The best free cultural & educational media on the web
The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Apple | ≅ 4 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: History | ≅ 5 Comments
William F. Buckley, Jr., the intellectual force behind the strand of conservatism that peaked with Ronald Reagan, died yesterday. (See NY Times obit.) Here, we have some vintage Buckley. The video clip below features Buckley and Gore Vidal going at it, almost coming to blows, during the contested presidential campaign of 1968. It offers a [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 7 Comments
Here’s a nice counterpoint to our post last week covering Susan Jacoby’s new book The Age of American Unreason and her lament that America has declined into a morass of anti-intellectualism and low expectations. Let’s set the scene: A reporter selects a young Barack Obama supporter at a rally and starts peppering him with questions [...]
≡ Category: Language Lessons | ≅ 3 Comments
We stumbled across this video (below) over on YouTube. It offers a quick survey of web resources that will teach you foreign languages for free. Among other items, the video mentions our Foreign Language Podcast Collection and, for that, we wanted to say thanks to whoever put this together. Subscribe to Our Feed
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Some of you may know GreenCine as a highbrow video-rental company, one that serves as an alternative to Netflix and Blockbuster. But the best thing about Greencine is its blog, maintained by David Hudson and updated several times a day. A thoughful and unpretentious collection of reviews, interviews, festivals and other worthwhile online film discussions, [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 3 Comments
“Tarantino’s Mind,” an award winning short film from Brazil, decodes the filmography of Quentin Tarantino, drawing connections most Tarantino fans might not have drawn themselves. Acting in the film is Seu Jorge, a great Brazilian musician (check this album out) who has gained recent fame in the US. The clip runs a good ten minutes. [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Great poster collection of Oscar winning films, from 1927 to this week. Check it out here. via Kottke.org
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ 1 Comment
The answer is our collection called Free Online Courses from Great Universities, of course. We spent some time this weekend adding new courses to the collection, and it now includes about 110 free courses in total. We’ve also made it easy to pop these courses on your iPod (or any other MP3 player). From our [...]
≡ Category: Stanford | ≅ Leave a Comment
Quick fyi: Starting Monday, you can sign up for online writing courses at Stanford. (See list below.) Offered by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Creative Writing Program (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 [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ Leave a Comment
As discussed in this NY Times article, HarperCollins has made a few of its books available online for free. You can read them from start to finish in digital format. But you can’t download them, and they’ll only be available for a few more weeks. (Presumably new books will be made available in the future.) [...]
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