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Last weekend, Taoiseach Simon Harris decided to blame immigrants for his government's failure in tackling the rising homeless figures in Ireland. I wrote about it here - The Weekend Fine Gael Went Full Tory.
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Engineers at MIT have developed 3D printed glass bricks that are as strong as concrete blocks and can be stacked like lego as a building material. They can also be melted down and reused.
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The Climate Drawdown project has developed a set of guides for different job categories that list all the ways climate action can be taken in the workplace.
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PDF to Audio is a machine learning model hosted on HuggingFace that converts PDF documents into audio.
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Desmog have published an eye-opening map of all the organisations, institutions, and individuals that make up the farming lobby in Ireland, that shows that "the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils.".
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The Guardian published an excellent piece by Fleur Britten about the tonnes of clothing waste from UK fashion retailers that wash up as waste on a beach in Ghana thanks to waste colonialism.
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.
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