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How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson

"How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson is a six part documentary series that reveals the story behind the remarkable ideas that made modern life possible; the unsung heroes that brought them into the world – and the unexpected and bizarre consequences each of these innovations has triggered."

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Vintage Nintendo Super Mario Brothers Quiz Cards

"There are 18 categories covering a wide range of topics:


ARTS, SPORTS AND LEISURE
BELIEFS AND LEGENDS
BY AIR AND BY SEA
DOMESTIC ANIMALS
GEOGRAPHY
HISTORY
HUMAN BODY
LAND TRANSPORTATION
MEDICINE
METEOROLOGY
OCEANS AND SEAS
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
PLANTS AND TREES
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL LIFE
THE STORY OF LIFE
THE UNIVERSE
WILD ANIMALS

The front of each card poses a single question along with three answers and an illustration featuring Mario and friends. The category symbol in the upper righthand corner and corresponding color bar identify the general subject of the question.

The back of each card features the answer and either a helpful photo, illustration or diagram; a few words of explanation or elaboration; and a few paragraphs of fascinating information in easy-to-read style.

There is a cardboard insert included for holding the cards upright in the box. "

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Brain vs Brawn

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Anneberg Learner

"Mission:
Annenberg Learner's mission is to "Advance Excellent Teaching in American Schools." We have pursued this mission for more than three decades by funding and distributing multimedia resources for teachers (K-12 and college levels) to teach their subjects and to stay up-to-date in their fields. As our name Annenberg Learner implies, we focus on the teacher as a learner, as well as the student as a learner. In fact, all adults who are lifelong learners have enjoyed and benefited from using our resources...."

Has great free courses pertaining to Science, Math, Language,and more.

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Open Culture

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"Open Culture editor Dan Colman scours the web for the best educational media. He finds the free courses and audio books you need, the language lessons & movies you want, and plenty of enlightenment in between."

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Youtube's Education Channel

"Whether you're doing research for a project, need help with homework, or just want to learn something new, YouTube EDU features some of our most popular educational videos across YouTube.
This channel was generated automatically by YouTube's video discovery system."

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Khan Academy

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"Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge."

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Academic Earth

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"Academic Earth believes everyone deserves access to a world-class education, which is why we continue to offer a comprehensive collection of free online college courses from the world's top universities. And now, we take learning outside the classroom with our original series of thought-provoking videos, designed to spark your intellectual curiosity and start a conversation. Watch, learn, share, debate. After all, only through questioning the world around us, can we come to better understand it."

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Right/Left Brain Thinking

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Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge

mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind!

Ingredients include:

• 5 tiny nations that get no respect
• 4 civilizations nobody remembers
• 5 classics written under the influence
• 4 things your boss has in common with slime mold
• 3 schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex
• 4 things Einstein got wrong
• 5 classical tunes you know from the movies
• 3 famous studies that would be illegal today
• 2 religious mysteries solved by chemistry
• 5 scandals that rocked art, and much more ...

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The World Book Encyclopedia

Set of books that tell history, and other education topics.

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Facts about VDay

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Almost Perfect Liberal vs. Conservative Infographic

"What is the difference between Left wing vs. Right wing politics? It seems like everyone’s an expert when it comes to this, and most people I have met are either Liberal or Conservative – despising the other party. Liberals hate Limbaugh, Beck, and Fox News. Conservatives hate Gore, Jackson, and CNN. That’s the way it is. Well I consider myself a little different, and I’m not saying this to toot my own horn or to cop out of the debate, but I can actually see both sides! That’s why I love this infographic. Check it out – it’s a beautiful, almost perfect side-by-side comparison of the Left versus the Right when it comes to government. Seems to be very accurate, and easy to understand."

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6 Famous Symbols That Don't Mean What You Think

"The entire point of using a symbol is that it conveys meaning and saves space -- you see one picture of a stick figure in a dress and you no longer need the phrase "This is the place where female humans can discharge waste." But what is fascinating is that sometimes the meaning of a symbol will get lost to history, but we'll just keep right on using it anyway.

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#6. The Jesus Fish Is a Vagina

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Apart from the cross, the most ubiquitous symbol of Christianity is the ichthys, known to us as the Jesus Fish, and today it appears predominantly in its natural habitat -- car bumpers. The ichthys actually dates right back to ancient times, when Christianity was still an obscure sect, and considering that fish and fishing were frequently used as symbols in the Bible, you could argue that it's a more appropriate symbol for the teachings of Christ than the device used to torture and kill him.

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"Seriously, guys? Do you wear tiny rifle necklaces to remember Martin Luther King Jr.?"

The Origin:

It's a vagina.

One of the names given to the pre-Jesus Jesus Fish is the vesica pisces (vessel of the fish), and it was used as a symbol of every female fertility god ever, from Atargatis (the Syrian fertility goddess), Aphrodite/Venus (the goddess of love and sex) to the pagan Great Mother goddess, where it symbolized her life-giving vulva. Basically, whenever you encountered an image of fish in the pre-Christian world, it was probably an opposite-of-subtle metaphor for lady parts.

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According to some researchers, Christians adopted the vagina-fish symbol simply because of how common it was, but later looked for all sorts of non-vaginal justifications for it. Even actual Christian scholars admit that their second most popular symbol has a colorful history, just not one you want to bring up during a family dinner party.

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Or sex.

