A fun and practical selection of articles this week to overcome all your lockdown blues. Also, check out my personal blog on Einstein and his understanding of the meaning of life!…
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A fun and practical selection of articles this week to overcome all your lockdown blues. Also, check out my personal blog on Einstein and his understanding of the meaning of life!
Enjoy!
Bilal
Are Your Days All a Blur? Here’s How to Change That (Outside, 6 min read) Routine. Routine. Routine. Have one!
5 Tips to Reduce Screen Time While You’re WFH (HBR, 6 min read) Some suggestions include; voice call rather than use Zoom, limit your virtual meeting time, take tech-free breaks ( i.e. look outside from the windows and avoid lunch in front of the screen), move as much as possible (i.e. stretch your legs or refill your water often) and try choosing physical over digital (i.e. write your initial draft on a paper).
How to Dust Everything in Your Home(LifeHacker, 3 min read) Being stuck in the house, you notice dust even more. Key tip “Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, after all—and in this case, it just gets relocated to another surface.”
The Key to Weight Loss Through Exercise Could Be Picking The Right Time of Day (Science alert, 4 min read) Study finds a strong positive relationship between time spent engaging in a vigorous workout at the same time of the day and the total time spent exercising.
A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers, study shows (EurekAlert, 5 min read) Researchers found that in mice, this delayed tumour progression and caused disease regression (cancer cell death). To boost your immune system – break your fast by grabbing a glass of fresh orange juice!
Excess coffee consumption a culprit for poor health (EurekAlert, 3 min read) “Habitual coffee consumption of too much coffee can increase the risk of osteoarthritis, arthropathy (joint disease) and obesity”. Thankfully, I don’t drink coffee (tea is my hot beverage of choice).
New Brain Implant Lets Blind People ‘See’ Letters Without Using Their Eyes (ScienceAlert, 3 min read) “The device works by skipping the eye and relaying visual information from a camera straight to electrodes implanted in the brain. Its a step toward a “visual prosthetic” that would allow the blind to regain vision fully.”
GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICE ARE GETTING CLOSER TO HUMANS (INVERSE, 4 min read) “Will allow scientists to create more effective mouse models to study diseases that gravely affect humans, such as malaria or COVID-19 and potentially will allow then grow human organs in the future”.
Underwater Drones Discover Battleship That Survived Atomic Blasts and Both World Wars (Gizmodo, 3 min read) I’m impressed by the drone tech.
How to Throw Bruce Lee’s 1-Inch Punch (The Art of Manliness, 2 min read) Rekindle your childhood fantasy. The trick is to not think of the punch as a single arm movement. It is about synchronising your whole body by utilising momentum from shoulder, legs and hips.
When Restrictions Lift, What Will People Do First? Hug Family, See Friends and Dine Out (MorningConsult, 3 min read) Results from recent US poll – top answer visit family or friends. Interestingly, only 2% wanted to go out to cinemas.
As football returns in empty stadiums, four graphs show how home advantage disappears (The Conversation, 6 min read) Partly because home fans put pressure on the referee that is advantageous for the home team. I’m a Liverpool fan, and their impressive home record, this is not good news.
This is the Smartest Zoom Hack We’ve Seen Yet (Lifehacker, 3 min read) Tells you how to fake a slow internet connection to get out of Zoom calls.
Unreal Engine 5 Demo Shows the Stunning Future of Video Game Graphics (Vice, 4 min read) Wow. Absolutely amazing graphics in the next generation of consoles. The future is here.
THE MOST ICONIC DETECTIVE SIDEKICKS, RANKED (CrimeReads, 22 min read) From books, movies and TV series, and features Dr John Watson (Sherlock Holmes) and Snowy (from Tintin comics).
The Office (Slack) I’ve recently binged The Office, so this is very funny. Whole episodes recreated as Slack conversations.
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