How Stuff Works: When You Absolutely Have To Know
Ever since we were young, we’ve been asking questions about everything we see. Sometimes we’d stump our own parents with our questions. Now that you’re an adult, what do you do when your child asks you something and you don’t know the answer?
How Stuff Works is a great resource for anyone with a question. The site’s categories are broken down into channels. This makes it easier to search for answers since different topics aren’t crammed into one section.
I gave it a spin and looked for the answer to “can I get struck by lightning indoors?” The page that loaded not only gave me the answer, it also provided related topics to my questions like, “How Lightning Works” and “How Surge Protectors Work”. The answer to my question was yes by the way.
Next time your child asks you something, you know where to go 
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August 14th, 2007 01:29
Oh, I love that website. It’s quite useful… and entertaining (ok, I’m a big geek, hehe).
August 14th, 2007 01:40
I can definitely use this site to answer a lot of my kids’ questions
August 14th, 2007 06:22
I love how stuff works, I use that a lot these days. I like how I can read up on one topic then their related links will keep me reading and reading because there is so much useful information on that site. I think I use wikipidea more than how stuff works though I just find wikipedia more informative than how stuff works.
August 14th, 2007 09:53
I’ve been a big fan of How Stuff Works for years! Great stuff!
Another great reference is Cecil Adams’ The Straight Dope site that’s based on his weekly question and answer column.
August 14th, 2007 10:12
How stuff works is one of my favorite sites for answering my kids questions, because they are ALWAYS asking how stuff works.
My favorite ones so far “How Teleportation Will Work” and “How Space Elevators Will Work”.
August 14th, 2007 12:28
This is a great find and best thing is that it has covered most of the areas. Will surely try it.
August 14th, 2007 12:45
@shaun:
I was surprised at the quality of the site. It’s one of my favorites now.
@Rob O.:
I’ll have to check that out too
@George:
I haven’t looked at that yet. Sounds great. I’m going to spending a lot of time there
@Nirmal:
I’m glad you liked it buddy
August 14th, 2007 18:26
Definitely a good site, sometimes a bit more technical that I want but more is better right?
August 14th, 2007 18:52
@Bush:
In this case it is haha
August 14th, 2007 19:08
Seems to be a nifty site! Maybe I’ll learn something new! Thanks for sharing!
August 14th, 2007 19:15
@Malin:
You’re welcome. Thanks for dropping by
August 14th, 2007 21:00
Oh wow, my son is going to love this website!! Great post!
August 14th, 2007 21:10
The site is simply great.
August 14th, 2007 21:56
That site is a wonderful tool. I have yet to really allow my kids to use the net for school essays, papers as of yet as I feel the need to know how to use references the old-fashioned way is a valuable skill set.
Yet, that’s going to have to fall by the wayside here soon, I think. And it’s sites like this that are the reason why.
Great stuff.
August 14th, 2007 22:06
Seiche,
We let our kids use the Internet, but we are very careful about the way they use it.
1. They have to use bookmarks to get to sites (not the Search Engines)
2. They can only use kid friendly search engines, like Ask Jeeves for kids. And only when they ask us first.
3. If they want to visit a new site, we have to check it out first.
etc.
Also, our PC with Internet access is in a very public and well trafficed are of our house, which encourages proper use of the computer.
It has worked well for us so far, but even so we try to be very careful about what they do on the Internet. Howstuffworks is one of the sites our oldest child (13 yr old) is allowed to visit for looking up information.
We have never used Netnanny or any of those products, but we have certainly thought about it.
All the best,
George
August 14th, 2007 22:21
@Christy:
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Thanks! What’s funny is, next time my kids ask me something, I’ll just give them a piece of paper with the url of howstuffworks hehehe
@Shankar:
Glad you liked it buddy
@Seiche:
That was my policy before too. That was until my oldest once said to me, “Dad, this encyclopedia is behind the times. I’ll just look at the Wiki.” Haha this was how I looked
I understand what you mean though.
@George:
My oldest is 13 too. When he asked me if he could join MySpace I said, “Sure, in 30 years.”
August 15th, 2007 22:46
It is a cool site , everything is explained in a really simple way .
August 15th, 2007 22:57
@Madhur:
It’s rather addicting to use. I keep thinking of different questions lol
October 16th, 2007 00:01
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