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Professors are increasingly souring on students bringing their laptops to class. Some are banning them. (The Washington Post has more on that.) And some are banning them emphatically. Like the physics professor from the University of Oklahoma. (Watch the video above.) What’s the solution? Maybe this student has the right idea (said in jest).

Making the Case Against Laptops … With Liquid Nitrogen is a post from: Open Culture. Visit us at www.openculture.com

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The average American spends a good 100 minutes per day commuting to and from work. (More on that here.) That amounts to about 433 hours per year! Now imagine using that time to learn something new — to read a great book, to take a class from a top university, to learn a new language. To make a sharper you. Below, we highlight our free audio resources that will maximize your drive time. Before getting started, make sure you have a big mp3 player and a way to listen to your mp3 player over your car speakers. Unless you commute by subway or bus, using earbuds is generally unsafe, and often illegal.

Free Resources:

Free Audio Books: What better way to spend your drive time than listening to some of the greatest books ever written? This page contains a vast number of free audio books, including works by Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell and many more. You can download these classic books straight to your mp3 player, then listen as you drive.

Free Courses: This list brings together over 275 free courses from leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, Oxford and beyond. These full-fledged courses range across all disciplines. As you drive, you can immerse yourself in free courses in history, physics, philosophy, psychology and beyond. All of these courses are available in audio.

Free Foreign Language Lessons: Perhaps learning a new language is high on your personal check list. Well, here is a great way to do it. Take your pick of 37 languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, English, Russian, Dutch, even Finnish and Esperanto. These lessons are all free and ready for your drive. You’ll start speaking that new language in no time.

Ideas & Culture Programs: In this audio collection, we have gathered some of the most intellectually stimulating programs, covering the worlds of thought, film, music, books, etc. These programs will keep you thinking and culturally up-to-date. Most programs feature new daily episodes.

Science Podcasts: Maybe you’re already steeped in the liberal arts and want to get more comfortable with the world of science. Here’s a good place to start. This page includes a long list of entertaining science programs. Neuroscience, astronomy, medicine, Einstein, National Geographic. They’re all here, waiting for you.

Open Culture iPhone App: A little something special for iPhone users. When you download our free iPhone app, you can take with you, wherever you go, the items listed above. Just connect to Wi-Fi (Apple says so), download as many audio files as you want, then take them on the road, and you’re good to go.

Paid Resources: We love all things free. You know that. But sometimes paid resources deliver the goods. Here are two paid resources that I frequently end up using during my travels.

The Teaching Company: This company travels across the U.S. and records great professors lecturing on great topics. Although you can purchase these polished courses in multiple formats — Video DVD, Audio CD, Audio Tape, etc., — I generally go for the courses produced in a downloadable mp3 format. They’re cheaper  and more portable. What course am I listening to right now? The History of Ancient Egypt. Please note that the company often runs sales. So if you don’t see a course at a nice price, just give it some time and a good deal will usually come along. Be sure to keep a close eye on their “On Sale” page.

Audible.com: If you’re into contemporary books, then give Audible a visit. They have the widest collection of new books on the market, and they make it easy to download books to your mp3 player. In fact, they support iPod, iPhone, Blackberry and 500 other devices. Books can be bought a la carte, or through an annual subscription. If you start a 14 day free trial with Audible.com, you can download a free audio book of your choice. At the end of 14 days, you can decide whether to stick with the subscription plan or not. Regardless of your decision, you can keep the free audio book. It’s a no risk way of trying out Audible’s service.

This post was inspired by Lifehacker’s piece from earlier today: Top 10 Tips and Tools for Commuters.

Getting Smart During Your Daily Commute is a post from: Open Culture. Visit us at www.openculture.com

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A quick heads up for book lovers: Goodreads is a large social network for readers, with over 3,000,000 members who review, recommend and swap books. The site also features “book-give-aways” for its members. This month you can enter to win a free copy of If You Follow Me, a novel by Malena Watrous, a talented colleague of mine at Stanford. About the book one reviewer said: It’s “the kind of book you finish and then clutch to your heart as you run around telling everyone you know that they have to read it.” The book is hitting the bookstore shelves today, and you can sign up to win a free copy until March 16.

PS Malena will be teaching an online writing course through Stanford Continuing Studies this spring. The course, called The Creative Writing Coach, is open to all. Meanwhile, we’re also piloting our first online humanities course, a philosophy course called Envisioning the Good Life. Watch the video introduction for the course here.

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