Welcome to the Puratos Library of everything that you need to know about sourdough. It’s not available for public visits so why not go through it virtually!
Download the Space Centre app
The free Space Center Houston interactive mobile tour features audio tour, GPS maps, selfie filters, augmented reality experiences, virtual reality lite and more!
Here are some of the amazing tools and features you get with the Space Center Houston interactive mobile tour:
- Location-Aware Audio Tour: As you walk through the Space Center Houston, location-aware audio stops will tell you about our extraordinary journey into space and the people who got us there. Like…how did the American grandfather of rocket science, Robert Goddard, get kicked out of his hometown? Why did early astronauts bring water guns to space? And why is there so much Velcro on the International Space Station?
- Interactive augmented reality and Virtual Reality Lite experiences:Find Space Center Houston’s Interactive augmented reality experiences around the center. With the Space Center Houston audio tour, you’ll be able to explore the Moon, watch the Saturn V launch, and more, all with the power of augmented reality! You can even bring Space Center Houston home with you! Through Virtual Visits, you’ll be able to see every gallery in 360 degrees!
Find out more about the app HERE and how to download it for iOS and Android
Complete the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle
Grafika is the brand for art jigsaw puzzles – and it offers both works of classical artists such as van Gogh, Monet or Klimt, and works of contemporary artists such as Josephine Wall, Cris Ortega or even François Ruyer.
Grafika breaks all records! Thanks to its 48,000 pieces, “Travel around the world” becomes the world’s largest puzzle in 2017 (see image above)
The new biggest puzzle in the world now has 54,000 pieces !!!
Note: These jigsaw puzzles are not free.
Visit Grafika to find out about this jigsaw puzzle and others in its collection
Visit Virtual Kew
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world.
Roam the gardens from the comfort of your home
If you can’t get to the gardens, let us bring the gardens to you.
Travel to the tropics, the desert and the mountains without leaving the house with our seasonal footage and a sneak peek at our glasshouses across Kew and Wakehurst.
Visit Virtual Kew
Listen to the Ologies podcasts
GQ magazine named Ologies as one of the best podcasts to listen to during self-isolation
Is there an -ology for everything? Alie Ward is finding out on her podcast, where she quizzes experts on everything from cocktails to scorpions about the weirder corners of their discipline. Ward is as funny as she is smart, as are her guests. A season of Ologieswill leave you armed with a lifetime of fun facts and trivia tidbits.
Fun websites to beat boredom
MakeUseOf has a recent article, 15 Fun Websites for Instantly Beating Boredom Online
Looking for websites to go to when bored? Don’t let boredom get boring. Even Steve Jobs was a fan of boredom. He believed that boredom allowed room for creativity. We all know how that turned out.
Even science says boredom is good for the brain. So, trust the boffins and take on boredom with these fun websites
Here’s the first one to get you tempted: The Secret Door
Listen to Spotify’s Daily Wellness playlist
For the Record reports on a new Daily Wellness playlist: A mix of motivational podcasts and personalized music
The new playlist, made to fit into your daily routine, updates once in the morning then again in the evening. In it, you’ll find hours of content, from music you might recognize to curated wellness podcasts, plus a few new things we think you’ll like.
Every morning, the playlist will greet you with positive, motivational content to kickstart your day. In between inspirational podcasts like Daily Quote and Yoga Girl Daily, you’ll find personalized music to help you rise and shine. Our goal? To help you feel like you could conquer the world, one day at a time.
At night, the playlist refreshes with content that’s a bit more relaxing. Practice mindfulness with Daily Breath with Deepak Chopra, hear poetry from The Slowdown, and wind down with our music picks. The evening edition is built to get you ready for a good night’s sleep—one of the most crucial acts of wellness and self-care.
The Daily Wellness Playlist is available now for free and premium users in the U.S. and U.K. Find it on your “Made for You” hub on mobile, web, and desktop.
Find out about Florence Nightingale
2020 is Florence Nightingale’s bicentenary, but like all Museums the Florence Nightingale Museum in London s closed, however, there are a number of online resources to find out more about here.
Famous for being the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ who organised the nursing of sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale’s far-sighted ideas and reforms have influenced the very nature of modern healthcare.
Her greatest achievement was to transform nursing into a respectable profession for women and in 1860, she established the first professional training school for nurses, the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’ Hospital.
Read her biography at the Florence Nightingale Museum
Learn to play guitar
Learning guitar can often seem slow and frustrating if you’re just starting out. I know from my own experience that you’ll be eager to make progress quickly and start playing songs as soon as possible – after all, that’s the whole reason for learning guitar.
So I’ve put together this short guide that will help you learn some of the easiest guitar chords and apply them to playing songs straight away.
Read Terry Stefan’s instructions and watch his videos on Learn Beginner Guitar Chords Fast from Guitar Signal
