TED Talks are free, infuential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity.



TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, starting over 30 years ago as a Technology, Entertainment and Design conference with the aim to get your idea across in a short, powerful talk in 18 minutes or less. They’ve somewhat diverged from that a little in the sense that talks now cover almost all topics including science, politics and global issue to name a few, and occasionally a talk can go on a couple of minutes past the 18 minute mark.

There are now over 3100 different talks at your fingerprints, if you go here you can look through topics to find one that takes your fancy.

Maybe you want to know, ‘What’s the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf?’.

Or something a bit more fun, ‘My journey to yo-yo mastery’.

Or something a bit deeper, ‘What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness’.

Or even, ‘Where are all the aliens?’.

WolframAlpha is an app and service that allows you to compute expert-level answers using their breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology.



There isn’t an easy way to describe Wolfram Alpha so I’ll take the description straight from the creators:

” Wolfram|Alpha takes questions—from arithmetic to calculus, from conversions to complex systems—and calculates the answers.
Try your most challenging problems at wolframalpha.com. “

” With our massive, crowdsourced collection of real-world data, models, methods and algorithms, you can compute anything in any subject, from algebra to zoology. By gathering and building on systematized knowledge from science, math, language and more, Wolfram|Alpha provides a definitive source for getting real answers to factual queries—putting the world’s knowledge at your fingertips. ”

If that doesn’t quite make sense, take a look at the video below:

SparkNotes is an online source for over 500 study guides. They host the full works of Shakespeare and literature guides along with a range of other subjects.



Have a look at some of the examples of SparkNotes below and then take a look at how the app works at the bottom.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Put simply, it’s a Google Search just for scholarly articles.

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You’ve probably already heard of Google Forms, or even already been sent a questionnaire made using Google Forms. But Forms isn’t just used for surveys and questionnaires, you can do so much more with it.

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The Glyn Library needs very little introduction but whilst the library itself is a bit hard to miss, there are some people who aren’t aware of the sheer number of resources that the Library website offer and recommend. The dedicated team create some of their own resources, collating different sites and content together for a number of topics. Take a look at their website.

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The Conversation is a non-profit, charity, independent news outfit that sources its content from academic sources and researchers to help you keep up to date with the world away from the noise of the mainstream media. Take a look at theconversation.com.

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CrashCourse create and share easy to follow topic videos to help you learn a specific subject. With over a BILLION views across their YouTube channel and just shy of 10 MILLION subscribers, they regularly post new content including videos with leading lecturers from their respective field.

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Open Culture is a website that centralises and curates the best, free educational and cultural media from across the internet to make it easier for everyone to find.

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Oxford Podcasts is home to over 9000 public lectures, teaching material, interviews and a lot more. Content is regularly added to the site including public lectures covering the environmental and scientific challenges of the 21st century.

It’s not all audio though, they also have video and written content too. You can download the complete First Folio of William Shakespeare, with its original spelling from 1623, this includes The Tempest and A Midsommer Nights Dreame.

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