Skills to Learn
Good Websites
http://www.bbc.com
https://www.pbs.org https://www.youtube.com/user/smithsonianchannel
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ https://www.factslides.com/
https://geezerguff.com/ https://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
https://mentalfloss.com/ https://www.dumblittleman.com/
https://www.diynetwork.com/ https://spectator.org/
http://themindunleashed.com/ https://documentaryaddict.com/
http://videolectures.net/ https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/watch-online/ https://frugallysustainable.com/ https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history
http://www.todayifoundout.com/ https://www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress
http://you.regettingold.com/ https://www.theamericanconservative.com/
https://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/page/4/ http://factslides.com/
https://www.filmsforaction.org https://digg.com/
https://www.teaparty.org/ https://www.military.com/
https://www.climatealarmism.news/ https://www.newsmax.com/
https://www.foodscience.news/ https://www.ksat.com/news/
NaturalMedicine.news https://thenewamerican.com/
Cures.news http://jewishworldreview.com/ NaturalHealth.news https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/editions
NaturalCures.news https://www.foxnews.com/
https://pandemic.news/
https://www.artofmanliness.com/category/manly-skills/survival-manly-skills/
Woodworking Tips
The surprising woodworking tools you already have around the house (msn.com)
Bullet Crafts
https://www.pinterest.com/explore/bullet-crafts/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/353673376972441376/?nic=1a&sender=580753451856833081
https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/bullet-shell-jewelry-for-men/
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/wilson-combat-1911-bryan-evenson-.html
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colt-45-bryan-evenson.html
https://www.etsy.com/listing/172471193/groomsmen-gift-shotgun-shell-bullet-belt
Online learning
- https://lifehacker.com/ Do everything better
- https://zidbits.com/ Science, news, health & fun facts
- https://99u.adobe.com/ Website which features action oriented insights from leading researchers and visionary creatives.
- https://lifehacker.com/top-10-highly-desired-skills-you-can-teach-yourself-5905835
- https://ed.ted.com/ From the same people that brought you the all encompassing, motivational web series, comes a site chocked full of educational videos. Most include impressive animation, and all are ten minutes long or less.
- https://www.ted.com/ Informative Videos.
- Coursmos: Coursmos features thousands of online courses and educators with tools for creating, sharing, and selling educational content.
- edX: Join over 16 million learners in highly actionable online classes backed by Harvard, MIT, and other prestigious universities and organizations from around the world.
- http://www.lessonpaths.com/categories/browsePlaylists/academic On this site, users create link playlists of their favorite learning materials from other sites. Users then rank these collections, making it easy to find many different high quality, accessible sources on a given topic.
How to
https://www.cnet.com/videos/ https://monkeysee.com/#
https://www.howcast.com/
https://www.instructables.com/
https://www.howstuffworks.com/
https://www.wonderhowto.com/
Interesting
Enjoy Silhouette Portrait Drawing
(PD Source: Scientific American, 1885)Thanks to this Victorian craft, a silhouette portrait of a loved one makes a wonderful keepsake when framed. Here are easy directions on how to make a silhouette likeness.
Take a large sheet of paper, black on one side and white on the other, and affix it to the wall, white surface outward, by means of pins or tacks or tape.
Place a very bright light upon the table, at a proper distance, and allow the person whose portrait it is desired to form to stand between it and the wall. Then, with a pencil, draw the outlines of the shadow projected.
While this is being done, it is very necessary that the subject shall keep perfectly immovable. When the outlines are sketched, remove the paper from the wall and cut out the portrait.
After this, all that remains to be done is to turn the portrait over and paste it to a sheet of white paper. The silhouette is profiled in black, and if the operation be skillfully performed, the resemblance will be perfect. --La Nature
Flower Pressing Nature is in the habit of offering up ready-made artwork: The flowers in your garden, the leaves in the forest, or ferns growing roadside. Using them in an art collection is as easy as gathering and pressing them, and the Victorians were fond of doing just that. In botanical collections of that era, plants of all kinds were gathered to aid scientific investigation, a practice botanists still use today to create herbariums—organized collections of preserved plant specimens. Herbariums can last hundreds of years, the specimens providing amore accurate record than the most state-of-the-art camera. Today, you can use dried flowers, leaves, and seaweed to create sunprints, scrapbooks, giftable heirlooms like our tray pictured above, or simply a framed work of art.
