JOANI TAYLOR

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CANADIAN RECORDING ARTIST. JUNO NOMINATED, BC HALL OF FAME MENTOR/SINGING AND PERFORMANCE COACH , DOG LOVER, NEVER CONSERVATIVE. I LOVE FILMS MAKE MUSIC, NOT WAR🍁🇨🇦🇺🇸 .

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · 20h
How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop” www.openculture.com/2021/02/how-...
How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop”

Jazz and hip hop have been in a lively conversation in recent years, breaking new ground for both forms, as the work of artists like Kendrick Lamar and his collaborators amply shows.

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David Lynch Lists His Favorite Films & Directors, Including Fellini, Wilder, Tati & Hitchcock www.openculture.com/2013/09/davi...
David Lynch Lists His Favorite Films & Directors, Including Fellini, Wilder, Tati & Hitchcock

At least a few of you — more than a few, I'd wager — think of David Lynch as your favorite filmmaker.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Creates a List of the 10 Traits Every Aspiring Artist Needs www.openculture.com/2018/07/fran...
Frank Lloyd Wright Creates a List of the 10 Traits Every Aspiring Artist Needs

No figure looms larger over American architecture than Frank Lloyd Wright. From the early 1890s to the early 1920s he established himself as the builder of dozens of striking, stylistically innovative...

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How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction www.openculture.com/2025/01/how-...
How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction

Frank Lloyd Wright is unlikely to be displaced as the archetype of the genius architect anytime soon, at least in America, but even he had to start somewhere.

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How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities www.openculture.com/2025/05/how-...
How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities

The idea of discovering a lost ancient city underground has long captured the human imagination. But why are the abandoned built environments of those fantasies always buried? The answer, in large par...

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 14
John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & Two Citations www.openculture.com/2025/05/john...
John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & Two Citations

When John Nash wrote 'Non-Cooperative Games,' his Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton in 1950, the text of his thesis (read it online) was brief. It ran only 26 pages. And more particularly, it was light ...

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 13
How a Student’s Phone Call Averted a Skyscraper Collapse: The Tale of the Citicorp Center www.openculture.com/2025/05/how-...
How a Student’s Phone Call Averted a Skyscraper Collapse: The Tale of the Citicorp Center

The Citigroup Center in Midtown Manhattan is also known by its address, 601 Lexington Avenue, at which it's been standing for 47 years, longer than the median New Yorker has been alive.

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 13
How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age www.openculture.com/2025/05/how-...
How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age

It can be tempting to view the box office's domination by visual-effects-laden Hollywood spectacle as a recent phenomenon.

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 13
How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age www.openculture.com/2025/05/how-...
How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age

It can be tempting to view the box office's domination by visual-effects-laden Hollywood spectacle as a recent phenomenon.

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 12
How Our Depiction of Jesus Changed Over 2,000 Years and What He May Have Actually Looked Like www.openculture.com/2025/05/how-...
How Our Depiction of Jesus Changed Over 2,000 Years and What He May Have Actually Looked Like

Whether or not you believe Jesus Christ is the son of God, you probably envision him (or, if you prefer, Him) in much the same way as most everyone else does. The long hair and beard, the robe, the sa...

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 10
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Conservative Texas School Board Voted Out In Terrifying Sign For Republicans

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 10
George Orwell’s Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea: A Short Animation www.openculture.com/2025/05/geor...
George Orwell’s Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea: A Short Animation

Several years back, Colin Marshall highlighted George Orwell's essay, 'A Nice Cup of Tea,' which first ran in the Evening Standard on January 12, 1946. In that article, Orwell weighed in on a subject ...

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 9
What If COVID Reinfections Wear Down Our Immunity? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
What If COVID Reinfections Wear Down Our Immunity? | The Tyee

Dr. Anthony Leonardi is a lightning rod for debate. If he’s right, this pandemic poses a greater threat than widely assumed.

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 9
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Kiss the Ring, Swipe the Card

Once hidden in shadows, the grift now struts in daylight—Trump turned corruption into currency, and the GOP? They’re not fighting it—they’re franchising it.

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 9
Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel & Explore Michelangelo’s Masterpieces Up Close www.openculture.com/2025/05/take...
Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel & Explore Michelangelo’s Masterpieces Up Close

Today, 133 cardinals from around the world enter the conclave to determine the next pope, during which they'll cast their votes in the Sistine Chapel.

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 9
A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About www.openculture.com/2025/05/a-ja...
A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About

Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought over from India and later refined in Japan, Zen Buddhism has long appealed to Westerners as well.

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 9
The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life www.openculture.com/2025/05/the-...
The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life

Who wants to be a billionaire? A few years ago, Forbes published author Roberta Chinsky Matuson’s sensible advice to businesspeople seeking to shoot up that golden ladder.

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 8
Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860) www.openculture.com/2025/05/hear...
Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860)

When inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville sang a nursery rhyme into his phonoautogram in 1860, he had no plans to ever play back this recording. A precursor to the wax cylinder, the phonoautogra...

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 8
Was William Shakespeare’s Marriage Closer—and Less Estranged—Than We Thought?: A 17th-Century Letter Changes What We Know About the Bard’s Life. www.openculture.com/2025/05/was-...
Was William Shakespeare’s Marriage Closer—and Less Estranged—Than We Thought?: A 17th-Century Letter Changes What We Know About the Bard’s Life.

Image via Hereford Cathedral and Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust At this point, every aspect of William Shakespeare's life has produced more speculation than any of us could digest in a lifetime. That goes...

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JOANI TAYLOR joanitaylor.bsky.social · May 8
How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom www.openculture.com/2025/05/how-...
How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom

Lars Schmitz, a professor at Claremont McKenna College, guides us 'through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have...

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How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop”

David Lynch Lists His Favorite Films & Directors, Including Fellini, Wilder, Tati & Hitchcock

Frank Lloyd Wright Creates a List of the 10 Traits Every Aspiring Artist Needs

How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction

How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities

John Nash’s Super Short PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & Two Citations

How a Student’s Phone Call Averted a Skyscraper Collapse: The Tale of the Citicorp Center

How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age

How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age

How Our Depiction of Jesus Changed Over 2,000 Years and What He May Have Actually Looked Like

Conservative Texas School Board Voted Out In Terrifying Sign For Republicans

George Orwell’s Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea: A Short Animation

What If COVID Reinfections Wear Down Our Immunity? | The Tyee

Kiss the Ring, Swipe the Card

Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel & Explore Michelangelo’s Masterpieces Up Close

A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About

The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life

Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860)

Was William Shakespeare’s Marriage Closer—and Less Estranged—Than We Thought?: A 17th-Century Letter Changes What We Know About the Bard’s Life.

How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom