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Explore different National Parks right from your dorm.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tour

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Sit back and relax while you livestream the animals of Georgia Aquarium. Get a glimpse into a day in the life of our incredible animals.

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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Sea Otter Program has played an important role in the continued recovery of the southern sea otter population with our research, rescue, rehabilitation, and surrogacy work.

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Thank you for visiting the Giant Panda Cam page. Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji have departed the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and are now living in China.

We invite you to look back and enjoy some of the inspiring, adorable, majestic and charming panda moments:

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Giant pandas Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji are no longer at the Zoo. Look back and enjoy some inspiring, adorable, majestic and charming panda moments.

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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display.

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Write messages, receive letters, and get stickers. Check out how to do it on Kind Words.

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Write Nice Letters to People and Get Stickers

Has something got you down? Stressed you out? Scared you? That's pretty normal.
It might help you to talk about it.
In Kind Words, players anonymously write out their concerns and sorrows by making short requests for letters.

Receive Comforting Letters

Everyone can respond to requests with letters of comfort, sympathy or gentle advice. Kind Words is a positive context; a warm, cozy mood. A place to feel centered and focused on the opportunity presented:

Use your words to lift others and be lifted in return.

Oh, and There's Stickers!

You start the game with a couple random stickers in their inventory. Stickers can be placed on letters written to others or sent as an appreciative response to a letter that has been received. Once you get a new sticker, you can make copies of that sticker to send out to other players. Each sticker also comes with a 3D toy that you can put on display in your room.

Swap letters to build up your collection of stickers and room decorations!

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An Urgent Surgery with a High Success Rate Surgical repair for retinal detachment is the only way to restore vision to the eye, however it is imperative to act quickly once the detached retina is diagnosed. Without treatment, vision loss can progress from minor to severe-even blindness, within a few hours or days.

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Google is back at it again! Try out experiments by browsing through their collection.

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Arts & Culture Experiments - Experiments with Google

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It's hard being apart. Get tips and tools to stay connected by using the Nod app. This app helps students grow and maintain strong social lives throughout the pandemic.

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Nod - An app to reduce loneliness on college campuses

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What's a sanity guide? Ten Percent offers a sanity guide and free Coronavirus-specific podcast episodes and talks to work through some of the more pressing pandemic-related challenges.

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The Jed Foundation's Mental Health Resource Center provides essential information about common emotional health issues and shows teens and young adults how they can support one another, overcome challenges and make a successful transition to adulthood.

Young adulthood can be a time of significant change and intense challenges. We see the effects every day: a death from binge drinking, an overdose, a suicide. These tragedies are complex and their warning signs often subtle. With the right support and safety nets, the high school and college years can be safer and more manageable.

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There are several ways to build a house of cards. The "classic" method that you may have seen in popular media is based on a series of triangular trusses that peak to a point in a card pyramid. Many professional card-stackers, however, start their structures with a four-card cell or "lock box", which forms a much more stable foundation for complex designs.

Building a Triangular House

This is the "classic" house of cards that you may have seen in popular media. It is a challenging but solid design. You'll need to stack your cards into a series of triangular trusses that form a pyramid.

1. Form the first triangle. This "truss" is the basic structure of the pyramidal design. Prop two cards together into an inverted "V" shape. The top edges of the cards should meet, and the bottom edges should be evenly spaced apart from a central axis. Spend some time practicing this process. You'll need to repeat it over and over again in the construction of your house.

2. Build the foundation. Create a steady line of triangular trusses, two cards each. The point of each triangle should be no more than one card's length from the point of the next triangle. The number of triangles in the foundation determines the possible height of your house of cards: each "floor" will be built upon one less triangle than the floor below. For instance, if you build a three-triangle foundation, you'll be able to go up three "floors" before the house reaches a point; if you build a six-triangle foundation, you'll have more space to build, and you'll be able to go up six floors. Start with a three-floor house.

Brace each new triangle against the base of the adjacent triangle. Eventually, you should have three triangles (using six cards, total) that are all touching.

