Archive for the ‘Academia’ Category
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How to learn Spanish online, fast, easy, free
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Time for another post on my How To series of learning foreign languages. This time, we set off to learn Spanish! Spoken as a native language by hundreds of millions of people around the world, second in numbers only to Mandarin Chinese. Today, Spanish is an official language in 21 countries.
After a little research, I [...] -
Give and Take, the $100 laptop
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I’ve spoken about the One Laptop Per Child project before. It is a wonderful initiative founded by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. The goal is to promote world education by constructing affordable laptop PCs, best known as the $100 dollar laptops, and branded as the “XO laptops”, and delivering them to children in developing countries.
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Virtual Tours of the Louvre Museum
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
The Louvre in France is one of the world’s most important museums, as well as one of the most famous. If you’re one of the millions of readers of Dan Brown’s book “The Da Vinci Code”, chances are you’ve visualized a great part of the building’s architecture and art on display, while turning pages.
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Free Movie Downloads at the Internet Archive
Saturday, November 11th, 2006
The Internet Archive is self described as follows:
“The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.”
I think it is one of the best things on the Internet today.
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Podcast Wednesday
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
This week Podcast Wednesday is on a Thursday (been busy) and is about Education. Which is very important. And apparently does not have to be boring any more. The two Podcasts I picked for your this week are going to introduce you to information you may otherwise have never come across. All in a quite [...]
