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Would you like to know how many people are in space right now?  This website will tell you.  When I checked there were ten. The site lists each person with the number of days they’ve been in space and their job. Click on each name and their Wikipedia page appears. If you download the app, you can “follow the astronauts as they work, play and explore in zero gravity”.

Download the iOS app here.  It is free.

One tip about Google Maps from DottoTech:

Google Maps will give you the distance between two places as the crow flies.  Mark your first location, then right-click and up pops a menu with all types of distance measuring options. Click on “Directions from here”. It works even if you are on a boat.  Click your mouse to drop waypoints of the route you want to take, and Google gives you the distance between each waypoint. This is helpful if you want to travel by bike, boat or on your two legs and aren’t constrained by roads.  This measuring is best done on your desktop, not your mobile device.

Peptoc is a hotline started by two teachers in Healdsburg, CA to enable their students at Westside Elementary to create messages of encouragement for other children who call in hoping for new perspective. The hotline is free (707-998-8410 or 707-8PEPTOC) and offers pre-recorded encouragement and advice.  Callers listen to a list of options (“If you need words of encouragement and life advice, press two”, and more).  The schoolchildren and the teachers came up with many responses, for example, “If you’re sad or angry, go get a cookie, a smoothie or an ice cream”.

The teachers considered it a fun project and projected maybe 100 calls a month at most.  As word of mouth and social media spread, calls reached 9,000 an hour!  Adults call the hotline as well as children.  The hotline will change its messages each month.  There is a gofundme page for donations here.

                                                                                                                  sciencefocus.com

Brain fog is not just a symptom of long haul COVID.  It comes from being stressed, isolated and anxious which produces forgetfulness, confusion, and disorganization.  Here are five tips from the Greater Good Magazine.

• Negative news is what gets our attention. Tone down the amount of media you’re exposed to.
• Exercise on a regular schedule, outside if possible.
• Keep your social life active.
• Try new things.
• Pamper yourself, take naps, talk to a therapist to manage stress better.

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