Anyone like to learn?

[nik]

I'm a true fan of knowing stuff. Although my grammar sucks, and most people probably think im a moron, I still really like to know stuff, read interesting stuff. For a while I would go onto sites like wikipedia and just browse stuff I found interesting. This was fun for me, I just wanted to know. Lately though, I've been looking for college courses that I could get via online. I've found a few interesting things, some just general introductions to things, but none the less interesting. I successfully found one (hidden so I wont share ;)) college lecture course, fully typed out (in caps yuck.. I feel like someone is screaming history at me). Also someone (I think landon.. runesmithie) Linked me to a MIT site which had these courses for free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heres two links I found interesting:

 

 

 

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html - The MIT link, free courses, havent looks too far into it though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.joot.com/dave/writings/artic ... ment.shtml - A intro to Quantum Entanglement, I just found it interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was just wondering if anyone else was like this. (not slashdot or digg though, rss feeds are on my homepage ;) if you dont know them.. http://www.wikipedia.org is good too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone have any links that I may be interested in? Care to share like a bear? Thanks!

[rocketman089]

Wikipedia.org is my homepage :D . Everytime I hear about something I don't know much about or something I want to know better, I go there or search google. There's always, always at least one tab on my browser that is set to wikipedia.

[Craven_Image]

Yeh same, I like to just read about stuff on Wikipedia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/index.htm <-- The articles on that website are quite interesting.

[RazorFlowers]

Good thing that you like learning, the more you know the further you go :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cant send you any sites though since I guess you arent interested in information written in Swedish.

[runesmithie]

Sometimes when I find an interesting Wikipedia link in slashdot I'll check out related stuff in wikipedia (sometimes lasting hours :P)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think I found out about OpenCourseWare through Slashdot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, as a note to others: Slashdot is primarily read for comments since stories come later than Digg, and Digg is primarily read for stories since it posts them faster than slashdot

[dru89]

Heck yeah I like to learn. And naw you're not stupid. 75%, nay 99% of what I learn is away from school. And what I do learn at school isn't educational >_<. But I do enjoy learning... Just not history. I hate history. Math and English are what I enjoy learning :). And writing... which I suppose is English o.o.

[stevester77]

I love learning, its one of my passions. In fact, I would love to go to school if it wasn't for the homework/tests. Well I was mainly looking for a few links, but I couldn't find any of the one's I wanted. So instead, I leave you with a bunch of random stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/c4.html

 

 

 

^ how to play expert connect 4... I think it includes the combination where you are guaranteed a win.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.inthe80s.com/whatya.shtml

 

 

 

^all the 80's song info you could want.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/index.html

 

 

 

^look at his pavement drawings... they are amazing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://inventors.about.com/od/basicshowtoinvent/

 

 

 

^I was in the process of inventing 3 things and I never got around to it.. maybe this could help you out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.thesource4ym.com/teenlingo/index.asp#Top

 

 

 

^beware

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well as I said, I couldn't find any of my links of actual academics such as my one that explained how 2 nobel scientists developed the 5th type of matter. Idk, check them out, if anything all I did was waste 5 minutes of your time.

[pedm]

Yeah, whenever I'm reashearching something for school I always find other stuff that intrests me and instead of reasearching what I need to I read about random other things that intrest me. I remember when I first learned relativety, there was this kind of energy flowing through me that was just great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other than wiki, google, and mathmatica, I don't know anyothers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PDM

[runesmithie]

While visiting my freebies website I found a 1200 page physics book offer (PDF and 40 megs, bewarned)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.motionmountain.net

[runescapeplayer2005]

i usually go to google if i need information about something.

[nik]

Awesome stuff there. I bookmarked alot of it, meaning I'll probably look when I have time. Anyone else?

[Zibl]

I rather enjoy learning too. I'm not much on reading, though I can read rather good compaired to most people in my class :? . I've really taken a liking to U.S. History though. The class isn't very "fun", but nontheless it is quite interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A normal day in there consists of 2 pages of writen notes. Which he puts on the overhead and we copy. All the while, he is explain the notes to us as we write, which I really like. The tests are pretty big though :( . tomorrows test is a 130 questioner. Half on the 3 chapters we have went over, and the other half reviewing past chapters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's fun though. We have to write an essay every week though, which oddly enough I find the most fun part. I like to put into my own words what he has taught us during the past week, and I like expressing my thoughts on such subjects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I despise math though. With a passion. Though I am pulling a 97 in Algebra 2, I still hate it. English isn't too bad, it's just boring.

[Tomato]

http://www.sciam.com has some great science-related articles. I make sure to visit it at least once a week. :)

[indy500fan]

me and 6 other people who all like learning about stuff decided to take a semester of "study hall" (class where you dont do anything, just time to finish homework or get a nap in) at the end of our senior year. instead of wasting it away, we decided to start "Phony Class", because we would be studying like in a normal class, but we didnt have a teacher, and we didnt get credit. the main three things we studied were philosophy, theoretical physics, and government. we would kind of go where ever the class took us, we were in control, we didnt really have to do anything. we studied many different philosophers and their ideas, but i never really inputed as much into those as into the other ones. i would try to study them, but i couldnt grasp the concepts as good as everyone else was, so they usually taught those. they were interesting talks (the whole class was just a discussion, we recorded them and gave the tapes to our math teacher, who was a genius. he also let us borrow the "bat cave" as we liked to call it, bassically a storage room next to his class room. i would transfer the tapes to digital and upload them somewhere, but the teacher still has them, and they are very innapropriate for this forum. we did like to crack jokes during lectures...), but i liked the other two subjects better. theoretical physics was slightly easier for me to handle, although we didnt really go into this all that much. we talked a lot about light and time, both of those i really could tell them stuff about. i could sit down and read about those subjects, and actually follow what was being said. government was the big one, we all enjoyed studying about this extensivley, and for the most part we shared the same views. i started to study different kinds a while ago, and ive always held the same views, and we pretty much agreed on everything, but there was always room for debate. i still read and learn about government, but i dont really debate it anymore. with 90% of the people on the internet consist of hippies or people who dont care (not saying people who dont care are hippies, im saying those are two different groups, but they add up to 90% of the internet), being all alone in an argument against a few different people was hard. it was easier when i was in that class, i could come in the next day with arguments, and we could find the best way to respond to them. anyways, i like to ramble. sorry.