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Where Are We Now With Climate Change?

The excellent The Climate Alarm Clock podcast released a great summary episode describing what climate change is, what is being done and what is not being done, why it's important to work on climate action, and very importantly, why it's ok to feel a range of emotions about the situation. A great listen.

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How Bird shit Funded The 1916 Rising

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During another excellent episode of the Blindboy podcast with Manchán Magan, we learnt how the purchasing of the guns for the 1916 Rising was financed by Manchán's relative The O'Rahilly from the proceeds of selling bird shit. Listen to the end to be rewarded with this unique quirk of history.

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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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Podcast of The Week: Blindboy & Lifting Stones

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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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Podcast of The Week: Seth Godin with Tim Ferriss

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Long time readers of Found This Week will know I'm a big fan of both Tim Ferriss and Seth Godin, and as a result I was excited to listen to a recent interview with Seth Godin on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast. Seth has a unique ability to deliver wisdom wrapped up in empathy with a shot of motivation, and this interview did not disappoint.

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Podcast of The Week: Shortwave on Engineered Perennial Rice

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This fascinating Shortwave episode describes how American scientists working with Chinese farmers have successfully engineered a strand of perennial rice and harvested it over mutiple crop years. Rice usually has to be planted from seed each year, which is labour intensive and harmful to the health of farm land. This perennial rice regrows each year without having to replanted, while also rejuvenating the land.

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Podcast Of The Week: Stephen Wolfram with Tim Ferriss

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Tim Ferriss recently interviewed Stephen Wolfram on his podcast. I listened to the interview on the Christmas trip back to Ireland and found it fascinating. Stephen describes the work he and his company are doing in creating a new general model for Quantum Physics, which includes his new Ruliad computational space.

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Podcast Of The Week: Hot Mess - Why Are We Still Flying?

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Continuing his excellent Hot Mess Climate podcast, Philip Boucher Hayes describes how new evidence of the non-co2 emissions caused by aircraft contrails, which are currently not included in aviation emissions calculations, are twice to three times worse than previously known.

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Podcast Of The Week: Blindboy & Darren McGarvey

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This excellent interview between Blindboy and Darren McGarvey covers a fascinating array of topics such as social class biases and how to overcome them, integrity in artistic practice, and a warning on the dangers of listening to a certain Canadian academic / lunatic.

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Podcast Of The Week: Eamon Ryan on Magnified With Matt Cooper

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On his new long-form podcast, Matt Cooper interviews Eamon Ryan about Ireland's climate landscape and all the change that is in train, but that is needed to address the climate emergency. This deep dive is great and full of details and challenging questions. Eamon Ryan has a questionable meme-inspired political reputation, but he can't be accused of not knowing his brief inside out and being able to paint a positive picture of transitional change.

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