There’s a lot of compelling research being done lately about how the way we grew up affects our behavior as adults. Studies have linked childhood trauma, for example, to increased levels of alcoholism and depression in adults.
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How To Protect Your Eyes If You Stare At Screens All Day
If you work in front of a computer all day, Here are four easy-to-implement tips that will make a huge difference:
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19 Incredibly Useful Websites You’ll Wish You Knew Earlier
here are 19 awesome places to learn the critical skills that will change your life:
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20 Life-Changing Books
If you want to change your body, change what you eat and how you exercise. If you want to change your outlook on life, change what you read and put it into practice.
Listed below are twenty life-changing books. Unless you are determined to be miserable (which, strangely enough, some people are), these books will change your life for the better. Click on the titles to order a copy for yourself, then mark them up and put them into practice.
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30 Behaviors That Will Make You Unstoppable
A lot of people are good at what they do. Some are even elite. A select few are completely unstoppable. Those who are unstoppable are in their own world. They don’t compete with anyone but themselves. You never know what they will do — only that you will be forced to respond. Even though they don’t compete with you, they make you compete with them.
Are you unstoppable? By the end of this post you will be. Let’s get started:
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15 Things People With Anxiety Shouldn’t Feel Ashamed To Do Behind Closed Doors
If you have a few habits caused by anxiety — things you might only do while home alone, such as talking to yourself, pacing around, or avoiding looking at your phone — know that you’re not the only one who has these quirks. And you’re definitely not “weird,” either.
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5 Things I Wish I Knew In My Twenties
It’s up to you to live the life you want to lead.
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Exactingly milled by a skilled machinist in Rhode Island, each one pound Jack Puzzle is composed of six interlocking pieces of solid cartridge brass that, when assembled, measure 3" x 3" x 3".
Part confounding sculpture, desk object, distraction and paperweight, each Jack Puzzle is as interesting to look at as it is fun to play with.
And yes, assembly instructions are included just in case.
Jordan Griska Creates The Illusion of a “Wrecked” Mercedes-Benz from 12,000 Pieces of Reflective Steel
Talented sculptor based in New York, Jordan Griska has created his latest creation titled “Wreck”, showing us the beauty hidden in a derelict Mercedes-Benz.
His this commissioned piece is comprised of twelve thousand individual pieces of stainless steel that catches light and reflects it beautifully. Wreck has been molded after a Mercedes-Benz S550, a reflective sculpture, that depicts the car crash the owner has endured. While car crashes are generally seen as traumatising, tragic and brutal, we wonder what might have gone through the owner of the car to commemorate the whole experience.
Griska is known for his artistic endeavours of recreating objects, using elements that represent aspects of American culture and history. More than a year and a half of careful research went into its inception, Griska working continually to transform it from a digital model to a finished artwork. The reflective sculpture is currently in a private collection outside of Philadelphia, but was on public view for a short period at Pier 9 with Philadelphia Contemporary. View his gallery here.
Calling your to-do list by another name isn’t going to change the way you feel about it. Whether it’s your “Honey Do List” for stuff around the house or a “Productivity Schedule” for the office, in your mind everything gets filed under the same list: Shit I Gotta F*cking Get Done.
Just be honest and call it what it is. Uncensored and unapologetic, this handy little notebook helps you keep track of the shit you gotta f*cking get done.
Use this All-in-One Messenger for WhatsApp, Slack and Skype and chat like a boss
You love speaking with your family in Skype, but your significant other prefers to chat over WhatsApp. Your friends are pretty active on Messenger, but you have to go through Slack to reach your colleagues for work emergencies.
If this sounds familiar, you’re probably using way too many chat clients – and you can’t be all that happy about the pile of windows you’re keeping open. With All-in-One Messenger, you won’t have to worry about this anymore.
Available on Chrome, it’s a free Web-based chat client that lets you use all of your favorite messaging services at the same time – and at the same place.
This way, you can easily interact with your contacts and keep track of your messages without having to constantly switch between different apps.
While it’s witty and convenient, the concept of All-in-One Messenger is not new and apps like Franz already offer similar functionality.
Besides the chat clients already mentioned, the nifty messaging platform also works with a bunch of other apps like WeChat, Steam Chat, Telegram and more. Check out the full list of supported clients in the screenshot below.
You can get All-in-One Messenger from the Chrome Web Store here.
A Piece of The Caribbean Sea in The form of a Table
Designer Alexandre Chapelin selects his color palette carefully to resonate those of the Caribbean Sea, capturing the essence of the crystal blue waters beautifully through his hand crafted resin and marble tables.
