excellent educational websites

1. Helpguide.org

Click here  for Helpguide’s  list of topics covered. Helpguide’s mission statement:

Helpguide’s expert, ad-free articles help empower you with knowledge, support and hope.

Helpguide’s mission is to help you understand, prevent, and resolve many of life’s challenges. Our goal is to empower you with the knowledge and support you need to take charge of your life and make healthy choices.

Helpguide was launched in 1999, following the suicide of Robert and Jeanne Segal’s daughter, Morgan. We believe that Morgan’s tragedy could have been avoided if she had  access to well-written professional information that gave her a sense of hope and direction. Helpguide is focused on providing free online resources that are motivating, balanced, and ad-free—easy to look at, easy to understand, and focused on information you can use to help yourself.

We are delighted that Helpguide has grown from a small local project to an internationally acclaimed resource that received 30 million visits in 2010.  

2. Business Balls

Free career help, business training, organizational development – inspirational, innovative ideas, materials, exercises, tools, templates – free and fun.

This list of topics covered gives you an idea of what the site offers.

wonderful videos on how the brain makes us who we are

The tell-tale brain: A Neuroscientist’s quest for what makes us human

by neuroscientist R.S. Ramachandran; duration 59 minutes, recorded at D.G. Books, La Jolla, california on January 22, 2011

Why we love: The nature and chemistry of romantic love

Presenting groundbreaking research that sheds new lights on the mysteries of romantic attraction

by anthropologist Helen Fisher; duration 43 minutes, June 8, 2006

3. A fascinating theoretical model of how our brain works and a peek into the future of artificial intelligence –a 22-minute TED talk by Jeff Hawkins

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TED: a video collection of our world’s greatest thinkers

TED:  http://www.ted.com

(stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design).

Their slogan:

Ideas worth spreading: Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.

From TED’s website:

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual TED conferences, in Long Beach/Palm Springs and Edinburgh, bring together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less).

On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. Almost 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

Our mission: Spreading ideas.

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. 

Here are the current  top ten inspiring talks:

Play_iconWilliam Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind

TEDGlobal 2009
William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind

05:59 Posted: Sep 2009

Rated:
Inspiring Courageous Ingenious …

Play_iconJohn Wooden on true success

TED2001
John Wooden on true success

17:36 Posted: Mar 2009

Rated:
Inspiring Beautiful Fascina…

Play_iconShukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time

TEDIndia 2009
Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time

16:23 Posted: Mar 2010

Rated:
Inspiring Courageous Beautiful …

Play_iconNeil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome

TEDxToronto 2010
Neil Pasricha: The 3 A’s of awesome

17:33 Posted: Jan 2011

Rated:
Inspiring Beautiful Funny …

Play_iconWilliam Kamkwamba on building a windmill

TEDGlobal 2007
William Kamkwamba on building a windmill

04:12 Posted: Jul 2007

Rated:
Inspiring Courageous Ingenious …

Play_iconShimon Schocken's rides of hope

TEDxTelAviv 2010
Shimon Schocken’s rides of hope

15:46 Posted: Nov 2010

Rated:
Inspiring Courageous Beautiful …

Play_iconWael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution

TED2011
NEW Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution

09:51 Posted: Mar 2011

Rated:
Inspiring Courageous Fascinat…

Play_iconJose Abreu on kids transformed by music

TED2009
Jose Abreu on kids transformed by music

16:58 Posted: Feb 2009

Rated:
Inspiring Beautiful Courageous …

Play_iconMark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter

TED2011
NEW Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a …

04:07 Posted: Mar 2011

Rated:
Inspiring Funny Persuasive …

Play_botw_iconSteve Jobs: How to live before you die

Stanford University
Steve Jobs: How to live before you die

15:04 Posted: Dec 2009

Rated:
Inspiring Beautiful Courageous …