cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10828079

We all get bored sometimess and scroll mindlessly through various social media feeds, like instagram (fuck you), reddit (fuck you) or lemmy (no offense, love you guys).

Most of the time content is a wild mix of everything, from news to memes and educational stuff, and very hard to filter out.

Is there anything out there that contains educational stuff only? where you can just sit there, scroll through it and learn something. thinking of like a short text or image showing some facts, or some math examples, or physics, or whatever.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    So…mindful scrolling?

    I think you’d want to roll your own, basically. Get an RSS reader, subscribe to some journals, some sites like Mentalfloss and Atlas Obscura that “blogitize” information, maybe follow scientists’ RSS feeds on Mastodon or Bluesky. If you follow enough, it’ll be an effectively infinite scroll every time you open it.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I disagree. Learning absolutely does not have to be really hard. Learning can be fun can you can motivated by curiosity. The best physics, research, and computer science professors I ever had were not the people that focused on the grind. They were able highlight something fascinating and dope, then make exploring that thing feel like solving a fun puzzle.

      Moreover, if you’re recreationally curious about something you by no means need to study the full thing. People should be encouraged to be curious about lots of things. It’s ok to snack from the science sampler platter without getting into the kitchen. Explore the dope theory and high level gestalt first. Have fun.

      If you’re curious about lots of things, you’re more likely to stumble upon something that you’re passionate about. And it’s WAY easier to get into the weeds with something that you’re passionate about.