Life in a puzzling universe
This week saw the 5th international conference on the history of physics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. The event, supported by the Institute of Physics, the European Physical Society and Portuguese Society of Physics, was the fifth in an Continue reading
This week, the 4th international conference on the history of physics finally took place at Trinity College Dublin. The event, supported by the Institute of Physics and the European Physics Society, was the fourth in an ongoing series of international Continue reading
Friday marked the last teaching day of the semester at WIT and it also marked the last day of our college as an Institute of Technology. Today sees the first working day of the college as a constituent college of Continue reading
I thought I’d take advantage of this year’s double-bank holiday for Patrick’s Day to get away from it all, so I’m back in Austria once again this time in Bad Hofgastein, one of several beautiful small towns in the Continue reading
Now that the Covid threat appears to be receding, I took advantage of the mid-term break to take my first ski trip in quite a few years. I grabbed the last seat on a cheap ‘n cheerful package holiday to Continue reading
Like many third-level colleges in Ireland, WIT is set to resume face-to-face teaching next week. Thus the college will begin the second semester of the academic year at a time when the Covid infection rate is running at over 20,000 Continue reading
Today marked the last day of our college Christmas break. I must say I quite enjoyed spending the break up here in Kilternan, Dublin, despite the scary onset of yet another variant of COVID-19. One welcome surprise was that a Continue reading
This article appeared in The Irish Times on 30th September 2021 As the year 2021 progressed, a remarkable divergence between the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic and to climate change became ever more apparent.Considering Covid-19 first, there is little Continue reading
Yesterday, I participated in a virtual conference on the history of physics. The event, supported by the Institute of Physics and the European Physics Society, formed part of an ongoing series of international conferences on the history of physics, a Continue reading
This article of mine was pubished in The Irish Times on the last day of 2020. The year 2020 will probably be remembered as the year of the dreadful Covid-19 virus, but it should also be remembered as a year Continue reading