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OpenStax is a nonprofit initiative from Rice University that publishes free Open Educational Resources (OER) available to everyone, whether you're actively a student, educator or just curious about learning new things.
The majority of their textbooks are aimed to be introductory deep dives into all sorts of topics from the Humanities, Sciences, Business, Nursing and Math. Their cover designs are also beautiful and unlike most textbooks, actually make you want to pick up their books!
Check out their site to see the full list of subjects they have available and if you feel like contributing to their mission of free, inclusive educational content for all, you can support them with a small donation :)
Nov 12, 2024
Related Recs
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Most of them have to do with obtaining educational resources.
Places where you can find books/information, a lot of it for free:
Internet Archive.
Taylor & Francis
Free eBooks-Project Gutenberg.
Library Genesis.
Jstor.
Research that has to do specifically with science:
PubMed.
ResearchGate.
The Lancet.
ScienceDirect.
Bioknowledgy.
Bioninja (often used by IB children).
WolframAlpha.
Thesaurus and word tools:
WordHippo.
Reverso and Reverso Context.
Read papers faster:
Unriddle.
"Free courses". You can take a lot of them for free but if you want to get certified often times you need to pay:
Cousera.
Write letters to your future self:
FutureMe.
May 31, 2024
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An open source library of BOOKS! Like every book ever! Its an initiative to archive all human writings, don’t tell anyone but you can download the books, and read them, and gain knowledge, for free, craziness.
Mar 14, 2025
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You don’t need to buy every book you read! Go to the library, download an ebook, find a PDF, create a personal JSTOR account. You’ll be surprised how much out there is free for the taking :)
Jan 20, 2024
Top Recs from @verygoodvalentina
I adore finding a random video from like 2005 and reading through the comments the way a historian would examine an old manuscript from the 1700s. Are these people still active YouTube users? Or are they forgotten accounts? What did @jjlwis mean by "awww im gonna miss rob too!!!" ? Who even is Rob?? Anthropology in the digital age... so many questions... it's fascinating.
The important thing for me is not to add new comments. I feel like I'm disturbing an old archeological dig site and my sticky modern commentary will make the video crumble away into oblivion. More importantly, I don't want the algorithm to suggest the video to a bunch of people who will spam the comments section– major yuck 🤢
Jan 25, 2024
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with social media being this pervasive entity that has weeded its way into our daily routines for the past 20ish years (plus a global pandemic that really solidified those habits), many young adults today have spent a large amount of their lives living online. it has become the new norm and i’m not gonna pretend i’m above any of this because it’s so easy to fall into it (i am literally writing this rec on my phone whilst it’s a perfectly sunny day that i should probably go out to enjoy).
with that being said, in the larger scheme of life, being in your 20s is still in a weird way the beginning stages of your life. it’s a period to try new things, make mistakes, learn from them and develop an identity that’s independent from the environment and people who raised you. though you can learn to do some of those things online, they don’t hold a candle to actually experiencing those things for yourself in real life.
all in all, the best way to not sleep thru your 20s is to prioritize in-person experiences that allow you to get a better understanding of yourself and your values. whether that be getting your first tattoo, moving to a new city or country, exploring your personal style or taking up hobbies you couldn’t or would‘ve never done as a kid, this is an important formative time to venture out and get a sense of who you truly are.
Sep 30, 2024
early 80s to early 2000s truck models are the perfect sizes imo. current trucks are transformer-sized behemoths that could easily crush normal vehicles into smithereens upon impact and i legit don’t know how those things are even street-legal. also, idk if it’s their design, reliability or the nostalgia factor per-se, but there’s a certain sazón those older trucks have that newer ones don’t.
2024 Ford F-150? 🤮🤢
1980 Ford F-150? 🫦🫦
Feb 9, 2025