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Active Minds

There have been many recent efforts to end the stigma surrounding mental illness. Mental health activists and those interested in changing the conversation about the subject will find the organization Active Minds not only intriguing, but crucial in combating negative associations common in discussions of mental health. Founded by Alison Malmon, Active Minds welcomes all, but specifically aims to...

https://www.activeminds.org/
Snowflakes: Nano at its Coolest

The video, lesson plan, and related materials linked above are designed to help audiences from the age of seven onward understand more about nanoscience by exploring snowflakes ("nano at its coolest"). This resource is one of many from the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network (previously featured in the 07-19-2019 Scout Report), an organization that creates and implements projects to...

https://www.nisenet.org/catalog/programs/snowflakes_nano_at_...
Ov

Ov's developers describe it as a "feature-rich terminal pager." These features include good support for Unicode and especially East Asian characters, support for compressed files, and mouse support. Ov also includes a number of features for dealing with delimited files, such as the ability to toggle zebra striping, keep header labels at the top of the screen, and highlight the currently selected...

https://github.com/noborus/ov
The History of Cartography Project

For anyone who loves maps and the rich history of map-making, this project, based in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will provide hours of pleasure and learning. The project focuses on drawing attention to the history of maps and mapping. Its flagship publication, a multi-volume series called the History of Cartography (which currently has 6 volumes, although...

https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/
Age

Age is a small, simple tool for encrypting files. In contrast to tools like GnuPG that provide a large grab-bag of encryption related functions, Age only handles encrypting files. There is no web of trust, no network of key servers, no system of key revocation and expiry. Users can either use the included `age-keygen` utility to generate a keypair or reuse their existing SSH keys. In either case,...

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age