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Water quality worsening: An Taisce seeks judicial review of the sixth Nitrates Action Programme An Taisce — the National Trust for Ireland has filed an application to the High Court seeking judicial review of the sixth Nitrates Action Programme (NAP), adopted by the Minister for Housing, Heritag...

An Taisce seeks judicial review of 6th Nitrates Action Programme

"we cannot ignore the necessity to protect 2 of the essential ingredients for flourishing rural life & agriculture - clean water & uncontaminated soil" "which must be preserved for future generations"

www.antaisce.org/news/water-q...

Susan Schulten on the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

📢 Registration for the 11th European Communication Conference (#ECC2026) is now open! Abstract notifications will follow soon.
Join communication scholars from across Europe and beyond for four days of research exchange, discussion, and networking in Brno.

€550m Dublin wastewater treatment plant upgrade complete Uisce Éireann has announced the completion of a €550 million upgrade of the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant in Dublin.

This is a huge advance in the standard of wastewater treatment in Ireland and stands in stark contrast to the half measures from agriculture, which is a much bigger source of pollution in our waterways

www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

StudentSurvey.ie is inviting DCU first and final year undergraduates and taught postgraduates to take part in studentsurvey.ie.
Have your say & help us continue to improve the student experience in #HigherEd.
Visit studentsurvey.ie and be in with a chance to win some great prizes.

Cities Under Siege Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...

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Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

This is brilliant - deeply disturbing but brilliant.

"So Trump stood on stage with a motley crew, most of whom would probably fail the “know your customer” checks to open a US bank account. It was Mar-a-Lago meets a Most Wanted list. Soho House must be looking on in envy."

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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

The rise of online brain rot: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast Earlier this week, Colin Marshall highlighted a trove of 3,000 vintage cookbooks on Archive.org, many of which date back to the 19th century. Cookbooks, however, first arrived on the scene well befor...

An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast

DCU Water Institute Celebrates a Decade of Discovery, Innovation and Impact | water

We are celebrating Day 2 of our 10th Anniversary by sharing a look back at the achievements and partnerships that shaped the DCU Water Institute’s first decade.

👉Read the full story here: www.dcu.ie/water/news/2...

#DCUWaterInstitute10Years #WaterResearch #DCU #Impact

Bridging Digital Innovation and Water Wellbeing: Spotlight on Dr Marcos Dias | water

As part of our 10th anniversary series, we’re highlighting researchers making real-world impact.

Dr Marcos Dias is using digital media to help communities make safer choices around bathing waters.

Full spotlight: www.dcu.ie/water/news/2...

#DCUWaterInstitute10Years #RESTARTProject #DCU

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking Do you know someone whose arguments consist of baldly specious reasoning, hopelessly confused categories, archipelagos of logical fallacies buttressed by seawalls of cognitive biases? Surely you do.

32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking

We need this level of forward thinking, ambition and courage to improve Dublin: urban policies and interventions focused on citizen wellbeing with long term impact.

Last call for our Engaging Publics 2025 conference happening tomorrow (Tue, 25 Nov). A free and fully online one-day conference for academics of all levels: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints Most of us have now and again seen and appreciated Japanese woodblock prints, especially those in the tradition of ukiyo-e, those 'captivating images of seductive courtesans, exciting kabuki actors, a...

Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints

In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online.

A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online, but the full story reveals something more interesting than a lone genius moment.

Comedians joke about Trump administration’s $20B decision | CNN Politics Roy Wood Jr. and his panel of comedians react to President Donald Trump’s decision to send Argentina a $20 billion economic lifeline. ‘Have I Got News For You’ regularly airs Saturdays at 9pm ET/PT an...

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Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums It gets dark before dinner now in my part of the world, a recipe for seasonal depression.

1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

What happen when a Pacific island loses all Internet access: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

'It's all good, it's all good' says Mark Zuckerberg as his catastrophic live demo of Meta's new smart glasses goes horribly wrong: 'You spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi on the day catches you' A comedy of errors.

'It's all good, it's all good' says Mark Zuckerberg as his catastrophic live demo of Meta's new smart glasses goes horribly wrong: 'You spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi on the day catches you' www.pcgamer.com/hardware/its...

How did UN commission reach its genocide conclusion?

Professor Shane Darcy of the Irish Centre for Human Rights spoke to RTÉ’s News at One about how an independent UN commission reached its conclusion that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached In July, North Cork Creameries, a farmer-owned co-operative based in Kanturk, unveiled a glowing set of financial accounts. Revenues were up 20 per cent to €211. 8 million and profits soared by 48 per...

Rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached www.e-pages.dk/irishtimes/5...

Paris cleaned up the Seine – and gave swimmers a new way to beat the heat. Will your city follow suit? | Helen Massy-Beresford This summer, locals and tourists enjoyed new river-bathing sites. As global heating escalates, we need more of these ‘cool islands’, says Paris-based journalist Helen Massy-Beresford

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How generative AI is forcing universities to rethink learning www.e-pages.dk/irishtimes/5...

Jair Bolsonaro faces justice over alleged attempt to usurp Brazilian democracy Former president in court along with seven others accused of failed power grab after losing 2022 election

Some democracies are more stable and resilient than others. "Jair Bolsonaro faces justice over alleged attempt to usurp Brazilian democracy" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...