Items of Interest

The Superpowers of Stinging Nettles

Stinging nettles have a bad rep as a villain of nature, when in actual fact, they have lots of great superpowers like being caterpillar & butterfly food, a sanctuary for ladybirds, a medicine to treat hypertension and diabetes, and can even be used as cloth fibre.

Environment

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Scrolly Video

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Scrolly Video is a javascript library that syncs the playback of a background video with the scrolling of the page.

Web Dev

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WiFi Human Pose Sensing System

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a WiFi based human pose sensing system that can identify multiple people and their positions in a room using the phase and amplitude of the WiFi signal, filtered using machine learning models. The system can map the UV coordinates of body regions and is comparable to image based recognition systems.

AI & ML

Innovation

Tech

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Air Pollution Caused By Wood Burning Stoves

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The Clean Air Hub describes the new evidence on how bad wood burning stoves are at causing harmful small particle air pollution.

Environment

Life

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Steering Lightning With Lasers

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Physicists at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau have successfully used lasers to guide lightning over a Swiss mountain. The lasers create a pathway of low density, ionized air that the lightning can follow.

Science

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Learning Invented Languages

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Ars Technica published an interesting article with linguist Christine Schreyer about creating languages for film and TV, and what can be learned from the process to help to preserve endangered languages.

History

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Novu Notification API

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Novu is a notification management API that allows you to manage and send notifications across a range of providers and communication channels using one API.

Web Dev