The Internet gave us the opportunity to always be aware of all the news. He also gave us access to a huge variety of interesting and useful materials. But, unfortunately, there are so many such materials that now the problem is different - the lack of time.

It will take too much time to read all the interesting articles and news. Therefore, we offer you five resources that select the most useful and interesting materials based on your preferences and their popularity.

Surfingbird

Let's start with the most famous Russian-language aggregator of interesting articles, news and photos. Not so long ago, there was a scandal, in connection with which many resources refused to cooperate with the service. But Surfingbird is still full of useful materials.

Based on (as always) unique algorithms, Surfingbird learns and displays content based on your preferences. Therefore, the more likes and dislikes you put, the more interesting the following materials will be for you.

Pocket Hits

You're using Pocket, right? If not, then immediately run to install it. This is one of those apps that every device should have.

Pocket Hits are the best, according to Pocket readers, articles that the service creators send out every week. Pocket Hits exists in the form of a Twitter account, as well as an e-mail newsletter that you can subscribe to in your account settings.

As I said, the e-mail newsletter comes once a week, and it contains the coolest materials from all resources. If this frequency doesn't suit you, follow their Twitter account, which publishes some great articles every day.

Flipboard

As with Pocket, Flipboard regularly selects the very best articles on different topics and posts them as separate collections. Perhaps on this moment it is the most functional and popular magazine in your device.

Longreads

Longreads is a treasure trove of great, detailed, and lengthy articles. Its only drawback is the absence of the Russian language. However, if you are fluent in English, you can find a wealth of interesting and exciting material.

Medium Top Stories

Medium is a platform on which anyone can publish their articles. Whether this is due to the fact that its creator is the co-founder of Twitter, or the reason is something else, but Medium has become insanely popular, and the amount of quality material in it is off the charts.

As with Pocket, Medium does a weekly newsletter of the top 10 content, and trust me, every one of them deserves your attention. If these materials are not enough for you, Medium has a Twitter account, which publishes some of the most interesting articles every day.

Physics and mathematics are very interesting sciences. This especially applies to physics, because it studies the world around us, which is still full of mysteries and secrets. Learning these secrets and learning all the new facts about the world around us is very interesting. This section contains various scientific Interesting Facts which will help you to make sure that science is especially entertaining, to love physics and mathematics, as well as to distract and unwind during the time-consuming and boring preparation for exams. Here, complex scientific theories are presented in simple language, understandable even for schoolchildren.

• Myths and reality

Many people do not even suspect that there are many objects and things around us that have amazing properties. In this article, we will discuss the hardness of some materials and the interesting results that can be obtained from these properties.

• Useful facts

As you know, the speed of light is, though large, but still a finite value. There are quite material objects (for example, photons - the particles that make up light) that move at the speed of light. How does the world “look” through the “eyes” of such fast objects?

• Useful facts

Through the efforts of various media outlets, as well as fiction and science fiction, black holes have acquired the image of very dangerous space objects that supposedly absorb everything in their path and can suddenly swallow the Earth. Let's figure it out if this is so?

A person is able, from a two-dimensional picture, to form a very complete idea of ​​the distances to the depicted objects, their shape and size, and thus fully perceive three-dimensional world in all its depth. How do we achieve this?

• Just about complicated

The material in this article will acquaint the reader with the basic concepts of genetics, and with the interesting properties of the human genome. Genetics is the science of the laws of heredity and variability. Depending on the object of research, the genetics of plants, animals, microorganisms, humans, and so on are classified.

• Myths and reality

Nowadays, you can often meet with the opinion that the human brain supposedly works at only 10% of all its capabilities. On the basis of such a statement, the plot of some popular films is even built. Let's try to figure out whether each of us can suddenly become ten times smarter, or is this a myth, and if so, where did it come from?

You may have read a lot of interesting things, but there will probably be something else that can surprise you. This article contains 30 interesting and reliable facts from biology, history, geography, physics and other sciences that will definitely not leave you indifferent.

• Just about complicated

This article will briefly discuss some of the flaws in the theory of evolution based only on natural selection. By the way, evolution is a natural process of development of living nature, accompanied by a change in the genetic composition of populations, the formation of adaptations, speciation and extinction of species, the transformation of ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole.

• Just about complicated

This article lists and describes some of the factors that directly or indirectly influenced or continue to influence the emergence and maintenance of life on our planet. There are so many of these factors that sometimes, their entire combination ceases to seem random.

