Via the Telegraph blog, here’s a fun video to ponder as we head into another New Year.. seems to be popular too.. It’s why some people are keeping an eye on those Near Earth Objects [not to mention the potentially hazardous asteroids.. - Ed] That and those past Extinction Level Events.. Meanwhile the Professor mentions that the Yellowstone supervolcano caldera is being notably tremorous.. Adds more here.
More as a trailer than a review – as it’s out on Thursday– I draw attention to Fintan O’Toole’s latest polemic “Enough is Enough – how to build a new Republic“. Fintan has been promoting the book vigorously on this side of the water, on Radio 4’s Start the Week and here at greater length [...] read our review »
The words of Brian O’Nolan, variously Brian Ó Nualláin, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen and, of course, Flann O’Brien. That O’Nolan was referencing his own dissolute student days at UCD only mildly distracts from the prophetic undertone of his words: I paid no attention whatsoever to books or study and regarded lectures as a [...] read our review »
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
Very colourful, I can hardly wait. My main concern would be this – if, say, the impact occurs during the final of the European Championship would television reception be likely to be distorted?
I wouldn’t worry about that unduly, Rory.
The Yellowstone caldera is more likely to explode first..
I’m sure this would make for a fascinating blog all of its own. Slugger has become a bit of an incoherent collection of increasingly irrelevant pet-projects lately… (IMHO)
“Slugger has become a bit of an incoherent collection of increasingly irrelevant pet-projects lately”
Its called Christmas time.
‘Its called Christmas time.’
a.k.a Midwinter Festival – Hanukah etc etc .
Sun disappearing and reappearing time again
Pete likes to scare everybody s**tless every so often but at least he provides palpable terror on a scale that dwarfs any potential impact of loyalist or republican ‘dissidents ‘
Mind you if the Yellowstone caldera goes off that could be it for the species . Our time is about up anyway . The hominidae species has been hanging around (originally from the trees) for some 5 million years and the present warming period will either lead to an unbreathable Venusian like ‘atmosphere’ or will activate another Ice Age . We are apparently due at least another 14 or so ice ages each lasting at least 100,000 years before we are in for a really warm period of about a billion years before the tectonic plates finally give out and the planet is reduced to a lifeless orb .
In the meantime enjoy the new year