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OCT 2022
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10/1/22
Find a Remote Walking Companion
The motivation to stick to a daily walking habit is hard to find and easy to lose. Stay motivated by knowing that somewhere in the world, someone is walking with you.
10/2/22
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. Find dynamic media like video lectures, podcasts, interactive assessments, and new forms like augmented and virtual reality. Discover emerging knowledge about the world’s biggest challenges, such as improving equity, tackling climate change, and building the future of computing and artificial intelligence.
10/3/22
Rainy Mood
This site simply plays rain sounds to help you sleep or perhaps to study with peaceful rain background sounds.
10/4/22
The 33 coolest streets in the world
Street life: it’s the only life we know. Seriously, streets are where most of us spend our lives – hanging out, eating, drinking, working, sleeping and occasionally pulling some embarrassing dance moves. If parks are the lungs of the city, streets are its veins, carrying urbanites around each day like stressed-but-happy little blood cells. Street life is what makes the places we live feel alive. Which makes streets kind of a big deal. Behold the results: our 2022 ranking of the coolest streets on the planet right now.
10/5/22
Behind The Curtain
We are combining the data we've been collecting on corporate lobbying, congressional stock trading, and proposed legislation in order to allow you to track what is going on behind the scenes in Washington, D.C. You can use this tool to see which bills are being considered by Congress, which publicly traded companies are lobbying on those bills, and which congressmen have traded stock in those companies.
10/6/22
Explore.org
The home of the worlds largest live nature network. We want you to fall in love with the world again. Features the selfless nature of individuals who are dedicated to making this planet a batter place to live in.
10/7/22
Consensus
Scientific research is the most valuable, insight-filled source of data to ever exist. Yet, the current consumers of this information are the same people who are creating it. We are striving to build the tools that democratize scientific evidence and make the world a better place, by making it a more informed place.
10/8/22
Days Since Incident
Tracking of natural disasters on Earth. See how many days have passed since the last earthquake, volcanic eruption, hurricane & more.
10/9/22
The Bird Migration Explorer
The Bird Migration Explorer is your guide to the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way.
10/10/22
OnRead
Discover this library of free eBooks. This site offers online access to 1.5 million books you can read on line from half a million different authors.
10/11/22
All About Lighthouses
This site includes photographs, directions, histories, and GPS coordinates garnered while personally visiting every lighthouse in the United States and nearly every lighthouse in Canada.
10/12/22
Fat Bear Week 2022
Choose the fattest bear of the year! Some of the largest brown bears on Earth make their home at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Brown bears get fat to survive and Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament celebrating their success in preparation for winter hibernation.
10/13/22
Fire Prevention Week
Join NFPA® in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fire Prevention Week™ (FPW). This year’s FPW campaign, “Fire won’t wait. Plan your escape™”, works to educate everyone about simple but important actions they can take to keep themselves and those around them safe from home fires.
10/14/22
Explore the Natural Wonders of America
Planning your next National Park trip just got easier.
10/15/22
Wolfram MathWorld
A free resource from Wolfram Research built with Mathematica/Wolfram Language technology. MathWorld is the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of Wolfram Research's commitment to education and educational outreach.
10/16/22
Live Artist
This neural style transfer tool applies the style of Picasso, Van Gogh, or Da Vinci to your pictures in seconds. It uses a pre-trained Arbitrary Image Stylization AI model to transform the artistic style of an image you upload.
10/17/22
Rainy Mood
This site simply plays rain sounds to help you sleep or perhaps to study with peaceful rain background sounds.
10/18/22
Radio Garden
Radio Garden invites you to tune into thousands of live radio stations across the globe. Based in Amsterdam, the search and global map features allows you to connect with distant cultures, as well as re-connect with people from ‘home’, even if you are thousands of miles away.
10/19/22
Free Legal Documents
Docracy is a home for contracts and other legal documents, socially curated by the communities that use them. Our mission is to make these documents freely available for everyone, while in the process making them easier to customize and use.
10/20/22
Radio Garden
Radio Garden invites you to tune into thousands of live radio stations across the globe. Based in Amsterdam, the search and global map features allows you to connect with distant cultures, as well as re-connect with people from ‘home’, even if you are thousands of miles away.
10/21/22
Free Ebook Library
Download and read free e-books at OnRead.com - the best online ebook storage. Each book is available in several versions.
10/22/22
Five Thirty Eight: The Atlas Of Redistricting
There's a lot of talk about gerrymandering, but what should districts look like? Five Thirty Eight went to the drawing board and drew a set of alternative congressional maps for the entire country. Each map has a different goal: One is designed to encourage competitive elections, for example, and another to maximize the number of majority-minority districts. See how changes to district boundaries could radically alter the partisan and racial makeup of the U.S. House - without a single voter moving or switching parties.
10/23/22
NetLingo
"This site contains thousands of definitions about computers, the Internet, and the online world of business, technology, and communication. As a popular online dictionary, it includes one of the largest collections of text messaging, acronyms, and smileys."
10/24/22
Supercook
This site helps you find a recipe based on what food you have on hand. Here's how it works: You tell it which ingredients you have in stock in your home, and it'll give you a big list of recipes you can make using just those ingredients.
10/25/22
Social Security Admin: Calculators
"This Social Security planner page lists calculators you can use to figure your retirement and disability benefits and benefits for your survivors."
10/26/22
Roadtrippers
"The Roadtrippers road trip planner helps you discover, book, and create travel itineraries of the best places and experiences along the way."
10/27/22
EarthSky: Tonight's Sky
"Updates on your cosmos and world. Beautiful nature images from EarthSky's global community. Skywatching, moon and stargazing, tonight's sky."
10/28/22
A History of the World
The BBC's A History of the World features 100 historical objects to tell a historical story from 2 billion years ago to the 2000s. From the first human tool discovered 700,000 years ago to devices as modern as the iPhone, this collection is a wonder to browse.
10/29/22
99U.com: Insights on Making Ideas Happen
"The 99U provides actionable insights on productivity, organization, and leadership to help creative people push ideas forward."
10/30/22
Nobelprize.org
"Nobelprize.org, Official web site of the Nobel Prize.The process of the Nobel Committees to independently and expertly select the 2021 Nobel Laureates have been announced. These are researchers, authors and peace advocates who, according to the vision of Alfred Nobel, have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind."
10/31/22
Halloween Origins, Meaning and Traditions
Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31, and Halloween 2022 will occur on Monday, October 31. The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.
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