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More cultural goodness from our Twitter stream this week. Find us on Twitter here. On Facebook here.
RT @palafo: RT @mathewi: The Big Picture has some stunning images up of the aftermath of the earthquake in Chile http://bit.ly/aNv8RV
RT @kim: The Office — Ricky Gervais’ Original British Version Now on @hulu | http://bit.ly/dxDM1o *good stuff #LoL
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A quick weekend fyi: The Teaching Company, which provides university courses for lifelong learners like you, is running another sale this weekend. This one lasts until Sunday night and lets you get sharp discounts on their 75 most popular courses, which you can buy in multiple formats – DVD, CD, MP3, etc. (I typically go for [...]
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A quick fyi, The Teaching Company, which provides university courses for lifelong learners like you, is running a big sale until Sunday night. In a nutshell, the sale gives you a 75% discount on all audio downloads of Teaching Company courses. As you know, I am a big advocate of the open course movement. But [...]
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Between 1968 and 1972, Stewart Brand published The Whole Earth Catalog. For Steve Jobs, it was a “Bible” of his generation, a kind of Google 35 years before Google came along (see the excellent commencement speech where Jobs makes these comments.) More recently, Brand founded The Long Now Foundation, which is all about cultivating “slower/better” thinking instead of the “faster/cheaper” [...]
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A quick fyi: On Monday morning, Stanford Continuing Studies opens up registration for its fall lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with 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 [...]
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A quick fyi: On Monday morning, Stanford Continuing Studies opens up registration for its summer lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with 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 their craft with [...]
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Wired Campus” Blog:
“Cole W. Camplese, director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, prefers to teach in classrooms with two screens — one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students. He knows he is inviting distraction — after [...]
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A heads up from Stephen:
Free mp3 of Behind Here Lies Nothin’ from Dylan’s new album available at bobdylan.com until 5.00 a.m. tomorrow (Time zone?) Very good it sounds too. Shades of Ry Cooder. Wishful thinking maybe…
Thanks SG
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A quick fyi: This morning, Stanford Continuing Studies opened up registration for its spring lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with 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 their craft with gifted [...]
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As I gather material for the blog, I often come across content that’s interesting, but not quite right for the blog. It seemed like Twitter might be a good place to add this bonus material. So from here on out, I’ll casually add some extra content there. Today, I just mentioned how you can get [...]
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This is just a quick note to let you know that you can now follow Open Culture on Twitter. If you subscribe, you’ll know whenever we post something new on the site. To get going, create a Twitter account (if you don’t already have one), access our Twitter page here, and then click the word “Follow” [...]
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As you probably know, Open Culture launched a new look last week, and it seemed worth devoting a few words to it. With the new design, I was hoping to give the site a more inviting look and streamline the overall navigation. I was also hoping to make it clear that user contributions are always [...]
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A quick fyi: If you made a New Year’s resolution to become a serious writer, then you might be interested in these online writing courses offered by Stanford Continuing Studies (which, caveat emptor, I help oversee) and Stanford’s Creative Writing Program. These online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the [...]
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We have reached the final week of the presidential elections course. This week, Martin Lewis slices and dices the electoral results of the ‘08 election and highlights the big and potentially far-reaching shifts in US voting patterns. No doubt, this is one of the more detailed analyses that you’ll find on the web. You can [...]
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In case you were wondering what kind of media we would be most hungry for in hard times (big budget action movies? escapist sit-coms), don’t forget that this is recession 3.0. Introducing The puppy cam, with 22,000 viewers and counting. The shibu puppies are adorable, worry-free, and of course, non-union. Click here and tell us [...]
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It’s rare that we get to cover math here. So here it goes: Adrian Banner, a lecturer at Princeton, has put together a lecture series (in video) that will help students master calculus, a subject that has traditionally frustrated many students. The 24 lectures (click here and scroll down) were originally given as review sessions [...]
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We have now posted Lecture 2 of our ongoing course, The Geography of US Presidential Elections, presented by Stanford’s Continuing Studies program. You can download it via TunesU here (in high res) or you can watch it embedded below. This week, Professor Martin Lewis takes you through America’s early formative elections, starting with Washington and Jefferson’s electoral [...]
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A quick heads up: Borders is offering 25% any one item this week (until 10/26). If you want to take advantage and buy a book, CD or film on the cheap, just click through here and get the coupon code:
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Here’s the YouTube video of the first lecture from The Geography of US Presidential Elections. The next installment comes next week.
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