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Quads vs. Aces Full – Dan Colman vs. Christoph Vogelsang | PSC Bahamas (via)

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Poker Pro Dan Smith Raises $1.7 Million for Charity

Dan Smith, with the assistance of 134 others, has raised $1.7 million in his 2016 charity drive. Smith said he would match the donations up to $175,000 to the following charities: 350.org, Against Malaria Foundation, Give Directly, Just City, Liberation Prison Yoga, Lineage Project, MAPS (Zendo), Massachusetts Bail Fund, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), and GiveWell. Those who wanted to…

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Open Culture was founded in 2006 with a mission to “bring together high-quality cultural and educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.” Open_Culture_1 Founder and lead editor, Dan Colman, also serves as the Director and Associate Dean of Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program.  Although the website is not affiliated with Stanford University, the content and focus on continued learning reflects Dr. Colman’s vested enthusiasm and interest in reaching a wide audience of learners by providing a gateway for content that is—for the most part—freely available.

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excellent reading | Michio Kaku Schools Takes on Moon Landing-Conspiracy Believer on His Science Fantastic Podcast

For every major world event, there’s a conspiracy theory to go along with it. Skeptics, kooks and cranks didn’t wait for the dust to settle before they started speculating on the real dark forces behind the 9/11 attacks. And the same happened decades earlier when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon. No sooner had Armstrong said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” than conspiracy theorists started claiming that the moon landing was really an elaborate production staged by Stanley Kubrick and other Hollywood filmmakers. That strange line of thinking was explored in William Karel’s 2002 mockumentary, Dark Side of the Moon. But despite the derision, the moon conspiracies go on today. Take this exchange for example. It comes from a May 2011 episode of the Science Fantastic podcast hosted by well-known physicist Michio Kaku. Amusingly, the clip walks you through the main claims of the moon landing conspiracy theory and the reasonable rejoinders to them. You can catch all 59 episodes of Kaku’s Science Fantastic podcast here: iTunes - Web - Feed

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excellent reading | Salvador Dalí Sketches Five Spanish Immortals: Cervantes, Don Quixote, El Cid, El Greco & Velázquez

A few weeks back, we brought you Salvador Dalí’s 100 Illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy and mentioned that we were saving Dalí’s drawings of Don Quixote for another day. Well, that day has come.

In the early 1960s, a Swiss publisher commissioned Dalí to create a print edition celebrating five real and imagined figures who loom large in the Spanish cultural imagination. The collection was called The Five Spanish Immortals, and it featured sketches of Cervantes, Europe’s first great novelist and his unforgettable protagonist, Don Quixote. The book also paid homage to the medieval hero El Cid; the master painter El Greco; and Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez — someone The Met calls “the most admired—perhaps the greatest—European painter who ever lived.” Cervantes appears above, and the remaining quartet below.

Don Quixote

El Cid

El Greco

Velázquez

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excellent reading | Carl Sagan’s Undergrad Reading List: From Plato and Shakespeare, to Huxley and Gide

Earlier this year, we brought you Neil de Grasse Tyson’s List of 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read. The list generated a lot of buzz and debate. Indeed you, the readers, contributed 133 comments to the post, a record for us. Given your enthusiasm, you might want to check this out – a newly-discovered reading list from the man who mentored Tyson as a youth and laid the foundation for Tyson’s current role as public scientist/intellectual. Yes, we’re talking about Carl Sagan.

Last month, The Library of Congress acquired a collection of Carl Sagan’s papers, which included Sagan’s 1954 reading list from his undergrad days at The University of Chicago. There are some heady scientific texts here, to be sure. But also some great works from the Western philosophical and literary tradition. We’re talking Plato’s Republic, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, The Bible, Gide’s The Immoralist, and Huxley’s Young Archimedes. It’s just the kind of texts you’d expect a true humanist like Sagan — let alone a UChicago grad — to be fully immersed in.

If you want to participate in the same intellectual tradition, we suggest visiting our previous post, The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection, which puts 51 volumes of essential works right at your fingertips.

You can view Sagan’s list in a large format here.

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excellent reading | Alfred Hitchcock’s Rules for Watching Psycho (1960)

Psycho, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic films, didn’t come together very easily. Hitchcock’s studio, Paramount Pictures, didn’t like anything about the film and denied him a proper budget. So the director went solo and funded the film through his television company Shamley Productions. The budget was tight — less than $1,000,000. Costs were firmly controlled. Hence why, in 1960, the film was shot in black and white.

When Psycho hit theaters, Hitchcock controlled the promotion. The stars – Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh — didn’t make the usual rounds in the media. Critics weren’t given private screenings. And Hitchcock created buzz for the film when he exerted directorial control over the viewing experience of the audience. Showings of the film began on a tightly-controlled schedule in theatres in New York, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia. And a firm “no late admission” policy was put in place. You either saw the film from the very beginning, or you didn’t see it all. Signs appeared in front of cinemas reading:

We won’t allow you to cheat yourself. You must see PSYCHO from the very beginning. Therefore, do not expect to be admitted into the theatre after the start of each performance of the picture. We say no one — and we mean no one — not even the manager’s brother, the President of the United States, or the Queen of England (God bless her)!

Theatre managers initially balked at the idea, fearing financial losses. But Hitchcock had his way. And he was right. Long lines formed outside the theaters. Psycho enjoyed critical and commercial success, so much so the film was re-released in 1965.

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excellent reading | A Child’s Introduction to Jazz by Cannonball Adderley (with Louis Armstrong & Thelonious Monk)

In 1961, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, the jazz saxophonist best known for his work on Miles Davis’ epic album Kind of Blue (listen here), narrated a children’s introduction to jazz music. Part of a larger series of educational albums for children, this 12-inch LP offered an “easy-going, conversational discussion of the highlights of the jazz story,” highlighting the “major styles and great performers” that began in New Orleans and spread beyond. Included on the album are some legendary jazz figures — Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Sidney Bechet, Thelonious Monk, and, of course, Cannonball himself. The album, A Child’s Introduction to Jazz, has long been out of circulation. But you can catch it on YouTube, or above.

Thanks to James for telling us about this album on our Facebook page. Feel free to message us good ideas for posts at Facebook or cc: us on Twitter (cc: @openculture). And then there’s always old-fashioned email.

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