Exploring the Benefits of Regular Spa and Relaxation Rituals
Worried about how to make time for yourself in the hectic pace of everyday life? If you're not experiencing a lot of stress, then one problem to be mindful of is your lack of self-care. You know that regular spa and relaxation rituals make you feel better and more at peace, but what are those benefits? Here's an article that explores some (but not all) the benefits you can enjoy from choosing to take on these new habits.
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The 37 Best Websites to Learn Something New. By Olivia Ricciardi. Published 10/10/14.
1. Khan Academy - This is another excellent learning resource that teaches you how to learn on your own. It has videos of current events, math problems, and science illustrations with explanations. It also has a wide range of high-quality instructional videos in many different subjects. Topics include math, medicine, engineering, psychology and more.
2. The Old Schoolhouse - This is a great website filled with recordings of the most persuasive political speeches ever delivered by some of the top American politicians from the 1800s through to 1900s. This is a really great way to learn effective communication techniques.
3. Wikipedia - This is an encyclopedia created by the public. It's constantly updated and contains information in every imaginable niche, from planets to art history. It's an excellent resource for anyone looking to research before they write.
4. TEDTalks - This website has a large collection of short lectures from the brightest minds in countless fields of expertise and covers topics like health, space, technology, philosophy and more.
5. Coursera - The concept behind this relatively new website is that it offers courses online for free taught by professors at universities such as Yale, Stanford and the University of Melbourne in subjects like literature, medicine and computer science. The only catch is that you need to have a strong internet connection.
6. Khan Academy - This one is similar to the previous one, but takes a much more basic approach to teaching. It contains videos of current events, math problems, and science illustrations with explanations.
7. Stanford University - The Stanford website has some excellent courses available for free online. Subjects include history, psychology, business and many others available in all degree levels and specializations such as medicine or law. You can even take them on your mobile phone using your computer's web browser app!
8. There's lots of computer science courses available for free online as well. I have personally taken a lot of those in the past and found them to be really effective. Here are some from Stanford, MIT and UC Berkeley.
9. MIT OCW - This is an online collection of open educational resources (OERs) from MIT OpenCourseWare, including course materials written by professors as well as links to additional resources, high school syllabi and other useful learning resources.
10. The University of California - This has some very nice courses that you can take at your convenience at home or on the go using a kindle or app on your laptop or phone. Subjects include history, mathematics and many others. A really interesting feature of this site is that you can take a test on your own time and send it in for grading.
11. BrainPOP for Parents - Learning can be fun with this entertaining website designed to teach adults about subjects such as earth science and history using engaging flash animations.
12. Duolingo - If you're looking to learn a new language, this is one of the best websites I've seen so far. It's free and allows you to learn languages like Spanish, French, German or Italian at your own pace.
13. The Khan Academy - This is another excellent learning resource that teaches you how to learn on your own. It has videos of current events, math problems, and science illustrations with explanations. It also has a wide range of high-quality instructional videos in many different subjects. Topics include math, medicine, engineering, psychology and more.
14. TEDTalks "How to Learn Anything in 24 Hours" - This website has a large collection of short lectures from the brightest minds in countless fields of expertise and covers topics like health, space, technology, philosophy and more.
15. Wikipedia - This is an encyclopedia created by the public. It's constantly updated and contains information in every imaginable niche, from planets to art history. It's an excellent resource for anyone looking to research before they write.
16. Duolingo - If you're looking to learn a new language, this is one of the best websites I've seen so far. It's free and allows you to learn languages like Spanish, French, German or Italian at your own pace.
17. The Khan Academy - This is another excellent learning resource that teaches you how to learn on your own. It has videos of current events, math problems, and science illustrations with explanations. It also has a wide range of high-quality instructional videos in many different subjects. Topics include math, medicine, engineering, psychology and more.
18. TEDTalks "How to Learn Anything in 24 Hours" - This website has a large collection of short lectures from the brightest minds in countless fields of expertise and covers topics like health, space, technology, philosophy and more.
19. MIT OCW - This is an online collection of open educational resources (OERs) from MIT OpenCourseWare, including course materials written by professors as well as links to additional resources, high school syllabi and other useful learning resources.
20. The University of California - This has some very nice courses that you can take at your convenience at home or on the go using a kindle or app on your laptop or phone. Subjects include history, mathematics and many others. A really interesting feature of this site is that you can take a test on your own time and send it in for grading.
21. BrainPOP for Parents - Learning can be fun with this entertaining website designed to teach adults about subjects such as Earth science and history using engaging flash animations.
22. Microsoft Virtual Academy - Lots of self-paced online classes in all subject areas from computer programming to physics! Some of the material is even available in languages other than English!
23. Khan Academy - This is another excellent learning resource that teaches you how to learn on your own. It has videos of current events, math problems, and science illustrations with explanations. It also has a wide range of high-quality instructional videos in many different subjects. Topics include math, medicine, engineering, psychology and more.
24. TEDTalks "How to Learn Anything in 24 Hours" - This website has a large collection of short lectures from the brightest minds in countless fields of expertise and covers topics like health, space, technology, philosophy and more.
25. Duolingo - If you're looking to learn a new language, this is one of the best websites I've seen so far.
Conclusion
It's great to know that you can learn almost any subject at your own pace using these free resources. I highly recommend a trial of any of them before you invest in a full subscription. One note: if you have a small children, I do not recommend using Google because it has lots of adult content through things like Hangouts and Gmail. You can create an account for your kids, but that doesn't mean they're not going to accidentally stumble upon the adult content. The kids we have recommended are safe! Also worth noting that many of these websites require an internet connection so they're best used on your home computer and not on your phone or tablet.