Monday Night Irish Class, February 9, 2015
Irish Class, February 9, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 9ú lá mí Feabhra 2015
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Seanfhocal
| Spáráil na circe faroigh ar an bhfraoch. | As sparing as the grouse on the moor. | Overly cautious, cheap (Supposedly the grouse only eats what is directly between its feed) |
| Chomh leitheadach leis na cuacha. | As conceited as the cookoos. |
Monday Night Irish Class, February 2, 2015
Irish Class, February 2, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 2ú lá mí Feabhra 2015
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Seanfhocal
| Rud nach bhfuil is nach mbeidh, nead ag an luch i bhféasóg an chait. | A thing that is not and will not be, the mouse having a nest in the whiskers of a cat. |
féasóg “beard” |
| Chomh dubh le tóin an phúca. | As black as the butt of a pooka. |
CRÚBA NA CINNIÚNA
le Áine Uí Fhoghlú
Caibidil 2: Gnáthlá [tuilleadh]
Beam me up Scotty
German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts
An object at one end of the system is milled down layer-by-layer, creating a scan per layer which is then transmitted through an encrypted communication to a 3D printer. The printer then replicates the original object layer by layer, effectively teleporting an object from one place to another.
Simple Derivative Problem
From Spiked Math
Mistaken Identity
From Telescoper
Minoan Literature?
The answer here is “Yes,” although it is almost all speculation. However, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb likes to say, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Monday Night Irish Class, January 26, 2015
Irish Class, January 26, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 26ú lá mí Eanáir 2015
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Seanfhocal
| Ó bearradh na Rónta. | “From when the seals were shaved” | (A really long time ago) |
| Chom Gaelach le muca Dhroichead Átha | “As Irish as the pigs of Drogheda” | (As Irish as can be) Droichead Átha = “bridge of the ford” |
The results of the AntiVax movment
What are the chances?
Figuring the odds of Earth’s global hot streak
First, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration calculates global average temperature going back to 1880. That’s 135 years. So if no other forces were in play and temperatures last year were totally at random, then the odds of 2014 being the warmest on record are 1 in 135. Not too high.
