From Strong Language » politics:
From WSJ:
“[US] banks have generally been keeping a lid on commercial real-estate losses by extending these mortgages upon maturity. However, that practice, billed by many industry observers as “extending and pretending,” has come under criticism by some analysts and investors as it promises to put off the pains into the future…
Critics [...]
From TechWire:
Great news for luddites and men over-45: Nokia has updated its non-internet line of 'common sense' mobile phones.
This comes in the form of the 6303 Classic, which has no 3G, no internet and no wi-fi. All of this means that battery life is somewhat better than your ordinary mobile phone, at over two [...]
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Stan Collymore
ANOTHER FINE MESS
Where do you start with Stan Collymore’s campaign for an expanded Premier League, with no promotion and relegation and qualification based on performance over the last 100 years? Probably with his assertion that:
“…25 teams, 50 games a season.”
LESS IS MORE
Hang on, give Stan a chance to explain himself:
“At the moment, you get [...]
The Merse
SIXES AND SEVENS
Ludo sessions at Paul Merson’s house invariably end in destruction:
“They’ve (Liverpool) just rolled the last bit of dice.”
BRUCIE BONUS
After 11 years in the management game, Steve Bruce is beginning to get his bearings:
“The one area of the pitch where we are a threat is up the [...]
From Mary Mulvihill » Communicating science:
If you had five minutes on stage, what would you say? Allowed 20 slides, changing every 15 seconds, what images would you show?
That’s the challenge for an ‘Ignite’ talk – and if you know about Ignite events, you’ll know how popular they’ve become.
In communications training I’ll often ask participants to [...]
From Science Spinning by Seán Duke:
Science Spin, my new weekly radio show on Dublin City FM, started broadcasting on 8th October.
The goal is to ‘bring science to the people’ – in other words to engage a general audience in all things science.
The show goes out on 103.2 FM at 3:30pm on Thursday, and is podcast later [...]
From Science Spinning by Seán Duke:
Dr Peter Gallagher, an astrophysicist, at TCD, could be called a scientific ’sun worshipper’. His career to date has been based on deepening our understanding of the Sun, and its violent eruptions, which can reach Earth as ’solar storms’.
These storms can be serious enough to threaten the lives of astronauts [...]
From Science Spinning by Seán Duke:
Communication skills for scientists are becoming increasingly important all the time. These days it is essential that scientists are good, if not excellent, communicators, on many levels in order to succeed.
With this in mind, I have designed a one-day ‘Speaking Science‘ communication workshop. The target groups are scientists working at [...]
From Science Spinning by Seán Duke:
A researcher based in UCC has come up with a new approach to testing for toxins in the environment.
It is faster,cheaper and more sensitive than existing methods, and – something that is increasingly important on many levels – it doesn’t involve killing animals.
Professor Dimitri Papkovsky has developed new methods for [...]
