Building the 21st-Century Mind A professor of cognition and education reveals the five minds you need for success, how to make better decisions, and why ethics are critical. (Scientific American). U.N. Panel Says World Should Ditch Dollar A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in [...]
Does anyone in the great wide world know if multiple award-winning coachbuilder W. Dwyer of Sydney is related to award winning coachbuilder John Dwyer of Castlebar, Co Mayo? Both were working in the 19th, early 20th centuries. I believe the enterprise in Castlebar didn’t close till the mid-to-late- 1920s. This is what the National Library [...]
Poet Michael O’Dea has suggested, as a means of increasing poetry readership …that Poetry Ireland, (since it will take such a central organisation), organise a Poets Corner in Dublin (maybe the first of many throughout the country) where everyone/anyone can stop for 15 minutes to listen and buy poetry. I would suggest that a meeting [...]
Silicon Republic, Ireland’s technology news service, has a tasty makeover.