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Here’s an example of one of the recent podcasts
Try something new for 30 days
Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.
Below is Matt’s TED Talk from 2011, which now has over 12 million views
See history in pictures
Join nearly 4 million people following @HistoryInPics on Twitter, an account that share “the most powerful and entertaining historical photographs ever taken”. Here’s the recent timeline
Test your movie trivia knowledge
Here are 100 classic movie trivia questions, ranging from easy to obscure. Here are the first 3
1. Question: What are the dying words of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?
Answer: “Rosebud”2. Question: Who played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?
Answer: Anne Bancroft3. Question: What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
For the complete list, visit: 100 Fun Movie Trivia Questions (With Answers) to Stump All Your Film-Loving Friends
Discover how the Pyramids of Egypt were built
The most common misconception about the pyramids is that they were built by slaves. Recent archeological evidence suggests they were instead constructed by paid workers. Some may have performed this work as a form of tax payment for several months of the year. Skilled engineers would have planned and orchestrated the building. An estimated 10,000-20,000 people would have been working on a pyramid at any one point in time. They were well fed and provided with shelter near the pyramids. Plus their burial sites close by indicate they were respected and were not slaves. Much of the limestone was quarried from the Giza plateau itself, meaning the stones did not need to be transported far. The granite casing of Menkaure’s pyramid, on the other hand, was transported from Aswan, around 600 miles, or 1000 km up the Nile.
Find out how to build a small business website with WordPress
Okay so you have found a great idea for an online business and you need to create a professional looking website, but how do you actually do it? How do you create a website for your small business or startup, for yourself and from scratch?
Sure you could outsource it and have your site created by freelancers but that comes with major drawbacks. It’s going to cost you, plus you can’t make any changes yourself (not unless you pay someone) and you will have very little knowledge about your biggest asset, your website!
All you need is the right guidance and tools to get the job done. We’re not saying it’s easy, you still need to put in the work, but it’s a lot easier than you think. This step-by-step guide will take through the whole process from start to end.
Read: How to create a small business website using WordPress
Create your own hydroponic vegetable patch
Thanks to Lyn for sharing
Scott Dekarske of Wet-Werk Hydroponics in Memphis, TN, and Master Gardener, Stephan Leonard, show how to assemble an inexpensive aeroponics system. It only takes a few hours to assemble this system. For the complete parts list or to see how the plants have grown visit: Family Plot Garden.
Read the writings of Charles Darwin
Darwin Online is the largest and most widely consulted edition of the writings of Charles Darwin ever published. It is probably the most extensive scholarly website devoted to any historical figure.
This website contains over 212,000 pages of searchable text and 220,000 electronic images, at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications, reproduced to the highest scholarly standards, both as searchable text and electronic images of the originals. The majority of these have been edited and annotated here for the first time with more than 4,900 original editorial notes. The pages of documents available only as PDFs have not been counted but they amount to tens of thousands of additional pages of works by Darwin and others.
Quarantunes! Listen to upbeat songs to get you through self-isolation
The NME (New Musical Express) has created a Quarantunes playlist on Spotify (see below) and everyday they update it with a collection of the songs that are keeping the NME team going while away from their HQ in London. Some of the songs may be familiar, while others might be a brand new discovery.
