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Investigation | Could the Antarctic ice sheet really collapse?

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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,…

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Life

Travel | One Day in the Borderlands of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.

Gerard Lynch/April 19, 2018April 27, 2018

An Irishman ponders food and family history on a visit to three contrasting neighbouring countries in Latin America. Morning: Cuidad…

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Life

Language | Sorry for your Troubles : Hiberno-English and a history of euphemism.

Gerard Lynch/March 15, 2018April 19, 2018

In which the author gives out* about the Hiberno-English tendency towards euphemism *tabhairt amach (lit) to give out (fig) to complain about…

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Life

Insight | No Country for Southern Men

Gerard Lynch/January 12, 2017June 14, 2018

As the famous Neil Sedaka number once extolled, breaking up is hard to do, especially when it comes to nation…

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Science

In-depth | Artificial Intelligence: the creative processor?

Gerard Lynch/November 1, 2016March 8, 2018

If AI machines can only learn from what has come before, how can they instigate a paradigm shift in creative…

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Science

Scifi | Noise some, Words some

Gerard Lynch/October 10, 2016February 2, 2018

  Intercepted email correspondence, September 8th, 2016: “So I ran an open source speech recognition system on the ambient office…

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