Hundreds of blogs and websites are opening and closing in Russia every day, most of which are for educational purposes. But really informative and interesting, and the most important useful resources only a few become.

The portal site offers a selection of 10 of the most popular, interesting and informative sites in Russia, which millions of readers of the country are hooked on. What were the criteria for choosing:

• quality content
• lack of advertising (or minimized)
• convenience and simplicity of the site
• design
• layout
• uniqueness

Adme is a site about life, freedom and creativity.

The project has existed for over 10 years and has gained insane popularity over the years. The secret of the project's success is simple - unique cognitive content every day. Lack of politics, spiteful news feeds and obtrusive advertising, an abundance of light humor, useful posts about the life and work of great people, and a lot of everything and everything that makes a person happy, kind, smiling ... In general, it was created by people and for people.

Lifehacker is no less successful and useful project than adme, with a whole army of fans and fans in Russia. From a popular blog giving advice, the life hacker has grown into a successful project with over 6 million readers a month.

The secret of success is content relevance. Simply put, for example, the article "How to download a video from Youtube" was published in 2012, and it still hasn't lost its relevance. Every month, more than 70,000 Internet users ask themselves the question "how can you still download a video from YouTube" and in the search engines of Yandex and Google on given request it is Lifehacker's article that falls out. The result is that it has gained 1.7 million views since 2012!

The main directions are articles about health and sports, how to use gadgets, websites and new technologies, and much more ... A very useful resource in Russia.

The first association among the majority of users, I am sure, is physical instructor Thomas performed by Dmitry Nagiyev. However, the Foma website is a successful Orthodox magazine for the doubters. The magazine is entirely devoted to the Orthodox faith and the Church.

A lot of useful material in a cool format. Convenient layout and ease of navigation of the site, as well as high-quality, easy-to-read material distinguishes the resource from most other religious portals. There is an opinion that industry-specific and highly specialized sites are doomed to failure, but in Orthodox Russia "Foma" is just gaining its popularity, because the number of believers in Russia has increased in recent years (based on statistical data).

One of the most popular sites in Russia, the main topic of which is psychology in all its manifestations.

Like most glossy magazines, Psychologies goes online and in a few years turns into a major international project. Originally from France, the project is rapidly gaining popularity in Europe and already in 2005 it begins to be published in Russia. Online audience of the site is estimated at millions. Feelings, interests, desires and thoughts, relationships with oneself and other people, the experience of contemporaries and the expert opinion of the best psychologists and psychotherapists; new sources of joy and energy, opportunities to realize oneself and change for the better, ways to take care of one's health and beauty with pleasure - all these are Psychologies.ru topics.

A non-profit educational project dedicated to the humanities has grown over time into an online university, with real courses and lectures. Distinctive feature from all other projects - all courses and lectures are absolutely free. The main topics of the site are history, literature, art, anthropology, philosophy. Arzamas consists entirely of courses, each of which is dedicated to a specific topic. A new course is published every two weeks on Thursdays. Each course consists of several 15-minute video lectures (episodes), as well as a variety of materials - articles, photo galleries, maps, dictionaries, tests, games, etc. Thanks to the successful layout of the site, cool content and the absence of intrusive advertising, Arzamas magazine entered very quickly in the ranking of the most popular cognitive resources in Russia.

It is noteworthy that Arzamas, as a literary society, as a circle was first opened in 1815, and members of "Arzamas" were such famous people as V. A. Zhukovsky, P. A. Vyazemsky, A. A. Pleshcheev, A. S . Pushkin ...

Naked Science (translated from English. "From the point of view of science") is a Russian popular science journal, published since 2013 in Russian. Main topics: science, aviation, new technologies, future technologies, space, cars, photography, psychology. The main task of the popular science Internet portal is to popularize science.

Thanks to the successful layout and design, the site very quickly bypassed all its competitors. And the approach to submitting materials is “an accessible, simple and understandable story about difficult things"Became the unspoken motto of the project. Be sure to visit the video section of the site - well, a lot educational videos materials.

vc.ru is a magazine about internet business, startups, innovation and online marketing. Today it is the largest platform for entrepreneurs on the Russian Internet. The site daily covers business news, expresses the opinions of experts, publishes reviews and analytics ...

Like all previous portals, it differs from most of its competitors in its convenient layout and uncomplicated design, which makes the resource very attractive against the background of all the others. In my opinion, it is one of the "strongest" and most powerful cognitive resources for entrepreneurs and startups.

