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Aircraft Weight "Miss"-classification

A bug in an airline reservation system resulted in all female passengers on a Tui flight that select Miss on their booking to be allocated a child's weight of 35kg on the aircraft load sheet instead of the standard weight of 69kg. This error resulted in the pilot calculating takeoff thrust using a weight figure that was 1,200kg lighter than the real weight of the aircraft.

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Podcast of the Week: Tim Ferriss & Balaji Srinivasan

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Tim Ferriss recently interviewed Balaji Srinivasan and it was an insanely good interview! They cover geo-politics, crypto, their intersection, among many, many other topics, futurist and otherwise.

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Siúcra

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Axis Ballymun released a fantastic love-letter to the Irish Langauge this week, written and performed by Roxanna Nic Liam. Siúcra elegantly addresses the tension many Irish people experience when it comes to Gaeilge.

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Negentropy

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Alison Carr-Chellman from University of Dayton has developed the theory of negentropy, the opposite of entropy.

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My Octopus Teacher

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This week I watched My Octopus Teacher on Netflix. It's a narrated documentary by Craig Foster about bonding with an octopus in the ocean. The film is visually stunning and extremely heartwarming. If you are looking for a perspective reset and something as far away from the pandemic as possible, this is the film to watch.

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Conflict Management Strategies

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Intelivate published a useful list of eleven strategies for conflict management, including identifying and managing emotional triggers, deflecting emotional reactions, and using empathy and power of ownership statements.

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Covid Air Extraction Spread

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El Pais published another set of informative Covid infection animations, this time illustrating how communial air extraction pipes in apartment buildings can facilitate the spread of Covid from different apartments in an air suction loop. Apartment buildings built prior to 1975 in Spain contain these communical air pipes in bathrooms.

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Podcast of the Week: NPR Shortwave on The Sperm Race Fairytale

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This recent episode of NPR Shortwave is mind-blowing. As it turns out, the sperm race story of contraception that we all learn in school is not what happens in reality, and is littered with mysogonistic bias. The Shortwave team do a great job in this episode describing how the biological process actually works.

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Operating Principles For Decision Making

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Luca Canducci on Compound Interests published a useful post on using operating principles, such as 2-way door decisions and asynchronous first communication, to help make decision making easier.

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Vaccine Efficacy Explained

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The New York Times published a vaccine efficacy explainer, using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as an example, that describes how the different percentage figures are calculated.

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