Coincidentally, I just listened to an 'In our time' podcast episode last evening which was about dragons. Their role as emotional support animals was not covered. An omission by Melvin and his guests, IMO
Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering
Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...
Congratulations, I have the English version, and treat myself to a random page a day in the office. It has been making my days better (not that I don't love my job, but there's days that need a wry take on things)!
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Oh man, you're bringing me back a few years to a time when I'd a class with a 'Featherstonehaugh' in it. I had to do the roll call. And people say my name is hard to know how to pronounce 😂
Charlie Byrne's in Galway is my go-to, but I'd also pop into Dubray, and Bell, Book and Candle too.
The head and shoulders of a big cat, a cheetah or a leopard, sculpted from an unusual stone which is mottled yellow and white.
Just the stone to carve a cheetah 🐆! Anna Maria Massinelli’s new book on the use of the decorative stone Giallo tigrato is available to download at www.academia.edu/165293968/Pa... #decorativestone
That'd make it like one of the vegemals in Octonauts
It seems to - just did a check to see if I could use it in the message to payee option.
Disappointed to see that the new Zippay App for quick banking transactions doesn't allow the use of fadas. It's an Irish banking app. Why can't we spell e.g. people's names correctly? @zippay.bsky.social
My husband just did it too - got 0.0039. I'll have to try again 😀
What's My JND? 0.0046
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
I'm not too sure how the scoring works but I was as low as 0.0020 and then it climbed back up. Was getting competitive!
Lots of exposure to music thanks to my dad in particular - Hank Williams comes to mind as someone whose songs I knew as a kid. Loved Humphry Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Remember one Christmas watching a Bogart film every evening for a week as a family (must have been on the TV).
That wouldn't be necessarily a component of a full Irish breakfast though!
I hear ya! It would help if I could import my work outlook calendar into my Google calendar, but as it stands, I can only go one direction, so have to look at the work calendar when I don't really want to!
When I open the museum here for the Galway Science & Tech festival exhibition, I do a 'Rocks & minerals of Minecraft' section (a few tables, & a treasure hunt around the displays). Every year I think it'll fall flat, but every year I get some kids REALLY liking it, giving feedback. It'll stay!
I have a copy of Emeleus & Preston's 1969 guidebook to the Tertiary Volcanic rocks of Ireland. I wonder how many of the sites are still accessible!
Here's the sample (loose on the beach) I have showing the ocellar texture (I'm using that term as I've used it for a granite) (2 photos) and one with a coarser 'pegmatite' (beach cobble).
thin slices are lovely - our local good pizzeria used to do an Irish breakfast one with sausage, potatoes, bacon, mushrooms (IIRC) and potatoes. I think I had them on a pizza in Italy too.
Haven't been in in a while, but the Roisin Dubh always expected people at gigs to behave, and it was great for that. Was unfortunate enough to be at an Imelda May gig at the Galway Arts Festival Big Top when she had to ask the crowd at the bar to quieten down. They ignored here. I was furious.
@rocksbydefault.bsky.social is the designer of the viewer. I can't take credit for it!
Have you seen the 'ocellar' type dolerite from Fair Head - olivine glomerocrysts with plag haloes? Spectacular. I've a slide of it here and tried to get a full thin section shot in XPL using my 'Viewing the Rock World' 3d printed viewer, a box and a bike light 😀
My 13yo is covering Consumer Affairs at school at the moment. Will I get her on your case?
Pacific Ocean Floor by MARIE THARP, Bruce Heezan, and Heinrich Berann, *as published in* the National Geographic. There, fixed it.😉
This is wonderful, I love it! How does your now 15yo feel about it?
www.thejournal.ie/irish-border...
Did the map men talk about the Northern Ireland border? Houses, villages, farms cut in two.
It came up on my feed too and I was scratching my head about the headline. Still, I'll try to be positive and think that any geology news like this is good publicity and may be a 'gateway' to the topic.
A zoomed in look at 4 scientists working with the a lava fountain covering the entire background.
A very tall lava fountain with tiny dots (people) near the base. The image is a bit forced perspective and we are not as close as it looks
Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in…
Credit: Volcano Hideaways
I would LOVE to have a classroom that I could keep all my cool rocks instead of having them in my office and carrying them up and down three flights of stairs for practical sessions (no lifts-listed building, no access for wheelchair or people with limited mobility), but I do love the museum!