What are the most intellectually stimulating websites of which you know?
What about them is intellectually stimulating?
Answer Wiki
- Quora: http://www.quora.com
- The StackExchange network: http://stackexchange.com
- Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org
- TED: http://www.ted.com
- XKCD (web comic): http://www.xkcd.com
- Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.or
g - HowStuffWorks: http://www.howstuffworks.
com - Paul Graham's Essays: http://paulgraham.com/art
icles.html - Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.
org - Think Smarter World: http://www.thinksmarterwo
rld.com - Arts&Letters Daily: artsandlettersdaily.com
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu
/ - Mental Floss: http://www.mentalfloss.co
m/ - Free Net Project: https://freenetproject.or
g - Open Culture: OpenCulture.com
- Open My Mind (blog): http://openmymind.net
- More Intelligent Life (selections from The Economist): http://moreintelligentlif
e.com - Nautilus, a different kind of science magazine: Nautilus
- MIT Open Courseware - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.
htm - The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension: http://deoxy.org/
- Libertarian Alliance: http://www.libertarian.co
.uk/
- Bret Victor Projects: http://worrydream.com
- Coursera:http://coursera.
com - Less Wrong: http://lesswrong.com
- Coding Horror http://codinghorror.com
- Jason Kottke blog www.kottke.org
- McSweeny's: McSweeney’s
- What If XKCD: http://whatif.xkcd.com/
- Explore: Explore
- I.M.H.O on Medium: I.M.H.O.
- Unplug the TV : Instead of TV, you should watch...
- MIT News Office Explained Section: Explained - MIT News Office
- The Last Psychiatrist: The Last Psychiatrist
- Edge: Edge.org
- Farnam Street Blog: Mastering the best of what other people have figured out.
- Big Think: Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders | Big Think
- Calamities of Nature Webcomics: The Best of Calamities of Nature
- Udacity: Advance Your Education With Free College Courses Online
- Reddit: http://www.reddit.com
- douban: http://www.douban.com/
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Tuhin Kumar, Facebook, Design, Startups, Mu... (more) Facebook, Design, Startups, Music, Soccer and Apple214 upvotes by Amit Jain, Rick Stevens, David J. Cohen, (more)Loading...
TED: http://ted.com
Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com
Craig Mod: http://craigmod.com
Bobulate: http://bobulate.com/
Frank Chimero: http://frankchimero.com/writing/
xkcd (totally serious) - http://xkcd.com/
McSweeny's: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/
Paul Graham's Essays: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
What If XKCD: http://whatif.xkcd.com/
Explore: http://exp.lore.com/
Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/
I.M.H.O on Medium: https://medium.com/c/2ed1867362f8
(Will keep adding if anything else crosses my mind)
Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com
Craig Mod: http://craigmod.com
Bobulate: http://bobulate.com/
Frank Chimero: http://frankchimero.com/w
xkcd (totally serious) - http://xkcd.com/
McSweeny's: http://www.mcsweeneys.net
Paul Graham's Essays: http://paulgraham.com/art
What If XKCD: http://whatif.xkcd.com/
Explore: http://exp.lore.com/
Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.
I.M.H.O on Medium: https://medium.com/c/2ed1
(Will keep adding if anything else crosses my mind)
Abhay Bothra, On Quora for this...65 upvotes by David J. Cohen, Arunkumar Lakshminarayanan, Aman Garg, (more)Loading...
Brainpickings (http://www.brainpickings.org/ ) by Maria Popova is by far one of the most intellectually stimulating sites I have come across.
Salim Huerta, Future doctor and entrepreneur226 upvotes by Mike Townsend, Quora User, Rushabh Kamdar, (more)Loading...
These are all the sites named so far in case you just wanted to copy and paste them all really quickly. You're welcome
KhanAcademy.org
TED.com
UnplugTheTV.com
Learn New Things
FuckingHomepage.com
IfEveryoneKnew.com
Testing Knowledge
FreeRice.com
LizardPoint.com
MathRun.net
Teach Yourself Something
OpenCulture.com
NoExcuseList.com
http://udacity.com/ - Free computer science lessons.
