With Google Earth you can
- discover cities around the world
- orbit the world in 3D
- take the helm with voyager
- visit a random location
- and more …
Watch Anne Frank video diary
Premiering on YouTube this week, “Anne Frank Video Diary” includes 15 episodes (Mondays and Thursdays) to be aired through early May. Filmed in selfie-style with quick cuts, each episode is between five and 10 minutes in length. Here’s the trailer – some episodes already online. Subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes.
Take the Science of Well Being course for free
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
Starts March 31st
Enrol here
Watch a Big Think video
Big Think is a knowledge forum
[At] Big Think, we believe that success in the future is all about knowing the ideas that allow you to manage and master this universe of information. Therefore, we aim to help you move above and beyond random information, toward real knowledge, offering big ideas from fields outside your own that you can apply toward the questions and challenges in your own life.
Launch Big Think
Read a random Wikipedia article
Started in 2001, Wikipedia currently contains over 6 million articles.
For a random Wikipedia article, click this link Special:Random
Take part in the #HomePro challenge
Many of us are stuck at home, but fear not. We are all creative beings, capable of making the most of any situation. To celebrate our homebound selves, GoPro is launching the #HomePro Challenge. We want to see what creative radness, inventiveness or … err … weirdness you are getting up to at home.
Every day, from March 23 through April 30, we will pick 5 of our favorite content submissions and award the creator their choice of a HERO8 Black or MAX camera + 5 years of GoPro PLUS, free!
Find out more here on the GroPro website
Listen to a concert from the LSO
While the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) are unable to perform at the Barbican Centre and other favourite venues around the world, they are determined to keep playing.
Join them online for a programme of full-length concerts twice a week, artist interviews, playlists to keep you motivated at home, activities to keep young music fans busy and much much more.
Find out more at LSO: Always Playing
Listen to 5-minute audio lessons while doing something else
Listenable is a mobile app that helps you learn something new through audio while you’re doing something else.
In the app, you can build your learning playlist and listen to 5-minute audio lessons anytime, anywhere. You can choose from a wide range of topics, everything from psychology and personal development to health and philosophy. We add new courses each week, so you’ll never run out of new things to learn.
Our mission is the same as at our other product, Highbrow: to fit learning into your daily routine. We’ve been working super hard for the last few months to make it happen, and we hope you’ll learn a lot with Listenable.
Get the app on the App Store
Could self-isolation find the Dickens in you?
Founded by the great Charles Dickens, the Journalists’ Charity has launched a competition to discover the kind of people living today who might have captured the writer’s imagination and would be his great inspirational characters of the 21st Century.
In just 300 words – with Dickens’s descriptive flamboyance – can you pen a portrait of the 21st century character you think would have deserved his attention?
Entries must be received by the charity by 5pm on June 9th 2020.
Find out more at the Journalists’ Charity
