In my opinion, Maria Popova along with John Brockman- Edge.org, and Amara Angelica- Kurzweil AI.net are among the premier curators of ideas today.

Vintage Anatomical Charts of the Male and Female Body, as Animated GIFs

Illustrators and Visual Storytellers Map the World

Synergetics and The Wellspring of Reality: Buckminster Fuller Against Specialization

The Age of Edison: Radical Invention and the Illuminated World

You Are Stardust: Teaching Kids About the Universe in Stunning Illustrated Dioramas

Richard Feynman on the Universal Responsibility of Scientists

Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and the Shared Dignity of Giving and Receiving

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Billionaire tech entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, continues to write about the US job market and how education, especially digital education, relates to it. Here’s what he had to say in a recent post that is worth reading:

That giant sucking sound you hear is the sound of intelligence being sucked from the brick and mortar locations into smart applications in the cloud licensed or owned by the companies that own the brick and mortar locations.

The best news is that with online educational resources coming on, and im not talking about the for profit schools, Im talking about FREE educational resources, anyone with the focus and inclination and access to a pc on the net has a chance to  learn a digital skill that can be of value to these new digital companies and allow you to change worlds.

What is my solution ?  I will tell you what I told my alma mater Indiana University and the University of North Texas committee that I am on. Every junior and senior should hold open at least 1 class in each of their junior and senior years for ...