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Environment | Campaign for Cleaner Oceans

Investigation | Could the Antarctic ice sheet really collapse?

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Tech | New Adventures in WiFi – A Guinness Record Attempt

Conor Purcell/July 2, 2018July 2, 2018

On Wednesday June 6th a team of Irish engineers set a new record for a maritime broadband transmission, aiming to…

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Music | Loney Dear At The Workman’s Club

Gerard Lynch/July 3, 2018July 3, 2018
In the almost 10 years since this reviewer last encountered Emil Svanängen, the Jönköping-born talent behind the Loney Dear moniker, in an intimate Sugar Club performance, he’s gone and changed his style. For reasons potentially related to the parlous state of the gig economy, or...
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Orbits View | The Modern Kings of (Payment) Convenience

Wide Orbits/June 14, 2018June 14, 2018
At this year’s MoneyConf in Dublin, Ireland, dozens of international speakers alluded to the idea that the culture of nations plays a strong role in our collective journey towards a cashless society. Historical fears of inflation and data-driven surveillance in industrialised Germany have encouraged the...
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Environment | Campaign for Cleaner Oceans

Conor O'Malley/June 7, 2018June 14, 2018
Irish Musician and songwriter Conor O'Malley is back with his latest single ‘Oceans’ (see below), beginning a campaign for cleaning up plastics in the global ocean, and has written a few words for Wide Orbits.  “What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and...
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