04 Tuesday May 2021
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comfy, cozy, health, Naps, Recharging, Relaxation, Rest, Sara C. Mednick, Ted Talk, Warm
I love taking a nap! It is refreshing and I feel terrific after I get up again. Watch this short video that explains the best length and time for a nap. I think you’ll like this one like I did.
Until next time…
Dave
13 Tuesday Apr 2021
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With all the hoopla surrounding the presidential election of 2020, I thought this would be a good video for my reading audience. I enjoyed this talk and hope you do too. Watch Amber McReynolds discuss voting/election systems and how they should benefit the voter, not the politicians.
One more announcement. I got the second shot for the COVID vaccine today. I may be out of it tomorrow and the next day, if my reaction is the same as my wife’s and niece’s. Just a head’s up in case I do not post tomorrow or the next day. I don’t feel bad at all right now, but we just got the shot a few hours ago. I’m playing it by ear.
Until next time…
Dave
06 Tuesday Apr 2021
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Climate Change, Greenhouse Effect, Pollution, Practical steps, Science
This is a long one, folks, but worth the watch. In this 48-minute video, Bill Gates offers some insights into various things we can do to curb the effects of climate change. I realize some of you may not be a huge fan of Bill or believe that climate change is occurring, but my attitude has changed. I think there’s enough science to explain that there are some things happening that need to be tackled. We did things during the 70s as a human race to slow the depletion of the Ozone layer. We can do some of the things Bill discusses too. Enjoy!
Until next time…
Dave
23 Tuesday Mar 2021
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Coursera, exploring, Khan Academy, Learning, Online Education, Skills, Tyler Dewitt, Udemy, YouTube
I’m a huge fan of online learning. This short TED talk will give you some more reasons you should adopt this practice. Online learning is more agile than the traditional school that can barely keep up with technology, let alone teach it. I love learning and the online platforms available are terrific.
I hope you enjoy today’s TED talk.
Have a great day!
Until next time…
Dave
16 Tuesday Mar 2021
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Balance, Changes, Lessons learned, Life, Pandemic, Patty McCord, vaccination, Work
All of us experienced lockdowns in one way or another in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic touched everyone across the globe. In this video, Patty McCord discusses what the pandemic taught us over the last year. I wanted to share this today, because I am getting the COVID vaccination today. My folks and I need to get this thing because they both have underlying conditions and since I live with them, need to get vaccinated as well. I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did.
Have a great Tuesday, folks!
Until next time…
Dave
09 Tuesday Mar 2021
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March is Women’s History Month in the U.S. I figured this was a great topic. Women’s suffrage in the United States was quite a feat. Here’s to women everywhere!
I hope you enjoy this quick video. Here’s a link if you’d like to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States
Have a great Tuesday!
Until next time…
Dave
02 Tuesday Mar 2021
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COD, DOOM, fortnight, leadership, Skills, stories, teamwork, Ted Talk, Video Games
I am a huge video game fan. I play Call of Duty, but also play many other first-person shooters, role-playing, and adventure games. This TED talk discusses the new E-Sports, and what skills are needed to truly succeed at video games. Enjoy!
Have a great Tuesday, folks!
Until next time…
Dave
23 Tuesday Feb 2021
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Civil Rights, Hero, History, Ida B. Wells, Journalist, Lynching, Pioneer
Photo credit: File: National Museum of African American History and culture (97858).jpg, created on February 29, 2020.
I hope you enjoy this video about Ida B. Wells. She was a journalist in the 1850s that exposed lynching both in the United States and Europe for what it was–murder. In many cases, she discovered that blacks were targeted whenever their businesses or ideas competed with white businesses and ideas.
If you enjoyed this video and would like to learn more, here’s a link to her on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
Have a great Tuesday, folks!
Until next time…
Dave
16 Tuesday Feb 2021
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Accomplishment, Black History Month, Civil Rights Movement, Icon, NAACP, Rosa Parks, Service, Torch Bearer
Photo Credit: Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (ca. 1955) Mrs. Rosa Parks altered the negro progress in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955, by the bus boycott she began. National Archives record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93). Source: Ebony Magazine
When we hear the name Rosa Parks, we all remember the incident where she refused to move out of a “white only” section of a bus and was arrested, turning the fledgling civil rights movement into a national phenomenon. Watch this short video to see what else she did in her life. I think you’ll be surprised.
If you’d like to learn more, here’s a link to read about her and her life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
When you look at the large list of her accomplishments, think about the Jim Crow laws and all the other roadblocks that were put in her, and other African American’s lives during one of the darkest periods of American history.
Have a great Tuesday, folks!
Until next time…
Dave
09 Tuesday Feb 2021
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biology, Bog Corpses, bogs, Chemistry, History, Interesting, Learning, Science, TED, Ted Talk, TedEd
Here is a quick video about why we are finding corpses in various places that are preserved for thousands of years. Why does this occur? Watch this video to find out. If you enjoyed this, here’s an article that will provide you some more information about this phenomena: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/europe-bog-bodies-reveal-secrets-180962770/ It is fascinating!
Until next time…
Dave
