≡ Category: Google, Most Popular, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society, Video - Science, YouTube | ≅ 3 Comments
Smart video collections keep appearing on YouTube. But rather antithetical to the ethos of its parent company (Google), YouTube unfortunately makes these collections difficult to find. So we’ve decided to do the job for them. These enriching/educational videos come from media outlets, cultural institutions, universities and non-profits. There are about 70 collections in total, and [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Most Popular, Web/Tech | ≅ Leave a Comment
In advance of tomorrow’s release of the new 3G iPhone, Apple has launched its new App Store on iTunes, which features new tools that will immediately make the iPhone (and iPod Touch) a more versatile — and, in some cases, enlightening — device. Below, we have highlighted ten apps worth exploring if you’re hungry for [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Science, Video - Science | ≅ 5 Comments
On the cooler side ….
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≡ Category: Current Affairs, Most Popular | ≅ 1 Comment
There’s been no shortage of articles trying to explain the ongoing housing and mortgage crisis. But none does a more clear and entertaining job than this recent episode of This American Life, “The Giant Pool of Money” (iTunes - Feed - MP3). Step by step, the show traces how we got into this mess. Along [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, YouTube | ≅ 2 Comments
Today, we have a guest feature by Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, in Claremont, CA. This piece consolidates lengthier blog entries about a course she ran on YouTube, called “Learning from YouTube,” in Fall 2007. The whole goal was to better understand this new media/cultural phenomenon, and how it [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Web/Tech | ≅ 18 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 [...]
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We dug back through the historical data and isolated the 15 most viewed posts of the year. If you’re looking for a trend, one will leap out. People like numbered lists. Hence another one:
1) 10 Unexpected Uses of the iPod
2) 25 UC Berkeley Courses Available via Free Video
3) 45 Free Cutting-Edge Books … Courtesy [...]
≡ Category: Books, Most Popular, Science | ≅ 18 Comments
Human behavior is notoriously complex, and there’s been no shortage of psychologists and psychological theories venturing to explain what makes us tick. Why do we get irrationally jealous? Or have midlife crises? Why do we overeat to our own detriment? Why do we find ourselves often strongly attracted to certain physical traits? Numerous theories abound, [...]
≡ Category: Books, History, Most Popular | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here are a few facts to know about the adventurous Patrick Hunt. He’s a Stanford archaeologist who has spent more than a decade trying to unravel the mystery of how Hannibal, the great ancient military leader, crossed the Alps in 218 BCE with 25,000 men and 37 elephants. (Listen on iTunes to the course he [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Online Courses | ≅ 69 Comments
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Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology
Introduction to Archaeology - Feed - MP3s - Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley
Architecture
Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) - iTunes - Jan Wampler, MIT
Cultural Studies
Foundations of American Cyberculture - iTunes - Feed - Greg Niemeyer, UC Berkeley
Heritage and Cultural Informatics - MP3s, Ian Anderson, University of Glasgow
Introduction to Nonviolence [...]
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≡ Category: Apple, Most Popular, Technology | ≅ 42 Comments
New technologies often have unintended uses. Take the Ipod as a case in point. It was developed with the intention of playing music (and later videos), but its applications now go well beyond that. Here are 10 rather unforeseen, even surprising, uses:
1. Train Doctors to Save Lives: A new study presented at the annual [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular | ≅ 10 Comments
As we’ll mention in an upcoming piece, European languages dominate the list of most popular educational podcasts. So we thought that we’d highlight the key podcasts that will teach you the major European languages — Spanish, French, Italian and German. Meanwhile, if you want to learn English through podcasts, please see our piece below. Bonne [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Online Courses, UC Berkeley | ≅ 26 Comments
Not long ago, we wrote a popular piece about UC-Berkeley’s iTunes initiative which, to sum it up,allows anyone, anywhere, to download complete university courses to their iPods for free. Amazing. Today, we want to point out that Berkeley also makes available full-fledged courses via video/webcast. You can find the complete list of courses here, but [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature, Media, Most Popular | ≅ 8 Comments
Today, by popular demand, we’re running an updated version of one of our more popular posts to date. Enjoy…
At hastened speeds during the past year, we have seen book lovers recording homegrown audiobooks and posting them on sites like Librivox (see our collection of free audiobooks here). For obvious copyright reasons, these audio texts largely [...]
≡ Category: Books, Most Popular | ≅ 5 Comments
Yesterday, we alerted you to the free audio and text versions of Lawrence’s Lessig’s book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Today, we’re pointing you to a larger collection of high-quality books (45 in total) that you can download legally thanks to Lessig’s Creative [...]
≡ Category: Business, Most Popular | ≅ 6 Comments
Is it something of an oddity to see the words of famous philosophers and historians getting digitized
and downloaded to iPods everywhere? Sure it is, and that’s why we generally like talking about humanities podcasts. But is it strange to think of America’s leading business schools carving out a space on iTunes and bringing their ideas [...]
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For more enriching audio, see our University Podcast Collection.
1.) Abraham Lincoln’s Invention of Presidential Powers - James MacPherson iTunes Audio Stream
Princeton’s James MacPherson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the American Civil War, discusses how Lincoln invented presidential war-time powers. It’s a topic of particular interest given the recent debate over the
validity of warrantless [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Music | ≅ 8 Comments
See our follow up piece: More Free Classical Music Podcasts: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and Some Yo-Yo Ma
Courtesy of Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcasting
service, you can fill your iPod at no
cost with some exceptional classical music. We’d particularly encourage you to focus on two podcasts. First, Beethovenfest (iTunes Feed Web Site), [...]
≡ Category: Apple, History, Most Popular | ≅ 9 Comments
What’s the most popular podcast in the Higher Education section of iTunes? Ahead of all the podcasts from Princeton, and all of those from Yale, and ahead of the Understanding Computers course from Harvard, and even the psychology course from UC Berkeley, is an unexpected podcast called Twelve Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine [...]
