Awesome Sites: Get your facts straight.

US Democrazy writes on a vast variety of topics.  Despite popular beliefs, we are not experts on most of these subjects.

How then, you may ask, do we learn about what we are going to write on?

The most obvious choice is just “Google” the question.

When we want just the facts, we look no further than WolframAlpha.  This site is absolutely incredible!

Not only can it give you information on some thing,  such as the day March 7, 2010, WolframAlpha can compare things.  One can search “golden gate vs brooklyn bridge” and the site will provide side by side statistics.

Even cooler, math can be done with these facts (yes, math can be cool).  Type in ”(golden gate length)-(Brooklyn bridge length)” and you’ll get their difference in length.

Sometimes facts are not enough.  Sometimes we need a teacher to understand the world’s complex issues.  Well, Academic Earth is just the place for that. Here, small universities, such as Yale, Princeton, and MIT, have videos of of lectures on just about any subject FOR FREE!!!

Another, popular source of information for us is Wikipedia (Note: Wikipedia can be edited by anyone so its articles, much like pretzels,  should be taken with a grain of salt)

If these sites don’t answer our questions we creatively solve the problem (i.e. we just make things up).

So next time you have a question check one of these sites out; it sure beats being wrong.

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