An infographic rendering of the Swiss-cheese Covid model, including the ‘misinformation mouse’ eating new holes for the virus to pass through’
There are things we do to fight disease
Masks, hand-washing, distance, but these
Can’t work on their own
So the cornerstone
Of the strategy is some Swiss cheese
MORE to follow.
Welcome to the weekend.
It’s time for another music competition, so light the fire and pour yourself a stiff one.
This week I want to know: What’s your favourite song by a Scottish artist?
Here’s mine.
Reply below to be in with a chance of winning a thistle tickling €25 Golden Discs voucher.
The winner will be chosen by my cousin Dougie.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines close at 11am Saturday.
Nick says: Good luck, hen.
Last week’s winner here
Makes RTÉ look positively childish.
This afternoon.
Via Curracloe National School:
A special Christmas breaking news bulletin from The Infants..
Broadsheet warning: The elf claims are disputed by multiple sources.
Nomos – I Am Going To Set You Free
Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960, reader Eamonn would like to draw our attention to Cork trad upstarts Nomos who shone brightly in the 1990s.
Led by Eoin Coughlan (vocals and bass), the line-up was completed by Niall Vallely (concertina), Vince Milne (fiddle), Frank Torpey (bodhran) and Gerry McKee (bouzouki).
This is a live version of the title track from their second and final album released in 1997 on Green Linnet Records.
Nick says: It’s a very, very trad world.
Behold: Simeis 147, aka Sharpless 2-240, aka the Spaghetti Nebula – a giant supernova remnant worthy of your praise. To wit:
Seen toward the boundary of the constellations Taurus and Auriga, it covers nearly 3 degrees or 6 full moons on the sky. That’s about 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud’s estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. This composite includes image data taken through narrow-band filters where reddish emission from ionized hydrogen atoms and doubly ionized oxygen atoms in faint blue-green hues trace the shocked, glowing gas. The supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years, meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago. But the expanding remnant is not the only aftermath. The cosmic catastrophe also left behind a spinning neutron star or pulsar, all that remains of the original star’s core.
(Image: Georges Attard)
