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2024 was a great year for the movies, even if it seemed to be a grim year for just about everything else.

"What follows is a list of 50 common New Year's resolutions with a piece of advice and plenty of links to useful articles that deal with the issue in greater detail. If you are looking for effective ways of changing your life for the better, then you'll be sure to find tons of useful information here."

Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.

This site lets you search 2 million recipes instantly.

Listed here, grouped according to our top investigative priorities and related categories, are many of our famous and most significant cases over the past century. The monographs and write-ups below have been made available for your use.

The Constitution of the United States is only 4,543 words—7,762 if you count the Amendments—and originally fit on just four large sheets of paper. It packs a wallop. Not only is it the oldest written national constitution in the world, it's arguably the most influential in the world, too.

An online planetarium running in your web browser based on the open source Stellarium Web Engine project.

Monkeytype is a minimalistic and customizable typing test which attempts to emulate the experience of natural keyboard typing by unobtrusively presenting the text prompts and displaying typed characters in-place, providing straightforward, real-time feedback on typos, speed, and accuracy.

If you find a recipe online that you want to cook but it's cluttered with nonsense text or ads that cover the words, use Just The Recipe to clean it up. Simply paste in the URL to see a simplified view of the ingredients and directions.

We couldn't resist featuring this web site just once. The name says it all.

Explore a vast range of resources on our solar system, including our planets, moons, asteroids and comets, skywatching, and more.

A curated list of long distance hikes around the world.

Our community has over a million members. We teach people how to get started gardening and improve their plant growing skills. We offer online tools for gardeners to connect, teach, share, and trade with each other. We maintain the world's largest database of plants with over 700K plants and nearly half a million photos.

Use Sleeptyme to calculate the ideal time to go to sleep to get the ideal amount of sleep on REM cycles.

There is a common belief that almost everything is made in China. We will help you to find out that the truth is quite different. Manufacturing industry has never died in many countries, and elsewhere reborn. Just select a country from the list and check.

Where do you want to escape to? Choose a channel and let your mind wander with slow TV and ambient videos handpicked just for you. Relax with natural images and sounds while you work. Put them on your TV or even invite your friends to watch together.

Maps of 85 different regions of the world to search and explore. Most are downloadable in JPEG format and may be printed as full page maps.

Play daily natural color image sequences of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft.

The annual King Holiday Observance is a time that we celebrate, commemorate, and honor the life, legacy, and impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The King Center leads the charge to provide education and training in Nonviolence365 while serving as the vital living memorial of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Global citizens will have unique opportunities to learn and unite in celebration of Dr. King’s groundbreaking work and Mrs. Coretta Scott King’s powerful continuation and formal institutionalization of that work through a variety of engaging events hosted by The King Center leading up to The King Holiday on January 20th, 2025.

Play the sound of rain in your background. Millions of people use Rainy Mood while sleeping, studying, and relaxing.

We go through life thinking we’ve rested because we have gotten enough sleep — but in reality we are missing out on the other types of rest we desperately need. The result is a culture of high-achieving, high-producing, chronically tired and chronically burned-out individuals. We’re suffering from a rest deficit because we don’t understand the true power of rest.

Random Trivia Generator seems like a contradiction because trivia can already be seen as random. For instance, why do you need to know which bird lays the largest eggs? You don’t, but it’s always fun to know the answer in case there is no Internet connection around and someone desperately needs to know.

Web Design Museum exhibits over 1,600 carefully selected and sorted web sites that show web design trends between the years 1991 and 2006.

These strange, funny, and downright odd collections will break up that long stretch of driving.

Do you wonder which species of bird it is that you keep seeing on your backyard fence? Are you curious about what butterflies are visiting your garden? Would you like to know more about the mammals that call your local park home? Thankfully there are plenty of smartphone apps that help you quickly and easily identify flora and fauna, record your findings and learn more about them. Not only that, but a few will even turn you into a citizen scientist!

The Library Map is a map with more than 100,000 books on it based on their relevance and similarity. Color is also applied based on the genre and topics of each book.

It’s one of the easiest and most popular dishes to make at home. Just boil noodles, heat a jar of sauce, and voila! What many don’t realize, however, is that with some attention to detail and just a few extra steps, you can take your spaghetti with marinara sauce from serviceable to restaurant-quality. Here are a few tips from the pros.

