According to the World Meteorological Organization’s International Cloud Atlas, more than 100 types of clouds exist. The many variations, however, can be grouped into one of 10 basic types depending on their general shape and height in the sky.
Find out more by reading: The 10 Basic Types of Clouds on ThoughtCo.
Are you finding it hard to cope with self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic? First of all, great job on self-isolating. It’s the right thing to do and will go a long way toward stopping the contagion from spreading any further.
However, you do need to find ways to maintain your health, especially your mental health, during self-isolation. There’s one easy-to-use tool that’s available to anyone that’s also impactful: expressive writing.
Find out more in Expressive Writing: A Powerful Way To Cope With Self-Isolation from Thrive Global
TypingClub is the most effective way to learn how to type.
It is web based and highly effective. TypingClub is (and will always be) free for both individuals and schools. There is an optional paid school edition.
Keep practicing each lesson until you get all five stars. It really doesn’t take much to learn, a few minutes a day for one to two weeks and you will be a pro!
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In 1793, yellow fever hit Philadelphia, and sailors were quarantined in a hospital outside the city. When typhus landed in New York City in 1892, at least 70 people were quarantined on a nearby island. When an outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) moved through Canada in 2003, about 30,000 people in Toronto were quarantined. And during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, health workers returning to the United States from affected areas were quarantined. But to find the origin of the word, we have to look back to mid-14th century Europe
Read The Origin Of The Word ‘Quarantine’ on Science Friday, 4 September 2018
Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. I developed Google Guide because I wanted more information about Google’s capabilities, features, and services than I found on Google’s website. –Nancy Blachman
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The Getty Museum has used its Twitter account to challenge followers to recreate a work of art in their home and their picture(s) with them. Click the link below to see what has already been created.
We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home.
🥇 Choose your favorite artwork
🥈 Find three things lying around your house⠀
🥉 Recreate the artwork with those itemsAnd share with us. pic.twitter.com/9BNq35HY2V
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
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WIRED’s Robbie Gonzalez learned to solve a Rubik’s cube from Tyson Mao, one of the co-founders of the World Cube Association. In two weeks, Robbie got his solve time down from 45 minutes with Tyson, to 20 minutes on his own, to under a minute on average. Learn his 8-step method here.
What happens if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type? Even though a patient’s own blood type is the first choice for blood transfusions, it’s not always available at the blood bank. Try to save some patients’ lives and learn about human blood types! (You will need to use Adobe Flash to play this game)
