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Thermoelectric Stoves

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Low Tech Magazine published an interesting article on equipping a stove with a thermoelectrical generator (TEG). A TEG is about 5% efficient at generating electricity, however if the heat from the stove is being generated anyway for other reasons (heating, cooking etc), then adding a TEG would be a more reliable way to generate electricity than installing solar panels.

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Polish Water Clams

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The city water supply of Warsaw in Poland uses a rotating team of 8 clams to test the water quality of the supply. If the clams close after detecting toxins in the water supply, they complete a circuit which trips and alarm and shuts off the water supply of the city. (H/T to Mikael for sharing this)

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Super-slow Motion Video

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Adam Magyar's latest series Stainless shows train platforms in super-slow motion. The footage is captured at 1,300 frames per second and is is slowed down in a mesmiring fashion, such as to show a blink over 3 to 4 seconds. Check out the amazing video exceprts on the Nautilus article.

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IKEA's Bee Home

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IKEA's reasearch lab Space10 has collaborated with design studio Bakken & Bæck and industrial designer Tanita Klein to create Bee Home, an open source design for a wooden Bee Home that people can build and install at home. The Bee Home website allows you to customise the size and configuration of your Bee Home, and then download the instructions and CNC files to use to fabricate the wooden home.

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Information Theory Introduction

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Information theory and entropy are theory topics that can quickly become very abstrast and difficult to get a handle on. Federico Carrone does a great job in this medium post at delivering an introduction to Information Theory that is based around real world scenarios to provide grounding context.

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Kanmail

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Struggling with managing all of your email in lockdown? Then Kanmail might be for you. Software developers Oxygem have released Kanmail, an email client app that lets you organise your email within a Kanban board.

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Infinite Monkey Piano

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The Pudding are running a live experiment to generate the opening bars of songs by brute force on piano, in an exploration of the infinite monkey theorem. The experiment has been running for 17 days and has currently cracked 18 songs including Still Dre and Für Elise. It is currently trying to crack Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.

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EUVsVirus Hackathon

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The European Commission are hosting a hackathon on April 24 to 26 to develop solutions to 37 COVID-19 challenges across Health & Life, Business Continuity, Social & Political Cohesion, Remote Working & Education, Digital Finance and other categories. Individuals, teams, mentors and organisations can participate to offer development, design & management skills to name but a few. (H/T to Mikael Fernström for sharing).

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Folding@Home Supercomputer

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Folding@Home is a distributed community computing platform that allows everyone to donate any spare computer processing power to protein folding simulation experiments. Folding@Home are now performing protein folding experiments on COVID-19 and in recent weeks, the number of users has jumped from 30,000 to 700,000.

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