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Friday, August 15, 2025

In This Edition:
The climate of your city in 60 years map, National Library of Scotland maps, grid aware website constraints case study, quantum navigation space test, & the commodity of US national debt!

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The Climate Of Your City In 60 Years Map

Image: Matt Fitzpatrick

Matt Fitzpatrick at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science - Appalachian Lab created a map that shows you what the climate of your city will be like in 60 years by linking it to a place that has that climate now. Cork will have the climate of Guernica in 2080. As you get closer to the equator, the map reads displays the message: Future climate for this location is expected to be unlike anything currently found anywhere on Earth, so there are no climate matches for this location.

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Matt Fitzpatrick
Data Vis Environment
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National Library of Scotland Maps

Image: National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland have made lots of historical maps available online, including many of the cities and large towns in Ireland.

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National Library of Scotland Maps
Data Vis History
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Grid Aware Website Constraints Case Study

Image: Branch

Branch magazine published an interesting case study of a grid aware website with feature constraints selectable by users, and surveyed the users of their awareness and preferences for feature reductions. Grey scaling images and removing images were the last options users implemented.

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Branch
Environment Web Dev
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Quantum Navigation Space Test

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The US Military will be testing a quantum inertial sensor on board an upcoming X037B spaceflight. The quantum navigation device users atom interferometry to supercool atoms and measure overlapping waves patterns of the atoms, which represent positional shifts. The method produces accurate dead-reckoning without any drift or need for external references.

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The Conversation
Quantum Computing Space
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The Commodity Of US National Debt

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This week David McWilliams interview Brendan Greeley and they discussed an interesting viewpoint about how US Treasury bonds, aka national debt, has become decoupled from any risk assessment and can be used by America as a commodity natural resource. This has worked for decades because of the inherent trust of the market in US institutions, which is now being dismantled.

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Acast, The David McWilliams Podcast
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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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