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I largely despise fiction, unless it's the classics, or Poe. I was a huge Stephen King fan when I was younger; not so much any more.

Now I'm more about learning if I'm going to be reading.

 

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That's me. MIT's open courseware is the shiznit. Lectures, notes, quizes, exams, everything but the textbook, and that's why god gave us torrents! Some other universities are starting to do it too, I like to imagine a future where every single bit of official learning that happens in our elite universities is shared online, the tuition is just for the piece of paper that says you passed, but the knowledge is free. Bloog is the future of smoking, free information and knowledge just may be the future of humanity (or hey, maybe it fizzles and we all die cold and alone?)
2000 classes from MIT ranging from "Women in South Asia from 1800 to Present" to "The Linguistic Study of Bilingualism" to " Musculoskeletal Pathophysiology" and "Aerospace Biomedical and Life Support Engineering"
Check it out, outta keep you busy for the next few generations:
Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

 

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^ Are you on reddit? I first learned about MIT's courseware thanks to reddit. I've done quite a bit of reading there. Fascinating stuff.

I'm just getting into amateur astronomy, as well. There's a lot to learn, so I've been trying to get up to speed on a lot of things relating to that lately.

 

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Nope don't use reddit, I think I found MIT on sciencemadness some years ago for chemlab demonstrations. Awesome that you use it too, berkley has some stuff, mostly video and audio lectures. Found this course on yale's site: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics — Open Yale Courses
Warning to anyone going on a long road trip with me, bring some good conversation, or you will sit through hours of lectures!

 

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The Berkley video stuff is seriously addictive. I also watch a lot of TED lectures. So much good stuff there. It's amazing the stuff the internet has brought us, sitting in a comfortable chair, drinking tasty beverages, vaping a bloog and learning.

 

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I really liked The Hunger Games.

 

[n00b]

That is an awesome line. I'm going to use that some day.

Thanks, I was quite proud of that one.