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Experiment with loose diamonds Ute Gerh

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Russel, Will. Duck. June 7, 2016. Flicker.  January 20, 2017. https://www.flickr.com/photos/willzukphotos/27449549131/in/photolist-HPC7Ct-qctQcR-64wafZ-xt9DKA-amuhTC-k6ukZX-53XHoi-akWFzU-3njrCQ-hXngdE-hXmRaR-cTw6Pm-hXn2Q9-73z3EZ-8wgoGJ-8wdpfF-b58f7i-5jMEqX-7KWUjS-7WErzq-4GwXti-mF2gd2-6oz3KY-6mPiQc-dhhGjq-67MoiA-fUpqJ-bSn9cr-rxybXh-fp5n1K-b6XvnK-on2jrh-cyfztS-6tasSk-cTjNcb-5NbfQ2-65f6wp-71bBh8-eFEpYF-7oUpoQ-6WD8EM-nydf9D-51jpDN-dna23H-vjHqp-7N62Y1-a7XAUk-5peum6-6FMnXZ-6CbAk9/

 

Attia Usama. Apple. March 13, 2010. Flickr. January 20, 2017. https://www.flickr.com/photos/usamaattia/16079378039/in/photolist-p78Pxm-quT1TR-8d6UnM-9cwzji-pS16bL-5PgNpv-qx6Jkg-qKPWhe-5C6PBX-acUUZD-aWNNHD-6ucocE-axDeGp-5pRyRN-8Ua6JC-9inVQZ-axDez2-pDuhce-d43gFE-b15Ukn-9FNEDW-8X1QVv-bWTZUn-4fxT83-pemTp5-aqDFKL-9vKEnj-99MHtC-axDf3k-EGNcC-zuxBcU-3y4mfY-dNRpuP-ixPDdY-gT2CgJ-owuqtB-r3137Z-auHcfK-5qg1iA-d93qSw-bKK1MT-ixLtH-bsfvhi-ptNSK3-gSgQfo-jKDsn6-h75zPf-5TtfqL-3EUUYa-ah4cz3/

Twitter and Genius hour

So once again, we hand another genius hour project. Yay. Although this time a little twist was added to the mix, we had to go on twitter, follow ten people who knew and could help with the subject, and then ask them specific questions. After about a day of wondering what I wanted to do I remembered that my apocalypse post was quite liked so that’s what I went with. How to survive a wild situation. So according to these here directions I need to write down the names of the ten people I followed, for some reason… Ok. So I followed: Survivalist Social @survivalsocial, Survivalist Tips @TipsFromSteven, Survivalist Prepper @prepsurvive, Survivalist Daily @SurvivalPosts, Survivalist Gardener @SurvivorGarden, Begin Prepping @BeginPrepping, Preppers Anonymous @PreppersAnon, Instinct Survivalist @ISurvivalist, SurvivormanVerified account @reallesstroud, and finally Bear GryllsVerified account @BearGrylls.
The reason I followed all these people was because they had either basic or extreme knowledge on what I was doing. Some did survival as full time jobs, others simply did it as a hobby. Wether they were good or not the point was that they probably had good and useful information for me if I were to ask, so I did. So after following them we had to each ask them specific, unique, and different questions to try and help us learn more about the subject and further progress in our quest of knowledge. I asked things like where to go in the case of an earthquake, what are the best emergency rations, whats good and bad for people, etc.
After I asked all ten of them questions, only three decided to answer my questions, which was fine because I already had what I needed. After that, that was kinda it, I only messaged them once and once I got my answer I was done with the whole research part. Now I just need to take everything I’ve learnt so far and put it into a to minute slideshow presentation, and I’m done!
I could see this method working in the future for more school projects, maybe even future jobs. Simply going online and asking total strangers for help. Seems legit. But the point is that, we have access to a near unlimited amount of knowledge at our fingertips. If we need help, we can get it. If your stuck, you can get unstuck, if your just really confused, well, you can get less confused. So this whole, ask-people-on-Twitter-for-help, isn’t such a bad idea after all. Will I use it again? Probably not. With this much knowledge at our finger tips though, the question is, how will we use it and what will we use it for? Most likely to look up cat videos :P. Yeah, this went well!