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NEW: Writing this meant a lot to me! Irish place names are extraordinarily rich wells of meaning. Many of them refer to wildlife or landscapes - often much more vividly than English translations. These names are even prompting discussions around nature restoration... www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names

Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.

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And, by the way, I hear quite a bit from readers who seem to agree with this!

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I could list a lot more but you get the idea. There's a lot we are going to continue to want human hands and eyes on. I don't doubt that fewer jobs will be there - that's been the case for decades folks - but we are still going to need more than one or two people on this stuff.

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I do think journalists are going to have to work harder to identify and ring fence areas of our work that are no-AI zones, and show why. Off the top of my head, things like: Interviewing victims, responding to reader concerns/queries, field reporting, and lots of aspects of fact-checking.

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I just got an editorial policy through from a client on Friday spelling this out - and I made sure to emphasise that I was fully in support of it in my reply.

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 12/09/2026

People just come off with stuff like this don't they. "Journalism? AI now babe!" As a journalist, this is wrong. While some journalists ARE using AI for certain tasks (I'm not), publications are actively asking me to avoid AI for most things for good reasons: accuracy, accountability, style, etc

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My biggest tomatoes this year! They are all in the process of ripening. Sadly the largest of the three got a touch of blight but I have conducted very precise surgery and cut it out, and am hoping for the best. 🤞🏻

A large light red tomato on scales. Weight reads 478g.

A large green tomato on scales. The weight reads 488g.

A large green tomato on scales. The weight reads 571g.

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Oh that's really interesting thanks for sharing!

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"There's a connection between the environment and the Irish language," says Mairéad Nic Craith. "It reflects a people who took more notice, and who had maybe more time to notice the environment than we do nowadays." www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names

Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.

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Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names

Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Everyone is all "batteries will save us" and the next phase is clearly batteries to reduce demand for dispatchable power, but the problem for getting to actual net-zero is still there: once we have enough batteries they will sit full all summer and empty all winter.

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Enter stage left: batteries ?

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With zonal market reforms ruled out and a whole bunch more renewable generation on the way, failing to do more to upgrade the grid over the last decade is becoming increasingly costly. These network projects now really do need to happen as fast as possible.

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Why don’t we make more use of the heat that lives in tunnels?

NEW: On the fascinating efforts to harvest heat from railway tunnels, train station commuters and the New York subway. Such schemes could be a lot more common. www.thereengineer.pro/p/why-dont-w...

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This could be the start of a new underground movement

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"Mmmmm. Ohhh. This is quite delicious actually."

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Sid Meier Confirms Nuclear Gandhi Is Sadly Just A Myth

The fact that Gandhi would go nuclear due to an overflow error in the game's code - he didn't actually, and there was no such error, according to the game's creator: share.google/aebxke86Th6V...

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As it turns out, one of the internet's favorite gaming stories is just that--a story.

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(Explanation here, in this very old article of mine! www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... <- it includes a reference to Gandhi's behaviour in the video game Civilization, which has since been discredited!)

The number glitch that can lead to catastrophe

A simple and potentially dangerous bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more – they get confused by big numbers. Chris Baraniuk reports.

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If you push it off that shelf, does it drop to the ground or does it hang in the air for a while?

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@caryocatactes.bsky.social Hello, I have a question about insects - would you mind following and sending a direct message?

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is absolutely fascinating, and sad also. "Two of Us" is such a bloody brilliant title as well

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There have been a few cancer stories in the press of late so I hope you enjoy my summary of some of the ways that immunology is transforming cancer care 🧪🧵

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How Immunology is Transforming Cancer Care

A summary of recent highlights and emerging directions in immunotherapies and cancer care

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I watched this live. Not only did Alcaraz walk off from a gruelling late night match, which he lost, while beaming a huge smile... You see that guy at the tunnel entrance behind him? Carlos gave him a little fist bump too. What a sportsman. Greatest I've ever seen. www.reddit.com/r/tennis/s/Y...

A photo of Carlos Alcaraz carrying his tennis gear bags and walking through a tunnel exiting the Arthur Ashe stadium court at the US open. He has a huge smile on his face despite losing a marathon five set match. Behind Alcaraz a staff member standing at the entrance to the tunnel is visible standing with his arms folded.

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Jake Kanter @jakekanter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have long imagined myself the cleanest rat in the sewer of online discourse

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Grim media news: Channel 4 will cut more than a quarter of its workforce before the end of the year. The 340 redundancies are the biggest round of layoffs in Channel 4's history. deadline.com/2026/09/chan...

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Channel 4 Confirms Plans To Cut 340 Jobs

'The Great British Bake Off' broadcaster Channel 4 has announced the deepest round of layoffs in its 43-year history.

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Shelton wins! Massive kudos to him, and I say that as a Carlos fan! #usopen

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We're now in a fifth set tie break. Players have been going for 4 hours 15 minutes. It's 3.22am in New York. An absolute marathon. #usopen

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