Five Thirty Eight have written a piece describing how easily COVID-19 can spread during multiple Thanksgiving dinners. Things to keep in mind for Christmas dinner.
The only dinosaur fossils ever found on the island of Ireland have now been confirmed as coming from two seperate dinosaurs. The fossils, confirmed by a team from National Museums NI, University of Portsmouth, and Queens University Belfast, come from a Scelidosaurus and a Sarcosaurus.
Researchers at Stanford have solved the mystery of the dancing droplets. Food colouring droplets comprise water and propylene glycol. Differences in surface tension and evaporation between both elements cause the droplets to move.
One Item Store is a shopping cart platform that lets you easily setup and sell one product. It is free to setup an account and charges a 1% fee plus payment transaction fees for any sales made using the site.
Upptime is an open source status moitoring page framework, that can be used to display the latest status of a site and also include github incident reports as status updates.
With the Architecture Playbook, Maikel Mardjan ahs created a book that aims to capture all the best open tools and methodologies for software development in one place, making it easier and simpler to build software.
The Mozilla Foundation have published an index of privacy relating to consumer devices. The Privacy Not Included site lists a range of electronics sorted by how creey they are in using your personal information.
I recently interviewed Manchán Magan over on Smart Thinking Books and as a result this week I sought out his podcast The Almanac of Ireland and I was not disappointed! In the episode Hellmouth, Manchán goes in search of the ancient mystical cave enterance to the Cetlic underworld, in a field in Roscommon. He ventures 7 meters underground into the cave with no light and just a microphone and a book for company.
