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There are some really interesting and worthwhile things on the Internet. Sometimes I want to share them with people, so I set up this list here, which you can filter according to what kind of sites you like most.

TED

http://www.ted.com

Enlightening talks on every possible topic.

Gapminder

http://www.gapminder.org

A great program online that you can use to plot worldwide data about development and demographics. Here are two clips with the author showing some of its potential:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/140

MIT World

http://mitworld.mit.edu/

Talks given at MIT on a great variety of topics (including humanities, social science, public policy etc.)

Harvard IOP Video Archive

http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/iop/events_forum_listview.asp

Hundreds of talks given at the Institute of Politics by experts and celebrities (Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, even Stephen Colbert).

Harvard Athome

http://athome.harvard.edu/archive

Lectures given at Harvard on different occasions on topics ranging from law to astronomy and to literature.

MIT Open Courseware

http://ocw.mit.edu

Course handouts and for some courses, sound and video recordings from MIT's courses.

Columbia World Leaders Forum

http://worldleaders.columbia.edu/events.html

Presidents, Leaders, famous professors. Many different topics. Choose Event Archive from the dropdown on the left.

Chris Traveling to SE Asia

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roamingginna/

From Korea too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/roamingginnadoeskorea
Unii dintre voi s-ar putea să-şi aducă aminte de Chris de la BritTEEN...

David Guetta - piano

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38fkv_baby-when-the-light-david-guetta-fe
You wouldn't think that you can play a techno piece on acoustic piano and have it sound well, but this guy does it. The score is available http://www.zepiano.com/partitions.html, and the guy has a lot of similar stuff on his site.

One Laptop per Child

http://www.laptop.org

Sounds like just an ambitious project that could never possibly happen, but it seems like it's for real, and it should be quite a revolution. There's a talk by one of the people in the program here: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/435/

Speed reading intro

http://pianoer.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/speed-reading-techniques/

A good intro to some basic principles that will help you improve your reading speed. There is extensive literature on this, but this is good if you're still skeptical and just want to try this out.

Top pictures by category

http://www.whatatop.com

There's a Powerpoint slideshow of selected pictures that I've uploaded here as well (Mersi, Delia).

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Pandora and the Music Genome Project

http://www.pandora.com

As soon as Julia told me about Pandora, I began listening to it almost continuously. You tell it what you like, and it plays similar music. I've learned about many artists I hadn't known through it.

Mollecular Visualizations of DNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PKjF7OumYo

This video shows how different kinds of molecules work to transcribe and translate DNA, ultimately encoding the processes that are the basis of life.

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