Image: Frozen, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
A great explainer by New Scientist on the blockchain:
"Blockchain, Feedback readers will no doubt be aware, is a distributed ledger technology designed such that any attempt by one party to explain what it is or how it works causes the eyes of a second party to glaze over, thus ensuring total security about what’s actually going on."
Image: Kuna and Nábėlek
Researchers at Oregon State University have demonstracted how to map the ocean floor using whale song! The 190 dB song of fin whales takes the form of second long bursts in the 20Hz range separated by dozens of seconds and typically last for hours.
Image: Oxford Nanopore
Using a nanopore sequencer on a USB dongle and new open-source fuzzy logic UNCALLED software, scientists can selectively sequence DNA samples in three days or less without the need for large expensive lab equipment.
Image: codeburst.io
Codeburst published a handy beginners guide to functional programming, which describes the fundamentals including pure functions and recursion.
Image: Github, trekhleb
A very handy github repository of javascript code illustrating the many data structures and algorithms taught in computer science, from graph traversal to encryption and machine learning.
Image: A Song For Us
A Song For Us is a project that captures original and favourite songs during lockdown, and provides a map to submit songs you have written or songs that hold special meaning at this time.
Image: YouTube, Seán Doran
Seán Doran created a video of earth orbit in 4k from timelapse photography taken from the ISS.
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