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Link Notes 1 May 2020
Today’s Links
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Raspberry Pi unveils $50 interchangeable-lens camera board: More things you can do with the diminutive computer.
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City leaders aim to shape green recovery from coronavirus crisis: Cities in Europe, the US and South America are making sure people can move round safely by widening footways and installing cycle paths.
Link Notes 30 April 2020
Today’s Links
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OpenAI’s Jukebox AI produces music in any style from scratch — complete with lyrics: Music that sounds like there are lots of people involved in making it, but it’s made using Artificial Intelligence
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What if Covid-19 Returns Every Year, Like the Common Cold?: We could be in and out of lockdown until a vaccine is developed.
Link Notes 29 April 2020
Today’s Links
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Greater Manchester councils stand to lose more than £110m from Manchester Airport: We need to break the link between quality public services and public investment in industries most damaging to the planet.
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On this day, from the archive: 2004, 2003, 2002
Link Notes 28 April 2020
Today’s Links
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Van Gogh Museum Virtual Tour: View Van Gogh’s paintings in 4k resolution, as if you were walking around the gallery.
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The British Museum has published 2 million images under a Creative Commons license: View the artefacts plundered by British colonialists over centuries from the comfort of your home.
Link Notes 27 April 2020
Today’s Links
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The Great Biomass Boondoggle: Switching from coal to biomass for power generation is seen as a way to decarbonise electricity production, but it’s not effective enough in lowering CO2 emissions
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Meet ‘Spot’: The Robot That Could Help Doctors Remotely Treat COVID-19 Patients: After all those videos of amazing robot stunts, an unlikely application for Boston Dynamics’ robot ‘Spot
Link Notes 26 April 2020
Today’s Links
- Legal Bid Launched To Stop U.K. Government’s £29 Billion Road Building Plans: The UK Government’s plans to spend £29 Billion on road expansion may not meet obligations for the Paris Climate Agreement, and therefore be illegal
- If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See: The Andromeda Galaxy is our closest galaxy and would appear much bigger in the sky if it was brighter
Link Notes 25 April 2020
Today’s Links
- How I Photograph the Milky Way with Medium Format Film: Photographing the stars using photochemistry
- UN Chief Says Human Rights Must Be Central in Fight Against Covid-19: In the international effort against the COVID-19 outbreak, human rights and climate justice should be central in our recovery
- ‘Expert Twitter’ Only Goes So Far. Bring Back Blogs: A call to bring back better tools for long form writing
Link Notes 24 April 2020
Today’s Links
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Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th Anniversary: For the last 30 years, images from the Hubble Space Telescope have been revealing the beauty and scale of the Universe.
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Please explain how NHS app will work, asks Open Rights Group: Privacy groups are calling for more transparency around the UK Government’s COVID-19 contact tracing app.
Link Notes 23 April 2020
Today’s Links
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NASA’s Plan to Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab: Harnessing a phenomenon that’s at the edge of our understanding
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The Dangerous Rise of COVID-19 Influencers and Armchair Epidemiologists: Sarah Weinman on why armchair epidemiologists ‘had such all-encompassing belief in their own interpretation of the data’
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Astrophotography in the era of Starlink satellite clusters: More on the impact of the Space X’s confetti-like approach to launching communications satellites.
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Margaret Burbidge: The astronomer who established that the Earth’s chemical elements were formed inside stars
Link Notes 22 April 2020
Today’s links
Today is Earth Day 2020, so today’s links have an environmental theme. Also… synthesisers.
- Rising CO2 causes more than a climate crisis — it may directly harm our ability to think: Rising CO2 isn’t just about rising global temperatures
- Air pollution may be ‘key contributor’ to Covid-19 deaths – study: UK national government and local authorities must take the best course of action to restore the economy while not returning to urban air quality that is killing people
- How you can help plot the future of UK walking – from a standstill: A plan create walking routes between every village, town and city in the UK
- Sidewalk Widths New York City A data visualisation project for the social distancing era
- Helm software synthesiser An excellent software synthesiser and learning tool
Previous posts
- Link Notes 21 Apr 2020
- What matters
- Modified Social Benches
- Frequency
- Fictional spacecraft on the ground and real spacecraft in space
- Celestial mechanics and the new political landscape
- Bowie and the 90s Internet
- 2013: The Year the BBC Looked Like a Bogus Signer
- We Are All Netizens Now
- The Science of Doctor Who
- Is cycling getting more or less dangerous?
- Greasemonkey script to remove promoted tweets from Twitter
- How short-term thinking about road safety has failed to make liveable towns and cities
- Wikipedia > New Year's Resolution
- Fixing a non-booting Raspberry Pi (constant green LED, no video)
- The only kit you need is a bike
- Gateshead, Tesco
- Using your energy, not battery power, to light your bicycle
- Infinite ASDA
- Boston Dynamics Petman
- Darktable
- Johann Hari's Wikipedia editing history as David Rose
- Johann Hari's Wikipedia editing history as David Rose
- Secular Americans praise Bloomberg - 9/11 ceremony religion free
- Bike Lanes
- Apple iCloud
- Norfolk Landscapes
- We need another Cosmos
- Kurt Vonnegut on being addicted to oil
- By the Sea