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a curated list of free educational sites worth bookmarking.
Worldle
game
free
guess the country by its silhouette. daily challenges, gets surprisingly tricky
( turns out i'm terrible at it )
GeoGuessr
game
drop into a random streetview location anywhere on earth and guess where you are. free daily challenges available — unlimited play requires a subscription
Kurzgesagt
free
youtube channel explaining complex science topics with beautiful animation and tons of adorable birds
NASA Science
free
space news, images, articles, and research. the astronomy picture of the day is worth checking regularly
iNaturalist
free
photograph any plant or animal and get it identified. user discretion advised though, don't go eating plants you can't confidently ID!
Atlas Obscura
free
reading
a guide to the world's weird, wonderful, and hidden places. history, folklore, and oddities
Google Arts & Culture
free
virtual tours of hundreds of museums, hi-res artwork, and cultural deep dives. you can zoom in on paintings!
Smithsonian Magazine
free
reading
history, science, nature, and culture articles, free to read online
The MET Collection
free
the entire metropolitan museum of art collection online. 500,000+ works, all browsable and free to download
Project Gutenberg
free
reading
70,000+ free ebooks of classic literature, a little confusing to try and navigate initially
Language Transfer
free
audio
completely free audio courses for spanish, french, greek, german, italian, arabic, turkish and more
Forvo
free
audio
pronunciation dictionary in every language, spoken by native speakers. incredibly useful when you read a word and have no idea how to say it.
Clozemaster
free
game
vocabulary building through fill-in-the-blank sentences. good for intermediate learners who've outgrown duolingo.
TypeRacer
game
free
improve your typing speed by racing others using quotes from books, movies, and songs
Wolfram Alpha
free
computational knowledge engine. ask it anything mathematical, scientific, or factual
Internet Archive
free
the library of the internet. books, music, software, websites, tv, movies. also where old geocities sites can still be found
Wireless Philosophy
free
free academic-quality philosophy lectures on youtube. covers logic, ethics, epistemology, metaphysics. made by actual philosophy professors
All About Birds
free
cornell lab of ornithology's free bird guide. identification, calls, behavior, range maps. basically an encyclopedia for every bird species you can think of
Merlin Bird ID
free
free app by cornell lab that identifies birds by sound in real time. hold your phone up outside and it tells you what's singing in your yard!
Sacred Texts Archive
free
reading
a massive free library of mythology, folklore, religious texts, and occult writings from every culture on earth. norse eddas, egyptian book of the dead, celtic myths, grimoires
Mythology.net
free
reading
free reference site covering myths, gods, creatures, and stories from greek, norse, egyptian, celtic, and other traditions
Desmos
free
free online graphing calculator that's surprisingly fun to mess around with. type in any equation and watch it draw itself. great for visual thinkers
sites that are from and still look like the early internet
cherish them.
HyperPhysics
free
reading
one professor (rod nave, georgia state university) built an entire physics encyclopedia as a hypertext concept map. copyright 2001. still up and cited in university courses worldwide. looks like crap and thats what makes it charming
The Phrontistery
free
reading
since 1996, one person has been compiling word lists and language resources to spread the joy of the english language in all its variety. 17,000+ obscure words, lost words, rare vocabulary that probably doesn't get used anymore
Etymonline
free
reading
douglas harper built a complete etymology dictionary of the english language by himself in 2001 and has maintained it alone ever since. look up where any word came from
Paul's Online Math Notes
free
reading
one professor (paul dawkins, lamar university) typed out his entire calculus, algebra, and differential equations curriculum by hand in html
The Straight Dope
free
reading
"fighting ignorance since 1973." one person (cecil adams) spent decades answering the weird questions nobody else would. new columns stopped in 2018 but the archive is enormous, deep, and absolutely worth reading
Fourmilab
free
john walker, one of the founders of autodesk, runs this personal science site from switzerland. astronomical tools, a random number generator powered by actual radioactive decay, an earth viewer, weird essays.
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
free
describe a concept and it finds the word for it. great for words you just can't seem to find
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