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Do you want to learn something today?\u00a0 If you are anything like me then you like to gather up little pieces of information like hermit crabs collect junk.\u00a0 But this stuff is far from junk:\u00a0 MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials<\/a> puts MIT Course Materials online for anyone to access.\u00a0 Crazy awesome, or is it just me?\u00a0 I know I’m not getting the lectures, but dude!\u00a0 Kids pay good money to go to MIT.<\/p>\n

Speaking of good money.\u00a0 If you really want lectures, Yale’s got some Open Courses<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you want to learn something today?\u00a0 If you are anything like me then you like to gather up little pieces of information like hermit crabs collect junk.\u00a0 But this stuff is far from junk:\u00a0 MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials puts MIT Course Materials online for anyone to access.\u00a0 Crazy awesome, or is… Continue reading Free Online Course Materials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8539,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/11\/23\/know-thyself\/","url_meta":{"origin":3696,"position":0},"title":"Know thyself","author":"leems","date":"November 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I was long overdue in looking at the junk mail folder to which my email client automatically moved emails that fit a certain profile so I didn't see this email until recently. 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