Thanks to the forward-thinking folks at Fast Company, the 30 Second MBA is born. With an impressive faculty including the Who's Who in business, culture and social media, these very casual and often humorous 30 second snippets of insight give us a brief peek into the minds of the people that shape our economy. Sure, they're raw and sometimes rushed (30 seconds goes by very fast), but you're constantly learning something and that's always a good thing. This is perfect for junior high kids on up and yes, parents you will certainly gain from this as well.

I especially love the fact that these are short and sweet and really unscripted. And with "professors" like Mark Zuckerberg, Vivian Schiller and Mike Rowe, there is TONS of great information to gather and share with your kids.

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I like Jello, I admit it, preferably something red but you know what I love more? A nice juicy website that is just so chock-full of information that it almost become addicting. For those of you who are fans of Dancing with the Idols or Real Jersey Survivors, I got bad news. The Khan Academy is the new place to be.

In 2004, Salman Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began posting math tutorials on YouTube. Six years later, he has posted more than 2.000 tutorials, which are viewed nearly 100,000 times around the world each day. The Khan Academy is the new home for this wealth of information which is staggeringly awesome to say the least. From algebra to economics, if it's about numbers, there's probably a video on it.

In Salman's recent TED appearance, he goes in depth about the advantages of learning from short easily understood videos and how he's talking these to the schools and finding great success. For those of us not currently in school (or are working to forget school altogether), these videos are an extraordinary way to learn. Need to brush up on Algebra? Done. Want to know about banks and how the Fed creates money? Done. There's even Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy, History and loads more. 

The Khan Academy is your own personal pool of information ready and waiting for you and your kids to stop by and jump on in. On a personal note, I am a bit upset at how many hours I wasted in high school and college trying to digest the topic that are covered in these videos. 

                  Click Here for Salman's TED video.                          Click Here to Go Directly to The Khan Academy