{"id":33871,"date":"2019-07-14T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33871"},"modified":"2019-07-08T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T23:20:10","slug":"archive-downloaderscience-newssunshine-fyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/archive-downloaderscience-newssunshine-fyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive Downloader\/Science news\/Sunshine.fyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/recomendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download an entire archive.org collection<\/strong><br \/>\nLately, I\u2019ve been listening to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/cassettetapes?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">cassette tapes from the 1980s and 1990s<\/a>\u00a0on archive.org. I was able to download the entire collection of tapes by using a Google Chrome extension called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/archive-downloader\/elhoagejfapekjaefenmngphliikoace\/related?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Archive Downloader<\/a>. Once it was installed, I went to the page at archive.org and clicked the Archive Downloader extension icon on my browser. Then I selected the mp3 files from a pop-up list and downloaded them. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science news<\/strong><br \/>\nA good Reddit thread I learned a lot from, and one I hope will keep going: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/b7ssbh\/what_are_some_recent_scientific\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">What are some recent scientific breakthroughs\/discoveries that aren\u2019t getting enough attention?<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much sun is left in your day?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sunshine.fyi\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Sunshine.fyi<\/a>\u00a0is a simple webpage that tells you how many hours, minutes and seconds of sunlight are left in your day. I keep it in my bookmark bar, but it\u2019s now available as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/sunlightfyi\/deheemcojhcjocnpicjojcepghphhcaa\/related?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">chrome extension<\/a>, so that every new tab serves as a reminder to go outside and make the most of your day. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Superglue first aid<\/strong><br \/>\nI use superglue (cyanoacrylate) to close small cuts and stop them bleeding. Dab it dry, apply glue, hold together. You can use any kind of \u201ckrazy glue\u201d occasionally for first aid; it\u2019s really handy in a workshop. Sometimes instead of stitches doctors use an expensive variant of cyanoacrylate called Dermabond, which is medical grade glue. Second best is cheaper vet-grade glue,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2RWlTRr?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Vetbond<\/a>, which some also use to heal skin cracks. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good postal scale<\/strong><br \/>\nMy daughter is funding her next trip to Japan by selling a wide variety of stuff on eBay. She\u2019s been doing well and is committed to the project, so I did my part by getting her this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00FJFJDGS\/recomendos-20?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">$20 digital postal scale<\/a>. It weighs packages up to 11lbs. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best litter box for side-peeing cats<\/strong><br \/>\nMy cat is a side pee-er so the best litter box for her is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2XPUXrS?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Modkat Litter Box<\/a>\u00a0with top entry.\u00a0There\u2019s less litter on the floor, it\u2019s easier to\u00a0clean and it looks great.\u00a0My favorite\u00a0litter to use is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2JdVI5S?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Step Clumping Litter with Febreeze<\/a>. I often forget to clean out the litter box because it rarely smells. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 155<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33873,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871\/revisions\/33873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}