English 10 - The Quest: Home

ASD Databases

Learn Something New. Create Something Wicked Awesome.

Websites to stretch your brain.  Browse, read, and let your mind wander.

• The RSA (Royal Society for the Arts) video channel -- animations, shorts, and talks
• Medium -- everyone's stories and ideas
• The Big Think - big idea hunters
• The Conversation - a collaboration between editors and academics to provide informed news analysis and commentary that’s free to read and republish - in three editions:  Australia, the UK, and the US
• Edge.org - where some of the most sophisticated and complex minds in the world ask each other questions -- in particular, see Annual Questions (& Answers)
• Brainpickings
• CrashCourse videos by John Green and Hank Green
• Arts & Letters Daily - the best of book reviews, essays, and opinion each week
• Science Daily - the latest research news
• TED Talks - always a good bet....
• Open Culture - always letting us know about amazing free culture-related things to watch and read online
• The Globalist - a daily account of the key issues before the global community
• The PBS Idea Channel
• The School of Life - by Alain de Botton

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Of course you can use Google, Google Scholar and Google Books, but try other search engines as well.

Thanks to Katie Day at the United World College of South East Asia for her help generating much of this list.

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