Today's Websites are to help get your brain in gear through this mid-summer heat.
If you have always wanted to further your education at an Ivy league school, but couldn't afford it or "make the grade," now you can without ever leaving the comfort of your own home.
At AcademicEarth.org, you can stream actual course lectures from some of the nation's top universities. Study Jack Kerouac with a Yale professor, tackle physics with an MIT engineer, or hear a UCLA political-science expert explain game theory. There's no homework, no exams, no 8 a.m. labs--just you, your curiosity, and your computer.
Or maybe, you want to learn or refresh some foreign language skills, well now you can for free. You don't have to buy that Rosetta Stone package you keep seeing advertised on TV, just start you computer and log onto bbc.co.uk/languages. Sign up for the language of your choice, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Mandarin Chinese and more, and you will get weekly e-mails from a teacher with lessons and learning tips. The BBC, one of world's largest broadcasting corporations, is on a mission to enrich people's lives with programs and services that inform, educate, and entertain.
The best part about both of these sites, they are FREE!
So, start today and keep those brain cells active and young. Happy learning.
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