The realism and accuracy of the Saint-Martin based artist’s works speak of his magnificent skills and his ability to produce something aesthetically beautiful and functionally useful, the transparency of the sea’s water and layers of the earth taking us deep within the heart of the unfathomable sea. Although the world has seen Chapelin’s similar other furniture creations before, this particular piece is the latest addition called Hamilton 23, the artist’s own way of paying homage to the Caribbean. The dazzling blue color of the sea shines like a bright jewel juxtapozed against the millions of sand like particles he has used in addition to natural stones in the breathtaking seascape, making it even more realistic. Just like his other works, Chapelin has used resin, marble and wood for Hamilton 23, his latest artistic endeavors of La Table.The best part of the series is the artist’s ability to transform one of the oldest forms of furniture into a conceptual form of art, mimicking the water and its natural flow.
Some decisions are hard. Should you call in sick today? Is that betting line worth some action? How about another helping of fries? Man alone cannot make such calls. That’s why we’ve created The Decision Coin.
Designed to be an addition to your everyday carry collection, The Decision Coin allows you to swiftly and boldly make even the hardest of choices. Crafted from solid brass,
The Decision Coin will assist when you’re truly torn. Also, yes, you should get the fries.
A Storage-Packed Desk So You Can Keep Your Workspace Tidy
Nothing slows your work roll like a cluttered desk and with most of them seeming to have a real lack of storage, what do you do? The only real solution is to nail down your organization game and with a desk like this, it’s really easy to accomplish. Designed by Gonçalo Campos for Wewood, Metis is a solid wood desk that may be compact, but it’s outfitted with all kinds of compartments and sections you can use to stow your gear.
Awesome 3D-Printed Miniature Solar Systems That Fit On Your Desk Table
London-based boutique Little Planet Factory makes adorable miniature 3d-printed plants and moons, which you can use as decor for your desk or even to play with. They have collections of moons, solitary planets to even entire solar systems.
If you're ready to make your kitchen explode with awesome, you need a Death Star Waffle Maker. Plug it in, warm it up, and pour the batter onto the non-stick cooking plates. In just minutes, you'll have golden, delicious waffles, good enough to destroy a planet for. Well, a small one, at least. Find it on Think Geek.
Rejoice fellow uni students looking for some studyspo, we urge you to take a few free lessons, as well as academic lessons provided from actual universities on several topics. Have a look at the 50 top learning sites you can find online to help you save some time.
Art and Music
Dave Conservatoire — Dave Conservatoire is an entirely free online music school offering a self-proclaimed “world-class music education for everyone,” and providing video lessons and practice tests.
Drawspace — If you want to learn to draw or improve your technique, Drawspace has free and paid self-study as well as interactive, instructor-led lessons.
Justin Guitar — The Justin Guitar site boasts over 800 free guitar lessons which cover transcribing, scales, arpeggios, ear training, chords, recording tech and guitar gear, and also offers a variety of premium paid mobile apps and content (books/ ebooks, DVDs, downloads).
Math, Data Science and Engineering
Codecademy — Codecademy offers data science and software programming (mostly Web-related) courses for various ages groups, with an in-browser coding console for some offerings.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere — SEE/ Stanford Engineering Everywhere houses engineering (software and otherwise) classes that are free to students and educators, with materials that include course syllabi, lecture videos, homework, exams and more.
Big Data University — Big Data University covers Big Data analysis and data science via free and paid courses developed by teachers and professionals.
Better Explained — BetterExplained offers a big-picture-first approach to learning mathematics — often with visual explanations — whether for high school algebra or college-level calculus, statistics and other related topics.
Design, Web Design/ Development
HOW Design University — How Design University (How U) offers free and paid online lessons on graphic and interactive design, and has opportunities for those who would like to teach.
HTML Dog — HTML Dog is specifically focused on Web development tutorials for HTML, CSS and JavaScript coding skills.
Skillcrush — Skillcrush offers professional web design and development courses aimed at one who is interested in the field, regardless of their background — with short, easy-to-consume modules and a 3-month Career Blueprints to help students focus on their career priorities.
Hack Design — Hack Design, with the help of several dozen designers around the world, has put together a lesson plan of 50 units (each with one or more articles and/or videos) on design for Web, mobile apps and more by curating multiple valuable sources (blogs, books, games, videos, and tutorials) — all free of charge.
General – Children and Adults
Scratch – Imagine, Program, Share — Scratch from MIT is a causal creative learning site for children, which has projects that range from the solar system to paper planes to music synths and more.
