This morning.
Ahead of the 2021 Academy Awards on Sunday night.
DaveC writes:
Can a Broadsheet reader recommend or has seen any of the movies nominated for Oscar for Best Film? This is the first year I know nothing about any of them, although I’m curious about Mank for the name alone.
Anyone?
This morning.
Finglas EBS Station
Members of the Independent Workers Union, which is not recognised by ESB, begin a 24-hour strike protesting at the lack of consultation over work to be outsourced to the private sector. They claim to have over 500 members working in the ESB. The company said it plans to take legal action over the strike.
ESB says technicians strike by unrecognised union is unlawful (RTÉ)
Fears – Fabric
Cheers for Fears.
The breakout indietronica artist of the year is undoubtedly Fears aka Constance Keane (top) who has just released a lyric video for the third single from her debut album Oiche, due on May 7.
Fears (top) writes:
“‘Fabric’ is about trying to escape someone or something that will not give you room to breathe. I tried to capture the feeling of desperately trying to rebuild yourself and your life, while something will not let you go. It’s a song about feeling exhausted and trapped, but still determined to succeed.”
Fears recently performed a virtual concert as part of the estimable Music Town festival which can be viewed on the festival’s YouTube channel.
Nick says: The best Fears of our lives.
Boris was watching the Playboy Channel again wasn't he @broadsheet_ie #BUNNYHUGGING https://t.co/vxzLn19l2M
— Marcus Rashford stan account #FPL (@eachwaypunter21) April 22, 2021
The MethaneSAT will collect data on emissions from bovine flatulence
In case you’ve been wondering how
To measures the burps from a cow
Then I reckon you might
Use the satellite
That New Zealanders are trying now
Dusk in Dublin, last evening.
Colum Cronin tweets:
Dusk in Dublin. Alongside the array of colours I particularly like the silhouettes of the statues on St. Paul’s church on the right side.
Meanwhile…
Tomorrow Tonight.
A lockdown series.
The Green Party’s Dan Boyle (top right) previews tomorrow’s front pages.
Indeed and you probably are.
Broadsheet on the Telly returns at 9.30pm streaming LIVE above and on our YouTube channel.
Join old friends, new pals and our pets as we discuss the news of the week.
All welcome.
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PLUS!
Campaigner and lawyer Kevin Higgins and Tuam survivor Peter Mulryan, of the Tuam Home Survivors Network on the Mother and Baby home report saga and the search for remains, truth and justice.
Hosted by Neil Curran.
Behold: the warped magnetic fields of Centaurus A – not one galaxy, but two. To wit:
When galaxies collide — what happens to their magnetic fields? To help find out, NASA pointed SOFIA, its flying 747, at galactic neighbour Centaurus A to observe the emission of polarized dust — which traces magnetic fields. Cen A’s unusual shape results from the clash of two galaxies with jets powered by gas accreting onto a central supermassive black hole. In the resulting featured image, SOFIA-derived magnetic streamlines are superposed on ESO (visible: white), APEX (submillimeter: orange), Chandra (X-rays: blue), and Spitzer (infrared: red) images. The magnetic fields were found to be parallel to the dust lanes on the outskirts of the galaxy but distorted near the centre. Gravitational forces near the black hole accelerate ions and enhance the magnetic field. In sum, the collision not only combined the galaxies’ masses — but amplified their magnetic fields. These results provide new insights into how magnetic fields evolved in the early universe when mergers were more common.
(Image: Optical: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Wide Field Imager; Submillimeter: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/ESO/Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)/A.Weiss et al; X-ray and Infrared: NASA/Chandra/R. Kraft; JPL-Caltech/J. Keene; Text: Joan Schmelz (USRA))
