Learning in the 21st century
Science 101
"Science is complicated and sometimes hard for non-scientists to understand. But science is important for solving problems and making life better for everyone on the planet. Argonne’s Science 101 series is aimed at helping to break down the complex concepts behind our work. Our videos and infographics will help you understand the language and concepts important to Argonne science and technology, from quantum science to batteries for clean energy."
Argonne National Laboratory
Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change
"From our earliest musical encounters to the formation of complex social identities, the American musical landscape wouldn’t be what it is today without the countless contributions of women changemakers, groundbreakers, and tradition-bearers. Women’s leadership in music and social change is central to the American story. Music HerStory explores these contributions through unique media collections from across the Smithsonian."
National Museum of American History | Smithsonian
Bauhaus: Building the New Artist
"Considered one of the most influential schools of art and design of the 20th century, the Bauhaus forged a unique educational vision that blended theory with practice in order to cultivate a new generation of artists and designers.
Conceived in tandem with the Getty Research Institute’s gallery exhibition, Bauhaus Beginnings, this online exhibition offers an in-depth look into the school’s novel pedagogy."
Getty Research Institute
Your Brain
"Your brain is always changing. Brain science is advancing rapidly as modern technology is helping us begin to unravel age-old mysteries about ourselves. What is the brain? What does it do? How does it work? Think about how you think, with these interactive activities, images, and videos to help you investigate what's going on inside your head and what the future holds."
The Franklin Institute
NASA Artemis
"With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with commercial and international partners and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon. Then, we will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars."
NASA
12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha’s Archive
"Originally captured as the medium for Ed Ruscha’s creative work, the more than 65,000 photographs selected from this archive present a unique view of one of Los Angeles’ quintessential streets, Sunset Boulevard, and how it has changed over the past 50 years. Ed Ruscha, with help from Getty and Stamen Design, is making this amazing collection accessible to you: explore his images of Sunset and discover your own story of Los Angeles."
Getty Research Institute (GRI)
Online Projects - The Skyscraper Museum
"The Museum enhances its accessibility and enriches its exhibitions through a variety of virtual projects. The digitization of our collection allows visitors to explore the archive outside of their visit to the gallery. Additionally, the projects all seek to further the core principles of the institution: to explore tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence."
The Skyscraper Museum
Planet Money Summer School
"Economics is a game you should know how to play. And once you get the fundamental concepts, you start to see it everywhere: the news, the supermarket and even your dating life. So it's time to learn the rules. Planet Money Summer School is a crash course in economics for your ears. See the world through the lens of an economist and you'll start to feel a little less overwhelmed when making financial decisions. [...]"
Planet Money | NPR
Designing Peace
"What would be possible if we were to design for peace?
Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace and creating a more equitable world. The exhibition features design projects from around the globe that look at ways to create and sustain more durable peaceful interactions—from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation."
Cooper Hewitt | Smithsonian
Climate From Space
"Explore 40 years of satellite climate data via interactive globes and maps"
European Space Agency (ESA)
JWST Images (via AAS WorldWide Telescope)
"Explore all of the new JWST images interactively on a map of the sky!"
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
IPCC WGI Interactive Atlas
"A novel tool for flexible spatial and temporal analyses of much of the observed and projected climate change information underpinning the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, including regional synthesis for Climatic Impact-Drivers (CIDs)."
IPCC Working Group I (WGI): Sixth Assessment Report
Symmetry
"An online magazine about particle physics."
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
OOIR: Observatory of International Research
"OOIR lists the latest articles from leading social science journals [...]"
Andreas Pacher
U.S. Currency Education Program (CEP)
"The U.S. Currency Education Program (CEP) is responsible for ensuring that users of U.S. currency around the world have access to education, training, and information about Federal Reserve notes."
