Rescue Me…Part 1

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This is all I could think of for days after hearing this weeks Rescue theme.

So what do I need rescuing from.  2 things.

1) My stupidity in following links and finding things way too interesting.
2) Silly things in my technology reader stream, a.k.a How do these make the news? Update: This post is getting a little long so will do part 2 in another post, another day.

The Source of Wisdom by crises_crs on Flickr via CC License

Today I read a post by iLibrarian, in which she looks at courses she would like to do for fun.  Being a fan of online courses, I clicked on the MIT Opencourseware link to see what they offered.  BIG MISTAKE.  I now have a list of ones I would like to look into more in the future.  For your entertainment / torture here they are (The brackets are the year the information is taken from):

• Science, Technology and Society
  • Technology in History (2010)
  • Drugs, Politics, and Culture (2006)
    

    Millenium Pizza? by JD Hancock on Flickr via CC License

  • Technology in a Dangerous World (2002)
  • Technology and Culture (2006)
  • Cultures of Computing (2011)
  • Cold War Science (2008)
  • Technologies for Creative Learning (2009)
  • Technology and the Literary Imagination (2008)
  • Cultural History of Technology (2005)
  • The Anthropology of Cybercultures (2009)
• Literature
  • Foundations of World Culture I: World Civilizations and Texts (2011)
  • Foundations of Western Culture: The Making of the Modern World (2010)
  • Foundations of Western Culture II (2002)
  • Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity (2003)
  • Foundations of World Culture II: World Literatures and Texts (2012)
  • Reading Fiction (Fall 2008)
  • Introduction to Fiction (Fall 2003)
  • Reading Fiction (Spring 2007)
  • World Literatures: Travel Writing (2008)
  • The Film Experience (2012)
    

    Day 106 – I am a librarian by Cindi on Flickr via CC License

  • Bestsellers: Detective Fiction (2006)
  • Popular Narrative: Masterminds (2004)
  • Major English Novels (Spring 2009)
  • Major Authors: America’s Literary Scientists (2010)
  • Major Authors: Rewriting Genesis: “Paradise Lost” and Twentieth-Century Fantasy (2009)
  • Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonization (2005)
  • Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini (2010)
  • Media in Cultural Context (2007)
  • Media in Cultural Context: Popular Readerships (2007)
• Anthropology
  • The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture (2009)
  • Anthropology of War and Peace (2004)
  • Food and Culture (2011)
  • People and Other Animals (Fall 2010)
• Music and Theatre Arts
  • Early Music (2010)
  • Schubert to Debussy (2006)
  • Modern Music: 1900-1960 (2006)
  • Music Since 1960 (2006)
• Writing and Humanistic Studies
  • The Creative Spark (2004)
  • Writing on Contemporary Issues: Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about the Cultures of Food (2008)
  • Writing on Contemporary Issues: Culture Shock! Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Cyberspace (2008)
  • Writing and Experience: Crossing Borders (2010)

I told you it was a long list!

Storm Of The Century by JD Hancock on Flickr via CC License