Image: The Burren, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
Benjamin TD created a handy map that shows you how far you can travel by train in 5 hours from any main station on a map.
Image: Frederico Bittencourt
When I was studying computer science, myself and my class mates always had at least one topic that was a blind spot. An area that we were either too afraid or too lazy to dive into and learn the details properly. For me and some others, character encoding was one such topic.
Thankfully, Frederico Bittencourt posted a great primer blog post on UTF-8 character encoding, describing the format used to encode special characters in more than one byte. A great place to start shining a light on some of those learning blind spots. (See also Regex).
Image: Pixabay
Popsci posted an interesting piece about why you shouldn't throw away those little silica gel packs because they are harmful to the environment. The article lists some ways you can reuse them to keep things like electronics and documents free of moisture.
Image: NuScale
The Nuclear Regulator Commission is set to approve NuScale modular nuclear reactor for use. The NuScale reactor is small enough to be manufactured and shipped to its site of use, uses external water supplies for cooling and features an operator free shut down procedure using gravity if a problem occurs.
Image: John Wiseman
John Wiseman created a map showing areas around the world where GPS jamming is in place. The data is based on aircraft reports of their navigation system accuracy.
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
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