# What sites do you visit to learn? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946 "2003-10-28T01:27:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![agiantdwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@agiantdwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agiantdwarf)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/1 "2003-10-28T01:27:59Z")
I don’t visit the Straightdope messageboards/website with a specific topic in mind; I just like to learn new things. I hope other people come here for the same reason too. What sites do you use to learn about new topics? I’ve found [wikipedia.com](http://wikipedia.com) to be insanely cool, and [everything2.com](http://everything2.com) (to a lesser extent, as that is more about poetry and stuff). ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/2 "2003-10-28T05:59:45Z")
[howstuffworks.com](http://howstuffworks.com) - technology made simple [skepdic.com](http://skepdic.com) - the skeptic’s distionary, is also pretty useful. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/3 "2003-10-28T09:23:12Z")
[www.fark.com](http://www.fark.com) has about 1-2 veeeery interesting articles linked per day. Just today they had one about MIT trying to use nanotechnology to create smart uniforms for the army. Oh, and a lengthy one about how De Beers created the myth of the diamond scarcity and preesssiousnessss. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/4 "2003-10-28T15:53:33Z")
**Cardinal** , I’d always been under the impression that [fark.com](http://fark.com) was less than reputable. Am I mistaken? ---
**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/5 "2003-10-28T16:24:27Z")
Well, [ehow.com](http://ehow.com) is pretty cool when it’s working. And, as **Sublight** mentioned, [howstuffworks.com](http://howstuffworks.com). ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/6 "2003-10-28T22:23:10Z")
Fark is simply a sort of blog. They give links that go out to other sites. So they’re as reputable as the sites they’re linking to, most of which I’ve never suspected of being weird. Many of their links go to things like Yahoo news and the AP Wire site. The nanotechnology army uniform story was on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists site, at [http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/so03/so03rogers.html](http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/so03/so03rogers.html) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/7 "2003-10-29T03:27:23Z")
this one. Occasionally urban dictionary too. ---
**Author:** ![Coffeeguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Coffeeguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coffeeguy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/8 "2003-11-18T14:54:59Z")
Well, **agiantdwarf** – **Sublight** , **Cardinal** , **liirogue** , **skeptic\_ev** ,and **dutchboy208** seem to cover the territory well. My only suggestion is a judicious use of **Google**. Asking the right questions is often half the way to knowledge. GLMRU, —CoffeeGuy ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/9 "2003-11-18T23:01:35Z")
[lonelyplanet.com](http://lonelyplanet.com) - I love learning about the world, and it has so much information on EVERY country and major city, its amazing. Sometimes I just pick a random country that I don’t know much about and read all about its culture and history. It’s a really informative site. ---
**Author:** ![Wheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@Wheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sites-do-you-visit-to-learn/209946/10 "2003-11-18T23:54:19Z")
[Here’s all I know.](http://www.mybookmarks.com/public/badgersbest) 🙂