Travel : Pictures of Ireland
In this account, Italian black hole physicist and photographer Matteo Broccoli shares his words and images during a trip around…
Poem | The Druid
A druid in the wilderness he did proclaim Himself the very keeper of the dawn And be they high in…
Story | Incognito
I thought of being propelled towards a new existence, somewhere, a fresh state rather than a new place. For an…
Orbits View | Tech’s Act of Contrition
At Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, making amends is front and centre on the agenda The last few years have…
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,…
Tech | New Adventures in WiFi – A Guinness Record Attempt
On Wednesday June 6th a team of Irish engineers set a new record for a maritime broadband transmission, aiming to…
Orbits View | The Modern Kings of (Payment) Convenience
At this year’s MoneyConf in Dublin, Ireland, dozens of international speakers alluded to the idea that the culture of nations…
Environment | Campaign for Cleaner Oceans
Irish Musician and songwriter Conor O’Malley is back with his latest single ‘Oceans’ (see below), beginning a campaign for cleaning…
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…
Arts | How and why I wrote ‘I Dreamt I Was An Astronaut’
I feel that the second part of this two-part question is more difficult to answer. Leaving aside one’s own endless,…
Health | Why are we not talking about fatal invasive fungal diseases?
Last summer, a UK-based hospital was forced to close its intensive care unit after 50 patients became infected with a highly drug-resistant…
Study | How certain plants survive mass extinction events
We often read about Earth’s mass extinction events and how they wiped out vast numbers of animal species, leaving survivors…
Insight | Life as an Orchestrator
As far back as I remember I’ve loved the different sounds of my favourite classical composers. Early on I became…
Reflection | Out of the Mouths of Babes
I am neither a scientist nor a mathematician, preferring to understand the Cosmos through poetry. Einstein and Stephen Hawking baffle…
Idea | Advocating for more science in public places
What do we see when we look around a public place? On those rare occasions when we can carelessly observe…