Don Norman wrote in Fast Company about how society is designed against the elderly and doesn't take into consideration reduction in vision and auditory capabilities.
Biotech firm Klick Labs developed a 10-second smartphone voice test that uses AI to detect type 2 diabetes, with an accuracy of 89% for women and 86% for men.
The Doughnut Economics Action Lab collaboratively produced the Buy-in Bakery, a handy mind-map of topics encountered and actions that can be taken when getting buy-in to use Doughnut Economics. The list is useful for developing a plan to get buy-in for positive change on any project I think.
George Monbiot published an excellent essay on the realities of food production in the context of the Climate Emergency, and how the nostalgic idea of returning to the land is neither realistic of viable for society.
Google's Project Green Light uses AI and the vast amount of Google Maps traffic data to identify efficiencies in traffic schedules in cities that can deliver 30% less stopping and 10% less traffic emissions.
Big Think published an explainer about how the plasticity of the brain can impact on learning, and how repetition can cause structural changes in the brain to make learning easier.
In 1799, Edmund Fry published the book Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World. The digitised version of the book is now available to view on the Public Domain Review and contains some fantastic runes, include many Irish ones (p.164) I haven't come across before.
