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Job Comparison Decision Tool

David Bauer built a handy tool that allows you to compare two job opportunities across impactful and fulfilling grouped categories such as work culture, skills match, job security, and agency, which produces graphs to help with your decision.

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Life

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Super Nintendo Hardware Is Getting Faster

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The ceramic resonator in the audio processing unit of the SNES is starting to run faster as it ages. The change was spotted by speed runners.

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True Size Map

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True Size is a mapping website that allows you to specify and country and move an overlay of it across the globe, to demonstrate how the Mercator projection does not represent the true size of many countries.

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History

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The History of The World Map In 60 Seconds

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Check out this interesting and very fast video of the history of the world map in 60 seconds.

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Europe’s Population Crisis Without Immigration

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The Guardian published an interesting interactive map that shows the projected European population growth, or lack thereof, without migration by the year 2100, based on Eurostat projections.

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Heat Related Death Projections In Europe

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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".

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Environment

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Moon Physics

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Bartosz Ciechanowski published a monster post describing the physics behind the celestial movement of the moon, complete with interactive visual demonstrators.

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Space

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Indoor Air Humidity

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A SmartLab project in Limerick that installed air sensors in 70 buildings found that humidity readings were 60% over the threshold more than half the time. This RTÉ article includes recommendations on how to reduce indoor dampness.

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Lost Mayan City Found Using Lidar

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Archaeologists have found a lost Mayan city on the Yucatán Peninsula using an old lidar survey from 2013 that was conducted to monitor the carbon reservoirs in Mexico's forests.

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Map of Blindboy’s Walking Tour of Limerick City History

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There's an art in producing a consistent type of content, and then every so often doing something different that is unexpected but just as good. This week, Blindboy did an outside broadcast of his podcast as a walking tour of Limerick City history, and it is brilliant.

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