with open arms and open eyes

I have a habit of saying too much and not enough at the same time but if you can keep up with my own insights and gather the scraps of these thoughtful contradictions with an open mind, make yourself at home. Welcome to my diary.

[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.

[pyramage]

[bethrevis]

you could kill a man in any of these dresses, and pretty sure no jury would convict you. those are killing-men dresses, that’s what i’m saying

[nevermindtheb0ll0cks]

[theeraserhead]

This persons Urban Dictionary explanation of the word “Lynchian” is perfect.

[fohk]

“Daddy shouldn’t waste his time. And from now on it’s gonna be nothing but short, short skirts around the house. And you know something else, Daddy? Mommy is just so sick and tired of wearing panties”

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Martin Scorsese

[cheese24k]

Korean mother tries to teach young daughter about “Stranger Danger” cuteness ensues.

[morelifealways-deactivated20240]

trussmedaddie

[karina-padilla]

OMG

[christopherdickey]

The Champs Élysées #rightnow #JeSuisCharlie #Paris #France

[barbieteendreams]

[nectarinies]

How to drink hot tea

1. Make cup of tea 2. Sip tea 3. Tea is too hot 4. Let tea cool 5. Forget you have a cup of tea

[abcworldnews-deactivated2024032]

Best White House photographs of 2014: http://abcn.ws/1rRjsQH

[speekeasy-blog]

pls veto the keystone pipeline pls pls pls I'll love you forever

[tastefullyoffensive]

(comic by channelate)

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[annaxiin-deactivated20180808]

4:00 PM

(you never sleep regularly anymore.)

[danielodowd-deactivated20170124]

[fassyy-blog]

[speekeasy-blog]

its almost 7 am and I've stayed up all night and I'm not sleeping til its 7 again because of the horrible schedule James and I always get on when we're not forced to wake up earlier but anyway I'm downloading a bunch of songs from youtubes top latin hits playlist and ok its actually pretty fun listening to daddy yankee when you kind of understand what he's saying and his songs are catchy enough that its okay to hear it a few times in a row (but not pit bull he's still annoying) but omg there's this song adrenalina by ricky martin featuring j-lo and a bunch of sweaty dancers and I know he's gay and all but

RICKY MARTIN IS SEX

at least in that video oh.my.god I've watched it 6 times and the appeal hasn't lessened brb downloading every sexy ricky martin song I can find

[speekeasy-blog]

Its been a good year. Summers are more of a marker of years for me, another year of schooling completed, another year of university, now its another year of teaching. This year is SO MUCH BETTER than the last. I was lost and scared and a bit depressed but this year, after the best summer of my life traveling through Italy and Malta, we're in our own apartment making friends and learning the language and generally appreciating everything more. My relationship with my boyfriend is stronger and just better than its ever been and we're pretty happy, him working on his art, playing computer games, me buying plane tickets to the next destination.

Thing is, I still don't know if I want to stay another year. I'm leaning towards no. I don't feel very appreciated in my job and honestly I'm not in love with Madrid. Its nice, I love European life in general: the public transport, crowded streets, fine art, street art, street food, cafe culture, I like it a lot, but Spanish culture still alludes me and we don't really get along as well as I thought we would. Also my boss this year is a bumbling fool. I was pretty sure, this time last year, that I would renew my position and I'm glad that I did but doing this all over again in a new Spanish city (we're not allowed to stay in one city more than 2 years) just doesn't sound that appealing. Yes I'd like to improve my Spanish and yes I want to see more of Madrid, Spain, and Europe but am I willing to put my real life on hold to be mostly under-appreciated and under-utilized in what I see to be a poorly run school system? I love the kids, they're the best part of the job, but I just don't know, I don't think so. Maybe. We're applying anyway just to keep our options open but I miss how our lives were in the states - no communication limitations, not being talked down to and viewed as an idiot for not speaking well enough, not having access to products and foods and the culture I'm most comfortable with, uuuugh its so hard but we very well may end up shipping our things to our parents and finding the money for our flights home.