Image: Duckling, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
I was unhappy with the lack of priority given to higher education funding in the budget this week, so I wrote Horses & Greyhounds Over Universities.
Image: Edmund Fry
In 1799, Edmund Fry published the book Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World. The digitised version of the book is now available to view on the Public Domain Review and contains some fantastic runes, include many Irish ones (p.164) I haven't come across before.
Image: Unsplash, Milad Fakurian
Big Think published an explainer about how the plasticity of the brain can impact on learning, and how repetition can cause structural changes in the brain to make learning easier.
Image: Google Research
Google's Project Green Light uses AI and the vast amount of Google Maps traffic data to identify efficiencies in traffic schedules in cities that can deliver 30% less stopping and 10% less traffic emissions.
Image: George Monbiot
George Monbiot published an excellent essay on the realities of food production in the context of the Climate Emergency, and how the nostalgic idea of returning to the land is neither realistic of viable for society.
Image: Doughnut Economics Action Lab
The Doughnut Economics Action Lab collaboratively produced the Buy-in Bakery, a handy mind-map of topics encountered and actions that can be taken when getting buy-in to use Doughnut Economics. The list is useful for developing a plan to get buy-in for positive change on any project I think.
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
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