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Life

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Making Decisions When Under Stress

Big Think published a useful video about how the CIA trains its operatives to make decisions when under stress using some simple rules, like do the next easy thing.

Life

Video

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Using Birds To Gather Data

Audubon published an interesting piece about how researchers are using birds as research assistants, to gather data and/or infer data from their movements and habits. Examples include checking the type of vomit thrown up by western gulls to track the movement of whales, and putting sensors on cormorants to track sea level depth changes.

Science

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Concrete Sphere Sea Batteries

The Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology have developed a battery system using hollow concrete spheres that can be placed on the sea bed. Energy is stored by pumping the water out of a sphere to make it hollow. When water is released back into the sphere, energy is generated by a turbine as the water goes back in.

Innovation

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Space Speedometer

Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force have developed a speedometer device for space vehicles that measures the amount of space-plasma ions that hit both sides of the "dual-sensor laminated-head electrostatic analyzer", and measure the difference to calculate space speed.

Space

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Days Since Last Incident

Neal Agarwal created a "fun" website that shows the days since last incident for tsunamis, earthquakes, solar flares, and other disasters.

Life

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9th Planet

Astronomers in Australia have uncovered some evidence that points to the possibility of a 9th planet deep in the solar system, which could take between 10,000 and 20,000 years to orbit the sun.

Space

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Clinate UX Case Study At Intel

Rosenfeld Media published an interesting case study about how Intel’s Software and Technology started to implement Climate UX in their projects, and how they found that measurement, tools, embedding in workflows, and user empowerment helped them successfully implement sustainability in their projects.

Data Vis

Web Dev

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SEAI Master Planning Dashboard

SEAI published an interesting dashboard that shows the take-up of EV grants cross Ireland, along with data on house types, year of construction, heat loss indocators, and BER ratings.

Data Vis

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10% Wealthiest Caused 65% Of Warming Since 1990

A study published in Nature Climate Change shows that the 10% of the wealthiest people are responsible for 65% of the global temperature warming since 1990. This 10% is categorised as anyone who earns at least €42,980 (£36,605) per year.