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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Animated and directed by Jeff Chiba Stearns. The short film is the winner of the Prix du Public at Clermont-Ferrand.
≡ Category: Life, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
A little public service announcement… Dan Buettner, a writer for National Geographic, has studied the world’s longest-lived peoples. Most of his findings are summed up in his book, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest. And here, in this video, he boils things down even further, giving you 9 [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Yale | ≅ 5 Comments
After he left office in 2007, Tony Blair went across the pond and spent time teaching at Yale. Exit Prime Minister Blair. Enter Professor Blair. During the 2008-09 academic year, Blair and Miroslav Volf co-taught “Faith and Globalization,” a course designed to help students understand the two intertwined forces shaping our world. In some ways, religion [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Two days ago, NASA’s Solar and Helioscopic Observatory (SOHO) captured a comet doing its best Icarus imitation. You can see the comet’s misstep at the end of the clip above. You can also find still shots over at the Daily Mail.
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
If you’re completely new to the concept of “open” courses, then this primer is worth a good look. The new edition of the AARP Bulletin (which targets millions of Americans over the age of 50) tells you where to find open courses, what software you might need, how to store files, etc. We get a little [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ 3 Comments
Last year, Michael Sandel made a splash when he put online his popular Harvard philosophy course, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Over the past 30 years, more than 14,000 Harvard students have taken his course. And now you can access the course online at no cost. (Details here.) In recent days, Sandel has [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 1 Comment
What do you have here? Lava flowing from a deep-ocean seafloor volcano, exploding into 35 foot long streams with bubbles as much as 3 feet across. This kind of action has never been witnessed before. (Somewhat surprising, no?) This clip comes out of The University of Washington. And the real action, which takes place near [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 2 Comments
In November 2007, Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft orbited the moon with a high-def camera onboard. You can see the first HD footage of an “earthrise” and “earthset” by checking out these still images (Earthrise and Earthset). The video above gives you a good look at what an “Earthrise” looks like from outer space.
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ 2 Comments
Just a quick note: our collection of Free Courses from top universities was getting a bit long, pushing toward 275 courses. So we decided to make things a bit easier to navigate. You can now directly access individual sections of the collection. The sections are listed below, and you can otherwise find them in the [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
The world according to John Irving. Times are tougher for young writers. But the book isn’t going away. You can watch the full interview with Irving here.
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