Curated¿

i never feel at home

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

i think i died in new ways

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real

[calellon]

the one (perhaps only) thing i’ll always like about growing older and maturing is the never-ending opportunity to develop and refine your personal taste in pretty much anything. fashion, food, music, literature, art, design, furniture: the older you get, the more knowledge, insight and experience you acquire and it all adds up to a treasure of source material to create a new you from. carve, prune, distill, expand, sculpt, evolve - you can recreate yourself always and aging gracefully is all about endlessly enriching yourself through that recreation.

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this is such a beautiful reason to live

[stlowens]

Mary Oliver, “When Death Comes.”

[chaoticum]

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ more useful.

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You’re welcome heauxs

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Cause school is starting soon and this might be helpful ☺

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hi! i just wanted to say i absolutely love your bi-lingual mingle project & wanted to ask if we just contact anyone we find on the spreadsheet with similar target language goals? or how does it work after i put down my information and what do the highlighted names mean? okay thank you!!

Hello!Thank youu x😊❤️ and yes- if I have not made it clear previously, I apologise - but yes, you do get to choose your own pen pals! From my understanding the highlighted names are those of people who already have pen pals, however very unfortunately other people have been messing around with the doc. and I would really prefer otherwise, as I spent so long organising it 😔If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to contact me x!! Thank you for getting involved angel ✨❤️

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Language Pen Pal project

Hi everyone!

My name is Tas, and I’m from Sydney, Australia. Recently, I was thinking to myself “how cool would a Pen Pal Project be, but with language exchange?” So I decided to launch The Bi-lingual Mingle Project! Basically you just put in your target language (or languages) and your language of fluency- to find someone who has allignent language goals. ie. I am currently studying Spanish but fluent in English so my Pen Pal would be studying English and fluent in Spanish! I have attached the link to the project below and would love to create a space where an international audience can interact!! Please fill the doc. for your new Language Pen Pal!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2k5vPPjOEoYELdWWGTP4az9G2TlxOA0SctdsBFls8w/edit?usp=sharing

🌻😊 

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Also, please feel free to converse with language buddies studying the same language for improvement (if they are okay with of course!!). Thank you everyone for getting involved and just being so lovely x 🌹😊 I hope we can all grow as language learners and people!

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UPDATE: So recently, I have heard that the link-sharing is not working properly as you have to now request access? I’ve set up a new link below and hopefully the error ceases! Please let me know if it works, or otherwise  😊 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2k5vPPjOEoYELdWWGTP4az9G2TlxOA0SctdsBFls8w/edit?usp=sharing

Once again, I thank you all, for everything. x

[amadryades]

Our view of celestial bodies is objective, they say. But I’ve never seen the same sun twice.

Italian sun is playful and mellow, a hazy girl all dressed in white, dancing in an empty yard. An itching dolce far niente, the dust particles you swallow start to tickle your neck and wake you form inertia.

Cuban light acts  more agressively. At first it captures your legs, like crubs holding you still.  You are its hostage during the daytime, the bright venom turns your blood to seething juice. All that until the sunset. As soon as the first evening  primrose buds, your bood is blood again. Now, boiling. Trying to step out of your bosy and fight.

In Greece, light is white. A cruel colour. No sooth curves or deceiving curls. Only severe lines hitting you, marble and lime. Splitting you in two. The animal and the god. Both end up devoured. The only survivor is phos. 

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Hi, just wanted to ask if you'd considered asking people to translate your blurb about the Bi-lingual mingle Project into other languages? It could reach more people that way - there seems to be a majority of English native-speakers at the moment. Also, if this is already happening, I also just wanted to say it's such a great initiative, you're incredible :)

Hello! I would absolutely love to do something like that and have been looking to do so actually , however, I can't seem to find many blogs that are non- English speaking or anyone that is willing to translate! If anyone is please let me know. I would appreciate it so so much!! Once again I would like to thank everyone for getting involved and being wonderful! And thank you lovely!! I really appreciate it 😊🌹🌹 x

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Language Pen Pal project

Hi everyone!

My name is Tas, and I’m from Sydney, Australia. Recently, I was thinking to myself “how cool would a Pen Pal Project be, but with language exchange?” So I decided to launch The Bi-lingual Mingle Project! Basically you just put in your target language (or languages) and your language of fluency- to find someone who has allignent language goals. ie. I am currently studying Spanish but fluent in English so my Pen Pal would be studying English and fluent in Spanish! I have attached the link to the project below and would love to create a space where an international audience can interact!! Please fill the doc. for your new Language Pen Pal!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2k5vPPjOEoYELdWWGTP4az9G2TlxOA0SctdsBFls8w/edit?usp=sharing

🌻😊 

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Also, please feel free to converse with language buddies studying the same language for improvement (if they are okay with of course!!). Thank you everyone for getting involved and just being so lovely x 🌹😊 I hope we can all grow as language learners and people!

[h0pium]

Language Pen Pal project

Hi everyone!

My name is Tas, and I’m from Sydney, Australia. Recently, I was thinking to myself “how cool would a Pen Pal Project be, but with language exchange?” So I decided to launch The Bi-lingual Mingle Project! Basically you just put in your target language (or languages) and your language of fluency- to find someone who has allignent language goals. ie. I am currently studying Spanish but fluent in English so my Pen Pal would be studying English and fluent in Spanish! I have attached the link to the project below and would love to create a space where an international audience can interact!! Please fill the doc. for your new Language Pen Pal!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2k5vPPjOEoYELdWWGTP4az9G2TlxOA0SctdsBFls8w/edit?usp=sharing

🌻😊 

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Also, please feel free to converse with language buddies studying the same language for improvement (if they are okay with of course!!). Thank you everyone for getting involved and just being so lovely x 🌹😊 I hope we can all grow as language learners and people!

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Hello, my name is Vani! I have a question about your Project: I just started to learn Korean, and I really want to learn Korean and I also want to improve my English skills. If I want to Study those, should I also add my name in this table? Or how does your Project works? P.s.: Your Project is a nice opportunity for us to communicate internatnally and I like your Project. Thanks for doing this Project!!!😊

Thank you so much!! And thats’ totally fine, just put down “English and Korean” under the Language studying category. Yes, I  definitely think you should put your name down, any opportunity for self improvement is a good opportunity darling x :) 

And thank you once again!  🌹 🌹 x I hope you learn heaps and make amazing friends!! 

[cloudbeam]

today’s mood

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Language Pen Pal project

Hi everyone!

My name is Tas, and I’m from Sydney, Australia. Recently, I was thinking to myself “how cool would a Pen Pal Project be, but with language exchange?” So I decided to launch The Bi-lingual Mingle Project! Basically you just put in your target language (or languages) and your language of fluency- to find someone who has allignent language goals. ie. I am currently studying Spanish but fluent in English so my Pen Pal would be studying English and fluent in Spanish! I have attached the link to the project below and would love to create a space where an international audience can interact!! Please fill the doc. for your new Language Pen Pal!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2k5vPPjOEoYELdWWGTP4az9G2TlxOA0SctdsBFls8w/edit?usp=sharing

🌻😊 

[soracities]

The Double Life of Véronique (1991) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski

[loumargi]

Adam Elsheimer - The Flight into Egypt, detail

[mmshawty]

[picklenickels]