3. Brace the triangles. Gently lay a flat card on top of the first two triangles (say, 1 and 2). Make sure that the card is perfectly balanced between the points. Now, lay another card between Triangles 2 and 3. You should have a "foundation" of three triangles with two flat cards on top. This takes eight cards, total.

4. Build the next layer of cards. If your foundation comprises three triangles, the next "floor" up should use two triangles. Try to stack each new triangle at the same angle as the two triangles below, for the sake of structural integrity. Place the base of each card above the point of a lower triangle. When you have formed these two triangles, lay one flat card on top between their points.

Be extremely careful. If you built the foundation well, it should be strong enough to hold up these new cards - but you will need to keep from knocking the whole thing over with a tremble or sudden movement. Stack the new cards lightly and cautiously.

When you've finished laying the second "floor", your tower should comprise thirteen cards: five triangles and three flat cards.

5. Add the point. To complete your house of cards, you just need to stack one more triangle atop the structure. Slowly and carefully prop two cards together at the same angle as all of the prior triangles. Hold them in place until they are completely even, and pull your hands away when you feel confident that the point will stand on its own. If the structure stands, you have built a house of cards!

Building a Four-Card Cell

This is the most stable way to build large, complex card houses. The four-card cell can support as much as 660 pounds per square foot, making it a foundational structure that you can repeat and build upon. Some professional card stackers swear by this method.

1. Form the cell. First, arrange two cards into a slightly-off-center "T". Hold the cards, one in each hand, so that their flat faces are perpendicular to the table. Lean them against each other to form another almost-T. Next, place a third card against the middle of one card to form another "T". Close the box with a fourth card and "T", so you have four cards pressed against each other with a square space in the center.

This is the basic four-card cell or "lock box". It is one of the most structurally stable foundations that you can lay for your house of cards. Think of this cell as a pattern that you can repeat throughout your design.

2. Build a "roof" or "ceiling". Overlap two cards flat on top of your four-card cell. Then, lay two more flat cards (rotated at a 90-degree angle) to complete the roof. A "double-ply" flat layer will make your eventual structure much more stable.

3. Add a second story. Carefully construct a second four-card cell on top off the flat layer. You now have a stable two-story card structure. Feel free to keep adding stories until you run out of cards, or until you think the structure is tall enough. The four-card cell is a very strong root, so you should be able to stack many levels atop the foundation.

Try adding "wings" to the house by attaching more T-shapes to the ground floor. Whenever you put down a card shape that is perpendicular to the table surface, make sure to lay a flat card layer on top as a "ceiling". This will make the cards more structurally sound, and it will make the whole building look more like a house.

Get creative. The sky's the limit with this method - so see how big of a house you can build!

Troubleshooting

1. Use cheap cards. Expensive pro-quality cards are usually smooth and glossy, and they are prone to slipping apart. Cheaper cards tend to be grainier and less slippery, and thus better for sticking together.

2. Choose your surface carefully. Pick a safe, sturdy space that will not shift while you're stacking cards. Try building upon a slightly textured surface, like a billiards table or an unfinished wood table. A smooth surface like a glass table could cause your cards to slip. Consider using a tablecloth or a place-mat to add texture to a smooth surface - but be aware that these unfixed foundations are prone to shift unexpectedly.

Make sure that there isn't a draft! Build your house of cards indoors, away from open windows, doors, fans, and vents. You don't want to lose all of your hard work to a ill-timed gust of wind.

3. Stay calm. A shaky hand or a sudden twitch can make your house crumble. Hold each card gently but firmly between two fingers of your dominant hand. Try to "float" it smoothly into place.

Try placing cards when you are between breaths, or at the "bottom of your breath" - in the moment just after you exhale. Take deep breaths, and pay attention to the brief space that occurs between exhalation and inhalation. Your body is at its stillest during this moment, and you may find it easier to keep your hand steady.

