US boffins have taught spinach plants to email humans when bombs are detected in soil
In news that I’m startled to see
Some brainy types at MIT
Have spent their whole grant
On teaching a plant
To send emails to you and me
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To The Top
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Meanwhile…
Tomorrow Tonight.
A lockdown series.
Derek Mooney, Public affairs consultant and Broadsheet columnist, previews tomorrow’s front pages.
All Aboard
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zSWagCyWio
With Virgin’s Hyperloop due to begin service in 2030, the company has released a teaser for the ‘experience’ wherein passengers arrive at a Hyperloop ‘portal’ (’stations’ are so 2029), enter a pre-booked vactrain pod and maglev to their jaysus destination at speeds in excess of 1000km/h.
Gorgeous Wrecks – You Carve Your Name
The future is orange in the new video by elusive Irish electronica duo Gorgeous Wrecks.
Preferring to remain anonymous, the pair are set to release their debut album Gentle Art Of Persuasion, which was produced by Ger McDonnell, imminently on Artwash Records.
Nick says: Can you handle the fruit?
Breeda Murphy, PRO of the The Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance and adoptee and activist Eunan Duffy on the release of a report looking at Northern Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes, launched last week by, top from left: Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill, retired senior police officer Judith Gillespie, who led the review and First Minister Arlene Foster…
…and the similarities with Dublin in denying and delaying justice for survivors.
This is the seventh in a series of shows with Eunan and Breeda dealing with Mother and Baby Homes across the island of Ireland and the issues facing birth mothers and adoptees. All are available on our YouTube channel.
Yesterday: The Survivors Of Northern Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes
Pic: BBC
Meanwhile…
Mayo County Council has become the latest local authority to apologise for its role in the operation of mother-and-baby homes.
Almost a third of all mothers admitted to the mother-and-baby home in Tuam, between 1925 and 1961, were from Co Mayo.
Capitation payments were made by the council to the Bon Secours Sisters, for the women and children sent from the county to the Tuam home, over that 36-year period.
A special meeting of the council is being held virtually this afternoon, following the publication of the final report of the Commission of Investigation last month.
Mayo County Council apologises over mother-and-baby homes (RTÉ)
Doublespeak
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Wearing two masks instead of one is probably more effective to stop the spread of coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci sayshttps://t.co/n9bBTPQuA5
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) January 25, 2021
January 25
Fauci on double masking:
“There’s no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference” pic.twitter.com/ptVivQfuwt
— Eli Klein (@TheEliKlein) January 31, 2021
This morning/afternoon.
Um.
Anyone?
Double masking is likely more effective to stop spread of Covid-19, Fauci says (CNN, January 25)
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