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Friday, March 4, 2022

In This Edition:
Fashion industry environmental impact, COVID sleep patterns, Earth's history in sand, whimsical online diagrams, & MuRli's The Sky Has Windows!

Fashion Industry Environmental Impact

Image: Bloomberg

Bloomberg Green published a great page describing the massive detrimental impact that the fashion industry has on the environment. 11.3 million tonnes of clothes are thrown away in the U.S. each year, most of which contain polyester.

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COVID Sleep Patterns

Image: Jeff Huang

Jeff Huang and other researchers from Brown University published some interesting research on how sleep patterns across countries changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Earth's History In Sand

Australian scientists have discovered how to map the geological history of the earth in grains of sand, by measuring the distribution of zircon within the sand.

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Whimsical Online Diagrams

Image: Whimsical

Whimsical is a very handy set of online graphing tools that allow you to create charts like flowcharts, wireframes and mind maps.

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MuRli's The Sky Has Windows

Image: MuRli

MuRli released his newest EP The Sky Has Windows, and it is great! Listen to it and buy it on bandcamp.

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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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