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Poem | The Druid

Peter Doolan/January 6, 2019January 6, 2019

A druid in the wilderness he did proclaim Himself the very keeper of the dawn And be they high in…

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Travel : Pictures of Ireland

Matteo Broccoli/February 12, 2020February 12, 2020
In this account, Italian black hole physicist and photographer Matteo Broccoli shares his words and images during a trip around Ireland taken with his girlfriend in the summer of 2019. Introduction Imagine you are on holiday in a country you have never been to before....
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Story | Incognito

Conor Purcell/December 9, 2018December 12, 2018
I thought of being propelled towards a new existence, somewhere, a fresh state rather than a new place. For an eternity of time I believed that things should last forever, and when they did not I would look for something alternative, something like a religion....
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Orbits View | Tech’s Act of Contrition

Wide Orbits/November 8, 2018November 13, 2018
At Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, making amends is front and centre on the agenda The last few years have seen a shift in public opinion towards Big Tech. From the Cambridge Analytica debacle to a myriad of data breaches, the introduction of the General...
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