Discover the traditions and taboos, dishes and drinks that are part of China's most important holiday, the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival.

The free species directory that anyone can edit. It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life.

Read descriptions of more than 15,000 letters known to have been written by or to Charles Darwin, and inspect the complete texts of about half of them.

A growing, world-wide, collection of recipes in English, with links to other languages.

It is a web clock showing the official time of day from NIST, displayed as a 12 or 24-hour clock, in a user-selectable time zone.

Nasa's real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Their scientists and hardworking robots are exploring the wild frontiers of our solar system.

They’re curious travelers, always wandering around the next corner to see what’s there. They seek genuine experiences and look to both locals and travel experts to get under the skin of culture. But we all struggle with the volume of content and juggling emails, notes, docs and more. So they created Portico. Portico is your travel buddy that keeps everything you (and your friends) need for a trip, in one place. They help you turn your aspirational adventures into real experiences.

Whether you are looking for food pantries, stores that accept food stamps, assisted living facilities, domestic violence shelters, homeless shelters, hospitals, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, free clinics, V.A. facilities, women's clinics, legal assistance, or financial assistance, we have over 350,000 listings of both private and public resources near you that are ready to help.

Welcome to The Old House Web -- the Web's leading site for old-house enthusiasts.

Send Your Name to Mars on a future NASA mission. View and share your boarding pass and frequent flyer points. All submitted names are reviewed, approved, and then etched onto a microchip. The microchip is placed aboard the Mars 2020 rover, which will land on Mars.

Pageturner is a free community for book lovers. Reading in public and sharing your notes gives you valuable ideas and thoughts from other community members, and keeps you accountable.

The countdown to Super Bowl 2025 is officially underway, with the Kansas City Chiefs set to take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.

You can use this graphing calculator that works just like the TI 84, but on the web!

Audiblogs lets you listen to any web article in your podcast player in an Audible-like voice. Use it to "read" while you exercise, cook, do housework, and much more.

Let them take you on an inspirational journey across the Island of Ireland. This website merges high quality, 360° virtual tours with a searchable, tourism centred online platform.

The Science Museum Group cares for a diverse and internationally significant collection of 7.3 million items from science, technology, engineering, medicine, transport, and media. Be the first to see their collection online.

NRF has surveyed consumers about how they plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day annually for over a decade. Take a deeper dive into the data from the last 10 years, and use the interactive charts to explore a demographic breakdown of total spending, average spending, types of gifts planned and spending per type of gift.

The Buy Nothing Project began when two friends, Rebecca Rockefeller and Liesl Clark, created an experimental hyper-local gift economy on Bainbridge Island, WA, in July 2013. Since then, it has become a worldwide social movement, with groups in 30 nations. Local groups form gift economies that are complementary and parallel to local cash economies; whether people join because they’d like to quickly get rid of things that are cluttering their lives, or simply to save money by getting things for free, they quickly discover that our groups are not just another free recycling platform. A gift economy’s real wealth is the people involved and the web of connections that forms to support them.

We make your learning personalized, bite-sized, and fun. Play quizzes, earn rewards, and join the community!

A magnetized compass and a paper map are part of our Ten Essentials. Learning to read that paper topographic map is every bit as essential. Your map will then be able to tell you a richly detailed tale about the terrain you’ll be exploring.

Like a time traveler, you can select a date to see all the words first used in print during that year.

They are the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms on the Internet. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories, from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine, and business. It is maintained and expanded by a large community of passionate editors.

Nature Soundmap is a fun and interactive way to explore the natural sounds of our planet. Professional nature recordists worldwide collaborated to combine satellite images with high-quality field recordings. The project combines some of nature’s most beautiful, engaging, and inspiring sounds.

Here you will find animated illustrations that explain various engines' inner workings, including Stirling, steam, and internal combustion types. You can even adjust the speed they run!

The Bloomberg Global Coal Countdown has one singular mission: to track and countdown the world's remaining coal plant units as decision-makers across governments and the private sector work together to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.

