Popular Culture
Ole Rømer features in the game Empire: Total War as a gentleman under Denmark.
In the 1960s, the comic-book superhero The Flash on a number of occasions would measure his velocity in "Roemers", in honour of Ole Rømer's "discovery" of the speed of light.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers—and in people’s minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)