Limits and Margins
BBC Science reports Scientists’ concerns over loss of biodiversity. The report states the paper submitted has identified that biodiversity has fallen by greater than 10% across 58.1% of the globe’s… Read more »
GDPeasy
Ireland’s GDP for 2015 has risen 26%. That is impressive. Except for the fact that the figure is nothing to do with any shift of direction in the greater Irish… Read more »
Political Science
When governments pass legislation it is worth bearing in mind how many scientists there are represented. Not because the content of the legislation may have scientific content, although that is… Read more »
A Sense of Scale
A like a good graph. It helps to visualise patterns and trends. However trends don’t make headlines. This is one of the issues of the coverage of climate change which… Read more »
Doing Your Revision After Your Exams
Whether or not you voted Remain or Leave there should be one thing that can be agreed upon. Discussing the issues after the election is not the right time to… Read more »
The Difficulty in Making Meat Pies
A business woman decided to start a venture manufacturing and selling meat pies. She decided that, in order to be accountable to her customers she would allow the customers to… Read more »
EU Civil Service Head Count
The number of people employed in Brussels as administrators is 32,966 This is the number of driect administration officials and may under-represent the total number employed servicing the EU. There… Read more »
Brexit – I Can’t Get an Appointment at My GP
Immigration is a leading issue in the Brexit debate. There is one often cited effect of immigration . Pressure on GP surgeries and appointments Data on GP appointments across the… Read more »
The Greatest
The Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown… Read more »
Are the Green Party Environmentalists?
It depends who you are. If you are a politician then the issue of climate change is something that needs to be discussed. If you are a climate sientist, then… Read more »