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Learn the Art of Cooking Without a Recipe
In these times of the COVID19 pandemic, we're not by any means out of food, but our method of acquiring it has become a little different. Yes, we can go to the grocery store still, but it's smart to only go when absolutely necessary at spaced out intervals. This means you can often end up with a kitchen full of random items because you grabbed what you thought you might need, but you didn't ... ...more
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Book Recommendations: A Discovery of Witches
Now, I'm not one for romance novels most of the time. I like a little bit of romance in my novels because I love rooting for two people to get together, especially if they're right for each other, but if it's overwhelmingly cheesy, inauthentic, or just downright unnecessary, I'm not going to love the story. So, I was pleasantly surprised to find how much I loved the novel A Discovery of ... ...more
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#ThrowbackThursday: Japanese Film Ugetsu Paves Way in the West
As March is Asian/Pacific American heritage month, I wanted to share some fun facts about Japanese cinema making it's way in to the US. While US Hollywood culture has spread wildly throughout the world, watching films from any country you're not closely familiar with is a jarring experience. That's why it is often difficult for media from other cultures to break out in new countries. However, ... ...more
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Allow Yourself to Be Disappointed
Something I've noticed a lot of people doing lately is going to talk about their frustrations with the COVID-19 shutdowns but then hedging their statements by saying "I know some people have it a lot worse than me." While this is true, we're all going through a hard time right now whether someone else has it harder than you or not. One of the important things in life that people always tell ... ...more
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The Best QR Code Designs for Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is taking the world by storm. It's likely people who didn't care about picking up the game prior to the pandemic got it solely for it's ability to suck you in for hours at a time: a great game to pass the long days with. The game has only been out for five days, so players are still discovering all the fun things to do and new ways to be creative. One of the ... ...more
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Ponder Session: Rediscover Songs You Forgot
About a month ago, some friends and I were making an exhaustive playlist for a party I was having. We were trying to come up with a good mix of current songs and throwbacks we all loved at one point in our lives. We ended up coming up with some forgotten gems that would get each one of us excited in turn as we shouted out each one. There was one artist whose music was escaping me, nagging at ... ...more
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Listen to These Greek Retellings on Audiobook
As you're puttering about your house finding cleaning projects or other things to do, consider giving audiobooks a try. While reading might not be your thing if you can't sit down and focus on it, listening to audiobooks allows you to go about other tasks while you're consuming a novel. They can also completely transform a story in a new way through the performance by the narrator. *Pro-Tip: ... ...more
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Now is the Time to Try Something New
Have you ever wanted to be a YouTuber but felt like you didn't have the time or a good theme for a channel? Now you do! Have you ever considered taking up drawing but didn't have the patience with all the other things you could be doing? Well now you can! Have you ever wanted to learn a new instrument but didn't have the hours to sink in to doing it? Those hours are here! The point: We're in ... ...more
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3 Ways to Get Moving While Social Distancing
Although we find ourselves with so much free time, we technically have less to do because we can't go out and do all the normal activities we'd like to. That means it's really easy to allow ourselves to be lazy and sedentary in our homes at this time. But that means, now more than ever, it's important to keep our bodies moving. Staying healthy isn't just important to our physical health. It's ... ...more
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Game Review: Animal Crossing New Horizons
Are you ready for the most feel good and relaxing game of the year? Then you need Animal Crossing New Horizons. A brilliant installation of a classic Nintendo game, Animal Crossing New Horizons takes you, Tom Nook, his tanuki nephews, and other favorite Animal Crossing characters to a deserted island to live the island life. You start out with minimal items and just a tent to live in, but as ... ...more
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Ponder Session: Instant Gratification and Your Brain
It's funny to think about how antsy and bored we get when we don't have stimuli 24/7. We need to be watching a movie, reading a book, playing a video game, or on our phones to not be totally driven mad by inactivity. Most of us probably can't even just sit and listen to music without doing something else at the same time. And this isn't just younger generations, so we can't even say it's a ... ...more
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Spreading Knowledge and Resources for Students
I know here on Folkspaper, as well as everywhere else, we're being bombarded by coronavirus talk. I'm trying my best to still find some topics to write about without connection to the current goings-on because having something interesting and unrelated to read every now and again is very helpful for everyone's stress and anxiety. But sharing information is also important. This week at my ... ...more
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The Best Online Game to Play With Friends
Everyone loves Cards Against Humanity. After all, it's the ultimate party game, and easily the funniest, most inappropriate party game. But with all of this social distancing, we're not allowed to get together in groups so it feels like playing board games is a distant dream right now. But did you know there's an online platform that has all of the Cards Again Humanity cards ever made? In an ... ...more
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#WritingWednesday: Social Distancing and Productivity
Have you been putting off projects because you just don't have time to get to them? Well, now you do! Seriously, this social distancing thing sucks. It makes us realize how much we actually like and appreciate our day-to-day routines, how much we miss our friends, and how easy it is to get stir crazy, but us staying home is helping. So, in the meantime, we might as well make the most of a bad ... ...more
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Tom Brady Has Left the Patriots and New England is Raging
In one of the first, big non-corornavirus-related news breaks, Tom Brady is leaving the New England Patriots. Although it comes as a huge dig to Patriots and Tom Brady fans, it's not a complete shock as he was fairly candid in the drafting process that he was potentially looking to move to another team. But that still didn't lessen the blow for a lot of New England. New Englanders were ... ...more
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Pick Smart Over Mindless App Games
Being addicted to your phone, and more specifically addicted phone games, is never a good thing. We spend way too much of our time staring down at a screen and tapping away. But with our minds that hate idleness, it's hard to escape the tempting pull of an app game every now and again. If you're going to be playing app games anyway, allow me to make a suggestion. Instead of playing mindless ... ...more
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Ponder Session: Are Traits or Values More Important?
In the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, there are quite a few more wizarding schools besides Hogwarts. But in looking at Hogwarts house sorting methods in comparison to the American wizard school Ilvermorny, it got me wondering about the nature of what we deem important in ourselves. At Hogwarts, students are sorted based on their most prominent personality trait. Bravery and loyalty is ... ...more
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The Quietest Princess of All
Did you know that in the entire Sleeping Beauty movie, Princess Aurora only has 18 lines of dialogue? By nature of the story, of course she wouldn't be speaking much while under a sleeping curse. But even Snow White, who also falls under a sleeping curse, and Ariel, who literally gets her voice stolen, each have more words to say in their films then our dear Briar Rose (yeah, Sleeping Beauty ... ...more
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Thoughts About COVID-19 From Someone With Asthma Living with a Nurse
My boyfriend has been an registered nurse for three years now, and he comes home with a lot of stories I never needed to know. (All within his legal ability to tell me. He's not sharing any info he's not supposed to. Let's get that clear.) So of course, I'm a little on edge waiting for the day he texts me to tell me they've had a coronavirus case at the hospital. Now, I'm not within the ... ...more
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Season Three of Westworld Premieres Tonight; These Are My Thoughts.
Mild spoilers ahead. Be fair warned; if you haven't seen the first two season's of Westworld on HBO, tread carefully. Go binge watch the first two seasons, and then come back for this discussion. Westworld has taken us on a journey of cowboys, robots, and existentialism for two seasons now, and I honestly wondered at the end of season two where they were going to take things. As a story, ... ...more
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