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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it."
- Samuel Johnson

JAN 2021

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DATE SITE OF THE DAY

1/1/21    50 New Year’s Resolution Ideas And How To Achieve Each Of Them
   What follows is a list of 50 common New Year's resolutions with a piece of advice and plenty of links to useful articles that deal with the issue in greater detail. If you are looking for effective ways of changing your life for the better, then you'll be sure to find tons of useful information here.

1/2/21    Radicle
   No need to change the way you work. Radicle extends Git with peer-to-peer discovery, giving distributed version control a new superpower.

1/3/21    COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project
   As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolds across the United States, one of the greatest barriers we are encountering is the absence of credible and consistent data. Tracking daily hospitalization data is a major step forward in quantifying the current impact on local hospital systems, modeling and forecasting future utilization needs, and tracking the rate of change in the disease severity.

1/4/21    Listen to Forests Around the World
   Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.

1/5/21    A Baking Community
   Welcome to a community that loves baking just as much as you do.

1/6/21    Comic Book Layout Maker
   Ever wanted to create your own comic book? This is a free comic book maker that will help you do just that.

1/7/21    Recipe Search
   This site let's you search 2 million recipes instantly.

1/8/21    Famous FBI Cases
   Listed here, grouped according to our top investigative priorities and related categories, are many of our famous and most significant cases over the past century. The monographs and write-ups below have been made available for your use.

1/9/21    75 Purchases Under $100 to Improve Your Life
   Sometimes a small purchase can make a huge impact on your life. Below are 75 affordable purchases that have the potential to improve your life in some way.

1/10/21    Rollingstone: Year in Review: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2020
   From teens to queens, first loves to worst loves, vampires to aliens and more, these series gave us characters and stories to escape into when the real world was too scary to bear.

1/11/21    Sounds for Sleep
   Just click play on a sound, turn off your screen, and get some sleep. These sounds are great for sleeping, meditation, or studying.

1/12/21    21 Things You May Not Know About the U.S. Constitution
   The Constitution of the United States is only 4,543 words—7,762 if you count the Amendments—and originally fit on just four large sheets of paper. It packs a wallop. Not only is it the oldest written national constitution in the world, it's arguably the most influential in the world, too.

1/13/21    Thru Hikes
   A curated list of long distance hikes around the world.

1/14/21    Sleep Cycle Calculator
   Use Sleeptyme to calculate the ideal time to go to sleep to get the ideal amount of sleep on REM cycles.

1/15/21    Product From
   There is a common belief that almost everything is made in China. We will help you to find out that the truth is quite different. Manufacturing industry has never died in many countries, and elsewhere reborn. Just select a country from the list and check.

1/16/21    ESCAPISTA
   Where do you want to escape to? Choose a channel and let your mind wander with the great Slow TV and ambient videos we handpicked for you. Relax with the natural images and sounds while you work, put on your TV or invite your friends to watch together.

1/17/21    20 striking findings from 2020
   As 2020 draws to a close, here are 20 striking findings from Pew Research Center’s studies this year, covering the pandemic, race-related tensions, the presidential election and other notable trends that emerged during the year.

1/18/21    CIA Maps
   Maps of 85 different regions of the world to search and explore. Most are downloadable in JPEG format and may be printed as full page maps.

1/19/21    NASA EPIC Images from DSCOVR
   Play daily natural color image sequences of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft.

1/20/21    How to watch Inauguration Day 2021: live stream Joe Biden's inauguration anywhere
   President elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will both be sworn into the country's highest offices. Here is our guide explaining how to watch Inauguration Day 2021 and get a Biden inauguration live stream, no matter where you are in the world - including all the free options around.

1/21/21    US Capitol Attack Video Map
   This is a mapping of the videos taken during the violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Want a timeline view? Check out this remarkable tool built by ProPublica

1/22/21    Ideas.TED.com: The 7 types of rest that every person needs
   We go through life thinking we’ve rested because we have gotten enough sleep — but in reality we are missing out on the other types of rest we desperately need. The result is a culture of high-achieving, high-producing, chronically tired and chronically burned-out individuals. We’re suffering from a rest deficit because we don’t understand the true power of rest.

1/23/21    Random Trivia Generator
   Random Trivia Generator seems like a contradiction because trivia can already be seen as random. For instance, why do you need to know which bird lays the largest eggs? You don’t, but it’s always fun to know the answer in case there is no Internet connection around and someone desperately needs to know.

1/24/21    SkillTube
   SkillTube is one of its kind initiative to collate and share all skill related training and other content, generated by different stake holders.

1/25/21    Web Design Museum
   Web Design Museum exhibits over 1,600 carefully selected and sorted web sites that show web design trends between the years 1991 and 2006.

1/26/21    Fodor's Travel: 15 Bizarre Museums to Add to Your Next U.S. Road Trip
   These strange, funny, and downright odd collections will break up that long stretch of driving.

1/27/21    The best video essays of 2020
   For the last few years, video essays have gained more and more prominence on YouTube. With more and more creators choosing a video essay — or video essay-inspired — format, there are video essays about almost any topic you want to learn more about.

1/28/21    Vaccine Tracker
   Vacs.live shows Covid - 19 vaccines administered worldwide.

1/30/21    Ask Umbrella
   Easy, reliable help for all your household needs. They help you take care of essential tasks so you can focus on what matters most. Happiness guaranteed every time.

1/31/21    12 Apps That Will Turn You Into a Nature Expert
   Do you wonder which species of bird it is that you keep seeing on your backyard fence? Are you curious about what butterflies are visiting your garden? Would you like to know more about the mammals that call your local park home? Thankfully there are plenty of smartphone apps that help you quickly and easily identify flora and fauna, record your findings and learn more about them. Not only that, but a few will even turn you into a citizen scientist!

