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Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk Tuesday – Ida B. Wells. Another American Hero.

23 Tuesday Feb 2021

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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

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk/Thinking Tuesday – Rosa Parks

16 Tuesday Feb 2021

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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!

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Dave

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk Tuesday –

09 Tuesday Feb 2021

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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

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk/Thinking Tuesday – Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

02 Tuesday Feb 2021

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Here’s another random point of interest for me–quantum mechanics. Watch this short, entertaining video about how science discovered about light.

I hope you enjoyed this. For those of you who are interested in digging in further, here’s a Wikipedia link to Quantum Mechanics for a quick overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics

Have a great Tuesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk Tuesday – Vaccines, New Strains, and Two Masks, Oh My!

26 Tuesday Jan 2021

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2021 is off to a great start (wink, wink). The vaccines are out, new mutations of the virus are appearing, and in the U.S. at least, and they are now recommending wearing two masks, not one. Boy, can it get any more weird? Anyway, here’s a short video discussing the various ways to end a pandemic. I hope you find it as informative as I did. Have a great Tuesday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk Tuesday – The Executive Branch

19 Tuesday Jan 2021

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Considering tomorrow’s inauguration, I thought it would be fun to share an educational video, courtesy TEDEd, about how the framers came up with the idea of an Executive Branch of government. They did this in 1787, and the result rested in Article II of the United States Constitution. Watch this short video below. I find these to be very enlightening.

For those of you interested in more, check out this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States

I enjoy these little “intellectual adventures” each day. I have an idea or something prompts me, and I dig in for a bit. It’s fun. I hope you enjoyed today’s posting. Post your comments below.

Happy Tuesday!!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk Tuesday – Yoga

12 Tuesday Jan 2021

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Yoga has many benefits, including improved flexibility, relief from stress, and improved cardiovascular performance. If you’ve never tried this, you may want to give it a shot. Yoga, in its simplest form, is a great way to get some much-needed exercise, particularly now with the many intermittent lockdowns that will continue into the future, particularly now that we have begun to see mutations of the COVID virus appear in the States and elsewhere. You can find a truckload of Yoga tutorials on YouTube and other video streaming sites (Rumble, Vimeo, etc.). Give it a shot. It’s a great way to add some variety to your home workouts.

Namaste!

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Dave

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk Tuesday – The History of Chocolate

08 Tuesday Dec 2020

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Since we are in the holiday season, many of us will be tossing aside our dietary concerns for the cakes, pies, candy, and all the rest that this time of year offers. In light of that, enjoy this Ted Talk on the History of Chocolate. It is short, but very informative!

Until next time…

Dave