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Brain Pickings Review: Insighful, Elegant, and Expressive

Brainpicking is not just another blog with the same cliched content about trending news. Brainpicking takes excerpts from the lives and works writers, artists scientists, poets, and many others who have contributed to the open realm of knowledge and understanding.

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Visit wikiHow

Learn How to Do (Almost) Anything

Pretty much anything you want to learn can be found online, but how do you know for sure if the article that you have located is written by a qualified professional? If you are looking for the best how to guides online, try wikiHow, the site that is "owned by everyone".

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Visit Scientific American

Best Science Website for Whales. Yes. Whales.

Through their clarity on complex subjects, Scientific American has earned its high status and become a valuable resource for everyone from students to scientists. Now, with their side project WhaleFM, Scientific American might just be the best science website for whales.

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Visit HowStuffWorks

Discovery Channel’s $250M Purchase Explains Science of Stuff

Considering the fact that Discovery Communications bought HowStuffWorks for $250 million, their emphasis on quality should come as no surprise. They use various forms of media to explain a wide variety of complex subjects.

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Visit Big Think

YouTube for Intellectuals: Best Philosophy Website

Big Think is what happens when you put television producer Gary David Goldberg and former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers together. The pair envisioned their website becoming a YouTube for intellectuals. However, it became much more. The emphasis on quality content makes Big Think the best philosophy website.

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TED

There is an unofficial TED app available for Windows 8. There is also an unofficial TED app for Windows Phone.... Read More...

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National Geographic

They have plenty of apps. But they forgot about an Android app.... Read More...

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Wikia

Wikia is a free hosting service for wikis. It is a collaborative publishing platform that enables communities to discover, create, and share content on any topic in any language.

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Wolfram Alpha

Combines a powerful mathematics platform with a huge database of information.

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Help End World Hunger by Playing a Game

FreeRice is a way of building your vocabulary while doing a good deed. The website is sponsored by the World Food Programme which aims to help end world hunger. On FreeRice, you are presented with vocabulary questions. For every vocabulary question you get right, the World Food Programme will donate 10 grains of rice to help fight world hunger. Pretty cool, right? FreeRice also has options for answering questions about geography, foreign languages, paintings, and more.

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