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Well, if this one didn’t knock me down. It appears that while we have a vague idea about how much forest we have in the world, we don’t really know and while we have assumed for the past quarter of a century that the world is being denuded of forest, it might be that […]

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So, oil is dangerously close to the ‘psychological’ barrier of 100 dollars a barrel? I’m not sure I know what that means, but let’s just say that oil is getting pricey.
The fall out from this is that all manner of travel will get expensive and producing anything that depends on oil for energy will […]

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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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The ICARUS climate change group here at Maynooth have just published a very good report on climate change in Ireland. The news media reported it as Ireland’s temperature going up at twice the world average, but the entire story is more complex and somewhat more subtle.
First of all, in the last century, there have […]

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Hurricane Dean is among the top 10 strongest hurricanes ever recorded. Of interest here is the fact that six of the top ten have occurred in the past 10 years.
We have been warned!!!
Comments welcome.

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Nature have a correspondence article published today about the origins of the Eukaryote. It is, in my opinion nothing but speculation and there is no data to support what the authors are saying.
The authors say that in their opinion the role of the eubacterium in the chimeric event that led to the origin of the […]

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Went to Sandycove last weekend since it was Bloomsday weekend. Have to say it was really, really lovely. Sunny, cool, the lot! Considered buying a copy of Ulysses to read out loud on the beach, but even I am not that cheesy. Decided instead to take a few photos of what […]

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