luke viia Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Dear WATMM, I would like to recruit your help in gathering a list of websites that are educational and not shit. So far I've got: http://academicearth.org/ Lots of great lectures on various topics - I just finished watching the Harvard 'Justice' series. Really well put-together, and Sandel pretty much looks like a bald eagle, so that's a bonus. http://www.learner.org/ Not sure where I found this one, but again, lots of well-done courses on a variety of subjects. http://www.khanacademy.org/ Free digital school! Collecting badges for doing math exercises is awesome, and I don't really care if I'm too old to think that's exciting. http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html Comprehensive philosophy resource for people like me who don't want to pay for philosophy courses but still like to think too hard and act smart for no particular reason. One of my teachers directed me there after I started pestering her about the Stoics. http://www.ted.com I hope most of you are familiar with TED already, but if not - go there now please. So now, can I have your lists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I just discovered khan academy this week, this guy is excellent at teaching me calculus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 wikkid! any language ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I just discovered khan academy this week, this guy is excellent at teaching me calculus Same, just "enrolled" and it's so fun. Great links luke, will hold onto them. I'm not sure how legal it is but mvgroup has a shitload of educational shows and movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 nice list. I don't know many sites of the type but a few related come to mind: wikihow: http://www.wikihow.com/ Tutorial for a lot of stuff, some of it very silly, some useful. MIT open courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/ Lecture notes, assignments and videos from all the courses and programs in MIT. not as good as it sounds but i've found some good things in there. library nu (formerly gigapedia com) OMG BOOKS! this site will change your life. not sure if i can link it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wake Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Is this the equivalent of offering someone bubblegum when their breath smells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 i just wikistroll and follow the source links and learn about bizarre shit. here is a fun game, go to wikipedia, click random article, and click links in the article until you get to hitler. it has NEVER taken me less than 6 clicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 cool links gordo and yeah chim - mvgroups is great. kaini mentioned it to me a while ago. i've seen some great docs through that place...and some crappy ones too (don't ever watch "who's afraid of a big black hole?", yeeeesh... but do watch the history of maths, that was awesome). there's also this site for that sort of thing: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ Is this the equivalent of offering someone bubblegum when their breath smells? lol no, I am genuinely interested. But based on the small number of responses in this thread so far, perhaps watmm has a higher percentage of ricky retardos than I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wake Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I wish I had something to offer this thread, but you pretty much covered all the ones I know in your first post, Luke-Ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 My apologies, tronic. We can expand the learnin' and thinkin's realm into other directions if that helps... I know you're already familiar with Radiolab (because you once called me unspeakable names for not being familiar with it), but that's a good one too. http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html ^ I think either kaini or Atop sent me that link, either way it's full of interesting business on a variety of subjects, and it's really ugly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakramer Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 LEARNING! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbWyrcY5i3s kidding aside this thread looks mighty useful grazie :sup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 fresssshhhhh :sup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 http://www.extension.harvard.edu/openlearning/ harvard open learning extension videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 that's what I'm talkin about, nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wake Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Oh wait, I guess iTunes U is pretty obvious...I assumed it had already been posted: http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 I don't have any apple products =[ But here's something free: How to be Creative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jim Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 after skimming through and reading that "We have millions upon millions of human tapeworms thriving in the Western World, making love to their Powerpoint presentations, feasting on the creativity of others." I think I'll print that out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 It's an entertaining read yeah, haha. Probably shouldn't leave out Wolfram Alpha. That website is smarter than all of us combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wake Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I don't have any apple products =[ But here's something free: How to be Creative Pretty good read. Also, stop being an elitest cunt and download iTunes, if for no reason other than using iTunes U. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 It's an entertaining read yeah, haha. Probably shouldn't leave out Wolfram Alpha. That website is smarter than all of us combined. i searched for "your mother" and it said "humor: development of this topic is under investigation." yeah not so smart now huh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wake Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 It's an entertaining read yeah, haha. Probably shouldn't leave out Wolfram Alpha. That website is smarter than all of us combined. i searched for "your mother" and it said "humor: development of this topic is under investigation." yeah not so smart now huh Wolfram Alpha is now spamming every email address with the following question: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jim Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 http://ubu.com/ is quite a good resource for modern art, poetry and music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 It's an entertaining read yeah, haha. Probably shouldn't leave out Wolfram Alpha. That website is smarter than all of us combined. i searched for "your mother" and it said "humor: development of this topic is under investigation." yeah not so smart now huh lol perhaps the mistake here was assuming that something designed by and for gigantic nerds would have any sense of humor whatsoever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 It's an entertaining read yeah, haha. Probably shouldn't leave out Wolfram Alpha. That website is smarter than all of us combined. i searched for "your mother" and it said "humor: development of this topic is under investigation." yeah not so smart now huh lol perhaps the mistake here was assuming that something designed by and for gigantic nerds would have any sense of humor whatsoever i'm actually having a whale of a time inputting random assortments of base pairs and seeing what genes they make up. talk about nerdy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 that's the spirit this a good resource for to think about hard stuff what makes your head fuzzy real good too http://www.criticalthinking.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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