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Motivation

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Food Production Reality

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.

Life

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Google's Better Traffic Lights

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.

AI & ML

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Brain Plasticity & Learning

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.

Life

Motivation

Science

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Every Alphabet In 1799

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.

Data Vis

History

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Irish Halloween Stories

Wexford man Michael Fortune interviewed older people in Wexford and asked them to recall their Halloween memories and stories. He captured their answers on video, which are wonderful to watch. The videos of these interviews have been collated by Irish Central.

History

Life

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CSS Auto-resizing Textarea Trick

Need a textarea to expand automatically when text is typed in it? Then Simon Willison’s TILs blog post is for you.

Web Dev

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Analyse Green Impact of Software

Cast Software offer a tool that can analyse the green impact of your software by modelling its data and processing usage.

Web Dev

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Newly Discovered Free Floating Planet Pairs

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the existence of free floating pairs of Jupiter size planets, unconnected to any stars in the Orion nebula, nicknamed JuMBOs (Jupiter Mass Binary Objects).

Space

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Passive Water Desalination Using Solar Power

Engineers at MIT and in China have developed a passive water desalination solution using solar power that produces 4 to 6 litres of filtered water per hour, without salt clogging up the system using currents that mimic ocean currents.