150+ Educational Websites for Lifelong Learners (Medium)
This is a list of websites with mostly free learning resources that will help those of us who are always curious.
To Rate How Smart Dogs Are, Humans Learn New Tricks (The New York Times)
Yale has a Canine Cognition Center that analyzes the intelligence of dogs. Many dog owners eagerly seek testing of their dogs to validate their beliefs that their canine companions are smart.
How to Throw the Ultimate Wine-and-Cheese Party Using the Miracle of Data (The Washington Post)
A group of academics at the University of Toronto created a computer program to map networks of relationships which could be used to map things such as genes. One of them used the program to create a tool to help people match wines and cheeses. The article includes a link to the tool.
Meet the Man Behind Online Financial Calculators (CNBC)
Karl Ebert has created online tools which are licensed to over 10,000 websites and financial institutions. His tools include subjects such as determining whether to convert a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, and retirement planners. And all those tools are available free at his website.
What Can Be Made from One Barrel of Oil? (Visual Capitalist)
A barrel of oil doesn't just mean fuel for your car. This graphic shows the wide variety of products that are achieved from one barrel of oil which seems useful in considering our energy future.