The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

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Update: The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Art has put online 492,000 high-res­o­lu­tion images of artis­tic works. Even bet­ter, the muse­um has placed the vast major­i­ty of these images into the pub­lic domain, mean­ing they can be down­loaded direct­ly from the museum’s web­site for non-com­mer­cial use. When you browse the Met col­lec­tion and find…

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

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Cre­ative Com­mons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the Nation­al Archives in Hol­land

One of the key ques­tions fac­ing both jour­nal­ists and loy­al oppo­si­tions these days is how do we stay hon­est as euphemisms and triv­i­al­iza­tions take over the dis­course? Can we use words like “fas­cism,” for exam­ple, with fideli­ty to the mean­ing of that word in…

How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs

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In a future where human­i­ty has been dri­ven under­ground by an apoc­a­lyp­tic event, a pris­on­er is haunt­ed by the child­hood mem­o­ry of see­ing a man gunned down at an air­port. A group of sci­en­tists make him their time-trav­el­ing guinea pig, hop­ing that he’ll be able to find a way to restore the soci­ety they once knew.…

Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate

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Back in 2021, Google released a series of cer­tifi­cate pro­grams, includ­ing one focused on Project Man­age­ment. Designed to give stu­dents “an immer­sive under­stand­ing of the prac­tices and skills need­ed to suc­ceed in an entry-lev­el project man­age­ment role,” the cer­tifi­cate pro­gram fea­tures six cours­es over­all, includ­ing:

• Foun­da­tions of Project Man­age­ment
• Project…

Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others

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Here on Hal­loween of 2024, we have a greater vari­ety of scary sto­ries — and arguably, a much scari­er vari­ety of scari­er sto­ries — to choose from than ever before. But what­ev­er their rel­e­vance to the spe­cif­ic lives we may live and the spe­cif­ic dreads we may feel today, how many such cur­rent works…