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Khan Academy: Finding an Idea in the Mail

Posted 1:06 am by Elizabeth Vincent & filed under Jobs & Careers, School & Career.

Finding an Idea in the Mail: Renaud Laplanche was opening his mail when the idea for Lending Club came to him. He tells the story of seeing the opportunity and creating the online Lending Club to fill the gap in the financial industries market. Laplache’s competitive nature extends to one-man sailboat racing and he compares the… Read more »

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Khan Academy: Background and introduction to the United States Declaration of Independence

Posted 6:00 am by Elizabeth Vincent & filed under Life, Lifestyle, School & Career, Video.

Background and introduction to the United States Declaration of Independence: In this video, Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson talks to Sal about the background to the Declaration of Independence.

Khan Academy: Discovery of magnetism

Posted 3:11 am by Elizabeth Vincent & filed under High School Life, Life, Lifestyle, School & Career.

Discovery of magnetism: Our ancestors noticed that certain rocks were attracted to each other. They also noticed that this force could be transferred onto certain metallic objects!

Khan Academy: Monet’s Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich’s White on White

Posted 12:53 am by Elizabeth Vincent & filed under Arts & Tech, Fine Arts.

Art and context: Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich's White on White: Art & Context: Monet’s Cliff Walk at Pourville & Malevich’s Suprematist Composition: White on White A conversation with Sal Khan, Steven Zucker & Beth Harris

Khan Academy: 6th graders learn to build a Spider robot

Posted 6:00 am by Elizabeth Vincent & filed under Arts & Tech, Technology, Video.

6th graders learn to build a Spider robot: Vicki Lombardi’s 6th grade students at Santa Rita Elementary in Los Altos School district learn how to build a Spider robot. Read more at: http://lasdilearn.blogspot.com/2013/02/third-graders-building-robots-mission.html

Khan Academy: Introduction to nouns | The parts of speech | Grammar

Posted 6:00 am by Elizabeth Vincent & filed under Life, Lifestyle, Video.

Introduction to nouns | The parts of speech | Grammar: Meet the most common English part of speech: the noun.

Khan Academy: Introduction to Economics

Posted 12:57 pm by Elizabeth Vincent & filed under College Life, High School Life, Jobs & Careers, Life, Lifestyle, School & Career, Video.

Introduction to economics: Basic introduction to what microeconomics and macroeconomics study. A bit on Adam Smith.

Khan Academy: What does it feel like to invent math?

Posted 4:11 am by Elizabeth Vincent & filed under High School Life, School & Career, Video.

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What does it feel like to invent math?: An exploration of infinite sums, from convergent to divergent, including a brief introduction to the 2-adic metric, all themed on that cycle between discovery and invention in math. Music: Legions (Reverie) by Zoe Keatin