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I can not express my excitement when I found out this great resource online: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences offered public lectures on cooking and science. It's a "collaboration between eminent Harvard researchers and world-class chefs." What's a better place to learn about the science of cooking than at Harvard? The first thought that crossed my mind, " I wished they had offered this lectures back in 2009 or 2010(they did?) so I could make good use of it!" In spite of my regret, I could not feel any happier to know that the materials of the past and current lectures are available online from both iTunes U and youtube! It's not too late for me to catch up with previous lectures, right?

How should I put it, iTunes U is AMAZING! This is the place that I'll immerse myself with knowledge. Have you ever felt that you had too little time to learn subjects other than your major requirements in college? I have. I was always interested in Psychology and only took the intro class, as you might have guessed, for my GE requirement. Worry not, now I'm taking the class "Thinking like a Psychologist" with fellow students at Stanford University. I even downloaded iTunes U on my iPhone so that I could learn on the go. (Plus I feel the need to buy an iPad for this particular reason.) 

Now that I was introduced to iTunes U, i dug in for more free online courses that offered from prestigious universities. Open Culture is a great website to browse and to start with. It carefully and neatly listed all sorts of educational media with subjects ranging from art to science. You'll be amazed by the sheer amounts of materials that you can use to educate yourself, just by one click.

The other two sites i found, coursera and edX, provide mainly science courses. Unlike Open Culture which serves as a medium, coursera partners with universities for online courses of all sorts. edX, a partnership product of Harvard and MIT, of which is like the stereotype, is very technology oriented. Whether you're a tech genius that wants to understand further or a beginner wishes to learn something new, these two sites are of great value.

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