Amitabh Chandra of Harvard University provided the data for a New York Times article back in 2006 based on babies born in the United States on specific dates between 1973 and 1999.
Conclusion: people in the US like to make babies in the winter, particularly around the holiday season.
Sure don’t we all?
ALCOHOL SPONSORSHIP of sports events is to be ended, Minister of State for Health Róisín Shortall has pledged. “I am committed to phasing that out over a reasonable period of time,” she said in the Dáil. There is “no room for ambivalence in our approach”.
Because that’s the cause of Ireland’s massive drink problem, right?
Minister To End Alcohol Sponsorship Of Sports (Maire O’Halloran, Irish Times)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pyxowlwoc
The best graffiti artistry you’ll see today.
AKA Crap pays respect to The Black Keys with a rather nifty ‘Video Battle’ entry for the Livestyles Hip Hop Festival in Cork on June 1-4 (details here).
Stay for the burly bearded hipster at 1.36.
Music: Lonely Boy – The Black Keys.
Thanks BKL
Biocon India is incorporated as a joint venture between Biocon Biochemicals Ltd. of Cork, Ireland and an Indian entrepreneur, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. It is a fully integrated healthcare company that “delivers innovative biopharmaceutical solutions”
Worth remembering: In 2004 Mary Harney appointed Dr Barry McSweeney as the country’s first Chief Scientific Officer. Dr McSweeney had previously worked as Director of Medical Business for Biocon Biochemicals.
Stroke victim Cathy Hutchinson paralysed for 15 years uses a brain implant to control a robotic arm. Cathy is only one of two people with the implant and this is the first public demonstration of the technology.
Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm (nature)
@broadsheet_ie #euref “perpetual debt” arriving on a doormat in your house soon. twitter.com/kimleonard4/st…
— Kim Leonard (@kimleonard4) May 16, 2012
@aaronmcallorum @broadsheet_ie did I mention it’s 8pages long & also includes the ‘yes men’ twitter.com/kimleonard4/st…
— Kim Leonard (@kimleonard4) May 16, 2012
Earlier: Far Right Hipsters In Ireland
Economists (above) from left Michael Taft (Unite trade union), Professor Terrence McDonough (NUI Galway) and academic Dr Andy Storey (UCD) at the Mont Clare Hotel, Dublin, this afternoon backing the Campaign Against the Austerity Treaty.
Group Of Economists Urge No vote (Mary Minihan, irish Times)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Ah here.
Via Darren Gardiner
Liverpool confirm Kenny Dalglish has been sacked as manager of the club
— Sky News Newsdesk (@SkyNewsBreak) May 16, 2012
