Think About It - Audio Goodies

A palindrome reads the same backwards and forward.      Lost Generation

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25 Famous Inspiring Thinkers and their Daily Rituals

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100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours


Michael Sandel   " Is torture ever justified? Would you steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? How much is one human life worth? " 

 What is the right thing to do?    from TED                           Sandel Web Page    

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Marissa Mayer "...a single search query on Google can consume the processing power of 1000 machines..."  How Google Works    from YouTube    

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Jill Bote "...had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one..."   Taylor's stroke of insight        ( TED )

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Lennart Green  "...what he does with those cards is pure magic..." Magic Cards Close Up            from TED

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Keith Barry   shows us how our brains can fool our bodies    Brain Magic           from TED

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Steve Jobs "... CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself."  How to Live Before You Die from YouTube

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Play this first site   http://www.rainymood.com/ with your favorite music from itunes. If the music is mellow it can put you into a mood.

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Interesting sounds --- Must wear headphones, preferably stereo to get the best effect

Holophonic Sound  Try the "Virtual Haircut"                from "One Man's Blog"          

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Are We Alone in the Universe?  Jill Tarter       from  ideaCity


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Google Goggles      Check out this video to see it's capabilities.     from Think Artificial Blog

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100 Best (Free) Science Documentaries Online

  Health and Medicine, Drugs, Genetics, Evolution & Biological History, Physics, Environment, 

Geology, Space, Technology, Nature, and miscellaneous   from Online Universities Blog

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Contagious is a good word --"I can"   Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge.      from TED

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Fingerprints of God   Barbara Bradley Hagerty   NPR      -- Listen to her interview

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Growing New Organs        Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more.     TED

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Peak oil is wrong   Schwartz

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Planning and Traveling  or Create School Projects         Butterscotch               Google Maps

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100 Incredible Lectures for History Lovers       

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Audio Index   Political

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 Ted: The world needs all kinds of minds -  (autism)                    Temple Grandin (Claire Danes)

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TED: Origami                                 Tree Maker   "...newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs..."

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Listening Resources

Stanford University Lectures 

You Tube  

Slacker  Personal Radio

 Big-Think  We do not believe that experts have all the answers. On many subjects deep thinkers disagree. We do believe that we will all make better decisions in our personal and professional lives if our thinking is informed by expert opinion.

Teacher-TV    Through engaging videos, practical resources and an active online community, Teachers TV supports the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field

Ignite   Ignite goes global—from March 1-5, 2010, 50+ Ignites will take place in cities around the world. Upwards of 10,000 entrepreneurs, technologists, DIYers, creative professionals, and enthusiastic knowledge-seekers will gather in local pubs, theaters, and other convivial venues for an evening that is a unique blend of networking, information, and fun, encapsulated in the Ignite motto: "Enlighten us, but make it quick."

NPR   A thriving media organization at the forefront of digital innovation...award-winning news, information, and music of over 900 independent stations.  Reaches 27.1 million listeners every week.

Pop Tech   PopTech is a unique innovation network – a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines, who come together to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world’s most significant challenges. We are known for our thriving community of thought-leaders, breakthrough innovation programs, visionary annual conferences and deep media and storytelling capabilities. 

TED           

Business Innovation Factory    The Business Innovation Factory (BIF) focuses on solving major problems in areas like healthcare, education and energy independence by creating a place where partners can design and test new solutions in a real-world environment.

Gel    Short for "Good Experience Live", Gel is a conference and community exploring good experience in all its forms - in art, business, technology, society, and life.

BIL     In short, BIL is an open, self-organizing, emergent, arts, science, society and technology unconference held near the famous TED Conference during the trailing weekend of.

 idea City   eideaCity, also known as 'Canada's Premiere Meeting of the Minds', is an eclectic gathering of artists, adventurers, authors, cosmologists, doctors, designers, entertainers, filmmakers, inventors, magicians, musicians, scientists and technologists.

Online Universities  (Blog)  Welcome to Online Universities, an online resource for students interested in going to college online. Online Universities.com goal is to assist students in finding the best online university that fits your needs and demands as a student.

CleanTech  Clean technology, or "cleantech," should not be confused with the terms environmental technology or "green tech" popularized in the 1970s and 80s. Cleantech is new technology and related business models that offer competitive returns for investors and customers while providing solutions to global challenges.

Pop Tech  PopTech is a unique innovation network – a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines, who come together to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world’s most significant challenges. We are known for our thriving community of thought-leaders, breakthrough innovation programs, visionary annual conferences and deep media and storytelling capabilities.

Sprword: Must watch documentaries   

Free University Lectures    

Free Video Lectures  To organize the world's educational videos and make them universally accessible and down-loadable. To change the way we learn, to revolutionize the education system and rise the quality of education

Free Education Online  Welcome to Learnerstv.com. This is a comprehensive site providing thousands of downloadable Video lectures, Live Online Tests,etc in the fields of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Accounting, Dentistry, Nursing, Psychology, History, Language Training, Literature, Law etc FREE to its visitors... This site provides free video and audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world.

Cosmo Learning  

Big Think - What make a game fun?     Nicole Lazzaro - Games 

Free Video Lectures from Top Colleges and Universities

Internet Online TV Lecture Search Engine (preface with "online lectures")

UChannel public affaires lectures, panels and events

Science Videos and Lectures

MIT World   MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 700 videos.


Berkeley on Google  The University of California, Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation. From classic literature to emerging technologies, the curricula of our 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge. Supported by the people of California, the university has embraced public service as an essential part of its mission since 1868. The content on this page—drawn from campus seminars, courses and events—is just one part of UC Berkeley's commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of our state, the nation and the world.

Smart People on Cool Topics

ForA.tv  FORA.tv is the leading online destination for intelligent video programs on the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. We offer free, paid-membership, and fee-based video viewing of live events, lectures, and debates to a smart, deeply-engaged audience: you!

Free Online Learning  Open2.net

Video at MIT  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century — whether the focus is cancer, energy, economics or literature (learn more about MIT's current initiatives).

Open Courses  "[OLI is] an amazing and critical piece of work. . . The idea of these virtual labs and intelligent tutoring systems, I think, can really revolutionize education. And we need to revolutionize education.

Productivity 501  Productivity501 is a site dedicated to bringing you regular tips and tricks to help increase your personal productivity. This site focuses on original content so the publication schedule is a little slower than other blogs out there. Generally we try to have at least one new article each week, but the focus is on posting when we have something that will benefit our readers.

MIT Open Courseware  Audio/Video

Education-Portal  Education-Portal.com is a resource hub for students and working professionals to research career paths, degree programs, and schools within their chosen disciplines. This was accomplished by a dedicated team of experts including educators, librarians, college counselors, career counselors, and journalists to provide practical information in both written and video formats.

Listening to Words  Lecture Search

Electricity and Magnetism

Lecture List  Elecricity and Magnetism

Closer to Truth  

Closer To Truth is the definitive series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God, a global journey in search of the vital ideas of existence. It is the most complete, compelling, and accessible series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God ever produced for television.


Academic Earth  We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.  Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

Teacher Tube  

After beta testing for almost two months, TeacherTube officially launched on March 6, 2007. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. 



Open Thinking  

90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy

Web of Stories     watch people telling their stories and (coming soon) will be a place where you can also tell your story and where people can watch you tell it.

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