With a spirit somewhat akin to that of Ig Nobel Prize winner Troy (built a suit of armor to protect against grizzly bears) Hurtubise, comes “One man’s dream project to fly from Ireland to Africa by lawnmower gets under way this week“. The story is reported, with that headline, in The Journal: A FEW MONTHS […]
Tag: Ireland
The Mysterious Case of the Loaded Leprechaun
“The [Loaded] Leprechaun has been owned and operated as a private company since its founding in 1948 by the O’Shaughnessy family of Boston, MA. One of the great traditions at the Leprechaun is the ‘Dollar Holler.’ Patrons personalize dollar bills by writing a message or drawing a picture with a permanent marker and then staple […]
A proudly random organization
In Ireland dwells an organization that emphatically, insistently describes itself as being random. They offer this description [presented here only in part]: RANDOM.ORG is a true random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise. This page explains how RANDOM.ORG came about back in 1997 and how it has progressed through different stages to the […]
‘The night Dublin dissected an elephant’
Mary Mulvihill did a five-minute talk about ‘The night Dublin dissected an elephant’. It (the night Dublin dissected an elephant — not Mulvihill’s talk!) was was a big, smelly moment in the history of science. Here’s video of her talk: Allen Mullin did the dissection, way back when, in 1681. He described it in a […]
