Items of Interest

Concrete Crane Energy Storage

A startup called Energy Vault is using a 120 meter crane to store potential energy in a tower of concrete blocks that weight 35 metric tons each. The tower can store 20 megawatt hours of power and has a round-trip energy efficiency rate of 85%.

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Inch Beach, Dingle Peninsula

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During my trip to Kerry, the weather cleared enough to fly my drone over Inch Beach. It is such a beautiful beach, set between the Iveragh and Dingle Peninsulas. It was also the first beach that I've driven a car on right down the length of the beach. Check out more of my Inch Beach drone photos here.

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Harry Clarke Stained Glass Windows

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Tucked away off one of the streets in Dingle is An Díseart convent of the Presentation Sisters order which I visited. In 1924, the convent commissioned Harry Clarke to created 6 sets of stained glass windows for the convert chapel. On first glance, the stained glass look to portray the usual religious scenes but on further inspection the mesmerising detail of each square centimeter of the glass becomes apparent.

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Printed Paper Actuator

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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Morphing Matter Lab have created printed paper actuators. By coating paper with conductive thermoplastic, the paper can bend, fold or flatten in response to an electric current. The video demonstrates some interesting uses for this technology, as interface controllers and as a moving publishing medium. (H/T to Mikael for sharing this.)

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Wireless Communication Water Air Barrier

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Researchers at MIT have figured out how to break the water air barrier for wireless communication. The solution involves using a sonar transmitter to vibrate the surface of the water and an airborne receiver to detect and decode the vibrations. The system produced data rates at hundreds of bits per second in tests done in two MIT swimming pools.

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Common Web Design Problems

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The Tilda Publishing Blog have a great post describing the most common webdesign mistakes made with layout, positioning, fonts and colours that are best avoided.

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Web Dev

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Wireframe & UI Kits

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Wireframes and UI Kits, get your Wireframes and UI Kits here!

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The Munger Operating System

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Farnham Street have a good article disecting the wisdom delivered by Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger during his USC Law School commencement speech in 2007. The propose that the life advice given can be used an operating system to lead a full and successful life.

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Best Photos Taken From The ISS

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The International Space Station celebrates it's 20th Anniversary this year. To commemorate this, New Atlas have curated a list of 40 of the best photos taken from the space station.

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A Critical JS Error on FT.com

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This interesting article describes how one line of Javascript code caused the Financial Times website to become 10 times slower, and how the problem was diagnosed. The cause was a blocking call to JSON parse and stringify which involved unnecessary deep copying of data.

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