Watch Now

Watch now is both a resource for users and also a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos. 

Can Twitter Predict the Future?

"Internet forecasting: Businesses are mining online messages to unearth consumers’ moods—and even make market predictions"

Interesting article from The Economist.

Picture: @ngonews

 

Skype in the Classroom

Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms.

Photo: Uochi

The Secret Power of Time

Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how time influences who we are as people, how we view relationships 
and how we act in this world. Amazing video presentantion.

The Economics of Seinfeld

The Economics of Seinfeld is a catalog of clips (sometimes entire episodes) from the hit
sitcom Seinfeld that explain various economical concepts. The goal of the site is to use pop culture to help educate 
people about economics. Brilliant.

Picture: http://gothamist.com/attachments/byakas/5411seinfeld.jpg 

Wordnik

"All the words, and everything about them, for everybody" 

 Not just definitions, but sample sentences, related words, images, statistics, audio pronunciation, and more  -  http://www.wordnik.com/

Photo: Calamity Meg

Track your happiness

Track Your Happiness.org is a research project that investigates what makes life worth living. Using this site you’ll be able to find out what factors  - for you personally – are associated with greater happiness. Not to mention, you’ll contribute to scientific understanding.

Do you wanna try? Download the Iphone app here:

http://www.trackyourhappiness.org/

Always in beta.

We believe in beta. We are never finished. 
Always introducing new possibilities, 

new connections. Welcome.

 

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