There are six great websites for everyone. Everyone sometimes feel like reading something that is not taxing their minds but at the same time adding to the store of their knowledge.
After the exams are over , students immediately need something to free their mind of all the hard stuff, the burden of which they had been carrying on their minds for so long.
They need something interesting and something that adds to their knowledge at the same time. Here is the list of some great websites serving the same purpose.
- wikihow
- quora
- How stuff works
- How it's made
- Madehow
- TED com
wikiHow
wikiHow is a worldwide collaboration of thousands of people focused on one goal: teaching anyone in the world how to do anything.
As the name suggests , this website is concerned with teaching us everything we want to know how to do, like how to become rich, how to write a good essay, how to learn music instrument, how to write answers in examination, how to make flowers, how to welcome guests, how to host a party at home, how to draw cartoons, etc.
Everything on this site has been written by someone who wanted to help someone else. The articles are written and then edited by a number of persons so as to give the best information about the topic. This website is universal and publishes stuff in 17 languages, including Hindi.
Quora
Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge. At quora, they connect the people who have knowledge to the people who need it, to bring together people with different perspectives so they can understand each other better, and to empower everyone to share their knowledge for the benefit of the rest of the world.
The method of sharing knowledge at Quora is ,asking and answering questions — questions that affect the world, questions that explain recent world events, questions that guide important life decisions, and questions that provide insights into why other people think differently.
Quora brings together people from different worlds to answer the same question, in the same place — and to learn from each other. Understand The World and The People In It.
Quora has content you will feel good about having read. Quora helps you understand why the world works the way it does, why people behave the way they do, and what we can all do to make the world better.
At quora famous personalities answer the questions directly, the way people wanted them to answer. Quora is where you can read important insights that have never been shared anywhere else, from people you could never reach any other way.
How stuff works
HowStuffWorks got its start in 1998 at a college professor's kitchen table. From there, it quickly grew into an award-winning source of unbiased, reliable, easy-to-understand answers and explanations of how the world actually works.
There are a number of categories from adventure, animals, auto, culture, entertainment, health, home and garden, lifestyle, money, science, tech, video, quizzes satisfying your urge to know more like: Can drones be used for search and rescue? What is alien intelligence? Is there any difference between turtle and tortoise? What is the difference between leopard and cheetah?
How it's made
How It's Made is a half-hour documentary-style science show. It shows 3-4 everyday items being made. It is shown on the Discovery Channel. Television series that documents how various everyday products are made.
You can find the videos showing the making of running shoes, racing carts, car brakes, pencil leads, bicycles, bread, vegetable peelers, train wheels, house paints, concrete roofing tiles, stickers, and many more items.
Madehow.com
How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery.
The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams). Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc.
For example, you can find here descriptions of Air Bag, Air Conditioner, Artificial Snow, Automobile, Battery, Blue Jeans, Chewing Gum, Coin, Compact Disc, Credit Card, DVD Player, Fireworks, Hologram, Jet Engine, Laser Pointer, Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Nuclear Submarine, Paint, Popcorn, Refrigerator, Telephone, Television, Temporary Tattoo, Vaccine, Vacuum Cleaner or Watch.
TED
It is a non-profit website devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference on Technology, Entertainment and Design , and covers almost all topics from science to business to global issues, in more than 100 languages.
You can find the videos for knowledge, entertainment, inspiration, whatever you want.