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Podcast Of The Week: The Blindboy Podcast Live with Ellie Kisyombe & Michelle Darmody

In the second half of this podcast episode, Blindboy plays an excellent and important live interview with Ellie Kisyombe abd Michelle Darmody, the founders of Our Table. Our Table is a non-profit organisation that "aims to build an awareness of food in multicultural Ireland and to highlight that the current system of Direct Provision is deeply flawed".

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Cork House of Cards

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Check out this great timelapse of Cork in the style of the House of Cards opening sequence by Karl Kachmarsky.

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Accessibility Tools

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Ben Robertson has put together a handy list of 5 automated tools to use to test your website for accessibility issues.

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Critical Reasoning For Beginners

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The University of Oxford has published 6 lectures from its Critical Thinking For Beginners course, which are available in audio format and on YouTube.

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Escape With Cheap Flights

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Find the cheapest flights from a starting point on any given day with greatescape.co. The flight search engine plots the options on a world map very nicely.

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NVIDIA Photo Generator

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NVIDIA have released a have showcased a demo of its GauGAN image generation tool. The software allows the user to draw rudimentary scenes using a interface similiar to MS Paint, which are then converted into photo-realistic scenes using generative adversarial networks. Check out Peter McKinnon's reaction to the software in this video.

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New Music From Ireland - St. Patrick's Day Concert

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On St.Patrick's Day I attended The New Music From Ireland concert in Chaprter Arts Centre in Cardiff which featured Emma Coulthard, Jenn Kirby and Benjamin Dwyer. You can check out the photos from the concert here.

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NAWR #33 - Of Line & Structure:LIVE - Angharad Jenkins, Jenn Kirby, Rhodri Davies

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Last week NAWR visited the Elysium Gallery in Swansea for a concert by Angharad Jenkins, Rhodri Davies & Jenn Kirby. The three performed responses to the current Hazel Cardew art exhibition on display in the gallery. You can check out more photos from the concert here.

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£1.2m Artistic Debt Abolishment

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Artist Hilary Powell and filmmaker Dan Edelstyn setup their own bank called Hoe Street Central Bank in Walthamstow when the local Co-op bank shut down. They obtained a licence from the Financial Conduct Authority and printed their own money with local heroes on the notes like the founders of the local foodbank, homeless kitchen and the headmistress of the local school.

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Workout & Healthy Habits Consistency Research

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Precision Nutrition studied 1000 clients over 12 months and found that being at least 50% consistent with workouts and healthy eating habits results in measurable differences.

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