The National Library of Ireland published a scanned copy of an Irish-English spelling primer from the 1830s, including translations between Cló Gaelach letters and English letters.
Scientists at Kyoto University have deployed the world's first wooden satellite and launched it into space via SpaceX. The intention of the LignoSat is to measure how durable the wooden structure withstands operation in space.
John Gibbons wrote an excellent but sobering piece in The Journal about the floods in Valencia, and how political will is what is needed for us to limit the coming damage.
"The system that is churning out more and more flying, more SUVs, more throwaway consumerism and ever more meat-rich diets is the very system that is accelerating humanity and much of the natural world towards the climate abyss."
Carbone4 published an interested post about the emissions tracking of cloud hosting providers, what they include in their carbon calculators, and most don't account for Scope 3 emissions.
Archaeologists have found a lost Mayan city on the Yucatán Peninsula using an old lidar survey from 2013 that was conducted to monitor the carbon reservoirs in Mexico's forests.
The Life Nieblas project in the Canary Islands uses a plastic mesh to imitate how pine needles trap water, and is used to milk the clouds of fog on the islands for water. The captured water is used to irrigate reforested tree saplings until they are big enough to capture water from the air themselves. The system is also used in Chile to provide drinking water and water for irrigation.
