Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This could be “Because It’s Friday” on a Wednesday, it has been one of those weeks. The internet is awash with articles about the CrowdStrike Global IT Outage – we are of course contributing to that number: The Wednesday Bit on Monday – CrowdStrike Global IT Outage | Smart Thinking …
It s a while since we have had a space story on “Because It’s Friday” and this one also includes some maths to work out just how big is the Solar System? How astronomers work out the size of the Solar System – The Conversation NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is shown …
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I know this looks like an IT post about the cost of inkjet ink verses everything else you have to pay for when printing a page – (DEC inserted) including the environmental cost, but it isn’t. How many printers do you need to print Wikipedia? For today’s “Because It’s Friday” …
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I have a history of science lesson for today’s “Because It’s Friday”. Roberta Angioi – a Postdoctoral Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Dublin City University – has an article on The Conversation discussing Tapputi-belat-ekalle, who was probably the worlds first documented chemist – she was formulating perfumes 3000 years ago, in …
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I had a number of candidates for today’s “Because It’s Friday”, looking for an attractive mate for a lonely plant, a funny story about dumb cyber criminals, another take on attraction by Randall Munroe. But there was one winner. I settled on a scientific study on how fire breathing would …
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