Follow @UrFhasaidh We’ve all done it. We have all had the experience of sitting in a mind-numbingly boring maths classroom and asking ourselves what is the point in all these maths problems, when will we ever have to use them in the real world? At school I was never a great fan of mathematics. I … Continue reading What is the Point in all these Equations?
Social Revolution by Complex Numbers
Follow @UrFhasaidh As we grow from childhood into the world around us we develop a sense of the wrongness of the world. We have an innate awareness of justice that never quite fits the world of reality. At secondary school I knew that the world needed change. People needed change. If we were capable of … Continue reading Social Revolution by Complex Numbers
Probability Tends to Zero
Teenagers are brilliant. I am glad that I don’t own any of my own, but, still, I think that teenagers are great. They have developed into that awkward liminal space between innocence and good craic. By about sixteen most of them have developed little proto-adult personalities infused still with a lovable childish quality. Quite surprisingly … Continue reading Probability Tends to Zero
Author of One Published Haiku
Having a poem published technically makes one – I am sure – a poet. A few years ago in Belfast I was presenting a theological essay on the theme of Being the Other when I was introduced to the idea of writing Haiku poetry. Until this point in my life I had always assumed that … Continue reading Author of One Published Haiku
The Moment I Say I Can’t – I Can’t
All of our lives – everyone’s lives – are limited by freedoms and necessities. By this, what we mean to say is that there are things that we are free to do, and other things that we have to do. All that we do, whether out of freedom or necessity, is done within the limit … Continue reading The Moment I Say I Can’t – I Can’t
An Unexpected Windfall
A few years ago I found myself, after graduation, at a bit of a loose end. Once a week a few friends from university would meet for coffee at a rather swish little café on Dawson Street to read over one another’s post-graduate research. We were all, in one way or another, working on related … Continue reading An Unexpected Windfall
Onset of Christmas Month
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, I’m led to believe, was significant in popularising the celebration of Christmas among the English upper classes. Before this time it had very much been a holiday for the industrial, labouring classes. One hundred and seventy-one years on and Christmas remains an indispensable part of the working person’s social calendar. … Continue reading Onset of Christmas Month
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