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MuscleWiki

MuscleWiki is a handy tool that allows you to select a muscle and view the streches and various exercise that can target that muscle group.

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On December 31, 2020 Adobe Flash reached its official End Of Life (EOL) and on January 12, 2021 Adobe disabled Flash from running. Despite months of warnings and notices, some users did not migrate away from Flash in time and have been forced into some questionable decision making in order to keep critical services running.

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GPS Vulnerabilities

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Kate Murphy in The New York Times wrote a fascinating article about the vulnerabilities of GPS and how GPS signals can be spoofed and interfered with by anyone from nation states to delivery drivers wanting to take longer breaks who unintentially interfere with airport tracking systems!

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Lockdown Soundmap

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Pete Stollery has created a project on Google Earth called COVID-19 Sound Map that allows people to upload soudns of their environments during lockdown to Google Earth. You can explore what the lockdown sounds like aroudn the world here.

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Surfing Sealions

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Look at this amazing video of surfing sealions at Santa Barbara island off Southern California captured by pacificoffshore on Instagram.

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BBC Winterwatch

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BBC Winterwatch is back this week & next on BBC Two at 8pm every night from Tues to Fri. aside from being a fascinating and enjoyable hour long TV show about nature and animals during Winter, they also have a set of live wildlife cameras viewable online from 10am to 10pm each day. Make sure to check out the 15-20 thousand starlings roosting at night under Aberystwyth pier!

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CSS Grid Layout Generator

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Layitout.com is a handy CSS grid layout tool that generates all the CSS and HTML code based on the grid that you can build visually using the tool.

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Computer Science Course YouTube Videos

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Laconicml.com have put together a list of free YouTube videos and playlists that cover the topics of a full computer science degree course.

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Indoor Infection Risk Calculator

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Airborne.cam is a calculator that displays the individual risk of COVID-19 infection indoors based on a number of input factors, such as size of the room, the type of ventilation, and the period of time spent in the room.

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GameBoy WorkBoy

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YouTuber DidYouKnowGaming tracked down a fascinating unreleased GameBoy accessory from 1992 that turned the GameBoy into a desktop computer! WorkBoy used a connected keyboard and game cartridge to bring PDA functionality to the GameBoy with apps like calculator, alarm, phone book and appointment book, in 1992!

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