My past life — working in the Central Bank (in shoulder pads)
Back in the early eighties (shoulder pads, unsure, skinny) while I was an undergrad at Trinity College Dublin studying Maths & Economics I managed to get myself a summer job as researcher in the Central Bank of Ireland on Dame street; my bosses were the now very...
The Physics Chanteuse
The year is 2000 and the month is November. Almost a year into my new position as the Institute of Physics Representative in Ireland, I find myself travelling to Switzerland with an Irish delegation of physics educators to attend a pan-European conference* being held...
Time travelling through plagues and viruses
What does the Visual Time Traveller have to say about plagues and viruses? Quite a lot — they feature on at least 13 pages: 1510 The first known influenza pandemic originates in Asia. 1546 Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable...
