Tag: lists
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Huge List of Free Online Langauge Courses
From Abenaki to Xhosa, Hmong to Hungarian – Word2Word provides a huge database of links to free online language courses. An essential bookmark for anyone considering another language.
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Kitchen Essentials
The LA Times‘ food writers list what kitchen items really are necessary, and which you can safely skip. Essentials: Pestle and mortar. A quality cork screw. Instant-read thermometer. Quality dried pasta. Heavy-duty roasting pan. Dutch oven. Whole vanilla beans (not extract). Micro-plane. Larousse Gastronomique. Unnecessary utensils: Mini food processors. Most non-stick pans. An expansive selection…
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Web Design Marketing Checklist
Once again I’m put in mind of Seth Godin’s call for ‘web podiatrists’: this comprehensive web design checklist is perfect for not just designing a usable site, but a marketable one. [This] master website marketing checklist [covers] over 400 specific items over 23 topics. These topics include things such as website development, SEO, usability, accessibility,…
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Classic Books of the Ages
Ryan Holiday asks, What is the ‘classic’ book of the 80s and 90s? Ryan starts by listing the classics from previous eras and decades… The Scarlet Letter (colonial America) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (slavery) The Red Badge of Courage (sometimes for civil war) The Jungle (turn of the century) All Quiet on the Western…
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20 Things Everyone Needs to Know
I’m usually quite sceptical about similar lists, but The Independent‘s 20 Things Everyone Needs to Know struck me as actually useful as each list item is authored by a professional who works in that field. And when you’ve got an article co-authored by the likes of Donald Trump, Jennifer Capriati and Larry King, how can…
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List of Thought Processes
Thoughts – or specifically the mental processes enabling us to think – allow beings to be conscious, to make decisions, and to imagine. Thoughts are what define us as individuals. This list of thought processes is a (big) list of thinking styles, methods of thinking (thinking skills), and types of thought. When you have some…
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2005 Global Intellectuals Poll (100 Most Important Living Intellectuals )
The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll is a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals […] compiled in November 2005 by Prospect Magazine and Foreign Policy on the basis of a reader’s ballot. Top five: Noam Chomsky Umberto Eco Richard Dawkins Václav Havel Christopher Hitchens Foreign Policy requires (free) registration to access the list.…
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List of Common Misconceptions
The list of common misconceptions includes this clarification: The word “theory” in “the theory of evolution” does not imply doubt in mainstream science about the validity of this theory; the words “theory” and “hypothesis” are not the same in a scientific context (see Evolution as theory and fact). A scientific theory is a set of…
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List(s) of Unsolved Problems
List(s) of unsolved problems in topics ranging from cognitive science to computer science; philosophy to physics. Got some time this coming weekend? Why not decipher an ancient writing systems or answer the P = NP problem and earn yourself $1,000,000.
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Top Speeches and Motivational Videos
American Rhetoric is a “speech bank” holding over 5,000 full text, audio and video on some of the most famous speeches, lectures, debates and interviews of all time. Recently they released a list of the top 100 speeches in American 20th century politics (complete with transcript and audio). Martin Luther King, Jr. – “I Have…