Ever wonder what ingredients are in the average pesto recipe or which ones to include in your chicken soup? Find the most common ingredients in any general recipe, like bolognese or piccata. Learn how much of each ingredient recipes typically contain and what pairs well with them.

Everyone experiences the struggles of difficult tasks. They have been made all the worse with lockdowns, home-schooling, and other lifestyle changes due to the pandemic. Everyone experiences bouts of procrastination or work-avoidance, and the guilt that comes with them. There is no avoiding these experiences entirely, but there are some strategies that can help us stay focused.

A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system.

Our solar system is home to more than 200 moons. All the major planets, apart from Mercury and Venus, have moons, and dozens orbit around giants like Saturn and Jupiter. And while Earth's moon is undeniably a wonderful thing, other moons in our solar system are downright wacky in comparison.

EXPERT TIPS, GEAR, AND SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU TAKE YOUR ADVENTURE PHOTOGRAPHY TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

Discover multiple ways to navigate through a dynamic and interactive space of vibrant intangible cultural heritage practices and expressions. See how together they represent a rich cultural diversity.

My Ship Tracking is a FREE REALTIME AIS vessel finder tracking service. With this vessel tracker you can monitor ship positions, vessel tracking, ship tracking, and more.

It’s a perennial question: do spies write the best spy novels? It’s the business of secrets, after all; you can’t help but wonder how much authors get right. Surely, the only authentic spy books are the ones written by people on the inside, right?

The Academy Awards, more popularly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry.

Mardi Gras Day is March 4, 2025. Fat Tuesday is the last day of the Carnival season as it always falls the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.

VinylHub is the biggest community-built database of record stores and vinyl record fairs and events. Be part of our mission to create an archive of all the world's record stores by adding your favorite stores to the database!

Open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create.

How Hot Will It Get is a large platform related to climate change to help you get an overview of futuristic climate scenarios. It also connects professional and individual users who are interested in combatting the climate crisis.

The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. Updated on a daily basis, it is the result of the continuous research and documentation efforts carried out by teams of experts from both museums.

Looking for a movie to watch but don't know what's out there. Movie of the Night instantly finds you something to watch across all of your streaming services. Just pick a genre, an actor and/or release year and your ready to go.

New York Times games have captivated solvers since the launch of the Crossword in 1942. Their experts create engaging word and visual games — in 2014 we introduced the Mini Crossword, followed by Spelling Bee, Letter-Boxed, Tiles, and Vertex. They’ll continue to make new games their players will be passionate about.

Mix a personalized soundtrack inspired by paintings from the National Gallery in London with the help of Google AI.

A People Map of the US, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident: people born in, lived in or connected to a place.

GeoFS's flight model is complete enough to deliver a realistic flight simulation experience. More than just a game, GeoFS is a real flight simulator. From the Piper Cub to the Airbus A380, the range of available aircraft should satisfy every aviation enthusiast.

Type Terms is the perfect tool for designers to learn the basics of typographic terminology. If you are new to typography or here to refresh your memory, then Type Terms is perfect for you.

We hope to be a destination of choice for visitors more particularly interested in Victorian and French Romantic illustrations.

Give dinner the power of AI. We analyzed over 150,000 recipes to figure out which ingredients are better together.

Based on estimates from the United States Census Bureau released for July 2019, Millennials are the largest living generation in the country now. They moved ahead of Boomers by about 432,000.

Nearly every president had a pet — either exotic or common — and you can learn about all of them here.

"Winning photographs and cartoons, and bios and photos of winners, are available by clicking the links below. More than 2,400 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made. The awards are the culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories."

Sounds of Earth grew out of a personal need to create a collection of ambient sounds of nature to help me relax or meditate and raise awareness for the protection and restoration of our ecosystems. We need to protect and restore our environment so that future generations can also enjoy the natural sights and sounds that we take for granted.

Light Pollution Map is a mapping application that displays VIIRS/DMSP/World Atlas overlays/IAU observatories and the user measurements overlay over Microsoft Bing base layers (road and hybrid Bing maps). The primary use is to show VIIRS/DMSP data in a friendly manner, but over time it also includes some other interesting overlays that concern light pollution like SQM/SQC, World Atlas 2015 zenith brightness, clouds, aurora, and IAU observatories.