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Learning new card tricks, especially ones that are easy but still cool, isn't something that comes naturally to everyone. I'll admit it: I'm not good at any magic tricks. I mean, I can learn things but I am no Neil Patrick Harris. I still feel residual shame from the one time in fifth grade when our teacher made us each learn a card trick that we would perform in front of the class for a grade, and when I screwed mine up in front of the whole class, I sat in a corner and very quietly and melodramatically cried. I tell you this because now that you know how completely inept I am at magic, you will know that when I tell you that this list of card tricks I compiled is super easy, I mean that even a moron could do it (and that moron just happens to be me).

You might be wondering why card tricks are a valuable life skill for you to learn at this point in the game, so gather round, fellow people of the internet, and I'll tell you: You can learn magic to make friends at parties, to get out of speeding tickets, or if you're feeling particularly ambitious, keep mastering the craft until you become the next David Blaine, make bank, and meet a ton of celebrities.

1. "The Power Of Four"

Wow your party guests by letting them shuffle the deck and split it in half. By looking at the fourth card down in one half of the deck, you always ~magically~ know the exact fourth card in the other half of the deck, too.

2. "Make A Prediction"

This one is the same magician as the first one, but a little more complicated. You pull out a "prediction" card at the beginning and split the deck three ways, and your audience will be boggled that the second card in every deck is always the same number/royal figure as the prediction card you pulled aside.

3. "Screw Up Proof"

Literally all you need to be able to do is count out loud. If you watched Sesame Street as a kid, you will be able to perform this trick.

4. "Pick A Card, Any Card"

Nothing like some good old-fashioned audience participation to get the magic party started. They pick a card, shuffle it back into the deck, and then wave their hand to get a little magic started. Then you show them the top card - but it's a red herring. It's not their card. Then you reveal by fanning out the deck that all the cards are facing up, except for the very one they put in the deck themselves.

5. "Give Me A Number Between One And Ten"

Here's a quick one if you're trying to get your flirt on in 30 seconds or less. They pick a number between 1-10, shuffle the deck, and then pull however many cards depending on the number they chose. If they chose 7, they look at the seventh card, memorize it, and shuffle it back into the deck. Not that it matters because you already know which card they chose.

6. "The Mind Reader"

OK, so technically this is a card trick "for kids," but it's also the quickest of all the card tricks to learn because it requires zero prep and the actual teaching part of it takes 40 whole seconds. So useful! What was I even doing in college, anyway?

7. "WTF Just Happened"

I'm warning you right now that this one will mess you up a little bit the first time you watch it, because there is some slight of hand involved. But the next few minutes of tutorial are totally worth the mind-boggling reaction you're going to get from the first unsuspecting victim you use this on.

8. "The Spelling Bee"

You don't even have to touch the cards on this one. No excuses. You do have to rely on your audience member's ability to be able to spell out numbers, so maybe wait before you debut this one at the local daycare.

9. "The Introvert's Dream"

This guy specifically made this video for people who were afraid of performing in public so that they could learn a card game. Props to him and his baller accent. This is another classic "find your card in a shuffled deck" trick, and comes with the added charm of being "fail-proof."

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What are you listening to while you're stuck in quarantine or isolation? Don't be shy, share your music with us, sis! Add songs using this collaborative playlist and help future students in quarantine stay connected.

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To This Day... For the Bullied and Beautiful

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"To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful | Shane Koyczan

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LinkedIn Learning with Lynda: Online Training Courses for Creative, Technology, Business Skills

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All it takes is 10 mindful minutes | Andy Puddicombe | TED

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How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are

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How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are

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Harry Styles: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Click through this Brooklyn99 themed virtual escape room. If you're logging on with your phone, we suggest opening the link in a new browser window.

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Click through this Harry Potter themed virtual escape room! If you're logging on with your phone, we suggest opening the link in a new browser window.

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Taylor Swift: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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What is one thing that you'd like to be different by this time next year?

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What class are you most excited about this semester?

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If failure was impossible, what would you try that you have never done before?

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If failure was impossible, what would you try that you have never done before?

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