David Sullivan, who runs the Creating Lifesavers organisation installed a defibrillator on Mount Everest. Two weeks later, it saved the life of a French climber who's heart had stopped.
The Journal Investigates published an informative piece showing maps of where the data centre clusters are in Ireland (mostly Dublin), and where over 40 other planned data centres will be located. Already, data centres account for 18% of the Irish electricity grid load, the highest in Europe, and have emitted more than 181,00 tonnes of CO2 since 2005.
An interesting piece on BBC Futures describes the latest science on the aerobiome, which involves clouds hosting and transporting microbes, fungi, and other microscopic organisms across the earth. The latest result show that antibiotic resistant microbes are being transported by clouds, which can go on to endow bacteria with antibiotic resistance.
Minutephysics published an interesting video discussion on the different types of time travel used in fiction, mostly movies, with some neat drawings to represent the time flows of each.
Jason Cohen shared a great A Smart Bear article from his archives that discusses positioning your product to offer more for more, more for less, or less for less, and the good and bad of each strategy.
Dr Vladimir Dinets from the University of Tennessee observed a Cooper’s hawk using a line of cars waiting at a red light to hide its approach when hunt smaller birds outside a house in his neighbourhood. Further observation revealed that the Hawk learned that when the pedestrian crossing signal was pressed, the lights stayed red for longer and resulted in a longer line of cars which made it easier for the hawk to stay hidden.
CATransformers is a new machine learning framework developed by META AI that includes embodied and operational emissions as parameters to optimise for alongside latency, energy consumption, and accuracy.
A study by EIT Urban Mobility and Transport for London has shown that EVs can reduce the amount of brake dust pollution emitted into the air by up to 83% thanks to their use of regenerative breaking.
Blindboy interview Jeremy Corbyn and it was great. A conversation full of hope of where politics and society can move, towards an inclusive system for everyone.
