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Mar 12

Solar weather and planet Earth

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An interview with Dr Lyndsay Fletcher, Glasgow University, about solar weather, recorded for Scibernia in June 2011.

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Tags: Scibernia, science, scientific discovery

Mar 12

Irish Science Teachers Association

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An interview with Yvonne Higgins, chairperson of the Irish Science Teachers Association, for Scibernia, recorded in April 2011.

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Tags: education, Scibernia, science

Mar 07

Dunsink Observatory and Dublin Mean Time

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I recently visited Dunsink observatory to do a piece for Scibernia. You can listen to the piece below, or visit the Scibernia website to hear the entire show, including insect-eating and the science behind invisibility cloaks. Click here to listen:

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Tags: podcasts, radio, Scibernia, science, scientific discovery

Jan 29

Scibernia: The SFI Think-In

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I’m an occasional contributor to Scibernia, the Science podcast also broadcast on Near fm. Too occasional, unfortunately. While I’ve done a few reports for the project, scheduling problems mean I rarely get a chance to sit in on the studio recordings. I do however manage the occasional piece, such as when I travelled to the …

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Tags: internet, journalism, media, radio, Scibernia, science, scientific discovery

Oct 27

Get the feeling we didn’t hear enough about the referendums?

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From Marian Finucane on RTE Radio One last Saturday, Fergal Keane: Maybe referendums just aren’t that much fun.

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Jun 04

Krak-Krak

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For the longest time, I thought they were crickets. I wasn’t too sure what a cricket was, but the sound was vaguely similar. In every western I ever saw as a child, there was a scene where the cowboys sat around a campfire, and the exposition took place as one of the characters explained some …

Tags: Gleann Cholm Cille

Sep 17

Don’t Know

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The Curragh Retirement City, one of the odder YCYC ideas

A cabinet minster is unable to say whether or not public funds have been awarded to An Smaoineamh Mór, the company behind Your Country Your Call (YCYC), or on what basis they might receive such funds. YCYC, a competition to come up with Ideas To Save Ireland, has previously been mentioned here, mostly because I’m …

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Tags: Eamon Ryan, Greens, public spending

Sep 27

In Context

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