How Stuff Works

Picture yourself as a high school student just twenty years ago. Your teacher asks you to write an essay on Caribbean buccaneers: where would you get the information? If you were lucky, your school would have a good library. Most probably, you would try a local (hopefully nearby) library. If you didn't have access to these scattered resources, your last potential source was your grandma's dusty encyclopedia. Not anymore, students today--the luckiest and most spoiled generation--can now access all the information they need by going to free on-line sites like "How Stuff Works", a fantastic source of information. The website is varied and thorough on everything from food, electronics, to science and people. For readers of this blog, I would recommend the "history" and "money" sections, where you will find useful random articles such as 10 Historically Inaccurate Movies, Math Tutoring or How Pickpockets Work. What's more, they have quizzes, like for example the Crack Quiz. Read "How Stuff Works" and you'll easily beat your friends at "Trivial Pursuit."