Federal Reserve Board
Bird Guide
"ID help and life history info for 600+ North American species"
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
NASA Earth Observatory
"The Earth Observatory’s mission is to share with the public the images, stories, and discoveries about the environment, Earth systems, and climate that emerge from NASA research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and models."
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
From Inquiry to Action: Harvard Business School & the Case Method
"Drawing on materials from the HBS Archives, From Inquiry to Action explores the introduction of the case method in the teaching of business administration and highlights the School’s early contributions that have led to the enduring influence of this participant-centered teaching practice."
Harvard Business School
ACM Digital Library
"ACM has opened more than 117,500 articles published between 1951 and the end of 2000, during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, which include many foundational articles by the pioneers of the field, are now freely available to view and download via the ACM DL."
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Willi Smith Street Couture
"This digital exhibition illuminates how American designer Willi Smith (1948-1987) and his collaborators broke down social, cultural and economic boundaries by marrying affordable, adaptable 'street couture' with avant-garde performance, film and design. Choose a topic to explore exhibition objects, recollections, commissioned essays, archival video, and digital ephemera."
Cooper Hewitt | Smithsonian
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
"In his 45 years on WFMT radio, Studs Terkel talked to the 20th century’s most interesting people. Browse our growing archive of more than 2,000 programs."
WFMT, Chicago History Museum
Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page
"NASA's Image Access Site for Visual Exploration of the Universe"
NASA/JPL-Caltech
What's New with Earth Today
"Explore the latest visualizations of NASA's Earth Observing satellites and the data they collect. NASA researchers are constantly tracking remote-sensing data and modeling processes to better understand our home planet."
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Sanctuaries 360°: Explore the Blue
"An immersive 360 view of your national marine sanctuaries"
Office of National Marine Sanctuaries | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Persepolis Reimagined
"Persepolis Reimagined is the result of a collaboration between historians, creatives, and technologists, in the context of the Getty Villa Museum exhibition, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World.
This exhibition is part of an ongoing Getty series, The Classical World in Context, which explores the complex interrelationships between ancient Greece and Rome and other cultures and civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Objects on view in the exhibition are featured throughout this virtual experience."
Getty
Collection
"Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 2,205 of them are on view in the museum now. 82,716 of them are available online."
RISD Museum
AstroPix
"AstroPix offers access to the public image galleries of many of the world's leading astronomical observatories under a single unified interface. Assets include a full range of astronomical observations, artwork, and charts spanning the field of astronomy."
IPAC | Caltech
Iconographic Encyclopædia
"An enhanced digital edition of J. G. Heck’s collection of 13,000+ illustrations from 1851"
Nicholas Rougeux.
If/Then Digital Exhibit Companion
"This monumental exhibit of 120 3-D printed statues celebrates contemporary women innovators in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) [...]"
Lyda Hill Philanthropies, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Smithsonian
WWT 2022
"The 2022 edition of AAS WorldWide Telescope launched on February 15th, 2022.
WWT isn’t a physical telescope — it’s a suite of free and open source software and data sets that combine to create stunning scientific visualizations and stories. While WWT started out as a standalone Windows application, it’s evolved into a powerful astronomy visualization toolkit that you can use on the desktop, in the browser, and from Python."
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media
"A look at alternative logics for social media published in connection with 'Reimagine the Internet'"
Knight First Amendment Institute
Ethan Zuckerman, Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, Fiammetta Ghedini
What makes writing more readable?
"Looking at how to make writing easier to read"
The Pudding
Rebecca Monteleone, Jamie Brew, Michelle McGhee
Digital Dante
"Digital Dante offers original research and ideas on Dante: on his thought and work and on various aspects of his reception. Though our editorial structure is that of an academic journal, we do not publish prose essays, instead showcasing work that intersperses prose with visual components (see Author Guidelines). We accept contributions from scholars and Dante lovers around the world."
Columbia University Libraries
Series 1.1: Media Literacy Toolkit
"To Secure the Tools We Need, We Need to Look Beyond 'Media' and 'Literacy'"
Commonplace | Knowledge Futures Group
Accepted Physics
"Explore some of the building blocks of the Standard Model in this Physics 101 series."
