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On the 22nd of September 1964, an Irish Independent headline announced UCD Design Competition Won by Pole. Under the headline, a grainy photograph showed the young architect, recently arrived from Warsaw... Listen to Ellen Rowleys compelling audio essay for Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1 above...  Ellen Rowley He was here to realise his design for Ireland’s first modernist purpose-built university campus: at Stillorgan, some 3 miles south of Dublin city centre. His name was Andrzej Wej...

Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics Recent results from a pulsar timing array, which uses dead stars to hunt for gravitational waves, has scientists speculating about cosmic strings and primordial black holes Print Representative illustration of Earth embedded in spacetime that is deformed by the background gravitational waves and its effects on radio signals coming from observed pulsars. Credit: Tonia Klein  Advertisement The fabric of spacetime may be frothing wi...

But while Poland’s biggest energy group, the state-run PGE, welcomed the strategy, with CEO Wojciech Dabrowski saying that, “This is a document expected by the entire energy sector. Just transition, a zero-emission energy system and good air quality are the pillars of PEP2040. They are also important elements of the PGE Group’s strategy,” environmental groups have rejected it. “It seems that Minister Kurtyka – although he is responsible for the ministry of climate – has forgotten ...

Fears rise that Polish libel trial could threaten future Holocaust research Staff and agencies © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: AP Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial over a book examining Poles’ behaviour during the second world war, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the future of independent Holocaust research under Poland’s nationalist government. A verdict is expected in Warsaw’s district court on 9 February in the case against Barbara E...

George Soroka is a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where he is also affiliated with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Photo courtesy of George Soroka Trump has challenged the results of the 2020 US presidential election via the legal system and in the court of public opinion, his actions culminating in the deadly riot that took place on January 6th 2021 at the US Capitol Building. But while planting seeds of doubt concerning the veracity of the v...

Polish activists seek support for liberalizing abortion law Vanessa Gera Updated:  Tags:  FILE - In this Wednesday Jan. 27, 2021 file photo, people protest against new anti-abortion laws, near the ruling Law and Justice party headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. Polish womens rights activists and left-wing lawmakers have on Wednesday, Feb, 3, 2021 presented a plan to collect signatures in support of proposed reforms to legalize abortion in the predominantly Catholic country. The plan comes in reac...

Advertisement Stern-faced Nazi SS soldiers stare down the defiant Jews who dared to resist being sent to death camps under orders to liquidate Polands ghettos. Rare photos show men, women and children being lined up and herded off after fighting for nearly four weeks during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.     The heroic resistance saw 13,000 Jews killed in fighting which also took the lives of 59 police officers and members of the feared SS.  The fightback was prompted by Nazi authorit...

Wrist Game Or Crying Shame: Minerva Pythagore Edition 2001 Comments Crying Shame Wrist Game or Crying Shame returns this week with a look at the Minerva Pythagore Edition 2001. This watch represents the last gasp effort prior to becoming part of something much bigger. Will you honor its death throes? Let’s see, but first… Last week, I showed you a bargain bin Zenith El Primero with the Epervier model name. Despite the incredible movement and inspirational pricing, this child of the late �...

The Medium is out now for Xbox Series X/S, PC and Xbox Game Pass Video game horror has always morphed and mutated in an attempt to find new ways to unsettle its players, but is equally as cannibalistic - feasting on ideas throughout its relatively short history to fatten up newer entries with a sense of dread. The Medium, from Polish developer Bloober Team, is an ambitious and uneven melding of these two approaches, mixing the old-school fixed camera perspective and locked-door puzzling of Resi...

Chinas Nuctech surprised at its elimination in Lithuania, minister keeps mum 2021-02-02 BNS/TBT Staff VILNIUS – Nuctech, a Chinese state-owned security inspection products company, has expressed its surprise at the recent decision by the Lithuanian governmental commission vetting deals by strategic enterprises to block it from a tender called by the countrys airport operator, Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports, LOU) due to threats to national security. Representatives for the company ...