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≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
This seemed like a logical follow up to our recent post “10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube,” which highlighted some of the enriching video collections on YouTube. Here’s a playlist that centralizes the YouTube videos that we’ve recently highlighted on our site. Think of it as the Open Culture YouTube Collection, or another way [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
Let’s do a quick recap of the final posts of the year, which included some popular ones. Happy new year to all. 10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (Smart Video Collections) 10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget Betting Against Google’s Answer to Wikipedia Yale Launches Open Courses A Conversation with [...]
≡ Category: Google, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 23 Comments
(UPDATED: See 70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube) It’s been a constant lament that YouTube offers its users scant little intellectual content. And that content is itself hard to find. Just visit YouTube’s so-called Education Section, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find anything actually educational. But the good news is that we’re seeing some [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Web/Tech | ≅ 37 Comments
The iPod can supercharge your learning. But it’s often a matter of finding the right software and content. Below, we’ve listed several new pieces of software that will let you suck more educational media (DVDs, web videos, audio files, etc.) into your iPod. And we’ve also listed some important pieces of content that will make [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Politics, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 2 Comments
Again, no commentary needed. Informative in many ways, Bhutto’s talk was taped at the Council on Foreign Relations in August. More info here. Subscribe to Our Feed
≡ Category: Books | ≅ 1 Comment
Quick fyi: The book critics of The New York Times have selected their favorite books of 2007. These are the books that they mention to friends, or recommend that you take on vacation. You’ll find here 30 good reads in all. Now how about your favorite book of ’07? Share them with other Open Culture [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Great historical footage. No commentary really needed. (If you want to see the liftoff, look here.)
≡ Category: Audio Books | ≅ 2 Comments
Let me serve up a quick few bits of audio for the holiday. Let’s start with a free podcast of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Written in 1843, Dicken’s tale remains one of the most popular Christmas stories of all time. It gave us the indelible characters of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts [...]
≡ Category: MIT, Uncategorized | ≅ 1 Comment
During a week when university podcasts received widespread attention (thanks to a very popular article in the NY Times), we’ve kept a close eye on the high-ranking podcasts on iTunesU. Quite consistently, one podcast — How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps? — has ranked at the top. It currently sits in the #2 position, right [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Fake Steve Jobs, a wildly popular blog written by Daniel Lyons, an editor at Forbes, has been goofing on the real Steve Jobs all year. And now things have taken an odd turn. During the same week that Apple apparently shut down ThinkSecret.com (an Apple rumor site) in exchange for cash, Apple may be applying [...]
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