Behold: the Citroën AMI Quadricycle – a tiny electric car that even 16 year olds will be qualified to drive (14 year olds in France).

On sale from this summer with a ‘light quadricycle’ designation that will not require a licence, the AMI is 2.4 meters long with a minimal interior, a top speed of 45km/h and 70km of range on a three hour full charge.

Dinky.

Yours for €6,000.

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This afternoon.

Cheltenham Racecourse,  Gloucestershire, England.

Meanwhile…

Cheltenham Festival has been branded a ‘ticking timebomb’ and after bosses made the decision to go ahead with the four day event despite the coronavirus outbreak.

Up to 70,000 spectators are expected to attend the first day of the annual horse racing festival with fans travelling from across Britain to the Gloucestershire course

Tens of thousands of revellers pack Cheltenham as critics warn it’s ‘a ticking timebomb’ (Mail Online)

Pics via Heart West News

Behold: zodiacal light – seen here as a band of illumination connecting the ground to the Milky Way in the sky above Chile. To wit:

Zodiacal light — a stream of dust that orbits the Sun in the inner Solar System. It is most easily seen just before sunrise, where it has been called a false dawn, or just after sunset. The origin of zodiacal dust remains a topic of research, but is hypothesized to result from asteroid collisions and comet tails. The featured wide-angle image shows the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy arching across the top, while the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way, is visible on the far left. The image is a combination of over 30 exposures taken last July near La Serena among the mountains of Chile. During the next two months, zodiacal light can appear quite prominent in northern skies just after sunset.

(Image: Roman Ponča (ht: Masaryk U.))

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From top: Trinity College Dublin; statement released by the college this lunchtime (click to enlarge); tweets from RTÉ

This lunchtime.

Trinity College Dublin announced in a statement that, from tomorrow, all lectures will be delivered online for the rest of the semester to “slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus”.

“However, tutorials, seminars and laboratory practicals will all continue to be given in the usual fashion while suing social distancing protocols,” it adds.

It’s also closing the Book of Kells exhibition and Old Library, Science Gallery and the Douglas Hyde Gallery.

Too soon?

Or not soon enough?

Via Trinity College Dublin

Padraig Jack – Streetbed Ridden

Is it too real for ya?

Hailing from the Aran Islands, singer/songwriter Padraig Jack (top) has penned a heartfelt slice-of-life about the scourge of homelessness in Ireland.

Padraig says:

“While imagining the mental anguish that must be felt by someone living on the street, this song also ponders how easy it can be to fall through the cracks from a comfortable middle-class life into homelessness.

The section at the end of the song asks that we interrupt our non-stop lives and remember the inherent kindness in our being and re-think our willingness to support those at the bottom of the ladder.”

Hear, hear.

The song can be found on Padraig’s forthcoming album Making Sand, due April 24.

Padraig plays The Cobblestone, Smithfield, Dublin 7, on May 14.

Nick says: Home truths.

Padraig Jack

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