This video by Jonathan Jarvis has been doing the rounds on the blogsphere, so you may have already seen it. But if you haven’t it’s definitely worth a look. A animations full of diagrams explaining the basics of the credit crisis. I know that I’ve always been a bit hazy around the topic – I’m not a home owner and I only have a debit card – and for the last three months have been um-ing and ah-ing through conversations about the GFC (Global Financial Crisis that is).

This also shows how much learning can be assisted by online distribution and animation…check it out here.

The ocean covers approximately 70% of the planet and is home to 80% of all life on earth, yet we have only explored 5% of it. We’ll google are taking the dive, having just released it’s ocean extension to Google Earth. Users can now virtually explore thousands of images of underwater landscapes . The software has also integrated video footage of exotic marine life and shiples and clicps form the BBC Blue Planet series.

You can download the extension here for the latest version of Google Earth.