"The New York Times presents a comprehensive library of medical topics, including in-depth articles on diseases, conditions, tests, symptoms, injuries and surgeries. The encyclopedic reference is frequently updated and reviewed by doctors, medical writers and editors. Within the guide are extensive links to The Times's own archive of news and features."

To some, nuclear energy offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence. To others, it summons images of disaster: quake-ruptured Japanese power plants belching radioactive steam, the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus. But what happens inside a nuclear power plant to bring such marvel and misery into being?

"The Earth Science Picture of the Day highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The community is invited to contribute digital imagery, short captions, and relevant links."

Check out this high-resolution 3D image of Mars thanks to NASA, Ames Research Center.

More than Just Parks was created to be the best online resource for everything National Parks and Public Lands. They create visually stunning national park guides, award-winning short films, breathtaking photos, and insightful tips to make your next national park trip the best.

Satellites are visible in the night sky. No telescope is required if you know where to look. Find out here.

A Blinking Map of the World's Lighthouses. This map is alive with the beauty of lighthouse signals. The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.

The Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.

This Day in Music provides information on musicians born on the day of your visit. It includes references to their recordings, gigs, chart positions, and even deaths, along with significant events from this day. Find the #1 / No.1 singles or #1 / No.1 albums from US, UK, German, Canadian, and Australian charts for previous years, as published on this day. Events are added daily from legendary rock and pop artists such as The Beatles, U2, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, and Led Zeppelin to today's top artists like The Killers, Lady Ga Ga, Cheryl Cole, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, and Leona Lewis.

LightBox, a blog by TIME's photo department, explores how photography, video, and the culture of images define today's world. This blog offers a daily behind-the-scenes look at TIME's photography as well as inspiring new projects. It aims to immerse you in the visual side of the news and highlight photography that pushes boundaries in the art world. Regular features include the backstory from photoshoots, firsthand accounts from photographers in the field, profiles of legendary image-makers, photo essays, and more.

"The National Consumers League is America's oldest consumer organization, representing consumers and workers on marketplace and workplace issues since our founding in 1899. NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer's perspective on concerns including child labor, privacy, food safety, and medication information."

Calculate when you can see the SpaceX Starlink satellites above your location.

Listen to local radio stations while driving through the cities around the world.

The goal of our project is to provide a comprehensive database of strike and labor protest activity across the United States to better inform and support labor movement activists, policymakers, and scholars.

Nikolaj Juhlsen combines his interest in MTB and videography to create a stunning video of how it is to take a ride. Enjoy the original sound and the beautiful scenery.

Like many people, we've had to hit pause on our travel plans for the time being, but that doesn’t mean we’re not still thinking about all the places we’ve been—and all the places we hope to get to sometime soon. After all, so much of travel trickles into our lives both before and after a big trip, whether it’s the hours we spend scouring the internet for inspiration on where to go next, or the ways a place influences us long after we’ve left, from the food we cook and the souvenirs we fill our homes with to the music we listen to. “It’s important to remember that travel is also a state of mind,” U.S. editor Jesse Ashlock wrote last week. “And that you don’t necessarily have to go far away to feel far away.” With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of 101 ways to travel without leaving your house, which we hope will help you feel entertained, a little more inspired, and, most importantly, a little more connected with the rest of the world.

Buy Nearby is a chrome extension that recommends local businesses! While browsing through Amazon or eBay, the chrome extension will show nearby businesses tailored to what you were previously searching for. Help your community during challenging times by supporting the businesses near you.

"Experience the world's museums from your home. Get closer to art! Simply select a museum from the homepage and then either choose 'Explore the museum' or 'View Artwork'. Once you are on the main site use the drop-down menus or the side info bar to navigate between artworks and museums. Finally, create and share your collections online."

"Join Curious.com to learn something new every day with 20,000+ online video lessons on crafts, code, tech, music, health, food, etc. from expert teachers."

"Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690 - present."

"Compendium of statistics and up-to-date facts and figures on everything you need to know."

"Protect your family, your local community, and the nation by helping the FBI catch wanted terrorists and fugitives. You can also help reunite missing persons of all ages with their loved ones. Rewards are offered in some cases. Use the Search Center below to find specific cases."

