Image: Lahinch Sunset. This photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
Happy New Year everyone! :-)
The annual Christmas Munster rugby match against Leinster was a bit later this year, but it certainly wasn't without excitement and controversy! It was great to see the Moyross express return to Thomond Park though! :-) You can check out some photos of the match that I took from the East Terrace here.
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Jon Keegan has an interesting post on medium that analyses 122 hours of holiday radio from New York's WLTW 106.7 LiteFM. The data plots the most played Christmas song (Santa Claus is Coming to Town - all versions), most played specific version (Bing Cosby's White Christmas) and most played performers (Bublé) among other interested facts like plays per time of day and song versions by play count.
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Bill Gates has published a post on gatesnotes.com describing his work learnings for 2018. The interesting read highlights trends he noticed with Alzheimer's disease, Polio and the global energy landscape. Gates also ponders the future of gene-editing and dealing with global epidemics, as well as defining his focus topics for 2019, privacy and innovation, and technology in education.
Image: CCTV, Weibo
The Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 has been reported to have successfully landed on the farside of The Moon. Chinese state broadbaster CCTV have published an image of the moon's dark side sent back from the lander.
Heere's what Buzz Aldrin has to say about it:
One small step for China, one giant imperative that we need to expand American space cooperation, get back to the moon, and get on to Mars!
— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) January 3, 2019
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Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a 1.4mm thick camera prototype. The novel ultra-slim camera design is based on the eye structure of the xenos peckii parastic insect, which consists of a series of micro-prisms that sit above a set of microlenses.
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January 18th at Dublin Port Company marks the first workshop of the Uisce Salach project by Softday. The workshop will include a creative soundwalk participation and mapping as well as demonstrations of water sampling and sonification by Softday. You can contact [email protected] for details if you are interested in participating.
Image: Flavio Esposito, Ph.D, Saint Louis University / Ellen Hutti
Researchers Flavio Esposito and Mary Hogan have proposed a novel use of sound and music in computer network management. The traffic management solution describes how specific sound sequences can be used to monitor complicated network tasks and alert human and computer listeners.
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