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This Simple Demo with Water, Pepper and Soap Shows Toddlers Importance of Handwashing

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While this doesn’t explain how soap actually works to fight viruses and germs, it’s a powerful visual for toddlers that might not grasp the critical importance of handwashing during this pandemic. If they are interested in learning how soap actually works and why it’s so effective, you can follow up with this video that gives a much more thorough and scientific explanation. Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/water-pepper-soap-experiment-for-toddlers/

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People From 50 Cities Across 30 Countries Passed Toilet Paper To Each Other

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It’s always nice to hear or read about a community that has come together to achieve a common goal. Whether it’s charitable or not, people tend to appreciate the fact that a group of people managed to come together and do something bigger than themselves. Enter 19-year-old university student, animator, and filmmaker Kai Forman, who recently rallied up a handful of Redditors to film themselves throwing toilet paper to each other (from their homes, of course—most of us are living in lockdown, after all) wherever they may live. You’re wondering…

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‘Being prepared for the worst’ is nothing new for immigrants during Covid-19

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For many immigrant and first-generation families who learned to be prepared for the worst, hunkering down to protect each other is nothing new Sio Massiahs Oakland neighborhood isnt as diverse as the one she grew up in in New York City. Ahead of California governor Gavin Newsoms March 16, 2020 Before, I never understood why [my family] bought so much rice. But kale isnt going to get me through a pandemic, she quipped. When I got there and rice, plantain and corned beef hash were already gone. I knew all…

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Indias MX Player expands to US, UK and other markets in international push

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MX Player, the on-demand video streaming service owned by India’s conglomerate Times Internet, is expanding to more than half a dozen new international markets including the U.S. and the U.K. to supply more entertainment content to millions of people trapped in their homes. The Singapore-headquartered on-demand video streaming service, which raised $111 million in a round led by Tencent last year, said it has expanded to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh and Nepal in addition to the U.S. and the UK. Like in India, MX Player will offer its catalog…

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Amazon sales of ‘non-essentials’ hit by French court ruling

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Online supplier to appeal against staff virus safety plan in France which sought to limit orders to food and medicine Amazon must stop selling non-essential items or face a fine of 1m a day until it can come up with a safety plan to protect the health of its employees, a French court has ruled. The ruling, which has already been suspended pending appeal, required the company to only accept orders for groceries, toiletries and medical products as part of the wider lockdown imposed in France. The company was sued…

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I’ve never seen Rocky

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An underdog fighter wins hearts and respect then gets punched below the belt by the jingoism of Reagans America Ill tell you in one word why I have never watched Rocky: Ronald Reagan. Sure, the film came out in 1976, before he reached the White House, likewise Rocky II. But he was US president in 1982, when Rocky III appeared, my poster of him and Margaret Thatcher in a Gone with the Wind embrace with an atom bomb and another Stallone double-punch of Rocky IV and armed with the weapon…

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