{"id":455,"date":"2009-03-26T13:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2009-03-26T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:09:55","slug":"academic-earth-now-what-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/academic-earth-now-what-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Earth &#8212; now what is that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to learn something new but have not got the time or money or whatever to attend University.&nbsp; Well, how about doing it all within the confines of your four walls?&nbsp; This is what<a href=\"http:\/\/academicearth.org\/\"> Academic Earth<\/a> is.&nbsp; It gives you video recording or lectures from a couple of universities like Harward, MIT, Yale and others.&nbsp; You can either stream the video or download them for later viewing.<\/p>\n<p>I always wanted to do some course in Astronomy and found one on Academic Earth.&nbsp; It is called <a href=\"http:\/\/academicearth.org\/courses\/introduction-to-astrophysics\">Introduction to Astrophysics<\/a> and I have watched the first couple of lectures and have learned more about Astronomy in those lectures than anywhere else.&nbsp; Cannot wait for the rest of the lectures.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/academic%20earth\" rel=\"tag\">academic earth<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/university\" rel=\"tag\">university<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/astronomy\" rel=\"tag\">astronomy<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/education\" rel=\"tag\">education<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/learn\" rel=\"tag\">learn<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=2e176dd7-c52c-4153-a9a3-281d48ac7741\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to learn something new but have not got the time or money or whatever to attend University.&nbsp; Well, how about doing it all within the confines of your four walls?&nbsp; This is what Academic Earth is.&nbsp; It gives <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/academic-earth-now-what-is-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Academic Earth &#8212; now what is that?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,320],"tags":[321,557,570,322,88],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-education","tag-academic-earth","tag-astronomy","tag-education","tag-learn","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}