There Is Also A Wikipedia In Your Language

anti-intellectualism is a deflection of personal responsibility to learn onto subject matter that isnt immediately understandable. it's a coping mechanism for people who want to feel like they're still living up to their full potential (they're not) by blaming the learning itself, instead of the effort they put into their learning

Hot girls get degrees 📜💗🧠🎀💅🏾

Reblog or like if you're a studyblr/bookblr! I just came back from a year long hiatus and many I followed are now inactive

cool stuff available on youtube

archaeology related and not really (just things I watch while knitting = you can learn something but it shouldn’t bore you to death)

Irving Finkel:

The First Ghost Stories - ancient Mesopotamian beliefs

The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure - story of one really exciting cuneiform tablet and bearded guy who make reconstructing the ark possible

Short story of deciphering the cuneiform writing 

How to write cuneiform - (or short video that shows you that you really couldn’t do that)

Genevieve von Petzinger ‘s TED talk about  32 symbols found in caves all over Europe

Museum Tour: Ötzi the Iceman - 3D printing a replica of Ötzi, what did he eat, what did he carry, etc. 

A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins - lecture by Svante Pääbo, who’s worked on neanderthal genome

History of fashion and whatever Karolina Żebrowska is up to these days 

Ask a Mortician - everything you want to know about death, iconic corpses, flying corpses, well, a lot of corpses in general 

Art history with Waldemar Januszczak

Know what's great? Books. Know what's even better? Free books. I meant to put together this list ages ago and was just reminded of it yesterday, so here's just about every method I know of to (legally) obtain free ebooks and audiobooks. I'll add to this list if I come across any more.

Free Ebooks:

*Librivox - Provides access to audiobooks in the public domain, run by volunteers. Mostly classics.

*Project Gutenberg - Provides access to ebooks in the public domain. Mostly classics.

Digital Public Library of America - Provides access to books in the public domain.

hoopla - Free app that lets you access ebooks and audiobooks available through your library. Requires your library card info.

*Libby - Same concept as hoopla. Run by Overdrive.

Sora - Similar concept as hoopla and Libby but instead it's for schools (requires your school info). Also by Overdrive.

The Palace Project - Another app like Libby and hoopla that provides access to library books. This one also allows you to download books from DPLA right from the app if you don't have a library card/your library is not yet signed up with them. The downside is they don't seem to yet have access to as many libraries as Libby or hoopla.

*Riveted by Simon Teen - Provides access to full ebooks and extended excerpts of popular YA books. The books available switch out monthly so you'll have to read in the given time frame.

*Tor.com Newsletter - Weekly emails highlighting their blog, scifi/fantasy news, and short fiction. Occasionally they pop in a freebie that you can download from book depository (I got Gideon the Ninth this way). Just make sure you download the book before the deadline.

*Bookbub - Newsletter that emails you daily ebook deals curated to your tastes, often includes 1-2 free ebooks in most of its daily recs. Also a great way to discover lesser known books.

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*Chirp - Newsletter that emails daily audiobook deals. I've never seen a free audiobook here but I figured they'd still be worthwhile to mention. Prices usually range from .99c to ~$4.99. Must download the Chirp app to listen, but it's a great alternative to Audible.

*currently using these ones myself

me: [delusional] I will learn 4 languages simultaneously

New images of a planetary nebula and five galaxies as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (07.12.2022)

crazy that, for a linguistics degree, i had to learn all the muscles and mechanisms involved in the breathing process, latin names for the different parts of the oral cavity plus bone structure, statistics, corpus linguistics, physics and maths

only for it to be called a bachelor of ARTS 😩