*Cool TED talks
**Books
…that I’m buying (and hopefully reading!)
April 2011
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Banerjee & Duflo) {excellent website for this book!!} (my review of the book)
- More Than Good Intentions - How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (Karlan & Appel)
March 2011
- Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricists Companion (Angrist & Pischke) {My econometrics lecturer quotes from these two as if it were the Gospel according to Angrist & Pischke!}
- The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach. (Gardner) {He has 26 honorary degrees!}
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time (Mortenson & Relin)
- Stones into Schools (Mortenson)
**music
…Some music I’m buying and/or listening to…listen to it for free on Grooveshark
- Phil Wickham ‘Response‘ (Aug 2011)
- Jeremy Riddle ‘Full Attention‘ (July 2011)
- Jeremy Riddle ‘Prepare the Way‘ (July 2011)
- Jason Gray ‘Everything Sad is Coming Untrue‘
- Phil Wickham ‘Heaven & Earth‘
Other cool websites:
We Feel Fine - searches the world’s blog posts for occurrences of the
phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling,” revealing emotion and humanity behind what would otherwise be plain old text.
Jonathan Harris’s website www.number27.org (same guy who did We Feel Fine) – really creative guy. Specializes in using digital media, computers, programming and the Internet to tell stories.
- University of California Television - Launched in January 2000, University of California Television (UCTV) is a non-commercial channel featuring 24/7 programming from throughout the University of California, the nation’s premier research university made up of ten campuses, three national labs and affiliated institutions.
MIT’s OpenCourseWare site – the best and most comprehensive resources on thousands of courses offered at MIT. Includes course-outlines, lecture notes, problem sets and (occasionally) videos of lectures. (also video lectures site, but less comprehensive)
Reading List
This is just a repository of interesting reading material I’ve found and that I think others will also find interesting/thought-provoking / funny / inspiring / {insert appropriate adjective}
Christian
- Introduction chapter to Counterfeit God’s by Tim Keller – an excellent book which exposes the idolatry that pervades so much of our lives. Thought-provoking, insightful, revealing.
- Michael Eaton’s ‘Discourse on Grace‘ – Excellent exposition on tricky Scriptures about the sinful nature, and a section giving his view of Rob Rufus’s teaching on grace (and some implications thereof). Thought-provoking, wholesome, edifying.
Other
- Paul Hawken - University of Portland ‘09 Commencement Address. Inspiring.
Bibliotherapy from The School of Life - reading prescriptions for any ailment (well they’ve got a couple anyways). I just really love the concept of reading as a prescription!!
Some sample prescriptions:
Watch this video. You’ll feel happy afterwards, and you’ll be glad you watched it. Seriously.
