Rediscovering Weather


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Podcast: Weather Forecasts | The Economics Of Everyday Things. Scientific and computing improvements mean that the five-day weather forecast is now as accurate as the three-day one was twenty years ago. This improvement comes with pressure; ever more industries rely on forecasters' predictions (13m 46s)


Video: Rediscovering A Lost Typeface | YouTube | BBC | 5m 06s

Short film from 2015 about one man's dedication to recreating the infamous drowned Doves Type — the original letters were thrown into the river Thames in the 1910s after an ownership dispute. To recover it a century later, this designer spent days painstakingly sifting the pieces from the mud.


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