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Everything moves in cycles, in the great wheel of time, where past and present meet and the great rituals of life connect us to home. It’s Christmas week and already, millions are travelling around the world to get home in time. The pubs will be full of familiar faces and rural Ireland will come alive.
The bankruptcy of bus maker Proterra has set back Raleigh-Durham International Airport’s efforts to go electric.
How the NASA-lead SABERS initiative is advancing the battery technology needed to support electric flight.
I was walking in the fields this week to look at our two mares on the hill farm of Clonfin in east Longford. There was a fog settled on the fields and as I walked through it I came to find the mares. In the fog I found a clumsy beauty, as the writer, Thomas Merton put it. I like that phrase, ‘clumsy beauty’: it implies that not everything is perfect, not everything is whole but it is there and real and concrete.
It is one of the deadliest drugs in the world. For some, it is disgusting; for others, a bad habit. The cigarette has been with us for centuries. Tobacco was long used in religious ceremonies by indigenous people in the Americas and was introduced to Europe in the 16th century.