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DATE	SITE OF THE DAY
1/1/21	50 New Year’s Resolution Ideas And How To Achieve Each Of Them What follows is a list of 50 common New Year's resolutions with a piece of advice and plenty of links to useful articles that deal with the issue in greater detail. If you are looking for effective ways of changing your life for the better, then you'll be sure to find tons of useful information here.
1/2/21	Radicle No need to change the way you work. Radicle extends Git with peer-to-peer discovery, giving distributed version control a new superpower.
1/3/21	COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolds across the United States, one of the greatest barriers we are encountering is the absence of credible and consistent data. Tracking daily hospitalization data is a major step forward in quantifying the current impact on local hospital systems, modeling and forecasting future utilization needs, and tracking the rate of change in the disease severity.
1/4/21	Listen to Forests Around the World Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.
1/5/21	A Baking Community Welcome to a community that loves baking just as much as you do.
1/6/21	Comic Book Layout Maker Ever wanted to create your own comic book? This is a free comic book maker that will help you do just that.
1/7/21	Recipe Search This site let's you search 2 million recipes instantly.
1/8/21	Famous FBI Cases Listed here, grouped according to our top investigative priorities and related categories, are many of our famous and most significant cases over the past century. The monographs and write-ups below have been made available for your use.
1/9/21	75 Purchases Under $100 to Improve Your Life Sometimes a small purchase can make a huge impact on your life. Below are 75 affordable purchases that have the potential to improve your life in some way.
1/10/21	Rollingstone: Year in Review: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2020 From teens to queens, first loves to worst loves, vampires to aliens and more, these series gave us characters and stories to escape into when the real world was too scary to bear.
1/11/21	Sounds for Sleep Just click play on a sound, turn off your screen, and get some sleep. These sounds are great for sleeping, meditation, or studying.
1/12/21	21 Things You May Not Know About the U.S. Constitution The Constitution of the United States is only 4,543 words—7,762 if you count the Amendments—and originally fit on just four large sheets of paper. It packs a wallop. Not only is it the oldest written national constitution in the world, it's arguably the most influential in the world, too.
1/13/21	Thru Hikes A curated list of long distance hikes around the world.
1/14/21	Sleep Cycle Calculator Use Sleeptyme to calculate the ideal time to go to sleep to get the ideal amount of sleep on REM cycles.
1/15/21	Product From There is a common belief that almost everything is made in China. We will help you to find out that the truth is quite different. Manufacturing industry has never died in many countries, and elsewhere reborn. Just select a country from the list and check.
1/16/21	ESCAPISTA Where do you want to escape to? Choose a channel and let your mind wander with the great Slow TV and ambient videos we handpicked for you. Relax with the natural images and sounds while you work, put on your TV or invite your friends to watch together.
1/17/21	20 striking findings from 2020 As 2020 draws to a close, here are 20 striking findings from Pew Research Center’s studies this year, covering the pandemic, race-related tensions, the presidential election and other notable trends that emerged during the year.
1/18/21	CIA Maps Maps of 85 different regions of the world to search and explore. Most are downloadable in JPEG format and may be printed as full page maps.
1/19/21	NASA EPIC Images from DSCOVR Play daily natural color image sequences of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft.
1/20/21	How to watch Inauguration Day 2021: live stream Joe Biden's inauguration anywhere President elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will both be sworn into the country's highest offices. Here is our guide explaining how to watch Inauguration Day 2021 and get a Biden inauguration live stream, no matter where you are in the world - including all the free options around.
1/21/21	US Capitol Attack Video Map This is a mapping of the videos taken during the violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Want a timeline view? Check out this remarkable tool built by ProPublica
1/22/21	Ideas.TED.com: The 7 types of rest that every person needs We go through life thinking we’ve rested because we have gotten enough sleep — but in reality we are missing out on the other types of rest we desperately need. The result is a culture of high-achieving, high-producing, chronically tired and chronically burned-out individuals. We’re suffering from a rest deficit because we don’t understand the true power of rest.
1/23/21	Random Trivia Generator Random Trivia Generator seems like a contradiction because trivia can already be seen as random. For instance, why do you need to know which bird lays the largest eggs? You don’t, but it’s always fun to know the answer in case there is no Internet connection around and someone desperately needs to know.
1/24/21	SkillTube SkillTube is one of its kind initiative to collate and share all skill related training and other content, generated by different stake holders.
1/25/21	Web Design Museum Web Design Museum exhibits over 1,600 carefully selected and sorted web sites that show web design trends between the years 1991 and 2006.
1/26/21	Fodor's Travel: 15 Bizarre Museums to Add to Your Next U.S. Road Trip These strange, funny, and downright odd collections will break up that long stretch of driving.
1/27/21	The best video essays of 2020 For the last few years, video essays have gained more and more prominence on YouTube. With more and more creators choosing a video essay — or video essay-inspired — format, there are video essays about almost any topic you want to learn more about.
1/28/21	Vaccine Tracker Vacs.live shows Covid - 19 vaccines administered worldwide.
1/30/21	Ask Umbrella Easy, reliable help for all your household needs. They help you take care of essential tasks so you can focus on what matters most. Happiness guaranteed every time.
1/31/21	12 Apps That Will Turn You Into a Nature Expert Do you wonder which species of bird it is that you keep seeing on your backyard fence? Are you curious about what butterflies are visiting your garden? Would you like to know more about the mammals that call your local park home? Thankfully there are plenty of smartphone apps that help you quickly and easily identify flora and fauna, record your findings and learn more about them. Not only that, but a few will even turn you into a citizen scientist!

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