What are N95 and FFP2 face masks and do you really need them?
As more Covid-19 variants emerge across the globe, attention has once again turned to N95 and FFP2 face masks.Continue Reading
2022-01-23
Covid: Ireland logs 10,600 cases as hospitalisations fall for fifth day
Ireland logged 10,600 further cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, as the number of people hospitalised with the virus fell for the fifth day in a row. 6,689 cases were confirmed by PCR test, while 3,911 positive antigen test results were uploaded to the HSE portal. The Department of Health hasContinue Reading
2022-01-22
Meta and Twitter’s NFT Landgrab Could Backfire
A new plan to lure social media users to the metaverse could legitimize NFTs, but it could also ruin themContinue Reading
2022-01-21
COVID misinformation is a health risk – tech companies need to remove harmful content not tweak their algorithms
file404/Shutterstock Many worldwide have now caught COVID. But during the pandemic many more are likely to have encountered something else that’s been spreading virally: misinformation. False information has plagued the COVID response, erroneously convincing people that the virus isn’t harmful, of the merits of various ineffective treatments, or of falseContinue Reading
2022-01-21
Five life-affirming words we should bring back into use
The Oxford English Dictionary tries to include all words in English (particularly British and American English) from 1200 onwards. dollar gill | unsplash, FAL Lexicographer and TV personality Susie Dent recently embarked on a curious, self-appointed mission. She is determined to bring the word “respair”, last used around 1525, backContinue Reading
2022-01-21
The US Refuses to Fall in Love With Electric Cars
As China and Europe lead the race to make electric vehicles mainstream, America lags behind. This is a problem.Continue Reading
2022-01-21
Sending in the Royal Navy is not the answer to small boat migration in the Channel
The Home Office has announced a plan to bring in the Royal Navy to take charge of policing the English Channel after the number of migrants attempting the crossing in small boats tripled in 2021. Full details of the plan have not been revealed, but appear to involve the navyContinue Reading
2022-01-21
From divorcees to fuller classrooms, the 1921 census of England and Wales depicts an era of great change
Compared to previous censuses, the 1921 data shows more children in education. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA Nobody is more excited for the release of a census than a genealogist. I have been researching family trees for 20 years and I have seen the release of key documents, including the 1911Continue Reading
2022-01-21
Lockdown saw couples share housework and childcare more evenly – but these changes didn’t last
Halfpoint/Shutterstock It may feel like a common occurrence today, but if you cast your mind back to the first COVID lockdown, having whole families working and studying from home was a very unfamiliar situation. And it was one that had unfamiliar consequences. For opposite-sex couples, lockdown disrupted the traditional genderContinue Reading
2022-01-20
Ukraine: a country wounded by eight years of crisis
The Russian-Ukrainian war began in 2014 after pro-European protesters toppled the government of the Moscow-backed president Victor Yanukovych. This led to a rapid escalation of a crisis that resulted in the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014 and the establishment of two Russian-protected de facto states in easternContinue Reading
2022-01-20