Items of Interest

Podcasts Of The Week: Media Moments

Dublin based PR & Storytelling agency All Good Tales have launched an interesting podcast called Media Moments, which tells the story of key moments of media history. The podcast is 2 episodes in and the second episode covers a Irish historical recap of P. Flynn's fall from grace at the hands of Tom Gilmartin, initiated by the infamous interview with Gay Byrne on The Late Late Show.

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Sublime Merge

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The makers of Sublime Text have released a free visual GIT tool called Sublime Merge. This is a beautiful piece of software and extremely useful at visualising complex GIT repositories.

Tech

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Music For Memories

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The BBC in partnership with the charity Playlist For Life have launched a music website that aims to help people with dementia reconnect with their most powerful memories.

Life

Music

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Asteroid Explorers

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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency have landed 2 biscuit tin sized MINERVA-II1 rovers on the Ryugu asteroid as have started sending back images as part of the Hayabusa 2 project. The rovers robots jump around the asteroid with in air times up to fifiteen minutes due to the low gravity of the asteroid.

Innovation

Space

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Quantum Entropy Arrow Of Time Reversal

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Brazilian scientists have performed a quantum experiment that appears to be reverse the thermodynamic arrow of time. The experiment starts with two quantum correlated particles with a high degree of entropy (quantum superposition).

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iPhone Moon

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Photographer Tim White spent a year photographing the moon using a telescope and an iPhone 7. Check out the photos on his website.

Photo

Space

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Firefox Reality

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Mozilla have launched Firefox Reality, a web browser for VR. Users can use voice activation to search using the in experience browser window and can also jump into 3D content using the browser.

AR & VR

Tech

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Swansea Laptop Orchestra CoDI Workshop

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This week The Swansea Laptop Orchestra held their first workshop wth the selected composers for the Tŷ Cerdd CoDI electronic pathway project, and I was on hand to take some photos of all the lovely people. Check out the photos of the fun day we had here.

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Ospreys Development Vs Munster A

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This week Munster A came to Swansea to play against the Ospreys Development team in the Celtic Cup. Captained by Bill Johnson (above), the strong Munster A side won easily scoring 52 points to Osprey's 7. Check out my pitchside photos of the match here.

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