Reel NASA sez:
Expedition 30 astronaut Dr Don Pettit uses knitting needles and water droplets to demonstrate physics in space through ‘Science off the Sphere.’ This is part of the first video in a series for a partnership between NASA and the American Physical Society to share unique videos from the International Space Station with students, educators and science fans from around the world.
More offworld practical physics: Dr Don’s Saturday Morning Science experiments.
The dog who was thrown over a wall on one of the very cold nights.
This is him NOW:
And with large new pal Lexi.
Miriam Kerins at the DSPCA sez:
When our inspectors rescued Maurice he was largely unresponsive, was suffering from hypothermia and our veterinary team didn’t think he’d make it. But he’s a little fighter and even though he is doing really well, we are taking it each day at a time.
Lexi is also a rescue dog but has been adopted by Colleen who runs our coffee shop. Lexi visits Maurice every day because she wants to mother him.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL8x7LcA-Y4&feature=youtu.be
A baby grizzly and a wolf cub?
And somehow it works.
Mmf.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kFNYuteAjA
It’s a little interwebegeddon but…
Nicolas writes:
BBC Panorama’s Declan Lawn manages to track down a troll in Cardiff that goes by the name of Nimrod Severn (real name Darren Burton) and specialises in leaving offensive comments on “RIP” pages on Facebook,
and tries to have a word with him. Everything goes as expected.
The look of awkward part 2: Even the checkout guy isn’t convinced… (@broadsheet_ie) twitter.com/MiaDaly/status…
— Maria Daly (@MiaDaly) February 9, 2012
According to many of the testimonies the Irish Government was unresponsive to the needs of the country, which was facing a serious national emergency. While officials busily denied the need to declare an emergency, they failed to utilise the Army and other resources to relieve the intolerable conditions that people were suffering. When eventually the government recognised the gravity of the situation the response left a lot to be desired.
Seán Lemass in a radio broadcast to the nation asked people to ‘avoid the selfish practice of using off hour glimmer gas, and reduce their electricity usage.’ On the other hand the generosity of wealthy types such as the Talbots of Malahide were praised for having made trees on their land available for fire wood.
See?
Indifference to our own people’s suffering.
It’s part of who we are and what makes us great.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdv67PZ8VnU
We have two free tickets to a Valentine’s night dinner with Speaking Suppers at the United Arts Club, Dublin, on February 14.
Speaking Suppers is the celebrated dining club where you literally have to sing for your supper. And by sing’ we mean ‘speak for three minutes’ on a chosen subject. And by ‘have to’ we mean ‘only if you want to’.
Just finish this popular ditty:
Roses are occasionally red, violets tend to be blue…
Least romantic Best entry wins
Lines close at 4.15pm.
Update: Winner will be announced Friday afternoon.
