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SITE OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it."

- Samuel Johnson

OCT 2020


Previous Archives

DATE SITE OF THE DAY
10/1/20    Newspaper Navigator
   Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos using Newspaper Navigator!
10/2/20    Kitchn
   The 30 Most Brilliant Cleaning Hacks of All Time
10/3/20    7 Cups
   7 Cups connects you to caring listeners for free emotional support
10/4/20    Safe Manuals
   Need a user manual? They can help you find it and save time.
10/5/20    Coursera
   Free online courses you can finish in a day
10/6/20    Fall Foliage Prediction Map
   The 2020 Fall Foliage Map is the ultimate visual planning guide to the annual progressive changing of the leaves. While no tool can be 100% accurate, this tool is meant to help travelers better time their trips to have the best opportunity of catching peak color each year.
10/7/20    Wanderu
   At Wanderu, we want to make sure you are equipped with all the information you need to plan a safe trip. That's why we are keeping track of all travel requirements from state governments and the latest updates from our official carrier partners in relation to COVID-19.
10/8/20    Advancing Digital Transformaiton in Museums
   The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections
10/9/20    Paper Dinosaurs
   Paper Dinosaurs is an exhibition of original printed materials related to the history of dinosaur discovery.
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10/12/20    Skin Sort
   SkinSort helps you understand exactly what the ingredients in your skincare products do.
10/13/20    Wisk
   Quickly get the editable text from scanned recipes using your phone's camera. Scan photos of your grandmother's recipes and add these family treasures to your collection! Digitize recipes from printed books, photos, recipe cards, pdf recipe files, and more.
10/14/20    Math Vault
   Want to get a glimpse of where you are at mathematically? Take their interactive, 20-question higher math proficiency test to find out.
10/15/20    Presidential Plinko
   What will the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential Election be? Forecasters build models on top of polling data and historical voting patterns to produce probabilistic predictions: predictions with uncertainty. But really internalizing that uncertainty is hard. Presidential Plinko takes that uncertainty and translates it into Plinko boards with similar uncertainty, so that you can experience just how uncertain predictors' forecasts are.
10/16/20    FiveThirtyEight
   Who's ahead in the national polls? An updating average of 2020 presidential general election polls, accounting for each poll's quality, sample size and recency
10/17/20    Seterra
   You can use Seterra from any web browser to explore the world and learn about its countries, capitals, cities, rivers, lakes and more!
10/18/20    Global Earthquake Monitor
   "Earthquake monitor: interactive map of latest earthquakes worldwide."
10/19/20   
  
10/20/20    HubbleSite
   "HubbleSite is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach. At the Space Telescope Science Institute, we're working hard to study and explain the once-unimaginable celestial phenomena now made visible using Hubble's cutting-edge technology. In the course of this exploration we will continue to share with you the grace and beauty of the universe because the discoveries belong to all of us."
10/21/20    Roadtrippers
   "The Roadtrippers road trip planner helps you discover, book, and create travel itineraries of the best places and experiences along the way."
10/22/20    Instructables - DIY How To Make Instructions
   "Instructables is a place that lets you explore, document, and share your DIY creations."
10/23/20    Crowd Party
   CrowdParty offers fun and easy virtual games to play over Zoom or Hangouts!
10/24/20    Wikimap
   A map of every geotagged article for the top 15 language-specific Wikipedias.
10/25/20    Do you live in a '15-minute' city?
   Check your access to essential living needs with one click.
10/26/20    WIRED: How to Repurpose old Gadgets
   Step away from the trash bin! There are plenty of ways to give old phones, laptops, and cameras a new life.
10/27/20    Merrium-Webster: Time Traveler
   When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Enter a date to see the words first recorded on that year. Learn more about First Known Use dates with a simple click.
10/28/20    Super Cluster
   Supercluster's mission is to tell the human side of our greatest outer space stories. With films, podcasts, artwork, events, and much more. Learn about each astronaut and how much time they have spent in space.
10/29/20    Howdy, Mr. President!
   "The home page for the Howdy Mr. President site. A digital collection of photographs from the University of Texas at Arlington Special Collections. The exhibit showcases over 80 intriguing photographs taken by Fort Worth Star-Telegram news photographers."
10/30/20    The New Yorker: Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking
   The idea of what a documentary is has shifted according to what has-and hasn't-been possible during the past hundred years. But the artistic preoccupations of their creators have not changed radically in that time.
10/31/20    US Census Bureau:Halloween: Oct. 31, 2019
   "Halloween, which dates back to Celtic rituals thousands of years ago, has long been associated with images of witches, ghosts and vampires. Over the years, Halloween customs have changed dramatically. Today, Halloween is celebrated many different ways, including wearing costumes, children trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins, and going to haunted houses and parties."


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