Health – Postcards

Driving ‘Assists’

September 5, 2024 No Comments

I drove a car with lane assist once, turned it off sharpish. Either I’m driving, or I’m a passenger. Any other half-way situation is pure shite. There’s no middle ground for driving automation, no happy medium. It’s a binary proposition. It can sound and look like there’s a ‘easier driving’ way, as if you can […]

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Nature & Gardens Psychology & The Mind

Magpies are sharp

June 2, 2023 No Comments

Fascinating observation: We are one of many fascinating species on this world.

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Health Psychology & The Mind

Swimming for brain power

May 29, 2023 No Comments

Very interesting research: https://ideas.ted.com/swimming-brain-boost-science/ Regular swimming has been shown to improve memory, cognitive function, immune response and mood. Swimming may also help repair damage from stress and forge new neural connections in the brain.

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Hydration & Health

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 1 Comment

Interesting finding via CNN: You may know that being adequately hydrated is important for day-to-day bodily functions such as regulating temperature and maintaining skin health. But drinking enough water is also associated with a significantly lower risk of developing chronic diseases, a lower risk of dying early or lower risk of being biologically older than your chronological […]

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Health Society

HSE – Harm Reduction in action

September 2, 2022 No Comments

Good to see a harm reduction plan in action from the HSE/Govt/PowersThatBe. Humans have taken drugs since they became human – prohibition does not work. https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2022/0902/1320344-electric-picnic-drugs/

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Psychology & The Mind Science!

Someone finally checked – Hangry is real

July 9, 2022 No Comments

Many have known it is a real thing for a long time, yet, apparently, nobody every did any actual studies into it, so it was unproven. But now it is, thanks to one curious and hangry scientist: Until now, feeling ‘hangry’ – angry because you’re hungry – has been described in a general, colloquial sense, […]

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Covid-19 Pandemic Life

2020, 2021, 2022? …

January 7, 2022 No Comments

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Psychology & The Mind Science!

“the conclusions of the SPE had been written in advance according to non-academic aims”

August 25, 2021 No Comments

Why is this interesting? is well worth subscribing to. This edition is, as always, interesting. Several of the classic phycology experiments weren’t as scientific as you’d have hoped. This is part of a much broader story of a “replication crisis” in psychology: The challenge of being completely unable to reproduce the results from some of […]

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Covid-19 Pandemic Dublin

Burgh Quay Immigration Office – not essential

May 6, 2021 No Comments

Anyone needing to register if they live in Dublin just can’t. Although, outside the Pale, the local Garda station is open! Mad, ted. It’s impossible for the Department of Justice to track how many would-be residents are currently awaiting registration in Dublin, says a spokesperson. “Statistics are not maintained in this manner.” Among them, though, […]

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Covid-19 Pandemic Health Life Psychology & The Mind

Brain Fog, Freud’s “Trägheit”

April 19, 2021 No Comments

This is an informative article on that cloudy, foggy brain that I know I’ve definitely experienced over the last year of the pandemic. That dull minded feeling where you just can’t really remember what you’ve done or what you’re meant to do and yet you feel anxious and stressed at the same time. It’s both […]

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Murf

Driving ‘Assists’

Magpies are sharp

Swimming for brain power

Hydration & Health

HSE – Harm Reduction in action

Someone finally checked – Hangry is real

2020, 2021, 2022? …

“the conclusions of the SPE had been written in advance according to non-academic aims”

Burgh Quay Immigration Office – not essential

Brain Fog, Freud’s “Trägheit”

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