Love at first earthquake: how the world shook for Kate and John in Peru
While stranded in Cusco, Peru, for two weeks after a magnitude eight quake, Kate and John bumped into each other quite a lot, writes Rowena Walsh John Keeley, who was born in Cusco, Peru, and brought up in Ballina, Co Mayo, met his wife Kate originally from Yorkshire, while they were both travelling in Peru. Picture: Moya Nolan
Fri, 08 Jan, 2021 - 12:51
Rowena Walsh
If it wasn’t for an earthquake in Peru, Kate and John Keeley may never have met.
It was 2007, Kate and two friends were travelling around the world for nine months. They had just completed the Inca Trail and were staying in an Irish-run hostel in Cusco in south-eastern Peru.
10 Pseudoscientists And Their Bizarre Theories
Science is something of . . . well . . . an inexact science. Throughout history, there have been countless explanations of natural phenomena that we’ve considered true, only to discover decades later that we were really off the mark. There are some scientists, though, whose theories seem so far out in left field that they’re not even playing the same game.
10 Wilhelm Reich
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Born in 1897, Wilhelm Reich was a psychiatrist enamored of the works of Sigmund Freud. He briefly worked with Freud and later started his own practice in 1922. By 1940, he had moved to the United States and fully developed his theories.