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Friday, October 18, 2024

In This Edition:
Climate reporting, lucid dream communication, 3D printed electronics, 60ms odour detection, Map of Blindboy’s Tour of Limerick, & Information Entropy & living in a simulation!

Lucid Dream Communication

Image: REMspace

REMspace has successfully sent messages between two people while dreaming. Their system allowed a chat word to be injected into a lucid dream of a person, who responded with another word in their dream. Their response word was recorded bythe system and injected into a lucid dream of a second person, who confirmed the response word when they woke up!

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Interesting Engineering
Innovation Science
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3D Printed Electronics

Image: MIT

MIT researchers have 3D printed electronic circuits without silicon, creating possibilities of more accessible development and maintenance of electronics technology.

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MIT
Science Tech
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60ms Odour Detection

Image: Unsplash, Trude Jonsson Stangel

Chinese scientists have demonstrated that the human nose can differentiate between distinct odours as fast as 60ms apart, which is a similar speed to that of colour perception.

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Science News
Science
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Map of Blindboy’s Walking Tour of Limerick City History

Image: Gogole Maps

There's an art in producing a consistent type of content, and then every so often doing something different that is unexpected but just as good. This week, Blindboy did an outside broadcast of his podcast as a walking tour of Limerick City history, and it is brilliant.

I studied, worked, and lived in Limerick for years and I learned things from this episode that I didn't know, so much so that I took the liberty of creating a map of the points of interest mentioned by Blindboy (with a few extra points from the lore of the podcast), for anyway who wants to retrace his steps, virtually and/or physically.

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Acast
Data Vis History Podcast
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Information Entropy & Living In A Simulation

Image: Unsplash, Alexander Sinn

Physicist Melvin Vopson has proposed that we may be living in a simulation due to his theory of Information Entropy being observed in Covid mutations, which he proposes do not develop randomly and according to the theory of evolution, but mutate according to his information Entropy theory which states that information entropy always remains the same or lower. If this universal law turns out to be true, it would indicate that the universe is a simulation attempting to keep processing power, and its proxy information entropy, as efficient and low as possible. All of this remains to be proven.

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IFL Science
Life Science
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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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