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seppolevne
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada1681 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-30 20:28:17
December 29 2010 07:12 GMT
#1
Here I will log what I have/will be learning about:

History
-Magna Carta
-War of 1812
-US Civil War
-WWI
-WWII
-7 Years War

Historical Figures
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-King Henry VIII
-Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
-Tycho Brahe
-Pope Paul VI
-Charles II (Spain)

Modern Day Figures
Noam Chomsky

Religion and Mythology
-Greek
      -Zeus -Hera -Heracles -Hephaestus -Hades -Hermes -Ares
      -Narcissus -Poseidon -Pandora's Box
-Norse
      -Odin -Thor -Ragnorok -Valhalla
-Hindu
      -Upanishads -Vishnu -Krishna
-Islam
      -Koran
-Christianity
      -Matthew -Mark -Luke -John -Paul
-Judaism
      -Genesis -Exodus -Leviticus -Numbers -Deuteronomy -Moses -Noah
      -David -Abraham -King Solomon -Jonah
-Quakers

Books
-War and Peace
-Moby Dick
-Pride and Prejudice
-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Politics
-North/South Korean relations
      -Unit 684
-Black Panthers

Science
-LHC
-Pavlov
-BF Skinner
-FEYNMAN
-Infinity
-Godel's incompleteness theorem

Philosophy
-Kant
-Rousseau
-Toqville
-Adam Smith
-Marx
-Ardono
-Descartes
-Satre
-Foucault
-Baudrillard
-Heidegger
-Wittgenstein

Any and all suggestions welcome!

Thanks ^^

*
J- Pirate Udyr WW T- Pirate Riven Galio M- Galio Annie S- Sona Lux -- Always farm, never carry.
Gingerninja
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom1339 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 07:19:26
December 29 2010 07:18 GMT
#2
Learn a Language.. fills in plenty of free time.. increases social circles and Job prospects. opens up new ideas and things you didn't know existed?
I quit my Job to go back into Education and I'm currently Living in Japan, studying Japanese.. and it's for want of a better word fucking awesome. (also in same time zone as Korea.. with immense internet speed... GSL's while I eat my Dinner? yes please)
Not one single regret at all.
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darkponcho
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States262 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 07:22:01
December 29 2010 07:21 GMT
#3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_684
Short but pretty interesting article about a bunch of South Korean prisoners who were recruited to assassinate Kim Il-Sung. Not much information because a lot of the stuff was covered up by the government... Basically anything about North-South relations is pretty interesting to me.

I used to spend hours on Wikipedia just reading up on anything interesting.
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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
December 29 2010 07:22 GMT
#4
Pen spinning videos on youtube take up a lot of time for me. Check it out if you're too lazy to do anything else

im deaf
seppolevne
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada1681 Posts
December 29 2010 07:28 GMT
#5
@Gingerninja - taking up time isn't the main point, learning shit is. A language is cool but way too time consuming to do right. Thx though.

@darkponcho - I will definitely read up on North/South relations, thx ^^

@imBLIND - cool skills are neat too - I'm currently learning the running man and shuffling - but I'm looking for more... "academic" things. Thx though, pen spinning is sweet.
J- Pirate Udyr WW T- Pirate Riven Galio M- Galio Annie S- Sona Lux -- Always farm, never carry.
omgCRAZY
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada551 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 07:35:09
December 29 2010 07:33 GMT
#6
On December 29 2010 16:22 imBLIND wrote:
Pen spinning videos on youtube take up a lot of time for me. Check it out if you're too lazy to do anything else

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHNKiuggvFQ


omg... what did you do to me! Now all I do is watch these videos...


For the OP, you should check out the articles on the Large Hadron Collider. Very interesting
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GERMasta
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany212 Posts
December 29 2010 08:19 GMT
#7
http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/death/
Deckkie
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands1595 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 09:44:06
December 29 2010 09:41 GMT
#8
go to youtube and look up Zizek. very interesting.

here a example:


edit:
also interesting:
Kant
Rousseau
Toqville
Adam Smith
Marx
Ardono
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Nfi
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States357 Posts
December 29 2010 09:44 GMT
#9
http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/index.html
Learn python from google .
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person, give man a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
December 29 2010 10:32 GMT
#10
On December 29 2010 18:41 Deckkie wrote:
go to youtube and look up Zizek. very interesting.

here a example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g

thanks for this, it's awesome
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seppolevne
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada1681 Posts
December 29 2010 17:29 GMT
#11
@omgCRAZY Thx, I'll check it out

@Sauwelios Online courses are a great idea too, I think I still have access to a bunch of McGill ones as well, thanks ^^

@Deckkie thanks for the philosophers, and I will check out those videos, especially with Carnac's blessing ^^

@Nfi: Learning a programming language would be sweet, I'll see if I can handle it. My only experience was trying to learn C++ (intensive course) without knowing C. That didn't go so well. Thanks.

