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Khan Academy

A good place to learn a hell of a lot, and damn near constantly updating.

http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy

Basically, a lecturer guides you through whatever and gives you a visual demonstration to boot. There's tons of playlists which categorize all of the material, so you can just pick up and learn a day's lesson in your whatever class in like 10 minutes. :)

Has everything from biology, to an explanation for the housing bubble bursting (and all the unpleasantness that resulted from that), to basic arithmetic, all the way on up to calculus.

Have fun. Happy self-education!
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08-06-2010 06:46 PM
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Re: Khan Academy

His actual website is here: http://www.khanacademy.org/

I used it to teach me calculus. This guy is awesome.
08-13-2010 04:28 PM
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