock-that-kept-the-most-accurate-time-for-1800-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historian Timothy Snyder Teaches a Free Course on Hitler, Stalin &amp; How &ldquo;It&rdquo; Can Happen Here]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the historian Timothy Snyder left Yale for the University of Toronto in 2024, he took with him the practice of occasionally putting his course lectures online, making them available to anyone who cares to learn from them. Above, you can watch ten lectures from his recent course Hitler and Stalin Today. In this course:<br />
Snyder examines the Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared. The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/historian-timothy-snyder-teaches-a-free-course-on-hitler-stalin-amp-how-ldquoitrdquo-can-happen-here/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/historian-timothy-snyder-teaches-a-free-course-on-hitler-stalin-amp-how-ldquoitrdquo-can-happen-here/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s Secret Career as a Japanese Art Dealer &amp; How It Shaped His Architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright was often strapped for cash. In that respect, he had something in common with Vincent van Gogh, who passed most of his much shorter life in more dire circumstances. Unlike Wright, who enjoyed decades of fame at the pinnacle of the American architectural profession, van Gogh remained practically unknown until after his death. But if they&rsquo;ve encountered one another in the afterlife, they&rsquo;ve certainly discussed one subject above all others: their shared appreciation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/frank-lloyd-wrightrsquos-secret-career-as-a-japanese-art-dealer-amp-how-it-shaped-his-architecture/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/frank-lloyd-wrightrsquos-secret-career-as-a-japanese-art-dealer-amp-how-it-shaped-his-architecture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell Explains Why Karl Marx’s Philosophy Produced the Disaster of Communism]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1927, Bertrand Russell delivered a lecture titled &ldquo;Why I Am Not a Christian.&rdquo; At the time, such a declaration was still fairly bold, as was the reasoning he provided for it. Nearly three decades thereafter, he included in his collection Portraits from Memory another, shorter piece, &ldquo;Why I Am Not a Communist.&rdquo; That description was safe to apply to oneself in 1954, at least in the mainstream of the English-speaking world.&nbsp;It would have been riskier for those who mov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/bertrand-russell-explains-why-karl-marxs-philosophy-produced-the-disaster-of-communism/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/bertrand-russell-explains-why-karl-marxs-philosophy-produced-the-disaster-of-communism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet Lloyd Kahn, the Counterculture Publisher Who Is Skateboarding at 91]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lloyd Kahn worked as an insurance broker before quitting in 1965. Then, he took a turn into the DIY building movement that emerged with the 1960s counterculture. Soon enough, he found himself editing the influential Whole Earth Catalog and publishing Shelter in 1973, a book still considered the bible of hand-built homes. Now 91 years old, Lloyd remains active in publishing. He also continues to run, paddleboard, and skateboard, a sport he took up when he turned 65. How many people can say that?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/meet-lloyd-kahn-the-counterculture-publisher-who-is-skateboarding-at-91/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/meet-lloyd-kahn-the-counterculture-publisher-who-is-skateboarding-at-91/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many who read this will remember watching television on a black-and-white set at some point in their lives. Fewer will remember doing so because only black-and-white sets existed. Of course, your own experience will depend upon your country of origin. The United States began the transition to color television in 1953, and more than half of its population owned color sets less than twenty years thereafter. France&rsquo;s stations started to change over in 1967, and the last one did so in 1983. So]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/why-inventing-color-tv-was-so-difficult/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/why-inventing-color-tv-was-so-difficult/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wes Anderson Picks Nine of His Favorite Criterion Films]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many an internet cinephile has wondered aloud if the Criterion Closet is a real place, or just a set thrown together to make videos when famous directors like Christopher Nolan, Francis Ford Coppola, or Jim Jarmusch drop by. It turns out indeed to exist, not only at Criterion&rsquo;s offices in New York, but also elsewhere. The Criterion Mobile Closet, for example, has taken the label&rsquo;s home-video library on the road since 2024, the 40th anniversary of the company&rsquo;s foundation. If it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/wes-anderson-picks-nine-of-his-favorite-criterion-films/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/wes-anderson-picks-nine-of-his-favorite-criterion-films/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy]]></title><description><![CDATA[In some rare cases, adaptations and interpretations of a literary work can surpass the source. Despite hundreds of valiant efforts on the part of fans, filmmakers, game/toy designers, and radio producers, this has never been true of the fully-realized fantasy world in J.R.R. Tolkien&rsquo;s The Hobbit&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Lord of the Rings trilogy (not that it&rsquo;s ever been anyone&rsquo;s intent). As we noted in a previous post, Tolkien&rsquo;s fictional world is so intricate, its sources so v]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/discover-jrr-tolkiens-personal-book-cover-designs-for-the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/discover-jrr-tolkiens-personal-book-cover-designs-for-the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy/</guid></item></channel></rss>