Project Euler is good if you posses some programming skill and an interest in math. http://projecteuler.net/
YouTube Channels
SciShow
CrashCourse
MinutePhysics
TEDEducation
Quora
Wikipedia
TED: http://ted.com
Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com
Craig Mod: http://craigmod.com
Bobulate: http://bobulate.com/
Frank Chimero: http://frankchimero.com/writing/
xkcd (totally serious) - http://xkcd.com/
McSweeny's: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/
Paul Graham's Essays: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
What If XKCD: http://whatif.xkcd.com/
Explore: http://exp.lore.com/
Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/
I.M.H.O on Medium: https://medium.com/c/2ed1867362f8
artsandlettersdaily.com
Brainpickings (http://www.brainpickings.org/ )
http://www.edge.org/ - my absolute favorite
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/ - to certain extent.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/
On rationality:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/
http://lesswrong.com/
StackOverflow
Codecademy
Udacity
Coursera
http://bigthink.com/
http://www.mentalfloss.com/ - where knowledge junkies get their fix
http://hypertextbook.com/
http://www.metafilter.com/ for general knowledge
http://www.aldaily.com/ for long reads more related to the arts
http://www.themorningnews.org/ for interesting links and quirky long reads
http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/ for great writing
http://www.volokh.com/ Volokh Conspiracy: Famous blog by several lawyers, most with a conservative/libertarian bent.
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi... Three-Toed Sloth: terrific and not-too-irregularly updated blog by statistician, complexity theorist and all-around intellectual Cosma Shalizi, professor at Carnegie-mellon, capturing his thoughts on pretty much anything in the realm of science, political philosophy and literature.
http://youarenotsosmart.com/
http://www.PandaWhale.com - Reddit + Digg
http://moreintelligentlife.com - The Economist's coolest editorials
https://teamtreehouse.com - Learn web tools
http://facingthesingularity.com - Get lost in Singularity
https://freenetproject.org - Private and Anonymous
http://openmymind.net - Random Blog
http://cyborganthropology.com - Traditional vs. Cyborg Anthropology
http://www.radiolab.org/
MIT open courseware - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Hackthissite.org
Hackaday.com
Lifehacker.com
Wilywalnut.com
W3schools.com
Lumosity
lurnQ
Lifeedited.org
http://blogs.discovermagazine.co ...
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/
http://thoughtcatalog.com/
This one is a good one: specially for those that are beggining with Python programming.
http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
http://crookedtimber.org/
http://www.thebrowser.com/
google
http://igniteshow.com/
Hackerne.ws
http://michaelchichi.com/stimuli...
http://zombo.com/
How Stuff Works
Cracked.com
xkcd
Dilbert Blog
mashable.co
gsmarena.com
cnet.com
yahoo answers (Just like Quora)
KhanAcademy.org
TED.com
UnplugTheTV.com
Learn New Things
FuckingHomepage.com
IfEveryoneKnew.com
Testing Knowledge
FreeRice.com
LizardPoint.com
MathRun.net
Teach Yourself Something
OpenCulture.com
NoExcuseList.com
http://udacity.com/ - Free computer science lessons.
Project Euler is good if you posses some programming skill and an interest in math. http://projecteuler.net/
YouTube Channels
SciShow
CrashCourse
MinutePhysics
TEDEducation
Quora
Wikipedia
TED: http://ted.com
Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com
Craig Mod: http://craigmod.com
Bobulate: http://bobulate.com/
Frank Chimero: http://frankchimero.com/w
xkcd (totally serious) - http://xkcd.com/
McSweeny's: http://www.mcsweeneys.net
Paul Graham's Essays: http://paulgraham.com/art
What If XKCD: http://whatif.xkcd.com/
Explore: http://exp.lore.com/
Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.
