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It’s a relative question
“Frogs levitate in a strong enough magnetic field.” This fact was illustrated on a large advert and displayed on various bus shelters in Manchester and Liverpool in 2009. It was the result of a clever idea dreamt up by the outreach department of the Institute of...
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...
The Dialogue (with apologies to Galileo)
The Dialogue (with apologies to Galileo) This is a short script I wrote and read at the end of my inaugural Visual Time Traveller talk I presented in the RDS Library, on the 2nd of April 2014, when launching the exhibition (2 Apr - 15 May 2014). The first draft was...
Depressed. I think my new boyfriend is a chatbot
Depressed. I think my new boyfriend is a chatbot. *Some names in this article have been changed to protect identities of real people and real businesses. If you are in the business of setting up a business (with funding at an all-time-low) the off-the-shelf website...
Marketing done!
I illustrated this cartoon some years ago when Roy Keane’s autobiography was coming out. Having launched The Visual Time Traveller nine months before I was slowly beginning to understand why the publishers of celebrity-titles could hit the jackpot (marketing done!)...
Too much information and how to make sense of it all
In the year 2000, not long after taking up my role as the Institute of Physics representative in Ireland, I was part of the Irish delegation that attended the Physics on stage conference being held at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. The first of...
The Visual Time Traveller reaches the Jesuitical age of seven
We writers have one drug of choice: getting published. So you’ll understand the hit I got last week seeing my concrete poem, Copernicus, published in Crossways Literary Magazine. This one fell into a natural planetary shape not too long after the words had been...
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