We often waste our free time scrolling through social
networks, chatting with friends, or posting another pic
on Instagram. But here is something more useful.
Famous
Free Rice is a website that donates rice grains for
correctly answered multiple choice questions. The site
offers a wide range of topics to test your knowledge,
from humanities to science. For each correct answer,
Free Rice gives 10 grains of rice. You can play
in a group or individually.
Coursera is an educational platform that offers online
courses from the best universities and organizations
in the world.
Udemy is a market of knowledge. More than 10 million
students use it today, and there are more than
40,000 courses.
Lumosity is a website to enhance your intellectual
abilities. It looks simple, but Lumosity has its own
feature: it creates individual “workouts” for each
person. It’s worth spending some time on it!
Memorado is a free app for smartphones called “Brain
Training Games.” It contains many levels: 600 are
presented as a variety of different puzzles. (iOS /
Android)
Duolingo is a free platform for learning languages and
crowdsourced translations. Users learn new things,
gain knowledge, and later help by translating websites,
articles, and other documents.
Brainexer is a website with a huge amount of tests and
exercises to improve your memory, counting skills,
attention, and intelligence.
Memrise is a unique online platform that uses the
most recent techniques for working with memory
to help people obtain and remember information faster
and more efficiently.
Project Gutenberg is an electronic library that contains
various works of world literature.
Curious is a website created for students, teachers, and
talented people all over the world who want to share
their knowledge and skills and even be rewarded for
their work.
Open Culture is a website of educational and cultural
content that you can easily get and use for free.
CogniFit Brain Fitness is an app where neuroscience
and gamification are gathered for gray matter
workouts. According to the app developers, using the
app for at least 20 minutes 2 or 3 times a week can
really improve your cognitive abilities. (iOS / Android )
Fit Brains Trainer is a language-learning app. This
program requires only a couple of minutes of playing
to strengthen your brain. (iOS / Android )
TED-ED is a website for teachers and students that
contains interesting educational videos under
10 minutes long.
Zooniverse is an online platform that allows you
to participate in multifunctional science projects.
How Stuff Works is a comprehensive website with
a myriad of topics, explaining how things actually
work and turning these topics into understandable
articles.
Unplug the TV is a site offering a pile of entertaining
and educational videos. The simple format invites you
to switch to a new video with one click or search
through the archived data.
This American Life is a radio show discussing
a specific theme each time where ordinary people
share their personal stories and opinions. It can
be listened to via podcast, mobile apps, or, if you
prefer old-fashioned devices, on the radio.
EIDETIC is an app for people whose memory skills are
a bit unsteady. This app’s repetition method will help
you memorize anything. (iOS / Android )
Answerbag.com is a website for those curious users
who “just can’t remember how lifting force works,”
or “I wonder who the best basketball player of the
1980s was.” Answerbag has a very simple format, and
you’ll definitely find the right answer.