So, the journey is over and mystery still seems to surround the issue of why the Irish Rugby Team didn’t play better.
It is not so much a mystery as simply the result of what happens when you expect too much from any team.
There was the “Golden fifteen” who had their position on the team and […]

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A company in the US has just announced that they have a genetic test for suicide ideation (having suicidal thoughts), which could be used in conjunction with depression medication (Citalopram) in order to identify appropriate candidates for the medication.
The test is called the Mark-C test and the company is from Boulder Colorado and is called […]

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From RTÉ today:
Science group Enfer is creating 120 new jobs at a new headquarters and research laboratory in Kildare.
The new jobs will double the current workforce and will be based in the M7 business park in Naas.
The company is a a world leader in food safety diagnostics, and it is best known for its […]

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The big lovely news today is that work will start on T2 in Dublin Airport next week. For anybody that travels through Dublin Airport regularly, this is great news indeed.
I always thought that Heathrow was the most nightmarish airport in the world, but lately Dublin is getting the nod.
I probably take about 30 flights […]

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I don’t have much to say except that I am finding it increasingly distressing to see what is happening - how peaceful protest is not winning and how democracy is not winning and how people cannot have any say over the running of their own lives and how they are not free to say how […]

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San Diego, CA, September 25, 2007 — Researchers at UC San Diego and UC Irvine have found evidence that supports the theory that reproductive competition during the evolution of primate species has occurred at the level of sperm cell motility. In a paper published online by the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, a team […]

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I haven’t ever met Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but I have met his cousin.
She is an excellent young scientist who works in Europe.
I met her this summer and only said hello to her and shook her hand. She works in a lab with a Jewish girl and loads of Christians. The boss of the lab […]

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First of all, take a look at this website where you can hear a female voice morphed into a male voice:http://www.voiceresearch.org/
Now, the bit of science for today is the new study that showed that men with deeper voices have more offspring than men with more high-pitched voices.
The study, published in Biology Letters, offers insight into […]

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On RTE 1 right now, we have David McWilliams telling us that we are a bit stupid, investing in property and spending money like water and being out-competed by everybody and it is all going a bit Pete Tong.
On RTE 2 right now is the programme prosperity that is telling us that we are a […]

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