Links
Recommended Educational Resources:
- Coursera - "Take the world's best courses, online, for free." No, really: full lectures from 80+ major universities all over the world, complete with homework assignments and assessments integrated into 4-8 week courses on every subject and level imaginable.
- EdX - MIT and Harvard's alternative to Coursera.
- CodeAcademy - Learn basic programming skills in JavaScript, Python, and more through an interactive web-based environment.
- MIT OpenCourseWare - free course materials from past courses taught at MIT
- Stanford Engineering Everywhere - free complete course materials from several of Standford's engineering sequences
Recommended YouTube Channels:
- Vihart for fun math videos
- Vsauce and Vsauce2 for fascinating facts, creations, and internet finds
- SciShow for all things science related
- mental_floss for bizarre bits of knowledge arranged in lists
- MinutePhysics and MinuteEarth for interesting facts about physics and planet earth, respectively
- Crash Course! - the best way to learn everything, or at least the most entertaining
Assorted interesting finds:
The only MMORPG you'll ever need to play:
- Kingdom of Loathing - An Adventurer is You!
Recommended Webcomics**:
- xkcd - a webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language
- SMBC - science and sarcasm
- PhD Comics - life in academia
- AbstruseGoose - mathematically leaning webcomic
- Spiked Math - a mathematical webcomic
- Luke Surl Comics - scientifically leaning webcomic
- The Oatmeal - assorted weird and amusing stuff
- Cyanide and Happiness - dark humor
- A Softer World - probably won't make you laugh
**Note: Most of the above webcomics have a rollover text. SMBC has a red button.