FYI: You can download 10 free international ebooks as part of Amazon’s free giveaway for World Book Day. Writes CNET: World Book Day is on April 23 and to celebrate the day, alternatively refer...
In 2009, Princeton philosopher Peter Singer published his practical handbook/manifesto The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty. Bill and Melinda Gates called it “a persu...
Boing Boing writes: “Back in April, Andrew Albanese from Publishers Weekly wrote a column deploring the abysmal formatting in the DoJ’s release of the Mueller Report, and publicly requesti...
If you’ve considered learning a new language to open up a new realm of reading, you could do much worse than Arabic. Though its mastery may demand a considerable amount of time, it repays the i...
Back in August, we highlighted a new initiative by the New York Public Library. An institution that’s hip with our times, the NYPL released on Instagram a digital version of Lewis Carroll’s�...
Image by Tamiko Thiel, via Wikimedia Commons In years past, we let you know that Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website joined forces to create an online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Ph...
https://www.openculture.com/2018/04/the-feynman-lectures-on-physics.html
A quick fyi: Dan Kopf, an economics reporter, has a tip that seemed worth passing along. Over at Quartz, he writes: As a former data scientist, there is no question I get asked more than, “Wha...
https://www.openculture.com/2018/02/free-the-best-books-for-learning-modern-statistics.html
Last year we highlighted for you 20 Free eBooks on Design from O’Reilly Media. Little did we know that we were just scratching the surface of the free ebooks O’Reilly Media has to offer. If ...
If you look through our collection of 800+ Free eBooks, you will find many public domain texts presented by providers like Project Gutenberg and Archive.org. Pretty soon, we’ll have to add text...
This past week, we featured a free course on the programming language Python, presented by MIT. A handy resource, to be sure. And then it struck us that you might want to complement that course w...
Last week we highlighted for you 20 Free eBooks on Design from O’Reilly Media. Little did we know that we were just scratching the surface of the free ebooks O’Reilly Media has to offer. If ...
https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/download-243-free-ebooks-on-design-data-software.html
A quick note: Thanks to O’Reilly Media, you can now download 20 free ebooks focused on design–everything from Designing for Cities, to Designing for the Internet of Things, to Design Essentia...
https://www.openculture.com/2016/12/download-20-free-ebooks-on-design-from-oreilly-media.html
A quick heads up for readers in NYC. This summer, The New York Public Library released a new app, called SimplyE, which gives its cardholders the ability to “browse, borrow, and read more th...
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children’s literature. Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonse...
FYI: Bestselling author John Grisham is giving away his new novel called The Tumor: A Non-Legal Thriller. Available as a free ebook on Amazon, Grisham has called The Tumor “the most important...