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Friday, February 25, 2022

In This Edition:
Open Weather, fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria, synthetic organic neurons & synapses, Virgin Hyperloop freight pivot, and 30 quotes from Tim Ferriss

Open Weather

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Open Weather is an artistic collaborative project that teaches people how to pick up the radio transmissions of the NOAA weather satellite and to submit your weather readings to contribute to the artistic and open archival project

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Fighting Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

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Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a new technique to fight antibiotic resistance in bacteria by identifying and inhibiting proteins that help store and spread resistance information.

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Synthetic Organic Neurons & Synapses

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Researchers at Linköping University have created and connected synthetic organic neurons and synapses to those of a Venus fly trap plant and successfully triggered the plant to close its leaves.

Virgin Hyperloop Freight Pivot

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Virgin Hyperloop has announced a pivot from focussing on passenger travel to concentrating on carrying freight. They say the change in direction was brought about because of global supply chain issues and COVID.

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30 Quotes From Tim Ferriss

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Tim Ferriss put together a great list of 30 thought-provoking quotes in a recent issue of his 5-Bullet Friday newsletter.
I particularly like the quote from Rosamund and Benjamin Zander:
"I will have to remember ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.'"

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About Found This Week

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.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in London. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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