Comments on: Become a Renaissance Man Without Spending a Dime

By: Oz

Oz — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:58:30 +0000

it’s all well and good to try to encourage people but people who are as inept and shit as me will never be able to reach those lofty goals

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:48:08 +0000

I have been very satisfied with The Teaching Company’s products and enjoy MIT open courseware and TED, etc. Also look at the Avalon project form Yale – hundreds of essential documents from Magna Carta to Federalis papers etc. I also like econtalk – podcasts about economics really facinating stuff.

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By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:43:02 +0000

I love ted.com!!

By: Omar

Omar — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:51:38 +0000

It’s funny how people seem to be impressed when one knows a lot about varied topics. I will check out the resources. Good post.

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The Learned — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:56:31 +0000

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By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:31:59 +0000

I would also recommend http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/HFrame.html for a good overview of physics. It makes doctoral-level concepts understandable to an intelligent layman – a tour de force.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:30:51 +0000

I just wanted to add a link to a great free book resource! This one has both text and audio books.

http://www.gutenberg.org

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Weekly Rountable - Some Awesome Links For You | Building Camelot — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:15:04 +0000

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By: RO

RO — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:40:13 +0000

You may want to check out Alan Kay’s reading list: http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp

He has a library of 5000 books about all sorts of subjects. He’s a computer scientist but also into biology, media, teaching/education, etc.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:54:02 +0000

Thanks for the fantastic additions everyone. I was hoping that commenters would help me uncover even more great resources and I haven’t been disappointed.

@ The Plainsman-
I like putting on TED as my “background music” too. One would think it would be distracting, but it’s great.

@Rommy-

I totally agree with you. I tried to address that point here: “Of course, not everything a Renaissance man needs to know can be taught in books or on the internet, but this is a worthy start to supplement your hands-on training.”

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:42:15 +0000

I’ve been listening to classes from MIT OpenCourseware on my commutes:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

There are over 1900 courses with materials on a variety of topics.

For the theologically minded Reformed Theological Seminary also has many of its courses available for free:

http://www.worldwide-classroom.com/