Month: July 2023
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Cooking for Engineers, Geeks, and the Impatient
The vast majority of new and original cooking content feels like it comes from YouTube, with few original developments happening on independent sites (although I’ll happily be corrected here, as Wadsworth Constant certainly applies to the vast majority of cooking videos, too). Meanwhile, the long-running joke of a rambling, sombre life story complementing a simple…
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Side-by-Side Car Comparisons
Car Sized is a simple web app that lets you compare car dimensions and designs from a street perspective. Front, back and side by side. As a frequent car renter, this site’s been incredibly useful for my last few holidays. It’s also just fun to do some comparisons, like this Ford F-150 against my last…
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Mister Rogers’ Nine Rules for Talking to Children
Having not grown up in the US, I only became aware of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood as an adult. However, this is entirely due to Fred Rogers himself: his kindness, his humanity, and his ability to draw children into his safe world. In the lead-up to the publishing of The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work…
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Big History: A History Course Covering 13.8 Billion Years
Big History is an academic course covering “our complete 13.8 billion years of shared history”. From the Big Bang to modern-day society, the course is structured around eight “threshold” moments of increasing complexity, synthesising aspects of cosmology, physics, chemistry, geology, and anthropology to weave a unified story of history so far. The eight thresholds: I…
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The Scientific 7-Minute Bodyweight Workout
Back in 2013, Scientists from the Human Performance Institute published an article in the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal titled, High-intensity circuit training using body weight. To address the limitations of traditional exercise protocols, … one of the exercise strategies we use is high-intensity circuit training (HICT) using body weight as…
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Stretch 15: Daily Dose of Stretching Exercises
Stretch 15 is a straight-forward web app designed to get you stretching more. You just indicate whether you’re in the office or at home, and it gives you a timer and indicates which stretches to do, when. The site tracks your total stretch time and your daily stretch ‘streak’, if you’re into that type of…
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Italian food and the ‘Invented Designation of Origin’
Alberto Grandi is an Italian academic and food expert. He’s also, unsurprisingly, an oft maligned and despised figure across Italy. This is because Grandi exposes the myths surrounding Italy’s famous culinary traditions. From panettone’s industrial invention to carbonara’s American roots, and why if you want “real” Parmesan you should head to Wisconsin. In an interview…