Saturday Linkages on Sunday

...: Educational resources that are likely free from your public library’s website: Lydia.com and The Great Courses (you can also watch the Great Courses if you have an Amazon Prime subscription) Quarantine viewing suggestions: The Set-Up (1949) and the series Silicon Valley...

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Binge on Opera for Free

...The streams are available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To access them, without being a paid subscriber, you click “Browse and Preview” in the apps for connected TV, and “Explore the App” on tablets and mobile devices. Speaking of binge viewing, this week the Met is streaming all (count ’em!) seventeen hours of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle along with Tristan und Isolda, Parsifal and...

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How To Force Carbonate at Home

...r valve after each use. Do not use glass bottles. While I’ve provided some Amazon links, I’d recommend heading to a home brew shop if there’s one near you. It might cost a bit more, you’ll be more likely to get all the parts you need as well as good advice. Conclusions When you’re holding a hammer everything looks like a nail. When you’re holding a carbonator, everything needs to be carbonated. So far we’ve carbonated a lot of Los Angeles tap wate...

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Making It

...e and Erik Knutzen (Rodale Books, 2011) ISBN-13: 978-1605294629 Buy it at: Amazon • Abe Books • Barnes & Nobel • Powell’s Making It provides you with all of the tools you need to become a producer instead of a consumer and transform your home from the ground up. Projects range from the simple to the ambitious, and include activities done in the home, in the garden and out on the streets. Provides step-by-step instructions for a wide range of proje...

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