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Friday, April 18, 2025

In This Edition:
By land and sea, signal emitting bacteria detectors, map of polluting wood burners in England & Wales, migratory beekeeping in Yemen, & TV Garden!

When I lived in London, I saw 10FOOT tags everywhere & thought I had found a secret world. I later found out that 10FOOT is far from a secret & is a legend. I was very excited to buy this special edition of The Big Issue by 10FOOT, with a dán speisialta Ó Kneecap.

By Land And Sea

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By Land And Sea is a great new website with lots of information about how to travel to and from Ireland, the UK, and Europe by ferry, rail, bus, and active travel, instead of flying in order to reduce emissions.

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Signal Emitting Bacteria Detectors

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Researchers at MIT have developed bacteria that can be added to crops and used as detectors that emit signals using colours of specific wavelengths. These colours can be monitored using hyperspectral imaging from 90 meters away to spot pollution and/or monitor soil health.

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Map of Polluting Woodburners In England & Wales

University College London published a detailed map of all the wood burners in England & Wales using data from Energy Performance Certificates (EPC). In 2022, domestic stoves produced 21.6% of UK PM 2.5 air pollution emissions, more than all road transport emissions. 

Migratory Beekeeping In Yemen

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Reasons To Be Cheerful published an interesting piece about migratory beekeepers in Yemen that move their hives to track the blooming seasons of the Sidr flower to produce the expensive Sidr honey. Practising migratory beekeeping increases the population of bees, but is not without its challenges from climate change, Malaria pesticide spraying, and illegal Sidr tree logging.

TV Garden

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TV Garden lets you explore lots of the free to air TV channels from around the world.

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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 Liverpool. 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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