Udemy — Udemy hosts mostly paid video tutorials in a wide range of general topics including personal development, design, marketing, lifestyle, photography, software, health, music, language, and more.
E-learning for kids — E-learning for Kids offers elementary school courses for children ages 5-12 that cover curriculum topic including math, science, computer, environment, health, language, life skills and others.
Ed2go — Ed2go aims their “affordable” online learning courses at adults, and partners with over 2,100 colleges and universities to offer this virtual but instructor-led training in multiple categories — with options for instructors who would like to participate.
GCF Learn Free — GCFLearnFree.org is a project of Goodwill Community Foundation and Goodwill Industries, targeting anyone look for modern skills, offering over 1,000 lessons and 125 tutorials available online at anytime, covering technology, computer software, reading, math, work and career and more.
Stack Exchange — StackExchange is one of several dozen Q+A sites covering multiple topics, including Stack Overflow, which is related to computer technology. Ask a targeted question, get answers from professional and enthusiast peers to improve what you already know about a topic.
HippoCampus — HippoCampus combines free video collections on 13 middle school through college subjects from NROC Project, STEMbite, Khan Academy, NM State Learning Games Lab and more, with free accounts for teachers.
Howcast — Howcast hosts casual video tutorials covering general topics on lifestyle, crafts, cooking, entertainment and more.
Memrise — Lessons on the Memrise (sounds like “memorize”) site include languages and other topics, and are presented on the principle that knowledge can be learned with gamification techniques, which reinforce concepts.
SchoolTube — SchoolTube is a video sharing platform for K-12 students and their educators, with registered users representing over 50,000 schools and a site offering of over half a million videos.
Instructables — Instructables is a hybrid learning site, offering free online text and video how-to instructions for mostly physical DIY (do-it-yourself) projects that cover various hands-on crafts, technology, recipes, game play accessories and more. (Costs lie in project materials only.)
creativeLIVE — CreativeLive has an interesting approach to workshops on creative and lifestyle topics (photography, art, music, design, people skills, entreprenurship, etc.), with live access typically offered free and on-demand access requiring purchase.
Do It Yourself — Do It Yourself (DIY) focuses on how-tos primarily for home improvement, with the occasional tips on lifestyle and crafts topics.
Adafruit Learning System — If you’re hooked by the Maker movement and want to learn how to make Arduino-based electronic gadgets, check out the free tutorials at Adafruit Learn site — and buy the necessary electronics kits and supplies from the main site.
Grovo — If you need to learn how to efficiently use a variety of Web applications for work, Grovo has paid (subscription, with free intros) video tutorials on best practices for hundreds of Web sites.
General College and University
edX — The edX site offers free subject matter from top universities, colleges and schools from around the world, including MIT and Harvard, and many courses are “verified,” offering a certificate of completion for a nominal minimum fee.
Cousera — Coursera is a learning site offering courses (free for audit) from over 100 partners — top universities from over 20 countries, as well as non-university partners — with verified certificates as a paid option, plus specializations, which group related courses together in a recommended sequence.
MIT Open Courseware — MIT OpenCourseWare is the project that started the OCW / Open Education Consortium [http://www.oeconsortium.org], launching in 2002 with the full content of 50 real MIT courses available online, and later including most of the MIT course curriculum — all for free — with hundreds of higher ed institutions joining in with their own OCW course materials later.
Open Yale Courses — Open Yale Courses (OYC) are free, open access, non-credit introductory courses recorded in Yale College’s classroom and available online in a number of digital formats.
Open Learning Initiative — Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is course content (many open and free) intended for both students who want to learn and teachers/ institutions requiring teaching materials.
Khan Academy — Khan Academy is one of the early online learning sites, offering free learning resources for all ages on many subjects, and free tools for teachers and parents to monitor progress and coach students.
MIT Video — MITVideo offers over 12,000 talks/ lecture videos in over 100 channels that include math, architecture and planning, arts, chemistry, biological engineering, robotics, humanities and social sciences, physics and more.
Stanford Online — Stanford Online is a collection of free courses billed as “for anyone, anywhere, anytime” and which includes a wide array of topics that include human rights, language, writing, economics, statistics, physics, engineering, software, chemistry, and more.
Harvard Extension School: Open Learning Initiative — Harvard’s OLI (Open Learning Initiative) offers a selection of free video courses (taken from the edX selection) for the general public that covers a range of typical college topics, includings, Arts, History, Math, Statistics, Computer Science, and more.
