Learning does not have to be a chore. It does mot have to be painful. In the age of the internet nearly any subject has an entertaining, or at least interesting video or explanation on YouTube. Wanna giggle while you learn about wildlife?
Bam. The history of drug laws regarding marijuana?
Here you go. The Australian Emu War?
Hello. Chemical reactions?
Backyard chemist. Messed up American tax laws?
Meet John Oliver. Ever wonder how orbits work? I would recommend playing
KSP, but
this video is pretty good as well.
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| You learn basic astrophysics while you fly these guys around their galaxy. What's not to like? |
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That's the funny and mostly useless stuff, but the practical applications are there too. Having trouble understanding something in your math class? Try
better explained, a site that takes seemingly complicated mathematical principles and breaks them down in easily digestible ways. Or one of the many online math calculators, which will take what you see as gibberish, solve it, and walk you through the solution step by step. Balancing Chemical Equations?
WikiHow's got you covered. And there is nearly no subject that khan academy hasn't tackled.
The point is, don't be afraid to explore the internet. Spend some time hitting the random article button on Wikipedia, browse the askscience subreddit, or to watch the documentary category on Netflix (especially Cosmos). You may or may not learn something that you'll use, but you will never regret learning it, because knowledge is its own reward. And if in your virtual tarvels you find anything interesting, send it my way. Share the knowledge.
