Project Voy

Hello! This blog is about Project Voy: a web platform that allows users to share their knowledge through bot-assisted question asking and answering. It's like a more fun, faster, bot-mediated Yahoo! answers and it's pretty great. As for me, I'm Theresa and I'm one of the founders of Voy. Check out the links below or send me a message/ask anytime c:

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It’s National Pollinators Week, so for your Monday Motivation, were sharing this 1929 motivational workplace poster published by Mather & Company.

From Mather & Company work incentive posters (Mather & Company work incentive posters (Accession 2005.278) ), in Hagley’s Audiovisual Collections. You can view more workplace posters at our Digital Archives.

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Just a bit of what I’m working on, between my actual jobs-related work 

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i will never understand why americans write dates like that. it hurts my brain. it's just pure logic to go from day to month to year

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at this point it doesn't even matter whether the commonwealth or American system is more logical, because everyone is aware that the other exists. we just need a way to avoid confusion

I propose adapting the Japanese system, which actually marks what each number means (eg. 2021年03月10日). that way English speakers who say "March tenth" can write 03M/10D/21Y, and those who say "ten March" and "the tenth of March" can write 10D/03M/21Y without causing any confusion

or... idk... something like this 10🌞03🌝2021💫 if we wanted non-letter symbols

I mean, ideally we'd switch to yyyy/mm/dd anyway, because digital files sort better like that

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Great idea! Let’s use the system that makes it easiest to work together, without significanty forcing anyone to change while others change not at all. I like it a lot. 

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workstation

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Beautiful

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free online resources from virtual museum tours to online learning

hi! if you’re looking for some ways on how to spend your time and engage with subjects you really love, or learn something new, or just distract yourself with art and literature, i’ve got you!! please share with others if it’s helpful <3

Language

how I study languages on my own

free online language courses

language challenges

Art, Music and Photography

582 met ebooks for free

visit the louvre, vatican museums, and many more virtually

stage shows, operas, musical theatre streams for free

free online art courses

free online design courses

free online music courses

free online photography lessons from nikon (april only!!)

Philosophy, History, Law & Literature

100+ legal sites to download literature

complete works of shakespeare

free online ivy league literature courses 

free online ivy league philosophy courses

free online ivy league history courses

6 cute ideas on how to fill your empty notebooks

free online ivy league law courses

Sciences

free online computer science courses

free online chemistry courses

free online medicine courses

free online physics courses

2400 free online MIT courses

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Also, if you want to try out Skillshare, click here to get 14 free days of skillshare premium!

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You know I’m always happy to see more access to education and knowledge

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hello. i made another quiz. it is spring, these days. we are looking to move forward. let me give you something you might need.

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Such thoughtful questions <3

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One thing that academia taught me and that I’m so grateful to it for is this ^. I used to be so afraid to speak up in classes and I’d suppress my desire to ask people things or to challenge them. I’d just wonder, quietly steeping in my curiosity until I let myself get distracted. But so much of learning is due in largely to asking and answering questions well. I mean, what would happen if we all stopped asking questions? What would happen if we all started asking more?  (I know that the image is a bit corporate; don’t hate me for it. I originally designed the image for linkedin :P)

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please stop idolizing people you barely know on the internet

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At the end, of the day, we’re all just people, aren’t we? No more and no less. 

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I’m in love with these polar-inspired sticky notes and these fine-tip pens, which are both adorable and they make my writing look nicer.  Hopefully, these make my walls a little prettier and they help me to be more productive c:

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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

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Just having a chill night of studing and doing work for Project Voy with my plants and my gecko 

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An example of a question asked to Voy’s humanist hive (aka a group of self-reported humanists). What do you all think? Do you have any different answers to this question? Do you think it’s a good question for this hive? Are the colors looking okay? If you have any thoughts, please let me know c:

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Learn to love reading and research I promise you’ll never be bored again

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I’m gonna buy stickers for my schedule; it’s looking too boring. Does anyone have any stikcer seller recommendations?

[mun-dane]

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

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Art isn’t just pretty things, (although beauty is important). It’s connection; it’s conversation.  And those things are vital. 

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DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome?  Research.  You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.  Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.  Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.  Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana-  Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free!  And legal!  They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things!  Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen-  Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access-  Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this.  Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

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https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F68.media.tumblr.com%2F9ea7f1ffa2203e2d75535400a6096f4c%2Ftumblr_ofb65cYXTA1rqj6wno1_500.gif&f=1&nofb=1 This gif just reminded me a bit of swarming on Voy  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