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33 Websites That Will Make

You a Genius

The web is increasingly becoming a powerful resource that

can easily help you learn something new everyday. These
awesome sites are just what you need.

I have no special talent, I am only passionately

curious. Albert Einstein

There is a good chance youll be able to put at least one of

these learning tools to good use and come out as a better
person than you were last year. These are some of the best
websites that will make you smarter every day.

BBC Future Making you smarter, every day.

2. 99U (YouTube) Actionable insights on productivity,

organization, and leadership to help creative people push
ideas forward.

3. Youtube EDU The education videos that dont have cute

cats in boxes but they do unlock knowledge.

4. WikiWand A slick new interface for Wikipedia.

5. The long read (The Guardian) In-depth reporting,

essays and proles.

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6. TED Great videos to open your mind on almost every

topic.

7. iTunes U Learning on the go, from some of the worlds

top universities.

8. InsightfulQuestions (subreddit) Intellectual discussions

that are not necessarily genre-specic.

9. Cerego Cerego helps you build personalized study plans

based on your strengths and weaknesses to retain
knowledge.

10. University of the People Tuition-free online university

that oers higher education in multiple course streams.

11. OpenSesame Marketplace for online training, now with

22,000+ courses.

12. CreativeLive Take free creative classes from the worlds

top experts.

13. Coursera Partnering with some of the top U.S.

universities, Coursera oers massive open online courses for
free.

14. University of reddit the product of free intellectualism

and is a haven for the sharing of knowledge.

15. Quora You ask, the net discusses with top experts
and fascinating back and forth on everything.

16. Digital Photography School Read through this

goldmine of articles to improve your photography skills.

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17. Umano -Explore the largest collection of audio articles

powered by real people. Dropbox has acquired Umano. Brain
Pickings is a great replacement for 17.

Brain Pickings Insightful long form posts on life, art,

science, design, history, philosophy, and more.

18. Peer 2 Peer University or P2PU, is an open educational

project that helps you learn at your own pace.

19. MIT Open CourseWare is a catalog of free online courses

and learning resources oered by MIT.

20. Gibbon This is the ultimate playlist for learning.

21. Investopedia Learn everything you need to know about

the world of investing, markets, and personal nance.

22. Udacity oers interactive online classes and courses in

higher education.

23. Mozilla Developer Network oers detailed

documentation and learning resources for web developers.

24. Future learn enjoy free online courses from top

universities and specialist organisations.

25. Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature

across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books,
abstracts and articles.

26. Brain Pump A place to learn something new everyday.

27. Mental Floss Test your knowledge with amazing and

interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games.

28. Learnist Learn from expertly curated web, print and

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video content.

29. DataCamp Online R tutorials and data science courses.

30. edX Take online courses from the worlds best

universities.

31. Highbrow Get bite-sized daily courses to your inbox.

32. Coursmos Take a micro-course anytime you want, on

any device.

33. Platzi Live streaming classes on design, marketing and

code.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and

cease only at death. Albert Einstein

What are your favourite learning tools that are not on this
list?

The author is the founder at Alltopstartups ( where he shares

resources for startups and entrepreneurs) and the curator at

Postanly ( a free weekly newsletter that delivers the most

insightful long-form posts from top publishers).

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