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Youth Assembly on Climate in Dáil Éireann

Last week as part of the centenary of Dáil Éireann, the first ever youth assembly on climate took place in the Dáil. Young people from all over the country gathered in thematic groups, discussed options and submitted a list of recommendations to the Oireachtas and the government.

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Lines of Code That Changed The World

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Slate.com have put together a fascinating list of lines of code that changed the world. The list starts with Basile Bouchon's binary punch cards from 1725, ends with the Boeing 737 Max software error, and includes everything in between such as Hello World, the hyperlink, the first popup and Bitcoin.

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Éire Markings By Drone

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Drone photographer Conor Corbett (aka Éirespace) travelled the coasts of Ireland to capture drone photos of any of the remaining Éire markings from Workd War II. The 82 markings were created by volunteers of the Coastal Watch Service to help aircraft distinguish neutral Ireland from Northern Ireland.

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The Mysterious Uncrackable Video Game

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On their quest to unearth lost video game coding secrets, researchers John Aycock and Tara Copplestone of the Universities of Calgary and York stumbled accross a piece of code from the 1982 Atari 2600 game Entombed which they could not reverse engineer. The video game archaeologists contacted employees involved in developing the game, and they too recalled not being able to decipher the logic behind a particular data table which was used to generative valid maze structures within the game.

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Podcasts Of The Week: The David McWilliams Podcast - Exploring the ramifications of a united Ireland

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This week I caught up with some episodes of The David McWilliams Podcast. I like the format of the episodes where his friend asks the (sometimes leading) questions which makes the content more of a conversation down the pub rather than a sermon in the church of behavioural economics. The stat man Finn also sounds a bit like The Viper, so I picture The Viper in a smoke filled room speaking in hushed tones over a laptop with Excel in full screen mode :-p.

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Historic Naval Sounds

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The San Francisco Maritime National Park Association have published a collection of historic naval sounds and video on their website. The collection includes audio of navy attacks during World War II, sonar training audio and various audio of sea creatures.

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Ireland V Wales in Swansea in 1949

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RTÉ archives highlighted some footage this week from 1949 showing the Irish rugby team beat Wales and win the Triple Crown in St. Helen's in Swansea in 1949. The footage, shot by Norman Hodgson, starts with the Aer Lingus flight from Collinstown Airport in Dublin to LLandow airport and captures supporters arriving into Swansea by train and the crowds around St. Helens before the match.

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Ireland & UK Language History

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Ryan Starkey at StarkeyComics.com released a fantastic animated gif and blog post about the spread and decline of the different languages across Ireland and the UK from 400AD onwards.

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1890s Footage of Paris

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Check out this great footage taken by The Lumiere brothers in Paris in the 1890s. YouTuber Guy Jones has stabilised and slowed down the footage and added foley to make it more relate-able.

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1919 Dáil Eireann & Usk Prison Break

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This week Ireland celebrated the centenary of the first Dáil in 1919. An article on IrishCentral.com tells the remarkable story of the prison break of Joe McGrath TD (a member of the Dáil), Barney Mellows and George Geraghty from Usk prison in Wales on the same day. The three Republicans pretended to be American tourists and tried to head for the ferry in Fishguard but couldn't get a train.

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