If you haven't discovered TED yet, this is your lucky day!
A huge choice of fascinating talks free for your edutainment.
Enjoy!

Gladwell's books are both thought-provoking and inspiring.
Have you read "The Tipping Point", "Outliers", What the Dog Saw" and "Blink "?
(I liked them in that order).

Best magazine ever.

Independent news - not from the usual suspects.

This is kind of fun just to get a feel for how it sounds.
(The wiggly hostess in the "uncanny valley" I reckon - that's the space in AI where a robot is nearly-but -not-quite human and gives you the creeps!).

It even includes a brand new matchmaking site!