The Hope & Courage Collective produced a useful guide with examples on how to converse with someone that holds far-right views, with the hope of bringing them towards a compassionate world-view.
The Journal of Art In Society published an interesting piece about how Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ spent 60 years as a misidentified piece with the Jesuits, after an adventure with connections to 1916 revolutionary Tom Clarke and famous artist Harry Clarke!
During another excellent episode of the Blindboy podcast with Manchán Magan, we learnt how the purchasing of the guns for the 1916 Rising was financed by Manchán's relative The O'Rahilly from the proceeds of selling bird shit. Listen to the end to be rewarded with this unique quirk of history.
Shipping company Solvang have deployed a carbon capture system on their Clipper Eris ship that will capture up to 70% of the CO2 produced by the ship's exhaust. The system is being tested in a 2 year pilot scheme.
Adaptation Scotland published an updated Climate Adaptation Capability Framework handbook and starter pack, aimed and helping Scotland's public sector to identify and action climate adaptation. It provides an easy to understand framework that can be used by any organisation.
Temperature changes across 4 climate change scenarios have been analysed to project the amount of temperature related deaths from 2015 to 2099 in 854 European cities. The paper published in Nature Medicine states that "with no adaptation to heat, the increase in heat-related deaths consistently exceeds any decrease in cold-related deaths across all considered scenarios in Europe".
Researchers at the University of Toronto and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology used machine learning to design a nano-material that is strong as steel and light as foam and can be 3D printed at the micro and nano scale.
Azeem Azhar published a great piece on the Exponential View describing the new AI open source DeepSeek R1 model, how it compares to other models, and what effect it most likely will have on the AI landscape.