From top: cows; today’s Irish Times front page lead story

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The IPCC concluded that eating less meat, especially in developed countries, and reducing food waste was an effective method to help reduce global warming. It predicts this action would save millions of square kilometres of land being degraded by farming.

The findings led to calls on the Government from climate campaigners and the Green Party to draw up a national land-use plan to help redirect agriculture and to set out how afforestation could help reduce carbon emissions..

Climate experts say Ireland is too reliant on cows (Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

Well.

It’s a start.

FIGHT!

August is a good time of the year to see Jupiter. Just after sunset, it’s the brightest object in its section of the south-eastern sky. So what’s going on here, then?

The featured image was taken about a month ago from the Persian Gulf. The image shows Jupiter just to the right of the nearly vertical band of the central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy. The unnamed rock formations appear in projection like the jaws of a giant monster ready to engulf the Jovian giant. When you see Jupiter, it may be interesting to know that NASA’s robotic Juno spacecraft is simultaneously visiting and studying the giant planet. Saturn is also visible this month, and although it is ‘nearby’ Jupiter, it is not as bright.

(Image: Mohammad S. Hayati)

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Yesterday.

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin 2

NGI writes:

New stairs, and you know what that means – NEW EXHIBITION TIME!

Sorolla: Master of Light opens here on Saturday, and we just got a sneak peek – we think you’re going to love it!

Joaquín Sorolla?

National Gallery of Ireland

Enda?

Crewing for the British Royals?

You’ve changed, man.

Prince William and Kate Middleton go head to head in King’s Cup Regatta (Boat International)

Thanks Larry Murphy

Woman left with agonizing vagina burns after ‘steaming’ procedure (New York Post)

Last night.

An 18-year-old man is in a critical condition after a number of stabbings close to a controversial bonfire in Belfast, police said.

Two men, aged 28 and 21, have been arrested following the incidents in the New Lodge area of north Belfast.

The incidents took place near an anti-internment bonfire.

New Lodge bonfire: Arrests after two men stabbed in north Belfast (BBC)

Meanwhile…

Deadly Buzz Aldrin – Bad Move Space Cadet

Sitting in a tin can far above the world…

Tonight Anseo on Dublin’s Camden Street hosts the launch of the first EP on the new Soft Landing label from experimental electronica geezer Deadly Buzz Aldrin aka Colm O’Riordan.

Colm also DJs at Anseo on Sundays spinning mellow sounds as well as hosting a monthly show on Dublin Digital Radio.

The EP is available on vinyl and digitally on Bandcamp and other platforms.

Nick says: A giant step for Irish electro chill.

Deadly Buzz Aldrin

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