Canvas Network — Canvas Network offers mostly free online courses source from numerous colleges and universities, with instructor-led video and text content and certificate options for select programs.
Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple — Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple” is, as the name implies, a set of just three lectures (plus intro) very specifically about Quantum Physics, form three presentations given by theoretical physicist Hans Bethe.
Open UW — Open UW is the umbrella initiative of several free online learning projects from the University of Washington, offered by their UW Online division, and including Coursera, edX and other channels.
UC San Diego Podcast Lectures — Podcast USCD, from UC San Diego, is a collection of audio and/or video podcasts of multi-subject university course lectures — some freely available, other only accessible by registered students.
University of the People — University of the People offers tuition-free online courses, with relatively small fees required only for certified degree programs (exam and processing fees).
NovoEd — NovoEd claims a range of mostly free “courses from thought leaders and distinguished professors from top universities,” and makes it possible for today’s participants to be tomorrow’s mentors in future courses.
IT and Software Development
Udacity — Udacity offers courses with paid certification and nanodegrees — with emphasis on skills desired by tech companies in Silicon Valley — mostly based on a monthly subscription, with access to course materials (print, videos) available for free.
Apple Developer Site — Apple Developer Center may be very specific in topics for lessons, but it’s a free source of documentation and tutorials for software developers who want to develop apps for iOS Mobile, Mac OS X desktop, and Safari Web apps.
Google Code — As with Apple Developer Center, Google Code is topic-narrow but a good source of documentation and tutorials for Android app development.
Code.org — Code.org is the home of the “Hour of Code” campaign, which is aimed at teachers and educators as well as students of all ages (4-104) who want to teach or learn, respectively, computer programming and do not know where to start.
Mozilla Developer Network — MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) offers learning resources — including links to offsite guides — and tutorials for Web development in HTML, CSS and JavaScript — whether you’re a beginner or an expert, and even if you’re not using Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser.
Learnable — Learnable by Sitepoint offers paid subscription access to an ebook library of content for computers and tablets, and nearly 5,000 videos lessons (and associated code samples) covering software-related topics – with quizzes and certification available.
Pluralsight — Pluralsight (previously PeepCode) offers paid tech and creative training content (over 3,700 courses and 130K video clips) for individuals, businesses and institutions that covers IT admin, programming, Web development, data visualization — as well as game design, 3D animation, and video editing through a partnership with Digital-Tutors.com, and additional software coding lessons through Codeschool.com.
CodeHS — CodeSchool offers software coding lessons (by subscription) for individuals who want to learn at home, or for students learning in a high school teacher-led class.
Aquent Gymnasium — Gymnasium offers a small but thorough set of free Web-related lesson plans for coding, design and user experience, but filters access by assessing the current knowledge of an enrollee and allows those with scores of at least 70% to continue.
Contemporary Glassware Inspired by Science & Education
Boston-based design house The Uncommon Green produces functional and aesthetically pleasing products intended to use every day. Their Literature Rocks series from their Smart Barware collection is inspired by classic literature and its original copyright page.
The 11-ounce whiskey and shot glasses are an elegant and contemporary manifestation of astronomy, science and geek culture. You can find their entire collection in their Etsy shop.
Singer Austin Mahone had commissioned MetroWrapz to transform his BMW i8 into a vintage look, by incorporating an oxidized wrap.
This customized look, though costs a handsome $6,000, is a sure fire thing to turn some heads while you cruise through the highway. The already chic car gets a new flair due to the addition of vintage effect, the rusty outer layer consisting of oxidized wrap. Additionally, the use of gold rims on the tyres compliments this stylish look. For those of us always looking for new ways to revamp our rides, this could be the next big thing!
Checkout their Instagram and website to get more ideas for your beloved car.
New Airless Bike Tires That Will Never Ever Become Flat
Learning to ride a bike is a right of passage as a child, which extends well into our adulthood. Although some of us don’t always have the time for a quick bike trip, many of us wish to be more environmental. Utah-based company Nexo has created an airless tire to never get in the way of your journey.
Compromised of poly meter blends, promised to offer a balance between cushion and resilience, as well as durability, the airless tire-bike comes in two different shapes.
More info: Kickstarter (h/t: treehugger)
These innovative bike tires can’t get flat. They are made from polymeter blends that offer durability and a perfect balance of cushion and resilience
Users can mount them on their wheels or purchase entirely new wheel sets
Cyclists can ride these tires for up to 5,000 miles
Because they’re made from a single material, recycling becomes really easy
Are you ready to say goodbye to conventional tires?
