This woman recorded her guitar playing once a month for four years. She started recording on her first day of clumsily strumming an electric guitar. By nine months she was sounding good. At the four year mark she was shredding.

Charles Platts growing series of electronics books are the best Ive come across. He explains concepts very clearly, and his illustrations are excellent. His latest book in the series is called Easy Electronics. It covers voltage, resistance, capacitors, transistors, integrated circuits, and more. No tools are needed to complete the projects in this book.

Learn from the worlds best. Written and directed by Kathleen Cameron; starring Jim Cameron; original music by Bensound.com.

Ive been enjoying this new YouTube series that Dan Shapiro (Glowforge founder) and Ari Shapiro (NPR) have created to help kids learn at home. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Philip Costanzo, Duke Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, who teaches Dans twins about social psychology, peer pressure, how kids attitudes develop, and psychology experiments []

If you enjoy the outdoors, you know that its not necessarily any scarier at night than it is during the day. But it sure can seem that way when youre using a traditional flashlight that effectively gives you tunnel vision: You see just the spot where you aim and nothing else. Thats why theH2 Headlamp []

If your company makes it out of this COVID 19-fueled nightmare one day, you may well have the cloud to thank for part of that. A survey found that almost 40 percent of companies have used cloud technology to scale infrastructure to better help them meet demand and control costs brought on by virus-driven changes. []

Were a latest and greatest kind of culture. We want the newest, shiniest, fastest piece of tech in existence and many are willing to pay top dollar for the privilege of saying no one owns one better. The reality is that life at the tech pinnacle is incredibly fleeting. Within months, sometimes weeks, even []

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