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IPCC Climate Emergency Graphs

CNBC have curated the 9 most important graphs from the third IPCC report on the Climate Emergency. The report states that greenhouse gas emissions need to peak by 2025 if the world has a chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees.

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Moby On Being Vegan & Saving The Planet

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Moby released a great video about his journey to becoming vegan when he was young, and how veganism can now be used to tackle the climate emergency.

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COVID Sleep Patterns

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Jeff Huang and other researchers from Brown University published some interesting research on how sleep patterns across countries changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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30 Quotes From Tim Ferriss

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Tim Ferriss put together a great list of 30 thought-provoking quotes in a recent issue of his 5-Bullet Friday newsletter. I particularly like the quote from Rosamund and Benjamin Zander: "I will have to remember ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.'"

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Traffic Simulator

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There are hours of fun to be had using this Traffic Simulator while you strive to achieve peak traffic flow efficiency across a number of different road layouts.

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Russian Gas

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Reuters published a great map of the gas supply across Europe, illustrating the dependence on Russian gas in continental Europe.

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Podcast Of The Week: Addressing Bias In NASA Submissions

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This NPR Shortwave episode describes how scientists at NASA analysed the submissions for use of the new James Webb telescope, as well as Hubble and found a huge amount of unconscious bias was leading to the majority of approvals going to submissions from male scientists. They ran some experiments with the submission procedures and found blind submissions as well as more fact based reviewing procedures removed a lot of the biases from the process.

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Matrix Glasses Ranked

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K. Thor Jensen over at Polygon has ranked the top 20 sunglasses of the Matrix Franchise.

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Disable 2G On Android

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Google pushed an update to some phones running Android 12 to allow 2G to be disabled by the user. This is significant because cell site simulators used by police in the U.S. can impersonate cell towers and force a phone to downgrade to a 2G connection. This then allows the cell site simulator to crack the weaker 2G encryption in real time and snoop on any phones connected to it.

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Loop Tap

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Once you've done your Wordle, check out Loop Tap if you want to all of a sudden lose a half an hour :-)

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