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Podcast of The Week: Blindboy & Lifting Stones

A recent episode of The Blindboy Podcast featured an interview with David Keohan about the ancient tradition of lifting stones. The passion, energy, and historical focus of the episode makes it a beautiful listen.

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Maud Gonne Interview About Disrupting Evictions on Horseback

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RTÉ digitised their acetate archives and made them available online. Among them is an incredible interview from 1945 with Maud Gonne, in which she describes disruption land war evictions on horseback, and going on the to France, before she was 21!

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Kilmainham Prison Tunnel

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Muon Imaging Detects Secret Pyramid Corridor

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Two independent teams using different muon imaging techniques have confirmed the presence of a previous undiscovered corridor in the great pyramid in Egypt.

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Ancient Earths

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Want to see what the earth looked like during different epochs? Ancient Earth Globe allows you to pick a time frame and see what the globe looked like back then.

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Learning Invented Languages

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Ars Technica published an interesting article with linguist Christine Schreyer about creating languages for film and TV, and what can be learned from the process to help to preserve endangered languages.

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Dial-up Modem Sound Pictured

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Oona Räisänen created a great diagram of the sound of a dial-up modem handshake.

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AWS & Ukraine Government Backups

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Russ Mitchell in the LA Times tells the fascinating story of how Amazon AWS teamed up with the government of Ukraine to back up petabytes of data using suitcase size SSDs at the start of the war.

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Unintended Consequences of Photography

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This is a fascinating post about 5 unintended consequences of photography, such as contributing to Abraham Lincoln becoming president, destroying the romantic view of war, poverty & strife, and liberating art.

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