Fermilab
Dr. Don Lincoln et al.
Free to Use and Reuse Sets
"This page features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse."
Library of Congress
Neural Networks
"The basics of neural networks, and the math behind how they learn"
3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson
James Webb Space Telescope - NASA
"From arrival at the ESA launch Facility in Kourou French Guiana, through launch and deployment, the pages linked here are your starting point for exploring Webb's launch and commissioning."
Goddard Space Flight Center | NASA
Effective Data Visualisation
"Effective data visualisation comes in many shapes and sizes, but how do you move away from a standard bar chart?"
The Royal Institution
Valentina D'Efilippo
EnviroAtlas Interactive Map
"The EnviroAtlas Interactive Map is a discovery and analysis tool for hundreds of data layers relating to ecosystem services, biodiversity, people, and the built environment."
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Laws of UX
"Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces."
Jon Yablonski
Feral Atlas
"Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, Feral Atlas argues, are the Anthropocene."
Stanford University Press
Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, Feifei Zhou
Explore Chicago Collections
"Explore Chicago Collections allows you to search for information in the physical and digital archives of a growing number of libraries and museums."
Chicago Collections Consortium
Kelli Anderson: Materials for Computer People
"Designer and paper engineer Kelli Anderson creates incredible things from analog materials: planetariums, cameras, and speakers. In this workshop, Kelli walks us through the computational thinking of artists including Sol LeWitt, George Perec, and Marjan Teeuwen, and introduces us to analog computing through exercises that engage our observation and reverse engineering skills."
99U
Kelli Anderson
Women Writing History: A Coronavirus Journaling Project
"[...] asking women, girls, and gender non-binary individuals to participate in the simple act of recording their daily thoughts and personal experiences during this pandemic in order to document the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on women’s lives."
National Women’s History Museum
In Plain Sight
"[...] an engaging digital experience that brings to life pivotal LGBTQ milestones and achievements.
In Plain Sight provides factual historic records and up-to-date information about people who have come out in different professional areas. [...]"
Stonewall National Museum & Archives
Byrne’s Euclid
"A reproduction of Oliver Byrne’s celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux"
Nicholas Rougeux
Latest Satellite Imagery
"Satellite images courtesy of NESDIS Satellite Services Division (NOAA)"
National Hurricane Center | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
"A series of informal videos talking about the biggest ideas we've come up with to describe our natural world. No prerequisites required!"
Sean Carroll
Explore with Perseverance
"Explore with Perseverance puts you on Mars next to NASA's Perseverance, to see what the rover sees as it explores. You can select images right from this 3D interactive or from the list view. As the rover explores Mars, the images it takes are mapped onto the terrain to fill in the picture of the Jezero Crater landing site.
This experience uses imagery from Perseverance rover cameras including its Navcams, Hazcams, and Mastcam-Z. Additional data is filled in using orbital coverage from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera.
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/University of Arizona"
NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Collection
"Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection—from our world-renowned icons to lesser-known gems from every corner of the globe—as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other resources."
Art Institute of Chicago
Resources | National September 11 Memorial & Museum
"Access the Museum’s resources, including interactive timelines, digital exhibitions, oral histories, registries, and the 9/11 primer, to learn more about the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing and 9/11 and its aftermath."
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Amazon Adventures
"Team Brain Scoop is about to helicopter into a biologically unknown region of the Peruvian jungle with a team of conservationists to study and document the area's biodiversity for the first time in its history."
The Brain Scoop | Field Museum
Speculative Annotation
"[...] an open-source dynamic web application and public art project by Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan. The tool presents a unique mini collection of Free to Use items from the Library of Congress for students, teachers, and users of all ages to annotate through captions, drawings, and other types of markmaking."
