We’ve got an array of tips and tricks to stay sane and healthy during a lock-down. Understand how weather affects your mood, build strength with indoor exercises and listen to radio stations from anywhere in the world.
On top of that, we highlight new tech developments like creating electricity out of thin-air, synthetic fuel cars and using photons to speed up computers.
Finally, we help on the entertainment front with streaming TV picks, NASA online lessons and foreign films to watch.
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We’ve got an array of tips and tricks to stay sane and healthy during a lock-down. Understand how weather affects your mood, build strength with indoor exercises and listen to radio stations from anywhere in the world.
On top of that, we highlight new tech developments like creating electricity out of thin-air, synthetic fuel cars and using photons to speed up computers.
Finally, we help on the entertainment front with streaming TV picks, NASA online lessons and foreign films to watch.
Enjoy!
Bilal
What Environmentalism Can Teach Us About Staying Home (Outside, 4 min read) Early environmental writers believed lessons can be learned in solitude. For example, one can determine how their mood is affected by weather patterns. Or how interconnected they are to nature.
What Good Leadership Looks Like During This Pandemic (HBR, 10 min read) Lessons from leaders (ranging from sports to politics) who handled the pandemic well. These include: acting with urgency, communicating with transparency, not blaming others for their own mistakes, and engaging the followers with constant updates (good or bad).
Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World (HBR, 6 min read) Five strategic questions you need to answer to address the Mintzberg framework of 5P: Position, Plan, Perspective, Projects, and Preparedness. What position can you attain during and after the pandemic? What is your plan for bouncing back? How will your culture and identity change? What new projects do you need to launch, run, and coordinate?
3 Strength-Building Exercises for Runners (Outside, 1 min watch) Single leg calf raises (15 reps), elevated split squat (15 reps per leg) and side planks (30 seconds each side). These will strengthen your calves, quads, and lateral hips to reduce the risk of injury from running.
How exercise supports your mental fitness: Current recommendations (Eureka Alert. 2 min read) A study done on 80 individuals finds endurance training, strength training, or a mix of both does improve cognitive performance. However, sports that require intricate movement patterns and interaction with fellow players are significantly more effective. All age groups benefit!
How to Do a HIIT Workout at Home (GQ, 6 min read) If you have no equipment, you can do burpees, jump squat and planks for 20 seconds, rest for 10 seconds, then repeat until you hit four mins. If you have dumbbells, you can do deadlifts, burpee over a dumbbell, and dumbbell press for five rounds of a three-minute as many reps as possible within 15-12-9 rep scheme.
McLaren Will Explore Synthetic Fuel as an Alternative to Electric Cars (Robb Report, 3 min read) Synthetic fuel can be produced using solar energy, easily transported, and effortlessly implemented within cars. In terms of emissions, it reduces but does not eliminate it (neither does lithium batteries of electric vehicles). However, logistic practicalities outweigh this.
In Good News, Scientists Built a Device That Generates Electricity’ Out of Thin Air’ (Science Alert, 4 min read) An unusual microbe is helping scientists build bacterial nanowires, which in the future could help air- generate clean electricity 24/7.
Researchers Made Silicon Glow, and It Could Make Computers a Lot Faster (GIZMODOO, 4 min read) We potentially can use photons (or microscopic particles that emit light) to transmit data. For longer distances, like between two computer hardware components, this technology is high-speed and more effective than our current use of electrons to transmit data.
NASA’s Offering Online Astronaut Training While You’re Stuck in Lockdown (Science Alert, 2 min read) Activities and science tutorials for children to become a home astronaut. Includes how to build a hovercraft, launch rockets, and lesson on why astronauts float in space.
Radio Garden Option to listen to any local radio station anywhere in the world just by spinning an interactive globe.
Statistical “Which Character” Personality Quiz This interactive test matches your answers to the crowd-sourced profiles of fictional characters – to determine the kind of personality you possess. I got Iron Man!
The Next Wave Of e-Sports Is Old-School (OZY, 5 min read) Classic games are not going anywhere — titles like Tetris, Street Fighter (1987). Mortal Kombat (1992) and Tekken (1994) all have high streaming viewership demand (as much as modern games, if not more).
The Best Thrillers On Netflix Right Now, Ranked (UPROXX. 11 min read) Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, 15 best thrillers features classics like The Interview (1998) and modern twist and turns of The Platform (2019)
The Best Foreign Films On Netflix Right Now, Ranked (UPROXX, 7 min read) Should we miss travel when we can let our mind slip by indulging in some of the best world cinema has to offer? I Lost MY Body, Burning, Snowpiercer, Kung Fu Hustle, Roma all in there.
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