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Melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s
Associated Press via Yahoo News UK· 1 day agoIt slowly shriveled from its peak size at the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, but then that...
Our attitudes towards AI reveal how we really feel about human intelligence
The Guardian· 8 hours agoThe idea that superintelligent robots are alien invaders coming to “steal our jobs” reveals profound shortcomings in the way we think about work, value, ...
What can we learn from Freedom, a landmark magazine of the cold war era?
Morning Star· 7 days agoRobeson founded the magazine alongside the not as famous but nevertheless amazing African-American...
Ronan McGreevy: Historical events usually recede in importance as they retreat in time - not the...
The Irish Times· 6 days agoThe German Jewish historian Fritz Stern described the first World War as the “first calamity of the...
Behind the scenes of Denmark’s record-breaking underwater rail tunnel
EuroNews· 2 days agoAn 18-kilometre tunnel will soon link southern Denmark with northern Germany beneath the Baltic Sea....
Irish will of US-based priest who owned farm is approved by the High Court
Irish Independent· 2 days agoThe High Court has approved the Irish will of a late US-based priest after a subsequent American...
Seán Moran: Football needs cut and thrust as well as cosmetic surgery
The Irish Times· 16 hours agoDerry were scared of their newly hospitable defence whereas Kerry were scared of their opponents’...
Darragh McCullough: Why in an era of data, spin, and global finance, I often feel the finely honed...
Irish Independent· 2 days agoIt’s a time of my farming year that I often dread. We’re up to our oxters harvesting daffodil bulbs,...
Scientists wary of bird flu pandemic ‘unfolding in slow motion’
Irish Independent· 2 days agoScientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen leading disease experts.
The forgotten priest who predicted black holes – in 1783
BBC News· 2 days agoAlmost 200 years before scientists accepted black holes exist, a British clergyman called John...