Energy at Earth Portal

Here's another great article from Earth Portal. Fundamental principles of energy offers and excellent overview of energy, with top notch graphics and an examination of the basics of energy science.

Earth Portal and Earth Encyclopedia alway include very helpful reading lists, but this one is exception in its scope and its depth. The Energy further reading section is extensive and inclusive from energy and economics to conflict, to environment and health.

Lifelong learners should find this an extremely beneficial resource.

Freshwater at the Encyclopedia of Earth

Lifelong learners can find excellent material in the article Freshwater published on the Encyclopedia of Earth. The further reading section has links to three additional websites devoted to earth's freshwater.

You will learn about freshwater, from its definition to its inventory and on to freshwater use around the earth.

A very useful addition to our learning resources.

Anthropology at Palomar College

Anthropology Tutorials pages at Palomar College offer lifelong learners extensive biological and cultural anthropology tutorials.

This an extremely resource-rich site. In addition to in-depth information on each sub-topic, many of them also have practice quizzes, flashcards and a Related Internet Sites page. In additional learners have access to a good glossary of terms, with audio pronunciation.

The "how anthropologists do their work" topics give very helpful insight.

Lifelong learners interested in anthropology will want to add this study material to their learning toolbox.

Political Philosophy at Yale

Open Yale Courses offers an excellent Fall 2006 course to lifelong learners, called PLSC 114: Introduction to Political Philosophy.

This course makes available a full set of materials for each class session, including audio, video and online readings.

Course description:

"This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition. The course will focus on three broad themes that are central to understanding political life: the polis experience (Plato, Aristotle), the sovereign state (Machiavelli, Hobbes), constitutional government (Locke), and democracy (Rousseau, Tocqueville). Particular attention will focus especially on the way in which different political philosophies have given expression to various forms of political institutions and our ways of life."

This course is a nice addition to the resources of lifelong learners with an interest in political philosophy.

Biodiversity in Africa

Want to understand another piece of the environmental puzzle? The Encyclopedia of Earth presents an in-depth view of Biodiversity in Africa that should be of great interest to lifelong learners interested in understanding the interactions of earth's environments.

This article gives an excellent overview, as well as an extensive reading list. I will just let the piece speak for itself, because it has an eloquent voice.

Cambridge Festival of Science 2008

Think you might need a few more lectures to add to your lifelong learning resources? Then, check out the 2008 Cambridge Festival of Science video and podcasts. There you'll find 29 lectures, ranging from Sustainable Energy-without hot air to Gifted Scientists and Autism: Is There a Connection.

These lectures are available in several formats and some have lecture slides available.

You might want to bookmark Cambridge Science Festival 2009. Cambridge celebrates its 800th birthday.

Quote of the Week #1

"A scholar must shape his own shell, secrete it, one might almost say, for secretion is only separation, you know, of certain elements derived from the materials of the world about us. And a scholar's study, with the books lining its walls, is his shell."--Oliver Wendell Holmes