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Well, there is still some smoke emanating from the canteen, but the fire is out, I think (current time: 2:30pm).  It started in the kitchen, but how it started is unknown to me right now.  There are two or three stories doing the rounds.  The canteen was being extended and there were builders in situ […]

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The Nora Dunne Art Gallery is opening on Saturday night.  I thnk I might go along for a look.
Take a look here:
http://noradunne.typepad.com/nora_dunne_gallery/2008/11/opening-night-29th-november-08-6-8pm.html

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Karl Popper:
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices. The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition in having two layers. Like the latter, it passes […]

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Google’s philanthropic side has published online a tracker that monitors how often people ask about the flu through Google.  They have found that it is a good indicator of flu in a particular area and is more immediate than CDC monitoring of flu.  Essentially, you can just monitor how often people in a particular area […]

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I don’t know if it means anything, but our most recent paper in BMC Evolutionary Biology is moving up the ladder and is now the fifth most viewed paper in BMC in the last 30 days.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcevolbiol/mostviewed/
It is hard to know if this kind of statistic really translates into anything - like will it be highly […]

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Well, last week we had multimillionaire Lord Ganley threaten the government that they would be making a mistake to try to bring a changed Lisbon Treaty back to the Irish people and today we have the nut-jobs from Cóir being escorted out of the Dáil.
Cóir are the nutty catholic enforcer group that advocated a no […]

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When I was a PhD student, I had to go to London to analyse some data and in order to get there, I got a train from Galway to Dublin, stayed overnight in Dublin in a B+B and then flew to London the next day.
The owner of the B+B gave me a lift to Dublin […]

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