Library of Congress Labs
Courtney McClellan
History of Philosophy - Summarized & Visualized
"[...] ever-growing summary of the history of Western philosophy showing the positive/negative connections between some of the key ideas/arguments/statements of the philosophers."
Deniz Cem Önduygu, Hüseyin Kuşçu, Eser Aygün
Social Networks and Archival Context
"[...] a free, online resource that helps users discover biographical and historical information about persons, families, and organizations that created or are documented in historical resources (primary source documents) and their connections to one another. Users can locate archival collections and related resources held at cultural heritage institutions around the world."
University of Virginia Library, National Archives and Records Administration
HathiTrust Digital Library
"[...] a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world."
HathiTrust
The Illusions Index
"[...] a fully searchable, interactive curated collection of illusions. The illusions are categorised into different types, allowing you to search for, and compare, illusions that fall under one or more type"
Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience | University of Glasgow
The Digital Revolution: From Ada to Zuckerberg
"Walter Isaacson's lectures for the Tulane History Dept. course, 'The Digital Revolution: From Ada to Zuckerberg'"
Walter Isaacson
Poppy Field
"Poppy Field is an independent project – a reflection on human life lost in war."
Valentina D’Efilippo, Nicolas Pigelet
NOAA Climate.gov
"[...] NOAA Climate.gov is a source of timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate. Our goals are to promote public understanding of climate science and climate-related events, to make our data products and services easy to access and use, to provide climate-related support to the private sector and the Nation’s economy, and to serve people making climate-related decisions with tools and resources that help them answer specific questions."
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Encyclopedia of Life
"Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice. This dream is becoming a reality through the Encyclopedia of Life."
National Museum of Natural History | Smithsonian
Map of Life
"[...]Built on a scalable web platform geared for large biodiversity and environmental data, Map of Life endeavors to provide ‘best-possible’ species range information and species lists for any geographic area. Map of Life aims to support effective and global biodiversity education, monitoring, research and decision-making by assembling and integrating a wide range of knowledge about species distributions and their dynamics over time."
Walter Jetz, Jana M. McPherson, Robert Guralnick
Our World in Data
"Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems"
Global Change Data Lab et al.
Visualizing SEP
"Visualizing SEP is an interactive data visualization for exploring the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, one of the Web's foremost resources on philosophy."
Joseph DiCastro
topoView
"TopoView highlights one of the USGS's most important and useful products, the topographic map. In 1879, the USGS began to map the Nation's topography. This mapping was done at different levels of detail, to support various land use and other purposes. As the years passed, the USGS produced new map versions of each area. TopoView shows the many and varied topographic maps of each of these areas through history. This can be particularly useful for historical purposes, such as finding the names of natural and cultural features that have changed over time. [...]"
U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
Understanding Evolution
"Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time."
University of California Museum of Paleontology, National Center for Science Education
Photogrammar
"[...] a web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photographs taken by the FSA and OWI agencies of the U.S. Federal Government between 1935 and 1943."
Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL), Distant Viewing Lab (DV Lab) | University of Richmond
Lauren Tilton et al.
Apollo in Real Time
"A real-time journey through the Apollo missions.
This website consists entirely of historical mission material"
Ben Feist et al.
In Pieces - 30 Endangered Species, 30 Pieces
"A CSS-based interactive exhibition celebrating evolutionary distinction."
Bryan James
Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
"[...] accurate and timely news and information about Earth’s changing climate, along with current data and visualizations, presented from the unique perspective of NASA, one of the world’s leading climate research agencies"
Earth Science Communications Team | NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory | California Institute of Technology
Seeing Theory
"A visual introduction to probability and statistics."
Brown University
Daniel Kunin, Jingru Guo, Tyler Dae Devlin, Daniel Xiang
Humane by Design
"A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being."
Jon Yablonski
Understanding Science
"[...] a fun, accessible, and free resource that accurately communicates what science is and how it really works"
University of California Museum of Paleontology
