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IKEA's Bee Home

IKEA's reasearch lab Space10 has collaborated with design studio Bakken & Bæck and industrial designer Tanita Klein to create Bee Home, an open source design for a wooden Bee Home that people can build and install at home. The Bee Home website allows you to customise the size and configuration of your Bee Home, and then download the instructions and CNC files to use to fabricate the wooden home.

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Kanmail

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Struggling with managing all of your email in lockdown? Then Kanmail might be for you. Software developers Oxygem have released Kanmail, an email client app that lets you organise your email within a Kanban board.

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Life Advice

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Technologist elder Kevin Kelly published 68 Bits of Unsolited Advice, which are all gold.

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Ikea Growroom

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Ikea's research and design operation Space 10 has open sourced The Growroom, an urban farming pavilion designed to allow communities to grow food in urban spaces.

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Podcast of the Week: Tim Ferriss & Adam Grant

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For those of us needing a productivity kick in the ass during COVID-19 lockdown, Tim Ferriss' interview with Adam Grant is for us! The podcast episode is extremely entertaining as these two giants of achievement and productivity have the chats about how to achieve more by hacking your outlook for personal growth, and how to be a nice person while doing it.

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We Make Good Face Masks

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We Make Good are selling face masks made by women from refugee backgrounds affiliated with The Textile Studio in Dublin, and are donating an extra masks to someone living in Direct Provision for every mask bought. Maith siad. Buy your mask here.

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R0 - Basic Reproduction Number

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The Guardian published an interesting interactive visualisation article describing R0, the basic reproduction number, which is the metric used to measure the contagiousness of a pathogen. Reducing the R0 of Covid-19 is funadamental in preventing exponential infections of the virus and will determine how lockdown restrictions can be lifted.

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Pandemic History

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Visual Capitalist published an informative infograph showing the different pandemics throughout history with the size scaled to the number of deaths.

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Chesterton's Fence

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The Farnham Street blog has a great post on second order thinking. The post centres around the Chesterton's Fence thought experiment, which can be summarised to: "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place". A valuable lesson for anyone in a position of management :-)

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Slack Etiquette

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The Slab blog describes some great etiquette tips for using Slack within a company. This is very helpful in the current situation with the increase in people working from home and perhaps relying more on communication via slack.

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