The Village is on this list for a reason. A useful and informative portal with an awesome design and high-quality content, as an example for everyone - "how to make successful projects." The portal is dedicated to the life of the megalopolises of Russia, tells about cultural and social life, entertainment, services, food and people in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other megalopolises. On the pages of The Village, interviews with officials harmoniously coexist with reviews of cafes or bars. The project also has “two little brothers” - Wonderzine magazine for young, energetic and free-thinking women and FURFUR youth magazine. Definitely, these are the sites worth visiting.

Another interesting resource on which I periodically hang up. Newtonew is an educational magazine about education. It will be useful and interesting for schoolchildren and students, teachers, parents and all those who love and want to engage in self-education. Have a project like educational resource suspiciously many advantages - high-quality and interesting material, convenient layout and cool design, lack of advertising and “imposed opinions dictated from above”. The combination of all of the above, as a little meticulous person, makes me think - at the expense of what the project lives and flourishes, where does the source of funding come from. I would like to believe that the project is independent. For convenience, I will single out the section of the site - "Thematic selections" - very convenient. Again, I repeat, a vivid example of the fact that the project was made by people and for people. Solid five to the authors of the project!

- Everything about sports and a healthy lifestyle -

Today, healthy lifestyles and sports are talked about everywhere. One of the most powerful sources of encyclopedic knowledge on the web is the well-known SPORTSWIKI knowledge laboratory. Thousands of interesting, useful materials are collected here. There is no need to talk about the design of the site, but the exclusivity of the sports encyclopedia is different ...

MEN'S HEALTH - I used to read it regularly, now - less often, but as an educational magazine with a set and arsenal of "useful things" I cannot but recommend it. MEN'S HEALTH is more of a male portal. Main topics: men's health and fitness; workout, exercise and fitness encyclopedia; sex and psychology of relationships; proper nutrition and disease prevention; food and recipes ... Great layout and design, thousands of useful materials.

I also want to highlight some of the most useful educational video blogs. All of them are time-tested, the authors of which are not nonsense, they are well versed in the anatomical processes of the body, dietetics, metabolism ...

Unfortunately, today on YouTube there are many videos on sports topics, where there is more harm than good. Sometimes it is scary to listen to the nonsense of their creators, because these people are giving out advice with might and main, teaching and urging to follow their methodology. A it comes about the human body, about the body, which can be very easily injured thanks to the advice of certain pseudo-certified coaches. This delicate and scrupulous topic can only be discussed by people who specialize in various sports fields. Such, as I have found out over the years, are very few.

So, there are video blogs dedicated to sports and a healthy lifestyle that I would recommend without a shadow of a doubt.

Russian TV presenter, author of sports bestsellers "Fitness is easy!" and “Fitness. Life Guide "Denis Semenikhin is a guru in the world of fitness and a healthy lifestyle. The most visited sports video blog in Russia, and most importantly, one of the most informative.

Sergey Badyuk's video blog is no less informative. A very authoritative and wise guy. Reasoning sensibly, speaks convincingly and to the point. Interviews with Badyuk are always interesting and informative. Interests - hand-to-hand sports, boxing, "iron", yoga, powerlifting, workout, qigong ...

One of the most cognitive channels about martial arts, martial arts, self-defense ... Release formats - sharp interviews with masters of various martial arts, useful and funny video lessons ... A lot of informative material. Issues are published twice a week.

More than a million subscribers, informative video content, but I used to like the channel more. Nevertheless, there is a lot of useful material - I also recommend it.

One of the most informative and interesting boxing channels in Russia. A sense of humor combined with professional advice and master classes from Bigaev Alik, made the channel bright and rich, and most importantly - useful. Channel chip in the duration of videos. They are all short and informative. The material feed is easy and affordable. These are not just boxing videos - this is a small show. A special character on the channel - Alexander Yurievich - is another feature of the channel. I recommend to everyone.

Yoga Journal is the leading yoga and healthy lifestyle website in Russia. The portal provides readers with access to thousands of articles on yoga, philosophy, health and nutrition, yoga complexes, meditations, video tutorials, interviews with famous masters ... Daily news is published on the site, from which you can learn all the most relevant from the world of yoga.

From the video channels on yoga, I can highlight: Unagrande YogaClub and daYoga.ru- professionally, efficiently, accessible and very informative.