Items of Interest

Moon Map

The USGS has completed the first Unified Geologic Map of The Moon using Apollo era maps combined with modern satellite data.

Space

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Hubble Birthday Photos

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You can now see a photo that Hubble snapped on your birthday! Since Found This Week is 4 years old today, above is today's birthday image from Hubble.

Photo

Space

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The Farnham Street blog has a great post on second order thinking. The post centres around the Chesterton's Fence thought experiment, which can be summarised to: "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place". A valuable lesson for anyone in a position of management :-)

Business

Life

Motivation

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Slack Etiquette

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The Slab blog describes some great etiquette tips for using Slack within a company. This is very helpful in the current situation with the increase in people working from home and perhaps relying more on communication via slack.

Business

Life

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Google Tensorflow Quantum

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Google have released the Tensorflow Quantum API, allowing hybrid quantum-classical machine learning calculations to be performed on simulated quantum computers and actual Google quantum computers.

AI & ML

Quantum Computing

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EUVsVirus Hackathon

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The European Commission are hosting a hackathon on April 24 to 26 to develop solutions to 37 COVID-19 challenges across Health & Life, Business Continuity, Social & Political Cohesion, Remote Working & Education, Digital Finance and other categories. Individuals, teams, mentors and organisations can participate to offer development, design & management skills to name but a few. (H/T to Mikael Fernström for sharing).

Innovation

Life

Tech

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Folding@Home Supercomputer

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Folding@Home is a distributed community computing platform that allows everyone to donate any spare computer processing power to protein folding simulation experiments. Folding@Home are now performing protein folding experiments on COVID-19 and in recent weeks, the number of users has jumped from 30,000 to 700,000.

Innovation

Science

Tech

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Sun Plasma

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Researchers at the University of Central Lanchashire (UCLan) released the highest-ever resolution images of the sun, taken using NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C). The images show magentic strands of million-degree 500km wide plasma on the sun! Check out their Flickr gallery here.

Innovation

Photo

Space

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Lankum Live at WGBH

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WGBH Music in Boston released a fantastic video of RTÉ Choice Music award winners Lankum performing in the WGH Fraser Performance Studio. Drink it in.

Music

Video

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Public Books Database

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Many academic presses have made hundreds of their titles freely accessible online as response to teh COVID-19 crisis. Publicbooks.org have published the Public Books Database to bring a list of all these book publishers together.

Life

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