#5. The Heart Symbol Is About Birth Control (and Balls)

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It's one of the most ubiquitous symbols on the planet, appearing everywhere from cards to candy to jewelery to bikers' tattoos. The common heart shape is such a part of everyday life, in fact, that it's easy to overlook the fact that it actually looks nothing whatsoever like a heart. What's with that?

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"My love for you is like a kidney, in that it filters out the bad stuff, like that time you had sex with Mandy."

Well, there's some pretty convincing evidence that it was never supposed to be a heart in the first place, but rather ...

The Origin:

A contraceptive from the Roman era.

If you trace the heart symbol back as far as you can, you wind up finding it on old Roman coins, like this one:

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So yeah. Hallmark cards and industrial-scale slavery have the same origin.

Complete GED Preparation by STECK-VAUGHN

"Over 2,000 GED-style questions thoroughly prepare learners for test day. This single book offers thorough coverage of the revised GED Test with new test information, instruction, practice, and practice tests, plus it comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. Answer key included.

- Workplace passages and practical documents reflect writing components.
- Expanded mathematics section introduces alternative answer formats and calculator use.
- A pretest and a full-length practice test for each subject mirror the actual GED, offering authentic text practice experiences and identifying any areas of weakness.
- Higher-order thinking skills -- an emphasis of the GED -- are reviewed and practiced in the Social Studies; Language Arts, Reading; and Science sections."

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Higher Intellect

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But, this site has a large collection of educational books. From the paranormal to books about computer education to books about sexual education.

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The worlds geekiest jokes explained

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With the help of a particle ­physicist, chemical biologist and ancient historian here are 10 of the best jokes… all translated into plain-speaking English.

• A photon checks into a hotel and the porter asks him if he has any luggage. The photon replies: “No, I’m travelling light.”

Physicists have fits of laughter over this one. A photon is a tiny particle of light that is too small to see individually. They have no mass and, by their nature, travel at light speed – but have never been known to carry suitcases.

• What does an insomniac, ­agnostic, dyslexic spend most of his time doing? Staying up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

This is a good one to solve. With insomniacs being ­unable to sleep, ­agnostics unsure of the existence of God and dyslexics prone to mistakes in spelling and reading – mixing up dog with God ­raises a chuckle.

• An ancient Greek goes to a ­tailor to get his trousers mended. The tailor asks: “Euripides?” The professor replies: “Yes. Eumenides?”

This is worthy of a Christmas cracker joke as long as you are up on ancient Greece. Euripides (480 - 406BC), pronounced like “You-rip-a-these”, was a great Athenian playwright and The Eumenides, “You-mend-a-these”, is the third part of a tragedy by Aeschylus. Sadly, there’s precious little to laugh about in modern crisis-hit Greece except for the pom-poms on the ­parliament guards’ feet in Athens.

• Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?

For people who need to address a philosophy convention this is the ice breaker. Solipsism is the idea that ­you are the only thing you can be sure about existing. Nothing can definitely be proved to exist except your own mind. French thinker René Descartes put it in Latin as “cogito ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am) and not as Monty Python claimed: “I drink, therefore I am”.

• A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says: “Five beers, please.”

This historical side-splitter relies on a knowledge of Roman ­numerals. The Roman will be able to order his round using just two fingers because five is V. Make sure the ­landlord is a pal with a sense of ­humour before trying this in your local.

• Helium walks into a bar and orders a beer, the bartender says: “Sorry, we don’t serve noble gases here.” He doesn’t react.

Another bar joke, this time one for the chemists. There are six noble gases identified on the periodic table list of elements. They are odourless, colourless, non-flammable and – crucially for the joke – none of them are reactive.

• The barman says: “We don’t serve faster-than-light particles here.” A tachyon enters a bar.

Here is proof that humour is all relative. But you may not ­appreciate it unless you are a physicist with a working ­knowledge of the theory of ­relativity. A tachyon, which may or may not exist – nobody knows yet – is a particle that moves faster than light. So the barman delivers the punchline before it enters the bar and asks the question.

• How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb? The answer is: Fish

The random punchline would have appealed to the strange ­outlook of surrealists such as ­artist Salvador Dali. The ­definition of surrealism explains this joke perfectly: “Dictation of thought in the absence of all control ­exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.” Any the wiser? Us neither.

• A Buddhist monk goes up to a hotdog stand and says: “Make me one with everything.”

The joke is a pun on the Buddhist ­mantra to “be at one” with everything natural in the world. Australian TV host Karl Stefanovic tried the joke on the Buddhist leader Dalai Lama. His holiness didn’t get it.

• What do you call two crows on a branch? Attempted murder.

A murder is the collective noun for a load of crows. Technically there must be at least three crows to make a murder."

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Big Brainy Babies

These are called Big Brainy Babies.
I think they are the cutest toys! they are also educational. Sadly, i can not find an official site. Google "Big Brainy Babies dolls" and you will find more online!

Emotional Intelligence

"Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups. It can be divided into ability EI an"d trait EI." (Wikipedia)

"....refers to the ability to perceive, control and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it is an inborn characteristic.

Since 1990, Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer have been the leading researchers on emotional intelligence. In their influential article "Emotional Intelligence," they defined emotional intelligence as, "the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions"

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Emotional Intelligence Test
5 ways to foster emotional intelligence 
Developing Strong "People Skills"
 Emotional Intelligence Consortium Website