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Walking and Thinking

July 21, 2020 No Comments

I don’t know why walking is so conducive to letting your brain think. Maybe it’s to do with the blood flow, or like the way sticking your tongue out helps you concentrate, the steady, regular steps allow your mind to delegate body control to some unconscious subroutine, freeing your conscious mind up to really focus. […]

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Space

Volcanoes On Venus (Possibly)

July 21, 2020 No Comments

Scientists have identified 37 volcanic structures on Venus that appear to have been recently active – and probably still are today – painting the picture of a geologically dynamic planet and not a dormant world as long thought. The research focused on ring-like structures called coronae, caused by an upwelling of hot rock from deep […]

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Dublin Society Transport

Phoenix Park: Back to Car City

July 10, 2020 No Comments

That good news didn’t last – ‘It will be back to car city’ reports the Journal. Minister of State for the OPW, Patrick O’Donovan, said the decision over the gates was made after discussing issues like a growth of traffic in the surrounding areas over the past few weeks. “The volume of traffic built up […]

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Covid-19 Pandemic Health Trumperica

Limits of ‘freedom’

July 10, 2020 No Comments

Over the other side of the big water, there’s been a lot of Trump inspired ‘freedom’ flaff about not wearing masks when asked, or indeed, doing anything that might reduce the spread of Covid-19. Brilliant way to explain why some rules and limits are good:

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Food for Thought

Food for thought

July 1, 2020 No Comments

“Those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil” Hannah Arendt Via memex

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Cycling Environment

Good News – Phoenix Park to remain a quieter place with less traffic

June 26, 2020 No Comments

This is a good thing: [T]he OPW on Friday morning said it will not reopen the gates on Monday, and has not set any future date for their reopening. It has also given its strongest signal yet that the use of the park as a “throughway” to the city could be brought to an end […]

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Covid-19 Pandemic Environment Health

Lockdown: The Country Scale Experiment

June 26, 2020 No Comments

One thing about how humanity has dealt and is continuing to deal with the Covid-19 outbreak is that it’s really a huge experiment with country scale populations. Some really interesting effects are being seen, I’d say that the research hasn’t even really started yet. There’s all sorts of questions that could be examined, from mental […]

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Life Psychology & The Mind

The privilege of being clutter free

June 26, 2020 No Comments

Don’t pack too light: A few weeks into coronavirus quarantine, a reader who had cleaned out his home according to the decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s ultra-popular KonMari method emailed me to ask if I had heard from anyone else who was regretting that move. He’d been happy with the results until the country’s circumstances had abruptly changed, […]

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Human Rights Society Trumperica

“The officers responsible are rarely prosecuted.”

June 4, 2020 No Comments

Protests over the murder of an unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer have reached every single US state, in a level of nationwide demonstration not seen since the 1968 assassination of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Curfews are in place across dozens of cities and National Guard troops have been deployed […]

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Arts Equality Human Rights Society Trumperica

The Power of Art

June 4, 2020 No Comments

Power granted must be limited, if not, it will destroy that which it draws power from.

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Who?

Walking and Thinking

Volcanoes On Venus (Possibly)

Phoenix Park: Back to Car City

Limits of ‘freedom’

Food for thought

Good News – Phoenix Park to remain a quieter place with less traffic

Lockdown: The Country Scale Experiment

The privilege of being clutter free

“The officers responsible are rarely prosecuted.”

The Power of Art

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