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Howard Gardner

Slim Links March 23 2009

Building the 21st-Century Mind A professor of cognition and education reveals the five minds you need for success, how to make better …

Dwyer and Son, Dublin Spring Show

Dwyers: 19th Century coachbuilders

Does anyone in the great wide world know if multiple award-winning coachbuilder W. Dwyer of Sydney is related to award winning coachbuilder …

Increasing Poetry Readership

Poet Michael O’Dea has suggested, as a means of increasing poetry readership …that Poetry Ireland, (since it will take such a central …

Silicon Republic

Silicon Republic, Ireland’s technology news service, has a tasty makeover.

In a State of Surveillance

“From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – …

The Pale Blue Dot

It never fails to move me, and as Grace Wynne-Jones mentioned it in passing today, here it is again, the beautiful video …

Juan Enriquez

I know, I know, another TED Talk. but whether or not you agree with everything he says, spend 18 minutes with Juan …

Streetcars of Desire on AP

It isn’t often I plug my other weblogs, but I’m so chuffed at the possiblity that Dublin (and indeed other Irish cities) …

Biomimicry

If you have 23 minutes to spare, and I would strongly urge you to have them, then have a look at this …

Remarkable Service

Tom Raftery has an interesting post about Remarkable Customer Service. I could rave all day about the remarkable service from my host …

Earth seen from 4 billion miles away

On a day when the world’s media is consumed with the unintended decapitation, rather than the “civilized” hanging of a former tyrant, …

from XP to Ubuntu Edgy Eft

I hope you all had a happy Christmas and New Year’s Eve and I wish you all, especially friends and family, a …

Ms Dewey

In a clever hat-tip to the Dewey Decimal Classification System used in Libraries, Ms Dewey is search as you’ve never seen it. …