There's an interesting debate happening now in the US, with potential global consequences, about daylight savings time - clocks springing forward in the spring and falling back in the fall (autumn). What's interesting about this is that instead of being partisan between right and left, it is
A couple of years ago I made a commitment, knowing that one of the consequences would be a responsibility to write something that makes me very uncomfortable. Today is the day that I must pay off that debt. Today is my birthday. That in itself is not a problem. Several
According to Politico this morning, there is a real chance that Jordan Bardella will win the French Presidency next year. Remember Jean-Marie Le Pen, the disgusting racist Far-right leader of the Front National. Bardella is just a very clean-cut, sophisticated version of Le Pen. He's
I’ve had the privilege of having a very minor role in a very exciting and frustrating project recently. The BioSupPack consortium, a Horizon 2020 project supported and guided by CBE JU, set themselves the ambitious goal of validating an entirely new, circular bioplastics supply chain. (well, why not shoot
I've been trying to find a good analogy to explain to MAGA people how Trump is viewed outside the US. I think I have one. Do you ever play a friendly round of golf with friends? Or a friendly poker game? There is often a small wager to
Today I have a few quite important and urgent things to work on. So obviously my brain has decided to focus in on a somewhat less critical and less urgent matter – the parallels between Der Erlkönig and The Stolen Child. In university one of the few “records” I had was
[originally a linked-in post] So, Effective Giving Ireland is a project I've been working on with a few amazing people, all volunteers, and we're going to have a small kick-off session this month. It's a charity with a difference. We don'
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” Herman Melville We think we're past this kind of thinking today. But what if we actually were
Have you ever wondered what you could do with $5m ?? Think about what you'd do with that much money if you wanted to help other people - at home or in the developing world? It's a lot, it could make a huge difference to a lot of
Many AI experts believe it likely that AI will kill every human, perhaps in the next decade. These are not conspiracy theorists. Many tech bosses choose not to have children because they don't believe the world will be around much longer! "AI 2027" is a beautiful,