Curated Web Directory

Organized links to fascinating, real-time, and archival resources

Real-Time Tracking & Live Monitors

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• zoom.earth
  Watch the world via live satellite imagery
• flightradar24.com
  See every plane currently in the sky
• marinetraffic.com
  Track all ships at sea in real time
• windy.com
  Live map of winds and storms
• lightningmaps.org
  Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
• earthquake.usgs.gov
  Live list of recent earthquakes
• submarinecablemap.com
  Ocean cables carrying the internet
• globalforestwatch.org
  Watch forests disappear from space
• worldometers.info
  The world's statistics, second by second
• internetlivestats.com
  Current number of tweets and searches being posted

Exploration & Virtual Travel

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• window-swap.com
  Look out the window of a random person around the world
• virtualvacation.us
  Virtual walks through cities
• mapcrunch.com
  Teleport to a random spot on Earth
• atlasobscura.com
  Catalog of the world's strangest places

Astronomy & Space Exploration

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• eyes.nasa.gov
  Explore the solar system in 3D
• stellarium-web.org
  Real sky map in your browser
• apod.nasa.gov
  NASA's astronomy picture of the day
• images.nasa.gov
  NASA's entire visual archive, free

Interactive Learning & Science

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• neal.fun
  Interactive knowledge experiences
• htwins.net/scale2
  Scale journey from atom to universe
• sciencedaily.com
  Live stream of science news
• arxiv.org
  Free preprints of scientific papers

Maps & Historical Geography

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• thetruesize.com
  Compare the true sizes of countries
• oldmapsonline.org
  Maps from centuries ago
• davidrumsey.com
  Archive of 150,000 historical maps
• openstreetmap.org
  World map drawn by volunteers
• timeanddate.com
  Time, sunrises, and sky events

Data Visualization & Global Statistics

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• pudding.cool
  Visual articles told through data
• ourworldindata.org
  The state of the world with real data
• gapminder.org
  What we mistakenly think we know about the world
• informationisbeautiful.net
  Visualizing complex data
• data.worldbank.org
  World Bank's open data
• data.tuik.gov.tr
  Turkey's official statistics database
• observablehq.com
  Visualize data with live code

Libraries, Digital Archives & Reference

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• wikipedia.org
  Random knowledge well
• archive.org
  Archive of millions of books, films, and software
• gutenberg.org
  70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
• openlibrary.org
  Record of every book in the world
• loc.gov
  U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
• europeana.eu
  Europe's cultural heritage archive
• dp.la
  America's digital library collection

Arts, Culture & Audio

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• artsandculture.google.com
  Tour museums from home
• rijksmuseum.nl
  Download artworks in high resolution
• wikiart.org
  Archive of 250,000 artworks
• publicdomainreview.org
  Forgotten visual treasures of history
• openculture.com
  Free archive of culture and education
• metmuseum.org
  Met Museum's open collection
• musicmap.info
  Family tree of music genres
• radiooooo.com
  Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
• listen.hatnote.com
  Turn Wikipedia edits into audio