Lego are launching a set of Braille bricks to help children to learn Braille, in response to the rise of computer apps and audiobooks resulting in less blind children learning Braille.
Thi sweek I launched a new website called SmartThinkBooks.com. The aim of the site is to shine a spotlight on books that can fuel your mind! Many smart thinking books have changed the way I look at the world for the better, so I started this site to help spread the word. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter to get the latest posts direct to your inbox.
Chris Sharp has a fascinating post on City Metric about the amount of road deaths on British roads between 1997 and 2018. The graph of deaths clearly shows decline for a number of years and then stagnation. Chris investigates the reasons behind this and discovers investment, or lack thereof, in speed control measures and speed cameras has a direct result in the number of deaths on the roads.
This week I watched The Game Changers on Netflix and I was blown away. Ever since encountering How Not To Die by Dr. Michael Greger and NutritionFacts.org, I've learnt that plant protein is far healthier than animal protein. Watching The Game Changers really contextualised this in terms that everyone can understand, using professional athletes to illustrate just how inhibiting a meat based diet can be for their performance.
Zín Dátheangach / Zine Two Tongues is a bilingual English and Irish e-zine created by Clodagh McGinley that includes interesting interviews with interesting people. Subscribe and view the archive here.
Here is a list of 20,000 startup ideas formulated from data describing economically important human activities included on the O*NET Online U.S. Department of Labour website.
This is a powerful story about Kelly Martin, a data scientist who used Tableau to track the effects of her various cancer treatment injections in order to ensure her last remaining days were as comfortable as possible.
Duchas.ie is a project that digitises the National Folklore Collection of Ireland. While browsing the site for my home town of Glounthaune in Cork, I came across some fantastic stories and tales from 1938 captured in the Schools collection. One particular story was about a drunk man who used to return home from the pub on his donkey and cart once a week. On one particular occassion, the man fell asleep mid-trip and the donkey brought him back to his house. Some local boys found him and decided to play a prank on the man.
This is a shocking video from Dan Mace. Old Navy in America throw away an estimated 5 million plastic hangers each week. They don't reuse the hangers after someone buys the clothes. That's 6350 tonnes of plastic hangers in landfills each year.
