Everyone who has ever been camping or walking in the wild with friends can’t have failed to notice how insects seem to prefer some people’s flesh to others. Some unlucky souls are totally covered in itchy red blotches and others…
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We humans are ecosystems. 100 trillion microbes live in our bodies, most of them essential to our health. And the microbes in our guts don’t like junk food even if we do, as Professor Tim Spector and his son, Tom, discovered………
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This post by Professor Rod Stoneman, Director of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at NUI Galway, and a member of the Pod Academy advisory board, first appeared on The Column website. Eye-catching storylines fascinate the British media as they…
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When companies fail, our first instinct is to start pointing fingers. Usually we point them at the people at the top – the chairman or chief executive. They were in charge, after all; the decisions that drove the company to…
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Jo Barratt talks to architect, designer and inventor, Alistair Parvin in this latest podcast from Civic Radio. Alistair Parvin says it is easier to capture what a citizen is not, than what a citizen is, and notes the language of…
More The New Citizenship project wants to challenge the idea of an individual as a consumer – and replace it with the individual as a citizen, using the techniques of marketing and public relations(usually associated with consumerism) to do so. in this latest…
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“Citizenship is about participating in a thing that is bigger than yourself and in which everyone has an equal stake.” says architect Bryan Boyer. In this latest podcast from Civic Radio, Bryan Boyer a US architect who spent some…
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On 22 May, the Irish people will vote in a referendum on gay marriage. But is a plebiscite the right way to take such a decision, should the majority have the right to deny basic human rights to a minority? Michael Angland,…
More “Government is made up of people”, says Dave Seliger, a civil servant in New York City. So, what might public servants do to change the face of local government? This is the 6th podcast from Civic Radio. In it Dave…
More “Being a citizen is crafting the society you live,” in says Aral Balkan, Founder of Ind.ie and a champion of democracy and design. In this podcast, the 5th from Civic Radio, Aral Balkan talks about how we communicate with each other,…
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