You Can Now Explore the Large Hadron Collider on Street View | Gizmodo

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Google Street View is a great way to explore parts of the world you’ve never visited. And thanks to Google’s European team, it’s now one of the easiest ways to explore a facility you’re not exactly allowed to just stroll through whenever you want. Google’s panoramic cameras were given access to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, letting anyone poke around the gigantic machinery and the facility’s endless network of tunnels.

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Read: You Can Now Explore the Large Hadron Collider on Street View | Gizmodo.

This Website Can Guess the Movie You’re Thinking of After 30 Questions | Gizmodo

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Fun time waster alert: Filmillion. It’s a movie guessing machine website that can figure out the movie you’re thinking of by asking you 30 yes or no questions.

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Read: This Website Can Guess the Movie You’re Thinking of After 30 Questions | Gizmodo.

Children’s reading shrinking due to apps, games and YouTube | Technology | theguardian.com

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Nielsen Book data suggests that 32% of children read books every day, and 60% every week. But these percentages are falling as digital entertainment rises.

Read the full story: Children’s reading shrinking due to apps, games and YouTube | Technology | theguardian.com.

The Elements of a Style Guide | UX Magazine

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If your company publishes content, you probably need a style guide. It might sound like a huge undertaking, but style guides don’t have to be exhaustive. In fact, the exhaustive ones are usually counterproductive because nobody bothers reading them.

Style guides don’t magically turn people into good writers, but they do get everyone on the same page and help keep your company’s content consistent.

Concepts discussed:

  • Define Your Audience
  • Start with Something
  • Supplement It
  • Voice and Tone
  • Outline Content Types and Include Examples
  • Keep it Alive
  • Teach and Train

The full story: The Elements of a Style Guide | UX Magazine.

Twitter Unveils Emergency Alert System | Mashable

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Twitter on Wednesday announced Twitter Alerts, a new system that enables public institutions and NGOs to send out emergency alerts via text message and push notifications in times of crisis. Users can sign up to receive emergency notifications from specific accounts, and will receive a text or push notification when that account sends a tweet it labels as an alert.

See the full story: Twitter Unveils Emergency Alert System | Mashable.

24 Essential Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools | Mashable

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Mind mapping is the process of using visual diagrams to show the relationships between ideas or information. Its popular uses include project planning, collecting and organizing thoughts, brainstorming and presentations — all in order to help solve problems, map out resources and uncover new ideas.

It can be more useful than trying to keep track of our ideas by scribbling them on paper, and can aid in manipulating and generating concepts.

We’ve compiled a list of 24 mind mapping tools to help you organize, summarize and visualize information, with both free and paid versions available to suit any budget or requirement. The tools mentioned are either browser- or desktop-based, with a selection of mind mapping mobile apps at the end of the article for use on iOS and Android devices.

See the list: 24 Essential Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools | Mashable.

YouTube Launches Free Audio Library With 150 Royalty-Free Tracks | TechCrunch

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YouTube currently offers more than 150,000 audio tracks on its site that video producers can use as background music for their videos. Those tracks, however, can’t be downloaded or remixed, which makes it hard to use them in creative ways. For users who want to do a bit more with their background music, however, YouTube today is expanding this library with a selection of 150 new royalty-tracks. The music in this new YouTube Audio Library can be downloaded, remixed and used for free forever.

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via YouTube Launches Free Audio Library With 150 Royalty-Free Tracks | TechCrunch.

21 Muppets Find a Much-Deserved Home at the Smithsonian | Gizmodo

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Thanks to a donation from the Henson Foundation, on Tuesday, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, and 19 other Muppets and well-loved characters gained their rightful place in history, entering into the collection of the Smithsonian Museum.

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8 Punctuation Marks That Are No Longer Used | Keith Houston | HuffPost

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On the face of it, punctuation is not the most electrifying of subjects. A comma is a comma, a period is a period, and a semicolon is an argument waiting to happen. Look past squabbles over grammar, however, and punctuation’s staid veneer peels back to reveal a seething, Darwinian struggle that has played out over two millennia of the written word.

Though the period can claim an unbroken lineage stretching back to ancient Greece, and the quotation mark may boast of its roots in the early days of printing, for every venerable survivor there are countless other symbols that did not make the grade. The road from the scrolls of the library of Alexandria to today’s books, blog entries, and tweets is littered with the corpses of fallen marks of punctuation.

Read: 8 Punctuation Marks That Are No Longer Used | Keith Houston | HuffPost.

How to Act Annoying at a Library | wikiHow

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This is a fun list. 20 steps for How to Act Annoying at a Library | wikiHow.