Is Education Free?

We think free education is not possible . But all top universities in
the world including our IISc and IIT's  are offering free education to
everyone through video lectures, audio lectures and animations (
interactive).
But a few of us know about them. This is an effort to create awareness
about the Best free educational resources available in the world.
     Here are ....
1.         Free video lectures and animations on all subjects
<http://freevideolectures.com/>   Huge Collection. Text materials and
videos on all Engineering and Medical Sciences.
2.         Joint venture by IIT's and IISc <http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/>
3.         MIT Open Course <http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html>
Text materials, video lectures on all subjects
4.        MIT world <http://mitworld.mit.edu/>
Video lectures
5.         MIT lecture Browser <http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/>
browse video lectures on all topics
6.         World Lecture Hall
<http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm>
you can find any course here, where ever it is.
7.         WGBH Forum Network <http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/>
videos on all subjects
8.         Vega Science Trust <http://www.vega.org.uk/>
Physics Special
9.        Micro Biology Video Library
<http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/videoindex.html>
Biology
10.         Animations <http://www.maxanim.com/index.htm>
Genetics, Biochemistry, Immunology, Physiology etc...
11.         National Institutes of Health
<http://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp>             Medicine Special
12. The digital library of india---all significant work in any language of mankind (from old religious scriptures in sanskrit on palm leaves to PhD thesis everything) in  in digitized format ...
http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
This is the dream project of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam , The President of India
Hosted by: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in co-operation with
CMU, IIIT, NSF, ERNET and MCIT  for the Govt. of India and 21 participating centers.

        Business, Management and Leadership
1.         HBR Idea Cast Archive <http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/>
2.         Interviews with Great Entrepreneurs
<http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/>
<:AtomicElement id=ms__id2634> <http://hbswk.hbs.edu/>
3.         HARVARD Working Knowledge <http://hbswk.hbs.edu/>
<:AtomicElement id=ms__id2635> <http://mitworld.mit.edu/>

4.         Stanford University Videos
<http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/av_lectures.html> <:AtomicElement
id=ms__id2636> <http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/multimedia/>
5.         Knowledge @ Wharton Business
<http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm>
6.         Huge Collection of many other including the above all
<http://freevideolectures.com/business>  .

        Other Useful Search Engines
1.        Google Book Search <http://books.google.com/>
Search the all books.
2.         Google Code Search <http://www.google.com/codesearch>
searches public source code
3.        Google Scholar Search <http://scholar.google.com/>
searches all the Scholar papers.
4.         Educational Special Search Engine
<http://freevideolectures.com/search.com>    searches all sites for
e-books, study materials, video lectures, animations, including Google
videos, Yahoo videos, you tube, Google code search, Scholar, Book
search.

(acknldg: list received by e-mail from un-known source  with some modification by me, thanks to him who made the original list)

Tips : EMAIL ETIQUETTES

EMAIL ETIQUETTES

1. Be concise and to the point. Do not make an e-mail longer than it needs to be. Remember that reading an e-mail is harder than reading printed communications and a long e-mail can be very discouraging to read.

2. Answer all questions, and pre-empt further questions. An email reply must answer all questions, and pre-empt further questions – If you do not answer all the questions in the original email, you will receive further e-mails regarding the unanswered questions, which will not only waste your time and your customer's time but also cause considerable frustration. Moreover, if you are able to pre-empt relevant questions, your customer will be grateful and impressed with your efficient and thoughtful customer service

3. Use proper spelling, grammar & punctuation. This is not only important because improper spelling, grammar and punctuation give a bad impression of your company, it is also important for conveying the message properly. E-mails with no full stops or commas are difficult to read and can sometimes even change the meaning of the text. Lotus notes has a spell check option. 4. Answer swiftly. Customers send an e-mail because they wish to receive a quick response. If they did not want a quick response they would send a letter or a fax. Therefore, each e-mail should be replied to within at least 24 hours, and preferably within the same working day. If the email is complicated, just send an email back saying that you have received it and that you will get back to them. This will put the customer's mind at rest and usually customers will then be very patient!

5. Do not overuse the high priority option. We all know the story of the boy who cried because of the wolf. If you overuse the high priority option, it will lose its function when you really need it. Moreover, even if a mail has high priority, your message will come across as slightly aggressive if you flag it as 'high priority'. 6. Do not write in CAPITALS. IF YOU WRITE IN CAPITALS IT SEEMS AS IF YOU ARE SHOUTING. This can be highly annoying and might trigger an unwanted response in the form of a flame mail. Therefore, try not to send any email text in capitals.

7. Don't leave out the message thread. When you reply to an email, you must include the original mail in your reply, in other words click 'Reply', instead of 'New Mail'. Some people say that you must remove the previous message since this has already been sent and is therefore unnecessary. But, if you receive many emails you obviously cannot remember each individual email. This means that a 'threadless email' will not provide enough information and you will have to spend a frustratingly long time to find out the context of the email in order to deal with it. Leaving the thread might take a fraction longer in download time, but it will save the recipient much more time and frustration in looking for the related emails in their inbox! 8. Read the email before you send it. A lot of people don't bother to read an email before they send it out, as can be seen from the many spelling and grammar mistakes contained in emails. Apart from this, reading your email through the eyes of the recipient will help you send a more effective message and avoid misunderstandings and inappropriate comments. 9. Do not overuse Reply to All. Only use Reply to All if you really need your message to be seen by each person who received the original message 10.Use cc: field sparingly. Try not to use the cc: field unless the recipient in the cc: field knows why they are receiving a copy of the message. Using the cc: field can be confusing since the recipients might not know who is supposed to act on the message. Also, when responding to a cc: message, should you include the other recipient in the cc: field as well? This will depend on the situation. In general, do not include the person in the cc: field unless you have a particular reason for wanting this person to see your response. Again, make sure that this person will know why they are receiving a copy.

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Who decides currency exchange rate of the country?

yahoo has the best answer:

(while deciding the exchange rate (say, 1 USD=how many Rupees?) the currency is traded like a commodity in the share market...bidding decides the exchange rate)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070329101644AA45Tf6

For those who are doing PhD.....a site to njoy!

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

Is this showcasing really required?

If someone has tremendous talent, let it be nurtured....the mettle can be proved when the time comes for Olympics!
Read on about the wonder boy Budhia...

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/17/india.marathon.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest