I'm a BS Math student and, I believe that learning should not be confined to the classroom. With the internet, the world is literally our playground. So, here are 5 sites that help me traverse the complicated world of mathematics.&nbsp;

Best math sites out there

This site offers a glimpse into the life of mathematicians and scientists. What's even terrific is the way they explain big concepts unpretentiously. The site tackles anything from calculus, quantum mechanics, real-world math examples, etc.&nbsp;

 Cantor's Paradise

Aside from math concepts explained in the best way possible, this is one of the few sites that have a minimalistic design. Plus, no ads. I mean, math really becomes even more complicated when you are surrounded by distractions.

 Owlcation

&nbsp;If long math stuff and jargon had been boring you, definitely check this site. This site explains math in the easiest way possible, like your a five-year-old.&nbsp;

Math is Fun

If you're the type of person looking for more intricacy and challenge, then definitely check out this site. This site contains math/ programming problems in varying complexities.

 Project Euler

Another site for all the creative math people out there. I personally haven't tried this site. But I did check it out nevertheless. Aside from math problems, it also contains books, curriculums, etc.

Art of Problem Solving

Education

Jeanne Marie Quinanola on Oct 25

There's no denying that books are treasures for students. Books are where we can explore the world, learn life hacks and meet the greats in our history.&nbsp; You might be a math student, a literature nerd, or just someone who loves to read. The point is you probably found yourself asking the million-dollar question: Where can I get free books on the internet?&nbsp; I mean, not all of us have the luxury to buy a book. It's a known reality that a lot of students are broke. Luckily, some sites cater to broke but bookish people like us. So, here they are.

Where to get free books on the internet?

If you're the studious type of student, you should bookmark this site. This site contains books for calculus, social sciences, businesses, etc. I mean, where can you possibly get all those curated essential subject books. On top of that, you can also highlight and add notes to your chosen books on the site.&nbsp;

OpenStax

This site host classic books turned into audiobooks.&nbsp;Shakespeare. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You name it. This site has all of that and more. Moreover, LibriVox audiobooks are read by volunteers around the world. If you want, you can always sign up to read a book. What a way to bring bookish people together!

Librivox

Ok. Technically this site does not offer free books. Instead, what it provides are free collections of short stories from different genres. I think that this site is handy for busy readers. I mean, if you can't read a book, then maybe reading a short story is equally helpful. If you miss Edgar Allan Poe's scary stories and Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales, then try to visit this site.

American Literature

Hello humanity students! International Relations is such a daunting word. I mean, what're all these buzzwords: realism, hegemony, marxism, constructivism. Thankfully, during my debate years, this site saves me. Aside from the helpful articles available on the site, it also offers free books that explain International Relations in a not-so-technical manner. Visit this site if your nose is already bleeding from all the jargon.

E-International Relations

Reading a book is fantastic, but it can also be exhausting. Luckily, this site offers audiobooks from various genres. Whether you're fond of Camus or of classic books like Moby Dick and the Great Gatsby, this site offers those things in audiobook format.

AudioAZ

Jeanne Marie Quinanola on Oct 18

Ok. As you know, emails newsletters are simply curated content sent to subscribers of a site. On this noisy internet, maybe newsletters are the way to go for busy students.

Why busy students should subscribe to newsletters?

There's truth in the adage: Don't bite more than you can chew. Social media is absolutely the place where you are compelled to bite more than you can chew. The amount of information available for consumption is just too exhausting. Every day, you endlessly scroll through a barrage of information just to get updated. Yet, you only remember a few of those posts anyway. So, why not opt to receive few articles that you can actually remember.

Helps control social media consumption.

If there's one thing that busy people hate, it's probably the nuisance ads. I mean, all those ads are simply distracting. Getting a newsletter will not mean that you can say goodbye to ads. It just means that you don't need to surf the web and be toppled by waves of ads.&nbsp;

 Helps you avoid ads.

In an age of information, it's easy to get lost in a plethora of morning posts, cat videos, and ads. If those things matter to you, then great. But for other people, those things are just diversions. If you want to read things that matter, maybe you should consider putting those things in your email inbox.&nbsp;

Read articles that matter to you.

Scrolling every day for hours is sedentary. Instead of endlessly scrolling through the noise, why not read few articles that matter to you in a short time.

Save time.

Welcome to Deepstash

Jeanne Marie Quinanola on Oct 17

Public Wi-Fi is convenient but comes at the expense of security. When you’re answering emails at a local coffee shop or absent-mindedly scrolling through social media at the airport, someone may be tracking your online activity.Using a VPN protects your data while you are on other networks, hiding your browsing history, banking information, account passwords and more from ill-intentioned internet strangers

1. Security on Public Wi-Fi

While connected to your home Wi-Fi, you are less likely to be attacked by strangers than on a public connection. However, your data is still vulnerable.Your internet service provider (ISP) – BT, Sky, Virgin Media or other company which you pay for Wi-Fi each month – can access all your internet data. Your ISP can see when, where and how you browse.This data can be collected and sold to advertisers, even if you’re using the “private” browsing function, and it can be dangerous in the wrong hands in the case of a data breach. A VPN can help by obscuring your ISP address from your own ISP.

2. Data Privacy From Your Internet Service Provider

Your ISP isn’t the only potential security weak spot. Many of our favorite apps and internet services – most notably Facebook- have been called out for the way they’ve used the data of their users.A VPN will prevent apps and websites from attributing your behavior to your computer’s ISP address. It can also limit the collection of your location and browser history.

3. Data Privacy From the Apps and Services You Use

While a TV streaming service such as Netflix may frown upon your use of a VPN to access the latest blockbuster film or series in a country where the content isn’t offered, this VPN usage is not illegal (in the UK and in most countries), and it helps provide a useful workaround to content restrictions. VPNs spoof your location, making it seem as if you are browsing from another place. That means you can get your boxset fix even if it’s not available locally.

4. Access Any Content

One benefit of a VPN is its data encryption features. Encryption, or putting data into a coded format so its meaning is obscured, allows you to keep confidential information safe. If you are an individual thinking about investing in a VPN for your company, one benefit is that workers can connect to your office network and look at sensitive materials on their own devices while away from the office. As remote work seems a possibility even after the pandemic ends, a VPN is a helpful investment to keep confidential material safe off-site.

5. Security When Working Remotely

While we’d all love to add more security to our lives, some security devices and processes seem like more effort than they are worth for those who are tech adverse. VPNs, however, are easy to use. Several providers have created intuitive and user-friendly interfaces that make installation and use available to non-techies.

6. Ease Of Use

While many of us may first try a VPN on a company-loaned laptop, many VPN services also protect other smart devices such as your phones, tablets and desktop computers. Each VPN company may offer slightly different protection plans and have different capacities to protect different devices, but many providers offer plans that help keep you safe on multiple devices.

7. Smart Device Adaptability

If you are willing to put in a little research, a VPN can help you save money via its location spoofing capabilities. Many types of businesses, such as subscription services and airlines, offer the same amenities or products for different prices in different places. If you change the appearance of your location to a place where services are offered cheaper, you can end up with big savings.

8. Smart Savings

While a VPN is a great tool to help separate your location (and in many ways, you) from your data, it doesn’t obscure everything about you. If you take a Facebook quiz or like a post on Instagram, the app you are using while connected to the VPN is still able to use your behaviour to tailor in-app ads and content.They might not know where you are browsing from, but they will still know what you are doing on their apps.Similarly, if cookies are enabled on your computer, companies can follow you while you are on their site and afterwards.

Limitations of VPNs

Your full data isn’t obscured with a VPN alone. For that you would need an additional open-source tool that allows you to browse the web anonymouslyVPNs aren’t perfect tools. Like any computer program, they are susceptible to malware and online attacks. If infected, a VPN’s security benefits are nullifiedThe likelihood of attacks and security breaches is increased by using a free VPN service. To recoup their business costs, “free” VPN services may sell user data or run ads that could be infected with malware. If your goal is to increase your data privacy, then investing in a paid VPN is better

Further Limitations 

Beyond questions of security are questions of legality. If you happen to be based in or visiting a wide list of countries including Russia and China, VPNs are banned or highly regulated. It’s important to know the laws of your country and any country you are visiting before using a VPN, and you need to understand whether your VPN usage is being monitored by a government, thus nullifying its privacy benefits.

Global Legality Concerns

If you are at all concerned with your data privacy, VPNs are an easy-to-use, reasonably priced security measure that gives you a base level of internet protection. While it may seem silly to protect your data when you aren’t doing anything “wrong” on the internet, even the most innocent among us do have data secrets online, such as sensitive passwords and financial information. A VPN’s encryption and identity protection services are like a lock on a door, or in other words, a basic security measure that everyone should have.

Are VPNs really necessary?

Why use a VPN? To protect your personal information, of course. Here are eight reasons why everyone—even non-techies—should use a VPN.

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8 Reasons Everyone Should Use VPN - Including Non-Techies

Mortis.com was a single-page website designed with two-tone colors in mind. This site has been around since 1997, November 14th.The website was first discovered by a 4chan user who was curious about an unknown website that host terabytes of data on its server. The number of document hosted on the sites were also tremendous, with one of the largest was 39 gigabytes in size.

Based on curiosity, 4chan users turned to investigate, and connected the site to someone called Thomas 'Tom' Ling. When the name was further investigated, it turned out that the person owned other websites that are also mysterious. Besides Mortis.com and Cthulhu.net, more than twelve different sites were connected Tom Ling.

Thomas Ling, The Website Owner

As more and more people tried to crack the page and get to the bottom of Tom's website, they were met with futility. That until the enthusiasm for the site rose, and someone claiming to be Tom Ling finally showed up and explained to the sleuths that the website was hosting wedding photographs and nothing more. Tom claimed to be a digital media designer, owned the number of websites people were questioning, and stored all the data in a server in Philadelphia.But when the 4chan investigators asked him for more proof, the so-called Tom Ling stopped replying.

Thomas Ling Shows Up

Again fueled by curiosity, people on the internet started digging deeper, and found that the site's code had a media player embedded, suggesting that the site was being utilized to have motion pictures.Then according to a post from a site archiving 4chan, the Mortis website had numerous email accounts registered on its server, with names like Igor, Mortis, Blair, Child of Chaos, and some others.

It Might Have Been Hosting Motion Pictures 

What's more, it was also found that Mortis.com can be linked to a dental firm, a prominent lawyer, a remote part of the Washington state, and a security company that in turn has connections to a video sharing group on Usenet, the predecessor of the World Wide Web.But after tracing their physical addresses, they were actually empty lots and empty warehouses.This made Mortis.com again a mystery because speculation made investigators to conclude that the Tom Ling from Australia was lying, and he is not the real Tom Ling from Mortis.com.

Tom Ling From Australia Might Have Been Lying. 

What's more, Mortis.com was discovered in the late 1990s, at a time where people use dial-up internet connection. Whether Tom Ling was lying or not, uploading gigabytes of data to the internet was not an easy task. Speculations concluded that either Tom Ling paid a lot of money for that to happen, or had direct access to the server.

His Capacity To Upload Roughly A Terabyte Of Data

This was until the FBI got involved, users stopped investigating and the website was taken down. According to another source, the FBI had nothing to do with the site, and it was Tom Ling himself who put the site offline.

And Then The Site Was Taken Down

References to the site have been removed from the internet. The real Tom Ling also remained unanswered. Nothing much is known about this site, other than its simple login form. The owner is also not known, as the registrar has redacted its owner's data.

The Truth of The Site Remains Unknown

Mortis.com was a single-page website designed with two-tone colors in mind.
The website was first discovered by a 4chan user who was curious about an unknown website that host terabytes of data on its server. The number of document hosted on the sites