Important Academic and Cultural Links: The following sites
bring important resources to our children in science, mathematics, literature and art.
Science and Mathematics:
nature-video lindau collection: Here you can listen to the Nobel Laureates talking to young students: Physics-2008, Chemistry-2009, Cross-discipline-2010, Physiology and Medicine-2011, Physics-2012
Scale of the Universe: This wonderful interactive program will take you from the Planck-scale to the universe.
MIT OpenCourseware: Learn through MIT's OpenCourseware- the pioneering program in free world-wide learning.
edX: Learn specific courses directly from MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and other top institutions without any expense.
Coursera: Learn specific courses directly from Stanford, Caltech, Princeton, UPenn, UMich, John Hopkins and other top institutions without any expense.
Biology
Scitable by Nature Education: A wonderful site to learn essentials of cell biolgy, genetics and topics of modern biology.
Chemistry
MIT Chemistry Bootcamp: A trailer for the ChemLab Boot Camp series that follows 14 MIT freshmen as they as they face the challenges of learning chemistry the MIT way.
Chemical Demonstrations: Excellent demonstrations and explanations of chemical reactions at MIT.
The Chemical Education Digital Library: At this National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored site you can learn about each element with data, video and crystal structure; investigate molecular structure and chemical bonding with 3D atomic models; and learn chemistry concepts in a new and flexible way.
The Universe in a Nutshell: Watch a fabulous talk for high school students by Prof. Michio Kaku from CUNY.
The Future of Fundamental Physics: Listen to the series of Cornell lectures by Nima Arkani-Hamed, one of the greatest minds of physics. More appropriate for undergraduate and higher level science students.
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Resources for grammar and creative writing. If you are planning to take GRE and apply to the US universities, this place helps you in preparing Graduate School Application.
Lectures on Bhagabat Gita and Upanishads: Here you can listen to the lectures on Gita and Upanishads for teenagers by Swami Tadatmananda.
The audio lectures have accompanying pdf slides of slokas in Sanskrit and English as well as English translation.