Justin Brown
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Data centres used 22 percent of Ireland's metered electricity in 2024, up from 5 percent in 2015 (opens the original)
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In 2015, data centres drew 1,238 gigawatt hours from Ireland’s metered electricity network, or 5 percent of all metered consumption. In 2024 they drew 6,969 gigawatt hours, or 22 percent, according to the Central Statistics Office release published on 10 June 2025. That share now sits above both categories of home: in the same year, the CSO found, urban households accounted for 18 percent of total metered electricity consumption and rural households for 10 percent. All three shares are measured
In 1984 an Australian doctor drank a broth of bacteria taken from a patient's stomach to prove they caused gastritis, was ill within days, and 21 years later shared a Nobel Prize for linking the same bug to ulcers (opens the original)
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In 1984, Barry Marshall swallowed bacteria cultured from a patient’s stomach to test whether they could cause gastritis in a healthy person. His account of the day begins more precisely in the 1985 Medical Journal of Australia paper: after fasting overnight, he took 600 mg of cimetidine at 8 a.m. and, three hours later, swallowed the growth from a three-day culture suspended in 10 ml of alkaline peptone water. A Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings account names colleague Neil Noakes in the preparatio
Ten beachfront homes red-tagged at Dana Point as California proclaims statewide El Niño emergency to stage resources before winter storms (opens the original)
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Ten houses along Beach Road at Capistrano Beach in Dana Point now carry red tags, and seven more carry yellow ones — the count published by the City of Dana Point in its Beach Road updates, last revised at noon on 14 September 2026. A red tag means the structure is unsafe to occupy. A yellow tag means restricted use. The tags followed a fortnight in which high tides and swells from Hurricane Marie chewed out the sand beneath the oceanfront row. The city says it was first called out on 28 August,
In September 2026, the Chatham Island black robin — down to five birds and one breeding pair in 1980 — won New Zealand's Bird of the Year; about 350 adults now live on two pest-free islands (opens the original)
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Count them: five. That was the entire global population of the Chatham Island black robin in 1980 — five birds, among them a single breeding pair, the female known as Old Blue and the male known as Old Yellow. Forty-six years later, about 350 adults live on two pest-free islands in the Chatham group, and every one of them descends from Old Blue. A single female, who reached 14 years of age, stands at the base of the entire living family tree of her species. The arithmetic of the species runs thr
A 12-year-old in California built a Braille printer from a $350 Lego robotics kit for a school science fair, at a time when the cheapest commercial machine cost about $2,000, and Intel invested in it (opens the original)
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A plastic robotics kit with a retail price around $350 — motors, a programmable brick, a scatter of beams and pins — sat on a kitchen table in Santa Clara, California, and came back together as a machine that punched raised dots into paper tape. The builder was 12. The science fair question he had started with was smaller than the object he ended up with: how do blind people read? The answer he got, after some searching, was that they read Braille, and that the hardware for producing it at home
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