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Other Voices Live - Bringing It All Back Home: UCC

Other Voices Live broadcast a bumper concert from UCC this week, packed full with some of the best music from Ireland available now. It's hard to pick the best from the super set of acts, although Rufous Nightjar are spectacular.

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Wrigley Field Drone Tour

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The Chicago Cubs made an insanely incredible drone tour of Wrigley Field.

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Flying 3D Printer Drones

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Researchers from Imperial College London and Switzerland's Empa institute have developed a system to deployed automated flying 3D printer drones which can be used to print structures in awkward to reach or inhospitable places. Inspired by bees, the Aerial Additive Manufacturing system (humourously) consists of two drones working together, one worker drone that does the printing and one gaffer drone that monitors the work and directs the worker drone to stick to the blueprint if it veers off script.

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How Transistors Work

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Do you want a short video describing how transistors work? If so, check out The Engineering Mindset's great video.

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Drone Over Everest

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In association with 8Kraw, DJI flew a Mavic 3 over Mount Everest, and recorded a video for all of us to watch!

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The Peter Principle

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Check out this great video (with super graphics) from the BBC Archives of an interview with Dr Laurence J. Peter, who coined the Peter Principle. I did not know it was meant to be expressed as satire while describing a very real phenomenon.

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Underground Autonomous Cargo Delivery

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Switzerland have given go-ahead for the construction of the first 70km of a new underground autonomous cargo delivery system called Cargo Sous Terrain (CST) at a cost of $3 billion. The full 500km network is expected to cost $35 billion and be complete by 2045. Electric induction power cargo pods will travel on rails in the underground tunnels at 30km per hour.

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GoPro Space Selfie

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NanoAvionics launched a cubesat with an extendible selfie arm and used a GoPro to capture a mega space selfie!

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How JPEG Compression Works

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In this informative video, Branch Education describes how each step in the JPEG image compression algorithm works, showing how large images can be compressed to much smaller file sizes with little perceivable loss.

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