Disco Ball Style of Art
Crafters on TikTok started by making their own disco balls, and the trend grew from there. CD discs cut up into small pieces are affordable and easy to use, and crafters are using them on everything," says Poskin (we've seen them added to shoes, figurines, mirrors, planters, and more). "These crafts are especially great during the long dark days of winter when the little mirrors toss much-needed light around your room."
Binayo- a small mouth harp that is carved from pieces of bamboo. The binayo is played by putting one end of the instrument in your mouth and plucking a string that is suspended over a small hole. The pitch of the instrument changes when you open and close your mouth. According to Dhadi Rai, binayo have been played in Bhutan and Nepal "forever". He learned how to make and play this instrument from his father. The binayo can be played alone or for when groups of friends get together.
Quality Puppets & Marionettes to make
Also consider working with thin leather, velvet & latex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqzKTYrgDOM Latex Puppet Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPzIyLrxMx0 Latex Puppet Tutorial
http://puppetbuildingworld.com/
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Quality-Puppet/
https://www.projectpuppet.com/puppet-making-tutorials/
https://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/artscraftsideaskids/papier-mache-puppet-heads.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxrdk8G3QOI Animal Sock Puppets
http://www.figurenschneider.de/en/tischpuppen.php Good ideas but no instructions
http://www.pavlovspuppets.com/ More ideas without instructions
http://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/categories/puppets Good info about how to make puppets
https://aardvarkstozebras-com.myshopify.com/collections/ Catalog
https://www.puppetsinc.com/Free_Christian_Puppet_Scripts_s/95.htm Free Scripts
https://dearlittledolliesltd.com/dolls/art-dolls/geppetto/
http://www.fuzzheadpuppets.com/
https://www.furrypuppet.com/
Make Unique Kites
https://crochetinghearts.org/2019/09/18/craft-24-unique-diys-to-make-a-kite/
http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/spring/kites/
Sources for Articles
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ABC News - http://abcnews.go.com
ABC News (Science) - http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=science
BBC News (Environment) - http://www.bbc.co.uk
Russian Pravada - http://english.pravda.ru
China's Official News Agency - http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/
Asian-Pacific News Agency - http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/
***General Reporting Agencies
Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/
NASA - http://search.nasa.gov
Environmental News Network - http://www.enn.com/
Mother Nature Network - http://www.mnn.com/
Environment News Service - http://ens-newswire.com/
National Geographic - http://news.nationalgeographic.com
Environmental Magazine - http://www.emagazine.com/
On Earth Magazine - http://www.onearth.org/
Audubon Magazine - http://magblog.audubon.org/
Discover Magazine - http://discovermagazine.com
Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/
Tree Hugger - http://www.treehugger.com/
Mother Jones - http://www.motherjones.com
Hippie Magazine - http://hippiemagazine.com/
Grist Environmental News - http://grist.org/
The Daily Green - http://www.thedailygreen.com
National Science Foundation - http://www.nsf.gov/news/index.jsp?prio_area=6
Earth Times - http://www.earthtimes.org/
Archives of Articles - http://www.environmentwriter.org/resources/archive.htm#RACK
Environmental Law Institute - www.eli.org/about/staff.cfm
New Earth Archive - http://neweartharchive.org/
Society of Environmental Journalists - http://www.sej.org/
Environment America - http://www.environmentamerica.org/blog
World Resources Institute - http://www.wri.org/wri-blogs
Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com
Phys-Org - http://phys.org/space-news
Environmental Leader - http://www.environmentalleader.com/
Environment & Energy policies and markets - http://www.eenews.net/eed/
Reuters - http://www.reuters.com
Environmental Research Web - http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/channel/news
The Oil Drum - http://www.theoildrum.com
Yale Environment 360 - http://e360.yale.edu/
Forbes Energy - http://www.forbes.com/energy/feed2/
The Good Human - http://thegoodhuman.com/
My Zero Waste - http://myzerowaste.com/
EcoSeed - http://www.ecoseed.org/
Slate - http://www.slate.com/