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Fox Vs Eagle

A young fox kills a rabbit and saunters off with its meal, happy out.Enter stage left American bald eagle swooping in to ruin Mr. Fox's dinner plans!This dramatic encounter was captured in a series of photographs by Kevin Ebi and in a video by Zachare Hartje (at the bottom of the page).Watch in the video how fast the eagle comes in!

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HTC Exodus Blockchain Phone

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HTC announced a blockchain power smartphone called Exodus at the Consensus 2018 blockchain conference in New York City. The phone is believed to include a hardware wallet and support for cryptocurrency transactions and decentralised apps.

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EM Drive Mystery Solved?

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The EM Drive has previously been touted as proof of a perpetual energy machine, however a recent paper now offers a possible explanation for the magic force detected from the drive.

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747 Pilot Photography

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JPC Van Heijst is a 747 pilot who also takes magnificant aerial sky and landscape photographs. Check out this gallery of some of his amazing photos and crank your photo jealousy up to 11! :-p

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Visualising EM Fields

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This is a great video by Luke Sturgeon on how he used long exposure to visualise electromagnetic fields.

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430 Year Old World Map

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The Tavola of Urbano Monte's world map from 1544 - 1613 is now available to view in high def online. The real one is over nine feet in diameter and on display at Stanford University.

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NAWR ANOIS #3 - Vicky Langan, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh

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This week we welcomed Vicky Langan & Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh to Swansea for our third NAWR ANOIS concert. Ailbhe played a number of lovely amplified Viola pieces and Vicky performed a very moving minimalist piece which culminated with an excerpt of The Palms, a field recording made by Vicky in the grotto in Granard in 2014 on the 30th anniversary of the death of Ann Lovett.

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Running Atlas!

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Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot can now run after you. Thanks for that guys!

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Podcast Of The Week: Developer Tea

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I recently discovered the Developer Tea podcast, which is great. The podcast delivers bit-sized pieces of life advice, aimed at developers, but are applicable and can be of help to everyone. This particular episode discusses 3 problems every developer faces, such as dealing with burnout.

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Historical Irish Newsreel

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The Irish Film Institute has made a number of historical news reels available online, including footage of the shelling of The Four Courts and Michael Collins' fighting speech on College Green in 1942.

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