I.M.H.O on Medium: https://medium.com/c/2ed1
artsandlettersdaily.com
Brainpickings (http://www.brainpickings
http://www.edge.org/ - my absolute favorite
http://www.3quarksdaily.c
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu
On rationality:
http://www.overcomingbias
http://lesswrong.com/
StackOverflow
Codecademy
Udacity
Coursera
http://bigthink.com/
http://www.mentalfloss.co
http://hypertextbook.com/
http://www.metafilter.com
http://www.aldaily.com/ for long reads more related to the arts
http://www.themorningnews
http://www.reddit.com/r/b
http://www.volokh.com/ Volokh Conspiracy: Famous blog by several lawyers, most with a conservative/libertarian bent.
http://cscs.umich.edu/~cr
http://youarenotsosmart.c
http://www.PandaWhale.com - Reddit + Digg
http://moreintelligentlif
https://teamtreehouse.com - Learn web tools
http://facingthesingulari
https://freenetproject.or
http://openmymind.net - Random Blog
http://cyborganthropology
http://www.radiolab.org/
MIT open courseware - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.
Hackthissite.org
Hackaday.com
Lifehacker.com
Wilywalnut.com
W3schools.com
Lumosity
lurnQ
Lifeedited.org
http://blogs.discovermaga
http://www.jamesaltucher.
http://thoughtcatalog.com
This one is a good one: specially for those that are beggining with Python programming.
http://www.pythonchalleng
http://crookedtimber.org/
http://www.thebrowser.com
http://igniteshow.com/
Hackerne.ws
http://michaelchichi.com/
http://zombo.com/
How Stuff Works
Cracked.com
xkcd
Dilbert Blog
mashable.co
gsmarena.com
cnet.com
yahoo answers (Just like Quora)
Sara Zasowski, Servant to the Internet38 upvotes by Anna Demers, David J. Cohen, Quora User, (more)Loading...
Arts & Letters Daily always has a great mix of new information, articles, essays, news, etc.
artsandlettersdaily.com
artsandlettersdaily.com
Quora User, eternal beginner23 upvotes by Salem Al-Mansoori, Hunter McCord, Anirudh Dattatri, (more)Loading...
On rationality:
Both websites are focused on analyzing situations more rationally and (for me) often point out biases and problems in my thinking that I had been completely unaware of.
Both websites are focused on analyzing situations more rationally and (for me) often point out biases and problems in my thinking that I had been completely unaware of.
Patrick Collison, Books, code, tools, waffles.47 upvotes by Quora User, Ethan Herdrick, Aline Lerner, (more)Loading...
Bret Victor's site: http://worrydream.com.
Avinash SM, Indian | भारतीय | ਪੰਜਾਬੀ | h4ck3r32 upvotes by Rohit Shinde, Quora User, Quora User, (more)Loading...
- You’re getting old – Website that gives you stats about your life so far in an awesome way.
- Clickhole – BuzzFeed parody from the creators of The Onion sarcastic news site.
- Made /w Code – A customized bracelet that you can have 3D-printed. Made by Google. Also they will send you it for free if you live in the US.
- Printable Paper – Useful for school start and saves you a lot of money. Download and print many kind of papers for free like “Dot Paper with 2.5mm spacing on A4-sized paper” or “Columnar Paper with six columns on A4-sized paper in landscape orientation” and hundreds more.
- Joshworth.com – If the Moon were only 1 pixel. Scroll and be amazed!
- ChessCademy – Awesome site to learn chess.
- Zanorg.com Blog – French blog, but the Flash application is unbelievably cool. 40 popular songs split up into the used instruments, each instrument can be activated and deactivated separately.
- Gigapan.com – 45 gigapixel panorama picture of Dubai. Zoom!
- Mailinator – Disposable e-mail account. Useful when you don’t want to receive spam to your main e-mail account.
- Midomi – The site is like Shazam, but for PC, however you can sing the song yourself or hum it if you don’t know the words.
