Music | Loney Dear At The Workman’s Club
In the almost 10 years since this reviewer last encountered Emil Svanängen, the Jönköping-born talent behind the Loney Dear moniker,…
Travel | One Day in the Borderlands of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.
An Irishman ponders food and family history on a visit to three contrasting neighbouring countries in Latin America. Morning: Cuidad…
Language | Sorry for your Troubles : Hiberno-English and a history of euphemism.
In which the author gives out* about the Hiberno-English tendency towards euphemism *tabhairt amach (lit) to give out (fig) to complain about…
Insight | No Country for Southern Men
As the famous Neil Sedaka number once extolled, breaking up is hard to do, especially when it comes to nation…
In-depth | Artificial Intelligence: the creative processor?
If AI machines can only learn from what has come before, how can they instigate a paradigm shift in creative…
Scifi | Noise some, Words some
Intercepted email correspondence, September 8th, 2016: “So I ran an open source speech recognition system on the ambient office…