LibGuides: SHS Learning Commons: Fun Extras

Wordle - The New York Times

Guess the WORDLE in six tries.

New York Times Sudoku Online

New York Times online Sudoku Puzzles are free.

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Easy, Medium, or Hard!

Six Word Story

A story told in ONLY 6 words

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SanDiego Zoo: Live cam

Visit the San Diego Zoo through their live webcams

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Google Arts & Culture

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Smithsonian

SO MUCH to offer

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A site to get lost in, truly

New York Public Radio Classical Music Live Streaming

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Podcasts

Hidden Brain Host Shankar Vedantam explores a range of influences that manipulate us without our awareness.
Lost at the Smithsonian Aasif Mandvi explores how vintage clothing, ratty furniture, and mismatched shoes transformed into Fonzie's leather jacket, Archie Bunker's chair, and Dorothy's ruby slippers and became defining symbols of American culture; the most iconic artifacts at the National Museum of American History.
Now & Then Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today.
Radio Lab Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Jad Abumrad, Lulu Miller, and Latif Nasser.
SciFri (Science Friday) Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.
Story Corps With a mission to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
Stuff you missed in History Class Brings you the greatest and strangest Stuff You Missed In History Class with hosts Tracy Wilson & Holly Frey (podcast by iHeartRadio)
This American Life Mostly we do journalism, but an entertaining kind of journalism that’s built around plot. In other words, stories! Our favorite sorts of stories have compelling people at the center of them, funny moments, big feelings, surprising plot twists, and interesting ideas. Like little movies for radio.
This I Believe During its four-year run on NPR, This I Believe engaged listeners in a discussion of the core beliefs that guide their daily lives. We heard from people of all walks of life — the very young and the very old, the famous and the previously unknown.

Poetry Everywhere

The power of language and through voices past and present captured in video segments.

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Maine Memory Network

Maine's Online History Museum

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Merriman-Webster Word of the Day

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America's Test Kitchen

for recipes, activities & knowledge,

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