Hidden Gem, Crouching Genius

Knowledge

  • Wolfram Mathworld. Eric Weisstein’s online encyclopedia of mathematics.
  • Smithsonian Magazine. Covers science, art and culture.
  • Plus Magazine. A good magazine for popular mathematics.
  • For the inventor in you. But do you know how to Charlieplex?
  • An Ancient World Encyclopedia that is thoroughly modern.
  • From the horse’s mouth. Terrence Tao speakth.
  • Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
  • Feynman’s famed lectures. Now shiny and on the web. (For free!)
  • Ever heard of the Foreign Service Institute? You can access their language archive for free.
  • Perhaps the most entertaining and knowledgeable article I’ve read on the web in a long while.
  • Pronounce German the right way.
  • Ever wonder how Google manages to correct every BS blunder we type into it and still look magnanimous doing it?
  • Take a peep under the Iron Curtain. The Soviet union did have a lot of firsts in space.

For the soul

  • Loves a free bird, it needs to fly… (Habanera)
  • Sing along in German to these songs.

Book Recommendation

  • Try reading these when you’re feeling on top of the world.
  • Love Fantasy? This is the most exhaustive review I’ve seen yet.

Free Stuff

  • Amazing free stock images. Because every web designer knows how hard it is to find good free stock images.
  • How could you not use these free tools?
  • This is a tool I use when I don’t have enough data left for browsing.
  • My awesome domain name is registered for free at FreeDNS. While there don’t forget to say hi to my man, Joshua Anderson.

Fallacies of the Web

  • Business Insider is a well respected organization. How they’d let such an article slip through is beyond me. Titled “If you can solve these Math problems, you are smart as the worlds smartest teenagers”, this article is a one stop exercise in utter nonsense. Those Math problems aren’t half as tough as they seem to think and solving tough problems doesn’t make you the worlds smartest teenager. I could introduce you to a whole realm full of teenagers who routinely solve even more difficult problems than those.
  • You need to get your ideas checked here at least once in your lifetime.

Mirrors

  • Find this blog again as this mirror.

Acknowledgment

  • Aleh and the Micronaut for their take on the So Simple Theme.
  • Mathias Nater and his awesome hyphenate.js
  • Netlify for letting me host this website on their amazing CDN for free!
  • Github for hosting the backend.
  • Travis CI for supporting continuous integration so that I can deploy to Netlify easily.