This uses USGS NHDPlus data and their NLDI API to visualize the path of a rain droplet from any point in the contiguous United States to its endpoint (usually the ocean, sometimes the Great Lakes, Canada/Mexico, or another inland water feature). It'll find the closest river/stream flowline coordinate to a click/search and then animate along that flowline's downstream path.

Who designed a particular car and how did it relate to other cars of the time? Here you can see all of these cars throughout time with relevant information.

If, in the midst of sorting receipts and studying the latest changes in the US income tax laws, you suddenly wonder "What is the origin of this annual ritual in the weeks leading up to April 15th?" here are some answers.

Reed Smith’s International Trade and National Security team tracks the latest threatened and implemented U.S. tariffs, as well as counter-tariffs from other countries around the world.

"An animated map of global wind conditions. Rotate globe with your mouse to see different angles." Related site: U.S. Wind Map.

"FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic archives. In honor of our 125th anniversary, we are showcasing photographs that reveal cultures and moments of the past. Many of these photos have never been published and are rarely seen by the public. We hope to bring new life to these images by sharing them with audiences far and wide. Their beauty has been lost to the outside world for years and many of the images are missing their original date or location."

"Answer questions to find out which government benefits you may be eligible to receive."

"Classic and unpublished photos of the 20th century's major events and public figures from LIFE magazine. Pictures from World War II, the Space Race, Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, Hollywood, sports, science, the arts, and more."

Planning a trip overseas? Check the US State department for travel advisories as part of your planning.

Corporations earn profits off of your everyday purchases. And some of those profits are then donated to politicians and causes you might not agree with. See their list of the companies that have made a commitment to halt PAC donations.

"Online weights and measures conversion. Online calculators for quick and easy metric conversion, conversion tables for both commonly used and very exotic units."

"Official government site for the prediction of thunderstorms and severe weather in the U.S."

"A daily dose of fun facts, brain exercises, and news for smart people."

"U.S. Copyright Office is an office of public record for copyright registration and deposit of copyright material."

"AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report is the most comprehensive retail gasoline survey available. Every day more than 100,000 stations are surveyed."

The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to their shared history, culture, and knowledge.

May Day, day commemorating the historic struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement, observed in many countries on May 1.

The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date.

Let me show you how to get better at Googling.

OpenHistoricalMap is a project designed to store and display map data throughout the history of the world. This is a work in progress, they'll be playing around with many new features as they time-enable the site. They encourage you to start playing around and editing data, too.

An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology

The inspiration was to study the astronaut dataset and find any pattern related to the astronauts that can help people become astronauts.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), first administered in 1969, is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing. Standard administration practices are implemented to provide a common measure of student achievement.

This word unscrambler can help find words from a collection of individual letters. It can be handy if you are stuck solving a puzzle. Easily create lists of valid Scrabble words and anagrams that are made from your selected letter combinations.

Are you writing a poem or a song? "Rhyme Desk" offers a selection of tools to help by searching for rhyming words, related words, and even a tool for making rhyming word worksheets to make vocabulary studies more fun.

They offer a rich collection of helpful utilities to help people figure out their finances, manage their budget, and plan for retirement.

Search for public libraries in your area. Libraries offer a range of job search information and services. Your local library might offer free computer access, a job club, resume assistance, or other help.

A collection of 21 different live counters detailing the current number of users on the internet, how many websites exist, how many videos are on YouTube, and many more. Each has links to the source of the data so you can research further.

Read the first issue of the respected scientific journal Nature published on November 4, 1869. There have been 594 volumes so far.

This database contains information about forcibly displaced populations spanning almost 70 years of statistical activities. It covers displaced populations such as refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons, including their demographics.

Canine Companions leads the service dog industry so our clients and their dogs can live with greater independence. We provide service dogs to adults, children, and veterans with disabilities and facility dogs to professionals working in healthcare, criminal justice, and educational settings. Since our founding in 1975, our dogs and all follow-up services are provided at no cost to our clients.

Mindat.org is the world’s leading authority on minerals and their localities, deposits, and mines worldwide.

They feature thousands of miles of abandoned railroad routes in North America, illustrated with maps, pictures, and history.