@Views without posts: Everyone thinks something is cool, don't be shy. If you think the politics of Warhammer 40k is awesome, let me know. History of the dildo? Cultural impact of WWE wrestling? anything!
J- Pirate Udyr WW T- Pirate Riven Galio M- Galio Annie S- Sona Lux -- Always farm, never carry.
TechniQ.UK
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United Kingdom391 Posts
December 29 2010 18:49 GMT
#12
Well since I study philosophy I thought I might recommend some stuff to you.

Read Descartes "The Meditations" which is pretty much the starting text for most university level philosophy classes.

Rousseau is quite good, read his Second Discourse and Social Contract. The first discourse is pretty much his worst work even though he won an award for it. It's the 2 above that are really his masterpieces in terms of philosophy/political philosophy.

I would also recommend Jean-Paul Satre's Being and Nothingness as you've notably left out existentialism from your list of philosophy. He was vastly important in philosophy in the 20th century.

Finally if you have time I'm mainly a theology student. Perhaps even if your non-religious you'd find it interesting as many do.

Read the Christian gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) , the Qu'ran (key text of Islam) and perhaps...the Upanishads(key text of hinduism). You should be able to find most of these online.
Again even if your a non believer you can appreciate the teaching, poetry, morality and philosophy of these things and learn how people vastly different from yourself think. E.g. Muslims, Hindu's and Chrsitians in this case. Which may later help you to interact with people.

So yeah....hope this helps.

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Seltsam
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States343 Posts
December 29 2010 19:04 GMT
#13
Behaviorism is awesome.

To gain a greater understanding, I'd look up Pavlov, then BF Skinner.

It's Psychology done in an extremely scientific, verifiable way. It sounds like it would be interesting to you. It sure as hell is to me =D
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airtown
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States410 Posts
December 29 2010 20:41 GMT
#14
TED and PBS (especially Frontline and NOVA) are your best friends. There's hours and hours of good material on random stuff there.

Also, watch speeches by Michael Sandel, as well as his Harvard lecture series on ethics and political philosophy (the first video of 12 can be found here) if you are somewhat new to philosophy.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
Hidden_MotiveS
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada2562 Posts
December 30 2010 04:13 GMT
#15
Out of curiousity OP, are you waiting to start a job? Because it'd be sick to have some time after graduation!
LlamaNamedOsama
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1900 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-30 04:37:33
December 30 2010 04:28 GMT
#16
An interesting historical figure to learn about is Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord. Had to do a report on him, an amazingly intriguing figure, your first-link in google search definitely won't tell you the whole story.

Tycho Brahe was also a hilarious historical person . Oh, Pope Paul VI, winner of "the most infamous pope" title. And poor Charles II [of the Hapsburgs/of Spain], oh Charles.

EVERYTHING written by William Faulkner. Some of his notable books include A Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom Absalom [absolutely recommend that you read Absalom, Absalom! after you've only read a ton of other Faulkner stuff, hella hard to understand fully].

I personally don't find reading philosophy, although I find the ideas intriguing, the writing is often unnecessarily dense per the self-niche'd style of philosophical thinking. But throwing out some random philosophers that popped into my head:

Foucault [on biopower]
Sartre [existentialism],
Baudrillard [trippy stuff in general, The Real]
Heidegger [ontology/technology]
Wittgenstein [language/epistemology]

[Edit] - whoops, got scooped on Sartre xD
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seppolevne
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada1681 Posts
December 30 2010 06:28 GMT
#17
@TechniQ.UK: Thanks for the topics, I was Catholic so I've read the Gospels, but the rest is sweet, thanks!

@Seltsam: I know some Pavlov, but I will check out Skinner, thanks ^^

@4iner: TED talks get a little tiring and preachy after a while, but it's been some time so I will see whats new, thanks.

@LlamaNamedOsama: Tons of suggestions, will check them all out, thanks!

@Hidden_MotiveS: I figured I'd take some time off before getting into a career of sorts, so I work part time.
J- Pirate Udyr WW T- Pirate Riven Galio M- Galio Annie S- Sona Lux -- Always farm, never carry.
seppolevne
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada1681 Posts
December 30 2010 20:26 GMT
#18
Edit: Got rid of the preamble, it's now just a list for personal records. I still want suggestions though!
J- Pirate Udyr WW T- Pirate Riven Galio M- Galio Annie S- Sona Lux -- Always farm, never carry.
Chimpalimp
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1135 Posts
January 03 2011 05:18 GMT
#19
from your list I would suggest: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Its an amazing book that is more deep than one may think at first.

I do have to say your science list is lacking. More specifically you've only completed the psychology related ones, be manly and study the LHC.

If you enjoy physics, may I suggest studying a simple mechanism known as a speaker. Its rather marvelous how it works.
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