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Movie Time #67: Interstellar (2014)

▶️ Today’s film is an Oscar-winning science-fiction epic (=large-scale film production) that teaches you a thing or two (=a few things) about astrophysics. Leave your little world behind you and embark (=start a journey, esp. by ship) on an exciting mission to save mankind, diving into the depths of dark and cold space.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #american_films
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Know Your World #63: Is friendship in crisis?

▶️ There are studies that suggest people have less friends today than they used to. Watch this talk by British-American scholar and writer Richard Reeves.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #talk
Correct me if you can #22

▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:

Let’s go to a café, I’m starving.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct
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Know Yourself #10: Your Brain on Study Techniques

▶️ What makes your brain study better? Watch this TED Ed video to find out.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #know_yourself #psychology
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🎉 Special Day: The History of Halloween

▶️ Whether you have any special feelings today or not, it’s worth looking into the history of Halloween as a festival that has conquered the world.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #know_your_world #documentary
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Know Your World #64: Guns, Germs and Steel (Part 1)

▶️ This documentary from 2005 is a real classic. It tries to answer the question why Europeans, and more broadly Westerners, have dominated the globe for so long. Watch Part 2 here.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
Afandi Quiz #137: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a world map showing countries in various shades of blue.

👉@afandi_english👈 #maps #map_quiz
Unmissable Website #1: Wordle

🆕 There's a lot of cool stuff out there in the depths of the internet. Let's dig it up.

▶️ Here's a word game you can play online on the New York Times website. They have a new one every day.

🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

👉@afandi_english👈 #website #quiz
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This & That 🇺🇿Uzbekistan #5: A longish bike trip

▶️ Last weekend I went to a village in the Tashkent Region. As always there's a lot to discover on the way:

City vs Region
As soon as you cross the border into the region things get shabby (=low quality). The roads, the houses, the cars, just everything. While I'm not shocked by shabbiness I'm shocked by the difference. It'll be difficult to close the widening gap between Tashkent and the regions in the future.

The Riverside
There was a faster route staying on the main road but I thought riding by the riverside would be nicer. I was wrong. The river is barely (=almost not) visible and it's an industrial zone more than a recreational area (=place to relax). Dusty unpaved (=no pavement, no asphalt) roads with one truck after the other don't make for (=result in) a pleasant ride.

On a lighter note (=less sad or serious), I saved a kitten from getting run over and just as I was holding it a car stopped next to me and I gave it to them. Meouw!

#uzbekistan