Going to try a new format. Too much fun (and potentially relevant) stuff; if it isn't shared quick it could be lost, so minimal descriptions
Video of scholarly and education merit to provoke discussion (or digression):
- Anthropology: KSU's web celeb anthropologist Michael Wesch
- Biology - crab rides a jellyfish; Learning about memory and aging on YouTube
- Business: Yale professor explains financial crisis in 10 minutes
- Chemistry;
- Physics (including a boomarang in zero gravity);
- Art: THe 50 greatest art videos on YouTube;
- Collections: NYTimes top 5 online video lectures - and Open Cultures top 75 online educational videos - part of their "signs of intelligent life on youtube collection". Free Engineering and SCience courses from Stanford online; source to watch complete documentary films for free;
- Pedagogy: Father Guido Sarducci breaks it down (learning and retention- Remember Saturday Night Live in the late 70's? funny because it's true)
See Also
- Education and technology: research shows people are more likely to lie in email;
- Brain Science: how the mind works - Brain Rules reviewed; What Magic teaches us about neural processing (2 articles), what it feels like to have a stroke (neuroanatomy part of TEDS talks - best stuff on YouTube); 2008 election and neuroscience
- Language: argument that English is a user-defined and user-modified technology; Chinglish recognized as full-fleged dialect (anyone have info on Spanglish?); Stanford's online writing classes; podcasts can teach you almost any language
- FREE AUDIOBOOKS: The Gutenberg project - a huge mass of audio books on line - I only bookmark human read titles, see also the growing collection by Literal Systems; 1984 by Orwell:
- How to (DIY's): how to make garden lights out of LED lights and mason jars; How to make online video's without getting sued (copyright info).
- Pedagogy and books to consider: review of book How Children Fail by John Holt;
- History: animated video of Howard Zinn's History of the US Empire
- Election related: a non-partisan project helps community organizers to find neighbors who think they are registered but actually aren't; 2008 election and neuroscience
- Of arcane scholarly interest: info and links to photos by famed Harvard Ethnobotanist (combined ethnography and botany);
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