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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 4 Comments
Here’s a quick little find for the poetry lover: A slew of early poems by Wallace Stevens, the great American poet, can now be downloaded as podcasts (iTunes). They include many classics — Anecdote of the Jar, The Emperor of Ice Cream, Peter Quince at the Clavier, Sunday Morning, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a [...]
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≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
E = mc2. It’s hands-down the most well known equation out there. But how many have the faintest idea what the equation really means? Not too long ago, PBS’ NOVA put together a “docudrama,” called Einstein’s Big Idea, which took a close look at how Einstein arrived at the equation and what it means. Along [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
Open Source, an always insightful public radio program, aired last week a show that took a broad look at the winners and losers of the Iraq war. Taking up a theme that was also recently explored in an edition of Foreign Policy magazine, the host, Christopher Lydon, spoke with a panel of experts from respected [...]
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Here’s a quick heads up: Starting today, you can
register for online writing courses at Stanford. Offered by Stanford
Continuing Studies and the Stanford Creative Writing Program (which is
one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online
courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live,
the chance to refine their craft in a [...]
≡ Category: Media | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here’s a different kind of podcast: You can now find on iTunes a new video podcast that features animated versions of The New Yorker’s famous cartoons. A venture called RingTales has apparently been given an exclusive license to animate and distribute The New Yorker’s library of over 70,000 cartoons. Each week, they’ll issue three new video [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 4 Comments
We spent some time this weekend overhauling our Arts & Culture Podcast Collection (plus creating a
new Science Podcast Collection), and, along the way, we dug up several good free podcasts for classical music fans. Here’s a quick overview of what we found:
With last year being the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, there was no [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 18 Comments
All in the Mind iTunes Feed Web Site
An Australian podcast that explores the mental universe – neuroscience really – and takes a clear look at everything from addiction to artificial intelligence
Astronomy Cast iTunes Feed Web Site
Take a weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos with Astronomy Cast.
Cambridge University Science Festival (Video) iTunes Web Site
CBC Quirks & Quarks Feed Web Site
Covers every aspect of science, from [...]
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A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source
"…the Middlebury history department notified its students this month that Wikipedia could not be cited in papers or exams, and that students could not “point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences of errors.
With the move, Middlebury, [...]
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Here’s a quick recap of what we brought you this week:
University Video Collection
The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes
Part 1: Learning the Languages of the New World Powers – Brazilian Portuguese
Part 2: Learning the Languages of the New World Powers – Russian
Part 3: Learning the Languages of the New World Powers [...]
≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society, Video - Science | ≅ 9 Comments
Note: Please don’t forget to visit our collection of Free Courses, which includes many courses from top universities in video.
Columbia Interactive
A gateway to selected electronic learning resources developed at Columbia University.
Duke University Law School
Webcasts of campus presentations.
Georgetown Law
A collection of lectures from Washington’s major law school.
Harvard @Home
More than 60 multimedia rich programs on [...]
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Here’s a new feature that we’ll do on a regular basis. If you know of goodies (podcasts, videos, etc.) related to what we generally discuss here, and if you think other readers might appreciate them, please drop us an email (or post your tips in the comments section below) and we’ll do our best to [...]
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Below, you’ll find iTunes’ ranking of the top 25 educational podcasts. For your convenience, we’ve included links to the feed for each podcast so that you can access it any way you like. We’ll aim to
update this list twice per month and highlight what’s new and worth listening to.
#1. Coffee Break Spanish iTunes Feed [...]
≡ Category: Business, Language Lessons | ≅ 3 Comments
This page will give you quick access to our four-part series, Learning the Languages of the New
World Powers. Here, you’ll find articles highlighting free podcasts that will help you travel and do business in China, India, Russia and Brazil. Below, we’ve listed the links to each article, plus the podcasts mentioned in each:
Part 1: [...]
≡ Category: Language Lessons | ≅ 2 Comments
China is the 800 pound gorilla among the new emerging world powers Its economy, says Goldman Sachs, may outsize every economy except the United States by 2016, and even surpass the US as soon as 2039. There is no point in belaboring things. China will be a force to be reckoned with.
According to yesterday’s New [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
Most of the outside world didn’t care. They didn’t even know what Steve Jobs was talking about. But within tech circles it was a big deal, a landmark moment. Jobs’ s anti-DRM manifesto, Thoughts on Music, moved us all closer to the day when music would be set free. (DRM = Digital Rights Management. [...]
≡ Category: Language Lessons | ≅ Leave a Comment
If you take even the slightest time to read the newspaper these days, you’ll know that the two
most important emerging powers are India and China. Goldman Sachs maintains that India has positioned itself to become a dominant global supplier of manufactured goods and services, and, in the coming decades, it’s economy will likely grow faster [...]
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The only downside to using a feed reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, MyYahoo, etc.) to access Open Culture
is that you won’t be able to see our podcast directories which reside
in our left nav bar. To assist you, we have pasted links below that
will give you direct access to the podcast collections. We’ll post this reminder from [...]
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Along with Brazil, Russia is the other junior member of the BRICs (see Part 1 for more on the BRIC concept.)
While it’s not necessarily the country that’s first on America’s list of future economic competitors, it’s expected to be a player. And, if Goldman Sachs is right, Russia, a resource-rich nation, will overtake Italy’s economy [...]
≡ Category: Language Lessons | ≅ 1 Comment
According to a much discussed report by Goldman Sachs, the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China — or what they collectively call the BRICs — are rapidly growing and could overshadow today’s major economic powers (including the US) by 2050. What does that mean for you? One thing is for sure: To stay competitive [...]
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