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On Imaginary Quantities
If you have been following these posts, dear reader, you might be under the impression that my book is full of science and philosophica...
What’s in a metaphor?
It’s the kind of question that would have resonated with Laurence Sterne, the Anglo-Irish writer of The Life and Opinions of Tristram S...
On Entanglement
In my previous post, I consciously abused a lexical coincidence by invoking “entanglement” to support the introd...
An Irish Publisher – and a Strange Bird
When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of my time (probably too much) in secondhand bookshops – and a lot of my somewhat limited resource...
Listen to Your Microbes
Listen to Your Microbes is a graphic book created by gastroenterologist Fergus Shanahan and graphic designer Laura Gowers. This popular...
Launch of Daisy Daisy by Carmen Cullen at Mermaid Arts Centre
A great crowd braved the elements and attended the launch at the Mermaid Arts Centre for the much-anticipated release of DAISY DAISY, t...
I Blame Jaws
I blame Jaws. Not the things in your mouth: they can be useful – for eating, for example. No, the film about the big shark. Before that...