Live at the Witch Trials

We know how to build lots of things cheaply. Things like clothes, toys, TV/computers and food have all gotten relatively much cheaper over m...

Vitamins and Mineral supplements are a huge industry worth billions or euros per year. The evidence that they have benefits is a lot more co...

 A good thing that came out of the pandemic is how much time fathers got to spend with their children. According to this research in 2014 t...

People are laughing at the SpiceDao for spending $3.8 million on a book . But one thing has shown is a group of fans of a story can get mone...

I made a website to help people learn calculus. I have taken a 1910 book Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson that has already been di...

Prizes  are a really good way of funding  science  but are not used enough. All sorts of prizes from longitude to private space have speed...

My last post was  €100 off Electricity Bills or an Investment in Batteries? where I argued that it was better to invest much of this money g...

  € 200 Million spent on utility scale battery storage could make electricity cheaper and more environmentally friendly in Ireland for the f...

 There is an ad on Dublin bus for a scam crypto coin called Floki. Floki is the name of Elon musk's dog. Though it has nothing actually ...

Stephen Fry once said that Hamlet was the best character in a play because he does nothing but talk. And Lassie is the best movie character ...

Around 2016 there was large interest in how factory automation was going to lead to mass unemployment. And this was one of the reasons give...

 There is a good article about Solar power in Ireland here ' It is expected that about 600-700 MW of new solar will come on-stream as a ...

 Is it worth installing solar power in Ireland? Or is it more efficient to build the solar power someplace with more kilowatt hours per pane...

 I argued here  Vaccinate the old fast that the old had such higher Covid fatality rates that it was worth trying to vaccinate as many of t...

 If you do a search on twitter for unapproved vaccine you will find loads of people saying some version of A: I will not take an unapproved...

I keep reading people saying that an alternative to covid vaccinations and social distancing methods are healthy eating and  exercise to red...

Demeny voting is giving children votes to be used by their parents, until the children reach voting age. The interests of children are not ...

Between 10-20% of adults are really scared of needles. Anti Vax people are really hard to persuade. But anti needle people might be easier....

 During the pandemic people drive less. I would expect that to mean fewer deaths caused by driving. But that didn't happen in the US or ...

We should not pay to keep sheep on the high hills of Ireland.  Hill sheep are not very good money earners by themselves. The wool is more ex...