Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

We are all in the same spaceship.

I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench?

A good account of the complex issues regarding the use of AI smart glasses in public space: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times Above, you can watch 81 video lectures tracing the history of philosophy, moving from Ancient Greece to modern times. Arthur Holmes presented this influential course at Wheaton College for decades, an...

A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times

Melania and the Robot

In case it isn't obvious, they're not proposing anything new except for the eradication of teachers and the implementation of robot slaves.

You can already be taught classical studies from teachers. You can already access the complete works of Plato in books or for free on the internet.

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But in the past year,

Before you strap a dashcam to your face and sprint out into the world filming everything and everyone in your life, there are some civil liberties and privacy concerns to consider. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Queen's research details the public health risks of Lough Neagh harmful algal blooms Much of the foul-smelling, so-called algal mats banked up around the shore of Lough Neagh consist of bacteria primarily associated with faeces from livestock or human-effluent.

Some pressures do differ, but common issues found in
Queens Uni 2024 Lough Neagh research and EPA 2025 report on Lady's Island Lake:

'Society must address conflict between the overuse of nutrients such as nitrogen & the impact this is having on our water resources'

www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

Great article about how being immersed in water makes us care even more about tackling water pollution (and the importance of designated bathing waters).

Water quality worsening: An Taisce seeks judicial review of the sixth Nitrates Action Programme An Taisce — the National Trust for Ireland has filed an application to the High Court seeking judicial review of the sixth Nitrates Action Programme (NAP), adopted by the Minister for Housing, Heritag...

An Taisce seeks judicial review of 6th Nitrates Action Programme

"we cannot ignore the necessity to protect 2 of the essential ingredients for flourishing rural life & agriculture - clean water & uncontaminated soil" "which must be preserved for future generations"

www.antaisce.org/news/water-q...

Susan Schulten on the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-... #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

📢 Registration for the 11th European Communication Conference (#ECC2026) is now open! Abstract notifications will follow soon.
Join communication scholars from across Europe and beyond for four days of research exchange, discussion, and networking in Brno.

€550m Dublin wastewater treatment plant upgrade complete Uisce Éireann has announced the completion of a €550 million upgrade of the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant in Dublin.

This is a huge advance in the standard of wastewater treatment in Ireland and stands in stark contrast to the half measures from agriculture, which is a much bigger source of pollution in our waterways

www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

StudentSurvey.ie is inviting DCU first and final year undergraduates and taught postgraduates to take part in studentsurvey.ie.
Have your say & help us continue to improve the student experience in #HigherEd.
Visit studentsurvey.ie and be in with a chance to win some great prizes.

Cities Under Siege Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...

FREE EBOOK!

Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

This is brilliant - deeply disturbing but brilliant.

"So Trump stood on stage with a motley crew, most of whom would probably fail the “know your customer” checks to open a US bank account. It was Mar-a-Lago meets a Most Wanted list. Soho House must be looking on in envy."

👇🏻

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

The rise of online brain rot: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast Earlier this week, Colin Marshall highlighted a trove of 3,000 vintage cookbooks on Archive.org, many of which date back to the 19th century. Cookbooks, however, first arrived on the scene well befor...

An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast

DCU Water Institute Celebrates a Decade of Discovery, Innovation and Impact | water

We are celebrating Day 2 of our 10th Anniversary by sharing a look back at the achievements and partnerships that shaped the DCU Water Institute’s first decade.

👉Read the full story here: www.dcu.ie/water/news/2...

#DCUWaterInstitute10Years #WaterResearch #DCU #Impact

Bridging Digital Innovation and Water Wellbeing: Spotlight on Dr Marcos Dias | water

As part of our 10th anniversary series, we’re highlighting researchers making real-world impact.

Dr Marcos Dias is using digital media to help communities make safer choices around bathing waters.

Full spotlight: www.dcu.ie/water/news/2...

#DCUWaterInstitute10Years #RESTARTProject #DCU

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking Do you know someone whose arguments consist of baldly specious reasoning, hopelessly confused categories, archipelagos of logical fallacies buttressed by seawalls of cognitive biases? Surely you do.

32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking

We need this level of forward thinking, ambition and courage to improve Dublin: urban policies and interventions focused on citizen wellbeing with long term impact.

Last call for our Engaging Publics 2025 conference happening tomorrow (Tue, 25 Nov). A free and fully online one-day conference for academics of all levels: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints Most of us have now and again seen and appreciated Japanese woodblock prints, especially those in the tradition of ukiyo-e, those 'captivating images of seductive courtesans, exciting kabuki actors, a...

Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints

In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online.

A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online, but the full story reveals something more interesting than a lone genius moment.

Comedians joke about Trump administration’s $20B decision | CNN Politics Roy Wood Jr. and his panel of comedians react to President Donald Trump’s decision to send Argentina a $20 billion economic lifeline. ‘Have I Got News For You’ regularly airs Saturdays at 9pm ET/PT an...

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/18/p...

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...